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Author: Graham Greene
Format: MP3 CD
Author Graham Greene
Narrator Kenneth Branagh
Duration 4h
Victor was 12 years old when the Captain took him away from school, claiming that the boy, now reborn as Jim Smith, had been won from his father at backgammon, or was it chess? Jim tries to piece the story together.
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Life and Fate: The Complete Series
Author: Vasily Grossman
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Author Vasily Grossman
Narrator Kenneth Branagh
Duration 7h 35m
Kenneth Branagh stars in BBC Radio 4's ambitious eight-hour dramatisation of 'Life and Fate', Vasily Grossman's epic masterpiece set during the Battle of Stalingrad. This powerful work, completed in 1960, charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of war. Its comparison of Stalinism with Nazism was considered by Soviet authoritie...
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In the Ravine & Other Short Stories
Author: Anton Chekhov
Format: MP3 CD
Author Anton Chekhov
Narrator Kenneth Branagh
Duration 3h 35m
Here are 12 stories, from the brightly comic to the overtly tragic. Each full of the sharpest observations of personality and situation, and with implications beyond their brief form: a dying actor, children playing a game, a tragic cabman, an orator's mistake and, perhaps most richly of all, a family laid bare in 'In The Ravine'.
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Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Kenneth Branagh
Duration 6h 14m
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.
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