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Author: Colin Dexter
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Author Colin Dexter
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 38m
Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas starring John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis, plus a bonus reading by Colin Dexter of one of his short stories. In Last Seen Wearing, Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old missing person case from a dead colleague. But two years, three months and two days after teenager Valerie Ta...
View BookAuthor: Tennessee Williams
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Author Tennessee Williams
Narrator Edward Albee
Duration 2h 49m
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public...
View BookThe Ruth Rendell BBC Radio Drama Collection
Author: Ruth Rendell
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Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 52m
Full-cast dramatisations of seven of Ruth Rendell's tense psychological thrillers. This collection includes: Tracks 1-2 - The Bridesmaid: A beautiful stone statue and her living double lead Philip into a nightmare of obsession and murder. Tracks 3-4 - Going Wrong: Besotted with his childhood sweetheart, Leonora, psychopathic Guy Curran will do a...
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
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Duration 12h 21m
Full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of the first five Falco novels by Lindsey Davis, starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco. The Silver Pigs:One fine day, A.D. 70, Sosia Camillina quite literally runs into Marcus Didius Falco on the steps of the Forum. It seems Sosia is on the run from a couple of street toughs, and after a quick and dirty...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 18m
A full-cast BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel, known to be a favourite among her own works.When Doctor Calgary visits the Argyle family, he believes he brings good news. He is there to clear the name of Jacko, who was convicted of the murder of his own mother, Rachel. But the doctor's news is not greeted with the enthusiasm he expec...
View BookAuthor: John Webster
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Author John Webster
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 20m
Barbara Jefford, Robert Stephens and Alec McCowen lead a distinguished company in this haunting performance of Webster's powerful tragedy of murder, revenge and thwarted love. The play begins as a love story, with a Duchess who marries beneath her class, and ends as a nightmarish tragedy as her two brothers exact their revenge, destroying themselv...
View BookAuthor: Oliver Goldsmith
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Author Oliver Goldsmith
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 55m
Charming satire of the sentimental comedies of the day has entertained audiences since 1773. A young lady poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. Many delightful deceits, hilarious turns of plot must be played out before the play concludes happily.
View BookAuthor: Noel Coward
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Author Noel Coward
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 16m
The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. PRIVATE LIVES shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth.
View BookAuthor: W. G. Sebald
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Author W. G. Sebald
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 29m
Inspired by an old photograph album to investigate the life of a lost relative, a man finds himself on a journey that traverses the 20th century, leading him from an American asylum to the shores of the Dead Sea. Adapted by Edward Kemp from W G Sebald's acclaimed novel about the experiences of Jewish emigrants. Starring John Wood, Henry Goodman, El...
View BookUnder Milk Wood and Other Plays
Author: Dylan Thomas
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Author Dylan Thomas
Narrator
Duration 2h 12m
'Under Milk Wood' is Dylan Thomas' most successful play: an all-seeing narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of an imaginary small Welsh village, Llareggub. The classic 1954 recording, featuring a cast led by Richard Burton as 'First Voice', is considered to be definitive. This collection al...
View BookThe Playboy of the Western World
Author: John Millington Synge
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Author John Millington Synge
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Duration 1h 27m
One of the best-known Irish playwrights, John Millington Synge premiered this play in 1907. It immediately provoked controversy, eventually resulting in the infamous 'Playboy' riots. It has been recorded and adapted many times, but this recording stars the Irish actors who made it a classic, including Siobhan McKenna and Cyril Cusack
View BookAmbridge Affairs: Love Triangles
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 31m
Two stories of love, lust, happiness and heartache from Britain's longest-running radio serial. Pub landlord Sid Perks is led astray when his keep-fit regime at the local gym leads to a steamy affair with Jolene Rogers, a country-and-western singer. For Emma Carter, choosing a husband is not so straightforward. She finds herself torn between loyal,...
View BookAuthor: Vikram Seth
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Author Vikram Seth
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 5h 44m
The story unfolds through four middle class families - the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans and Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from her mother to get married. But not to just anyone she happens to fall in love with. There are standards to be met and finding a husband for Lata becomes a family affair in which all the members...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Miller
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Author Arthur Miller
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Duration 1h 59m
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor, THE CRUCIBLE mirrors the anti- Communist hysteria in the 1950's.
View BookAuthor: Daniel Defoe
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Author Daniel Defoe
Narrator Roy Marsden
Duration 1h 51m
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of one of the most famous adventure stories of all time, starring Roy Marsden as Robinson Crusoe. Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parents' warnings, he runs away to sea to embark on an extraordinary series of adventures: struggles with Barbary pirates, a shi...
View BookAuthor: Annie Caulfield
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Author Annie Caulfield
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 14m
A BBC Radio 3 full-cast dramatisation by Annie Caulfield, starring Lenny Henry as singer and political activist Paul Robeson. Originally broadcast Sunday 21 February 2010. As an outspoken apologist for Stalin and agitator for civil rights Paul Robeson had many enemies, including the CIA. His passport was taken away, his career curtailed and his...
View BookAuthor: Jb Priestly
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Author Jb Priestly
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Duration 1h 59m
Marcia Warren and Stella Gonet star in J. B. Priestley's classic family drama about the nature of time. Time and the Conways follows the fortunes of one family over a period of years, and offers a moving perspective on the abstract nature of the past, present and future. It is 1919, the War is over and the Conway family are celebrating their...
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Jim Broadbent Et Al
Duration 1h 28m
Jim Broadbent stars as 'mad' King George III in this radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's award-winning play, which co-stars Cheryl Campbell, Nicholas Farrell and Alun Armstrong. The King is losing his mind. Doctors are brought in as his eccentric behaviour becomes more bizarre and erratic, while his son, the Prince Regent, waits - and plots.
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Maggie Smith
Duration 1h 32m
A new Radio 4 adaptation of one of Alan Bennett's most well-loved works. In the 1970s, an eccentric old lady called Miss Shepherd lives in an old caravan opposite Bennett's house in Camden. That is until new parking regulations come into force - and he suggests moving the van onto his driveway...
View BookAuthor: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 45m
A new dramatisation of the Thomas Hardy classic, `Tess Of The d'Urbervilles', to be transmitted as the Radio 4 Classic Serial in four hour-long episodes. John Durbeyfield learns that he is descended from the Norman family of d'Urbervilles. He and his wife Joan encourage their daughter Tess to befriend the family of Stoke d'Urbervilles. In doing...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Lenny Henry Et Al
Duration 1h 58m
A BBC Radio 4 production of Othello, starring Lenny Henry in title role. The comic makes his stage debut as the tortured Moor. One of Shakespeare's most revered tragedies, the play tells the story of a noble African commander in the service of the Venetian army, whose mind is poisoned against the one he loves by the jealous and hate-filled Iago....
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