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Author: Amanda Whittington
Author Amanda Whittington
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation written by Amanda Whittington, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 23 February 2009. The tumultuous tale of the trial of Lady Jane Grey, proclaimed Queen of England in 1553 at the age of 16, nine days later locked in the Tower and, within a year, dead.
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Author: BBC Radio 4, J B Priestley
Author BBC Radio 4, J B Priestley
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 1h 27m
A sparkling BBC Radio 4 adaptation of J.B. Priestley's comic play, starring Alan Bennett, Brenda Blethyn, Gwen Taylor, Alun Armstrong, Michael Jayston and Nicola Pagett. Three eminently respectable Yorkshire couples are in the midst of their joint silver wedding celebrations when they receive a rude shock - they are not legally married. Confronted...
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The Complete Ripley Radio Mysteries
Author: Patricia Highsmith
Author Patricia Highsmith
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 4h 43m
Tom Ripley detests murder unless it is absolutely necessary. He prefers someone else to do the dirty work. But if he's called on to act there is no one more cool, calculating and clever. In these dramatisations, BBC Radio 4 brings all Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels together in one thrilling series. In The Talented Mr Ripley, Tom makes a bid for...
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Author: William Wycherley
Author William Wycherley
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 59m
Considered too obscene to be staged in its original form for nearly 200 years, William Wycherley's bawdy comedy tells the tale of Mr. Horner a notorious rake who spreads the false rumour that he is impotent in order to gain free access to other men's wives. When he meets the young, innocent Margery Pinchwife, the 'country wife' of the title, the sc...
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Author: Ronald Frame
Author Ronald Frame
Narrator Rachel Ogilvy
Duration 44m
Ronald Frame's BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Forbes Masson as the detective Allan Pinkerton, originally broadcast in the "Afternoon Play" slot on Tuesday 2 March 2010. In the new immigrant community of 1840s America, Scotsman Allan Pinkerton turns detective when an influx of counterfeit dollars threatens the local economy. With For...
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Author: Mike Walker
Author Mike Walker
Narrator Warner David
Duration 2h 50m
A collection of three plays by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles, about the early years of the Plantagenet dynasty. The series was originally broadcast on Radio 4 in the "Classic Serial" slots on 14, 21 and 28 February 2010. What is a Man?-The first of the House of Anjou to be king of England, Henry II's long reign was finally beset...
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Tamburlaine: Shadow of God, BBC Radio 3: Drama On 3
Author: John Fletcher
Author John Fletcher
Narrator Stephen Critchlow
Duration 25m
John Fletcher's BBC Radio 3 full-cast play explores the dramatic clash between three key historical figures: a warlord, a historian and a poet. Originally broadcast in Radio 3's "Drama on 3" slot on 16 November 2008. As war swirls around them, three of the most important figures in the history of the Middle and Near East are brought together in fi...
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Author: BBC Audiobooks
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 30m
Tom Forrest brother to Doris and uncle to Jack, Phil and Christine. Tom like his father before him worked as gamekeeper. Purveyor of folk lore, Tom was born, married and died in Ambridge.
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Author: Alan Bennett
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 12m
Three classic Alan Bennett adaptations, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and released on CD for the first time.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 58m
A foggy night...a lonely country house...and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look anything but straightforward... First staged at the Duchess Theatre in London in...
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 33m
Walter was everyone's "Old pal" and loveable rogue. An unsuccessful farmer who turned to haulage. A carver of cribs and love spoons who took 17 years to propose-only to be turned down. And of course father to the world weary Nelson.
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Author: Kenneth Grahame
Author Kenneth Grahame
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 17m
Many of the original cast from Alan Bennett's acclaimed National Theatre production appear in this special dramatisation for BBC Radio 4 including Richard Briers as Rat, Adrian Scarborough as Mole and Terence Rigby as Albert with Alan Bennett as the narrator. A wonderful, highly-acclaimed dramatic performance of a classic novel.
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Author: Nick Warburton
Author Nick Warburton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 4h 39m
The Gospel story as you've never heard it before. Everyone knows the story of Jesus' life as told in the Gospels - and perhaps because it is so familiar, we have forgotten what an extraordinary life it was. Through these five plays, the story is pieced together as if from the memories of those who were there and saw events for themselves: Jesus' mo...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Colonel Race, Book 2
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesColonel Race, Book 2
Duration 2h 20m
The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful - a girl who had everything. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger - 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger'.
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Author: Alistair Maclean
Author Alistair Maclean
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 30m
A Radio 2 dramatisation of the Second World War novel. Set during the Second World War over a period of four days in Yugoslavia, this classic thriller tells of the daring efforts made by a small group of specialists to silence the German guns at the Greek fortress of Navarone, to facilitate a planned invasion.
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Author: Leo Tolstoy
Author Leo Tolstoy
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 9h 20m
Tolstoy's epic story of a Russian family torn apart and rejuvenated by love and war. The war in question is Napoleon's Russian campaign in the early 19th century, which provides the background to the personal and public lives of Tolstoy's characters.
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Author: Dorothy L Sayers
Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Ian Carmichael
Duration 12h 44m
Lord Peter Wimsey arranged a quiet country honeymoon with Harriet Vane, but what should have been an idyllic holiday in an ancient farmhouse takes on a new and unwelcome aspect with the discovery of the previous owner's body in the cellar.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 9
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 9
Duration 2h 20m
Hercule Poirot joins an international cast of characters on the glamorous Orient Express, and is approached by a wealthy American who offers the detective 'big money' to protect him. The next day the man is found dead in his cabin, stabbed twelve times. There are no lack of clues for Poirot - but which are real and which a clever plant? One thing i...
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Author: Alan Bennett
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 15m
Performed by the author and five of Britain's leading actresses, Alan Bennett's tales are full of quirky, insightful detail and wry observation. This audiobook contains the following monologues: 'A Chip in the Sugar' with Alan Bennett; 'A Lady of Letters' with Patricia Routledge; 'Bed Among the Lentils' with Anna Massey; 'Soldiering On' with Stepha...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Miss Marple, Book 10
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 10
Duration 2h 30m
When Miss Marple comes up from the countryside for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakeable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.
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Author: Dylan Thomas
Author Dylan Thomas
Narrator Richard Burton
Duration 1h 40m
The 1963 radio dramatisation, with Richard Burton as the narrator, of Dylan Thomas's play for voices, about the inhabitants of a small Welsh village.
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