I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: Hamish & Dougal, You'll Have Had Your Tea, Series 2
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 25m
Hamish and Dougal, two elderly Scotsmen played by Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, have for many years been a popular feature of the the hit BBC Radio 4 comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Now they've got their own series. Regular characters appearing with Hamish and Dougal include Mrs Naughtie, a cleaning lady-cum-housekeeper played by Alison St...
View BookI'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: In Search of Mornington Crescent
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 59m
Mornington Crescent is a game whose rules and history are shrouded in myth and mystery. Now, in this extended version of a spoof documentary first aired on BBC Radio 4, the team from I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue research shine a light in the dark. As if that wasn't enough, Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer also prov...
View BookI'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Live: Volume 2
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 36m
A second volume of two specially compiled, extended-length shows from Jon Naismith's production archive, featuring out-takes, ad libs and audience interaction from the Clue team. Taken from the early 1990s, these shows (edition dates t.b.c.) feature the classic Clue line up of Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jerem...
View BookI'm Sorry I'll Read That Again 3
Author: Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Author Bill Oddie, Graham Garden
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 53m
An extravageanza specially written for the wireless by several persons, featuring a number of performers' was how an early edition of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again described itself, and how nobly the programme lived up to that demanding ideal! Described by Barry Took as 'A kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrase and innuendo revolving at breakn...
View BookThe Goon Show volume 3: I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas
Author: Spike Milligan
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator The Cast
Duration 2h 2m
Featuring: The Treasure of Loch Lomond, The Greenslade Story, Wings Over Dagenham, The Rent Collections Anarchic. 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...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Frazer Hines
Duration 3h 31m
Patrick Troughton's Doctor encounters the Cybermen in London in this classic soundtrack adventure, narrated by Frazer Hines. Arriving on Earth in 1975, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover that the component manufacturers International Electromagnetics has a vice-like grip on the world's technology. When he encounters the firm's company director, the...
View BookGiles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off: Ireland
Author: Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
Series: Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off Series 3, Book 6
Author Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
Narrator Marcus Brigstocke
SeriesGiles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off Series 3, Book 6
Duration 27m
Intrepid traveller Giles Wemmbley Hogg 2m's, 2g's goes to Ireland to look up an old flame, stuff a big fish and tussle with a ghillie.
View BookSid's Mystery Tours: Hancock's Half Hour
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 29m
One of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's favourite radio episodes. In Sid's Mystery Tours Sid talks Hancock into becoming the director of his guided tours company - but it doesn't even possess a coach. Featuring a star cast that includes Sid James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Fenella Fielding.
View BookAuthor: Mike Tucker
Author Mike Tucker
Narrator Georgia Moffett
Duration 2h 21m
Set on Earth in 2099, when global warming is devastating the planet. In a desperate attempt at preservation, the governments of the world have removed vast sections of the Arctic and Antarctic and set them inside huge domes. But a hidden threat has been preserved beneath Snowglobe 7...
View BookTamburlaine: Shadow of God, BBC Radio 3: Drama On 3
Author: John Fletcher
Author John Fletcher
Narrator Stephen Critchlow
Duration 25m
John Fletcher's BBC Radio 3 full-cast play explores the dramatic clash between three key historical figures: a warlord, a historian and a poet. Originally broadcast in Radio 3's "Drama on 3" slot on 16 November 2008. As war swirls around them, three of the most important figures in the history of the Middle and Near East are brought together in fi...
View BookThat Mitchell and Webb Sound:series 4
Author: Robert Webb
Author Robert Webb
Narrator Robert Webb
Duration 2h 48m
The fourth BBC 4 radio series starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The pair have also starred in Channel 4's Peep Show and won numerous BAFTAS, national comedy awards and Chortle awards. Sketches and biting satire with a cast of four, including David and Robert, performing in front of a live audience. Topics covered in previous series have incl...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 30m
Tom Forrest brother to Doris and uncle to Jack, Phil and Christine. Tom like his father before him worked as gamekeeper. Purveyor of folk lore, Tom was born, married and died in Ambridge.
View BookThe Trial of Qwerty: Fry's English Delight, Series 3
Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 28m
The "Qwerty" keyboard faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct the English language. But who was Mr. Qwerty?
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 12m
Three classic Alan Bennett adaptations, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and released on CD for the first time.
View BookThe Navy Lark: Troutbridge Joins the Fleet
Author: Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
Series: The Navy Lark, Book 11
Author Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
Narrator The Cast
SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 11
Duration 2h
Four early episodes, including the first-ever broadcast, of hilarious antics aboard HMS Troutbridge. 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 th...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 58m
A foggy night...a lonely country house...and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look anything but straightforward... First staged at the Duchess Theatre in London in...
View BookKilling Orders: A V.i. Warshawski Mystery
Author: Sara Paretsky
Author Sara Paretsky
Narrator Martin Shaw
Duration 2h 54m
Feisty Chicago private eye Vic 'V. I.' Warshawski is used to getting mixed up in complicated cases. But when three million dollars in share certificates are stolen from a Dominican priory, she really doesn't want to get involved. Because agreeing to investigate would mean doing a favour for Aunt Rosa, the priory's treasurer, and Vic has never forgi...
View BookAuthor: Various
Author Various
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 33m
Walter was everyone's "Old pal" and loveable rogue. An unsuccessful farmer who turned to haulage. A carver of cribs and love spoons who took 17 years to propose-only to be turned down. And of course father to the world weary Nelson.
View BookAuthor: John O'Farrell
Author John O'Farrell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 5m
A loyal tribute to ten glorious years from BBC Radio 4's Week Ending team. From the archives of the legendary satirical radio comedy series Week Ending comes this compilation of satirical and sardonic sketches based on Margaret Thatcher's first ten years as Prime Minister. First released on cassette as Ten Years With Maggie, this has now been reiss...
View BookThe Wild Man of the Woods: Hancock's Half Hour
Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 30m
One of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's favourite radio episodes. The Wild Man of the Woods shows Hancock's desire to get away from it all. It leads him to camp first in a bus shelter on Clapham Common, and then in a bit of forest rented from Sid. Featuring a star cast that includes Sid James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacqu...
View BookAuthor: Kenneth Grahame
Author Kenneth Grahame
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 17m
Many of the original cast from Alan Bennett's acclaimed National Theatre production appear in this special dramatisation for BBC Radio 4 including Richard Briers as Rat, Adrian Scarborough as Mole and Terence Rigby as Albert with Alan Bennett as the narrator. A wonderful, highly-acclaimed dramatic performance of a classic novel.
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