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Author: William Shakespeare
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 39m
Shakespeare's romantic adventure full of tyrants, incest, murder, knights, teenagers, pirates, brothels, sublime poetry, young love, a great hero and the goddess Diana.
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Author: William Shakespeare
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Ian Holm
Duration 2m
"Now is the winter of our discontent...." Ian Holm delivers King Richard IIIs soliloquy, bringing Shakespeare's wonderful lines, full of pyschological insight, vividly to life.
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Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 27m
Stephen looks to the future with some predictions. Will robots be able to read novels? How much will our computers be able to understand us? Will English rule - or change? And then there's a question about a duck...
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Hancock: The "lost" Radio Episodes: Sid James' Dad & the Diet
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Tony Hancock Et Al
Duration 1h 1m
Tony Hancock stars in two long-lost episodes from the classic BBC Radio series 'Hancock's Half Hour': Sid James's Dad (28 October 1956) & The Diet (7 December 1955). In Sid James's Dad, Sid is expecting a visit from his father. Being ashamed to admit his true profession, he has explained his regular appearances in court by telling the old man h...
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Hancock: The "lost" TV Episodes: The Wrong Man
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Tony Hancock
Duration 28m
First broadcast live in 1959 as part of Tony Hancock's 4th BBC TV Series, these rare recordings are made available for the first time in over fifty years. The Wrong Man sees Hancock and Sid called in to take part in a police identity parade. However, when a witness picks Hancock out for the burglary of a high street tobacconist, he has only days to...
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Fry's English Delight Series 3: He Said, She Said
Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 26m
Do men and women really say what they mean? Also Stephen investigates sex, domination, gender, power, and sex changes (as only he can).
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Author: Nigel Williams
Author Nigel Williams
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 46m
All six episodes of series one of the BBC Radio 4 Comedy drama series by Emmy Award-winning writer Nigel Williams, charting the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague. Includes the following episodes: An Appraisal / An Away-Day / A Commute / A Role Play / A Leaving Party / A Bus Pass Starring Nicholas le Prevost as...
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Hunt For the Nightingale's Song
Author: Chris Watson
Author Chris Watson
Narrator Rob Thomas
Duration 27m
When he was fourteen years old, some friends of his parents gave wildlife sound recordist, Chris Watson, The Observer's Book of Birds. Flicking through the pages, Chris was captivated by the description of a bird which sang at night. The bird was a Nightingale; and since first reading about it, Chris has been fortunate enough to hear Nightingales b...
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Author: Robert Graves
Author Robert Graves
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 5h 47m
A full-cast dramatisation of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, starring Tom Goodman Hill as Claudius and Derek Jacobi as Augustus. The wickedly entertaining inside story of the lives and deaths of the Imperial dynasty from Augustus to Caligula is told by their obscure relation, Claudius. In public...
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I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
Author: Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Series: I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Book 4
Author Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesI'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Book 4
Duration 1h 48m
Four more shows from the groundbreaking BBC Radio series. Described by Barry Took as 'A kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrase and innuendo revolving at breakneck speed and with a complete disregard for logic', I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again pre-dated I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and showcased the comic talents of Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese,...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 22m
Martin Clunes and Michael Sheen star in this full-cast production of Oscar Wilde's well-known comedy. Oscar Wilde's dazzling comedy about mistaken identities and secret engagements still delights audiences over a century after its first performance in 1895. Algernon Moncrieff, a bachelor-about-town, has invented an invalid friend called Bunbury in...
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The Inspector Mclevy Mysteries: The Second Shadow & the Burning Question
Author: David Ashton
Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 25m
Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulholland. Counterfeiters are at work in the city in The Second Shadow, and McLevy is under pressure to secure rapid convictions. But his mind is more on the...
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Inspector Steine Series, Book 1: Inspector Steine
Author: Lynne Truss
Series: Inspector Steine, Book 1
Author Lynne Truss
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesInspector Steine, Book 1
Duration 2h 47m
The first series of Lynne Truss's hugely popular BBC Radio 4 comedy thriller set in 1950s Brighton. A place of knickerbocker glories, end-of-the pier shows...and an enormous amount of unsolved crime. Step forward Inspector Steine. Naive and innocent, he believes that he wiped out all the villains at a single stroke in the Middle Street Massacre whe...
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Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 4m
Michael Hordern stars as Jeeves with Richard Briers as Bertie in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. The rural beauty of Steeple Bumpleigh holds no attractions for Bertie, containing (as it does) the appalling Aunt Agatha. But there is man's work to do and, with Jeeves at his side, how can Bertie fail?
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Jeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation, Series 6
Author: Jeremy Hardy
Author Jeremy Hardy
Narrator Gordon Kennedy
Duration 1h 50m
Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they first heard Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation. The show was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Thursdays. Since that fateful first series, the show has gone on to win Sony awards, Writers Gu...
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Jeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation, Series 7
Author: Jeremy Hardy
Author Jeremy Hardy
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
Duration 1h 50m
Few can forget where they were thirteen years ago when they first heard "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Thursdays. Since that fateful first series, the show has gone on to win Sony awards, Writer...
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Jeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation
Author: Jeremy Hardy
Author Jeremy Hardy
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
Duration 1h 51m
Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they first heard Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation. The show was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Thursdays. Since that fateful first series, the show has gone on to win Sony awards, Writers Gu...
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Author: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Author Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Narrator Rosalind Ayres
Duration 23m
Shakespeare classic in which ordinary people are toyed with by jealous and mischievous fairies - Charles and Mary Lamb's wonderful adaptations of Shakespeare translate beautifully to audio.
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Author: Charlotte Bronte
Author Charlotte Bronte
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h 22m
Lucy Snowe, an English girl, goes to work as a governess in Brussels and finds solace in an unlikely suitor. Largely autobiographical fiction. Based on Charlotte's work as a governess in Brussels, Villette concerns the life of Lucy Snowe, an English girl who obtains a post at a girl's school in Belgium. With few friends and little money, Lucy conc...
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Author: D H Lawrence
Author D H Lawrence
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 2h 17m
The story of Paul Morel, torn between three women. A observant and insightful look at the complexities and dangers surrounding human love and attraction. Sons and Lovers is the moving and explicit account of a young man growing up in a closed mining village. Born into a difficult marriage, Paul Morel is shy and introverted and impressionable. As a...
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Brangwen Family Series Book 2: Women In Love
Author: D H Lawrence
Series: Brangwen Family, Book 2
Author D H Lawrence
Narrator Bob Peck
SeriesBrangwen Family, Book 2
Duration 2h 23m
This story is both shocking and absorbing, a vivid evocation of the dynamics within relationships between husbands and wives, which are not always happy, and can be violent. An apocalyptic masterpiece, Women in Love was originally refused publication for four years after completion due to its strong content. Describing violent relationships, animal...
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