Bleak Expectations, Series 4; the Complete Series
Author: Mark Evans
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Author Mark Evans
Narrator Anthony Head
Duration 1h 52m
The epic Victorian comedy is back with more of the remarkable adventures of Pip Bin as he battles his evil ex-guardian Mr Gently Benevolent (Anthony Head) in six more chapters of tragedies and triumphs in the style of Charles Dickens after too much gin. Mark Evans, Richard Johnson, Tom Allen, Anthony Head and Geoffrey Whitehead lead a magnificent c...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h
Christopher Lee's history of Britain, 'This Sceptred Isle', provided the definitive radio account of the nation from the arrival of Julius Caesar to the death of Queen Victoria. Volume 2, covering the years 1919-1938, looks at a Britain ravaged by war and at the mercy of millions of striking workers. It also takes in the lighter side of life in the...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 2
Duration 1h 28m
'The Maid' sees Mma Ramotswe visiting the house of the mechanic she has agreed to marry, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. But there is a shock in store for her... Back at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, there is the mystery of the erratic doctor to look into, and a 'cold case' involving an American who went missing from a communal farm. 'Tears of the Gira...
View BookConfessions of Georgia Nicholson Series Book 2: It's Ok, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers!
Author: Louise Rennison
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Author Louise Rennison
Narrator Louise Rennison
SeriesConfessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 2
Duration 4h 3m
Brilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison?s second audiobook about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. What is the matter with my life? Why is it so deeply unfab? ? It's a day and a half now since I snogged the Sex God?? I think I have snog withdrawal. My lips keep puckering up?? I tried snogging the back of my hand...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 33: Going Postal
Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 33
Duration 10h 57m
Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets though, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk...
View BookAuthor: Vanessa Ronan
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Author Vanessa Ronan
Narrator Various
Duration 13h 21m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Last Days of Summer by Vanessa Ronan. Read by Stuart Milligan, Barbara Barnes, Kristin Atherton and Becca Stewart. She can forgive. They can't forget. After ten years in the Huntsville State Penitentiary, Jasper Curtis returns home to live with his sister and her two daughters....
View BookThe New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
Author: Christopher (editor) Ricks
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Author Christopher (editor) Ricks
Narrator Various
Duration 20h 57m
A great age of poetry speaks for itself in Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. The great figures are of course strongly represented -Tennyson and Browning, Swinburne and Hopkins-but not so...
View BookAuthor: Robert A Heinlein
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Author Robert A Heinlein
Narrator Patrick Lawlor
Duration 6h 48m
Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach-and Dan's life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancee tricked him into taking the "long sleep"-suspended animation for thirty years. But when h...
View BookAuthor: M. D. Baer
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Author M. D. Baer
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 15m
Pebble Beach is a unique spot-less flashy than, say, Montecito, not as many bold-face names, appealing more to the discreet powers that employ the bold-faced crowd, attractive also to families with last names recognizable as name-brand consumer items-in short, an understated place where the most flaunted status symbol is not the private jet but the...
View BookAuthor: Michael Morpurgo
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Author Michael Morpurgo
Narrator Robin Bowerman
Duration 2h 11m
A cat's nine lives are full of adventure and excitement and none more so than Montezuma, the farmyard cat. From a young kitten to a grand old cat, he is cunning and proud while establishing his kingdom, but to Matthew, he's always loving and adorable.
View BookDouble Income, No Kids Yet, Series 3, Episode 1
Author: David Spicer
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Author David Spicer
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDouble Income, No Kids Yet Series 3, Book 1
Duration 28m
Daniel lands an advertising job, but just how much does he like his new boss?
View BookAuthor: John Galsworthy
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Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Forsyte Chronicles, Book 2
Duration 6h 38m
A Radio 4 dramatisation of John Galsworthy's second absorbing trilogy about the lives and loves of the Forsytes, with a star cast including Amanda Redman, Gary Bond and Belinda Lang. A Modern Comedy is a gripping dramatisation of Galsworthy's three classic books following the fortunes of the Forsytes throughout the Roaring Twenties. The White Monke...
View BookProspero, Ariel, Reith and Gill
Author: Gary Brown
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Author Gary Brown
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
Gary Brown's BBC Radio 4 full-cast comedy dramatisation about artist Eric Gill's clash with the BBC over his famous sculpture of Prospero and Ariel, starring Anton Lesser as Eric Gill and Tim McInnerny as Sir John Reith, the first Director General of the Corporation. Originally broadcast in the 'Afternoon Play' slot on Wednesday 9 June 2010. Inspir...
View BookBleak Expectations; the Complete Third Series
Author: Mark Evans
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Author Mark Evans
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 18m
The third volume of this magnificent, award-winning Dickensian comic epic first transmitted by the British Broadcasting Club's Radio 4. It's a Victorian epic of shenanigans at awful schools, worse prisons, featuring giant rabbits, and long lost super-hero aunts - in the style of Charles Dickens after far too much gin. Winner of the 'British Comedy...
View BookAuthor: John Danalis
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Author John Danalis
Narrator Robert Wainwright
Duration 2h
This is the compelling true story of how the skull of an Aboriginal man, found on the banks of the Murray River over 40 years ago, came to be returned to his Wamba Wamba descendants. It is a story of awakening, atonement, forgiveness and friendship. 'It is as if a whole window into indigenous culture has blown open, not just the window, but every d...
View BookIt's Not Ok To Feel Blue (and Other Lies)
Author: Scarlett Curtis
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Author Scarlett Curtis
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 24m
Everyone has a mental health. So we asked: What does yours mean to you? THE RESULT IS EXTRAORDINARY. Over 60 people have shared their stories. Powerful, funny, moving, this book is here to tell you: It's OK. With writing and audio from a collection of collaborators including: Adam Kay - Alastair Campbell - Alexis Caught - Ben Platt - Bryony Gordon...
View BookFirebird Trilogy Series Book 1: A Thousand Pieces of You
Author: Claudia Gray
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Author Claudia Gray
Narrator Tavia Gilbert
SeriesFirebird Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 9h 18m
Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father's killer through multiple dimensions. Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users...
View BookAuthor: Robert Plomin
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Author Robert Plomin
Narrator Robert Plomin
Duration 8h 25m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Blueprint written and read by Robert Plomin. The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects of our personality...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series 1 - 3
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 30m
Alexander McCall Smith's delightful series of novels form the basis of these radio dramas featuring the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement building. With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an interesting corner of Edinburgh's New Town. Verging on the Bohemian, here the haute bourgeoisie rubs shoulders with students and the more colo...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Pinborough
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Author Sarah Pinborough
Narrator Steven Crossley
Duration 10h 25m
A new killer is stalking the streets of London's East End. Though newspapers have dubbed him 'the Torso Killer', this murderer's work is overshadowed by the hysteria surrounding Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel crimes. The victims are women too, but their dismembered bodies, wrapped in rags and tied up with string, are pulled out of the Thames-and the...
View BookHomo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
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Author Yuval Noah Harari
Narrator Derek Perkins
Duration 14h 53m
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares tha...
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