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Author: John Milton
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Author John Milton
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 3h 55m
A poem of epic scale, which conjures up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranges across huge tracts of space and time. Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, the plight of Adam and Eve and the ambition and vengefulness of Satan and his cohorts.
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 10h 33m
The story of a family overshadowed by the Marshalsea, London's debtors' Prison. The Father of the Marshalsea is William Dorrit. He is tended by his daughter Amy, Little Dorrit, to whom the prison is home. She becomes the novel's liberator in her selfless devotion to her father and her redeeming love for Arthur Clennam.
View BookSally Lockheart Series Book 1: The Ruby In the Smoke
Author: Philip Pullman
Format: MP3 CD
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Anton Lesser
SeriesSally Lockheart, Book 1
Duration 6h 35m
Sally Lockhart's father was an unconventional man. When he dies suddenly on a voyage to the Far East, Sally receives a mysterious letter containing a strange warning. Soon Sally finds herself at the heart of a deep and dangerous mystery, one she is determined to solve at all costs. The first book in the Sally Lockhart trilogy.
View BookAuthor: Kenneth Grahame
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Author Kenneth Grahame
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 55m
The Boy lives in a cottage with his mother and father, and the Dragon lives in a cave on the Downs. He's not the sort of dragon one might expect to meet, however - he's polite and friendly and just wants to lead a quiet life. So when St George comes along with the aim of fighting him, the Boy needs to do some persuading. After all, George and the D...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 22h 19m
Little Nell cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty, the pair are forced to flee London and Nell finds herself uprooted from a secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world where evil takes the form of characters such as Swiveller, Nubbles and the grotesque and lecherous Quilp.
View BookAuthor: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 12h 20m
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurks the shameful secret of his past and a personality pr...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 10h 41m
Hard Times is Dickens's most political novel. Set in the industrial north of England, in the fictional Coketown, he examines the lives of working people, who are taught by the capitalists Gradgrind and Bounderby to think only of the facts of life and not to indulge in imagination. Gradgrind's own children have been educated thus, and as a result ar...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 5h 14m
A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. However, not everything lives up to his dreams.
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 5h 16m
This partly autobiographical story, by turns magical, frightening and grimly realistic, charts the trials of young David Copperfield's life from poverty to literary fame, starring such unforgettable characters as David's stepfather, the abusive Mr. Mudstone; the charming sociopath Steerforth; the snivelling clerk Uriah Heep; and slow-witted Dora, w...
View BookAuthor: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Author Geoffrey Chaucer
Narrator Philip Madoc, Anton Lesser, Clive Swift
SeriesThe Canterbury Tales, Book 1
Duration 3h 22m
Chaucer's greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society, and values. The stories range from the romantic, courtly idealism of 'The Knight's Tale' to the joyous bawdiness of the Miller's; all are told with a freshness and vigour in this modern verse translation that make them a...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 14h 41m
In one of the most famous openings of any novel, Dickens masterfully presents the turmoil of the French Revolution which is the backdrop for a novel of love, patience, hope and self-sacrifice. It is read by Anton Lesser whose award-winning Dickens recordings in their abridged form have now resulted in the opportunity to read the full unabridged tex...
View BookAuthor: Nicolas Soames, Aesop
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Author Nicolas Soames, Aesop
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 1h 18m
How can the tortoise run faster than the hare? What happens when the dog growls at its image? Or when the country mouse goes to supper with the town mouse? In these stories we see humankind with all its faults. This selection includes 'The Fox and the Grapes', 'The Tortoise and the Hare', 'Androcles and the Lion', 'The Crow and the Pitcher', 'The W...
View BookAuthor: Liza Picard
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Author Liza Picard
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 6h 40m
This audiobook shows us the physical reality of daily life in Victorian London. It takes us into schools and prisons, churches and cemeteries. At least until the 1850s, London was a city of cholera outbreaks, transportations to Australia, public executions and workhouses, where children could be sold by their parents. Liza Picard recreates the sple...
View BookAuthor: Robert Harris
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Author Robert Harris
Narrator Anton Lesser, Full Cast
Duration 1h 58m
This radio dramatisation of Robert Harris's thriller comes from John Dryden, the producer of award-winning Radio Collection releases The Handmaid's Tale and A Suitable Boy. Nazi Germany has won the war. Churchill is living in exile. King Edward and Queen Wallis are puppet monarchs of the United Kingdom. It is 1964, a week before Hitler's 75th birth...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 19h 9m
Narrated in the first person, Great Expectations tells the story of Philip Pirrip (known as Pip) from his disadvantaged start as an orphan in the Kent marshes to the improvement in his position following an anonymous allowance. Pip moves to London where, only after many trials, does he learn humility and the value of loyalty. Key Dickens characters...
View BookAuthor: John Milton
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Author John Milton
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 2h 16m
The sequel to 'Paradise Lost'. Satan, discovering that a new figure threatens his dominion on earth, sets out once more to exert his power of temptation. He encounters Jesus in the desert and presents a host of challenges, but Jesus sees through the various wiles set before him and Satan, vanquished, returns to the depths of hell.
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 7h 29m
Little Nell cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty, the pair are forced to flee London and Nell finds herself uprooted from a secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world where evil takes the form of characters such as Swiveller, Nubbles and the grotesque and lecherous Quilp.
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Anton Lesser
SeriesMarcus Didius Falco, Book 3
Duration 2h 48m
In the heyday of the Roman Empire, a small accounting error has left Marcus Didius Falco sharing a cell with a large rat. But the Empire's most hard-done-by investigator is finally bailed out, and promptly accepts a commission to help a family of freed slaves fend off a professional bribe... A third instalment of the Marcus Didius Falco mysteries s...
View BookAuthor: Geraldine Mccaughrean
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Author Geraldine Mccaughrean
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 7h 7m
This is the story of Haoyou, strapped to a kite and sent to fly among the clouds and the spirits of the dead. Unlike anything you have ever heard before, it is packed full of the sights, sounds and smells of Ancient China.
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Anton Lesser
SeriesMarcus Didius Falco, Book 1
Duration 1h 51m
One fine day, A.D. 70, Sosia Camillina quite literally runs into Marcus Didius Falco on the steps of the Forum. It seems Sosia is on the run from a couple of street toughs, and after a quick and dirty rescue, P.I. Falco wants to know why. Falco finds out that Sosia, the niece of a highly placed senator, holds the secret to a stockpile of silver pig...
View BookSally Lockheart Series Book 2: The Shadow In the North
Author: Philip Pullman
Format: MP3 CD
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Anton Lesser
SeriesSally Lockheart, Book 2
Duration 9h 30m
The second book in the Sally Lockhart trilogy. Set in a veiled and misty Victorian underworld, the story of Sally Lockhart - expert financial advisor at Lockhart and Garland - and her allies, Jim and Fred, begins to unfold as news of the mysterious disappearance of the steamship 'Ingrid Linde' reaches the ears of the intrepid trio. An old lady has...
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