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Investigating Mr Thomas; A Play About Dylan Thomas
Author: Rob Gittins
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Author Rob Gittins
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Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged on the writer and poet Dylan Thomas. Based on a true story, Rob Gittins's play draws on archive material. When Time magazine printed a warts-and-all article about Dylan Thomas in 1953, the poet sued them for libel. Needing to gather more evidence, the magazine hired a private detective to shadow Thomas in New York...
View BookAuthor: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
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Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
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Duration 2h 1m
Episodes Included: A Winter's Tale, Oh, What A Beautiful Mourning, And So To Bed, Porn Yesterday. Four classic episodes with the world's most famous rag and bone men. Two junk men and a junk-cart, bonded by blood, yoked by emotional blackmail and tied by the reins of Hercules the horse. Albert - a conniving old father clinging to an awesome jumble...
View BookAuthor: Melissa Murray
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Author Melissa Murray
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Duration 57m
A BBC Radio 4 fictional dramatisation of L‚on Theremin's espionage work in the lead up to the Cold War, written by Melissa Murray. L‚on Theremin, gifted inventor and reluctant spy, is forced to find a way to bug the US Embassy in London. Now he has to save himself and his former lover from both the CIA and the KGB. Starring Tom Hollande...
View BookAuthor: Phil Ford
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Author Phil Ford
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Duration 43m
When a Cardiff hospital is inundated with patients that have fallen into coma-like trances, Torchwood move in to investigate. They find that the trances were triggered by phone calls, all of which were made from a number that hadn't been active for over 30 years. Determined to find out who's been calling the unfortunate victims, Jack rings the myst...
View BookA Very Rude Woman & Talking Shoes
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 8
Duration 1h 27m
'A Very Rude Woman' finds Precious Ramotswe facing change at The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, while Mr J.L.B. Matekoni meets the rudest person in all Botswana. 'Talking Shoes' sees a new detective taking on a case for the Agency, while Mma Ramotswe, among others, has a problem with high blood pressure.
View BookAuthor: Matthew Solon
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Author Matthew Solon
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Duration 56m
Written by Matthew Solon. This play tells the story of the tense negotiation that followed the 2010 general election, which led to the country's first post-war coalition. Based on interviews with those who were at the meetings, political journalists and on published material-and using actors to play all the key characters-this is a compelling accou...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Duration 2h 10m
A BBC Radio drama based on P. D. James' bestselling novel, starring Richard Derrington and Deborah McAndrew. In the seventeenth century, a witch is burned in a stone circle. Three hundred and fifty years later, an investigative journalist arrives at a nearby clinic to have cosmetic surgery - and a week later, she is dead. Dalgliesh and his team, ca...
View BookAuthor: Martin Jameson
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Author Martin Jameson
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Duration 43m
In Collateral Damage, DCI John Stone is forced to open up an investigation into the death of Gary Taylor, a veteran of the Iraq War suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The theory that he died from a self-inflicted drug overdose is turned on its head when one of his ex-army mates accuses Gary's grieving widow of having murdered him.
View BookAuthor: Mark Wheatley
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Author Mark Wheatley
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Duration 43m
Fraser once tracked clients who jumped bail. Then he added a little twist to the business by helping people disappear instead, which is why Kathryn gives him a call. Starring Lia Williams as Kathryn and Neil Pearson as Fraser. Also includes Tessa Nicholson, Michael Shelford and Miche Doherty in the cast. Produced by Eoin O'Callaghan.
View BookThe Night Tried To Kidnap the Prime Minster
Author: Martin Jameson
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Author Martin Jameson
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Duration 43m
This full-cast dramatisation by Martin Jameson for BBC Radio 4 is a fictionalised account of the incident in 1964 when a group of students attempted to kidnap the then-Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Scotland. Originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 15 July 2009, this dramatisation stars Tim McInnerny as Sir Alec, Chris Starkie as R...
View BookThere Is No Such Thing As Free Food & the Best Profession For A Blackmailer
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 7
Duration 1h 27m
'There is No Such Thing as Free Food' finds Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, preoccupied both professionally and personally by the subject of food. 'The Best Profession for a Blackmailer' sees Mr Polopetsi, part-time mechanic and would-be assistant detective, taking on a case of his own; while Mma Makutsi f...
View BookAuthor: Mark Burgess
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Author Mark Burgess
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Duration 43m
A gripping BBC Radio 4 drama about King George VI's struggle to overcome his stammer and his close working relationship with his speech therapist. It is Coronation Day, 1937. As the country celebrates, the new monarch must face one of the most difficult challenges he has ever encountered: the dreaded BBC Radio Broadcast to the Nation. Only one man...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 13
Duration 1h 27m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective with Simon Williams and Philip Jackson. Alice Ascher, a poor, elderly shopkeeper, is murdered in Andover. Betty Barnard, a young waitress, is strangled with her own belt at Bexhill-on-Sea. Next comes Carmichael Clarke, collector of Chinese art, clubbed to dea...
View BookAuthor: Robert A Heinlein
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Author Robert A Heinlein
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Duration 8h 3m
A journey of 167,000 lights years begins with-a bar of soap? Fasten your zero gravity restraints for Robert Heinlein's novel of intergalactic adventure, a story that carries teenager Clifford "Kip" Russell from his job as soda jerk to spacesuit winner to alien abductee! Along the way Kip is joined by a pint-sized genius named PeeWee and an empathet...
View BookAuthor: David Campton
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Author David Campton
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Duration 44m
The Cagebirds were happy ignoring each other, until The Wild One came. The Wild One has a lot to say, but the Cagebirds aren't listening. This play is about whether freedom is being outside a cage or inside.
View BookAuthor: M.M. Kaye
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Duration 4h 33m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of M. M. Kaye's epic novel of love and war. M. M. Kaye's masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that spans over twenty years, moving from the foothills of the Himalayas, to the burning plains, to the besieged British Mission in Kabul. It begins in 1857 when, following the Indian Mutiny,...
View BookUnauthorised History: The Killing
Author: Micheal Butt
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Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Michael Butt about the death of the poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe, originally broadcast in the "Afternoon Play" slot on 17 August 2010. In May 1593, the playwright Christopher Marlowe was killed. Apparently, it was because of an argument over a bill. Michael Butt's innovative drama dons the cloak o...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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Duration 27m
A middle-aged man in search of adventure, Bobby Roberts answers an advert in The Times and is dispatched to Milan, to collect a harmless package from a scientist. However, he very soon gets caught up in a terrifying murder...
View BookThe Return of Note & the Ceremony
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 6
Duration 1h 27m
'The Return of Note' finds Mma Ramotswe in a compromising situation when her past catches up with her. But things are looking brighter for her assistant, Mma Makutsi, when she takes up ballroom dancing... 'The Ceremony' sees Mma Ramotswe's agency work under control at last, so she has time to take care of her own problems. Can she release her fianc...
View BookLord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 2: Four BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisations
Author: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
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SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 2
Duration 12h 26m
Ian Carmichael is Lord Peter Wimsey in these consummate BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L Sayers' much-loved mysteries. Elegant, erudite and sharp-witted, aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey featured in numerous novels and short stories by 'Queen of Crime' Dorothy L Sayers. These full-cast adaptations - first broadcast on BBC radio between...
View BookDouble Income, No Kids Yet, Series 3, Episode 6
Author: David Spicer
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Author David Spicer
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SeriesDouble Income, No Kids Yet Series 3, Book 6
Duration 28m
Have Daniel and Lucy finally had enough of dealing with other people's problems?
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