Author: Steven D. Levitt
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Author Steven D. Levitt
Narrator Stephen J. Dubner
Duration 6h 25m
Modern life can be baffling and chaotic. Is there any way of making sense of it? The answer, explains groundbreaking thinker Steven Levitt, lies in economics. Not ordinary economics, but freakonomics. It is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, f...
View BookAuthor: Yann Martel
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Author Yann Martel
Narrator Jeff Woodman
Duration 11h 41m
Martel's novel tells the story of Pi--short for Piscine--an unusual boy raised in a zoo in India. Pi's father decides to move the family to live in Canada and sell the animals to the great zoos of America. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks and Pi finds himself the sole human survivor on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra wit...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 15: The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Alexander Mccall Smith
Narrator Adjoa Andoh
Duration 7h 50m
Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a full partner in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - in spite of Mma Ramotswe's belated claims that she is only 'an assistant full partner' - she also launches a new enterprise of her own: the Handsome Man's De Luxe Caf‚...
View BookAuthor: Lynda La Plante
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Author Plante Lynda La
Narrator Judi Spiers
Duration 6h
'Please don't let anything bad have happened to her, please don't let anything have happened to my baby.' Marcus and Lena Fulford are the envy of their friends. Wealthy, attractive and successful, the couple, with their strikingly beautiful teenage daughter Amy, seem settled and content. But appearances mask a strained relationship almost at breaki...
View BookFather Brown Series 2 Episode 3: The Arrow of Heaven
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 3
Duration 26m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations. In 'The Arrow of Heaven', a trip to New York leads to a murky t...
View BookLike An Angel Passing Through My Room
Author: Christopher Green
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Author Christopher Green
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 'Afternoon Play' about the unconditional love of a devoted ABBA fan, from Olivier award-winning writer Christopher Green; starring the writer as himself, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (aka Frida from ABBA). Originally broadcast 16 February 2011.
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 5h 2m
Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature. An accessible yet fiercely astute essay, it is a crystallisation of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Sh...
View BookActing On Impulse and Other Short Stories
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 50m
A selection of 11 light-hearted stories and a corner shop trilogy: 'Simpson' by Ian Mallender; 'Thirty Something' by Lynda Wakeling; 'Bubble Tennis'; 'Sixth Sense' and 'Acting on Impulse' by Pam Weaver; 'A Fitting Tale' and 'I've Got a Little Shop' by Joan Stanley; 'Do Computers Improve a Man's Image?' by Mike Stanley and 'Junk'; 'Number's Up'; 'Fu...
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 10h 15m
Join the intrepid Michael Palin as he embarks on a comic race against time, travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole. As he crosses 16 countries by train, truck, raft, Ski-Doo, barge, balloon and bicycle, he experiences a fascinating range of characters and landscapes whilst his own endurance is tested to the limit.
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 3h
The following spooky vampire stories are given a spine-tingling read by Richard Pasco: 'The Mark of the Beast' by Rudyard Kipling; 'Aurelia' by E.T.A Hoffman; 'Ligeia' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'Mrs Amsworth' by E. F Benson and 'Dracula's Guest' by Bram Stoker.
View BookThe Drowned Church; the Lost Hotel; the Lady In the Lake; Hope Springs. Series: Pilgrim
Author: Sebastian Bacziewicz
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Author Sebastian Bacziewicz
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 54m
A series of four BBC Radio 4 modern-day fantasy adventures written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and starring Paul Hilton as Pilgrim. Pilgrim Series 2 was originally a weekly broadcast in the Afternoon Play slots from 31 August-21 September 2010. The plays in Pilgrim Series 2 are thrilling, dark and contemporary. They're set in a very recognisable, very...
View BookSaint Overboard & the Saint Plays With Fire
Author: Leslie Charteris
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Author Leslie Charteris
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 55m
Leslie Charteris' square-jawed, blue-eyed hero loved, fought and stole his way through Europe in the 1930s, endlessly pursuing blondes, baddies and boodle. Adored by women and feared by his foes, he was known as 'The Saint' after the calling card he left at the scenes of his crimes - a sketch of a stick figure with a halo.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 28m
When the Cowley sisters employ a carer to look after the ailing Carmela, Morag appears to suit their needs perfectly. But after a spectacular jewel theft on the night of the Hunt Ball, it appears that the perfect carer might be implicated...
View BookAuthor: Terry Wogan
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Author Terry Wogan
Narrator The Author
Duration 2h 55m
Terry Wogan is one of Britain's most popular and successful broadcasters. Witty, charming and relaxed, he has undoubtedly captured the nation's heart. Here, for the first time, he tells his story, from his beginnings in Limerick to incredible success as a national celebrity, in his own delightfully laconic fashion.
View BookAuthor: Dick King-Smith
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Author Dick King-Smith
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 1h 48m
HAIRY HEZEKIAH: Hezekiah is a very hairy camel. He lives a quiet life in his enclosure at the zoo and seems to be the only animal without a friend. So Hezekiah decides to escape, and breaks into a safari park! There he meets another hairy character - and finally makes a friend. THE CATLADY: Muriel, the Catlady, lives alone with just her feline frie...
View BookThe Silk Sisters: Pink Chameleon
Author: Fiona Dunbar
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Author Fiona Dunbar
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 5h 40m
In the not too distant future, Rorie and Elsie's parents have disappeared. Just like that. And with only their cruel uncle to look after them, the girls are swept off to his miserable boarding school. But the sisters are determined to escape their uncle's grip - and discover the truth behind their parents' disappearance...
View BookAuthor: Quentin Blake, Emma Chichester Clark
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Author Quentin Blake, Emma Chichester Clark
Narrator Olivia Coleman
Duration 10m
A remarkable collaboration that brings together giants of the picture book world to create a funny, anarchic and utterly delightful book. A classic of the future. Beep! Beep! The three little monkeys are back in an irresistible new story! Hilda Snibbs is taking her three mischievous monkeys to visit her mother in the country. But what is supposed t...
View BookPositively Teenage: A Positively Brilliant Guide To Teenage Well-being
Author: Nicola Morgan
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Author Nicola Morgan
Narrator Sheila Hyde
Duration 6h 7m
Positively Teenage gives you tools to approach your teenage years with optimism and understanding and to develop real wellbeing for life. The media so often portray adolescence negatively but this book shows you how to approach these years far more positively so that you can really flourish and be in control. You'll find simple strategies to develo...
View BookMuriel Spark: The Complete Short Stories
Author: Muriel Spark
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Author Muriel Spark
Narrator Various
Duration 17h 33m
From the cruel irony of A Member of the Family to the fateful echoes of The Go-Away Bird and the unexpectedly sinister The Girl I Left Behind Me, in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic wit and wisdom t...
View BookLogan Mcrae Book 4: Flesh House
Author: Stuart Macbride
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Author Stuart Macbride
Narrator Steve Worsley
SeriesLogan McRae, Book 4
Duration 12h 50m
The fourth thriller in the number one best-selling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. Panic grips the Granite City as DS Logan McRae heads up a manhunt for 'The Flesher' - one of the UK's most notorious serial killers. Twenty years ago 'The Flesher' was butchering people all over the UK - turning victims into oven-ready joints - u...
View BookAuthor: Jessica Knoll
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Author Jessica Knoll
Narrator Madeleine Maby
Duration 11h 47m
Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: a glamorous job at a glossy magazine; an enviable figure with the wardrobe to match; and a handsome fianc‚ from a distinguished blue blood family. But Ani FaNelli is an invention, that veneer of perfection carefully assembled in an attempt to distance herself from a shocking, sordid past. As her wedding draws...
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