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Author: Alan Bennett
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Thora Hird, Imelda Staunton, Brian Wilde
Duration 29m
Taken from Alan Bennett: Triple Bill, April 2007 Release. A naive, inexperienced social worker calls on an elderly couple - but does she need more help than they do?
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Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery
Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 2h 41m
This is another six-part case for crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist Steve. First transmitted in 1965, it was the penultimate episode of the series, which on and off had spanned 30 years from 1938 to 1968.
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Author: Arthur Miller
Author Arthur Miller
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 59m
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor, THE CRUCIBLE mirrors the anti- Communist hysteria in the 1950's.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
A middle-aged man in search of adventure, Bobby Roberts answers an advert in The Times and is dispatched to Milan, to collect a harmless package from a scientist. However, he very soon gets caught up in a terrifying murder...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 13
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 13
Duration 1h 27m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective with Simon Williams and Philip Jackson. Alice Ascher, a poor, elderly shopkeeper, is murdered in Andover. Betty Barnard, a young waitress, is strangled with her own belt at Bexhill-on-Sea. Next comes Carmichael Clarke, collector of Chinese art, clubbed to dea...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 30
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 30
Duration 1h 27m
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective. When Richard Abernethie, last master of Enderby Hall, dies suddenly in his sleep, the family are eager to discover how his riches have been divided. However, the reading of the will is rudely interrupted by his youngest sister Cora - "he was murdered, wasn't h...
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Badgers In My Vest: Portrait of An Artist As A Young Dog
Author: John Fletcher
Author John Fletcher
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
Badgers in my vest is a new, darkly funny play by an acclaimed contemporary playwright, based on a true incident in Dylan Thomas' life. Deemed unfit to fight in World War II, Dylan Thomas spends his time in Newquay in the local pub, cadging drinks, laughing at the Welsh behind their back and being outrageous. Privately, he is terrified, suffering n...
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Author: Jb Priestly
Author Jb Priestly
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 59m
Marcia Warren and Stella Gonet star in J. B. Priestley's classic family drama about the nature of time. Time and the Conways follows the fortunes of one family over a period of years, and offers a moving perspective on the abstract nature of the past, present and future. It is 1919, the War is over and the Conway family are celebrating their daught...
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The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
In this delightful tale, an Eastern Prince arrives in England with some family jewels which he's having reset as a gift for his fianc‚e. However, the Prince also has a mistress; she asks to wear one particularly enchanting piece that features a huge ruby, and then promptly disappears with it. Poirot discovers a connection with a house party a...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 19
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 19
Duration 1h 27m
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: "You see, don't you,...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 46m
With World War II at an end, Charles Hayward is finally free to marry the woman he loves, Sophia Leonides. However, she refuses - the unexplained death of her grandfather, wealthy businessman Aristide Leonides, draws her back to the suffocating environment of her family home. Charles follows, but his arrival coincides with the discovery that Aristi...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 28m
Octavia's triumphant new dress designs are the only thing on her mind - but is it safe to ignore the ominous dressmaker's doll which appears in her workshop? Today's cut-throat fashion industry provides this story's backdrop.
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Author: Agatha Christie
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.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
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.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
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.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
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...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
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.
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Author: Annie Caulfield
Author Annie Caulfield
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 14m
A BBC Radio 3 full-cast dramatisation by Annie Caulfield, starring Lenny Henry as singer and political activist Paul Robeson. Originally broadcast Sunday 21 February 2010. As an outspoken apologist for Stalin and agitator for civil rights Paul Robeson had many enemies, including the CIA. His passport was taken away, his career curtailed and his...
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Author: BBC Audiobooks
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
Separated from his wife and children, gamekeeper George Barford took to drink and even attempted suicide. The woman who vowed to turn his life around was-curiously-the local barmaid Nora.
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I Wish To Apologise For My Part In the Apocalypse
Author: Duncan Macmillan
Author Duncan Macmillan
Narrator Bill Nighy Et Al
Duration 43m
Duncan Macmillan's romantic comedy drama about the end of the world, a woman who falls in love with the moon, and her husband who falls back in love with her.
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Author: Jaroslav Hasek
Author Jaroslav Hasek
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 53m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Christopher Reason of the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hasek. This tale charts the exploits during the First World War of "European Forrest Gump", Svejk, in his progress through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian army. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier wh...
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