Author: Rosalie Knecht
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Author Rosalie Knecht
Narrator Elisabeth Rogers
Duration 6h 54m
New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and...
View BookRumpole: The Penge Bungalow Murders & Other Stories
Author: John Mortimer
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Author John Mortimer
Narrator Benedict Cumberbatch
Duration 2h 55m
Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, feisty, devastatingly acute Horace Rumpole in this collection of cracking cases, also starring Timothy West as the older Rumpole. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: It is the fifties, and two war heroes have been shot dead. Defending the suspect is deemed hopeless, so the case is handed to a novice. But th...
View BookAuthor: Erica James
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Author Erica James
Narrator Charlotte Strevens
Duration 12h 7m
A wonderfully fresh novel about love and life from the Sunday Times bestselling author Having married once for love, and been abandoned by her husband, Ellen is determined that her second marriage will be for money. And conveniently Duncan, her divorce lawyer is not unattractive, and enticingly single...But when she meets Matthew, a painter, who cr...
View BookAuthor: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrator Zainab Jah
Duration 18h 19m
Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown toget...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Nickolds
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Author Andrew Nickolds
Narrator Christopher Douglas
Duration 2h 47m
Award-winning BBC Radio 4 comedy starring Christopher Douglas, John Fortune and Stephanie Cole. Ed Reardon (Christopher Douglas) - author, pipe smoker, fare-dodger and master of the abusive email - returns for a third series. In these six episodes, Ed finds his literary juices are flowing after a new commission, and a visit by his father brings tho...
View BookChief Inspector Banks Book 1: Gallows View
Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator Mark Honan
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 1
Duration 8h 45m
Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are unfortunately not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors---among them a brazen Peeping Tom who hides in night's shadows spying on a...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
Duration 9h
Fethering residents, Jude and Carole, get more than they bargained for when a meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified and when a series of disasters start to befall his business it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor. The two amateur detectives wonder if it might just be...
View BookAuthor: Robert Munsch
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Author Robert Munsch
Narrator Unknown
Duration 6m
Andrew's mother and father always ask very clearly if Andrew needs to go pee, and his answer is always, "No, no, no, no!" Unfortunately, that answer never seems to last long! Part of our fantastic, Read-along collection for younger readers, these are picture books which highlight the text in time with the narration.
View BookThe Navy Lark: Doing An Unfortunate
Author: Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
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Author Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 22
Duration 1h 48m
Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips, Stephen Murray and Ronnie Barker star in four hilarious radio episodes - including the special Queen's Silver Jubilee edition. Stormy Weather (Bashing Six Kinds of Brick Dust) 22/11/1963: Heather has a dust up with Sub-Lieutenant Phillips about their engagement. Chasing the 'Kepeac' (Doing an Unfortunate) 29/11/1963: T...
View BookThe Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 3
Author: BBC Audiogo
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Author BBC Audiogo
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 47m
Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince return for the third series of the Sony Radio Academy Gold Award-winning BBC Radio 4 show in which they take a witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world according to science. In the first episode, 'Apocalypse!', Brian and Robin are joined by comedian Andy Hamilton to discuss some of the...
View BookAuthor: Shelagh Stephenson
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Author Shelagh Stephenson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 play about the marriage of George, Prince of Wales, originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 11 December 2008 (and repeated on 9 December 2010). Facing financial ruin, George was obliged by his father, George III, to marry his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick. But if he had been expecting a docile partner with whom...
View BookAuthor: Peter Ackroyd
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Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 11h 10m
London in the 18th century is a city as squalid and superstitious as it is elegant and enlightened, where a brilliant architect is commissioned to build several new churches. Two hundred and fifty years later in the sprawling metropolis of London the legacy of the past lives on, as CID Detective Hawksmoor investigates a series of murders that have...
View BookAuthor: Stella Gibbons
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Author Stella Gibbons
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 7h 33m
Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn her own living. When she is orphaned at 20, she decides her only option is to go and live with her relatives, the Starkadders, at Cold Comfort Farm. When she gets there she finds nothing but chaos, and sets about restoring some kind of order to their lives - with highly amusing res...
View BookArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
Author: Armando Iannucci
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Author Armando Iannucci
Narrator The Author
SeriesArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive Series 4, Book 6
Duration 27m
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a topical, events-driven radio comedy hosted by comedy guru Iannucci, recorded in front of a live audience. With the sketchability of The Now Show, combined with the going-off-on-a-mad-streak of a maverick News Quiz round, Iannucci and his comedian guests pull apart the week's news, in an effortlessly original...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 28m
Wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye grain in his pocket. His death is followed in quick succession by a woman dying while eating bread and honey, and a maid in her garden. Inspector Neele, in charge of investigating the spate of murders, consults with Miss Marple, who has an interesting and surprising theory to offer. She sense...
View BookThe Case of the Imaginary Detective
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
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Author Karen Joy Fowler
Narrator Lorelei King
Duration 7h 56m
Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things: car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison's beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima's loss, yet she is soon caught up in a mystery of her own. Who...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 5h
Galahad Threepwood is causing scandal again... this time by deciding to not publish his potentially humiliating high-society memoirs. His decision causes rifts in the ranks at castle Blandings and all involved split into three camps: those who want the book suppressed, those who want it published, and those, who for some reason or another, have bee...
View BookAuthor: Amanda Swift
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Author Amanda Swift
Narrator Gillian Walton
Duration 3h 42m
Her polar-opposite parents' recent divorce has resulted in 12-year-old Annabella having a split personality. She is called Anna at her mum's, Bella at her dad's. She's arty and casual at her mum's, glamorous and cool at her dad's; she's co-operative at her mum's, stroppy at her dad's; vegetarian at her mum's and a rabid carnivore at her dad's. But...
View BookAuthor: David Hewson
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Author David Hewson
Narrator Saul Reichlin
Duration 13h 7m
Amsterdam is bursting at the seams and the police are out in force, struggling to manage the crowds. Brigadier Pieter Vos is on duty with his young assistant, Laura Bakker, when the first grenade hits. In the chaos a young girl wearing a pink jacket is kidnapped. But she isn't the daughter of an Amsterdam aristocrat as the terrorists first thought....
View BookAuthor: Hilary Jacobs Hendel
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Author Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Narrator Cassandra Campbell
Duration 8h 21m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of It's Not Always Depression by Hilary Jacobs Hendel, read by Cassandra Campbell. We were all taught that our thoughts affect our emotions, but in truth it is largely the other way around: we have to experience our emotions to truly understand our thoughts, and our full selves. This is why we should think not...
View BookAuthor: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 11m
Gina McKee stars in this chilling apocalyptic radio drama by award-winning writer Val McDermid. It's the Summer Solstice weekend, and 150,000 people have descended on a farm in the North East of England for an open-air music festival. Reporting on the event is journalist Zoe Meadows, who files her copy from a food van run by her friends Sam and Lis...
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