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Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
Author: Christopher Green
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Author Christopher Green
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 'Afternoon Play' about the unconditional love of a devoted ABBA fan, from Olivier award-winning writer Christopher Green; starring the writer as himself, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (aka Frida from ABBA). Originally broadcast 16 February 2011.
View BookThe Drowned Church; the Lost Hotel; the Lady In the Lake; Hope Springs. Series: Pilgrim
Author: Sebastian Bacziewicz
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Author Sebastian Bacziewicz
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Duration 2h 54m
A series of four BBC Radio 4 modern-day fantasy adventures written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and starring Paul Hilton as Pilgrim. Pilgrim Series 2 was originally a weekly broadcast in the Afternoon Play slots from 31 August-21 September 2010. The plays in Pilgrim Series 2 are thrilling, dark and contemporary. They're set in a very recognisable, very...
View BookSaint Overboard & the Saint Plays With Fire
Author: Leslie Charteris
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Author Leslie Charteris
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Duration 1h 55m
Leslie Charteris' square-jawed, blue-eyed hero loved, fought and stole his way through Europe in the 1930s, endlessly pursuing blondes, baddies and boodle. Adored by women and feared by his foes, he was known as 'The Saint' after the calling card he left at the scenes of his crimes - a sketch of a stick figure with a halo.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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Duration 28m
When the Cowley sisters employ a carer to look after the ailing Carmela, Morag appears to suit their needs perfectly. But after a spectacular jewel theft on the night of the Hunt Ball, it appears that the perfect carer might be implicated...
View BookAuthor: Simon Passmore
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Author Simon Passmore
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Duration 56m
A fast-paced psychological thriller from BBC Radio 4's 'Saturday Play' slot, originally broadcast 26 March 2011. A city banker is found dead in an opulent apartment. At the funeral, his former girlfriend Helen is unexpectedly questioned about when she last saw him. Did he mention computer files, or give her anything as a keepsake? Helen's suspicion...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Bacziewicz
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Author Sebastian Bacziewicz
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SeriesPilgrim Series 2, Book 1
Duration 43m
The first play in Pilgrim Series 2, a collection of four BBC Radio 4 modern-day fantasy adventures written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and starring Paul Hilton as Pilgrim. The Drowned Church was originally broadcast in the Afternoon Play slot on 31 August 2010. What if all the myths and folktales of these islands were true? And what if they were not o...
View BookAuthor: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
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Author Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 26m
Wine shop owner Gerald desperately needs money: his business is failing and the landlord has raised the cost of the lease. When he inherits a watch that used to belong to wartime Nazi Joachim Von Ribbentrop he believes that his financial troubles are over. But it sparks conflict with his wife and brother, who question the ethics of the potential sa...
View BookAuthor: Judy Upton
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Author Judy Upton
Narrator Nadine Marshall
Duration 43m
Resourceful mum, Shanice, is persuaded by her next-door neighbour, Evie, to take up the bizarre sport of jelly wrestling to make ends meet in this BBC Radio 4 'Afternon Play'. 'Jelly Babes' was originally broadcast on 13 April 2011. Becky, AKA 'Azaria The Amazon', shows Shanice the ropes, and she is soon wowing the rowdy stag night audiences with h...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesMiss Marple, Book 9
Duration 2h 9m
As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major'...
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 44m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon The world's best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about one of his most intriguing cases in this full-cast dramatisation that has been specially adapted for radio from the original novel....
View BookAuthor: Terenece Rattigan
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Author Terenece Rattigan
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Duration 1h 27m
A BBC Radio 4 production of Terence Rattigan's famous play about an innocent boy unjustly accused 'It is easy to do justice - very hard to do right.' When he is accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order, fourteen-year-old Ronnie Winslow is expelled from naval college. But his father believes his claim of innocence and, determined to clear hi...
View BookAuthor: Noel Coward
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Author Noel Coward
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 12m
When novelist Charles Condomine invites a medium to his house in order to learn about the occult for his new book, the last thing he or his second wife dream is that the seance will bring back his first wife, Elvira, who wants Charles all to herself.
View BookAuthor: Ali Taylor
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Author Ali Taylor
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama starring James Alexandrou (Martin Fowler, EastEnders), originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 7 December 2010. A touchingly real and comically disingenuous story about the awkwardness of being misshapen, and the misery of not fitting in. Starring James Alexandrou as Liam, Candassaie Liburd as Ethel and Marcella R...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
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Duration 2h 50m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Martyn Wade of Anthony Trollope's classic novel, Orley Farm. This novel, described as a "... brilliantly choreographed legal thriller" (Mail on Sunday), centres on the pathos of the main character, Lady Mason. Youthful marriage choices, middle-aged marital crisis, love and loss revolve around the legal action a...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Waugh
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Author Evelyn Waugh
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Duration 3h 47m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's tragi-comic novel of the lives and loves of the English aristocracy. The action moves between 1944 and 1923, to tell the story of Charles Ryder and his infatuation with the decadent Sebastian Flyte.
View BookAuthor: Stephen Wyatt
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Author Stephen Wyatt
Narrator Adrian Scarborough, Patrick Stewart
Duration 43m
Patrick Stewart stars as Raymond Chandler and Adrian Scarborough as Billy Wilder in BBC Radio 4's entertaining glimpse inside the Hollywood film industry. Double Jeopardy was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 4 February 2011. In 1944, Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder came together to work on a screen adaptation of James M. Cain's nov...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 2h 20m
The brave warrior Macbeth allows himself to be persuaded by his wife, Lady Macbeth, to slay good King Duncan and seize the throne of Scotland for himself. Macbeth achieves his ambition, but one murder proves not to be enough. Sinister supernatural forces are at work in this tragedy of guilt and retribution.
View BookAuthor: Neil Gaiman
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Author Neil Gaiman
Narrator Sanjeev Bhaskar
Duration 2h 32m
Matthew Beard and Sophie Rundle star in a brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the bestselling novel by Neil Gaiman, narrated by Eleanor Bron. Challenged to retrieve a fallen star, Tristran Thorn leaves the sleepy English village of Wall and crosses into the land of Faerie and the realm of Stormhold. Locating the star, he discovers it i...
View BookAuthor: William Peter Blatty
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Author William Peter Blatty
Narrator Robert Glenister
Duration 1h 54m
Robert Glenister and Ian McDiarmid star in a gripping BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of William Peter Blatty's classic horror novel. 'When a radio play is this good, the devil really is in the details' Radio Times Summoned to a case of apparent possession, Father Karras is at first sceptical, then horrified. The victim -a 12-year-old girl named Regan -...
View BookAuthor: C.J. Sansom
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Author C.J. Sansom
Narrator Justin Salinger
Duration 2h 15m
A thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on the third novel in C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime series featuring hunchback lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake. Autumn, 1541. Henry VIII, accompanied by his young bride Catherine Howard, has embarked on a Great Progress from London to York, to establish his power and authority with h...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 37
Duration 1h 27m
Following an otherwise-enjoyable literary luncheon, the celebrated crime novelist Ariadne Oliver is accosted by a particularly formidable woman who engages her in conversation about one of her many god-daughters, whom Ariadne hasn't seen since she was a child. She lands a bombshell with the question "What I want to know is this: did her mother kill...
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