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Double Income, No Kids Yet: Series 3
Author: David Spicer
Author David Spicer
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 48m
In the third series, Katy's a mum at last, Daniel's got a new job, but Lucy's jealous. Daniel and Lucy rethink their priorities on a golfing break with their awful friends. And change is all around, but Lucy doesn't realise that Daniel can't keep secrets. Pregnant Lucy must also break the news to her parents, Daniel gets a taste of fatherhood, and...
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Author: Amanda Whittington
Author Amanda Whittington
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation written by Amanda Whittington, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 23 February 2009. The tumultuous tale of the trial of Lady Jane Grey, proclaimed Queen of England in 1553 at the age of 16, nine days later locked in the Tower and, within a year, dead.
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Author: Lawrie Wyman
Series: The Navy Lark, Book 20
Author Lawrie Wyman
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 20
Duration 1h 48m
Four more hilarious radio episodes featuring the merry crew of HMS Troutbridge. The Admiral arranges for his daughter Rita to marry Commander Murray; Sub-Lieutenant Phillips plans to buy himself out of the Navy; Pertwee gets involved in a scheme to smuggle booze, and the crew of Troutbridge lock horns with evil, world-dominating Oriental mastermind...
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Author: Andy Hamilton
Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 48m
The complete sixth series of the fiendishly funny award-winning comedy, starring Andy Hamilton and Annette Crosbie. All six episodes from the sixth series of BBC Radio 4's Sony Award-winning comedy set in Hell. It's not easy being Satan. There are the long hours (that stretch into eternity), and Hell seems to have more admissions than it can cope w...
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Author: Andy Hamilton
Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 48m
The complete seventh series of the fiendishly funny award-winning comedy, starring Andy Hamilton, Annette Crosbie and Timothy West. Jean Paul Sartre said, 'Hell is other people'. But, as Satan will tell you, Hell is actually a fiery, unendingly cruel domain where Oliver Reed can never quite catch the barman's eye and Yves St Laurent is forced to we...
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Author: James Woods
Author James Woods
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 50m
Tom Hollander stars in the complete award-winning comedy series, as seen on BBC TV. Tom Hollander ('In the Loop', 'Pirates of the Caribbean') stars as the Rev Adam Smallbone. He's a Church of England vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the inner-city world of St Saviour's in east London. He has little experience of this world, and i...
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The Complete Ripley Radio Mysteries
Author: Patricia Highsmith
Author Patricia Highsmith
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 4h 43m
Tom Ripley detests murder unless it is absolutely necessary. He prefers someone else to do the dirty work. But if he's called on to act there is no one more cool, calculating and clever. In these dramatisations, BBC Radio 4 brings all Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels together in one thrilling series. In The Talented Mr Ripley, Tom makes a bid for...
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Author: William Wycherley
Author William Wycherley
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 59m
Considered too obscene to be staged in its original form for nearly 200 years, William Wycherley's bawdy comedy tells the tale of Mr. Horner a notorious rake who spreads the false rumour that he is impotent in order to gain free access to other men's wives. When he meets the young, innocent Margery Pinchwife, the 'country wife' of the title, the sc...
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Sid's Mystery Tours: Hancock's Half Hour
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 29m
One of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's favourite radio episodes. In Sid's Mystery Tours Sid talks Hancock into becoming the director of his guided tours company - but it doesn't even possess a coach. Featuring a star cast that includes Sid James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Fenella Fielding.
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Author: Alan Bennett
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 12m
Three classic Alan Bennett adaptations, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and released on CD for the first time.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 58m
A foggy night...a lonely country house...and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look anything but straightforward... First staged at the Duchess Theatre in London in...
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 33m
Walter was everyone's "Old pal" and loveable rogue. An unsuccessful farmer who turned to haulage. A carver of cribs and love spoons who took 17 years to propose-only to be turned down. And of course father to the world weary Nelson.
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Author: John O'Farrell
Author John O'Farrell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 5m
A loyal tribute to ten glorious years from BBC Radio 4's Week Ending team. From the archives of the legendary satirical radio comedy series Week Ending comes this compilation of satirical and sardonic sketches based on Margaret Thatcher's first ten years as Prime Minister. First released on cassette as Ten Years With Maggie, this has now been reiss...
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The Wild Man of the Woods: Hancock's Half Hour
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 30m
One of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's favourite radio episodes. The Wild Man of the Woods shows Hancock's desire to get away from it all. It leads him to camp first in a bus shelter on Clapham Common, and then in a bit of forest rented from Sid. Featuring a star cast that includes Sid James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacqu...
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Author: Nick Warburton
Author Nick Warburton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 4h 39m
The Gospel story as you've never heard it before. Everyone knows the story of Jesus' life as told in the Gospels - and perhaps because it is so familiar, we have forgotten what an extraordinary life it was. Through these five plays, the story is pieced together as if from the memories of those who were there and saw events for themselves: Jesus' mo...
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Author: Lawrie Wyman
Series: The Navy Lark, Book 21
Author Lawrie Wyman
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 21
Duration 1h 48m
The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest of a wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior Service were conniving Chief Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips, and the constantly bemused Stephen Murray as 'Number One', while Tenniel Evans made mischief as Leading Se...
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Author: E. Nesbit
Author E. Nesbit
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 47m
When father mysteriously has to go away for a time, three children and their mother leave their comfortable home in London for the country. The children seek solace in the nearby railway station, making friends with Perks the porter and with the station master himself. But will their father ever return?
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The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Author: Dodie Smith
Author Dodie Smith
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 45m
Cruella de Vil is determined to have a beautiful new coat made from the fur of 101 Dalmatians. Can Pongo and Missis save their beloved puppies from her evil clutches?
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Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 19m
When Victor Dean fell to his death on the iron staircase at Pym's Advertising Agency no one was sorry. Nobody had really liked him - and even contributing to his wreath was a bit of an imposition. But when Lord Peter Wimsey (alias Death Bredon) joins the firm and asks some awkward questions it appears that Dean's death was not an accident - it was...
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Author: Jonathan Lynn
Series: Yes Minister, Book 1
Author Jonathan Lynn
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesYes Minister, Book 1
Duration 3h
Political satire at its sharpest as amiable opportunist Jim Hacker clashes with his scheming Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby. This volume contains the following classic episodes: 'Open Government', 'Big Brother', 'The Economy', and 'The Writing on the Wall'.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Colonel Race, Book 2
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesColonel Race, Book 2
Duration 2h 20m
The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful - a girl who had everything. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger - 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger'.
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