Badgers In My Vest: Portrait of An Artist As A Young Dog
Author: John Fletcher
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Author John Fletcher
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
Badgers in my vest is a new, darkly funny play by an acclaimed contemporary playwright, based on a true incident in Dylan Thomas' life. Deemed unfit to fight in World War II, Dylan Thomas spends his time in Newquay in the local pub, cadging drinks, laughing at the Welsh behind their back and being outrageous. Privately, he is terrified, suffering n...
View BookAuthor: Chris Morris, Peter Cook
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Author Chris Morris, Peter Cook
Narrator Chris Morris, Peter Cook
Duration 49m
1994 saw one of Peter Cooks most acclaimed performances since his 1960's heyday. Chris Morris' surreal and inventive questions brought out the very best of eccentric aristocrat Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling - a character whom Cook had carried with him through Beyond the Fringe and Not Only.But Also.to his latter years. These five interviews recall St...
View BookAuthor: Alex Shearer
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Author Alex Shearer
Narrator Glen Mccready
Duration 7h 26m
13 year old Bosworth Hartie didn't think his parents could inflict much more mental torture on him - isn't having the worst name in the world enough! Then they get it into their heads to find him a wife: a nice, dependable girl who will keep Bozzie on the straight and narrow. To Bosworth's horror they match him up with one Veronica Melling, a girl...
View BookAuthor: Janet Gurtler
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Author Janet Gurtler
Narrator Allyson Ryan
Duration 7h 15m
A timely and heartfelt collection of essays inspired by the #MeToo movement, edited by acclaimed young adult and middle-grade author Janet Gurtler. Featuring Beth Revis, Mackenzi Lee, Ellen Hopkins, Saundra Mitchell, Jennifer Brown, Cheryl Rainfield, and many more. When #MeToo went viral, Janet Gurtler was among the millions of people who began to...
View BookAuthor: Henning Mankell
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Author Henning Mankell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 15h 34m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The White Lioness by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. As Inspe...
View BookMaggie Hope Series Book 8: The Prisoner In the Castle
Author: Susan Elia MacNeal
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Author Susan Elia MacNeal
Narrator Susan Duerden
SeriesMaggie Hope, Book 8
Duration 10h 10m
World War II is raging, and former spy Maggie Hope knows too much. She knows what the British government is willing to do to keep its secrets. She knows the real location of the planned invasion of France. She knows who's lying. She knows who the double-crossers are. She knows exactly who is sending agents to their deaths.These are the reasons Magg...
View BookThe Infinite Monkey Cage --the Complete Series 14-17
Author: Robin Ince
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Author Robin Ince
Narrator Various
Duration 10h 10m
Brian Cox and Robin Ince present a witty, irreverent look at the world according to science. The Infinite Monkey Cage has become one of BBC Radio 4's most popular science-based programmes. In each episode physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince delve into a particular field of science, with the help of guests from the worlds of science, academi...
View BookAuthor: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 25h 51m
The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly voices; echoes, she thinks, of a crime committed in the same room...
View BookAuthor: Sjon
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Author Sjon
Narrator Daniel Pirrie
Duration 2h 40m
The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox. We're then transported to the world of the naturalist Friethrik B. Friethriksson and his charge, Abba, who suffers from Down's syndrome, and who came to his rescue when he was on the verge of disaster....
View BookAuthor: CGP Publications
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Author CGP Publications
Narrator Jan Boyd
Duration 5h 51m
This book is full of detailed revision notes for GCSE ICT students. It covers every topic for the AQA, CCEA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC exam boards. The whole thing's designed to make revision straightforward - each section is split into topics with questions to check what you've learnt at the end. It's all explained simply and thoroughly in CGP's chatt...
View BookA Man's Head (inspector Maigret)
Author: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 2h 56m
Nicholas Le Prevost stars as the French detective in four new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatizations These new adaptations of classic stories find Maigret recreating four memorable cases for his creator Georges Simenon. In 'Maigret: A Man's Head', a convicted man is allowed to escape, then followed by police investigating a double murder. Maigret fin...
View BookElephants To Catch Eels, Series 2, Episode 6
Author: Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
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Author Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
Narrator Sheridan Smith
SeriesElephants to Catch Eels Series 2, Book 6
Duration 28m
The BBC Radio comedy set in an 18th century Cornish village-written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain and produced by Jan Ravens. In Mother, there's a surprise for smuggler Tamsyn-and confusion aboard a boat to France. Stars Sheridan Smith. From May 2004.
View BookRhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrell of Laughs
Author: Rhod Gilbert
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Author Rhod Gilbert
Narrator Various
Duration 56m
Welsh stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert hosts a brand new audience comedy show for Radio 2 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. Episode four features live music from Goldheart Assembly, including hits King of Rome, Engraver's Daughter and new sin...
View BookAlex Rider Series Book 6: Ark Angel
Author: Anthony Horowitz
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Author Anthony Horowitz
Narrator Oliver Chris
SeriesAlex Rider, Book 6
Duration 8h 46m
The sixth book in the Alex Rider series. Alex Rider is in hospital and determined to put his spying days behind him - but the reluctant teenage superspy is forced into action once again when a group of deadly eco-terrorists breaks in. Suddenly Alex finds himself in the middle of a war that seems to be somehow connected to Ark Angel, a revolutionary...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Atwood
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Author Margaret Atwood
Narrator John Chancer
Duration 12h 35m
This novel moves beyond the futuristic fantasy of 'The Handmaid's Tale' to an even more dystopian world, a world where language has almost entirely vanished. Snowman seems to be the last man on earth, the only survivor of an unnamed apocalypse. Gradually the reasons behind the disaster begin to unfold as Snowman undertakes a perilous journey to the...
View BookAuthor: C S Lewis
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Author C S Lewis
Narrator Derek Chandler
Duration 5h
C.S. Lewis sets out to disentangle a fundamental theological problem - why must humanity suffer? He questions the pain and suffering that occur everyday and how this contrasts with the notion of a God that is both omnipotent and good, concluding that no intellectual solution can dispense with the necessity of patience and courage.
View BookAuthor: Lynne Truss
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Author Lynne Truss
Narrator Lynn Fairleigh
Duration 8h
A pre-Bridget Jones collection of comic journalism in the form of a guide to the life of a cat-owning modern single woman in her 30s. Truss struggles with procrastination, single bananas, unclear cooking instructions and the ungrateful (and occasionally homicidal) nature of cats.
View BookWill Smith Presents the Tao of Bergerac
Author: Will Smith
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Author Will Smith
Narrator The Author
Duration 2h
Bergerac-obsessed Will Smith has one guiding force in his life - an audio book of John Nettles reading the ancient Chinese text of the Tao. He has always used this tape to illuminate problems in his life, to find a way through when the road seems blocked. Now Will brings the Tao of Bergerac to his audience, as each week he navigates the minefield o...
View BookAuthor: Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
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Author Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 2
Duration 1h 51m
Includes: 'The Thing in the Cellar', 'The Pagan Rite', 'Backs to the Wall', 'Just my Bill'. Four more original BBC television episodes of the much-loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith.
View BookLeo Waterman Series Book 1: Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca?
Author: G. M. Ford
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Author G. M. Ford
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesLeo Waterman, Book 1
Duration 9h 20m
A soft hearted sleuth with a rebellious streak, Seattle P.I. Leo Waterman gets entangled in every oddball situation. So when he's hired to locate Caroline Nobel, an errant mob heiress and landscape-loving activist, Leo finds himself following her into the rain-soaked Washington woods. But Caroline is being dragged deeper into the murky waters of en...
View BookAuthor: Malorie Blackman
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Author Malorie Blackman
Narrator Syan Blake
Duration 2h 57m
Beans calls her dad 'Gadgetman' because of the weird and wonderful gadgets he makes. When he accidentally invents a device that could be used to steal millions of pounds, Gadgetman is kidnapped, and with the help of her Gadgetman spy kit, Beans sets out to find him.
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