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Author: Eva Ibbotson
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Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 4h 37m
Arriman has decided to marry. His wife must be a witch of the darkest powers... To find the most fiendish, he holds a spell-casting competition. Glamorous Olympia performs the Symphony of Death and conjures up a thousand plague-bearing rats. The magic of gentle Belladonna, the white witch, goes hopelessly wrong. She produces perfumed flowers instea...
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Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 3h 26m
Humphrey the Horrible sounds scary, but he's actually a very friendly skeleton, with twinkling eye sockets and jangling finger bones. Humphrey dreams of being ghastly, like his brother - a screaming skull - or terrifying, like his bloodsucking vampire-bat cousins. But when Humphrey discovers an evil plot to exorcise his family he finally realises y...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 14h 30m
Emma Woodhouse is clever, rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition. She's also always convinced that she's right. She learns the hard way that pride comes before a fall, but the brotherly figure of Mr Knightley takes it upon himself to help her correct the flaws in her character.
View BookAuthor: Anne Fine
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Author Anne Fine
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 2h 50m
Bonny does not want to go to Charm School, no matter how much her mother needs her to take a one-day class. And it's just as bad as she feared. Worse in fact. For Charm School is filled with awful, scratchy, self-obsessed girls who are prepared to do almost anything to win the much-coveted 'Glistering Tiara'.
View BookPongwiffy: A Witch of Dirty Habits
Author: Kaye Umansky
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Author Kaye Umansky
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 3h 30m
Pongwiffy is a very smelly witch of very dirty habits. But she is a happy witch - until the day the gruesome gang of goblins move in next door and make her life miserable. So she goes to live with her not so best friend Sharkadder, who tries to find her a new hovel.
View BookPongwiffy and the Spell of the Year
Author: Kaye Umansky
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Author Kaye Umansky
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 4h 30m
Pongwiffy, the witch of dirty habits, is determined to win the Spell of the Year competition. She finds an old magic spell when she is forced to spring clean her hovel. But old-fashioned ingredients and a vulture's feather and a cat's whisker are hard to come by, especially when they belong to the familiars of other witches.
View BookAuthor: Eva Ibbotson
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Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 4h 24m
Twelve year old orphan, Alex MacBuff, doesn't want to sell his beloved home, Carra Castle. But it is falling to pieces and he can't afford to keep it. American millionaire, Hiram C. Hopgood, offers to buy it on condition that there are no ghosts - and Alex can't refuse. The problem is, Carra Castle is full of ghosts! There's Krok the hairy Viking w...
View BookAuthor: Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
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Author Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Narrator Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge
Duration 2h 15m
A follow up to 'Ladies of Letters & Ladies of More Letters'. Vera and Irene now communicate daily by e-mail about the the usual domestic mishaps: Irene's daughter Lesley is refusing to marry the worthy but boring Brian; Vera's exhausted daughter Karen has abandoned her third baby at the hospital and eloped with a male nurse; and Vera's gay son...
View BookAuthor: Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
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Author Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Narrator Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge
Duration 2h 12m
Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge star in the second popular BBC Radio 4 series. After meeting at Irene's daughter Lesley's wedding reception, Irene Spencer and Vera Small become firm - sometimes too firm - friends, and so began their extraordinary correspondence. Here we find Vera installed at Far Shores Trailer Park and Irene living the "hig...
View BookAuthor: Eva Ibbotson
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Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 4h 37m
Arriman the Awful, Wizard of the North, is tired of being the most evil wizard in the world so he decides he must get married and have a son to take over. His wife must be a witch with awesome powers but the organised contest has awful consequences.
View BookTin Can Hero & King Keith and the Jolly Lodger
Author: Kaye Umansky
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Author Kaye Umansky
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 1h 38m
In 'Tin Can Hero', Otto Matic is always getting into trouble at Robot School. When he loses his oilcan for the fourteenth time, the Head Robot has had enough and insists that he leave. 'King Keith and the Jolly Roger': Times are hard at the palace and King Keith has to think of a way to make money. He decides to take in a lodger, but can't find any...
View BookAuthor: Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
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Author Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Narrator Patricia Routledge, Prunella Scales
Duration 1h 4m
When Irene Spencer meets Vera Small at her daughter Lesley's wedding reception they embark upon a correspondence that is quite unlike any other in the history of letter-writing. Both Irene and Vera are happily widowed and endowed with errant offspring. They live in a world of church fetes and amateur dramatics, but love nothing more than dipping th...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 3h 11m
Woof! Woof! I am a spaniel called Flush and owned by Elizabeth Barret Browning and her husband Robert and this is my amusing but ultimately sad autiobiography. Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings spaniel was what she called "a little escapade", begun to "ease my brain" in the wake of The Waves (1931). The intensities of that m...
View BookAuthor: Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
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Author Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
Narrator Patricia Routledge, Prunella Scales
Duration 1h 8m
Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge take on the world in another hilarious series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy hit. The caustic correspondence between Irene Spencer and Vera Small is always richly entertaining, and these latest letters are no exception. Catty and competitive as ever, the pensioner pen-pals find themselves in yet more trouble in thi...
View BookAuthor: Eva Ibbotson
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Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 3h 37m
Heckie is determined not to be just a witch. With the help of local wizards and a little boy, she sets about putting the world to rights. But then she falls under the spell of smarming, charming Mr Knapsack and all her good work is nearly undone.
View BookLadies of Letters Spring Clean
Author: Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
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Author Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
Narrator Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge
Duration 1h 9m
Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge make a clean sweep in a further series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy hit. The ladies are back, and this time they're full of Springtime recipes and tips for a long and healthy life. Once again, however, disaster is never very far away... Reunited at the bedside of a mutual old flame, Irene and Vera feel a sudden u...
View BookLadies of Letters Make Mincemeat
Author: Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
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Author Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Narrator Patricia Routledge, Prunella Scales
Duration 1h 8m
A special seasonal instalment of the ongoing correspondence between sparring pen-pals Vera (played by Patricia Routledge) and Irene (played by Prunella Scales). With a supporting cast including Vera's son Howard and his partner Anthony, chaos looks set to descend once again upon Little Shagthorne and Hethergreen.
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