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Elephants To Catch Eels, Series 1, Episode 6
Author: Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
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Author Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
Narrator Lucy Speed
SeriesElephants to Catch Eels Series 1, Book 6
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. Smuggler Tamsyn Trelawny joins customs men to stop Courageous Kate from marrying her dad. Stars Lucy Speed. From March 2003.
View BookJeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 4
Duration 28m
"How to be a father - part one" Note: This is part four of a series of six parts.
View BookAuthor: H.G. Wells
Format: MP3 CD
Author H.G. Wells
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 6h
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsall Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed with just a white flag - only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilisation is unde...
View BookThe Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time
Author: Mark Haddon
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Author Mark Haddon
Narrator Ben Tibber
Duration 6h
Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets o...
View BookThe Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Author: Roddy Doyle
Format: MP3 CD
Author Roddy Doyle
Narrator Ger Ryan
Duration 3h
Paula Spencer struggles to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem. She recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she had as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her feeling powerless.
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Johnny Morris
Duration 2h 33m
This collection of stories reveals the origins of the beasts of the sea, the jungle, the desert and even of the palaces of the East. It tells how the elephant got his trunk, how the leopard got his spots and how the humble butterfly caused an uproar by stamping his foot.
View BookAdventure of the Cardboard Box
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 46m
When a gruesome package is delivered to a Croydon spinster, our heroes suspect that what was initially thought a dark 'prank' could in fact be a clue in an altogether more serious, and perhaps deadly, game.
View BookAuthor: Matthew Solon
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Author Matthew Solon
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
Written by Matthew Solon. This play tells the story of the tense negotiation that followed the 2010 general election, which led to the country's first post-war coalition. Based on interviews with those who were at the meetings, political journalists and on published material-and using actors to play all the key characters-this is a compelling accou...
View BookAuthor: Eddie Braben
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Author Eddie Braben
Narrator The Cast
SeriesMorcambe and Wise, Book 3
Duration 2h 36m
The greatest double act of all time, Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise delighted fans for forty years in music hall revues, on television and radio. Their hilarious fast-paced cross-talk with Ernie as straight man set a comic standard that will always be remembered. Enjoy the sketches once more in this third classic compilation. Even more sunshine from...
View BookThe Relics of Time; Doctor Who: Demon Quest Series, Book 1
Author: Paul Magrs
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Author Paul Magrs
Narrator Nigel Anthony
SeriesDoctor Who Demon Quest, Book 1
Duration 57m
Tom Baker reprises the role of the Fourth Doctor in the first of five thrilling brand new adventures, with Susan Jameson as Mrs. Wibbsey. The Doctor's return to Nest Cottage lands him in trouble when a key component from the TARDIS disappears. Mrs. Wibbsey is inadvertently responsible, but all she can offer in recompense is a bag containing four cu...
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: Jill Murphy
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Author Jill Murphy
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 1h 40m
Geoffrey Strangeways had one ambition - to be a knight - but he knew that there was absolutely no chance of that happening... except in his dreams. For a start he was extremely poor, and you had to be a lord's son or do something madly brave in battle before you could even be considered as a trainee knight. Not only was he poor but he was also smal...
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: Leon Leyson
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Author Leon Leyson
Narrator Danny Burstein
Duration 4h 14m
Even in the darkest of times - especially in the darkest of times - there is room for strength and bravery. A remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindlers list. Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to...
View BookThe Little Elephant Who Wants To Fall Asleep
Author: Carl-Johan Forrsen Ehrlin
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Author Carl-Johan Forrsen Ehrlin
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 1h 1m
Add variety to your child's bedtime routine with the latest book from the author of The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep, the global bestseller that parents have been raving about! Features all-new child-tested, parent-approved techniques to reclaim bedtime and provide a sweet and tender end to each day. Your child joins Ellen the Elephant on a jour...
View BookInspector Hulda Hermannsdottir Book 1: The Darkness
Author: Ragnar Jonasson
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Author Ragnar Jonasson
Narrator Amanda Redman
SeriesInspector Hulda Hermannsdottir, Book 1
Duration 5h 23m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson, read by Amanda Redman. Before Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsd¢ttir of the Reykjavik Police is forced into early retirement she is told to investigate a cold case of her choice, and she knows just the one. A young woman who was looking for asylum found dead on remote...
View BookAuthor: Kathy Reichs
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Author Kathy Reichs
Narrator Kim Mai Guest
Duration 9h 9m
Meet Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer instinct ... Sunnie has spent years running from her past, burying secrets and building a life in which she needs no one and feels nothing. But a girl has gone missing, lost in the chaos of a bomb explosion, and the family needs Sunnie's help. Is the girl dead? Did someo...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 10: Moving Pictures
Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 10
Duration 10h 10m
'Holy wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most important things are gods or money or cattle. Here, the most important thing is to be important.' People might say that reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess weight. Sadly alchemists never really held with such a quain...
View BookAuthor: Chris Froome
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Author Chris Froome
Narrator Patrick Doherty
Duration 14h 33m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the revealing, inspirational memoir from the British winner of the Tour de France. The Climb tells the extraordinary story of Chris Froome's journey from a young boy in Kenya, riding through townships and past wild animals, and with few opportunities for an aspiring cyclist, to his...
View BookAuthor: Howard Linskey
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Author Howard Linskey
Narrator David Leon
Duration 12h 33m
The hunt for a serial killer unearths an unsolved cold case from over sixty years ago. Young girls are being abducted and murdered in the North-East. Out of favour Detective Constable Ian Bradshaw struggles to find any leads - and fears that the only thing this investigation will unravel is himself. Journalist Tom Carney is suspended by his London...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 10m
A BBC Radio drama based on P. D. James' bestselling novel, starring Richard Derrington and Deborah McAndrew. In the seventeenth century, a witch is burned in a stone circle. Three hundred and fifty years later, an investigative journalist arrives at a nearby clinic to have cosmetic surgery - and a week later, she is dead. Dalgliesh and his team, ca...
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