Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 6h
A collection of love stories including: 'The Sphinx Without a Secret' by Oscar Wilde; 'For Better or Worse' by W.W Jacobs; 'Angela' by W.S Gilbert; 'Mr & Mrs Dove' by Katherine Mansfield'; 'Georgie Porgie' by Rudyard Kipling; 'Genefer' by Sabine Baring-Gould; 'The Singing Lesson' by Katherine Mansfield; 'The Patch on the Quilt' by Sapper; 'The...
View BookOn the Town With the League of Gentlemen
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 50m
The first series of the Sony award winning radio show detailing the bizarre exploits of the inhabitants of a very peculiar Northern town. Meet Dr Chinnery, the lethally incompetent vet, Pauline, the monstrous Restart Officer at the Job Centre and Barbara, a taxi driver halfway through his sex change. Murderously funny and acutely observed, this is...
View BookFags, Mags & Bags Series 1, Episode 1
Author: Sanjeev Kohli, Donald McLeary
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Author Sanjeev Kohli, Donald McLeary
Narrator Various
SeriesFags, Mags & Bags Series 1, Book 1
Duration 27m
BBC Radio 4 sitcom written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald McLeary, set in a Glasgow corner shop. In Series One, which was first broadcast in 2007, the nettle of the ugly spectre of racism was grasped, a religious festival was invented and an impacted cola bottle (sour) was removed from one of Ramesh's premolars. We were also introduced to...
View BookThe Good Life: The Wind-break War
Author: Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
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Author Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 4
Duration 1h 56m
Four classic episodes of the popular BBC TV series starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington. The episodes are A Tug of the Forelock, I Talk to the Trees, The Wind-Break War and Whose Fleas Are These?
View BookDoctor Who: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 40m
The TARDIS lands in Paris in 1572 at the time of the massacre of the French Protestants at the hands of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici. Worryingly for the TARDIS crew, it appears that the hated Catholic dignitary the Abbot of Amboise is a dead ringer for the Doctor himself... This is a four-part Doctor Who story from 1966, wiped fro...
View BookAuthor: John Lauren St.
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Author John Lauren St.
Narrator Alison Reid
Duration 5h 16m
Laura Marlin's favourite character is ace-detective Matt Walker. With a suitcase full of the books that have long been her window on the world, Laura goes to live with her uncle in Cornwall, convinced that a life of adventure is hers at last. But everywhere she turns she's confronted with mysteries. Nothing is what it seems. Is Tariq, the shopkeepe...
View BookAuthor: Dave Gorman
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Author Dave Gorman
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 48m
'Genius Series 3' sees Dave Gorman and celebrity guests Charlie Brooker, Matthew Wright, Gyles Brandreth, Rob Newman, Germaine Greer and Simon Munnery chew over ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public. Genius invites listeners to air those incredible concepts that strike you just before falling int...
View BookAuthor: Gene Kemp
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Author Gene Kemp
Narrator Lisa Coleman
Duration 2h 46m
Troy is a boy living in a secret locked-up world. His family thinks he is crazy, mad, nutty, barmy - all except his mother, who prefers to pretend there's nothing really wrong. But even she has to take notice when policemen start knocking on doors and Troy gets excluded from school.
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Charlie Sanderson
Duration 15h 6m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse. She defied her parents to marry for love . . . Following her heart, Fifi moves with Dan to London where they rent a seedy flat in Dale Street, Kennington. Though Fifi must now become acquainted with squalor, she is soon drawn into the goings on behind the shabby front doors o...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 12h 8m
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Adam Dalgliesh is...
View BookFrom Zero To Infinity: Cool Maths Stuff You Need To Know
Author: Mike Goldsmith
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Author Mike Goldsmith
Narrator Amy Flinders
Duration 2h 20m
Unlock the mysteries of maths and discover the wonder of numbers. Readers will discover incredible information, such as why zero is so useful; what a googol really is; why music, maths and space are connected; why bees prefer hexagons; how to tell the time on other planets; and much, much more. From marvellous measurements and startling shapes, to...
View BookAuthor: Katerina Diamond
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Author Katerina Diamond
Narrator Stevie Lacey
Duration 11h 6m
When a burned body is found in a disused signal box, suspicion falls on lonely teenager Gabriel Webb. There's no doubt he was at the scene of the crime, but does he really deserve what awaits him in prison? DS Imogen Grey is certain there's more to the case than meets the eye. But while she struggles to convince those around her of the truth, her p...
View BookJust Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
Author: Paul Bloom
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Author Paul Bloom
Narrator Mike Chamberlain
Duration 6h 41m
From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society-and especially parents-to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In Just Babies, Paul Bloom argues that humans...
View BookAuthor: Michael Lewis
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Author Michael Lewis
Narrator Michael Lewis
Duration 9h 18m
'We fed the monster until it blew up ...' While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and ge...
View BookYou Can't Take An Elephant On the Bus
Author: Patricia Cleveland-Peck
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Author Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Narrator Lenny Henry
Duration 5m
You can't take an elephant on the bus ...It would simply cause a terrible fuss! Elephants' bottoms are heavy and fat and would certainly squash the seats quite flat. Never put a camel in a sailing boat, or a tiger on a train, and don't even THINK about asking a whale to ride a bike ... This riotous picture book is filled with animals causing total...
View BookAuthor: Jack London
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Author Jack London
Narrator Garrick Hagon
Duration 2h 37m
Born in the wild, the wolf-dog White Fang quickly learns the law of nature: eat or be eaten. Captured by Indians, bullied by another dog, and then turned into a killer, he becomes vicious and fiercely independent. Rarely has the raw realism of life on the edge of civilisation been so vividly captured. But in this classic animal novel, Jack London a...
View BookFather Brown Series 1 Episode 6: The Hammer of God
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Book 6
Duration 27m
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 Hammer of God', Father Brown discovers that retribution...
View BookThe Penny Dreadfuls Present: Revolution
Author: Thom Tuck
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Author Thom Tuck
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
The French Revolution was one of the most far-reaching social and political upheavals in modern history spanning 10 years and involving the execution of the King, collapse of monarchy and slaughter of thousands at the guillotine. Starring Richard E Grant and Sally Hawkins, comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls will attempt to tell the epic story of the R...
View BookIt's Your Round, Series 1, Episode 5
Author: Various
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Author Various
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SeriesIt's Your Round Series 1, Book 5
Duration 27m
It's Your Round' is the comedy panel game where the format is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the panellists has brought along their own round for the others to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and unpredictable. Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure everyone comes out of it with their reputations inta...
View BookFry and Laurie Read Daudet & Jerome
Author: Jerome K Jerome, Alphonse Daudet
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Author Jerome K Jerome, Alphonse Daudet
Narrator Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
Duration 2h 30m
A collection featuring a series of short stories, anecdotes, musings, essays and fables by Alphonse Daudet and extracts from the magazine 'The Idler' amongst others, written by the author of 'Three Men in a Boat', Jerome K. Jerome.
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 3h
A collection of apparently true UFO-based stories. The stories featured include two people who were kidnapped and used in horrific experiments by hideous, lizard-eyed aliens, and the strange beings who descended in a beam of light to rescue a girl and her father.
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