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Author: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 2h 56m
The highly popular pipe-smoking Inspector Maigret embarks on more detective adventures which involve the darker impulses of the human heart and violent betrayals.
View BookAuthor: Homer, BBC Radio 4
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Author Homer, BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 49m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer's epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by poet Simon Armitage. In a twenty-year journey, fabulous fantasy mixes with extraordinary reality as Odysseus encounters enchantresses, nymphs, monsters, prophets and ghosts. From the temptations of the lotus flowers and the Sirens' song to the horrors of the Cyclo...
View BookAuthor: James Follett
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Author James Follett
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 39m
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 to wide acclaim, Earthsearch is set in the far future and concerns Earth's sole survivors, now living on the massive Challenger starship but longing to return to the home they have never known. Their problems arise when it transpires that the planet Earth has disappeared...
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 2h 57m
Maigret Goes to School / Maigret and the Old Lady / Maigret Hesitates / The Patience of Maigret. Maurice Denham stars as Maigret with Michael Gough as Georges Simenon in four more of the French detective's most intriguing cases.
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 38m
The rugged Cornwall of days gone by is the scene for first Doctor William Hartnell's 1966 foray into the murky world of pirates and hidden treasure. The TARDIS lands on the seveneenth century Cornish coast, and its crew stumble upon a plot by the local Squire to receive and offload contraband goods. The Doctor meets the churchwarden, whose last wor...
View BookAuthor: Harold Brighouse
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Author Harold Brighouse
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 21m
'Hobson's Choice' (the title coming from the expression 'Hobson's choice' meaning no choice at all), set in Salford in 1880, is a comedy based around the battle of wills between a hard-headed cobbler and his defiant daughter. Henry Hobson has three daughters, good intentions and a fondness for the Moonraker's Inn. Maggie Hobson, the eldest daughter...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 24
Duration 1h 28m
John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Carla Lemarchant was a child of five when her mother was accused and convicted of poisoning her father, the famous painter Amyas Crale. After Caroline Crale dies in prison, Carla is sent to live with her uncle and aunt in Canada. Only on her twenty-first bir...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 23
Duration 2h 16m
An exclusive hotel on a tiny picturesque island seems to be the ideal retreat for Hercule Poirot from the stresses of criminal detection. But with the appearance of the beautiful Arlena Stuart, the quiet and peaceful atmosphere becomes charged with an indefinable erotic tension. And when she is found viciously strangled in a secluded cove, there ar...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Miller
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Author Arthur Miller
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 54m
Eddie Carbone is an Italian longshoreman working on the New York docks. When his wife's cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, seek refuge as illegal immigrants from Sicily, Eddie agrees to shelter them. Trouble begins when his wife's niece, Catherine is attracted to the glamorous younger brother, Rodolpho. Eddie's baffled jealousy culminates in an unforgiva...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 57m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christie's darkly suspenseful psychological thriller. Agatha Christie wrote Endless Night in 1967, and it is one of her greatest - and most unusual - novels. Creepy, malevolent and claustrophobic, it is a story about choices, the nature of good and evil, and grim retribution. Mike Rogers had a childho...
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 16
Duration 1h 26m
As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning, he alights upon a letter from an elderly and (as it transpires), exceedingly rich spinster - Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress and seeking his help, but doesn't say why. Her only specific mention is "the incident of the dog's ball". However, what intrigues Poirot i...
View BookAuthor: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator Various
Duration 30m
William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant Tinker, in the original BBC Radio dramatisations from 1967. Lost from the BBC archives for over 40 years, these rediscovered episodes are presented on CD for the very first time. In the first episode of the series, Lilies For The Ladies, Blake investigates th...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 12
Duration 1h 27m
A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of an Agatha Christie story. On a flight from Le Bourget to Croydon, on which Hercule Poirot is an apprehensive passenger, a woman is found dead. A doctor on board is inclined to put it down to a wasp-sting, but Poirot suspects that a poisoned dart is the real cause - and, perhaps rather too conveniently, a blo...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 31
Duration 1h 49m
Ariadne Oliver, Queen of Crime Fiction, has been asked to devise a "Murder Hunt" for a fˆte at Nasse House, the home of Sir George Stubbs. But she begins to suspect that someone is manipulating the scenario of her game and fears that something very sinister is being planned. She sends for her old friend Hercule Poirot. At first he is not incli...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 15
Duration 1h 27m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot with Stephanie Cole and Donald Sinden. Hercule Poirot, along with three other luminaries from the world of crime detection, is invited to dinner by the renowned London socialite Dr. Shaitana. Also on the guest list are four members of what Shaitana calls his Black Museum...
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
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SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 11
Duration 10h 35m
Lord Peter Wimsey, man about town and amateur sleuth, and his man Bunter, are drawn into a series of intreguing incidents after being stranded in the remote village of Fenchurch St. Paul. What is the identity of the grotesquely disfigured corpse found in the church-yard? Who murdered him and why? Perhaps the Fenchurch bells hold their own answers t...
View BookAuthor: Edward J Mason
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Author Edward J Mason
Narrator Noel Johnson
Duration 2h 19m
The very first adventure of radio legend and national hero Special Agent Dick Barton. Captain Richard Barton, late of the Commandos, made his radio debut on the Light Programme in 1946 and quickly went on to become Britain's most popular hero. For years the nation tuned in to hear the famous signature tune, Devil's Gallop, herald another cliff-hang...
View BookJ'accuse: Zola and the Dreyfus Affair
Author: Hattie Naylor
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Author Hattie Naylor
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Duration 56m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Hattie Naylor. This play was inspired by a newspaper article written by Emile Zola in response to the Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s, when a Jewish army officer was persecuted and wrongly imprisoned by the French military and judicial establishment. Louis Gregori gives a right-wing and nationalistic perspective on...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Kuti
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Author Elizabeth Kuti
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 24m
Returning for a second series, the nation's favourite agony uncle - Mr. Spectator - continues to offer his wit and wisdom on the morals and manners of his countrymen in his daily writings; but who exactly is this mysterious Spectator, and why does everyone want to find him all of a sudden?Embarking on a quest to discover the identity of London's mo...
View BookDrama On 3: The Idylls of the King
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Duration 2h
A BBC Radio 3 adaptation by Michael Symmons of Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Idylls of the King, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith and broadcast on 12 July 2009 to mark the bicentenary of the poet's birth. In this extraordinary epic poem, Tennyson transforms Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, infusing the legend of King Arthur with a passionate intensity. Told he...
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