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Carleton Hobbs: Sherlock Holmes Further Collection
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 5h 36m
Carleton Hobbs stars as Sherlock Holmes in 12 classic full-cast BBC Radio dramas in these twelve classic stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Carleton Hobbs established the 'sound' of Sherlock Holmes, with Norman Shelley as his superb Watson. Now these unique recordings are available together for the first time ever, with specially commissioned introduct...
View BookAuthor: Sally Griffiths
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Author Sally Griffiths
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Duration 43h
A BBC Radio 4 drama in which professional illusionist, Will Morgan, fronts a TV show in which he exposes spiritualist mediums as frauds. 'Haunted' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 19 January 2011. Hayley Taylor is the spiritualist medium who refuses to back down under illusionist Will's scrutiny - a challenge Will can't walk away...
View BookAuthor: Ronald Frame
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Author Ronald Frame
Narrator Jamie Glover
Duration 1h 29m
A BBC Radio full-cast drama which tells a story of love and deception set during the Cold War. Written by Ronald Frame for BBC Radio Scotland and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as part of the 'Drama on 3' collection in September 2008. Throughout the period of the Cold War in the late 1960s and early 1970s, 'romeo spies' were operating, targeting bright a...
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 BookAnna of the Five Towns, Complete Series
Author: Arnold Bennett
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Author Arnold Bennett
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Duration 1h 53m
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Arnold Bennett's tale of love, tyranny and rebellion, 'Anna of the Five Towns'. Originally broadcast as the 'Classic Serial' in two parts on 6 and 13 March 2011. Brought up in the repressive tradition of Methodism by her miserly father, Anna Tellwright dreams of independence and freedom. On coming of age she learns th...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 2h 15m
Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are separated in a storm that washes them both up at different points on the shores of Illyria. Believing each other to be dead, both attempt to survive by using their wits. One of Shakespeare's most complex and inventive comedies.
View BookAuthor: Frank L Baum
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Author Frank L Baum
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Duration 56m
Linda Marshall's BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of L. Frank Baum's children's classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Originally broadcast as part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. When a tornado strikes her farmhouse in Kansas, young Dorothy and her dog Toto are lifted to the magical world of Oz, the strange land of the Munchkins. There she emba...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 2h 19m
This comedy takes place largely in a wood where Hermia and her lover Lysander have escaped to marry. They are now in a domain of the fairies where strange and wonderful transformations are magically brought about by the spells of Oberon and his mischievous servant, Puck.
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiogo
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Author BBC Audiogo
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Duration 42m
By 1967 Phil and Jill were the proud parents of the perfectly balanced family: Two girls and two boys. David and Elizabeth completed the family, but there were concerns about little Elizabeth's heart.
View BookAuthor: Arthur Miller
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Author Arthur Miller
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Duration 1h 26m
Willy Loman, a sixty-year-old travelling salesman, is having trouble lately because he can't seem to keep his mind on the present. He keeps drifting back and forth between reality and memory, looking for exactly where his life went wrong. Having been demoted to a strictly commissions salesman, as he was in the beginning of his career, Willy begins...
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 44m
Nicholas Le Prevost stars as the French detective in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation. In 'The Bar on the Seine' a condemned man tells Maigret about a riverside drinking hole where a murderer lurks undetected. Pursuing the clue, Maigret witnesses a death and discovers a much older crime...
View BookAuthor: John Buchan
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Author John Buchan
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Duration 1h 51m
Tom Baker stars as Sir Walter Bullivant with David Robb as man of action Richard Hannay in a thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.
View BookAuthor: Edith Wharton
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Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Full Cast, Andrew Wincott
Duration 1h 53m
A full-cast Unabridged of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a passionate love affair which breaks all the rules of the restrictive high society of 1870s New York. In the exclusive world of upper-class New York, in which attendance at balls and dinner passes for occupation, Newland Archer anticipates his marriage to May Welland, a b...
View BookAuthor: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
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Duration 1h 43m
Lady Windermere is jealous of her husband's interest in an older woman. The fact that the older woman just happens to be Lady Windermere's long-presumed-dead mother is just the beginning of this divinely funny comedy.
View BookDick Barton and the Tibetan Adventure
Author: Geoffrey Webb
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Author Geoffrey Webb
Narrator Douglas Kelly
Duration 3h 50m
Heralded by an instantly memorable signature tune, the adventures of special agent Dick Barton and his friends, Jock and Snowey, originally ran on the BBC Light Programme between 1946 and 1951. Set in an exciting world of criminal masterminds, espionage and adventure, the series was essential listening for an entire generation. Sadly very few of th...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiogo
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Author BBC Audiogo
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 42m
In 1958 Phil and Jill's first children were born-the couple were blessed with twins, daughter Shula and son Kenton.
View BookThe Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
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Duration 1h 49m
Wilde's `trivial comedy for serious people' makes fun of the English upper classes with light-hearted satire and humour. The plot centres on the lives of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff who have both taken to bending the truth in order to add a dash of excitement to their lives. It all seems harmless enough but their deception is eventually di...
View BookAuthor: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Author Geoffrey Chaucer
Narrator Maxine Peake
Duration 1h 53m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw. One of the great works of English literature, this powerful, compelling story explores love from its first tentative beginnings through to passionate sensuality and eventual tragic disillusionment. Lavinia Greenlaw's new version for radio bring...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 2
Duration 5h 50m
A second collection of eight BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations based on the popular books by Alexander McCall Smith. 'this full- cast production will charm listeners whether they already know and love these stories or are hearing them for the first time' - Audiofile Magazine 'How to Handle Men through the Application of Psychology': Precious Ram...
View BookAuthor: G. B. Shaw
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Author G. B. Shaw
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Duration 2h 37m
Professor Henry Higgins believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a Duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own.
View BookAuthor: Christopher Marlowe
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Author Christopher Marlowe
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Duration 1h 59m
Edward, preoccupied by the banishment of his lover, Gaveston, barely acknowledges the nascent crises that threaten his realm. Chief among his critics is the morally righteous Mortimer, horrified by the king's criminal lapse of duty and yet able to countenance the further crime of taking arms against his king. As their enmity develops, and Mortimer'...
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