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Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Phil Jupitus
Duration 1h 59m
Phill Jupitus looks back at the career of one of our most remarkable funny men, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In the course of a career which spanned five decades, Peter Sellers rose from aspiring television mimicry to international fame and fortune. He was one of our biggest stars, loved for his role as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films...
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Author BBC Audiobooks, Kenny Everett
Narrator Barry Cryer
Duration 1h 59m
A special compilation of highlights from cuddly Ken's television and radio shows. Kenny Everett was one of radio's great innovators, the funniest DJ of our time and a one-off whose madcap comedy burst the boundaries of broadcasting. Introduced and presented by Barry Cryer, this recording features the definitive Kenny Everett: the jokes, the jingles...
View BookAuthor: Anneliese Mackintosh, Diana Hendry, Ronald Frame
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Author Anneliese Mackintosh, Diana Hendry, Ronald Frame
Narrator James Anthony Pearson
Duration 40m
A collection of three comic tales from BBC Radio 4, The Greengrocer's Apostrophe, inspired by those hand-written signs offering "Apple's and Banana's" which can be found in every town in Britain. Penny's from Heaven by Anneliese Mackintosh: James Anthony Pearson reads a quirky story about the apostrophe that ends a relationship. Produced by Eilidh...
View BookRemembering...kenneth Williams
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Kenneth Williams
Duration 2h 9m
Wonderful highlights of Kenneth Williams' career in this classic compilation. For more than 30 years, Kenneth Williams kept the nation in stitches with his outrageous gallery of comic creations and an effortlessly brilliant barrage of repartee and innuendo on radio and television. In Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne, Kenneth Williams brought us t...
View BookAuthor: Anneliese Mackintosh
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Author Anneliese Mackintosh
Narrator James Anthony Pearson
Duration 13m
Penny's from Heaven is the first of three comic tales from BBC Radio 4's The Greengrocer's Apostrophe, inspired by those hand-written signs offering "Apple's and Banana's" which can be found in every town in Britain. Originally broadcast in the Afternoon Reading slot on 28 September 2010. James Anthony Pearson reads a quirky story about the apostro...
View BookA Series of Psychotic Episodes, Series 2
Author: Miriam Elia
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Author Miriam Elia
Narrator Dan Tetsell
Duration 55m
Following a successful run on Radio 7, Miriam Elia's fantastical Sony Radio Academy Award nominated comedy sketch series transfers to Radio 4 for a second series, with new characters and a few familiar faces. Originally broadcast from 29 September 2010 - 20 October 2010, this download offers another chance to step inside the deranged mind of comedi...
View BookAuthor: Jasper Fforde
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Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Emily Gray
Duration 12h 31m
Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next, literary detective, finds herself in an unusual situation her job policing the fictional characters of the BookWorld has been downgraded since her previous escapades are now themselves in print. However, a pressing threat may call her back into action: first Sherlock Holmes and then Miss Marpl...
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Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Emily Gray
Duration 12h 44m
Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen fr...
View BookThe Clicking of Cuthbert and Other Golf Stories
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 6h 20m
Golf, like measles, should be caught young. P.G. Wodehouse leads the listener out on to a round of golf stories that include: 'A Mixed Threesome', 'Sundered Hearts', 'The Salvation of George Mackintosh', 'Ordeal by Golf', 'The Long Hole', 'The Heel of Achilles', 'The Rough Stuff' and 'The Coming of Golf'.
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 7h 15m
It's America during Prohibition and shy young George Finch is setting out as an artist - without the encumbrance of a shred of talent. George falls in love with Molly, whose imperious stepmother, Mrs Waddington, insists he's not the man to marry the stepdaughter of one of New York's most fashionable hostesses. Poor George - he doesn't seem to stand...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 6h 6m
Monty Bodkin, whose passion for Gertrude Butterwick knows no bounds (except those set by the wild-at-heart Hollywood starlet Lotus Blossom and her pet alligator), is on board the luxurious S.S. Atlantic. Also aboard are a movie mogul, the centre-forward for the all-England ladies hockey team and the two Tennyson brothers (one of whom has been mista...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 1h 19m
Part of the P. G. Wodehouse Blandings series. When a valuable scarab belonging to an American millionaire is absent-mindedly stolen by Lord Emsworth, young writers Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine are tasked with infiltrating Blandings Castle to retrieve it. Meanwhile, vacuous Freddie Threepwood worries that some compromising letters may scupper his...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesThe Inimitable Jeeves, Book 2
Duration 3h 16m
The second instalment of Jeeves and Wooster's bally adventures is chock-full of unabridged stories to bring a sparkle to even the dimmest eye. Martin Jarvis is on top form as usual, voicing superbly the many colourful characters, including the hapless and ever-romantic Bingo Little. From money-making schemes involving placing wagers on vicars to po...
View BookAdrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Author: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Jeff Bellamy
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 5
Duration 9h 30m
Adrian Mole is now thirty and three-quarters. An accidental celebrity, with a spreading bald patch, despairing of family values, Mole is still worrying: Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce his serial killer comedy 'White Van'? Mole chronicles the closing years of the 20th century with slanderous abandon.
View BookThe Vinyl Detective Mysteries Book 1: Written In Dead Wax
Author: Andrew Cartmel
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Author Andrew Cartmel
Narrator Ben Allen
SeriesThe Vinyl Detective Mysteries, Book 1
Duration 13h 51m
He is a record collector and a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the Vinyl Detective and some people take this more literally than others. For example, the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording on behalf of an extremely wealth...
View BookAuthor: Roy Smiles
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Author Roy Smiles
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
The story of Graham Chapman's history with the Monty Python team; how he met and started writing with John Cleese, his rise through the ranks writing The Frost Report, the glory, glory years with the Pythons and his struggle to overcome his considerable drinking demons. And how the collective kindness of Messrs Cleese, Jones, Idle, Palin and Gillia...
View BookAuthor: Nick Mohammed
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Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 1h 50m
A BBC Radio 4 series of character pieces showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters in a collection of four one-off comic plays. Originally broadcast 31 August 2010 - 21 September 2010. In 'Witness Statement', there's been a robbery and character comedian Nick Mohammed ('Reggie Perrin', 'Sorry I've Got No Head') dons a police h...
View BookDave Gorman's Googlewhack! Adventure
Author: Dave Gorman
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Author Dave Gorman
Narrator Dave Gorman
Duration 3h
If someone called you a 'googlewhack', what would you do? Would you end up playing table tennis with a nine year old boy in Boston or would you find yourself in Los Angeles wrangling snakes? If your name is Dave Gorman, then all of these things could be true. Fuelled by a lust for life and a desire to do anything except what he's supposed to be doi...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Mahy
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Author Margaret Mahy
Narrator Tony Robinson
Duration 1h 16m
Tuck into this bean-feast of razzle-dazzle rhymes and tales of tomfoolery! Meet Anna, who decides to view the world upside down. Make the acquaintance of the cat who writes poems. And find out exactly what happens when Mr Delmonico offends the word witch...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Sir Michael Hordern, Richard Briers
Duration 3h
Who would have thought that an 18th-century cow-creamer could cause so much trouble? Add to the mix Madeleine Bassett, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Stiffy Byng and Harold 'Stinker' Pinker and there's only one thing to say - What Ho, Jeeves!
View BookAdrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Author: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Pearce Quigley
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 6
Duration 3h
He's back. Mole, now an angst-ridden 38, is still coping with life in middle-England as a single parent to Glenn and William, and battling his own particular weapon of mass destruction. 'Marigold and I quarrelled last night as to which of us has the most monstrous mother. Glenn rang at 2am from somewhere in Iraq to say that his standard issue army...
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