Rowan Atkinson's the Atkinson People
Author: Richard Curtis
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Author Richard Curtis
Narrator Rowan Atkinson
Duration 1h 56m
Rowan Atkinson stars as many different characters in four episodes from the classic comedy series, written by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill), which investigates the lives of four great - but imaginary - men. We hear about the life and times of master orator, Sir Benjamin Fletcher: writer, statesman, No...
View BookAuthor: Lucy Dillon
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Author Lucy Dillon
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 15h 36m
After a lifetime of dancing and a failed marriage, Angelica's running away again. But this time, she's run right back to where it all started. In a last attempt to save their marriage, Katie and Ross join the ballroom class. He needs to learn to lead and she needs to learn to love again... Lauren's dreaming of a fairytale wedding. The only problem...
View BookAuthor: Richmal Crompton
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Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 31m
It's the beginning of the summer holidays and William and the Outlaws see an endless expanse of gloriously carefree days stretching ahead but how to fill them? The six classic adventures contained in this unabridged reading are: William and the Holiday Centre - William's Treasure Trove - William and the Cottage - William Tackles the Job - William a...
View BookThe Disgusting Adventures of Fleabag Monkeyface: When Earwax Attacks
Author: Jem Packer
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Author Jem Packer
Narrator Daniel Hill
Duration 1h 10m
Warning: contains hazardous material! Gerald and Gene love all things gross and yucky - so when their favourite TV show, Yucky Science, runs a competition to find the world's grossest gloop, they spring into action. But when lightning strikes their revolting concoction, a strange new creature appears from the wreckage: Fleabag Monkeyface! With amaz...
View BookAuthor: Michelle Burford
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Author Michelle Burford
Narrator Imani Parks
Duration 6h 21m
In this official autobiography from four-time Olympic gold-winning and record-setting American gymnast Simone Biles, Simone shares how her faith, family, passion, and perseverance against tremendous odds helped make her one of the top athletes and record-breaking gymnasts in the world. Simone Biles' entrance into the world of gymnastics may have st...
View BookAuthor: John Finnemore
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Author John Finnemore
Narrator Celia Imrie
Duration 2h 47m
Winner of the Writers Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy and the Comedy.co.uk awards for Best Radio Sketch Show! Celia Imrie, Alison Steadman, John Bird and Rebecca Front are among the cast of these BBC Radio 4 comedy dramas from the writer and producers of Cabin Pressure. These six self-contained duologues, each one brimming with humour and charm,...
View BookAuthor: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 23h 5m
Acclaimed historian Alison Weir looks into the life of the first Tudor queen, revealing the woman behind the image Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. One of the key figures of the Wars of the Roses, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, she married Henry Tudor to bring peace to a war-torn Eng...
View BookThe History of the Brain, Episode 3
Author: Geoff Bunn
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Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator The Author, Paul Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Forbes
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 3
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. In Episode 3, 'The Origin of Common Sense', the focus is on Ancient Rome with Galen's 'animal spirits' gently inflating the ventricles and making thought possible, and on ho...
View BookAuthor: Alfred Chaston Chapman
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Author Alfred Chaston Chapman
Narrator Mary Ann S
Duration 2h 52m
Everything needed to brew beer right the first time. Presented in a light-hearted style without frivolous interruptions, this authoritative text introduces brewing in a easy step-by-step review. Beer is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. It is available nearly everywhere, from gas stations to specialty liquor stores. A new brew...
View BookThe Early Stories of Truman Capote
Author: Truman Capote
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Author Truman Capote
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 44m
Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and In Cold Blood. This collection of more than a dozen pieces showcases the young Capot...
View BookAuthor: Kate Atkinson
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Author Kate Atkinson
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 16h 24m
Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy - would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband an...
View BookAuthor: Ferdinand Von Schirach
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Author Ferdinand Von Schirach
Narrator David Thorp
Duration 4h 30m
Ferdinand von Schirach's The Collini Case has been at the top of the German charts since publication and will be loved by all fans of Bernhard Schlink and John le Carre. A murder. A murderer. No motive. For thirty-four years Fabrizio Collini has worked diligently for Mercedes Benz. He is a quiet and respectable person until the day he visits one of...
View BookEssential Histories: The Vietnam War 1956-1975
Author: Andrew A. Wiest
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Author Andrew A. Wiest
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 4h 34m
The Vietnam War was arguably the most important event, or series of events, of the "American century". America entered the brutal conflict certain of its moral mission to save the world from the advance of communism. As this title explains, however, the war was not at all what the US expected. Outnumbered and outgunned the North Vietnamese and Viet...
View BookThe Code of the Woosters: Abridged
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 58m
The sinister affair of the eighteenth century cow-creamer and the small, brown, leather-covered notebook tests the Wooster soul as it has never been tested before. Friends and relations, in urgent need, queue up to beg for assistance in a variety of troublesome situations, and ruthless enemies stop at nothing in their determination to bring Bertie...
View BookAuthor: Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
Narrator Joseph Millson
Duration 56m
Joseph Millson reads Alfred Lord Tennyson's 1855 dark and lyrical poem Maud in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth in 2009. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the 'Classic Serial' slot on 26 July 2009 and repeated on 1 August 2009. A disturbed young man roams the windswept hills, haunted by his father's suicide and his moth...
View BookThe First Day of the Rest of My Life
Author: Martin Jameson
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Author Martin Jameson
Narrator Various
Duration 57m
A contemporary BBC Radio 3 drama about the events that occur to a man after he snaps one day at work. The First Day of the Rest of My Life stars Jonathan Keeble as the protagonist, and was originally broadcast as part of The Wire collection of dramas on 10 October 2009, and repeated on 2 October 2010. Toby has a bad day at work on the phones for Ca...
View BookAuthor: Rhod Gilbert
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Author Rhod Gilbert
Narrator The Cast
Duration 55m
Welsh stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert hosts a brand new audience comedy show featuring regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages of Woman. This second episode features live music from Athlete, including hits Superhuman Touch and Half Light, and the guest comedian is tr...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 13h 46m
When Commander Dalgliesh is persuaded to visit the Dupayne, a private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he can have no idea that he will return to it one week later. One of the family trustees has been horribly murdered, and Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
Duration 6h 40m
The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings. So he was shocked when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was coping with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Edward Fox, Joanna David
Duration 2h 35m
On the theme of love a second great collection of romantic short stories from yesteryear read by another husband and wife team Edward Fox and Joanna David. LOVE is a staple theme of many short stories and in this second off-beat selection from CSA it comes in many guises. There is love tragically thwarted by duty in Thomas Hardy's The Son's Veto; t...
View BookRonnie Barker's Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
Author: Ronnie Barker
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Author Ronnie Barker
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 58m
Here's a cornucopia of clever comedy, featuring sketches, monologues, poems and songs in this "sequential entertainment for radio". Among the sketches, Mr. Serpent, a sales rep in the Garden of Eden, tries to flog a knowledge course to Eve ("one bite and you're a Ph.D."). A doctor has to give some bad news, but gets more emotional than the patient,...
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