Routes of English: Series 1, Programme 5
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 1, Book 5
Duration 27m
The power of English-and the "English of Power", as the language extends its influence from Court to Edinburgh. Melvyn Bragg goes to Edinburgh and the house of John Knox, the great Scottish apostle of the Reformation, who preached in English. Latin was replaced by English as the language of the Church when Henry VIII broke with Rome. And the 1611 K...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 19
Duration 1h 27m
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: "You see, don't you,...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Tom Sellwood
Duration 13h
Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at 10, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English Kingdom to survive the Danish assault. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE/ADULT THEMES
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 13m
In this BBC full-cast production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena run to the woods and stumble into a life separate from time itself.Fairy magic wreaks havoc and midsummer madness takes over as lovers tread the delicate line between fantasy and reality.Sylvestra le Touzel stars as Titania in this deligh...
View BookOne Weird Day At Freekham High: Thumb
Author: Steve Cole
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Author Steve Cole
Narrator Russell Boulter
Duration 3h 15m
It's the first day at a new school for both Sam and Sara. So of course they're hoping to fit in quickly. All they want is a helping hand. Some new friends to keep an eye out for them and help them get ahead. What they're probably not hoping for is a thumb. Actually, a lot of thumbs. And fingers. They're turning up all over Freekham High - in seriou...
View BookKaren Pirie Book 2: A Darker Domain
Author: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Eilidh Fraser
SeriesKaren Pirie, Book 2
Duration 12h 56m
1984. The miners' strike is dividing the country. In a struggling coal-mining town, the miners and their families are living at the edge of their resources. On the 14th of December, five miners break ranks to travel to Nottingham and work. For those who stay behind, this is an unforgivable betrayal. Twenty-three years later, a young woman is asking...
View BookAuthor: M.G. Leonard
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Author M.G. Leonard
Narrator M.G. Leonard
Duration 7h 19m
Darkus is miserable. His dad has disappeared and now he is living next door to the most disgusting neighbours ever. A giant beetle called Baxter comes to his rescue. But can the two solve the mystery of his dad's disappearance, especially when links emerge to cruel Lucretia Cutter and her penchant for beetle jewellery? A coffee-mug mountain, home t...
View BookAuthor: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Juanita Mcmahon
Duration 21h 37m
Santa Montefiore's involving and dramatic novel The Butterfly Box opens in Vina del Mar, Chile, in the sweltering Summer of 1982. Frederica Campione adores her father. When he gives her a magical box from Peru she believes he will always be there for her. Yet, when her parents' marriage falls apart, she is forced to move to Cornwall with her mother...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Rosenheim
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Author Andrew Rosenheim
Narrator John Chancer
SeriesJimmy Nessheim, Book 2
Duration 12h 42m
Los Angeles, September 1941. With the Nazis occupying Europe, and their armies now halfway across Russia, America hovers on the brink of war. Tensions are also rising in the Far East, and in California fears grow of a Pacific Coast invasion. There is mounting anxiety about the loyalty of the state's own Japanese population. But back in Washington D...
View BookAuthor: Aziz Ansari
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Author Aziz Ansari
Narrator Aziz Ansari
Duration 6h 14m
People today have more romantic options than at any point in human history, and thanks to social media, smartphones and online dating, our abilities to connect with these options are staggering. Yet we also have to face new and absurd dilemmas, such as what to think when someone doesn't reply to your text but has time to post a photo of a pizza on...
View BookAuthor: Charles Frazier
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Author Charles Frazier
Narrator Charles Frazier
Duration 14h 31m
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate...
View BookAuthor: Maggie Ford
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Author Maggie Ford
Narrator Kate Lee
Duration 14h 17m
Geraldine Glover. A machinist at Rubins clothing factory in the East End, she dreams of a more glamorous life. When she meets Tony Hanford, the young and handsome proprietor of a small jeweller's shop in Bond Street, Geraldine is propelled into a new world - but it comes at a heavy price ...
View BookAuthor: John Lawton
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Author John Lawton
Narrator Lewis Hancock
Duration 12h 36m
The Blitz, London 1944. As the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city, Londoners take to the shelters once again and eagerly await the signal for D-Day. In the East End children lead police to a charred, dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. The victim is German and it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder. For Russ...
View BookSexton Blake: First Class Ticket To Nowhere
Author: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator William Franklyn
Duration 29m
In First Class Ticket to Nowhere, lost in the fog, Sexton Blake and his friends stumble across a deserted railway station. Then there's a gunshot.
View BookAuthor: Katharine Way
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Author Katharine Way
Narrator Julia Haworth, Philip Bretherton
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 drama by Katharine Way, 'Star Struck' was first broadcast on 2 May 2011 and stars Julia Haworth as Sarah, Philip Bretherton as Cal and was produced by Gary Brown. Sarah has got the job of her dreams. Working with Cal, an Astronomy Professor at a remote observatory in New Zealand. Sarah loves her work, but she would rather look at star...
View BookMiss Mackenzie & Neglected Classic
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 53m
Both episodes of the BBC Radio 4 two-part dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's classic Miss Mackenzie, a tale of a woman, past the bloom of youth, who inherits a fortune and is then beset by suitors from which to choose. Originally broadcast on 9 and 16 January 2011 in the 'Classic Serial' slot. Miss Mackenzie by Trollope was the runner-up in Radio...
View BookAuthor: Peter Fleming
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Author Peter Fleming
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 3h
Peter Fleming, brother of the author Ian, tells the story of his journey from England via the Trans-Siberian Express to China, and his subsequent attempts to become the first Westerner to reach the anti-communist front.
View BookCharlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator James Bolam
Duration 3h
Mr Wonka's inventions are out of this world. He's thought up every kind of sweet imaginable in his amazing chocolate factory, but no one has ever seen inside, or met Mr Wonka! Charlie can't believe his luck when he finds a golden ticket and wins the trip of a lifetime around the famous factory.
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 39m
This audiobook contains the best known and most important sections from the New Testament. It includes selections from the Gospels, using Matthew as the main text, the Epistles of Paul, the Acts of the Apostles and Revelations. The feature music is by Byrd, Tallis and Schuetz.
View BookThe Case of the Missing Servant
Author: Tarquin Hall
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Author Tarquin Hall
Narrator Sam Dastor
Duration 9h
Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India's swindlers, cheats and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centres and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri's main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners,...
View BookThe Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
In this delightful tale, an Eastern Prince arrives in England with some family jewels which he's having reset as a gift for his fianc‚e. However, the Prince also has a mistress; she asks to wear one particularly enchanting piece that features a huge ruby, and then promptly disappears with it. Poirot discovers a connection with a house party a...
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