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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 2h 56m
This six-part comedy series was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988. Hosted by Stephen Fry, accompanied each week by Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson and a selection of guests including Phyllida Law, Robert Bathurst, Julia Hills and Alison Steadman, the show takes the form of a round table discussion, interspersed with sketches which ve...
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 43m
Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4. Current Puns Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun? And who, or what, is the Thief of Bad Gags? Metaphor The English language is chock-full of maritime metaphors: cock up, taken aback, chip on your shoulder and show...
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I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: Chairman Humph, A Tribute
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 52m
Stephen Fry presents a special tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton, the sublime host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, through the eyes of his close pals on the show and distinguished admirers, from Dame Judi Dench to Radiohead.The programme features many highlights taken from his thirty-six years at the helm of Radio 4's perennial antidote to panel games.
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 12h 30m
Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This memoir promises to be courageously frank, honest and poignant. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with writing that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you a...
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Fry's English Delight Series 3: Accentuate the Negative
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 27m
We discover than "no" can mean "yes". And why you should never mess with Mr. In Between...
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Author Mark Tavener
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 202h 19m
Stephen Fry and John Bird star as masters of spin Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe in the BBC Radio 4 series, Absolute Power. In this third series, written by Mark Tavener, Prentiss McCabe take on their most difficult and demanding client - an odious tennis star - and Charles tries to rescue the career of a disgraced Labour minister. The pa...
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Fry's English Delight, Series 3; the Complete Series
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 50m
Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4. The Trial of Qwerty - The "Qwerty" keyboard faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct the English language. But who was Mr. Qwerty? He Said, She Said - Do men and women really say what they mean? Also Stephen investigates sex, domin...
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Fry's English Delight, Series 2; the Complete Series
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 51m
A second BBC Radio 4 series of Stephen Fry's witty and incisive programmes looking at the oddities of the English language. Includes four 30-minute Radio 4 programmes presented by Stephen Fry indulging his delight in the English language. So Wrong It's Right - Stephen Fry examines how 'wrong' English can become right English, such as more people us...
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Fry's English Delight Series 3: He Said, She Said
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 26m
Do men and women really say what they mean? Also Stephen investigates sex, domination, gender, power, and sex changes (as only he can).
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 27m
Stephen looks to the future with some predictions. Will robots be able to read novels? How much will our computers be able to understand us? Will English rule - or change? And then there's a question about a duck...
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Author Alphonse Daudet
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 7m
Originally written in French, The Girl from Arles is a doomed love story concerning a young and handsome man named Jan, who falls in love with a woman who can never be his. A heart-rending and tragic-romantic short story that will move even the most hardened souls.
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The Fable of the Man With the Golden Brain
Author Alphonse Daudet
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 6m
Born into an ordinary family, though not at all ordinary himself, our hero's parents discover that their son has been born with a gift - a brain made of pure gold. As a child, he was very protected by his parents and was unaware of his condition. However, when he discovers his secret, it begins to consume his life, leading to obsession and the feel...
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The Trial of Qwerty: Fry's English Delight, Series 3
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 28m
The "Qwerty" keyboard faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct the English language. But who was Mr. Qwerty?
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 25m
The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all!
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Author Eleanor Updale
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesMontmorency, Book 1
Duration 5h 11m
Fleeing across a roof on a dark night in Victorian London, a thief crashes through a glass skylight to almost certain death. But an ambitious young doctor revives and reconstructs his shattered body, proudly showing off his handiwork at the Scientific Society where the city's intelligentsia meet. It's there that the robber picks up the key to a new...
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Author Eleanor Updale
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesMontmorency, Book 2
Duration 8h 5m
The sequel to 'Montmorency' sees the flawed hero back in London, five years after giving up his life of crime in the sewers. But his evil alter ego, Scarper, is back too, pulling him into a dark world of addiction. Some respite on a Scottish island throws up another mystery, with the discovery of a row of tiny graves. As Montmorency struggles to re...
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 3h 3m
This is a diary of Stephen Fry's trips to Peru tracking Paddington Bear's roots and more seriously, rescuing a young Spectacled bear, one of the world's endangered species. He also includes how a mate was found for the first bear while on a subsequent trip to Peru, as well as how a charitable foundation - Bear Rescue - was established for the purpo...
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Fry's English Delight: Word Games
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 49m
Is English an innately playful language? Are word games good for you? Do we divide into number and word players? And could Scrabble have been invented in any other language? In this special programme, Stephen examines many word games, and we'll hear some familiar voices playing unfamiliar games-Sheila Dillon from The Food Programme plays Font or...
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Fry's English Delight, Series 4
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 50m
Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4. 'The Mouth': Why is the human food processor and word processor in the same unit? Stephen Fry takes you inside 'this hole we call cake' - the most important part of speech. 'Brevity': A celebration of the miniature in...
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Warhorses of Letters, Episode 4
Author Robert Hudson
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesWarhorses of Letters, Book 4
Duration 13m
Two horses divided by war, united by love. Comedy starring Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby. Episode 4 sees the wars rage on as Copenhagen lives it up in Paris and Marengo tries to enjoy a quiet retirement.
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Warhorses of Letters, Episode 3
Author Robert Hudson
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesWarhorses of Letters, Book 3
Duration 13m
Two horses divided by war, united by love. Comedy starring Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby. Episode 3 sees our heroes' fortunes fluctuate as the Napoleonic Wars get bloodier and colder making it much harder to send valentines cards.
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