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Author: 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...
View BookAuthor: Spike Milligan
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Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Various, Spike Milligan
Duration 2h 6m
All six episodes from this one-off 1987 radio comedy series, written by John Antrobus and starring Spike Milligan, Chris Langham, John Antrobus and a jazz quartet.
View BookThe Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year
Author: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Caroline Quentin
Duration 10h 26m
The day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. She's had enough-of her kids' carelessness, her husband's thoughtlessness and of the world's general indifference. Brian can't believe his wife is doing this. Who is going to make dinner? But Eva won't budge; and soon she realises to her horror that everyone has been taking her f...
View BookAuthor: Jilly Cooper
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Author Jilly Cooper
Narrator Samantha Bond
Duration 1h 44m
When Jilly Cooper, then a young Sunday Times journalist, was asked to write a book on marriage, she had been married to Leo Cooper for a mere seven years. Now they are celebrating their Golden Wedding, and although the institution of marriage has changed a great deal since this book was first written, much of Jilly's advice - frank, fearless, often...
View BookAuthor: Michael Frayn
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
Michael Frayn's superbly crafted sketches are mostly timeless skits on middle class social mores of the 1960s, originally published as newspaper columns and brought marvellously to life by the versatile Martin Jarvis, who plays 100 characters in the course of a two hour programme!
View BookAuthor: Saki
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Author Saki
Narrator Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Duration 3h
From one of the masters of wit, this collection of off-beat and unusual short stories all feature animals and includes 'The She-Wolf'; 'The Mouse'; 'The Broag'; 'The Boar Pig'; 'The Remoulding of Groby Lington'; 'The Wolves of Cernogratz'; 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger'; 'The Lull'; 'Laura'; 'The Stalled Ox'; 'Tobermory'; 'The Bull' and 'The Elk'.
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
The befuddled Bertie is exiled in 1920s New York - but luckily the peerless Jeeves is at hand to extract his master from countless jams with American aunts, visiting Brits, poetic chumps and awfully pretty girls. Contains the following stories: 'The Artistic Career of Corky'; 'The Aunt and the Sluggard'; 'Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest' and 'Jeeves...
View BookAuthor: Carl Grose
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Author Carl Grose
Narrator Various
Duration 59m
A surreal, dark comedy from BBC Radio 3's The Wire, by Cornish writer Carl Grose that was inspired by seeing a Johannesburg local newspaper headline about a farmer who hanged 49 donkeys from tree branches on his land. Originally broadcast 1 November 2008 and repeated 18 July 2009. In Grose's play, Stanley Bray, a Cornish farmer, is compelled to han...
View BookAuthor: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Angela Thorne
Duration 7h 24m
When a Republican party wins the General Election, they strip the royal family of everything and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. Is their breeding sufficient to allow t...
View BookThe Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Author: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Nicholas Barnes
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 2
Duration 5h 36m
The troubled teenager continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life. In between the ups and downs of his relationship with the divine Pandora and worrying that his genius is going unrecognized, Adrian Mole chronicles the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.
View BookAdrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
Author: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Nicholas Barnes
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 4
Duration 5h 38m
Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Fla...
View BookInspector Steine Series, Book 1: Inspector Steine
Author: Lynne Truss
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Author Lynne Truss
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesInspector Steine, Book 1
Duration 2h 47m
The first series of Lynne Truss's hugely popular BBC Radio 4 comedy thriller set in 1950s Brighton. A place of knickerbocker glories, end-of-the pier shows...and an enormous amount of unsolved crime. Step forward Inspector Steine. Naive and innocent, he believes that he wiped out all the villains at a single stroke in the Middle Street Massacre whe...
View BookAuthor: Nigel Williams
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Author Nigel Williams
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 46m
All six episodes of series one of the BBC Radio 4 Comedy drama series by Emmy Award-winning writer Nigel Williams, charting the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague. Includes the following episodes: An Appraisal / An Away-Day / A Commute / A Role Play / A Leaving Party / A Bus Pass Starring Nicholas le Prevost as...
View BookAuthor: Roy Smiles
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Author Roy Smiles
Narrator Various
Duration 44m
Roy Smiles' celebration of the 'Beyond the Fringe' team takes a funny and affectionate look at how four young men from Oxbridge changed the face of British comedy. Starring Matt Addis as Alan Bennett, Rory Kinnear as Peter Cook, Jonathan Aris as Jonathan Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch as Dudley Moore. A CPL production for BBC Radio 4.
View BookAuthor: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 27m
Stephen looks to the future with some predictions. Will robots be able to read novels? How much will our computers be able to understand us? Will English rule - or change? And then there's a question about a duck...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 5h 2m
Written when he was 25, this novel launched P.G. Wodehouse's career as a novelist and introduced the world to Uckridge, one of his most extraordinary creations. Uckridge has a plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm and he's dragging his adoring wife Millie and long-suffering friend Jeremy Garnett along for the ride.
View BookAuthor: Christopher Matthew, Des Lynam
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Author Christopher Matthew, Des Lynam
Narrator The Authors
Duration 1h 21m
The complete BBC Radio 4 series, 'Touchline Tales', in which old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew visit some famous sporting venues to enjoy, observe, reminisce and trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their lives. Originally broadcast 2 - 16 July 2010. They lay some bets at a mid-week meet at Goodwood Races, take in the ope...
View BookAuthor: Saki
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Author Saki
Narrator Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Duration 12m
A small-town politician is world-weary, until he meets some unlikely allies, in the form of some animal companions! Saki's brilliant satirical wit is showcased to perfection in this wonderful short story from CSA Word's 'Classic Saki Stories' collection.
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Author Saki
Narrator Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Duration 11m
This is the story of Laura, Amanda and a she-otter, executed in Saki's characteristic witty and caustic style. A classic humor story taken from CSA Word's 'Classic Saki Stories', the tale meets Laura, who is dying, and hears her views on reincarnation and her perhaps odd desire to return as a certain mischievous creature. Both a funny and a moving...
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