Author: Sebastian Faulks
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Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Peter Firth
Duration 15h 10m
Set in France before and during the First World War, this is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who finds his true love on a trip to Amiens in 1910. Unfortunately, she's already married to a wealthy textile baron. Wraysford convinces her to leave a life of passionless comfort to be at his side, but things do not turn out according t...
View BookAuthor: Micheal Butt
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Author Micheal Butt
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 black comedy by Michael Butt, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 19 October 2009. Max is set to inherit a small fortune when he turns 25, but standing between him and the money is his sister Katrin. And then there's the grandmother. It's dog-eat-dog on the mean streets of Weston-super-Mare.
View BookInvestigating Mr Thomas; A Play About Dylan Thomas
Author: Rob Gittins
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Author Rob Gittins
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged on the writer and poet Dylan Thomas. Based on a true story, Rob Gittins's play draws on archive material. When Time magazine printed a warts-and-all article about Dylan Thomas in 1953, the poet sued them for libel. Needing to gather more evidence, the magazine hired a private detective to shadow Thomas in New York...
View BookAuthor: Katie Hickman
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Author Katie Hickman
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 13h 23m
Elizabeth sits in the Bodleian library with trembling hands. Before her is a piece of parchment which provides the clue she has been looking for to a story that has been untold for 400 years: a tale of intrigue, forbidden love and dangerous secrets. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Susan Hill
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Author Susan Hill
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 10h 4m
Gunmen are terrorising young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. What - if anything - links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun? Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler falls back on well tried police methods such as questioning neighbours and house-to-house searches...
View BookAuthor: Hilary Mckay
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Author Hilary Mckay
Narrator Sophie Aldred
SeriesThe Casson Family, Book 3
Duration 5h 36m
It's the Casson Family finale, and Permanent Rose takes centre stage. It's tough being the youngest - Rose is lonely. Her family are always busy doing their own things so Rose comes home to a dark, quiet, empty house every day. Saffy is off with Sarah, Indigo has his paper round and guitar lessons, Eve's in quarantine in the shed, Bill's not much u...
View BookAuthor: Nadya Okamoto
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Author Nadya Okamoto
Narrator Nadya Okamoto
Duration 5h 26m
PERIOD founder and Harvard College student Nadya Okamoto offers a manifesto on menstruation and why we can no longer silence those who bleed-and how to engage in youth activism. Throughout history, periods have been hidden from the public. They're taboo. They're embarrassing. They're gross. And due to a crumbling or nonexistent national sex ed prog...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Lucinda Dryzek
Duration 12h 27m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Father Unknown by Lesley Pearse, read by Lucinda Dryzek. Orphaned, lost. Who is she really? One young woman's search across the globe for a past - and a future . . . Losing her adopted mother threatens all she's ever had . . . Daisy was adopted. But when her mother dies, she finds her secure existence throw...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Kilgarriff
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Author Sarah Kilgarriff
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 2h 12m
A unique collection of historic recordings in which the last brutal encounters of the war and the mixed emotions of the armistice are remembered by troops from both sides. By the end of March 1918, Germany's Spring Offensive had thrown British forces back over the old Somme battlefields. But this last push failed and with the stalemate of trench wa...
View BookThe Hardy Boys Series Book 6: The Shore Road Mystery
Author: Franklin W Dixon
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Author Franklin W Dixon
Narrator Bill Irwin
SeriesHardy Boys, Book 6
Duration 3h 32m
When the Hardy Boys eagerly agree to assist their friend Jack Dodd and his father in locating a family treasure, the two young detectives are unaware of the baffling complications that will arise.
View BookChief Inspector Banks Book 2: A Dedicated Man
Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator James Langton
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 2
Duration 8h 2m
A well-liked, respected historian and archaeologist is bludgeoned to death and left half-buried in a field. Now it falls to Chief Inspector Banks to solve a seemingly motiveless murder-and stop a killer who's bound to kill again.
View BookAuthor: Shami Chakrabarti
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Author Shami Chakrabarti
Narrator Shami Chakrabarti
Duration 6h 9m
On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of exception. Governments have decided that the rule of law and human rights are often too costly. In On Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti-who joined Liberty, the UK's leading civil rights organization, on 10 September 2001-explores why our fundamental rights an...
View BookAuthor: Hans Christian Andersen
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Author Hans Christian Andersen
Narrator Ulf Bjorkland
Duration 1h 4m
Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, the classic tale of friendship, love, and bravery has won the hearts of young readers for almost two centuries. Gerda, a young girl struggles to free her friend from an evil and icy foe. This book was an inspiration for "Frozen" and C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Listen to a new and magic...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Waugh
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Author Evelyn Waugh
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 5h 16m
The inspiration for a major film releasing 2008 starring Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon. A study of faith and disillusionment in a glamorous upper-class world, Waugh's most famous novel is partly autobiographical and is a gripping multi-character-study of aristocratic life behind closed doors. Charles Ryder meets Sebastian, a member of the aristo...
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 44m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon The world's best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about one of his most intriguing cases in this full-cast dramatisation that has been specially adapted for radio from the original novel....
View BookElephants To Catch Eels, Series 2, Episode 3
Author: Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
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Author Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
Narrator Sheridan Smith
SeriesElephants to Catch Eels Series 2, Book 3
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 France, can smuggler Tamsyn escape the clutches of French revolutionaries? Stars Sheridan Smith. From May 2004.
View BookJohn Arlott's Cricketing Wides, Byes and Slips!
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator John Arlott
Duration 1h 9m
John Arlott was BBC's Voice of Cricket for more than 30 summers and reported on all the key cricket matches from the 40's to his final commentary in 1980 at Lords. The imagery and wit of an uncomparable broadcaster is captured here in a unique collection of historic moments. From the 40's we hear about Bradman's last test, from the 50's Compton's h...
View BookAuthor: Robert Ludlum
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Author Robert Ludlum
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 7h
The first book in the Jason Bourne series. Jason Bourne was fished out of the Mediterranean, his body riddled with bullets. Evidence shows that plastic surgery has altered his face, and implanted beneath the skin on his hip is a frame of microfilm. On the film is a number which leads to a bank account in Zurich and four million dollars. Suddenly Bo...
View BookAuthor: Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Author Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrator Janet Mcteer
Duration 8h 35m
After the death of her parents, Mary Lennox is brought back from India as a forlorn and unwanted child to live in her uncle's great lonely house on the moors. Then one day, she discovers the key to a secret garden and, as if by magic, her life begins to change.
View BookSomething Like Fire: Peter Cook Remembered
Author: Lin (editor) Cook
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Author Lin (editor) Cook
Narrator Robert Pennant Jones
Duration 10h
Peter Cook's comic genius set the tone for the new British comedy of the sixties. His appearances on stage, television and film over three decades were legendary, as was his partnership with Dudley Moore. This audiobook offers a composite portrait, both of the public performer and the private man, written by many of the writers, performers and frie...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 52m
Watson gets the surprise of his life upon seeing a familiar face, coinciding with the seemingly motiveless murder of one Ronald Adair. What secrets does the empty house hold and who is the returning stranger who gives Watson such a shock? Expect exemplary detective work as always in this gripping story.
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