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Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Author: Sue Townsend
Series: Adrian Mole, Book 5
Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Jeff Bellamy
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 5
Duration 9h 30m
Adrian Mole is now thirty and three-quarters. An accidental celebrity, with a spreading bald patch, despairing of family values, Mole is still worrying: Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce his serial killer comedy 'White Van'? Mole chronicles the closing years of the 20th century with slanderous abandon.
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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator John Atterbury
Duration 8h 15m
Set in London during and just after the Second World War, the love affair between novelist Maurice Bendix and his married lover, Sarah Miles, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. Two years later a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy. Maurice hires a private detective to follow Sarah and slowly his love for her tu...
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Lucinda Gorringe
Duration 3h
Tracy is ten years old and lives in a children's home. She would like a real home one day with a real family. Share her hopes for the future in this beautifully observed, touching and often very funny tale, all told in Tracy's own words.
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Author: Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Author Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Narrator Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge
Duration 2h 15m
A follow up to 'Ladies of Letters & Ladies of More Letters'. Vera and Irene now communicate daily by e-mail about the the usual domestic mishaps: Irene's daughter Lesley is refusing to marry the worthy but boring Brian; Vera's exhausted daughter Karen has abandoned her third baby at the hospital and eloped with a male nurse; and Vera's gay son...
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A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000bc - Ad1603
Author: Simon Schama
Series: A History of Britain, Book 1
Author Simon Schama
Narrator Timothy West
SeriesA History of Britain, Book 1
Duration 8h
An abridged but vivid account of 4000 years of British history from the very beginnings of our nation's identity when the first settlers landed on Orkney.
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A History of Britain: The British Wars 1603 - 1776
Author: Simon Schama
Series: A History of Britain, Book 2
Author Simon Schama
Narrator Timothy West
SeriesA History of Britain, Book 2
Duration 10h
The British Wars began in 1637, starting nearly 200 hundred years of battles waged within and outside our Isles. This audiobook vividly depicts exactly what life was like for our ancestors and how their experiences have shaped modern British culture and identity.
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David Attenborough: Quest Under Capricorn
Author: David Attenborough
Series: Quest Under Capricorn, Book 1
Author David Attenborough
Narrator David Attenborough
SeriesQuest Under Capricorn, Book 1
Duration 2h 55m
For the 1960s BBC series 'Zoo Quest', David Attenborough visited the Northern Territory of Australia. Specially recorded for radio, the quest follows the intrepid BBC film crew on their adventures through both jungle and arid desert. David Attenborough meets aborigines, goes walkabout in the bush, and paints a compelling and fascinating picture of...
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Author: Meera Syal
Author Meera Syal
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 40m
Nothing escapes the satirical eye of Britain's successful first all-Asian sketch show in the compilation of the best of the first BBC Radio 4 series together with three shows from series two. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.
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Author: Jeremy Strong
Author Jeremy Strong
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 1h 30m
Winner of the Children's Book Award. Streaker is no ordinary dog. She is a rocket on four legs with a woof attached. Trevor has got until the end of the holidays to train her or he will lose his bet with horrible Charlie Smugg and something very nasty to do with frogspawn will happen.
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Author: Michael Morpurgo
Author Michael Morpurgo
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 3h 30m
Bess Throckmorton meets an old man at a family reunion who tells her that Sir Walter Raleigh is one of her ancestors. Curious to see where he was imprisoned, she visits the Bloody Tower and finds that the old man was none other than Sir Walter himself. The mischievous old ghost sets about restoring the family's fortune, while Bess has to try to kee...
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Author: Spike Milligan
Series: The Goon Show, Book 15
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 15
Duration 2h
From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. It's the time of goodwill and custard so join the festive fun with Scrooge and Nellie Scratchit in 'A Christmas Carol' and follow the lost chords of 'The Mighty Wurlitzer' hot foot across the Sahara. Also includes: 'Ye Bandit Of Sherw...
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Author: Christopher Lee
Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h 5m
This volume of Christopher Lee's history of Britan looks at the Thatcher years, the Falklands War and the Royal Wedding.
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Author: Peter Ustinov
Author Peter Ustinov
Narrator John Bird
Duration 1h 15m
Peter Ustinov had an astonishing range of accomplishments and credits to his name. He wrote 23 plays and 13 books, appeared in 50 films, and collected two Oscars, three Emmys and a Grammy. He was also a director, producer, graphic artist, photographer, raconteur and the recipient of many humanitarian awards. In this interview with John Bird, conduc...
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Author: Robert Swindells
Author Robert Swindells
Narrator Crispin Letts
Duration 2h 54m
Forced out of the family home by an abusive stepfather, `Link' is down and out in London. He vividly recounts the day to day experiences of life on the streets. As the author alternates Link's tale with that of an unknown serial killer preying on the homeless, you see how closely their lives brush against each other and know it's only a matter of t...
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David Attenborough: Zoo Quest For A Dragon
Author: David Attenborough
Series: Quest Under Capricorn, Book 2
Author David Attenborough
Narrator David Attenborough
SeriesQuest Under Capricorn, Book 2
Duration 3h 15m
The story of a joint animal-collecting and film-making trip to Indonesia. Attenborough tells of danger on the crew's hazardous boat trip with a gun smuggling captain and the terror of erupting volcanoes. Experience the incredible sights he witnessed - breathtaking butterflies, taking tea with Charlie the Orangutan and the capture of a Komodo dragon...
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David Attenborough: Quest In Paradise
Author: David Attenborough
Series: Quest Under Capricorn, Book 3
Author David Attenborough
Narrator David Attenborough
SeriesQuest Under Capricorn, Book 3
Duration 2h 45m
The story of David Attenborough's joint animal-collecting and film-making trip to New Guinea. The quest demanded hazardous treks across treacherous terrain in the Jimi Valley to find exotic Birds of Paradise.
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Author: Beverley Naidoo
Author Beverley Naidoo
Narrator Barbara Washington
Duration 4h 12m
Escaping from his violent stepfather, 12-year-old Sipho heads for Johannesburg, where he has heard that gangs of children live on the streets. But Sipho has to learn who to trust in the 'new' South Africa.
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 31m
An evocative anthology for Christmas. This collection contains complete versions of old favourites such as 'The Little Match Girl', 'The Night Before Christmas', and 'Christmas Day in the Workhouse'. Other extracts include a sermon by Lancelot Andrews, an account of Christmas under the Puritans and a Mummer's Play.
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Author: Malorie Blackman
Author Malorie Blackman
Narrator Patrick Robinson
Duration 5h
Cameron is thirteen and desperately in need of a heart transplant, when a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give Cameron a new heart - but not one from a human, one from a pig. It's never been done before. It's experimental, risky and very controversial. And it's all up to Cameron. Will he become the world's...
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Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Author Laura Hillenbrand
Narrator Chris Oxford
Duration 12h 30m
The true story of three men; a cowboy, a car salesman and a jockey blind in one eye, and their dreams for an ungainly racehorse - Seabiscuit - that symbolised a pivotal moment in American history as the country began to emerge from the hardships of the 1930s Depression era. Winner of the William Hill Sport Book of the Year.
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