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Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesThe Inimitable Jeeves, Book 1
Duration 3h 34m
The first volume of Wodehouse's brilliant complete and unabridged short stories. Originally a semi-novel, this version contains self-contained stories which are nonetheless linked, often by Bingo Little, an endearingly hopeless chap and a serial romancer: 1. Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum 2. No Wedding Bells For Bingo 3. Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mi...
View BookAuthor: Hilaire Belloc
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Author Hilaire Belloc
Narrator Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres
Duration 1h 10m
A much-loved classic for children and adults alike, this collection of poems is a truly unforgettable book of moral instruction. Take heed from the lessons learnt by Matilda, who told lies and was burned to death, Jim, who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion, and Rebecca, who slammed doors for fun and perished miserably...
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 57m
In Pigs Have Wings, affably potty Lord Emsworth is embroiled in a fierce pig-rearing battle with his obese neighbour, Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe. Tossed in for good measure: romantic entanglements, some dubious detective work and a fearful dieting product called 'Slimmo'. Blandings is also never complete without the resourcefulness of canny Gally...
View BookAuthor: Alex Shearer
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Author Alex Shearer
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
No more chocolate! The government has closed down all the burger bars and chip shops in the country and is striving to build a happier and healthier population. But have they gone too far? Huntly and his friend Smudge think so, and together with local shopkeeper Mrs Bubby, the boys devise a cunning plan to restore freedom, justice and chocolate for...
View BookAuthor: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
The affair between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquess of Queensbury, led to a series of three trials in 1895, and Wilde's imprisonment for two years. He died three and a half years later in Paris at the age of 46. This recording recreates these sensational trials from the original transcripts.
View BookAuthor: Martin Jarvis
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Author Martin Jarvis
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
An elegantly observed journal of a year in the life of the musical play 'By Jeeves', written and directed by two theatre geniuses, Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Beginning in January 2001, the production travels from Pittsburgh to Toronto - but will it make it to Broadway?
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 5h
Galahad Threepwood is causing scandal again... this time by deciding to not publish his potentially humiliating high-society memoirs. His decision causes rifts in the ranks at castle Blandings and all involved split into three camps: those who want the book suppressed, those who want it published, and those, who for some reason or another, have bee...
View BookAuthor: Richmal Crompton
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Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 31m
It's the beginning of the summer holidays and William and the Outlaws see an endless expanse of gloriously carefree days stretching ahead but how to fill them? The six classic adventures contained in this unabridged reading are: William and the Holiday Centre - William's Treasure Trove - William and the Cottage - William Tackles the Job - William a...
View BookThe Code of the Woosters: Abridged
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 58m
The sinister affair of the eighteenth century cow-creamer and the small, brown, leather-covered notebook tests the Wooster soul as it has never been tested before. Friends and relations, in urgent need, queue up to beg for assistance in a variety of troublesome situations, and ruthless enemies stop at nothing in their determination to bring Bertie...
View BookAuthor: Nicholas Searle
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Author Nicholas Searle
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 11h 15m
This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings. But who is the man behind the con and what has he had to do to survive this life of lies? And why is this beau...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesThe Inimitable Jeeves, Book 1
Duration 17m
Wooster bumps into Bingo and his uncle Old Bittlesham in St James' Street. Old Bittlesham has received a threatening letter in an uneducated hand. Bingo and his uncle think that the culprit is a man with a beard. So Bingo with the help of œ50 offers to sort the matter out. Instead he puts the œ50 on Ocean Breeze a horse owned by his Unc...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 46m
Rockmetteler (Rocky) Todd, one of the laziest people in America, visits Wooster and Jeeves in New York for their advice. Rocky's aunt has written him a letter informing him that she will give him a large monthly allowance on the condition that he visits all the clubs and retaurants and lives life to the full as she would have done had she been much...
View BookAuthor: Penelope Mortimer
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Author Penelope Mortimer
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 12m
A surprisingly shocking short story which is darkly comical, mainly concerning female submission and the necessary loss of identity to survive in an unfair male-dominated world. Humphrey's mother meets an intriguing stranger at a dance and agrees to go for a walk with him. The events that follow shape the rest of her life, that of her husband and o...
View BookAuthor: Anna Sewell
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Author Anna Sewell
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
The classic tale of a young girl and her love for her horse Black Beauty. During his long life, Black Beauty has many different owners who put him to a variety of tasks, from being a riding horse on a country estate to a cab horse in town. Despite often being subjected to cruelty, Black Beauty's strength, gentle temper and fine instincts stay with...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesThe Inimitable Jeeves, Book 1
Duration 14m
Wooster receives a letter out of the blue from his Aunt Agatha inviting him and Jeeves to join her in Rouville-sur-Mer, France. It turns out that Aunt Agatha has decided it is time that Wooster gets married and has some children. She has met an eminently respectable girl she wants to introduce him to, as she considers her absolutely right for the j...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 33m
The first fully recognizable Jeeves and Bertie story. Bertie's cousin arrives in New York lured by the bright lights of Broadway, forcing his dreaded Aunt Agatha to make an unscheduled visit to America. A struggling artist needs help in a romantic intrigue. A wonderful Wodehouse story full of laughs, gaffes and unlikely though touching camaraderie.
View BookIntroducing Claude and Eustace: Jeeves
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 11m
A typically shambolic and hilarious romp from the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster, who find themselves embroiled in college initiation rites in this story of students, aunts and three rather irate cats. Throw into the heady mix of comedic fancy a luncheon appointment with Sir Roderick, and the scene is set for a farcical showdown of epic proportions....
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 13m
Nothing in this world ever seems to be absolutely perfect, and that is certainly the case in this story. Young Billy, in love with a young and beautiful woman, attempts to woo her by making plans to rescue someone with his trusted group of friends. However, the scheme doesn't quite go according to plan, and the consequences are not necessarily as d...
View BookComrade Bingo: Jeeves and Wooster
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesThe Inimitable Jeeves, Book 1
Duration 21m
Richard "Bingo" Little falls in love with the daughter of a left-wing (probably communist or socialist) leader called Charlotte Corday Rowbotham. In an attempt to get close to her, Little joins the group, called the Heralds of the Red Dawn, whose aims are to "massacre the bourgeoisie, sack Park Lane and disembowel the hereditary aristocracy". This...
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