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The Chronicles of Narnia Series Book 7: The Last Battle
Author: C S Lewis
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 7
Author C S Lewis
Narrator Jamie Glover
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 7
Duration 6h
A false Aslan is commanding all Narnians to work for the cruel Calormenes and striking terror into every heart. Jill and Eustace find themselves called into Narnia once more, this time to aid King Tirian in the mightiest of all battles. This is the seventh book in the Narnia series.
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Author: Johanna Spyri
Author Johanna Spyri
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 50m
Orphaned at the age of five, Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Heidi is growing to love her new life and friends when suddenly she is taken away to Frankfurt. As a companion to an invalid girl, Clara, Heidi brings kindness and joy, yet she pines for her life in the mountains.
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Author: Charles Dickens
Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 50m
A tale of comical misadventure with Mister Pickwick and his companions - the amorous Tupman, the 'poetic' Snodgrass and the `sporty' Winkle - all battling to extricate themselves from a seemingly endless succession of comic trials and tribulations.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Miss Marple, Book 10
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 10
Duration 2h 30m
When Miss Marple comes up from the countryside for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakeable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 14
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 14
Duration 2h 20m
The brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot becomes involved in an unusual case after a member of an archaeological expedition is murdered at an ancient site in the Iraqi desert.
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Author: Dylan Thomas
Author Dylan Thomas
Narrator Richard Burton
Duration 1h 40m
The 1963 radio dramatisation, with Richard Burton as the narrator, of Dylan Thomas's play for voices, about the inhabitants of a small Welsh village.
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Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 3h
Written for Esquire magazine late in Fitzgerald's career, 'The Pat Hobby Stories' are a bittersweet, humorous recollection of a down-and-out Hollywood screenwriter trying to break back into show business, whose career has started to flag since the emergence of 'upstarts' such as Orson Welles.
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Author: Jane Asher
Author Jane Asher
Narrator Eileen Mills
Duration 8h 7m
John Hamilton didn't want children with his wife, but that was because he had led a secret life for 20 years, in the shape of a mistress and a 19 year-old daughter. Now, following a car crash which has left him in a vegetative state, the three women that he deceived decide his fate.
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Author: Jane Gardam
Author Jane Gardam
Narrator Caroline John
Duration 5h
A collection of short stories, including the long, three-part story, 'Telegony', which is a depiction of three generations of women and the clash of two very different cultures, English and Italian. The collection includes two ghost stories, 'Dead Children' and 'The Meeting House'.
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Author: George Eliot
Author George Eliot
Narrator Lucy Briars
Duration 7h
After he is wrongly accused of a crime and expelled from his community, weaver Silas Marner becomes a miser and a recluse. A strange sequence of events, and the appearance of a small child, transforms his life and awakens him to the redemptive power of love.
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Author: Jill Paton Walsh
Author Jill Paton Walsh
Narrator Maureen O'Reilly
Duration 7h 30m
When her mother dies, Marian realises she has left it too late to ask the crucial questions about the identity of her own father, 'lost in the War'. Marian's search takes her to the remote and close-knit community of St. Ives, where fisherfolk and artists have coexisted for many years, and where she learns of a tragedy involving her father.
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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Author: Amanda Foreman
Author Amanda Foreman
Narrator Maureen O'Reilly
Duration 20h
The story of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, one of the most flamboyant women of the 18th century. Georgiana was, in turn, a compulsive gambler, astute political operator, drug addict, adulteress and darling of the common people. Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year Award.
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Author: John Keegan
Author John Keegan
Narrator Derek Scott
Duration 16h
This audiobook looks at the military history of a battle scene by examining the experiences of individuals at the point of maximum danger. The author reassesses the three battles of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme and attempts to convey the reality of the battles as they were experienced by the participants.
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The Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales
Author: Thomas Hardy
Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Various
Duration 7h
Hardy's first collection of short stories was written between 1879-1888, with many of the tales set before Hardy's birth in 1840. These humorous and affectionate observations of rustic life include the following tales: 'An Imaginative Woman', 'The Three Strangers', 'The Withered Arm', 'Fellow-Townsmen', 'Interlopers at the Knap' and 'The Distracted...
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Author: Carol Shields
Author Carol Shields
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 12h
Floral designer Larry and his feisty young wife, Dorrie, spend their honeymoon in England. At Hampton Court Larry discovers a new passion for mazes. Perhaps his ever-growing obsession with their secrets will help him find a way through the bewilderment deepening about him as, through twenty years and two failed marriages, he endeavours to understan...
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The Great Automatic Grammatizator
Author: Roald Dahl
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Nicholas Courtney
Duration 10h
Bizarre, amusing and grotesque, these tales enter the unexpected world of Dahl. They illustrate the different lives that people lead: a life of chance, of risk and of plain bad luck. The stories are specially chosen for teenagers to introduce them to Dahl's work for adults. The stories included are: 'Katina', 'Man from the South', 'Mrs Bixby and th...
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Author: Christopher Hibbert
Author Christopher Hibbert
Narrator Zulema Dene
Duration 9h
Hibbert charts the French Revolution from its beginnings as an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, through to the coup d'etat of 1795 that brought Napoleon to power.
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Author: R C Sherriff
Author R C Sherriff
Narrator Various
Duration 2h
Set in British trenches during the First World War, this play deals with the horror and futility of trench warfare, as Captain Stanhope and his officers await attack in their dugout. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of R.C. Sherriff. Copyright R.C. Sherriff 1929.
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Author: Antony Beevor
Author Antony Beevor
Narrator Peter Yapp
Duration 14h
Stalingrad marked not only the psychological turning-point of the Second World War, but was the first major modern battle fought in a city, with thousands of helpless civilians caught up in its horrors. In the epic struggle between Stalin and Hitler for the eastern front, soldiers were driven beyond the limits of mental and physical endurance. This...
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A Charles Paris Mystery Book 13: A Series of Murders
Author: Simon Brett
Series: Charles Paris Mysteries, Book 13
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 13
Duration 57m
Charles Paris, actor and amateur sleuth, is working in television as the brainless bobby sidekick to a suave detective. The accidental death of an unpromising actress causes little suspicion, except in Charles' mind. He decides to investigate.
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Author: Raymond Chandler
Author Raymond Chandler
Narrator Ed Bishop
Duration 8h
Philip Marlowe is the centre of a succession of curious and increasingly violent happenings when he agrees to take on a case for Little Sister. He is swept into a series of collisions with movie stars, gangsters, small town girls and the police.
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