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Author: John Galsworthy
Series: The Forsyte Saga, Book 1
Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 1
Duration 8h 27m
Galsworthy's epic story chronicles the decline and fall of the Forsytes through almost fifty years of material triumph, emotional disaster and a terrible feud that splits them asunder. Beginning in 1886, The Man of Property starts with the family wealthy, successful and united. But the actions of the arrogant Soames Forsyte and his beautiful wife I...
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Author: Phillip Palmer
Author Phillip Palmer
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 8m
All five episodes of the Radio 4 full-cast detective drama written by Philip Palmer. Originally broadcast as the Woman's Hour drama during the week commencing 22 June 2009. The story takes place in the present day, and centres on notorious art forger Daniel Ballantyne, newly released from prison but now dying, who is telling his life's story to an...
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Author: William Shakespeare
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Various Readers
Duration 2h 30m
Shakespeare's play, set during the Roman invasion of Britain, centres around the banishment of the man who has incurred the wrath of the king by secretly marrying his daughter. Confusion follows in an intricate plot in which nobody is quite who they seem to be.
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Drama On 3: The Idylls of the King
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h
A BBC Radio 3 adaptation by Michael Symmons of Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Idylls of the King, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith and broadcast on 12 July 2009 to mark the bicentenary of the poet's birth. In this extraordinary epic poem, Tennyson transforms Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, infusing the legend of King Arthur with a passionate intensity. Told he...
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J'accuse: Zola and the Dreyfus Affair
Author: Hattie Naylor
Author Hattie Naylor
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Hattie Naylor. This play was inspired by a newspaper article written by Emile Zola in response to the Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s, when a Jewish army officer was persecuted and wrongly imprisoned by the French military and judicial establishment. Louis Gregori gives a right-wing and nationalistic perspective on...
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Author: William Shakespeare
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Alec Guiness
Duration 1m
"I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad..." Alec Guinness's performance as King Lear stirs the listener in this recording from the BBC Sound Archives.
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Author: William Shakespeare
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Lenny Henry Et Al
Duration 1h 58m
A BBC Radio 4 production of Othello, starring Lenny Henry in title role. The comic makes his stage debut as the tortured Moor. One of Shakespeare's most revered tragedies, the play tells the story of a noble African commander in the service of the Venetian army, whose mind is poisoned against the one he loves by the jealous and hate-filled Iago....
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Author: Thomas Hardy
Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 45m
A new dramatisation of the Thomas Hardy classic, `Tess Of The d'Urbervilles', to be transmitted as the Radio 4 Classic Serial in four hour-long episodes. John Durbeyfield learns that he is descended from the Norman family of d'Urbervilles. He and his wife Joan encourage their daughter Tess to befriend the family of Stoke d'Urbervilles. In doing...
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Author: Valentine Dyall
Author Valentine Dyall
Narrator Various, Full Cast
Duration 1h 57m
Four chilling episodes from the famous 1940s BBC radio series, introduced by Valentine Dyall, aka "The Man in Black". These are the four sole surviving episodes from the BBC archive: The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (18/9/1943); The Speaking Clock by John Dickson Carr (13/4/1944); The Clock Strikes Eight by John Dickson Carr(18/5/1944);...
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A Man Lay Dead & A Surfeit of Lampreys
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Jeremy Clyde
Duration 1h 53m
A Man Lay Dead A game of 'murders' at Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party becomes far too realistic for anyone's liking. First a guest arrives with a dangerously lethal dagger and then, when the gong sounds to announce the start of the game, the victim plays dead in a very convincing manner. Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn believes the unus...
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Author: Raymond Chandler
Author Raymond Chandler
Narrator Ed Bishop
Duration 1h 28m
Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in this powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's novel about the cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. Linda Conquest was very tough, very kissable and very missin...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 36
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 36
Duration 1h 27m
John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Famous crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, visiting her friend Judith Butler in the little town of Woodleigh Common, is invited to a Hallowe'en Party put on by society hostess Mrs. Rowena Drake for the local teenagers. During her preparations for the party, the c...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 20
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Peter Sallis
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 20
Duration 1h 20m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Peter Sallis as the great Belgian detective. Tyrannical millionaire Simeon Lee has been estranged from most of his family for years. But now, on Christmas Eve, the old man calls them all together once more. Unable to disobey, the children gather uneasily and wonder what their father's intentions are. D...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
The year is 1920, and an ambitious doctor meets a nun apparently traumatised by what she witnessed in the Great War. An attempt to restore the woman's sanity results in the uncovering of something very sinister indeed.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
Having lost her husband and only child to the war in Afghanistan, a young woman turns to an Irish couple for hope in the form of a miracle. But dark forces are at work, and the price to pay for salvation may be too much to bear.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 9
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 9
Duration 2h 20m
"Monsieur Poirot, somehow or other I've just got to get rid of my husband!" No sooner had she uttered the words than Lady Edgware's husband was dead, brutally stabbed in the neck. The evidence against her is overwhelming, the case cut and dried. But what was the truth behind it all? What enemies lurked in the background of the victim's life? Hercul...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
Theo is determined to seek happiness with her husband's business rival, Vincent. Having fled London for Paris, however, she soon learns of Richard's financial collapse - and discovers that rather more than just his job is at stake.
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Author: Alan Bennett
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Maggie Smith
Duration 1h 32m
A new Radio 4 adaptation of one of Alan Bennett's most well-loved works. In the 1970s, an eccentric old lady called Miss Shepherd lives in an old caravan opposite Bennett's house in Camden. That is until new parking regulations come into force - and he suggests moving the van onto his driveway...
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Author: Alan Bennett
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Jim Broadbent Et Al
Duration 1h 28m
Jim Broadbent stars as 'mad' King George III in this radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's award-winning play, which co-stars Cheryl Campbell, Nicholas Farrell and Alun Armstrong. The King is losing his mind. Doctors are brought in as his eccentric behaviour becomes more bizarre and erratic, while his son, the Prince Regent, waits - and plots.
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 36m
Jack was Dan and Doris' other son, Peggy was the girl from the East End of London; together they ran the Bull pub in the village, but Jack's addictions to alcohol and gambling caused problems in this marriage.
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Author: Lindsey Davis
Series: Marcus Didius Falco, Book 4
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Anton Lesser Et Al
SeriesMarcus Didius Falco, Book 4
Duration 2h 47m
Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the fourth novel in Lindsey Davis's bestselling series featuring Roman private eye Falco. The Iron Hand of Mars sees Falco being dispatched to one of the most hostile parts of the Empire to deliver a new standard - an iron hand - to one of the legions. Germania is col...
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