Author: Roy Clarke
Format: Online
Author Roy Clarke
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesLast of the Summer Wine, Book 1
Duration 1h 53m
Compo, Foggy and Clegg wreak havoc in four vintage episodes from the world's longest-running comedy series. Only a man with a ferret down his trousers could love Nora Batty. So lock up your ferrets (and Nora Batty!), here come Yorkshire's hilarious adventurers - three pensioners in four classic capers from the BBC television series which kept the n...
View BookLucy Kellaway's History of Office Life
Author: Lucy Kellaway
Format: Online
Author Lucy Kellaway
Narrator Lucy Kellaway
Duration 2h 16m
In today's Britain, more and more people spend longer at an office than ever before. It dominates lives. It's made more people middle class, transformed the lot of women, raised standards in education and been the reason for many technological advances. But the office itself seems to have no history and people accept without question the way they w...
View BookAuthor: Square Dog Radio Mike Hally
Format: Online
Author Square Dog Radio Mike Hally
Narrator Rory Cellan-Jones
Duration 34m
The patent system in the USA is so distorted it's now more lucrative for companies known as 'patent trolls' to sue manufacturers rather than actually make anything. The problems so serious that President Obama has got involved - and British companies are targeted if they do business in the US. Rory Cellan-Jones investigates and finds one of the wor...
View BookAuthor: Ian Rankin
Format: Online
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator Ron Donachie
Duration 1h 54m
Ron Donachie stars in this two-part dramatisation of Ian Rankin's crime thriller set in Edinburgh and the Highlands in 1992. Inspector Rebus is investigating the death of an MP's wife when an Edinburgh man confesses to the murder of two women. Rebus, however, is not convinced. Much to his superior's dismay, Rebus ignores the confession and disappea...
View BookAuthor: Dennis Spooner
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Author Dennis Spooner
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 36m
Materialising in a forest, the Doctor and friends find themselves 12 kilometres from Paris. It is the 18th century, and France is the scene of an ongoing battle between royalists and revolutionaries. Following a blaze at a farmhouse, Ian, Barbara and Susan are separated from the Doctor and arrested as traitors. Ian receives information about James...
View BookAuthor: Simon Guerrier
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Author Simon Guerrier
Narrator Lenora Crichlow
Duration 5h 37m
Annie has learned quite a bit about her new friend Gemma: she's from Bristol, she used to work in a pharmacy, and she's never forgiven herself for the suicide of her teenage son. She also died ten years ago and doesn't know why she's come back through that door. Perhaps it has something to do with the new road they're building through the rundown p...
View BookDelilah Darling Is On the Stage
Author: Jeanne Willis
Format: Online
Author Jeanne Willis
Narrator Charlotte Strevens
Duration 1h 12m
Delilah Darling - Queen Delilah from the Land of Far, Far Away to you - is desperate to play the part of the gingerbread man in the school play. So when Horrible Charlotte Griggs gets the part instead, Delilah is cross. But she soon discovers that there's lots of fun to be had playing the big, bad fox. And besides, in the Land of Far, Far Away, thi...
View BookAuthor: Joseph O'Neill
Format: Online
Author Joseph O'Neill
Narrator David Thorpe
Duration 10h 25m
What do you do when your wife takes your child and leaves you alone in a city of ghosts? Dutch banker Hans ver den Broek chooses cricket. But New York cricket is a long way from the tranquil sport he grew up with. It's a rough, almost secret game, played in scrubby marginal urban parks by people the city does not see - people like Chuck Ramkissoon....
View BookAuthor: Adam Johnson
Format: Online
Author Adam Johnson
Narrator Various
Duration 19h 19m
An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother--a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang--and an influential father who runs Long Tomorro...
View BookThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Author: William L. Shirer
Format: Online
Author William L. Shirer
Narrator Grover Gardner
Duration 19h 19m
Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth-century's blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. Shir...
View BookAuthor: Susanna Kearsley
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Author Susanna Kearsley
Narrator Carolyn Bonnyman
Duration 12h 42m
When Eva's film star sister Katrina dies, she returns to Cornwall to scatter Katrina's ashes. But the house where she stayed as a child is home not only to her friends the Halletts, but also to the people who lived there in the 18th century. When Eva accepts that she can slip between centuries, she begins to question her place in the present and co...
View BookAuthor: Ann Patchett
Format: Online
Author Ann Patchett
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 10h 13m
The unforgiving New England weather has taken a turn for the worse on the day Doyle drags his reluctant sons to a speech by Jesse Jackson. Fired by Jackson's rhetoric, he is perplexed by the boys' indifference. Tiff and Teddy are adopted. Teddy - open, affectionate, the gentle dreamer - thinks he has found his calling in the Catholic church. Tip is...
View BookAuthor: Mary Stanley
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Author Mary Stanley
Narrator Mary Stanley
Duration 12h 3m
Ireland 1944. In a violent storm a German plane heading for Britain is blown off course. The pilot, completely disorientated, plunges down an Irish hillside and shatters a young family. The children who survive that terrible night try to leave the past behind, but the past will not let them go. Rescued by their Aunt Lucy, Amelia and Mattie need to...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Buckley
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Author Jonathan Buckley
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 12h 33m
On a beach in southern England a dog returns to its owner with a human hand in its mouth. The hand belongs to Henry, the homeless eccentric who has been wandering south west England for the last 30 years. A local policeman and his colleague, in piecing together his movements prior to his death, uncover an extraordinary life. But as their investigat...
View BookAuthor: M.M. Kaye
Format: Online
Author M.M. Kaye
Narrator Rosemary Davis
Duration 29h 55m
The year is 1859 and Hero Hollis, beautiful and headstrong niece of the American consul, arrives in Zanzibar. It is an earthly paradise; it is also the last outpost of the Slave Trade. A passionate opponent of slavery, Hero is swept into a turmoil of royal intrigue, abduction, piracy, smuggling and a virulent cholera epidemic. There in Zanzibar, th...
View BookAuthor: Reginald Hill
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Author Reginald Hill
Narrator Ian Redford
Duration 8h 8m
Who would sever the tongue of a living person? Or kill a pathetic, homeless old man? Or frighten a young doctor into silence? The questions are piling up, and Doug McHarg can't stop asking them - especially when he's warned off by his boss in the local police, by Scotland Yard, and by increasingly professional death threats. The pattern that emerge...
View BookAuthor: James Wilson
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Author James Wilson
Narrator Stuart Crossman
Duration 14h 8m
Germany 1927: the English filmmaker Henry Whitaker is on a desperate pilgrimage to the dying Weimar Republic. The present day: Henry's daughter Miranda is on a quest to understand what happened to her mother, a refugee Henry met and married in Germany at the end of the war. Did Henry - as his mother has always supposed - drive his wife to her death...
View BookAuthor: Karen Maitland
Format: Online
Author Karen Maitland
Narrator David Thorpe
Duration 18h 46m
The year is 1348 and the first plague victim has reached English shores. Panic erupts around the country and a small band of travellers comes together to outrun the deadly disease, unaware that something far more deadly is - in fact - travelling with them. The ill-assorted company - a scarred trader in holy relics, a conjurer, two musicians, a heal...
View BookAuthor: Leslie Maitland
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Author Leslie Maitland
Narrator Leslie Maitland
Duration 18h 48m
Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees-the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before the Germans sealed the harbours. Then, barred f...
View BookThe Curious Habits of Doctor Adams
Author: Jane Robins
Format: Online
Author Jane Robins
Narrator Kate Lee
Duration 10h 31m
In July 1957, the press descended in droves on Eastbourne. An inquest had just been opened into the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs Bobbie Hullett. She died after months of apparent barbiturate abuse - drugs prescribed by Dr John Bodkin Adams. The inquest brought to the surface years of whispered suspicion that had swept throu...
View BookAuthor: Sam Kiley
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Author Sam Kiley
Narrator Robin Bowerman
Duration 8h 11m
In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have unrestricted access to the front line, Sam Kiley is there to bear witness to the most intense challenges of their lives. Desperate Glory is an unflinchi...
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