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Author: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
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Duration 2h
When foolish King Lear abdicates both his kingdom and his responsibilities, and makes unreasonable demands of his children, his world is turned upside down. This is a play of uncompromising bleakness, where the principles of poetic justice are contravened.
View BookAuthor: Bram Stoker
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Author Bram Stoker
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Duration 4h
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lu...
View BookAuthor: Leo Tolstoy
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Author Leo Tolstoy
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Duration 9h 20m
Tolstoy's epic story of a Russian family torn apart and rejuvenated by love and war. The war in question is Napoleon's Russian campaign in the early 19th century, which provides the background to the personal and public lives of Tolstoy's characters.
View BookAuthor: Johanna Spyri
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Author Johanna Spyri
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Duration 1h 50m
Orphaned at the age of five, Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Heidi is growing to love her new life and friends when suddenly she is taken away to Frankfurt. As a companion to an invalid girl, Clara, Heidi brings kindness and joy, yet she pines for her life in the mountains.
View BookLost Property: The Year My Mother Went Missing
Author: Katie Hims
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Author Katie Hims
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Duration 43m
The second play in BBC Radio 4's bittersweet trilogy, 'Lost Property', set in 1941, 1979 and 2011. 'The Year My Mother Went Missing' was originally broadcast on 10 May 2011 in the 'Afternoon Play' slot. It's 1979, and it's not the first time that Ruthie's mother Queenie has gone missing, but usually she leaves a note... Narrated by Rosie Cavalier...
View BookLost Property: The Wrong Label
Author: Katie Hims
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Author Katie Hims
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Duration 43m
The first play in BBC Radio 4's bittersweet trilogy, 'Lost Property', set in 1941, 1979 and 2011. 'The Wrong Label' was originally broadcast on 3 May 2011 in the 'Afternoon Play' slot. London, 1941, and Alice knows that to stop your children from being evacuated is tantamount to siding with Hitler... Narrated by Rosie Cavaliero and starring Alex...
View BookLost Property: A Telegram From the Queen
Author: Katie Hims
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Author Katie Hims
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Duration 43m
The third and final play in BBC Radio 4's bittersweet trilogy, 'Lost Property', set in 1941, 1979 and 2011. 'A Telegram from the Queen' was originally broadcast on 17 May 2011 in the 'Afternoon Play' slot. It's 2011, and, as Alice's 100th birthday present, Ruthie sets out to put her family back together again... Starring Rosie Cavaliero as Ruthie...
View BookLost Property: The Complete Series
Author: Katie Hims
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Author Katie Hims
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Duration 2h 11m
BBC Radio 4's bittersweet trilogy set in 1941, 1979 and 2011. This history of relatives lost and found was originally broadcast on 3, 10 and 17 May 2011 in the 'Afternoon Play' slot. The first play, 'The Wrong Label', is set in London in 1941. Alice knows that to stop your children from being evacuated is tantamount to siding with Hitler. In 'The...
View BookAuthor: Clara Glynn
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Author Clara Glynn
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Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 drama in which a Children's Hearing has to decide if Nicole (13) and Scott (4) should be taken into care or be allowed to return to live with their mother. But is she fit to look after them now? 'Care' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 8 March 2011. Michelle has been in drug rehab for the last few months, Dad has di...
View BookAnna of the Five Towns, Episode 2
Author: Arnold Bennett
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Author Arnold Bennett
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SeriesAnna of the Five Towns, Book 2
Duration 56m
The second and final part of the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Arnold Bennett's tale of love, tyranny and rebellion, 'Anna of the Five Towns'. Originally broadcast as the 'Classic Serial' on 13 March 2011. Having inherited a fortune on her twenty-first birthday, Anna Tellwright begins to gain her independence and freedom. But on her return from an...
View BookAnna of the Five Towns, Episode 1
Author: Arnold Bennett
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Author Arnold Bennett
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SeriesAnna of the Five Towns, Book 1
Duration 56m
The first part of the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Arnold Bennett's tale of love, tyranny and rebellion, 'Anna of the Five Towns'. Originally broadcast as the 'Classic Serial' on 6 March 2011. Brought up in the repressive tradition of Methodism by her miserly father, Anna Tellwright dreams of independence and freedom. On coming of age she learns t...
View BookAuthor: Sean Gray
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Author Sean Gray
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Duration 1h 23m
David Soul (Starsky and Hutch) narrates and Simon Day (The Fast Show) stars in this fantastical BBC Radio 4 comedy series looking at the most entertaining apocalypses on parallel Earths. Originally broadcast from 15 December 2010 - 19 January 2011. We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and environmentalists speak in apocalyptic...
View BookAuthor: Micheal Butt
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Author Micheal Butt
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Duration 2h 12m
Edward Marshall-Hall, who was born in Brighton in 1858, became perhaps the country's most successful advocate of all time, building his reputation on a phenomenal talent for acquitting defendants in murder trials where a guilty verdict had seemed a foregone conclusion. Given that murder during this period carried a sentence of execution by hanging,...
View BookAuthor: Mike Walker
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Author Mike Walker
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Duration 56m
BBC Radio 4 science fiction adventure by Mike Walker, originally broadcast on 19 March 2011. When five lost souls, recruited by a company to travel to an abandoned planet, all they know is that they are there to retrieve the only known sample of an ore left over from an old mining operation. However, their task becomes considerably more complicat...
View BookAuthor: John Keats
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Author John Keats
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Duration 44m
Adaptation of Keats' sensual narrative poem about the ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia and the innocent mortal Lycius. Starring Paterson Joseph, Charlotte Emmerson, Tom Ferguson, and Jonathan Keeble. With original music by John Harle. Sung by Sarah Leonard.
View BookPoodle Springs, Philip Marlowe Series, Book 8
Author: Raymond Chandler
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Author Raymond Chandler
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Duration 56m
A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Raymond Chandler mystery featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is now married, living in the resort town of Poodle Springs. Once again, he sets himself up as an investigator and soon finds himself in the middle of blackmail and murder.
View BookAuthor: Stella Gibbons
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Author Stella Gibbons
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Duration 3h 24m
Strong of will and slender of ankle, twenty-year-old orphan Flora Poste is blessed with every virtue save that of being able to earn her own living. Casting around for suitable relatives with whom she can make her home, Flora alights on the mysterious Starkadders and, ignoring the horrified shrieks of her friends, heads down to darkest Sussex. T...
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: John Le Carre
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Author Carre John Le
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Duration 2h 51m
Smiley, wrestling with retirement and disillusionment, is summoned to a secret meeting with a member of the Cabinet Office. Evidence has emerged that the Circus has been infiltrated at the highest level by a Russian agent. 'Find the mole, George. Clean the stables. Do whatever is necessary.' Reluctantly Smiley agrees, and so embarks on a dark journ...
View BookAuthor: Neil Gaiman
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Author Neil Gaiman
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Duration 3h 16m
A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Neil Gaiman's bestselling and much-loved novel. When his father dies, Fat Charlie Nancy discovers that not only was the late Mr Nancy actually the god Anansi, but that he also has a long-lost brother, Spider, who is everything Fat Charlie is not. When Spider begins to take over Fat Charlie's life,...
View BookAuthor: Anton Chekhov
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Author Anton Chekhov
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Duration 2h 2m
Chekhov's masterpiece in a full-cast performance starring Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman and Jon Hamm. Meet Olga, Masha, and Irina, warm and cultured young sisters who were reared in the exciting hubbub of Moscow, but have been living in the dull, gossipy backwaters of Russia for far too long. With their father's passing, an...
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