Author: Miranda Hart
Author Miranda Hart
Narrator Miranda Hart
Duration 1h 56m
A comedy for BBC Radio 2 starring Miranda Hart (Hyperdrive, Absolutely Fabulous, Jack Dee's Lead Balloon) and written by Miranda Hart and Tony Roche, with additional material by Richard Hurst and Leisa Rea. Miranda (Miranda Hart) is an unconventional woman: a very tall, life-embracing, self-effacing clown, who is at her happiest amongst the whoopey...
View BookAuthor: Peter Ling
Author Peter Ling
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 5h 23m
To escape a catastrophic volcanic eruption the Doctor takes the TARDIS out of space and time - and into a void he can only describe as 'nowhere'. But the crisis is far from over and when the time-machine's circuits overload, the TARDIS explodes. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe come to in a dark unearthly forest. There they encounter a host of characters...
View BookAuthor: Richmal Crompton
Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 5h 4m
The second book in the classic Just William series, read by Martin Jarvis. These hilarious stories follow twelve months in the life of the terror of the Brown family, starting on Christmas Day - when the centipede appears on Aunt Evangeline's plate, the library clock is found mysteriously dismantled and the conjuring trick with the egg goes disastr...
View BookAuthor: Scott Handcock
Author Scott Handcock
Narrator Michelle Ryan
Duration 2h 16m
When Harry Winter goes out collecting rocks to repair the wall around his father's farm, he makes a fatal mistake. He disturbs Lucifer's Tombstone, and awakens something demonic and dreadful...The TARDIS arrives in the 18th Century village of Thornton Rising in the Yorkshire Moors - a village cut off from the world by an all-consuming darkness, whe...
View BookAuthor: Simon Guierrer
Author Simon Guierrer
Narrator Freema Agyeman
Duration 2h 31m
The Doctor's been everywhere and everywhen in the whole of the universe and seems to know all the answers. But ask him what happened to the Starship Brilliant and he hasn't the first idea. Did it fall into a sun or black hole? Was it shot down in the first moments of the galactic war? And what's this about a secret experimental drive? The Doctor is...
View BookMeanwhile With the Bearded Ladies
Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 51m
Radio 4 sitcom about four women friends, written by and starring Susie Donkin, Charlotte McDougall, Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling. Four women friends cope with life, work and men. Mel is hunting for a man - any man, and Lucy wants Kevin to help her get rid of a rat. Jo and Kevin are trying for a baby so she can be a really Yummy Mummy, and Alex is...
View BookThe Nation's Favourite Children's Poems
Author: Poets Various
Author Poets Various
Narrator Ronald Pickup Et Al
Duration 1h 40m
This edition from the best-selling poetry series brings together the most beloved poems for children, from "The Owl and the Pussycat" through "On the Ning Nang Nong" to "I Know Someone Who Can" to "Us Two". The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems will compel and amuse adults and children alike, with poems drawn from themes as diverse as animals, sc...
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres Et Al
Duration 2h 48m
Pam and Gordon Grant are a couple at odds running a rural garden centre. While Pam still feels young and is determined to avoid the slippery slope into middle-age, Gordon seems keen to dive in - slippers first. Pam's ally at the garden centre is teenager Carol, a girl more than happy to speak her mind. If only, Gordon complains, there was something...
View BookAuthor: Dale Smith
Author Dale Smith
Narrator David Troughton
Duration 2h 26m
Edinburgh, 1759. The Nor' Loch is being filled in, officially because it's a stinking cesspool. But why are there so many whispered stories about the loch - stories about the Doctor, and the many hands of Alexander Munro?
View BookAuthor: Dan Schreiber
Author Dan Schreiber
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 46m
Join Professor John Lloyd and Curator Bill Bailey as they plunge down the badger hole of ignorance in a search for the universe's most mind-boggling oddnesses. The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing inside unless it makes you scratch your head, stroke your...
View BookThe Museum of Curiosity, Series 3
Author: John Lloyd
Author John Lloyd
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 48m
Prepare to have your synapses twisted into a string theorist's nightmare, as Professor Lloyd and his new curator, the startlingly insightful comedian Jon Richardson, hurriedly throw the dust covers off the Museum's clump of empty plinths for a brand new series of the BBC's most improving comedy panel show. This complete third BBC Radio 4 series fea...
View BookAuthor: David Nobbs
Author David Nobbs
Narrator Geoffrey Palmer Et Al
Duration 2h 44m
Rod Millet has always dreamed of working at the Maltby Collection. He used to visit as a teenager, when he lusted after Whistler's Sister, and his Mother, Rod wasn't picky back then. On becoming the Museum's Deputy Curator of Painting and Sculpture, however, it quickly becomes apparent that the chavvy son of a self-made biscuit mogul isn't going to...
View BookDoctor Who: The Nemonite Invasion
Author: David Roden
Author David Roden
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 22m
When the sky rips open somewhere over Dover, two objects hurtle out of the Vortex and crash-land in the sea. One is the TARDIS, out of control and freefalling - but the other, a mysterious crystalline sphere, is far more sinister . The Doctor and Donna are rescued and taken to a secret command centre in the Dover cliffs. It's May 1940, and Vice-Adm...
View BookAuthor: Dennis Spooner
Author Dennis Spooner
Narrator William Hartnell Et Al
Duration 1h 54m
William Hartnell stars as the Doctor, alongside William Russell as Ian, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara and Maureen O'Brien as Vicki in this four part story set in Ancient Rome. Written by Dennis Spooner. Whilst Ian and Barbara are kidnapped by slave traders, the Doctor is mistaken for a famous lyre player and plays at Nero's court. Can the TARDIS crew...
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
Series: Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 11
Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 11
Duration 10h 35m
Lord Peter Wimsey, man about town and amateur sleuth, and his man Bunter, are drawn into a series of intreguing incidents after being stranded in the remote village of Fenchurch St. Paul. What is the identity of the grotesquely disfigured corpse found in the church-yard? Who murdered him and why? Perhaps the Fenchurch bells hold their own answers t...
View BookAuthor: Lyn Macdonald
Author Lyn Macdonald
Narrator Jan Boyd
Duration 16h 6m
'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War ...' Yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion; in this audiobook they get a chance to tell their own stor...
View BookEscape From Earth: Voyages Through Time
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Paul Medlicott
Duration 3h 24m
Only 60 years after first taking to the skies, humankind's endless curiosity sent our species blazing into space. But how? Why? What have we found? Where will we explore next? The answers aren't just 'out there' - they're also in here. Prepare for blast-off, you are about to escape from Earth.
View BookAuthor: Harold Brighouse
Author Harold Brighouse
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 21m
'Hobson's Choice' (the title coming from the expression 'Hobson's choice' meaning no choice at all), set in Salford in 1880, is a comedy based around the battle of wills between a hard-headed cobbler and his defiant daughter. Henry Hobson has three daughters, good intentions and a fondness for the Moonraker's Inn. Maggie Hobson, the eldest daughter...
View BookWould You Believe... In 1400, Reading Could Save Your Life?! and Other Academic Advantages
Author: Richard Platt
Author Richard Platt
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 1h
Listeners will learn about the often painful and frequently distasteful educational practices that our ancestors employed and explore some unusual teaching methods used today. Find out about the Neolithic cave school, the English charity boarding school in Dickensian times, where pupils shared their boarding rooms with chickens and turkeys, and the...
View BookWould You Believe... Vatican City Is A Country?! and Other Metropolitan Marvels
Author: Richard Platt
Author Richard Platt
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 2m
Young readers will get a real sense of how towns and cities have developed all over the world from medieval towns to the extreme cities in the jungle and polar regions. What is suburban bliss and why are some of our cities dying? Listen to this audiobook from start to finish for a riveting social history or dip in and out for some fascinating and o...
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