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Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast, Patrick Troughton
Duration 2h 29m
The first Doctor becomes the second in this exclusive recording of Doctor Who's orginal regeneration story, starring Patrick Troughton with linking narration by Anneke Wills. Before the astonished eyes of his companions Ben and Polly, the Doctor's whole body has apparently been transformed. Now they are confronted by a stranger who claims to be the...
View BookAuthor: Eleanor H Porter
Format: Online
Author Eleanor H Porter
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 31m
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic American tale. When Pollyanna's father dies, she is sent to live with her only surviving relative, the rich but stern Aunt Polly. Pollyanna's joy soon turns to disappointment when her spinster aunt gives her a cold greeting and tells her she is to stay in the attic. It's not the welcome Pollyanna e...
View BookAuthor: John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Format: Online
Author John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 4
Duration 1h 53m
Four original BBC television episodes of the much-loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith. Surbiton's most famous residents bring their endearingly funny mix of self-reliance and snobbery to audio.
View BookAuthor: James Cary
Format: Online
Author James Cary
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 47m
Robert Webb and Olivia Colman co-star in the first series of the BBC Radio 4 sketch show. Welcome to the surreal and silly comedy sketch show that features one half of Mitchell & Webb and Olivia Colman from Peep Show, with Sally Hawkins, Steven Kynman and Chris Pavlo. Highlights include Narnia being vandalized by two kids from Peckham, Mr. Punc...
View BookAuthor: Harry Venning
Format: Online
Author Harry Venning
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 47m
Sally Phillips stars as Clare in the first series of this BBC Radio 4 comedy. Like plenty before her, social worker Clare Barker has entered a caring profession so that she can sort out other people's problems rather than deal with her own. A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives on both a professional a...
View BookAuthor: Eddie Braben
Format: Online
Author Eddie Braben
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesMorcambe and Wise 'Bring Me Sunshine', Book 1
Duration 1h 32m
Dip into the fun barrel for such magic moments as Ernie the male model, Eric and his fast-growing moustache seeds, and the day little Ern (he of the short, fat, hairy legs) was asked to be Bob Hope's head waiter (sorry, head writer). Furthermore, Ernie's genius as a mathematician is revealed - he can even do calculations blindfolded - and hear how...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast, William Hartnell Et Al
Duration 2h 5m
The TARDIS materialises in a tropical forest, and the Doctor, Steven and Dodo are surprised to find that it's situated inside a vast spaceship. This is the distant future, and the last survivors from Earth are on a 700 year voyage to the planet Refusis II. Accompanying them are their mute, one-eyed servants: the Monoids. When Dodo unwittingly sprea...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 55m
In this BBC full-cast production of Antony and Cleopatra, the soldier and noble prince Mark Antony's enthralment with the Egyptian queen Cleopatra is proving controversial. Will the tumultuous relationship ultimately end in tragedy?Antony and Cleopatra is an intense love story, exploring the constant conflict between duty and emotion with char...
View BookArchers Ambridge Affairs: Love Triangles
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 31m
Two stories of love, lust, happiness and heartache from Britain's longest-running radio serial. Pub landlord Sid Perks is led astray when his keep-fit regime at the local gym leads to a steamy affair with Jolene Rogers, a country-and-western singer. For Emma Carter, choosing a husband is not so straightforward. She finds herself torn between loyal,...
View BookAuthor: Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt
Format: Online
Author Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Mighty Boosh, Book 1
Duration 3h
The Mighty Boosh is unlike any show you are ever likely to see, and one that defies description. The closest you could get to the unique style of Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding would be in the early days of Reeves and Mortimer, with their cardboard props and men with sticks. But unlike Reeves and Mortimer, the Boosh zookeepers turned postmen Howa...
View BookAuthor: J R R Tolkien
Format: Online
Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 42m
Tolkien's famous saga, the prelude to 'The Lord of the Rings', has all the ingredients of fantasy and adventure: dwarves, elves, goblins and trolls, a fearsome dragon, a great wizard, a perilous quest and a dramatic climax. At the centre is the unsuspecting hero Bilbo Baggins, a home-loving, unambitious Hobbit who is suddenly thrust into the bigges...
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
Format: Online
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 29m
Alan Bennett's new, award-winning play as heard on BBC Radio 3 features the National Theatre cast. Richard Griffiths, Clive Merrison and Frances de la Tour star. At a boys' grammar school in Sheffield, eight boys are being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams. It is the mid-eighties, and the main concern of the unruly bunch of bright sixth-forme...
View BookAuthor: Ian Rankin
Format: Online
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 53m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the novel by Ian Rankin. A wealthy banker's daughter goes missing from Edinburgh University. Has she run away, or has something more sinister occurred? Rebus finds a six-inch coffin in her home village, a clue which leads to his discovery that she was involved in an internet game. DC Siobhan Clarke is drafte...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 56m
In this BBC full-cast production of Romeo And Juliet, the two star-crossed lovers fight for each other until their dying breath. Can their two feuding families reconcile?With the intimacy of radio, the full beauty and meaning of some of the most lyrical lines ever written can be truly heard: tenderness and passion, betrayal and bigotry are bri...
View BookAuthor: J. M Barrie
Format: Online
Author J. M Barrie
Narrator Full Cast, Toyah Wilcox
Duration 2h 3m
When Peter Pan flies into the night nursery of Wendy, John and Michael Darling, he takes them on the journey - and the adventure - of a lifetime. Mermaids, wolves and Indians weave their spell in the magical Never Never Land - where also lurks the wicked Captain Hook...Toyah Willcox stars as Peter Pan, with Ron Moody as Captain Hook, Roy Hudd as Sm...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 5m
In this BBC full-cast production, Othello is drawn further and further into jealous rage by the manipulative Iago.In this story of evil cunning perverting a once noble mind, radio captures Iago's sly hints and boasts to the audience with shocking clarity. The listener is led along an emotional path that grips with fascinating horror until the play'...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 13m
In this BBC full-cast production of Much Ado About Nothing, some handsome soldiers return from battle. Yet one soldier finds himself locked in a merry war of his own...In Shakespeare's comedy of wit, love and miscommunication, Beatrice and Benedick and Hero and Claudio are pushed into and pulled out of love, their friends playing cupid with li...
View BookMorecambe and Wise Christmas Special
Author: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise
Format: Online
Author Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 29m
At one time Morecambe & Wise were as much a part of Christmas television as the Queen's speech. This compilation of their best festive sketches, songs and playlets covers the years 1969 to 1975, when the BBC shows regularly achieved huge audience ratings.
View BookMitchell & Webb In Daydream Believers
Author: David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Format: Online
Author David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
Daydream Believers, written by and starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, follows the parallel stories of two flatmates, Ray and Colin, and the mighty alien empire of Baron Amstrad and Info, his retro-looking android. Ray (Mitchell) writes popular science fiction stories when he doesn't get writer's block. He does, however, get many interruptions...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 49m
Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dramatic tale of greed and destiny. 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 producers have honed and perfected the craft of makin...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Format: Online
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 20m
In this BBC full-cast production, Julius Caesar is triumphant after his victory over the sons of Pompey. But as bad omens and weather plague Rome, even his most loyal friends are starting to see the signs...Political intrigue and fierce battle rage in this tense and dynamic production in which a country is torn apart under the legacy of Julius Caes...
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