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Thumbelina and Other Fairy Tales
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Format: MP3 CD
Author Hans Christian Andersen
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 34m
This selection of stories includes 'Thumbelina', 'The Brave Tin Soldier', 'The Princess and the Pea', 'The Storks', 'The Butterfly', 'The Flea and the Professor', 'The Flying Trunk', 'The Metal Pig', 'The Silver-Shilling', and 'The Nightingale'. The audiobook is read by the finalists of the Naxos Audiobooks/The Times Voice of the Year competition.
View BookIn the Fifth and Last Term At Malory Towers
Author: Enid Blyton
Format: MP3 CD
Author Enid Blyton
Narrator Various
Duration 2h
The Fifth Form is putting on a pantomime, and Darrell's writing it! But Cinderella doesn't always go smoothly. Which girl will get to play the lead? And who on earth is writing the producer anonymous letters? New girl Amanda doesn't really fit in at Malory Towers. She's headstrong and arrogant but is fantastic at games! Amanda's destined to swim fo...
View BookThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Author: J R R Tolkien
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Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Lord of the Rings, Book 2
Duration 4h 29m
A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the second book in J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy. Brian Sibley's famous 1981 adaptation, starring Ian Holm and Michael Hordern, has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly-recorded beginning and end narration by Ian Holm (who plays Frodo in this and Bilbo in the feature films...
View BookAuthor: Philip Pullman
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Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Various
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 1
Duration 10h 45m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the first book in Philip Pullman's trilogy 'His Dark Materials'. Set in a world which is like, yet very unlike, our own, the story begins in Oxford. Children are disappearing from the streets, and when Lyra's friend Roger also vanishes she sets out to find him. The story mixes science, theology and magic to...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Adams
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Author Douglas Adams
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 3
Duration 3h 12m
The long-awaited, brand new third series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes to audio with 25 minutes of unbroadcast footage. Many of the cast of the original BBC Radio 4 series have been reunited for this new six-part dramatisation of Douglas Adams's book 'Life, the Universe and Everything'. Amongst the returning cast are Simon Jones as...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Adams
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Author Douglas Adams
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 2
Duration 3h 51m
A Special Edition of the original radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. Starring Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan and Stephen Moore, these six episodes (Fit the First to Fit the Sixth) have been remastered to modern-day standards by Dirk Maggs, and for...
View BookThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Author: J R R Tolkien
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Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Lord of the Rings, Book 3
Duration 3h 10m
A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the third book in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Brian Sibley's famous 1981 adaptation, starring Ian Holm and Michael Hordern, has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly-recorded beginning and end narration by Ian Holm (who plays Frodo in this and Bilbo in the feature films).
View BookAuthor: Douglas Adams
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Author Douglas Adams
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 5
Duration 2h 25m
It's the last ever installment of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Mostly Harmless, the final book in Douglas Adams's famous `trilogy in five parts'. While frequent flyer Arthur Dent searches the universe for his lost love, Ford Prefect discovers a disturbing blast from the past at The Hitchhiker's G...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Adams
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Author Douglas Adams
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 4
Duration 2h 23m
The Hitchhiker's saga returns once again with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, the fourth book in Douglas Adams's famous `trilogy in five parts'. The Earth has miraculously reappeared and, even more miraculously, Arthur Dent has found it. Returning to his cottage after... well... ages, he falls in love wit...
View BookThe Homecoming and Other Stories
Author: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Various
Duration 57m
Four Maeve Binchy short stories, exclusively written for BBC Radio 4. Maeve Binchy is one of Britain's most popular storytellers, and these four tales demonstrate the warmth and compassion that have made her many novels bestsellers. In 'Homecoming', read by Sean Campion, the Brennans run Quentin's restaurant in Dublin for the owner, who lives abroa...
View BookThe Complete Barchester Chronicles
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Various
Duration 18h 49m
A new edition of the acclaimed Radio 4 dramatisations of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial life, together in one box set. Nearly twenty hours of ironic and witty drama is contained in this box set. The full-star cast includes Anna Massey, Alex Jennings, David Haig, Rosemary Leach, Kenneth Cranham, Emma Fielding and Brenda Blet...
View BookRugby Union: Wit, Wisdom & Mud
Author: Cliff Morgan
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Author Cliff Morgan
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 8m
No game generates more passion, or stirs the emotions, like Rugby Union. No game enjoys itself more when the final whistle blows. And none has produced quite such a line of good talkers, on or off the subject. Here, from the BBC's unique Sound Archives, are memories of great teams, matches and tries, the wit and wisdom of some of the legendary char...
View BookAuthor: Peter Anghelides
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Author Peter Anghelides
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 26m
A storm is brewing - the water levels of the Bristol Channel are inexplicably rising, and Cardiff Bay is under threat from the worst flooding in years. In the midst of the climate chaos, Torchwood is called to investigate a series of gruesome murders - vagrants found dead around Cardiff with their heads partially eaten. When Owen goes missing fo...
View BookAuthor: L M Montgomery
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Author L M Montgomery
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 23m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the enchanting children's classic. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert have sent to the orphanage for a boy. So when a skinny, red-haired girl turns up, she is not quite what they had in mind. Anne Shirley soon sets the quiet island community of Avonlea talking of little else. With her incessant chatter and intense...
View BookAuthor: Annie Caulfield
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Author Annie Caulfield
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 14m
A BBC Radio 3 full-cast dramatisation by Annie Caulfield, starring Lenny Henry as singer and political activist Paul Robeson. Originally broadcast Sunday 21 February 2010. As an outspoken apologist for Stalin and agitator for civil rights Paul Robeson had many enemies, including the CIA. His passport was taken away, his career curtailed and his...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 53m
The first Doctor, William Hartnell, and his companions join the caravan of the legendary explorer Marco Polo in this seven-part 'lost' story from the programme's original 1964 series. The TARDIS materialises at the Roof of the World, Central Asia, in 1289. There they meet Marco Polo and his fellow travellers, on their mammoth journey across the...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 4m
The TARDIS lands in the Wild West in this classic BBC TV soundtrack starring William Hartnell, with linking narration by Peter Purves. It's 1881 and, in the Wild West settlement of Tombstone, there are three strangers in town: 'Doctor Caligari', 'Steven Regret', and 'Miss Dodo Dupont'. They've arrived in a 20th Century blue police box, and they're...
View BookJohn Betjeman; A First Class Collection
Author: John Betjeman
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Author John Betjeman
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 23m
Sir John Betjeman, poet, broadcaster, journalist, prose writer and critic, was one of the best-loved figures of the twentieth century. Betjeman was a prolific writer and his poems still resonate today. This release celebrates the centenary of Betjeman's birth
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 14m
First-hand accounts featuring the RAF pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain - one of the chief turning points of World War Two. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" - Winston Churchill The "Few" were the nearly 3,000 RAF pilots who fought against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, which rag...
View BookJohn Peel Remembered: Margrave of the Marshes
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 1m
John Peel Remembered includes the Radio 4 Book of the Week serialisation of Margrave of the Marshes, Peel's part-written autobiography completed by his wife, Sheila Ravenscroft.
View BookAuthor: Gerard Hoffnung
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Author Gerard Hoffnung
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 43m
Artist, illustrator, tuba-player, writer, broadcaster, Quaker and clown, Hoffnung's gifts as eccentric and raconteur are celebrated here in a compilation of all the existing Hoffnung recordings, including the famous Bricklayer Story.
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