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How Loud Can You Burp? and Other Extremely Important Questions
Author: Glenn Murphy
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Author Glenn Murphy
Narrator Paul Vates, Dick Cooper
Duration 6h 47m
How loud can you burp? Could we use animal poo to make electricity? Why is water wet, and is anything wetter than water? What's the deadliest disease in the world? What are clouds for? What's the difference between a brain and a computer? This is a wonderfully funny and informative book which helps us take a fresh look at the world (and universe) w...
View BookJust A Minute, Series 61: Episode 7
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Various
SeriesJust a Minute Series 61, Book 7
Duration 28m
The popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons. The guests try to speak on a topic given to them without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Panellists this week are Julian Clary, Phill Jupitus, Josie Lawrence and ex-rocker Rick Wakeman.
View BookElephants To Catch Eels, Series 2, Episode 5
Author: Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
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Author Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
Narrator Sheridan Smith
SeriesElephants to Catch Eels Series 2, Book 5
Duration 28m
The BBC Radio comedy set in an 18th century Cornish village-written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain and produced by Jan Ravens. In London, smuggler Jago is kidnapped. But can he survive in polite city society? Stars Sheridan Smith and Alison Steadman. From May 2004.
View BookRhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs
Author: Rhod Gilbert
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Author Rhod Gilbert
Narrator Various
Duration 55m
Welsh stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert hosts a brand new audience comedy show featuring comedy regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages of Woman. This final episode features live music from The Hoosiers, including the hit Worried About Ray, and the guest comedian is Jo...
View BookAlex Rider Series Book 5: Scorpia
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Format: MP3 CD
Author Anthony Horowitz
Narrator Oliver Chris
SeriesAlex Rider, Book 5
Duration 8h 31m
The fifth book in the Alex Rider series. Alex Rider is in Venice, looking for secrets long-buried in the past. Was his father really a ruthless assassin, and if so, what does that make Alex? The truth lies with a shadowy organisation called Scorpia. But, as Alex draws near, Scorpia is planning a huge operation which will destroy the British and Ame...
View BookAuthor: Toni Morrison
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Author Toni Morrison
Narrator Toni Morrison
Duration 12h
In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family. Sethe knows that the spirit is that of her own baby daughter, 'Beloved', who has retur...
View BookAuthor: Kenneth Grahame
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Author Kenneth Grahame
Narrator Sir Michael Hordern
Duration 6h 55m
The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans, motor cars and even into battle.
View BookAuthor: Noel Coward
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Author Noel Coward
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 27m
Peggy Ashcroft and Tony Britton star in this 1971 BBC Radio production of Noel Coward's classic comedy about a disastrous weekend house party. Judith Bliss is a famous actress who, after a string of successful roles, has retired to her country retreat. Missing the adulation of her public, she has has invited a fan over for a weekend of uninterrupte...
View BookAuthor: Robin Glendinning
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Author Robin Glendinning
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
Robin Glendinning's BBC Radio 4 full-cast black comedy telling the story of a real mystery. Originally broadcast in the "Saturday Play" slot on 11 July 2009. In 1946, the Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) and his wife (formerly Wallis Simpson) paid a visit to Britain, hoping to secure a government job for the Duke and a title for the Duchess....
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
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Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres
Duration 1h 56m
This recording is taken from four of writer, poet and broadcaster Pam Ayres''s live shows for her BBC Radio 4 series Ayres on the Air, and is packed with her usual mix of comic poetry, prose and droll observations on life. . Here, Pam can be heard delighting her public on such topics as holidays, families, ageing and country living. With sketches a...
View BookAuthor: Cornelia Funke
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Author Cornelia Funke
Narrator Xanthe Elbrick
Duration 4h 24m
Princess Igraine dreams of becoming a famous knight just like her great grandfather, but the truth is, life at the family castle is rather boring. Until the nephew of the baroness-next-door shows up. He's got a dastardly plan to capture the castle and claim as his own the wonderful singing spell books that belong to Igraine's magician parents. To m...
View BookAuthor: Mary Hooper
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Author Mary Hooper
Narrator Tom Lawrence
Duration 1h 59m
Jake and Jenna are still finding the small village where they've recently moved pretty dull. That is, until they come across Corpses Copse, where there's a distinctly spooky atmosphere. Things get even spookier when they enter the tiny hut and Jenna sees a face in the mirror: the face of a girl from three hundred years ago. Jake and Jenna know she'...
View BookAuthor: Mandy Archer
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Author Mandy Archer
Narrator Richard Armitage
Duration 1h 40m
The Sheriff and his men capture Roy, and the outlaws find a baby abandoned in Sherwood Forest. Roy is given a choice: kill Robin Hood or let his own mother hang. Meanwhile, Marian angers the Sheriff with her disobedience. Will Roy betray Robin? How will the Sheriff punish Marian? And who does the baby belong to? This is an action adventure read by...
View BookAuthor: Katherine Johnson
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Author Katherine Johnson
Narrator Heather Alicia Sims
Duration 5h 19m
The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11. As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahead several grades and was soon studying complex equations with the support of a professor who saw great promise in her. But ability and opportu...
View BookAuthor: Henning Mankell
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Author Henning Mankell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 13h 34m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Sidetracked by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. Midsummer approaches, and Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a for...
View BookAuthor: Zadie Smith
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Author Zadie Smith
Narrator Nikki Amuka-Bird
Duration 13h 57m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Feel Free by Zadie Smith, read by Nikki Amuka-Bird. From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith 'Generous, courageous, and tough-minded... [A] classic English essayist in the vein of O...
View BookBlame My Brain: The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed
Author: Nicola Morgan
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Author Nicola Morgan
Narrator Lucy-Jane Quinlan
Duration 3h 38m
Contrary to popular (parental) opinion, teenagers are not the lazy, unpleasant louts they occasionally appear to be. During the teenage years the brain is undergoing its most radical and fundamental change since the age of two. Nicola Morgan's carefully researched, accessible and humorous examination of the ups and downs of the teenage brain has ch...
View BookAuthor: James Minter
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Author James Minter
Narrator Lola-Rose Maxwell
Duration 1h 22m
Keeping secrets safe can be a burden for a child. Children need to be able to confide in a responsible adult. Help your child understand the impact that keeping secrets can have on all those involved.
View BookThe Hardy Boys Series Book 1: The Tower Treasure
Author: Franklin W Dixon
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Author Franklin W Dixon
Narrator Bill Irwin
SeriesHardy Boys, Book 1
Duration 3h 33m
After a dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stashed "in the tower," the Hardy boys make an astonishing discovery.
View BookDo I Need It? Or Do I Want It?
Author: Jennifer S. Larson
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Author Jennifer S. Larson
Narrator Intuitive
Duration 6h
Do you plan how much money you'll use to buy candy? Or how much you'll save for a new video game? Then you're budgeting! A budget is a plan for spending and saving. Budgets help people decide how to use their money wisely. What do you need to buy? What do you want? And how can you make a budget? Listen to this book to find out.
View BookAuthor: Dick Francis
Format: MP3 CD
Author Dick Francis
Narrator Tony Britton
Duration 8h 19m
Despair, suicide, and obsessive hatred, mixed well with humour, love, and horses, brew up into the story of a battle between one man's nerve and another man's cunning. Rob Finn was a bit of a misfit: a struggling young jockey in a family of accomplished musicians, a man in love with a beautiful woman who wouldn't have him because they were first co...
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