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Author: Ben Elton
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Author Ben Elton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
This is the story of a legend in the making. A nervous young man lives at the dead end of a dead-end town. On his eighteenth birthday he comes into his inheritance. With a little help from an old teacher, he finds it equips him to broadcast over the internet. Living in a house where rolling news is a constant presence, he does what comes naturally-...
View BookAuthor: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 29m
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 The Sin Eaters an old friend of Blake's receives a series of cryptic messages...
View BookAuthor: Sasha Hails
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Author Sasha Hails
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
Two new dramas which get inside the emotional realities of dealing with ethical dilemmas. When a confused young man with no I.D. and a Doctor Who fixation is brought into hospital, the staff have clear rules about how decisions can be made on his behalf. But when he starts to make his own wishes clear, are they right to listen? Starring Gunnar Caut...
View BookAuthor: Matthew Solon
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Author Matthew Solon
Narrator Various
Duration 56m
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, one of the oldest and largest investment banks in the world, with its headquarters in New York, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It was the largest bankruptcy filed in US history and sent the already unstable global financial markets into an uncontrollable tailspin. Based on insider interviews, thi...
View BookAuthor: Anton Chekhov
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Author Anton Chekhov
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Duration 1h 48m
Madame Ranyevskaya and her daughter Anya have returned home from Paris to discover that their family estate-which includes their beloved cherry orchard-has to be sold to cover the family's debts. They believe a miracle can save their orchard. But will their stubborn pride and fond, childhood memories be enough? Chekhov's tragic-comedy is about the...
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
SeriesTalking Heads, Book 2
Duration 3h 24m
In these six pieces, Alan Bennett retains the gripping stories, intensity of delivery and masterly style of his original monologues. The suburban normality of the world his characters inhabit once again belies their lives of secrets, revelations, fears, crimes and passions. They tell their stories, and in doing so reveal more than they know of the...
View BookAuthor: John Godbar
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Author John Godbar
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Duration 56m
Jack and Liz are in Blackpool for one last time. John Godber's classic stage play tells the touching and funny story of a marriage through a lifetime of holidays together.
View BookAuthor: Annie Mccartney
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Author Annie Mccartney
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Duration 43m
With two twenty-something children and a dubious boyfriend eating her out of house and home, Maggie (Annie McCartney) is beginning to lose the will to live. She feels she has no one to talk to or to listen. But all of that is about to change when she hears a voice speaking to her from the corner of the kitchen. It seems that the only one who unders...
View BookAuthor: Frances Byrne
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Author Frances Byrne
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Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of an event in the life of ballerina Margot Fonteyn, written by Frances Byrne and starring Sophie Jerrold and Richard McCabe. Originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 22 May 2008 and repeated on 19 November 2010. An Unchoreographed World explores a dramatic formative event in the life of one of the truly g...
View BookAuthor: Gregory Evans
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Author Gregory Evans
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Duration 56m
A BBC Radio 4 tragic-comedy drama depicting the principal events of Shirley Porter's time as leader of Westminster city council in the 1980s. Originally broadcast as the 'Friday Play' on 27 November 2009, and starring Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shirley Porter. Also featured amongst the cast are Maggie Steed, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Piers Wehner, Stephen Hogan...
View BookAuthor: Alison Kennedy
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Author Alison Kennedy
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
Mr. Parker is a sincere and kind man who, in search of a higher meaning to life, has moved from conventional religion to s‚ances and spiritualism. He believes he has met his saviour in the guise of Mr. Thomson, a charming, erudite and utterly mesmerising medium. But, unbeknown to Parker, Thomson is a complete and utter fake. Features Bill Nig...
View BookAuthor: G. B. Shaw
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Author G. B. Shaw
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Duration 1h 26m
Simon Cadell stars as Henry Higgins with Imelda Staunton as Eliza Doolittle in this BBC Radio 4 production of Shaw's famous play. When phonetics tutor and linguist Henry Higgins meets Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, he makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can teach her to speak so well that she will be able to pass herself off...
View BookAuthor: Ali Taylor
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Author Ali Taylor
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Duration 43m
When a heartbreaking memoir about life in war-torn Kabul lands on her desk, Emma thinks she's discovered a new literary sensation. Her colleagues, though, are deeply sceptical. Cinders is a new comedy about drawing the line.
View BookAuthor: Alan Pollock
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Author Alan Pollock
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Duration 43m
A witty and powerful BBC Radio 4 coming of age drama starring Tim McInnerny as Sydney Larkin and Pip Carter as Philip Larkin. Written by Alan Pollock and broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 11 June 2010.
View BookAuthor: Karen Laws, Fiona Evans
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Author Karen Laws, Fiona Evans
Narrator Various
Duration 50m
A BBC Radio 3 drama that was developed with a community group in Byker, Newcastle which takes a journey into the reality of neglect as one child's life spirals out of control. Originally broadcast as part of the 'Drama on 3' collection on 25 October 2009. In a fractured society lives a fractured family, in their fractured home lies a fractured body...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Norman Painting
Duration 33m
The story of Phil and Grace's troubled courtship and all too brief marriage. Grace was the Fairbrothers' daughter, Phil their farm manager, and so they were on unequal footing from the start. Grace's money and social status continued to cast a shadow even after her death.
View BookAuthor: George Shaw
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Author George Shaw
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 28m
The story centres on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren, a brothel owner, described by the author as 'on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman' and her daughter, Vivie, an intelligent and pragmatic young woman, who has just graduated from college and come home to get acquainted with her mother for the first tim...
View BookThe Archers: Farming Catastrophes In Ambridge
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Norman Painting
Duration 30m
In this compilation, Phil Archer and Tom Forrest lie in wait for a poacher-and Bob Larkin accidentally gets shot. Plans to run electricity pylons through Ambridge cause uproar, and Dan Archer discovers a case of fowl pest. Also, Walter Gabriel's sheep are attacked by stray dogs.
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: 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....
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