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Author: Dirk Maggs
Author Dirk Maggs
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 10m
Gotham City is reeling from the shocking news that Batman is confined to a wheelchair. Who will now protect the innocent from the dangerous inmates of Arkham Asylum, whom Bane has released? A new hero - Azrael - takes up the mantle of the Bat. But Azrael is a more brutal Batman than Bruce Wayne, and far more eager to punish the guilty than to prote...
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Author: Dirk Maggs
Author Dirk Maggs
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
"This is the Batman. Treat what you are about to hear in the strictest confidence - my associates must be protected at all costs. By night in Gotham City you knew me as the Batman. What you never knew was..." The Batman is dead. Police Commissioner Gordon has received a recording by the Batman which reveals his real identity. But who is the occupan...
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Author: Dirk Maggs
Author Dirk Maggs
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h
Accused of crimes against humanity, the Last Son of Krypton stands powerless before a court dominated by Lex Luthor - criminal genius turned Prosecutor. Has Superman really corrupted our children? Can he justify his continued interference in world affairs? Do we know the truth about his powers? Can Lois Lane defend "50 years of the Man of Steel"?
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Author: Greg Davies
Author Greg Davies
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 52m
We Are Klang are three stand-up comedians. Their sell out Edinburgh show was nominated for an if.comedy award and this spoof radio series was specially commissioned for BBC7. When Britain's most ridiculous alcoholic sets his heart on becoming a war poet, little does he realise that his poetry will kill as many people as the Vietnam War itself. As f...
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Author: James Cary
Author James Cary
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 48m
BBC Radio 4 sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941. Originally broadcast May - June 2009. Three code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut as they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately, they hate each other. Includes the following episodes: Royal Visit-A royal visitor is coming to inspect Bletchley Park, but the top b...
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Author: Jaroslav Hasek
Author Jaroslav Hasek
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 53m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Christopher Reason of the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hasek. This tale charts the exploits during the First World War of "European Forrest Gump", Svejk, in his progress through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian army. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier wh...
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Author: John Galsworthy
Series: The Forsyte Saga, Book 1
Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 1
Duration 8h 27m
Galsworthy's epic story chronicles the decline and fall of the Forsytes through almost fifty years of material triumph, emotional disaster and a terrible feud that splits them asunder. Beginning in 1886, The Man of Property starts with the family wealthy, successful and united. But the actions of the arrogant Soames Forsyte and his beautiful wife I...
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Dad's Army Volume 12: Absent Friends
Author: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Series: Dad's Army, Book 12
Author David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDad's Army, Book 12
Duration 2h 34m
Another four episodes from the classic situation comedy about the Home Guard of Walmington-on-Sea. Featuring the consummate performances of Arthur Lowe, John le Mesurier, Clive Dunn and the rest of the regular cast. No Spring for Frazer (3.6.74)/Sons of the Sea (10.6.74)/ Brain Versus Brawn (15.4.75)/Absent Friends (13.4.76).
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Author: Phillip Palmer
Author Phillip Palmer
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 8m
All five episodes of the Radio 4 full-cast detective drama written by Philip Palmer. Originally broadcast as the Woman's Hour drama during the week commencing 22 June 2009. The story takes place in the present day, and centres on notorious art forger Daniel Ballantyne, newly released from prison but now dying, who is telling his life's story to an...
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Drama On 3: The Idylls of the King
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h
A BBC Radio 3 adaptation by Michael Symmons of Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Idylls of the King, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith and broadcast on 12 July 2009 to mark the bicentenary of the poet's birth. In this extraordinary epic poem, Tennyson transforms Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, infusing the legend of King Arthur with a passionate intensity. Told he...
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J'accuse: Zola and the Dreyfus Affair
Author: Hattie Naylor
Author Hattie Naylor
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Hattie Naylor. This play was inspired by a newspaper article written by Emile Zola in response to the Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s, when a Jewish army officer was persecuted and wrongly imprisoned by the French military and judicial establishment. Louis Gregori gives a right-wing and nationalistic perspective on...
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Kenneth Williams' Stop Messing About
Author: Myles Rudge
Author Myles Rudge
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 47m
Stop Messing About - the first all-nude radio show! Nervous listeners are advised to keep their eyes closed...and it's forbidden to take photographs. Taking over the mantle of Round the Horne, Stop Messing About carried on the comedy tradition, which reunited Kenneth Williams with his Carry On co-star Joan Sims and Hugh Paddick. These four episodes...
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Author: Thomas Hardy
Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 45m
A new dramatisation of the Thomas Hardy classic, `Tess Of The d'Urbervilles', to be transmitted as the Radio 4 Classic Serial in four hour-long episodes. John Durbeyfield learns that he is descended from the Norman family of d'Urbervilles. He and his wife Joan encourage their daughter Tess to befriend the family of Stoke d'Urbervilles. In doing...
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Author: Valentine Dyall
Author Valentine Dyall
Narrator Various, Full Cast
Duration 1h 57m
Four chilling episodes from the famous 1940s BBC radio series, introduced by Valentine Dyall, aka "The Man in Black". These are the four sole surviving episodes from the BBC archive: The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (18/9/1943); The Speaking Clock by John Dickson Carr (13/4/1944); The Clock Strikes Eight by John Dickson Carr(18/5/1944);...
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Author: Joesph Lidster
Author Joesph Lidster
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
The Torchwood team and Martha face danger at CERN in this special BBC Radio 4 episode, starring John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd and Freeman Agyeman.
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Author: John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Series: The Good Life, Book 6
Author John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 6
Duration 1h 54m
Four classic episodes of the popular BBC TV series starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith, and Paul Eddington. Tom, Barbara, Jerry, and Margo return in more endearingly funny episodes featuring Surbiton's most famous residents. The episodes are The Last Posh Frock, Away from It All, The Green Door, and Our Speaker Today.
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I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
Author: Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Author Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 37m
A facsmile edition of the original 1978 LP of comedy sketches and songs, starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. Taken from the fondly-remembered BBC radio series of the early 1970s.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 36
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 36
Duration 1h 27m
John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Famous crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, visiting her friend Judith Butler in the little town of Woodleigh Common, is invited to a Hallowe'en Party put on by society hostess Mrs. Rowena Drake for the local teenagers. During her preparations for the party, the c...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
The year is 1920, and an ambitious doctor meets a nun apparently traumatised by what she witnessed in the Great War. An attempt to restore the woman's sanity results in the uncovering of something very sinister indeed.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
Having lost her husband and only child to the war in Afghanistan, a young woman turns to an Irish couple for hope in the form of a miracle. But dark forces are at work, and the price to pay for salvation may be too much to bear.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
Theo is determined to seek happiness with her husband's business rival, Vincent. Having fled London for Paris, however, she soon learns of Richard's financial collapse - and discovers that rather more than just his job is at stake.
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