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Author: J R R Tolkien
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Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Christian Rodska, Derek Jacobi, John Moffatt
Duration 2h 6m
Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien's children. Inside would be a letter from Father Christmas. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how all the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place and how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell...
View BookAuthor: Edmund Spenser
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Author Edmund Spenser
Narrator John Moffatt
Duration 3h 58m
This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was the first epic poem in modern English. 'The Faerie Queen' combines dramatic descriptions of chivalrous adventure with picturesque episodes of pageantry, whilst at the same time presenting a deeply-felt allegory of the eternal struggle between Truth and Error.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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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...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
Duration 6h 30m
Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, a tragic accident had been followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies - a husband and wife - shot dead. Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past and discovers that 'old sins leave long shadows'.
View BookAuthor: Noel Coward
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Author Noel Coward
Narrator Full Cast, John Moffatt, Rosemary Leach
Duration 1h 26m
John Moffatt and Rosemary Leach star in this BBC Radio 4 production of Noel Coward's patriotic play about the ups and downs of a working-class family between 1919 and 1939 'This Happy Breed' opens in 1919, when the Gibbons family have just moved to their smart new home in the suburbs of South London. Against a background of social change and nation...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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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,...
View BookAuthor: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator John Moffatt
Duration 9h 16m
After meeting Lord Henry Wotton, who remarks that 'youth is the only thing worth having', Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with preserving his looks. He wants to remain as youthful and fresh as he appears in his recently completed portrait by Basil Hallward. When Dorian states that he would give his soul to stay young, he has no idea of the horrors he'...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
Duration 6h 40m
The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings. So he was shocked when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was coping with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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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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