Includes: Wisteria Lodge, The Cardboard Box, The Red Circle and The Bruce Partington Plans. Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these adventures, part of the unique fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.

In the wake of its 30th birthday celebrations in 2006, BBC Radio Ulster marked the beginning of a new broadcasting era by embarking on the station's most ambitious project to date, the recounting of the history of Ireland! For easy digestion, and across the course of a year, the story of the island is told in a series of 240 short documentaries - s...

Maurice Denham, Roger Delgado, David Spenser and Miriam Margolyes star in a BBC full-cast drama from Doctor Who writer Victor Pemberton. 'Listen! Quiet! Everybody stand still for a minute. There's something. Can't you hear it?' During an abnormal heatwave in March, the air becomes thick and dull. Nothing moves - you can almost hear the silence. Som...

When initially aired on BBC3, 'The Smoking Room' met with critical and popular acclaim. Now, for the first time on audio, are all eight episodes, complete and uncut. In the world of work, there is only one place where seniority means nothing and shop talk is banned - the smoking room. Here you'll find divorcee Lilian, enjoying her new freedom; bone...

Protagonist, Kris Kelvin, arrives at a scientific research station hovering above the surface of Solaris where research has been ongoing for years on the strange ocean life form. When Kris and his colleagues become more aggressive in trying to force contact with Solaris, the ocean's response is to experiment with the researchers' minds by confronti...

Patrick Troughton's Doctor gets involved in galactic intrigue and piracy in this exclusive recording of a `lost' television adventure, with linking narration by Frazer Hines. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe become victims of piracy when they materialise on a space beacon, minutes before it is literally blown to pieces. So begins their quest to be reunite...

Presented by Michael Parkinson, this collection of interviews is taken from Spike Milligan's numerous appearances on Parkinson between 1972 and 1982. The subjects which Spike covers include his early years, his poetry and books, 'The Goons', and his relationship with the BBC.

A compilation of five chilling stories from M. R. James, including four previously unreleased stories and originally recorded for the Radio 4 'Woman's Hour' in Christmas 2007. M. R. James is an important part of the nation's celebration of Christmas. In the oral tradition, many of his thirty or so tales were penned as Christmas Eve entertainments a...

A collection of BBC broadcasting blunders presented by John Inverdale. There are no gaffes like sporting gaffes. In the excitement of the moment, and live on air, commentators and sports personalities can say the most amazing and silliest things. This complication includes slip-of-the-tongue and scrambling of words which produce gales of laughter f...

Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum - a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture. While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the futur...

Sandi Toksvig takes over as chairman in four editions of the ever-funny comedy news quiz, with panellists including Alan Coren, Andy Hamilton and Jeremy Hardy.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the second book in Philip Pullman's trilogy 'His Dark Materials'. The story begins in Oxford, where Will Parry is desperate to discover the truth about his disappeared father. Climbing through an extraordinary window in the air, Will meets Lyra and her personal daemon - who we first met in 'Northern Lights'....

The story unfolds through four middle class families - the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans and Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from her mother to get married. But not to just anyone she happens to fall in love with. There are standards to be met and finding a husband for Lata becomes a family affair in which all the members...

Four episodes from the much-loved radio show starring Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards, June Whitfield and Wallas Eaton, 'Take It From Here' was one of the most influential radio shows of all time, sweeping in a new era of comedy and introducing an enduring pair of writers - bright young things Frank Muir and Denis Norden. Their literate scripts, and th...

In these six pieces, Alan Bennett retains the gripping stories, intensity of delivery and masterly style of his original monologues. The suburban normality of the world his characters inhabit once again belies their lives of secrets, revelations, fears, crimes and passions. They tell their stories, and in doing so reveal more than they know of the...

In this BBC full-cast production of The Taming of the Shrew, the freedom and virility of women is frowned upon. Will Petruchio's quest to 'tame' his new wife succeed?Layers of assumed identity, elaborate role-playing, and acerbic exchanges of wit reveal the real relationship between men and women in this exuberant production of one of Shakespe...

Alan Bennett reminisces about his early years - from his schooldays to undergraduate life at Oxford University. It was an ordinary childhood - growing up in Leeds taught Alan early on that `life is generally something that happens elsewhere'. Yet the children who long for German bombs to lend their city some wartime glamour; the working class mothe...

In this BBC full-cast production of The Tempest, a magical storm washes some sailors up on a peculiar island, changing the course of their lives forever...Raging storms and rich beautiful music combine to magical effect in this production of Shakespeare's allegorical last play, where mystical forces work to restore harmony and order to an estr...

THE TERRIBLE TOURIST: Now that their marriage plans have collapsed, Agatha is furious to find that James is taking a holiday on the island where they were to have their honeymoon. But when she sets out in pursuit of him, she stumbles upon another murder. THE FAIRIES OF FRYFAM: Having been hurt by James once too often, Agatha takes a trip to the Cor...

More sketches from the inside-out world of David Mitchell and Robert Webb, including what James Bond is really like as a party guest, and the rather too exciting world of Rabbit Newsnight. Their distinctive and lopsided view of the world includes the worst possible name for a dry cleaning shop; the brave and dangerous work of Hairdressers Sans Fron...

David Mitchell and Robert Webb star in the complete second series of their critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 show. Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, from Channel 4's 'Peep Show', 'That Mitchell and Webb Sound' is a mix of satirical sketches and surreal characters that provides a fantastically skewed perspective on everyday life. Meet soporifi...