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How To Snog A Hagfish! Disgusting Things In the Sea
Author: Jonathan Eyers
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Author Jonathan Eyers
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 3h
'How to Snog a Hagfish!' explores the most bizarre, the most disgusting and the most fascinating creatures that inhabit the oceans. When attacked, the hagfish (also known as the slime eel) ties itself in a knot that travels the length of its body, squeezing out mucus by the bucketful and making it impossible for a predator to keep hold. To eat, a s...
View BookTemperance Brennan Book 12: 206 Bones
Author: Kathy Reichs
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Author Kathy Reichs
Narrator Lorelei King
SeriesTemperance Brennan, Book 12
Duration 9h 17m
A routine case turns sinister when Dr Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy of a missing heiress. Someone has made an incriminating accusation that she missed or concealed crucial evidence. But before Tempe can get to the one man with information, he turns up dead. The heiress isn't the only elderly female to have appeared on Tem...
View BookAuthor: John Mortimer
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Author John Mortimer
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 40m
Solving the mystery of the Primrose Path Home proves to be the first of a collection of great new cases, as Rumpole defies hospital and returns triumphantly to defend the innocent - and the not-so-innocent.The stories contained within are: 'Rumpole and the Primrose Path', 'Rumpole and the New Year's Resolutions', 'Rumpole and the Scales of Justice'...
View BookAuthor: John Steinbeck
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Author John Steinbeck
Narrator Garrick Hagon
Duration 19h
The Joad family are Oklahoma farmers forced to migrate to California to find work during the depression. The story focuses on the hardships they have to endure and their many broken dreams, but it is also an eloquent tribute to the endurance and dignity of the human spirit.
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
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: James Rye
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Author James Rye
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
In the final episode of the series, The Night, DCI John Stone investigates the sexual assault of the wife of one of his team. DI Tanner's wife Karen finds herself in a dodgy hotel after a night out remembering nothing of the night before; she has been assaulted and Stone suspects she has been given Rohypnol. It would seem that this is just the begi...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
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Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Red Planet, Book 9
Duration 29m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...
View BookThe Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul
Author: Douglas Adams
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Author Douglas Adams
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 17m
Harry Enfield stars once again in a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Douglas Adams's second Dirk Gently novel, directed by the award-winning Dirk Maggs Harry Enfield exuberantly returns as Dirk Gently, who, fallen on hard times and dressed as a gypsy woman, is using his irritatingly accurate clairvoyant powers to read palms. He is saved when a...
View BookAuthor: David Tinkler
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Author David Tinkler
Narrator Andy Crane
Duration 1h 45m
Sometimes Killer Keast was in a bad mood, sometimes he was in a wild mood, sometimes he was in a savage mood - and sometimes he was in his 'Grade Z Killer' mood - and that was by far the worst! Introducing the world's most feared headmaster, the deeply-weird Twerp family and the All-England Mud Wallowing Champion, Policewoman Rose Button.
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 59m
In this BBC full-cast production of As You Like It, Rosalind is banished from the Royal court, heartbroken over Orlando. Will the two find a way to reunite?A comedy of wit, disguise and love, Shakespeare's tale about the enchanted world of the Forest of Arden remains as moving as it is funny.Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind, with&nb...
View BookAuthor: Voltaire
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Author Voltaire
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 7h 3m
Voltaire's razor-sharp satire on philosophical optimism 'Candide' is coupled here with another of the author's most celebrated works, 'Zadig'. Both challenge the moral and philosophical orthodoxies of the day with humour and sly wit, whilst parodying the formulae of so many contemporary novels.
View BookAuthor: Anthony Horowitz
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Author Anthony Horowitz
Narrator Nickolas Grace
Duration 3h 57m
London is dirty, distant and dangerous... but that's where orphan Tom Falconer is heading. And he's got a whole assortment of vicious criminals hot on his heels. Tom is helpless and alone until he meets Moll Cutpurse, a 13-year-old pickpocket.
View BookAuthor: Charlie Higson
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Author Charlie Higson
Narrator Nathaniel Parker
SeriesYoung Bond, Book 1
Duration 8h 29m
There's something in the water at Loch Silverfin. Something deadly. Something that must be kept secret... It's James Bond's first day at Eton, and he's already met his first enemy. This is the start of an adventure that will take him from the school playing fields to the remote shores of Loch Silverfin and a terrifying discovery that threatens to u...
View BookAuthor: Lina Maslo
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Author Lina Maslo
Narrator Hiral Varsani
Duration 20m
When Malala Yousafzai was born, some people shook their heads because girls were considered bad luck. But her father looked into her eyes and knew she could do anything. In Pakistan, some believed girls should not be educated. But Malala and her father were not afraid. She secretly went to school and spoke up for education in her country. And even...
View BookAuthor: Jenny Eclair
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Author Jenny Eclair
Narrator Rachel Atkins
Duration 6h 44m
In this addictive short story collection, twenty-four very different women reach a pivotal moment in their lives. A widow is liberated by a new job, but keeps it secret from her family. A date in suburbia has dramatic results. A seamstress takes revenge on an unsuspecting customer, while in France, a mother is promised 'fantastic news' - and lets h...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 18: Sheer Folly
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Lucy Rayner
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 18
Duration 11h 17m
In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator, Lady Lucy Gerald, head off for several days to a stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of architectural follies, they plan to research and photograph it. Leaving her husband and young twins behind, Daisy is expecting a productive wee...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 3: Equal Rites
Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Celia Imrie
SeriesDiscworld, Book 3
Duration 7h 28m
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. There are some situations where the correct response is to display the sort of ignorance which happily and wilfully flies in the face of the facts. In this case, the birth of a baby girl, born a wizard - by mistake. Everybody knows that there...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Susan Lyons
Duration 10h 48m
A novel about love and following one's heart, and the unexpected places to which this can lead us. At the age of four Clover chooses her own name. Aged six, she falls in love with her best friend, James. But in the adult world, things are not so simple: Clover's mother finds she's fallen out of love with her husband, and realises that James's fathe...
View BookOne Fine Day In the Middle of the Night
Author: Christopher Brookmyre
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Author Christopher Brookmyre
Narrator Angus King
Duration 11h 30m
Gavin is creating a unique 'holiday experience', every facility any tourist who hates abroad will ever want, will all be available on a converted North Sea oil rig. To test the facilities he's hosting a reunion for his old school (none of his ex-classmates can remember him, but what the heck, it's free). He is so busy showing off that he doesn't no...
View BookL.a. Candy Book 3: Sugar and Spice
Author: Lauren Conrad
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Author Lauren Conrad
Narrator Jenna Lamia
SeriesL.A. Candy, Book 3
Duration 7h 3m
In TV star Lauren Conrad's delicious, entertaining novel about young Hollywood, the lies are only as sweet as the people telling them. Jane Roberts is a bona fide celebrity - she is treated like a queen, has couture clothes and starlet looks. She also has the tabloid scandals, fake friends and relentless paparazzi. Now that Jane has survived her fi...
View BookThe Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo
Author: Amy Schumer
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Author Amy Schumer
Narrator Amy Schumer
Duration 8h 1m
In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy shares stories about her family, her relationships, her career, good - and bad - sex, recounting the experiences that have shaped who she is today: from the riches to rags story of her childhood to her teenage quest for popularity (and boys) to becoming one of the most sought-after comedians on the planet...
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