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Frankie Howerd: Please Yourselves
Author: BBC Audiobooks, Frankie Howerd
Author BBC Audiobooks, Frankie Howerd
Narrator Frankie Howerd
Duration 44m
Titter lots at Frankie Howerd's ditties, sketches, limericks and stand up, recorded in front of a specially-invited audience. The star of TV's 'Up Pompeii' and mainstay of innumerable 'Carry-On' films, Frankie Howerd causes a mayhem of mirth, where even his co-stars can't help laughing. As well as songs, stories, naughtiness and his usual audience...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
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 BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 5m
As well as Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster, these unabridged stories also feature many regular favourites, including Tuppy Glossop, Bingo Little, Bobbie Wickham, Aunt Dahlia, Aunt Agatha and Sir Roderick Glossop. All voiced masterfully by veteran Wodehouse reader Martin Jarvis.
View BookClustering Round Young Bingo: Jeeves and Wooster
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 45m
Bingo Little, friend of butler Jeeves' master Bertie Wooster and a member of the Drones Club, is also a hopeless romantic. Our heroes Jeeves and Wooster often try to help him into or out of romantic entanglements but to little avail, or at least they often make matters worse! Sublime comedy from the master of humor.
View BookComrade Bingo: Jeeves and Wooster
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 21m
Richard "Bingo" Little falls in love with the daughter of a left-wing (probably communist or socialist) leader called Charlotte Corday Rowbotham. In an attempt to get close to her, Little joins the group, called the Heralds of the Red Dawn, whose aims are to "massacre the bourgeoisie, sack Park Lane and disembowel the hereditary aristocracy". This...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 13m
Nothing in this world ever seems to be absolutely perfect, and that is certainly the case in this story. Young Billy, in love with a young and beautiful woman, attempts to woo her by making plans to rescue someone with his trusted group of friends. However, the scheme doesn't quite go according to plan, and the consequences are not necessarily as d...
View BookIntroducing Claude and Eustace: Jeeves
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 11m
A typically shambolic and hilarious romp from the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster, who find themselves embroiled in college initiation rites in this story of students, aunts and three rather irate cats. Throw into the heady mix of comedic fancy a luncheon appointment with Sir Roderick, and the scene is set for a farcical showdown of epic proportions....
View BookJeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 36m
A comical romp of an adventure involving Jeeves, Wooster and 'Bicky', whose uncle, the Duke of Chiswick, has the potential to be a wealthy benefactor to his nephew. Unfortunately, the Duke is what's known in the right circles as a 'hard-boiled egg' - ie 'notoriously the most prudent spender in England'. When Bicky contacts Bertie, our jaunt begins,...
View BookJeeves and the Unbidden Guest: Jeeves
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 37m
Bertie is feeling really rather spiffing, when he receives a surprise visit from the writer Lady Malvern and her son Wilmot. A friend of Bertie's Aunt Agatha, Lady Malvern requests that Wilmot stay with Bertie for a couple of weeks whilst she is away in America. Whilst not perfectly happy with the idea, Bertie agrees, to find that the seemingly mil...
View BookJeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum: Jeeves
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 18m
Hapless and often hopeless romantic Bingo Little has fallen for yet another young lady in this Jeeves and Wooster story of terrible cravats, far-from-fine dining and love's perhaps-not-so-young dream. Bertie is rather confounded by Bingo's love for a girl below his rightful station, so long-suffering Jeeves is roped in to talk to Bingo's uncle, who...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 41m
A short story first published in the United States in The Saturday Evening Post on November 28, 1916, and in the United Kingdom in the April 1923 edition of Strand Magazine. Its first book publication. From 'Carry on, Jeeves'. Uncle Willoughby guest-stars in this story of engagement, surprise and of course, a whole lot of raucous comedy.
View BookAuthor: Sean Gray
Author Sean Gray
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 23m
David Soul (Starsky and Hutch) narrates and Simon Day (The Fast Show) stars in this fantastical BBC Radio 4 comedy series looking at the most entertaining apocalypses on parallel Earths. Originally broadcast from 15 December 2010 - 19 January 2011. We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and environmentalists speak in apocalyptic...
View BookAuthor: Micheal Butt
Author Micheal Butt
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 12m
Edward Marshall-Hall, who was born in Brighton in 1858, became perhaps the country's most successful advocate of all time, building his reputation on a phenomenal talent for acquitting defendants in murder trials where a guilty verdict had seemed a foregone conclusion. Given that murder during this period carried a sentence of execution by hanging,...
View BookAuthor: Nick Mohammed
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 BookA Series of Psychotic Episodes, Series 2
Author: Miriam Elia
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: Nick Mohammed
Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 28m
The fourth play from 'Nick Mohammed in Bits', the BBC Radio 4 series of comic plays showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters. Originally broadcast 21 September 2010. In this final play, lifestyle guru 'Mr Swallow' presents his memory technique to a live studio audience.
View BookAuthor: Nick Mohammed
Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 27m
The second play from 'Nick Mohammed in Bits', the BBC Radio 4 series of comic plays showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters. Originally broadcast 7 September 2010. It's the start of term time in 'Lila', and second year student Lila is going to teach the freshers everything she knows. Featuring Nick Mohammed as Lila, with Col...
View BookNick Mohammed In Bits - Daniel Thornthwaite
Author: Nick Mohammed
Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 28m
The third play from 'Nick Mohammed in Bits', the BBC Radio 4 series of comic plays showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters. Originally broadcast 14 September 2010. In 'Daniel Thornthwaite', Nick plays a wildlife expert on the edge of sanity in this fly-on-the-wall look at the making of a major new documentary series. Anna Cr...
View BookNick Mohammed In Bits - Witness Statement
Author: Nick Mohammed
Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 26m
The first play from 'Nick Mohammed in Bits', the BBC Radio 4 series of comic plays showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters. Originally broadcast 31 August 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 helmet and takes statem...
View BookAuthor: Alice Lowe
Author Alice Lowe
Narrator Alice Lowe Cast
Duration 28m
A BBC Radio 4 comedy written and performed by Alice Lowe. 'Alice's Wunderland' is about a trip round Wunderland, the Poundland of magical realms. It's a kingdom very much like our own but it's also nothing like it! So stay a while and meet the waifs, strays, ghosts, murderous pensioners and squirrels of this delightful land as they go about their...
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