Author: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Anton Lesser Et Al
SeriesMarcus Didius Falco, Book 4
Duration 2h 47m
Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the fourth novel in Lindsey Davis's bestselling series featuring Roman private eye Falco. The Iron Hand of Mars sees Falco being dispatched to one of the most hostile parts of the Empire to deliver a new standard - an iron hand - to one of the legions. Germania is col...
View BookThe Crystal Pool: Myths and Legends of the World
Author: Geraldine Mccaughrean
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Author Geraldine Mccaughrean
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 4h 6m
A crystal pool of myths and legends from around the world: 28 of the most wonderful tales ever told. Geraldine McCaughrean, a great storyteller herself, has gathered them from distant times and faraway places and retells them brilliantly, adding notes on their origin and meaning.
View BookHow To Handle Men Through the Application of Psychology & the House of Hope
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 5
Duration 1h 27m
Warm, humorous and uplifting, Alexander McCall Smith's hugely popular novels featuring Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of Botswana's only female private detective agency, have become international bestsellers, sold over seven million copies, and been translated into 26 languages.These acclaimed productions, complete with vibrant music, bring the exot...
View BookAuthor: Dalai Lama
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Author Dalai Lama
Narrator Nicholas Bell
Duration 5h 20m
This audiobook examines capitalism and Buddhism by taking leaders on a progressive path. First learning new techniques for themselves, then for their organisations, before applying them on a global scale to address such vital topics as poverty, sustainability, diversity and environmental responsibility - all areas that are affected by the workings...
View BookAuthor: Kenneth C. Davis
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Author Kenneth C. Davis
Narrator Macleod Andrews
Duration 4h 40m
With 2018 marking the 100th anniversary of the worst disease outbreak in modern history, the story of the Spanish flu is more relevant today than ever. This dramatic narrative, told through the stories and voices of the people caught in the deadly maelstrom, explores how this vast, global epidemic was intertwined with the horrors of World War I-and...
View BookAuthor: Hall Martha Kelly
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Author Hall Martha Kelly
Narrator Various
Duration 15h 30m
It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a life...
View BookAuthor: Jean Anouilh
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Author Jean Anouilh
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 47m
The body of polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king Thebes. Antigone's faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial, and her defiance of the dictator Creon, seals her fate. Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Anouilh's "Antigone" was seen by the French as theater of th...
View BookAuthor: James Carol
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Author James Carol
Narrator Various
Duration 11h 24m
Jefferson Winter is no ordinary investigator. The son of one of America's most renowned serial killers, Winter has spent his life trying to distance himself from his father's legacy. When he accepts a particularly disturbing case in London, Winter arrives to find a psychopath on the loose who likes abducting and lobotomising young women. Winter mus...
View BookAuthor: Andre Aciman
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Author Andre Aciman
Narrator Armie Hammer
Duration 7h 48m
Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground betwee...
View BookDorothy Must Die Series Book 2: The Wicked Will Rise
Author: Danielle Paige
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Author Danielle Paige
Narrator Devon Sovari
SeriesDorothy Must Die, Book 2
Duration 9h 5m
My name is Amy Gumm-and I'm the other girl from Kansas. After a tornado swept through my trailer park, I ended up in Oz. But it wasn't like the Oz I knew from books and movies. Dorothy had returned, but she was now a ruthless dictator. Glinda could no longer be called the Good Witch. And the Wicked Witches who were left? They'd joined forces as the...
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Kelk
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Author Lindsey Kelk
Narrator Avita Jay, Ben Allen
Duration 14h 5m
Is it a break? Or is it a blip? 'You've just had a holiday,' I pointed out, trying not to yawn. Wasn't that enough of a break? 'I don't mean that kind of break.' There's nothing worse than the last day of holiday. Oh wait, there is. When what should have been a proposal turns into a break, Liv and Adam find themselves on opposite sides of the life...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Coe
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Author Jonathan Coe
Narrator Scott Shina
Duration 11h 35m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Jeff Woodman and Scott Shina. A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aid...
View BookAuthor: Kristen Crow
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Author Kristen Crow
Narrator Unknown
Duration 5m
Zombelina loves to dance. She moonwalks with mummies and boogies with bats. She spins like a specter and glides like a ghost and loves to dance for her family the most. When Zombelina enrolls in a ballet class for real girls, her dancing gives everyone the chills! But when her first recital brings on a case of stage fright, her zombie moans and gho...
View BookAuthor: Pauline Devaney
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Author Pauline Devaney
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 49m
One of the most popular sitcoms of the 60s, All Gas and Gaiters successfully brought its good-natured satire of ecclesiastical life to radio in 1970. So here again, once more up to their clerical collars in confusion, are the unforgettable quartet who share the cloisters of St Ogg's Cathedral: the Rev. Mervyn Noote, the Bishop, the Dean and the Arc...
View BookAuthor: Mike Walker
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Author Mike Walker
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
Tim, Meredith and Harry are three sassy, thirty something traders who, tired of making money for someone else, combine to launch a new hedge fund. But it doesn't take long before they get seriously above themselves, losing a small fortune and making some pretty heavy enemies in the City markets. Facing financial meltdown, Harry is deputed to exploi...
View BookAuthor: Giovanni Boccaccio
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Author Giovanni Boccaccio
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 19m
Read by members of the cast of the exciting new film based on 'The Decameron', 'Virgin Territory', Boccacio's raunchy 14th-Century work is given a new lease of life in this inventive and witty production by CSA WORD. A group of Florentine youth escape to the mountain countryside during the time of the plague, only to regale each other with vignette...
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 3h
Fascinating, frightening or just plain frustrating? These eight gripping stories show detective work as it really is - and sometimes truth can be stranger than fiction. Read about the ghostly dream that helped to solve a baffling murder mystery, some clever detectives' tricks that led to the conviction of the 'Laurel and Hardy' jewel thieves, and t...
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Series Book 1: The Magician's Nephew
Author: C S Lewis
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Author C S Lewis
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1
Duration 6h
In The Magician's Nephew, nothing is quite as it seems. Digory and Polly find themselves magically transported to a Wood between the Worlds, where several small ponds act as gateways to different worlds. They discover the dead world of Charn and together with Aslan the lion the pair fight against the evil Queen Jadis, restoring the land to its natu...
View BookAuthor: J B Priestley
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Author J B Priestley
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 27m
A BBC Radio 4 production of Priestley's classic thriller, starring Toby Jones and Frances Barber. The Birling family are spending a happy evening celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft-a marriage that will result in the merging of two successful local businesses. Yet, just when everything seems to be going so well, they receiv...
View BookAuthor: David Eldridge
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Author David Eldridge
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 3m
The writer David Eldridge introduces his BBC Radio 3 full-cast drama, The Picture Man starring Martin Freeman, about a man who despairs of the behaviour he sees around him and decides to take action. Originally broadcast in the "Drama on 3" slot on 6 January 2008. Neil decides he has been pushed too far by the uncaring and often callous behaviour h...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 28m
Michael Sheen stars as Hamlet with Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beaven as Ophelia in the best-known and most powerful tragedy of modern times. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and...
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