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Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Narrator Frazer Hines, Patrick Troughton, Full Cast
Duration 2h 27m
Patrick Troughton's Doctor gets involved in galactic intrigue and piracy in this exclusive recording of a `lost' television adventure, with linking narration by Frazer Hines. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe become victims of piracy when they materialise on a space beacon, minutes before it is literally blown to pieces. So begins their quest to be reunite...
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 26m
The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator, with Maria Aitken as his companion Harriet Vane, in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Two years after the trial for the murder of her lover, the...
View BookRound the Horne: Julian and Sandy
Author: Barry Took, Marty Feldman
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Author Barry Took, Marty Feldman
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 44m
`Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy.' From the ever-popular Round the Horne the outrageously camp actors from Carnaby Street, played by Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick, were always game on for a variety of entrepreneurial endeavours from Bona Pets to Bijou Tourettes
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 19m
Further instalments from the tenth series of the wickedly funny BBC Radio 4 comedy which spawned the hit television show. The Dead Ringers are back with their skewed and scary take on the world of celebrity, politics and the mass media. Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Kevin Connelly, Mark Perry and Phil Cornwell give us their impressions of the people we...
View BookAuthor: Brian Dooley
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Author Brian Dooley
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 46m
When initially aired on BBC3, 'The Smoking Room' met with critical and popular acclaim. Now, for the first time on audio, are all eight episodes, complete and uncut. In the world of work, there is only one place where seniority means nothing and shop talk is banned - the smoking room. Here you'll find divorcee Lilian, enjoying her new freedom; bone...
View BookAuthor: George Shaw
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Author George Shaw
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 28m
The story centres on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren, a brothel owner, described by the author as 'on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman' and her daughter, Vivie, an intelligent and pragmatic young woman, who has just graduated from college and come home to get acquainted with her mother for the first tim...
View BookThe Goon Show - The Collapse of the British Rail
Author: Spike Milligan
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Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 23
Duration 2h 5m
From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. This latest release features four more episodes of classic Goonery, starring the inimitable Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan.
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Author BBC Audiobooks
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Duration 1h 57m
Chrysalids: Ten-year-old David is a happy, ordinary boy, untroubled except for occasional strange dreams about a mysterious city - until he befriends Sophie, who is unlike anybodyhe has met before: she has six toes. But in the ultra-religious village of Waknut,all abnormality is abhorred as an offence against God, and he must keep her secret to him...
View BookAuthor: Lawrie Wyman
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Author Lawrie Wyman
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SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 21
Duration 1h 48m
The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest of a wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior Service were conniving Chief Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips, and the constantly bemused Stephen Murray as 'Number One', while Tenniel Evans made mischief as Leading Se...
View BookAuthor: Noel Coward
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Author Noel Coward
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 57m
Jenny Seagrove and Nigel Havers star in this BBC Radio 2 production of Noel Coward's classic tale of forbidden love. Laura Jesson is a happily married woman until a chance encounter in a train station caf‚ draws her to Dr Alec Harvey. Literally bumping into each other brings temptation, danger and guilt into their lives, and a doomed love aff...
View BookAuthor: Sharon Kelly, Tom Fry
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Author Sharon Kelly, Tom Fry
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 55m
A series of four BBC Radio 4 plays set in a Manchester legal practice, written by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly. Originally broadcast 28 April 2010 - 19 May 2010 in the "Afternoon Play" slots. Frank Twist and his bunch of legal reps return for another series of adventures on the mean-ish streets of Manchester. In the first play, Frank's best mate Mickey...
View BookJourney Into Space - Operation Luna
Author: Charles Chilton
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Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 8h
The first series of 'Journey Into Space', originally broadcast in the 1950s and set in the then futuristic 1965. It tells of the conquest of the moon by Jet Morgan and his crew Doc, Mitch and Lemmy.
View BookThe Wild Man of the Woods: Hancock's Half Hour
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
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Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 30m
One of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's favourite radio episodes. The Wild Man of the Woods shows Hancock's desire to get away from it all. It leads him to camp first in a bus shelter on Clapham Common, and then in a bit of forest rented from Sid. Featuring a star cast that includes Sid James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacqu...
View BookAuthor: John O'Farrell
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Author John O'Farrell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 5m
A loyal tribute to ten glorious years from BBC Radio 4's Week Ending team. From the archives of the legendary satirical radio comedy series Week Ending comes this compilation of satirical and sardonic sketches based on Margaret Thatcher's first ten years as Prime Minister. First released on cassette as Ten Years With Maggie, this has now been reiss...
View BookAuthor: Andy Mulligan
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Author Andy Mulligan
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 5h 30m
Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it. Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael's world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls into his hands. It's a bag of clues. It's a bag of hope. It's a bag that will change everything. Soon Raphael an...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
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SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 9
Duration 2h 20m
Hercule Poirot joins an international cast of characters on the glamorous Orient Express, and is approached by a wealthy American who offers the detective 'big money' to protect him. The next day the man is found dead in his cabin, stabbed twelve times. There are no lack of clues for Poirot - but which are real and which a clever plant? One thing i...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 33m
Walter was everyone's "Old pal" and loveable rogue. An unsuccessful farmer who turned to haulage. A carver of cribs and love spoons who took 17 years to propose-only to be turned down. And of course father to the world weary Nelson.
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast, Peter Cushing, Vincent Prince
Duration 2h 45m
Launching a new range of Classic Radio Sci-Fi releases, this six-part BBC radio drama stars none other than Peter Cushing and Vincent Prince, who between them became two of the most famous horror film stars of the 1950s and 1960s. Aliens in the Mind is based on a story by the then-foremost Doctor Who script editor Robert Holmes. It centres around t...
View BookRound the Horne: The Very Best Episodes Volume 2
Author: Barry Took, Marty Feldman
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Author Barry Took, Marty Feldman
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesRound the Horne: The Very Best Episodes, Book 2
Duration 2h 3m
Another volume of the best episodes from the classic BBC radio comedy series, which took comedy to a new level of outrageousness in the late 1960s. Kenneth Horne is the suave host, whilst around him orbit those no-holds-barred satellites Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee. Regular characters Julian and Sandy and Rambling...
View BookThe Do's and Don'ts For the Mentally Interesting
Author: Louise Ramsden
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Author Louise Ramsden
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 drama by Louise Ramsden, based on Seaneen Molloy's blog The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive, her account of learning to live and love with bipolar disorder. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 8 May 2009. Facing life as a newly-diagnosed manic depressive, Seaneen fears that Rob has become more nurse than boyfriend, and b...
View BookRound the Horne the Very Best Episodes Volume 1
Author: Barry Took, Marty Feldman
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Author Barry Took, Marty Feldman
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesRound the Horne: The Very Best Episodes, Book 1
Duration 2h 4m
Four of the best episodes from the classic BBC radio comedy series, which took comedy to a new level of outrageousness in the late 1960s. Kenneth Horne is the suave host, whilst around him orbit those no-holds-barred satellites Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee. Regular characters Julian and Sandy and Rambling Syd Rumpo...
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