Author: Alex Owen, Ben Ashenden
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Author Alex Owen, Ben Ashenden
Narrator The Authors
Duration 3h 43m
Join Alex and Ben - aka The Pin - in their weird twist on the double-act sketch show. The Pin are a multi-award-winning comedy duo with a unique brand of self-reflexive comedy. Performed in front of a live studio audience, their sketches exist somewhere between razor-sharp smartness and joyous silliness. Expect sketches, commentary on the sketches,...
View BookAuthor: David Mitchell
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Author David Mitchell
Narrator William Rycroft
Duration 15h 15m
An apocalyptic cult member, a jazz buff in Tokyo, a woman on a holy mountain, a burnt-out lawyer, a Mongolian gangster, a redundant spy, a despondent 'zookeeper', a nuclear scientist, a ghostwriter, a ghost, and a New York DJ are all tenuously connected. All of them have tales to tell, and all must play their part as they are caught up in the inesc...
View BookAuthor: C. L. Taylor
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Author C. L. Taylor
Narrator Georgia Maguire
Duration 8h 4m
All sixteen year old Drew Finch wants is to be left alone. She's not interested in spending time with her mum and stepdad and when her disruptive fifteen year old brother Mason is expelled from school for the third time and sent to a residential reform academy she's almost relieved. Everything changes when she's followed home from school by the mys...
View BookCrochet: A Beginners Guide To Crochet
Author: Nancy Ross
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Author Nancy Ross
Narrator Sangita Chauhan
Duration 55m
Discover the easy way to get started with crochet! Whether you are interested in learning the basics that you need for starting crochet, relieve stress, or for the sheer enjoyment of crocheting this book can help you. Here is a preview of what you'll learn... The Basics That You Need for Starting Crochet Learning Some of the Basic Stitches Decreasi...
View BookAuthor: Robin Nelson
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Author Robin Nelson
Narrator Intuitive
Duration 3h 30m
How does a cocoa bean turn into tasty chocolate? Follow each step in the food production cycle-from planting cocoa trees to eating a sweet treat-in this fascinating book!
View BookAn Interview With Sarah Waters
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Sarah Waters
Duration 16m
Sarah Waters is the bestselling and award winning author of titles such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.
View BookFather Brown: The Blue Cross and Other Stories
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 1h 49m
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. Here, the High Priest of detection becomes involved in four int...
View BookParty: Series 2: Complete Series
Author: Tom Basden
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Author Tom Basden
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 50m
Series 2 of the satirical BBC Radio 4 comedy written by Tom Basden Simon, Jared, Duncan, Mel and Phoebe are idealistic students who want to change the world - so they decide to set up their own political party, meeting in their leader's garden shed. In this second series, they try to get recognition and publicity, get to grips with technology, use...
View BookAuthor: Spike Milligan
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Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 28
Duration 2h 2m
Four more classic episodes starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. More surreal clowning from one of the greatest comedy teams on radio. Goon but not forgotten! In these episodes, Neddie attempts to swim across the Regent's Park Canal with the help of a bottle of green liquid, the Russians force a satellite into the ionosphere (fi...
View BookSarah Millican's Support Group: Complete Series 1
Author: Sarah Millican
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Author Sarah Millican
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 51m
Sarah Millican plays Sarah, life counsellor and modern day agony aunt, in this BBC Radio 4 comedy series. She wants you to live life to the utmost, and she's got tons of ideas of how to help in the same way as the busybody at the end of your street who knows everything and dishes out advice whether you want to hear it or not. Assisted or hindered b...
View BookAuthor: Henrik Ibsen
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Author Henrik Ibsen
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 2h 10m
Hedda Gabler, a deceased General's daughter, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of tedium ahead. Increasingly she is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack. Then a former flame arrives to rival her husband for an academic post. Stars Juliet Stevenson as the passionate Hedda.
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
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Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 12h 33m
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will h...
View BookAuthor: Enid Blyton
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Author Enid Blyton
Narrator Jan Francis
Duration 4h 20m
While on a caravan holiday the Famous Five catch up with a circus, but some of the circus people have more sinister plans than simply clowning around.
View BookBest of Women's Short Stories 1
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Harriet Walter
SeriesBest of Women's Short Stories, Book 1
Duration 4h 43m
The first in CSA WORD's series of brilliant and strong women's stories. With stories from such female greats as Elizabeth Gaskell and Katherine Mansfield, this collection should appeal to women and men alike, with a strong and varied selection of stories by and about women.
View BookDoctor Who: The Taking of Chelsea 426
Author: David Llewellyn
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Author David Llewellyn
Narrator Christopher Ryan
Duration 5h 2m
The Chelsea Flower Show - hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem. As the Doctor investigates, a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans hav...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 12m
Miss Marple is totally shocked to receive a letter from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel, an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. The letter leaves instructions for Miss Marple, whom Mr. Rafiel had recognised as a natural detective, to investigate a crime after his death. There are absolutely no details about the crime, however, nothing...
View BookAlice In Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll
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Author Lewis Carroll
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 2h 28m
Alan Bennett's distinctive readings of children's stories have become classics in their own right. His interpretations of the wonderful characters that people Lewis Carroll's extraordinary novels are, as ever, exactly right.
View BookAlly's World Series Book 2: Dates, Double Dates and Big, Big Trouble
Author: Karen Mccombie
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Author Karen Mccombie
Narrator Daniela Denby-Ashe
SeriesAlly's World, Book 2
Duration 3h 24m
Ally's feeling inadequate. Her only romantic experience amounts to a burping-in-mouth scenario with Keith Brownlow, but Kyra's only been in Crouch End two seconds and she's got herself a boyfriend! Even Ally's dad seems to be 'dating' - has he forgotten all about her mum? Still, Ally's not sure what's more worrying: not having a boyfriend, or being...
View BookAuthor: Jean Ure
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Author Jean Ure
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 3h 1m
Cresta's diary starts: 'My mum! She has boys on the brain!' She and Charlie are seriously embarrassed by their parents who insist on behaving like teenagers. The girls are serious about their schoolwork and their careers and they are not going to waste their time thinking about boys...
View BookShakespeare's Tales: Julius Caesar
Author: Beverley Birch
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Author Beverley Birch
Narrator Henry Douthwaite
Duration 1h 12m
Julius Caesar is the most successful general Rome has ever had, and now he wants to be king. Cassius, Brutus and other senators are determined not to see power fall into the hands of one man. And so they plot to kill him. This short re-telling captures the style of Shakespeare's original language.
View BookLand of Roar Book 1: The Land of Roar
Author: Jenny Mclachlan
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Author Jenny Mclachlan
Narrator Neil Gardner
SeriesLand of Roar, Book 1
Duration 6h 5m
When Arthur and Rose were little, they were heroes in the Land of Roar, an imaginary world that they found by climbing through the folding bed in their grandad's attic. Roar was filled with things they loved - dragons, mermaids, ninja wizards and adventure - as well as things that scared them (including a very creepy scarecrow)...Now the twins are...
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