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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 7h
Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6's man in Havana. To keep the job, he pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories, which, to his horror, begin to come true...
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Author: Saki
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'.
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Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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!
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Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 3h
Written for Esquire magazine late in Fitzgerald's career, 'The Pat Hobby Stories' are a bittersweet, humorous recollection of a down-and-out Hollywood screenwriter trying to break back into show business, whose career has started to flag since the emergence of 'upstarts' such as Orson Welles.
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Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Author: Sue Townsend
Series: Adrian Mole, Book 5
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.
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Author: Alan Bennett
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett, Thora Hird
Duration 2h
Until the time of her death in 2003, actress Thora Hird worked regularly with the playwright Alan Bennett. In this audiobook, Bennett recalls his work and friendship with Thora, and introduces three examples of their collaboration.
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Author: Martin Jarvis
Author Martin Jarvis
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
An elegantly observed journal of a year in the life of the musical play 'By Jeeves', written and directed by two theatre geniuses, Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Beginning in January 2001, the production travels from Pittsburgh to Toronto - but will it make it to Broadway?
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Fry and Laurie Read Daudet & Jerome
Author: Jerome K Jerome, Alphonse Daudet
Author Jerome K Jerome, Alphonse Daudet
Narrator Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
Duration 2h 30m
A collection featuring a series of short stories, anecdotes, musings, essays and fables by Alphonse Daudet and extracts from the magazine 'The Idler' amongst others, written by the author of 'Three Men in a Boat', Jerome K. Jerome.
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Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 5h
Jimmy Crocker, aka Piccadilly Jim, is a lively young American ex-newspaper man who meets Ann Chester, the girl of his dreams, in London. As they set sail together for New York, Jim struggles with a secret - he once wrote a bad review of her first book of poetry, and Ann has no idea, yet.
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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...
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Author: 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...
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Author: 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...
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Author: 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.
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Clustering 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.
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Comrade 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...
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Author: 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...
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Introducing 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....
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Jeeves 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,...
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Jeeves 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...
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Jeeves 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...
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Author: 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.
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