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Author: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
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SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 1, Book 3
Duration 42m
Brian Cox stars as McLevy with Siobh n Redmond as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Mulholland in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulh...
View BookAuthor: Dick Francis
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Author Dick Francis
Narrator Nigel Havers
Duration 3h 9m
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dick Francis' pacey thriller starring Nigel Havers. At the annual party celebrating the success of the racing season, everything is running well to form - until a runaway horsebox ploughs into the marquee, causing terrible death and destruction. A witness to the tragedy, wine merchant Tony Beach presumes it is just on...
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
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SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 1, Book 2
Duration 43m
Brian Cox stars as McLevy with Siobh n Redmond as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Mulholland in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulh...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 45m
Sid Perks came from Birmingham and ran the village shop with Polly. After that, he became the landlord of the Bull pub at the heart of the village, where he remained for the rest of his life.
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
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SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 1, Book 1
Duration 43m
Brian Cox stars as McLevy with Siobh n Redmond as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Mulholland in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulh...
View BookCan You Tell Me the Name of the Prime Minister?
Author: Martin Jameson
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Author Martin Jameson
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Duration 44m
A BBC Radio 4 science-fiction mystery by Martin Jameson, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 14 May 2010. A week after the election, Liz de Souza, a psychiatrist, examines a patient at a secure government research facility who's convinced that Tony Blair is still Prime Minister. Starring Amita Dhiri as Liz de Souza and Suzanna Hamilton as...
View BookMclevy: Christmas Special 2006
Author: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
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Duration 1h 25m
Brian Cox stars as McLevy with Siobh n Redmond as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Mulholland in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulh...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 3h 5m
In this BBC full-cast production, Othello is drawn further and further into jealous rage by the manipulative Iago.In this story of evil cunning perverting a once noble mind, radio captures Iago's sly hints and boasts to the audience with shocking clarity. The listener is led along an emotional path that grips with fascinating horror until the play'...
View BookThe Archers: Brian and Jennifer
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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Duration 45m
After Jennifer's marriage to Roger Travers-Macy ran into trouble, she returned to Ambridge to await divorce proceedings to run their course. During this period she met Brian Aldridge, new owner of Home Farm, and when the divorce finally came through they were able to make wedding plans.
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
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Duration 1h 26m
Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulholland. In Behind the Curtain, a death threat written in blood is found pinned to the wall of the leading lady's dressing room at the Parade Theatre. A Vo...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Miller
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Author Arthur Miller
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Duration 1h 34m
Italian - American immigrant life in the 1950's textures this searing drama of love and revenge. Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife, Beatrice and to his niece, Catherine. When Beatrice's impoverished Sicilian cousins enter the U.S. illegally, in the hope of finding work, Eddie gives them a helping hand. But when Catherine and one of...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 2h 13m
In this BBC full-cast production of Much Ado About Nothing, some handsome soldiers return from battle. Yet one soldier finds himself locked in a merry war of his own...In Shakespeare's comedy of wit, love and miscommunication, Beatrice and Benedick and Hero and Claudio are pushed into and pulled out of love, their friends playing cupid with li...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Front
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Author Jeremy Front
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Duration 27m
Beth just wants what's best for her 11 year old son; a solid secondary education at the kind of school that recognises his genius, as well as his aptitude for baroque music. A school like Folgate. But when the family is edged out of Folgate's catchment area, a battle begins. Beth takes on the might of the council with a mixture of community action,...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Julie Christie
Duration 1h 5m
Holmes and Watson mystery in which a man, apparently missing, is spotted by his own wife standing in the window of the home of a dirty, disfigured beggar.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesSuperintendent Battle Series, Book 5
Duration 1h 44m
Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gull's Point. Against her better judgment she has allowed her late husband's ward, handsome tennis ace Neville Strange, and his wife Kay to come at the same time as Neville's ex-wife Audrey. Other guests include Mary, Lady Tresselian's companion; Ted, Kay's ever-present friend;...
View BookSherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Clive Merrison, Michael Williams
Duration 1h 51m
What is the connection between a corpse with a missing face and a ruthless secret society which once terrorised a desolate region of the United States? With the aid of a local guidebook, a missing dumb-bell and Dr Watson's umbrella, Holmes unravels a tangled web which stretches over fifteen years and two continents; and in the centre of that web lu...
View BookSexton Blake: You Must Be Joking
Author: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator William Franklyn
Duration 26m
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 You Must Be Joking a friend from Blake's club dies the day after receiving a...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesMiss Marple, Book 5
Duration 2h 15m
Miss Marple is told that her old friend, Carrie, is in danger and she goes to stay with her at Stoneygates, a home for maladjusted adolescents. While she is there, tragedy strikes as Carrie's step-son, Christian Gulbrandsen, is shot dead. There are at least seven suspects and two more murders follow. But the man with the obvious motive has a cast-i...
View BookThe Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Geraldine Mcewan, Simon Russell Beale
Duration 1h 36m
To avoid tiresome family engagements, Algernon Moncrieff, a bachelor-about-town, has invented Bunbury, an invalid friend whose bedside he is frequently obliged to attend. At the same time, his friend Jack Worthing has invented a wicked brother called Ernest to disguise his own misdemeanours. When Algernon poses as Ernest, confusion reigns, and it t...
View BookSexton Blake: The Vampire Moon and Other Stories
Author: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator William Franklyn
Duration 1h 37m
'The Vampire Moon': Sexton Blake and Paula Dane are out at a London restaurant, when one of their fellow diners suddenly collapses. His dying words warn of the danger of the Vampire Moon. Featuring Marjorie Westbury (Paul Temple). 'The Fifth Dimension': Harry Monkton wins œ84,000 on the Pools. Then, one day, the phone rings and he disappears....
View BookThe Yellow Dog-series, Inspector Maigret
Author: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 44m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret In 'Maigret: The Yellow Dog', the citizens of Concarneau are not happy when Maigret begins his murder investigation. But there is poison in the Pernod, a howling yellow dog and, it seems, a madman on the loose...
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