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Clare In the Community Series 7
Author: Harry Venning
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Author Harry Venning
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 47m
In this seventh series, we join Clare in her continued struggle to control both her professional and private life. These six episodes see Clare struggling to come to terms with Brian's infidelity. She ends their relationship and is surprised by her colleagues' reaction to the news. Brian tries to win her back with romantic gestures and even propose...
View BookAuthor: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Michael Fenton Stevens
Duration 13h 2m
Most of us grow up having always known to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are now beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, fairytales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got the...
View BookAn Interview With Eleanor Updale
Author: Listening Books, Eleanor Updale
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Author Listening Books, Eleanor Updale
Narrator Eleanor Updale
Duration 0m
Eleanor Updale is the author of the Montmorency series among other children's titles. The series can be found in the library, read by our Patron, Stephen Fry.
View BookAuthor: Mary Kay Andrews
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Author Mary Kay Andrews
Narrator Kathleen Mcinerney
Duration 13h 47m
A Savannah florist is about to score the wedding of a lifetime-one that will solidify her career as the go-to-girl for society nuptials. Ironically, Cara Kryzik doesn't believe in love, even though she creates beautiful flower arrangements to celebrate them. But when the bride goes missing and the wedding is in jeopardy, Cara must find the bride an...
View BookAuthor: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator William Franklyn
Duration 29m
In The Eight Swords, when a woman is found dead at Paula's hair salon, Sexton Blake is called in to investigate.
View BookAuthor: Mervyn Peake
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Author Mervyn Peake
Narrator Various
Duration 5h 41m
Paul Rhys, Miranda Richardson and Carl Prekopp star in this major six-part BBC Radio Classic Serial based on the writings of Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore. The life and times of Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Gormenghast - a vast stronghold of crumbling masonry steeped in immemorial ritual and inhabited by an extraordinary cavalcade of characters inclu...
View BookAuthor: S. J. Watson
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Author S. J. Watson
Narrator Susannah Harker
Duration 12h 14m
"As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me ..." Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overn...
View BookThe Power of Positive Thinking
Author: Dr Norman Vincent Peale
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Author Dr Norman Vincent Peale
Narrator Dr Norman Vincent Peale
Duration 1h
Dr Peale offers advice on how to eliminate self doubt; free yourself from worry, stress and resentment; visualise and attain solutions to your problems and provides simple prayerful exercises that can help to reinforce the positive changes you can make to your life.
View BookAuthor: Lynne Reid Banks
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Author Lynne Reid Banks
Narrator Lynne Reid Banks
Duration 3h 10m
Houdini is no ordinary hamster. He is an escapologist with an exceptional talent for getting out of cages. He tells his hilarious adventures with great intelligence and no modesty, for the world beyond carpets and floorboards can be a terrifying place.
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SeriesBest of Women's Short Stories, Book 3
Duration 5h 8m
Containing ten wonderful stories read captivatingly by Rosalind Ayres, Barbara eigh-Hunt, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter, this collection is a winner with everyone. All stories have been carefully chosen for their strong female characters and are full of humour, drama and insight. Also containing some works about women by well-known male write...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Waugh
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Author Evelyn Waugh
Narrator Nathaniel Parker
Duration 4h 42m
Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of inn...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 14m
The gruesome death of Mrs. McGinty provokes Superintendent Spence to seek the help of his old ally Hercule Poirot. The victim's young lodger has been found guilty and is due to hang. But Spence is not convinced by the circumstantial evidence which influenced the verdict. So, at considerable personal discomfort, Poirot goes down to the sleepy villag...
View BookAuthor: Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson
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Author Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson
Narrator Rowan Atkinson
Duration 3h 6m
The original six BBC TV episodes starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Peter Cook, Miriam Margolyes and Rik Mayall. The historic first series which introduced us to Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh, Rowan Atkinson's first incarnation as the Black Adder. Edmund is the snivelling, bitter and twisted son of the medieval king w...
View BookToby Tucker: Dodging the Donkey Doo
Author: Val Wilding
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Author Val Wilding
Narrator Richard Mitchley
Duration 1h 54m
Toby can't wait to be catapulted back in time again to become his own ancestor! This time Toby is plunged back to Ancient Greece, into Niko's life, where he finds himself dodging the donkey doo: 'It's hardly a good idea to head-butt a donkey, and I'll never know what made me do it this morning. One minute I was standing there wondering which of the...
View BookAuthor: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Anthony Richardson
Duration 1h 40m
A collection of Thomas Hardy's poems, including 'The Man He Killed', 'The Darkling Thrush' and 'The Subalterns'.
View BookThe Bolds Book 5: The Bolds Go Wild
Author: Julian Clary
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Author Julian Clary
Narrator Julian Clary
SeriesThe Bolds, Book 5
Duration 2h 43m
The Bolds are back for another hilarious tale! The Bolds are very surprised to be visited by Fred's mother, Granny Imamu. She's travelled all the way from Africa, and now she's here, she does not approve of what she finds. Hyenas, living as people - whatever next! Granny Imamu starts to stir up mischief with twins Bobby and Betty, encouraging them...
View BookAuthor: Gerald Seymour
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Author Gerald Seymour
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 16h 8m
Farideh's husband is a corporal in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, entrapped by MI6 for interrogation. His job as a driver to a top general has left him with potentially valuable knowledge, but he won't talk unless Farideh is brought out of Iran. The SAS say it's too dangerous, but the director of the operation doesn't want to lose his prize. He a...
View BookAuthor: Gyles Brandreth
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Author Gyles Brandreth
Narrator Gyles Brandreth
Duration 7h 20m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Have You Eaten Grandma? written and read by Gyles Brandreth. 'Best thing ever, laugh-a-lot, spanning everything. Great book, I'm loving this' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2 It can be much harder than it seems; commas, colons, semi-colons and even apostrophes can drive us all mad at times, but it riles no one more...
View BookVillanelle 1: Codename Villanelle
Author: Luke Jennings
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Author Luke Jennings
Narrator Laura Kirman
Duration 6h 45m
She is the perfect assassin. A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers. Ruthlessly trained. Given a new life. New names, new faces - whichever fits. Her paymasters call themselves The Twelve. But she knows nothing of them. Konstantin is the man who saved her and the one she answe...
View BookThe Museum of Curiosity: Series 9-12
Author: John Lloyd
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Author John Lloyd
Narrator Various
Duration 11h 7m
oin Professor John Lloyd and Curators Noel Fielding, Jo Brand, Romesh Ranganathan and Sally Phillips as they plunge down the badger hole of ignorance in a search for the universe's most mind-boggling oddnesses. The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing inside...
View BookAuthor: Charity Norman
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Author Charity Norman
Narrator Nicolette Mckenzie
Duration 13h 52m
What do you do when your family's dream becomes a nightmare? In the quiet of a New Zealand winter's night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He's fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse. At first, Finn's fall looks like a horrible accident; but his frantic mother, Martha McNa...
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