I Wish To Apologise For My Part In the Apocalypse
Author: Duncan Macmillan
Author Duncan Macmillan
Narrator Bill Nighy Et Al
Duration 43m
Duncan Macmillan's romantic comedy drama about the end of the world, a woman who falls in love with the moon, and her husband who falls back in love with her.
View BookAuthor: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 39m
From 1938 to 1968, crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular serials. Now the dapper duo return refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves, to investigate the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind in post-war London. Enlisted by S...
View BookAuthor: Greg Davies
Author Greg Davies
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 52m
We Are Klang are three stand-up comedians. Their sell out Edinburgh show was nominated for an if.comedy award and this spoof radio series was specially commissioned for BBC7. When Britain's most ridiculous alcoholic sets his heart on becoming a war poet, little does he realise that his poetry will kill as many people as the Vietnam War itself. As f...
View BookAuthor: James Cary
Author James Cary
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 48m
BBC Radio 4 sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941. Originally broadcast May - June 2009. Three code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut as they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately, they hate each other. Includes the following episodes: Royal Visit-A royal visitor is coming to inspect Bletchley Park, but the top b...
View BookAuthor: James Goss
Author James Goss
Narrator David Tennant
Duration 1h 11m
'Hello, I'm the Doctor. And, if you can hear this, then one of us is going to die.' At the bottom of the sea, in the wreck of a floating radio station, a lost recording has been discovered. After careful restoration, it is played for the first time - to reveal something incredible. It is the voice of the Doctor, broadcasting from Radio Bravo in 196...
View BookAuthor: Jaroslav Hasek
Author Jaroslav Hasek
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 53m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Christopher Reason of the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hasek. This tale charts the exploits during the First World War of "European Forrest Gump", Svejk, in his progress through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian army. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier wh...
View BookAuthor: John Galsworthy
Series: The Forsyte Saga, Book 1
Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 1
Duration 8h 27m
Galsworthy's epic story chronicles the decline and fall of the Forsytes through almost fifty years of material triumph, emotional disaster and a terrible feud that splits them asunder. Beginning in 1886, The Man of Property starts with the family wealthy, successful and united. But the actions of the arrogant Soames Forsyte and his beautiful wife I...
View BookAuthor: John Le Carre
Author Carre John Le
Narrator Simon Russell Beale Et Al
Duration 2h 49m
George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over, but the world's second oldest professio...
View BookAuthor: Various
Series: Dead Ringers Series 2, Book 2
Author Various
Narrator Jon Culshaw Et Al
SeriesDead Ringers Series 2, Book 2
Duration 1h 47m
Following the first highly successful release of episodes from the runaway Radio 4 hit, four episodes from the second series are released here. Once again Jon Culshaw, Kate Robbins and fellow impersonators ransack the worlds of politics and broadcasting in the name of comedy. Popular favourites such as 'Brian Perkins', 'The Doctor', 'Alan Bennett',...
View BookDad's Army Volume 12: Absent Friends
Author: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Series: Dad's Army, Book 12
Author David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDad's Army, Book 12
Duration 2h 34m
Another four episodes from the classic situation comedy about the Home Guard of Walmington-on-Sea. Featuring the consummate performances of Arthur Lowe, John le Mesurier, Clive Dunn and the rest of the regular cast. No Spring for Frazer (3.6.74)/Sons of the Sea (10.6.74)/ Brain Versus Brawn (15.4.75)/Absent Friends (13.4.76).
View BookAuthor: Mark Tavener
Author Mark Tavener
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 202h 19m
Stephen Fry and John Bird star as masters of spin Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe in the BBC Radio 4 series, Absolute Power. In this third series, written by Mark Tavener, Prentiss McCabe take on their most difficult and demanding client - an odious tennis star - and Charles tries to rescue the career of a disgraced Labour minister. The pair als...
View BookAuthor: Phillip Palmer
Author Phillip Palmer
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 8m
All five episodes of the Radio 4 full-cast detective drama written by Philip Palmer. Originally broadcast as the Woman's Hour drama during the week commencing 22 June 2009. The story takes place in the present day, and centres on notorious art forger Daniel Ballantyne, newly released from prison but now dying, who is telling his life's story to an...
View BookAuthor: Harold Snoad, Michael Knowles
Author Harold Snoad, Michael Knowles
Narrator Various Readers
Duration 1h 44m
Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee star in the radio sequel sitcom to Dad's Army. The Pilot - In this rare pilot, war is over and former Home Guard Captain Mainwaring plans to renovate Frambourne-on-Sea's pier. However, to get a loan he approaches local bank manager, Arthur Wilson. The Business Proposition - In the first e...
View BookAuthor: Gordon Murray
Author Gordon Murray
Narrator Brian Cant
Duration 39m
As part of the popular Vintage Beeb range, this is a facsimile CD reissue of the classic 1970s vinyl LP. First published by BBC Records & Cassettes, it features two full-length stories read by Brian Cant, with songs from the BBC TV series. Featuring the characters from the popular BBC TV children's series, the stories are 'Windy Miller Goes Fish...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Various Readers
Duration 2h 30m
Shakespeare's play, set during the Roman invasion of Britain, centres around the banishment of the man who has incurred the wrath of the king by secretly marrying his daughter. Confusion follows in an intricate plot in which nobody is quite who they seem to be.
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 5h 52m
Winner of a Silver Award for best Non-Fiction at the Spoken Word Awards 2005 Michael Palin reads his own entertainingly written account of his journey accross the countries of the Himalayas, accompanying a major BBC TV series in 2004. In his most challenging journey to date, Palin tackles the Himalayas, the greatest mountain range on earth. I...
View BookDrama On 3: The Idylls of the King
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h
A BBC Radio 3 adaptation by Michael Symmons of Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Idylls of the King, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith and broadcast on 12 July 2009 to mark the bicentenary of the poet's birth. In this extraordinary epic poem, Tennyson transforms Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, infusing the legend of King Arthur with a passionate intensity. Told he...
View BookJ'accuse: Zola and the Dreyfus Affair
Author: Hattie Naylor
Author Hattie Naylor
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Hattie Naylor. This play was inspired by a newspaper article written by Emile Zola in response to the Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s, when a Jewish army officer was persecuted and wrongly imprisoned by the French military and judicial establishment. Louis Gregori gives a right-wing and nationalistic perspective on...
View BookKenneth Williams' Stop Messing About
Author: Myles Rudge
Author Myles Rudge
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 47m
Stop Messing About - the first all-nude radio show! Nervous listeners are advised to keep their eyes closed...and it's forbidden to take photographs. Taking over the mantle of Round the Horne, Stop Messing About carried on the comedy tradition, which reunited Kenneth Williams with his Carry On co-star Joan Sims and Hugh Paddick. These four episodes...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Alec Guiness
Duration 1m
"I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad..." Alec Guinness's performance as King Lear stirs the listener in this recording from the BBC Sound Archives.
View BookTalking and Not Talking, Series 1
Author: Laura Solon
Series: Talking and not talking, Book 1
Author Laura Solon
Narrator Laura Solon
SeriesTalking and not talking, Book 1
Duration 2h 47m
Perrier Award winning comedian Laura Solon continues her new sketch and character comedy series, aided by the voices of Ben Moor, Katherine Parkinson and Ben Willbond.
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