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Author: Rebecca Lenkiewicz
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Author Rebecca Lenkiewicz
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Duration 1h 28m
A desperate love story, and a beautiful history of the treatment of mental health, written by one of Britain's foremost playwrights for the two lead actors. Sarah and Ken met as foster siblings, and fell in love. While he has married a good wife and fathered beautiful children, she has spent her whole life in institutions, and they have maintained...
View BookDoctor Who Hornets' Nest Series Book 1: The Stuff of Nightmares
Author: Paul Magrs
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Author Paul Magrs
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SeriesDoctor Who Hornet's Nest, Book 1
Duration 1h 11m
'Wanted: retired army Captain for light household duties and fireside companionship. Must tolerate mild eccentricity and strong scientific advice. Knowledge of Giant Maggots, Super Intelligent Spiders and Prehistoric Monsters a positive boon.' Responding to an advert apparently worded for him alone, Captain Mike Yates (retired) is reunited with a...
View BookDoctor Who At the BBC Volume 3
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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SeriesDoctor Who at the BBC, Book 3
Duration 2h 11m
A third volume of the 'time travelling journey through the BBC archives'. Once again all manner of BBC radio and television programmes have yielded Doctor Who-themed features, from drama and comedy to interviews and behind-the-scenes items. Included this time round is Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? starring Jane Asher, Wavelength which goes be...
View BookBlake's 7: The Radio Adventures
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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Duration 3h 6m
Avon and the crew of Scorpio again face the ruthless machinations of Servalan in two thrilling full-cast BBC Radio 4 adventures. The Sevenfold Crown: Raiding Servalan's HQ, the crew discover that she possesses a jewel that belongs to an ancient, long-lost crown - a mystical artefact of indescribable power. Suddenly the Scorpio crew are as determine...
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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SeriesDoctor Who at the BBC, Book 2
Duration 1h 51m
Elisabeth Sladen presents another time-travelling journey through the history of Doctor Who on BBC radio and television. Our good friend the Doctor may continually jump from the past to the present and back to the future, but he's never really gone away. Since 1963 he has had a massive influence on our popular culture - as this second volume of rar...
View BookBeyond Westminster: Lessons Learnt From Coalitions Past
Author: Andrew Rawnsley
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Author Andrew Rawnsley
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Duration 27m
The special New Year's Day 2011 edition of BBC Radio 4's Beyond Westminster, in which Andrew Rawnsley considers the lessons of history for Britain's coalition government-and its opponents. Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers are busily advancing their ambitious political and economic agenda-albeit amid parliamentary revolts and embarrassin...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 2h 53m
A BBC Radio 3 full-cast enactment of Shakespeare's last great tragedy, Antony and Cleopatra, with David Harewood and Frances Barber in the title roles. Originally broadcast as part of the 'Drama on 3' series on 27 June 2010. Telling the story of one of history's most famous couples, Antony and Cleopatra contains some of the most beautiful poetry i...
View BookAuthor: Stephanie Dale
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Author Stephanie Dale
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Duration 44m
A BBC Radio 4 drama by Stephanie Dale, originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 10 January 2011. When art teacher Rachel, walking home festooned with end-of-term gifts from her pupils, bumps into Tyrone on his first day in London it is the beginning of a passionate love affair. Soon it makes sense for Tyrone, now working as a chef in a loca...
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
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Duration 1h 6m
Terry Deary and Martin Brown's brilliant books about the nastiest periods in history have now - with the help of some astounding actors and directed by Dirk Maggs - been transformed into a series of audio extravaganzas. Featuring new, extra material not found anywhere in the books, these sound spectaculars are just as thrilling and spilling, funny...
View BookAuthor: Ronald Blythe
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Author Ronald Blythe
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Duration 12h
A portrait of a Suffolk village and its inhabitants during the 1950s, which includes reminiscences from survivors of the Great War to the concerns of a younger generation of farm workers and the personal recollections of the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate.
View BookThe Oxford Book of English Short Stories
Author: A.S. (editor) Byatt
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Author A.S. (editor) Byatt
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Duration 18h
Edited by novelist A.S. Byatt, this collection of thirty-seven stories has been selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, from 'The Haunted House' by Charles Dickens to 'Solid Geometry' by Ian McEwan. Other authors included range from Trollope, Hardy and D. H. Lawrence to P. G. Wodehouse, J. G. Ballard and Angela Carter.
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
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Duration 1h
Boggis, Bunce and Bean are just about the nastiest and meanest three farmers you could meet - and they hate Mr Fox! They are determined to catch him, and lie outside his hole, ready to shoot, starve or dig him out. But clever Mr Fox has other plans.
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
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Duration 1h 15m
Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding, but they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers.
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
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Duration 3h 15m
Performed by the author and five of Britain's leading actresses, Alan Bennett's tales are full of quirky, insightful detail and wry observation. This audiobook contains the following monologues: 'A Chip in the Sugar' with Alan Bennett; 'A Lady of Letters' with Patricia Routledge; 'Bed Among the Lentils' with Anna Massey; 'Soldiering On' with Stepha...
View BookThe Adventures of Peter Rabbit
Author: Beatrix Potter
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Author Beatrix Potter
Narrator Various
Duration 2h
Peter Rabbit stories for very young listeners. This audiobook contains 'The Adventures of Peter Rabbit', 'The Tale of Benjamin Bunny',' The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies', 'The Tale of Mr Tod', 'The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin' and 'The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes'.
View BookThey Saw It Happen: Eyewitness Accounts From Ancient Greece To Hiroshima
Author: Matthew Lewin
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Author Matthew Lewin
Narrator Various
Duration 5h 5m
Here are more than sixty eyewitness accounts from history, including descriptions of the Black Death, the Great Fire of London and the death of Nelson. Also included are snapshots of more ordinary life, including working conditions during the Industrial Revolution, Paul Gauguin choosing a bride on Tahiti and the arrest of Dr Crippen.
View Book1000 Years of Laughter: An Anthology of Classic Comic Prose
Author: David Timson
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Author David Timson
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Duration 15h 17m
This anthology presents some of the funniest extracts in English literature. It begins by covering Anglo-Saxon riddles, medieval memories and Tudor comedy, and moves on to the rise of the novel in the 18th Century, including fine comic writers such as Swift and Dickens.
View BookAuthor: David Angus
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Author David Angus
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Duration 2h 35m
This audiobook focuses on how the great explorers pushed back the frontiers of man's knowledge of the world by their vision, courage and sheer doggedness. Those featured are: Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Bartholomeu Diaz, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Captain Cook, Lewis and Clark, and Livingstone and Stanley.
View BookThe Emperor's New Clothes and Other Fairy Tales
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
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Author Hans Christian Andersen
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Duration 59m
Four classic fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen, read by Sir Derek Jacobi, Anne-Marie Duff, David Tennant and Penelope Wilton. 'The Emperor's New Clothes' read by Sir Derek Jacobi: An emperor is promised a special suit of clothes by a pair of tailors. 'The Little Mermaid' read by Anne-Marie Duff: A beautiful mermaid falls in love with a pri...
View BookThe Brave Tin Soldier and Other Fairy Tales
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
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Author Hans Christian Andersen
Narrator Various
Duration 59m
Here are four of Hans Christian Andersen's best-loved short stories, specially adapted for young children and read by some of Britain's most well-known actors. 'The Brave Tin Soldier' read by David Tennant: A one-legged toy soldier falls in love with a paper ballerina. 'Thumbelina' read by Anne-Marie Duff: A tiny but beautiful girl grows from a b...
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