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Turf Wars- the Complete Series
Author: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 50m
Four comic dramas about boundaries that are both territorial and personal, as heard on BBC Radio 4 Territory is the theme that unites these four humorous plays - whether that means fighting over an allotment plot, dealing with the sudden partition of a country, guarding the privacy of a garden or battling with the council over school catchment area...
View BookAuthor: Nigel Planer
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Author Nigel Planer
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 57h
A BBC Radio 4 play by Nigel Planer about some of the people involved in the decoration of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. On the Ceiling was originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 7 February 2009 and repeated on 11 December 2010. High up on the wooden scaffolding tower of the Sistine Chapel, two fresco plasterers get on with the day's wor...
View BookAuthor: Simon Passmore
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Author Simon Passmore
Narrator Claudia Harrison
Duration 43m
This BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation is a captivating thriller written by Simon Passmore, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 29 June 2009. What would you be prepared to do to escape the grind of a life going relentlessly downhill? For former City lawyer Alice, the price is getting higher by the minute. Stars Claudia Harrison in the l...
View BookAuthor: Nick Warburton
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Author Nick Warburton
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Duration 27m
First episode to kick-off the BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama series, 'Turf Wars' by Nick Warburton, originally broadcast on the 9 March 2011. This delicious comedy, 'Losing the Plot', stars James Fleet as Edward, a bashful man who, passing a local allotment, speaks to an attractive female allotee (Joanna Monro). He decides there and then that he must app...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
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Duration 27m
As part of the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series: 'Turf Wars', in this short 3rd play of 4, 'How's Your Mother?' by Simon Brett, Michael Maloney stars as mysterious villager Humphrey Partridge. In a gossipy village Humphrey is reckoned to be anti-social, indeed stand-offish. But he always has an excuse - namely that he has to look after his ailing el...
View BookNick Mohammed In Bits - Witness Statement
Author: Nick Mohammed
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Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 26m
The first play from 'Nick Mohammed in Bits', the BBC Radio 4 series of comic plays showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters. Originally broadcast 31 August 2010. In 'Witness Statement', there's been a robbery and character comedian Nick Mohammed ('Reggie Perrin', 'Sorry I've Got No Head') dons a police helmet and takes statem...
View BookNick Mohammed In Bits - Daniel Thornthwaite
Author: Nick Mohammed
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Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 28m
The third play from 'Nick Mohammed in Bits', the BBC Radio 4 series of comic plays showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters. Originally broadcast 14 September 2010. In 'Daniel Thornthwaite', Nick plays a wildlife expert on the edge of sanity in this fly-on-the-wall look at the making of a major new documentary series. Anna Cr...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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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.
View BookThe Witness For the Prosecution
Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Various
Duration 27m
When Leonard Vole finds himself accused of murder, his predicament is made even worse when he discovers his wife to be the chief witness against him. The trial proceeds with a number of unexpected twists...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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Duration 28m
Polina Nazarova is a soprano whose past is dangerously entangled with the present. Given the opportunity to sing her Tosca opposite the arrogant and cruel Andre Breon, it seems that her desire for revenge may prove irresistible.
View BookAuthor: Nick Mohammed
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Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 27m
The second play from 'Nick Mohammed in Bits', the BBC Radio 4 series of comic plays showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters. Originally broadcast 7 September 2010. It's the start of term time in 'Lila', and second year student Lila is going to teach the freshers everything she knows. Featuring Nick Mohammed as Lila, with Col...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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Duration 27m
When Alex and Terry set up their own e-commerce company in Philomel Cottage, everything looks rosy until money goes missing from Alex's account. Soon she is questioning her partner - and, indeed, the cottage itself...
View BookAuthor: Nick Mohammed
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Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 28m
The fourth play from 'Nick Mohammed in Bits', the BBC Radio 4 series of comic plays showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters. Originally broadcast 21 September 2010. In this final play, lifestyle guru 'Mr Swallow' presents his memory technique to a live studio audience.
View BookAuthor: Bettina Gracias
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Author Bettina Gracias
Narrator Sagar Radia
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama about a young Pakistani boy forced into bonded labour in a carpet factory at the age of four, and who became a figurehead for the Bonded Liberation Movement aged eleven. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 25 February 2009, and repeated on 18 January 2011. Despite the valiant efforts of many, there are stil...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 11
Duration 2h 14m
Hercule Poirot is a guest at a weekend house party, given at the Cornish clifftop home of the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright. The other visitors include keen amateur detective Mr. Satterthwaite and distinguished Harley Street nerve specialist Sir Bartholomew Strange. Death visits the house soon after Poirot's arrival, the victim an elderly...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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Duration 28m
A man witnesses a murderous attack on a young woman in a mirror - yet when he turns round there is nothing there. Can he prevent a premonition coming true? Basic human loyalty and jealousy are at the fore in this chilling tale.
View BookAuthor: Helen Clohessy
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Author Helen Clohessy
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
An offbeat 21st Century urban love story starring Rosie Cavaliero and John Dougall, originally broadcast as BBC Radio 4's 'Afternoon Play' on 12 January 2011. It's a difficult time for Sue, her mother has just died and the kids have moved out. She has a vision of leaving their tough housing estate behind and starting a new life by the sea but husba...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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Duration 27m
War-wounded sailor Dickie Carpenter is haunted by strange visitations from a ghostly woman. When his friend Robert tries to solve the mystery, though, he ultimately has to fight his own terrifying battle between love and death.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 27
Duration 2h 12m
Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid, and his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen. Five of his relatives are desperate to get their hands on Cloade's money, and Rosaleen begins to fear for her life. The prospects for the Cloades improve when they discover that Rosaleen had a previous husband who perished mysteriously in Africa. T...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
A group of adventurers set out from Damascus to visit the legendary "Gate of Baghdad", also known as the "Gate of Death". When one of the party is found dead, the others look to the seemingly unimpeachable Mr. Parker Pyne.
View BookAuthor: John Mortimer
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Author John Mortimer
Narrator Jeremy Irons
Duration 43m
When Lewis Luby (Jeremy Irons) comes to, late at night in an Italian hospital, he finds himself lying under the monstrous big toe of God. Surely there has been some mistake: Luby, who has never for one moment believed in the immortality of the soul, cannot possibly be in heaven! John Mortimer had the idea for 'Mr Luby's Fear of Heaven' when he firs...
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