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The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
Author: Christopher (editor) Ricks
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Author Christopher (editor) Ricks
Narrator Various
Duration 20h 57m
A great age of poetry speaks for itself in Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. The great figures are of course strongly represented -Tennyson and Browning, Swinburne and Hopkins-but not so...
View BookAuthor: Robert A Heinlein
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Author Robert A Heinlein
Narrator Patrick Lawlor
Duration 6h 48m
Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach-and Dan's life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancee tricked him into taking the "long sleep"-suspended animation for thirty years. But when h...
View BookAuthor: M. D. Baer
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Author M. D. Baer
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 15m
Pebble Beach is a unique spot-less flashy than, say, Montecito, not as many bold-face names, appealing more to the discreet powers that employ the bold-faced crowd, attractive also to families with last names recognizable as name-brand consumer items-in short, an understated place where the most flaunted status symbol is not the private jet but the...
View BookDouble Income, No Kids Yet, Series 3, Episode 1
Author: David Spicer
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Author David Spicer
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDouble Income, No Kids Yet Series 3, Book 1
Duration 28m
Daniel lands an advertising job, but just how much does he like his new boss?
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Jill Balcon
Duration 3h
Austen's charming and often comical anti-gothic novel sees the sweet, impressionable Catherine falling hopelessly in love with Henry Tilney. Will his good sense cure her romantic illusions?
View BookAuthor: John Galsworthy
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Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Forsyte Chronicles, Book 2
Duration 6h 38m
A Radio 4 dramatisation of John Galsworthy's second absorbing trilogy about the lives and loves of the Forsytes, with a star cast including Amanda Redman, Gary Bond and Belinda Lang. A Modern Comedy is a gripping dramatisation of Galsworthy's three classic books following the fortunes of the Forsytes throughout the Roaring Twenties. The White Monke...
View BookProspero, Ariel, Reith and Gill
Author: Gary Brown
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Author Gary Brown
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
Gary Brown's BBC Radio 4 full-cast comedy dramatisation about artist Eric Gill's clash with the BBC over his famous sculpture of Prospero and Ariel, starring Anton Lesser as Eric Gill and Tim McInnerny as Sir John Reith, the first Director General of the Corporation. Originally broadcast in the 'Afternoon Play' slot on Wednesday 9 June 2010. Inspir...
View BookBleak Expectations; the Complete Third Series
Author: Mark Evans
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Author Mark Evans
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 18m
The third volume of this magnificent, award-winning Dickensian comic epic first transmitted by the British Broadcasting Club's Radio 4. It's a Victorian epic of shenanigans at awful schools, worse prisons, featuring giant rabbits, and long lost super-hero aunts - in the style of Charles Dickens after far too much gin. Winner of the 'British Comedy...
View BookAuthor: John Danalis
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Author John Danalis
Narrator Robert Wainwright
Duration 2h
This is the compelling true story of how the skull of an Aboriginal man, found on the banks of the Murray River over 40 years ago, came to be returned to his Wamba Wamba descendants. It is a story of awakening, atonement, forgiveness and friendship. 'It is as if a whole window into indigenous culture has blown open, not just the window, but every d...
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Ian Carmichael
Duration 7h 10m
Lord Peter Wimsey, polymath and detective, once again uses his wits and vast knowledge to solve crimes, unmask the guilty and aid their victims.
View BookAuthor: Catrin Collier
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Author Catrin Collier
Narrator Kate Jarman
Duration 12h 48m
Allenstein, East Prussia, 1939 - Charlotte von Datski's parents hold a glittering ball to celebrate her eighteenth birthday and to announce her engagement to a Prussian Count. Meanwhile, Hitler is ready to plunge the world into war, one that will wipe East Prussia from the face of the map. Charlotte is forced to leave her beloved homeland. By 1946,...
View BookAuthor: Sophie Dahl
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Author Sophie Dahl
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 7h 11m
Kitty's mother, Marina, is both utterly beguiling and terrifyingly embarrassing, and more often than not Kitty can only gaze on her antics with awe and toe-curling trepidation. But as Kitty grows up it becomes clear that perhaps Marina isn't the most exemplary of parents, and that sometimes a girl might have to put herself first.
View BookAuthor: Sally Morgan
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Author Sally Morgan
Narrator David Craik
Duration 33m
Part of the Earth Watch series which examines the science behind environmental problems and solutions, how the world is changing and what we can do to keep the balance of nature.
View BookIt's Not Ok To Feel Blue (and Other Lies)
Author: Scarlett Curtis
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Author Scarlett Curtis
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 24m
Everyone has a mental health. So we asked: What does yours mean to you? THE RESULT IS EXTRAORDINARY. Over 60 people have shared their stories. Powerful, funny, moving, this book is here to tell you: It's OK. With writing and audio from a collection of collaborators including: Adam Kay - Alastair Campbell - Alexis Caught - Ben Platt - Bryony Gordon...
View BookFirebird Trilogy Series Book 1: A Thousand Pieces of You
Author: Claudia Gray
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Author Claudia Gray
Narrator Tavia Gilbert
SeriesFirebird Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 9h 18m
Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father's killer through multiple dimensions. Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users...
View BookAuthor: Robert Plomin
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Author Robert Plomin
Narrator Robert Plomin
Duration 8h 25m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Blueprint written and read by Robert Plomin. The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects of our personality...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series 1 - 3
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 30m
Alexander McCall Smith's delightful series of novels form the basis of these radio dramas featuring the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement building. With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an interesting corner of Edinburgh's New Town. Verging on the Bohemian, here the haute bourgeoisie rubs shoulders with students and the more colo...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Pinborough
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Author Sarah Pinborough
Narrator Steven Crossley
Duration 10h 25m
A new killer is stalking the streets of London's East End. Though newspapers have dubbed him 'the Torso Killer', this murderer's work is overshadowed by the hysteria surrounding Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel crimes. The victims are women too, but their dismembered bodies, wrapped in rags and tied up with string, are pulled out of the Thames-and the...
View BookHomo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
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Author Yuval Noah Harari
Narrator Derek Perkins
Duration 14h 53m
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares tha...
View BookAlways Managing: My Autobiography
Author: Harry Redknapp
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Author Harry Redknapp
Narrator David John
Duration 13h 36m
Harry is the manager who has seen it all - from a dismal 70s Portakabin at Oxford City and training pitches with trees in the middle to the unbeatable highs of the Premiership, lifting the FA Cup and taking on Real Madrid in the Champions League. With his much loved, no-nonsense delivery, Harry brings us a story filled with passion and humour that...
View BookAuthor: Rosemary Wells
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Author Rosemary Wells
Narrator Katie Redford
Duration 22m
Jenny is as close to her grandfather as a small mouse can be. Grandfather shows Jenny how to button her buttons and how to write her name. He passes along to her the secrets of making the best lasagne in all of Boston. And during long, shared days at Revere Beach, Grandfather teaches Jenny the names of the seashells they find washed up on shore. Wh...
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