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Author: Kwame Kewi-Armah
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Author Kwame Kewi-Armah
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Duration 56m
In 2010, the 30th anniversary year of the Independence of Zimbabwe, BBC Radio 4 commissioned two Friday Plays from leading writers. The first play, God's President: Mugabe of Zimbabwe by Kwame Kwei-Armah, tells the story of the tense negotiations around the Lancaster House Conference, and the road to Zimbabwe's Independence. On 4th March 1980 the S...
View BookMonty Python's Flying Circus: The Very Best of the Tv Series
Author: John Et Al Cleese
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Author John Et Al Cleese
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Duration 53m
Perhaps the ultimate in TV comedy madness and absurdity, this cult series, which began in 1969, was conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. It was innovative and ground-breaking comedy which inspired many of today's writers and performers. Its sketches, songs and catchphrases are...
View BookAuthor: Ernest Dudley
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Author Ernest Dudley
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Duration 4h
Seven instalments of the classic radio crime drama starring Cecil Parker, plus special documentary feature A Case for Dr Morelle. Dr Morelle uses psychological insight, criminology and dogged persistence to solve cases. Here he must deduce the answers to mysteries including a hotel death, a man tormented by nightmares, and deadly threats made to an...
View BookDouble Income, No Kids Yet, Series 3, Episode 5
Author: David Spicer
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SeriesDouble Income, No Kids Yet Series 3, Book 5
Duration 27m
With a new baby on the way it's time for some home improvements.
View BookAuthor: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 2
Duration 1h 28m
'The Maid' sees Mma Ramotswe visiting the house of the mechanic she has agreed to marry, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. But there is a shock in store for her... Back at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, there is the mystery of the erratic doctor to look into, and a 'cold case' involving an American who went missing from a communal farm. 'Tears of the Gira...
View BookDouble Income, No Kids Yet, Series 3, Episode 1
Author: David Spicer
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Author David Spicer
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SeriesDouble Income, No Kids Yet Series 3, Book 1
Duration 28m
Daniel lands an advertising job, but just how much does he like his new boss?
View BookAuthor: John Galsworthy
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SeriesThe Forsyte Chronicles, Book 2
Duration 6h 38m
A Radio 4 dramatisation of John Galsworthy's second absorbing trilogy about the lives and loves of the Forsytes, with a star cast including Amanda Redman, Gary Bond and Belinda Lang. A Modern Comedy is a gripping dramatisation of Galsworthy's three classic books following the fortunes of the Forsytes throughout the Roaring Twenties. The White Monke...
View BookProspero, Ariel, Reith and Gill
Author: Gary Brown
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Author Gary Brown
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Duration 43m
Gary Brown's BBC Radio 4 full-cast comedy dramatisation about artist Eric Gill's clash with the BBC over his famous sculpture of Prospero and Ariel, starring Anton Lesser as Eric Gill and Tim McInnerny as Sir John Reith, the first Director General of the Corporation. Originally broadcast in the 'Afternoon Play' slot on Wednesday 9 June 2010. Inspir...
View BookBleak Expectations; the Complete Third Series
Author: Mark Evans
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Author Mark Evans
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Duration 3h 18m
The third volume of this magnificent, award-winning Dickensian comic epic first transmitted by the British Broadcasting Club's Radio 4. It's a Victorian epic of shenanigans at awful schools, worse prisons, featuring giant rabbits, and long lost super-hero aunts - in the style of Charles Dickens after far too much gin. Winner of the 'British Comedy...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series 1 - 3
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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Duration 3h 30m
Alexander McCall Smith's delightful series of novels form the basis of these radio dramas featuring the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement building. With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an interesting corner of Edinburgh's New Town. Verging on the Bohemian, here the haute bourgeoisie rubs shoulders with students and the more colo...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Burgess
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Duration 1h 29m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Anthony Burgess's novel which became a controversial film in the 1970s. In a nightmare world of the near future, packs of teenagers run wild, beyond the control of their families or the police. Alex is a gang-leader, addicted to drug-fuelled assault, torture and rape.
View BookDouble Income, No Kids Yet, Series 2, Episode 6
Author: David Spicer
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Author David Spicer
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SeriesDouble Income, No Kids Yet Series 2, Book 6
Duration 28m
The men are left in charge of the baby while the ladies are off on a writer's retreat.
View BookAuthor: John Galsworthy
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Author John Galsworthy
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SeriesThe Forsyte Chronicles, Book 3
Duration 6h 40m
A Radio 4 dramatisation of John Galsworthy's gripping trilogy that concludes the Forsyte Saga, featuring a star cast including Sophie Thompson, Dorothy Tutin, John Moffatt and Miranda Foster. The End of the Chapter is an adaptation of Galsworthy's three novels chronicling the lives of the Cherrells, cousins of the Forsytes. Maid in Waiting starts i...
View BookPaultemple and the Spencer Affair
Author: Francis Durbridge
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Author Francis Durbridge
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Duration 3h 55m
Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury star in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. When young drama student Mary Drei...
View BookAuthor: Ruth Rendell
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Author Ruth Rendell
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Duration 2h 56m
Love and death are the principal players in these two BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of chilling Ruth Rendell stories. In 'The Bridesmaid', when Philip embarks on an affair with Senta, his sister's bridesmaid, she reminds him of the stone statue he adored as a child. Yet Senta is married, and Philip's overwhelming aversion to violence leads ind...
View BookDouble Income, No Kids Yet, Series 2, Episode 3
Author: David Spicer
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Author David Spicer
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SeriesDouble Income, No Kids Yet Series 2, Book 3
Duration 27m
Why is Peter acting so strangely, and will Daniel and Lucy ever get their quiet night in?
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 2h 37m
In this BBC full-cast production, King Lear tests his three daughters' love, to disastrous consequences.Some of the most stirring scenes Shakespeare ever wrote resonate powerfully in this dramatic radio production. Tortured madness, pure evil, and the fatal struggle for power grip the listener until the final, shockingly tragic conclusion.Starring&...
View BookDouble Income, No Kids Yet, Series 1, Episode 2
Author: David Spicer
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Author David Spicer
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SeriesDouble Income, No Kids Yet Series 1, Book 2
Duration 27m
When author April Prescott gets writer's block, Lucy and Daniel are lumbered with a rather unwelcome house guest.
View BookKalahari Typing School & Admirer
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 4
Duration 1h 28m
Two stand-alone BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas adapted by Alexander McCall Smith from his much-loved series 'The Kalahari Typing School for Men' opens with bad news for Mma Ramotswe - her agency has competition in the form of the Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency, run by a man. Mma Makutsi has entrepreneurial ambitions too, and has conceived t...
View BookAuthor: Finlay Welsh
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Author Finlay Welsh
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Duration 43m
An atmospheric drama set on the east coast of Scotland in 1791. A watchmaker pours all of his skill and knowledge into making a machine that will alter time and create a different universe; one in which he hopes his desperately ill daughter will be returned to him, fully recovered. Starring Cal MacAninch, Liam Brennan, Pauline Knowles and Finn de H...
View BookHow To Handle Men Through the Application of Psychology & the House of Hope
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 5
Duration 1h 27m
Warm, humorous and uplifting, Alexander McCall Smith's hugely popular novels featuring Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of Botswana's only female private detective agency, have become international bestsellers, sold over seven million copies, and been translated into 26 languages.These acclaimed productions, complete with vibrant music, bring the exot...
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