Author: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, James Robinson, Matthew Broughton
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, James Robinson, Matthew Broughton
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 1, Book 4
Duration 28m
The fourth episode of series one of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 5 March 2009. In New Rome, John and Medley are transported to a world of orgies and circuses, where the slaves seek a new leader.
View BookAuthor: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 1, Book 5
Duration 28m
The fifth episode of series one of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 6 March 2009. Thrust into a frantic world in The Smart Money, John and Medley buy low and sell high-unaware they are playing for John's life.
View BookAuthor: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 1, Book 6
Duration 28m
The sixth episode of series one of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 9 March 2009. Chuck's gang rule by gun law in virtual Wild West World in The Wild Gang, and John is Sheriff.
View BookAuthor: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 1, Book 7
Duration 27m
The seventh episode of series one of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 10 March 2009. In Catharsis, John captains a battleship in a world so real that he forgets who he is. Can Medley make him remember?
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 1, Book 8
Duration 27m
The eighth episode of series one of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 11 March 2009. In Retreat, John and Medley arrive in a strange religious retreat. Is it a cult or can it offer real enlightenment?
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 1, Book 9
Duration 28m
The ninth and penultimate episode of the first series of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 12 March 2009. Still stuck in a virtual world, it's John's last chance to save Lioba by navigating an escape path in The Fast Track.
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 1, Book 1
Duration 28m
The first episode of series one of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 2 March 2009. Grieving for his girlfriend, John (Gunnar Cauthery) receives a shock in Golden Moments.
View BookPlanet B: Series 1, Episode 10
Author: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 1, Book 10
Duration 28m
The tenth and final episode of the first series of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 13 March 2009. In Death's Door, John and Lioba aim to meet in the real world. But can they really escape their virtual reality?
View BookAuthor: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 2, Book 1
Duration 28m
The first episode of the second series of the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 29 November 2009. This episode, The Tender Trap, sees Lioba (Tessa Nicholson) struggling to escape the grip of the corporation behind Planet B.
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 2, Book 2
Duration 28m
Episode two of the second series of the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 6 December 2009. In Make a Wish, Lioba's confused when Sinbad alludes to an armoured division.
View BookAuthor: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 2, Book 3
Duration 28m
The third episode of series two of the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 13 December 2009. In Paradise Hazard, Lioba and Kip find Happy Valley is virtually perfect with its lawns and birds.
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, James Robinson, Matthew Broughton
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 2, Book 4
Duration 28m
The fourth episode of series two of the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 20 December 2009. In Light City, Lioba and Kip are on the city streets where crime pays-until a vigilante appears.
View BookAuthor: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, James Robinson, Matthew Broughton
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, James Robinson, Matthew Broughton
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 2, Book 5
Duration 28m
The fifth and final episode of the second series of the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 27 December 2009. In Dark Star, Lioba floats alone in pitch darkness-where only Cerberus feels truly at home.
View BookPlantation and the Seeds of Discord
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 31m
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000 years. Ulster, one of the four ancient provinces of Ireland, remained largely independent of Eng...
View BookAuthor: G. B. Shaw
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Author G. B. Shaw
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 26m
Simon Cadell stars as Henry Higgins with Imelda Staunton as Eliza Doolittle in this BBC Radio 4 production of Shaw's famous play. When phonetics tutor and linguist Henry Higgins meets Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, he makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can teach her to speak so well that she will be able to pass herself off...
View BookRhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs, Series 1
Author: Rhod Gilbert
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Author Rhod Gilbert
Narrator Various
Duration 5h 38m
Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert is one of the biggest names in UK stand-up, performing to sell-out audiences in Britain and abroad. Now he has his own radio series, recorded in front of a live audience and packed with laughs. Joining Rhod on stage are fellow comedians Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies ('We Are Klang'), along with Sarah Millican who takes...
View BookA Series of Psychotic Episodes, Series 2
Author: Miriam Elia
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Author Miriam Elia
Narrator Dan Tetsell
Duration 55m
Following a successful run on Radio 7, Miriam Elia's fantastical Sony Radio Academy Award nominated comedy sketch series transfers to Radio 4 for a second series, with new characters and a few familiar faces. Originally broadcast from 29 September 2010 - 20 October 2010, this download offers another chance to step inside the deranged mind of comedi...
View BookAuthor: Gregory Evans
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Author Gregory Evans
Narrator Various
Duration 56m
A BBC Radio 4 tragic-comedy drama depicting the principal events of Shirley Porter's time as leader of Westminster city council in the 1980s. Originally broadcast as the 'Friday Play' on 27 November 2009, and starring Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shirley Porter. Also featured amongst the cast are Maggie Steed, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Piers Wehner, Stephen Hogan...
View BookAuthor: Frances Byrne
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Author Frances Byrne
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of an event in the life of ballerina Margot Fonteyn, written by Frances Byrne and starring Sophie Jerrold and Richard McCabe. Originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 22 May 2008 and repeated on 19 November 2010. An Unchoreographed World explores a dramatic formative event in the life of one of the truly g...
View BookAuthor: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 31m
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000 years. The Peasants' Revolt began in the Essex village of Fobbing in May 1381. It started with t...
View BookAuthor: Dan Vyleta
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Author Dan Vyleta
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 12h 5m
Set during the winter of 1946, one of the coldest on record, 'Pavel and I' mines post-war Berlin's messy terrain through the lives of two characters: Pavel, an American soldier who stays on after the war, and Anders, a German orphan. Their paths cross when an ailing Pavel seeks medicine on the black market for his failing kidneys. Anders follows Pa...
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