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Author: Kenneth Grahame
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Author Kenneth Grahame
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 3h 13m
Portraying each character in his own inimitable fashion, Alan Bennett reads the original story of Ratty, Mole, Badger and, of course, Toad.
View BookAuthor: Jack London
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Author Jack London
Narrator Garrick Hagon
Duration 2h 37m
Born in the wild, the wolf-dog White Fang quickly learns the law of nature: eat or be eaten. Captured by Indians, bullied by another dog, and then turned into a killer, he becomes vicious and fiercely independent. Rarely has the raw realism of life on the edge of civilisation been so vividly captured. But in this classic animal novel, Jack London a...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 15h 50m
The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naive young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. Told in symbolic, lyrical and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 50m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Martyn Wade of Anthony Trollope's classic novel, Orley Farm. This novel, described as a "... brilliantly choreographed legal thriller" (Mail on Sunday), centres on the pathos of the main character, Lady Mason. Youthful marriage choices, middle-aged marital crisis, love and loss revolve around the legal action a...
View BookAuthor: Plato
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Author Plato
Narrator Bruce Alexander
Duration 4h 57m
Plato tackles the big issues of the state and the individual: how the state should be ruled, and by whom; and the way the individual should lead his life - and why. Plato casts Socrates in the role of the leader and teacher in this enquiry held in association with students of his circle.
View BookAround the World In Eighty Days
Author: Jules Verne
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Author Jules Verne
Narrator Harry Burton
Duration 2h 30m
Phileas Fogg bets half his fortune that he can travel the globe in just 80 days, even though his friends tell him it is impossible. Undeterred, Fogg sets out on his journey that very night, with his very astonished servant - Passepartout - in tow. They pass through exotic and dangerous locations, seizing whatever transportation is at hand including...
View BookAuthor: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator John Moffatt
Duration 9h 16m
After meeting Lord Henry Wotton, who remarks that 'youth is the only thing worth having', Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with preserving his looks. He wants to remain as youthful and fresh as he appears in his recently completed portrait by Basil Hallward. When Dorian states that he would give his soul to stay young, he has no idea of the horrors he'...
View BookAlice In Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll
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Author Lewis Carroll
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 2h 28m
Alan Bennett's distinctive readings of children's stories have become classics in their own right. His interpretations of the wonderful characters that people Lewis Carroll's extraordinary novels are, as ever, exactly right.
View BookThe History of English Literature
Author: Perry Keenlyside
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Author Perry Keenlyside
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 5h 16m
English Literature may be the greatest body of imaginative writing the world has yet seen, encompassing the works of Chaucer to Philip Larkin. This, accompanied by a wealth of examples, is the story of more than six centuries of writing.
View BookAuthor: F Scott Fitzgerald
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Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 9m
Pat Hobby is an ageing film writer who used to do well, but these days is low on ideas that pay, until he stumbles across someone else's flash of inspiration.
View BookAuthor: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator David Shaw- Parker
Duration 37h 8m
Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims. But as Melmo...
View BookAuthor: Richard Hughes
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Author Richard Hughes
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 6h 13m
Set in the nineteenth century against a backdrop of island life and the vast surrounding seas, A High Wind in Jamaica is the gripping story of the Bas-Thornton children, whose parents send them back to England following a hurricane in the postcolonial Caribbean they call home. Having set sail, the children quickly fall into the hands of pirates.
View BookAuthor: E M Forster
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Author E M Forster
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 4h 46m
Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. M. Forster's glorious tale of love in Italy and England. Lucy Honeychurch is an innocent abroad. Under the care of her well-meaning but infuriating chaperon, cousin Charlotte, she is completing the final part of a conventional well-bred English upbringing - the Grand Tour. But the...
View BookBrangwen Family Series Book 1: The Rainbow
Author: D.H. Lawrence
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Author D.H. Lawrence
Narrator Paul Slack
SeriesBrangwen Family, Book 1
Duration 20h 19m
D.H. Lawrence's controversial classic, The Rainbow, follows the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen family, between 1840 and 1905. Their tempestuous relationships are played out against a backdrop of change as they witness the arrival of industrialization-the only constant being their unending attempts to grasp a higher form of exi...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Sylvia Coleridge
Duration 8h
Clarissa Dalloway is civilised - without the ostentation of a socialite, but with enough distinction to attract them to her parties. She finds excess offensive, but surrounds herself with the highest quality and has an abhorrence for anything ugly or awkward. We spend a day with Clarissa as she interacts with servants, her children, her husband, an...
View BookAuthor: Voltaire
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Author Voltaire
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 3h 30m
Voltaire and Pangloss travel the world looking for the good in life, but can they find it? Candide and his tutor Pangloss travel the globe trying to follow the philosophy 'All is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds'. However, they are stung and let down at every turn, being robbed, tortured and ridiculed, amongst other trials. On...
View BookAuthor: Kenneth Grahame
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Author Kenneth Grahame
Narrator Sir Michael Hordern
Duration 6h 55m
The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans, motor cars and even into battle.
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Waugh
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Author Evelyn Waugh
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 5h 16m
The inspiration for a major film releasing 2008 starring Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon. A study of faith and disillusionment in a glamorous upper-class world, Waugh's most famous novel is partly autobiographical and is a gripping multi-character-study of aristocratic life behind closed doors. Charles Ryder meets Sebastian, a member of the aristo...
View BookAuthor: Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Author Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrator Janet Mcteer
Duration 8h 35m
After the death of her parents, Mary Lennox is brought back from India as a forlorn and unwanted child to live in her uncle's great lonely house on the moors. Then one day, she discovers the key to a secret garden and, as if by magic, her life begins to change.
View BookAuthor: H.G. Wells
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Author H.G. Wells
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 6h
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsall Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed with just a white flag - only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilisation is unde...
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Johnny Morris
Duration 2h 33m
This collection of stories reveals the origins of the beasts of the sea, the jungle, the desert and even of the palaces of the East. It tells how the elephant got his trunk, how the leopard got his spots and how the humble butterfly caused an uproar by stamping his foot.
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