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Author: Alan Garner
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Author Alan Garner
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 1h 48m
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and a Guardian Best Fiction Book of 2021 An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds’ eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchangi...
View BookAuthor: D H Lawrence
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Author D H Lawrence
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 2h 17m
The story of Paul Morel, torn between three women. A observant and insightful look at the complexities and dangers surrounding human love and attraction. Sons and Lovers is the moving and explicit account of a young man growing up in a closed mining village. Born into a difficult marriage, Paul Morel is shy and introverted and impressionable. As a...
View BookAuthor: Bernieres Louis De
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Author Bernieres Louis De
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 3h 25m
In 1941 Captain Antonio Corelli is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia. It isn't long before he is involved in a heated affair with Pelagia, a local girl, despite her engagement to a young fisherman, Mandras, who has gone off to join Greek partisans. Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers are on the same side, but as Core...
View BookAuthor: Richard Fawkes
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Author Richard Fawkes
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 5h 19m
A history of opera from its beginnings in the 16th century through to to present day, with examples from Monteverdi to Wagner.
View BookAuthor: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 2h 21m
A gritty and absorbing glimpse into the lives of women and men living in a small community, and the often unpleasant truths that relationships can sometimes hold. Bathsheba Everdene flees her abusive husband and spends the night by a stagnant and spooky swamp. When light begins to break over her hiding-place, she sees strong parallels between her...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h 5m
This volume of Christopher Lee's history of Britan looks at the Thatcher years, the Falklands War and the Royal Wedding.
View BookAuthor: Somerset Maugham
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Author Somerset Maugham
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 9h 14m
A collection of short stories, all born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. The stories included are: 'Footprints in the Jungle', 'Mabel', 'P & O', 'The Door of Opportunity', 'The Buried Talent', 'Before the Party', 'Mr Know-All', 'Neil MacAdam', 'The End of the Flight' and 'The Force o...
View BookAuthor: Clare Francis
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Author Clare Francis
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 13h 13m
When Catherine Galitza is attacked and badly injured, two very different men are keen to uncover the truth of the assault, and although they appear to be motivated by love and admiration, at heart they may well have other interests. There is Terry Devlin, entrepreneur and fixer. And Simon Jardine, her husband's business partner. Do either men reall...
View BookAuthor: Barbara Vine
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Author Barbara Vine
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 15h 19m
The first Lord Nanther clearly hoped to be the subject of an admiring posthumous biography. Having built a name for himself as Queen Victoria's favoured physician, an expert on blood diseases - in particular the royal disease of haemophilia, he set about recording the details of his eminent life. But when the present Lord Nanther begins to research...
View BookThe History of Classical Music
Author: Richard Fawkes
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Author Richard Fawkes
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 5h 13m
Robert Powell narrates the history of over 1000 years of Western classical music, from Gregorian chant to Henryk Gorecki. Many musical expressions and musical forms are explained and illustrated by performances from some of the most highly praised recordings of recent years.
View BookAuthor: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 12h 9m
An expansion of the ideas contained in the acclaimed ITV series,'The Adventure of English 500 to 2000AD'. The remarkable story of English, from its beginning as a minor Germanic dialect to its position as a truly established global language.
View BookAuthor: Michael Frayn
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 11h 47m
Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has found one of the world's long-lost treasures. But at once the difficulties begin: the treasure he has found is in someone else's possession and to get his hands on it he needs to set up a classic sting. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h 4m
Christopher Lee's history of Britain, This Sceptred Isle, provided the definitive radio account of the nation from the arrival of Julius Caesar to the death of Queen Victoria. This Sceptred Isle, The Twentieth Century, continues the story, taking us through decades of whirlwind change and technological advancement in the diverse and colourful count...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h
Christopher Lee's history of Britain, 'This Sceptred Isle', provided the definitive radio account of the nation from the arrival of Julius Caesar to the death of Queen Victoria. Volume 2, covering the years 1919-1938, looks at a Britain ravaged by war and at the mercy of millions of striking workers. It also takes in the lighter side of life in the...
View BookAlderley Series Book 3: Boneland
Author: Alan Garner
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Author Alan Garner
Narrator Robert Powell
SeriesAlderley Series, Book 3
Duration 4h 56m
Boneland is Alan Garner's continuation of the story thread which began in his first and enduringly popular fantasy children's novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. The Weirdstone was published in 1960 (it has never been out of print since), and The Moon of Gomrath followed, in 1963. This took the story further with the same two children, Colin and...
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