Featuring: The String Robberies, The White Neddie Trade, The Spon Plague and The Mountain Eaters. Anarchic, ground-breaking and hilariously inventive, The Goon Show re-shaped comedy and set new standards in the genre. The mix of brilliant wordplay, mental slapstick and surreal clowning ensures the popularity of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Har...

This televison adventure, starring second doctor Patrick Troughton, was first broadcast in four episodes over December 1966 and January 1967. In it the time travellers arrive in Scotland in the aftermath of the battle of Culloden, meeting up with a band of fleeing Highlanders. Polly and the daughter of the group's Laird, whose battle injuries are b...

The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest of a comic wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior Service were conniving Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips and the constantly bemused Dennis Price as 'Number One'. Below decks Ronnie Barker was just about working h...

Features: The Redundancy Drive, The Forbodians Hijack Troutbridge, The Put-a-Horse-out-to-Graze Fund, Impressions for Survival. The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest of a comic wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior Service were conniving Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieute...

Features the Christmas Special, called I'm Sorry I Haven't a Christmas Carol, broadcast on Christmas Day 2003. Rather than being the normal quiz show, the regulars will be telling the story of Ebenezer Scrumph and his poor assistant Crotchet with the help of the regular guests - Jeremy Hardy, Sandi Toksvig, Tony Hawks, Andy Hamilton, Linda Smith, a...

Another two hours of inspired rib-cracking ad-libbery. Spectacularly clueless as ever are Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton and panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Willie Rushton (not forgetting the scorer, the lovely Samantha). It's the authentic antidote to panel games. This compilation includes Willie Rushton's last two shows.

A compilation of hare-brained games including the legendary `Mornington Crescent' from the much-loved `antidote to panel games' chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton. Panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden are joined by special guests Stephen Fry, Jeremy Hardy, Paul Merton and Sandi Toksvig.

Another helping of inspired ad-libbery from the multi award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. 'The funniest comedy quiz show of them all.' Sue Arnold, Observer. Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton presides over regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden in another four shows from the antidote to panel games. Accept no substitutes.

A seventh helping of inspired ad-libbery from the multi award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton presides over regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden in four shows from the the 2001/2002 series of the antidote to panel games. Accept no substitutes.

Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor, travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious `Count' who has instructed him to purchase a property in England on his behalf. Thus begins a series of awful events, where Harker finds himself in the midst of a nightmare, in a deadly game of cat and mouse where he himself is hunted as prey. With a host of maste...

Dracula's Guest follows a mysterious and unnamed young Englishman's wanderings around Munich and through a dense, dark forest on Walpurgis Night, a mysterious pagan festival of witches. This beautifully simplistic and eerie horror tale from the writer of Dracula is guaranteed to send shivers up your spine.

Dickens' most autobiographical novel. It paints a powerful picture of social conditions in Victorian England. One of six Dickens' titles read by the great Martin Jarvis. His interpretation of Uriah Heep for BBC Television is a classic.

The Great Winglebury Duel is a story based in Winglebury; a town inhabited by liberal people. A town renowned for great architecture and art, none better than found at the Winglebury Arms, Dickens' inimitable character studies make this short story essential and captivating listening. A funny and highly-enjoyable listen.

"Now what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." So says Thomas Gradgrind in Dickens' immortal story set in the North of England in the 19th Century. Gradgrind, a local industrialist, gave this advice to his children set against a backdrop of huge wealth and even huger poverty where the rich...

Shakespeare's classic tragedy that charts the revenge-fuelled madness of the Prince of Denmark is re-told skilfully by brother and sister team Mary and Charles Lamb, who famously transformed Shakespeare's best-known plays into prose stories to make them more accessible to readers and listeners alike. Hamlet swears to avenge his father after seeing...

Jane, an orphan, has her fair share of hardship before becoming a governess in the house of Mr Rochester and falling for her employer. But what are the strange noises coming from the attic, and may they thwart her romantic intentions? Jane Eyre, an orphan, has to suffer appalling conditions when she is sent away to a correctional school, then lands...

This original and refreshingly different dramatisation follows Dante, 'lost in a dark wood', who is met by Virgil, who takes him on a tour of the underworld: a place he could end up if he decides to take his own life. Starring Corin Redgrave as Dante, Alex Jennings as Virgil, Laurie Anderson as Beatrice and Arthur Brown as The Gate of Hell and prod...

David Tennant (Doctor Who) and Liz Carling (Casualty) star in the sitcom about a young couple, Daniel and Lucy, and their circle of friends. In the first series, Lucy sets up Daniel's party, but their mates seem too busy with kids. Then, when a top author gets writer's block, Lucy and Daniel get landed with an unwelcome guest. In the third episode,...

I Capture the Castle is Dodie Smith's first novel, written in 1949 while living in USA. Smith was already an established playwright and later became famous for authoring the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians. This coming-of-age novel recounts in the first person the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to liv...

From the acclaimed author of The Railway Children comes a tale of love and intrigue. Within the exquisite gardens of a hotel two lovers come together. Finding themselves inexplicitly drawn to each other, night after night they meet, but only within the confines of their dreams. As their dreams merge into one the lovers must unite in waking life to...

Arthur J. Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, a brother-in-law to Arthur Conan Doyle (the creator of Sherlock Holmes). He is in many ways the antithesis of Holmes; a gentleman thief, who plays Cricket for England and supports himself by ingenious burglaries. This story is one of the fascinating series, chronicled by Raffle...