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Author: J B Priestley
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Author J B Priestley
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Duration 1h 27m
A BBC Radio 4 production of Priestley's classic thriller, starring Toby Jones and Frances Barber. The Birling family are spending a happy evening celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft-a marriage that will result in the merging of two successful local businesses. Yet, just when everything seems to be going so well, they receiv...
View BookAuthor: David Eldridge
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Duration 1h 3m
The writer David Eldridge introduces his BBC Radio 3 full-cast drama, The Picture Man starring Martin Freeman, about a man who despairs of the behaviour he sees around him and decides to take action. Originally broadcast in the "Drama on 3" slot on 6 January 2008. Neil decides he has been pushed too far by the uncaring and often callous behaviour h...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 3h 28m
Michael Sheen stars as Hamlet with Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beaven as Ophelia in the best-known and most powerful tragedy of modern times. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and...
View BookAuthor: Sean Grundy
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Author Sean Grundy
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Duration 43m
A strange but funny BBC Radio 4 'Afternoon Play' about sex, betrayal, the housing market and a love triangle that follows its own surreal logic. 'Cavity' was originally broadcast 29 January 2009, and repeated 24 March 2011. Kirsty is having an affair with a married man, Adrian. When his wife, Lucy, returns unexpectedly from a business conference, K...
View BookAuthor: Virgil
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Author Virgil
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Duration 1h 54m
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Virgil's sweeping epic, starring Ralph Fiennes as Aeneas and Derek Jacobi as the Narrator. One of the classics of all time, The Aeneid was Virgil's last and greatest work. In it, he recounts in vivid imagery the legendary origin of the Roman Empire. The story begins after the Greeks have destroyed the city of Troy. Th...
View BookAuthor: John Et Al Cleese
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Author John Et Al Cleese
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Duration 4m
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: A J Cronin
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Author A J Cronin
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Duration 2h 47m
John Gordon Sinclair stars as Scotland's most celebrated doctor in six BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations. When Dr Cameron gets called in to see a patient, he doesn't expect it to be his new partner Dr Finlay. But the new doctor is full of surprises: caring, stubborn, idealistic and clever, Finlay might have been welcomed to the practice with a bla...
View BookThe No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency: The Daddy & the Bone
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 1
Duration 1h 28m
'The Daddy' introduces us to Mma Ramotswe as she embarks on her first case and takes on a new secretary, the resourceful and talented Mma Makutsi. Together, they must find the truth about a Daddy who appears to have returned from the dead - as well as investigating a wayward teenage girl and attempting to find a vanished child. 'The Bone' sees the...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 2h 43m
In this BBC full-cast production of Coriolanus, allies and enemies become blurred just as Rome is in sight...Coriolanus tells of a proud Roman general who captures the town Corioli but subsequently falls from favour with the Roman people. He allies himself with the Volscians and leads an attack on Rome, but allegiances are won and lost be...
View BookIt's Morecambe and Wise: Vintage Beeb
Author: Eddie Braben
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Author Eddie Braben
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Duration 48m
As part of the popular Vintage Beeb range, this is a reissue of the classic 1970s vinyl LP. First published by BBC Records & Cassettes. Selected items from the Morecambe & Wise Television Show. Bringing us sunshine on this recording are "Ern's magnificent body", "A visit from the police" and Ernie's going to be "Bob Hope's chief scriptwrite...
View BookChief Justice of Beauty & Confession
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 3
Duration 1h 28m
'The Chief Justice of Beauty' finds the ladies hired by a beauty contest judge to check up on the integrity of the finalists in a forthcoming competition, following the embarrassing arrest for shoplifting of a previous winner. Meanwhile, Mma Ramotsweis worried about her fianc‚, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. 'The Confession' sees Mma Ramotswe consulti...
View BookAuthor: Dawn French
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Author Dawn French
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Duration 9h
Everyone knows the real Silvia, don't they? Silvia Shute lies in hospital in a coma. Family and friends gather at her bedside, each thinking they know the real Silvia. But do they? For Silvia hides a secret. One she can never tell. And as her visitors congregate so the truth about Silvia is slowly revealed. Again, and again and again . . .
View BookAuthor: James Rye
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Author James Rye
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Duration 43m
In the final episode of the series, The Night, DCI John Stone investigates the sexual assault of the wife of one of his team. DI Tanner's wife Karen finds herself in a dodgy hotel after a night out remembering nothing of the night before; she has been assaulted and Stone suspects she has been given Rohypnol. It would seem that this is just the begi...
View BookThe Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul
Author: Douglas Adams
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Author Douglas Adams
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Duration 3h 17m
Harry Enfield stars once again in a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Douglas Adams's second Dirk Gently novel, directed by the award-winning Dirk Maggs Harry Enfield exuberantly returns as Dirk Gently, who, fallen on hard times and dressed as a gypsy woman, is using his irritatingly accurate clairvoyant powers to read palms. He is saved when a...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 1h 59m
In this BBC full-cast production of As You Like It, Rosalind is banished from the Royal court, heartbroken over Orlando. Will the two find a way to reunite?A comedy of wit, disguise and love, Shakespeare's tale about the enchanted world of the Forest of Arden remains as moving as it is funny.Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind, with&nb...
View BookThe Hundred and One Dalmatians
Author: Dodie Smith
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Author Dodie Smith
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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?
View BookAuthor: Gary Mitchell
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Author Gary Mitchell
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Duration 1h 28m
Hugh, a music teacher, has had an accident and is visited in hospital by his talented pupil Charlie and his wife Sharon. He looks back on how their relationships evolved over the years as working-class Protestants feel increasingly marginalised by political change.
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 2h 6m
In this BBC full-cast production of Twelfth Night, Malvolio is looking for trouble - and revenge...Michael Maloney, Josette Simon and Anne-Marie Duff star in this fast and funny production of Shakespeare's most sparkling and optimistic comedy, when all the world is turned on its head and authority is usurped, when by civil...
View BookAuthor: Fin Kennedy
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Author Fin Kennedy
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Duration 43m
In a near-future London, society is in distress. In the midst of climate chaos, people are seeking solace in the promises of new strains of religion. Illusionist Caesar Price has already walked on water; resurrected people from the dead and fed thousands from one tin of sardines. When he announces that his next "miracle" will be the Crucifixion and...
View BookAuthor: Csaba Szekely
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Author Csaba Szekely
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Duration 43m
It's difficult being young and in love when your Dad is a high ranking official in Ceausescu's communist machine, your mother weeps all the time and your brother is trying to kill you. This wild and sideways look at life behind the Iron Curtain during Ceausescu's regime is a first play by a young Hungarian writer living in Romania and was shortlist...
View BookAuthor: Dennis Kelly
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Author Dennis Kelly
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Duration 1h 38m
A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that the cover up unites them and brings harmony to their once fractious lives, where's the incentive to put things right? A play that is often featured on the GCSE syllabus. CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE.
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