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  • Bleak House (Dramatised)
    By Charles Dickens
    Narrated by Full Cast
    4.80  (21 ratings)
    Michael Kitchen stars as John Jarndyce in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dickens' classic tale of London and the law.
    RADIO/TV PROGRAM 5 hrs and 9 mins
    Bleak House (Dramatised)
    4.80  (21 ratings)
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    Charles Dickens
  • Brideshead Revisited (Dramatised)
    By Evelyn Waugh
    Narrated by Full Cast
    4.90  (12 ratings)
    A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's stunning, tragi-comic novel of the lives, loves, and mores of the English aristocracy. The action moves between 1944 and 1923, to tell the story of Charles Ryder and his infatuation with the decadent Sebastian Flyte.
    PERFORMANCE 3 hrs and 48 mins
    Brideshead Revisited (Dramatised)
    4.90  (12 ratings)
    ORIGINAL
    Evelyn Waugh
  • The Complete Barchester Chronicles (Dramatisation)
    By Anthony Trollope
    Narrated by Anna Massey, Alex Jennings
    4.30  (228 ratings)
    Here is a new audio edition of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial life, available together in one download. Nearly 20 hours of ironic, witty, and wonderfully written drama is contained in this audiobook. The cast includes Anna Massey, Alex Jennings, David Haig, Rosemary Leach, Kenneth Cranham, Emma Fielding, and Brenda Blethyn.
    RADIO/TV PROGRAM 18 hrs and 47 mins
    The Complete Barchester Chronicles (Dramatisation)
    4.30  (228 ratings)
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    Anthony Trollope
  • Bleak Expectations: The Complete First Series
    By Mark Evans
    4.50  (115 ratings)
    A Victorian epic of awful schools inc the aptly named St Bastards, worse prisons, nuns at St Bitches, giant rabbits, and long lost super-hero aunts, in the style of Charles Dickens after far too much gin.
    PERFORMANCE 2 hrs and 49 mins
    Bleak Expectations: The Complete First Series
    4.50  (115 ratings)
    ORIGINAL
    Mark Evans

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  • Farewell to the East End
    Written by: Jennifer Worth
    Narrated by: Saskia Butler
    4.3 (15 ratings)
    London's East End in the 1950s was a vibrant place-a closeknit community of families where children made playgrounds on bombsites and a lively social scene emerged. It was into this world that Jennifer Worth entered as a young midwife. Post-war life could be a struggle, but there was also warmth and humour. Farewell to the East End chronicles the lives, culture and stores of a bygone era.
    UNABRIDGED 9 hrs and 44 mins
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    Jennifer Worth
  • The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
    Written by: Edmund de Waal
    Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    3.6 (63 ratings)
    Winner of the 2010 COSTA Biography Award. A total of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his Great Uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined....
    UNABRIDGED 10 hrs and 36 mins
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  • Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning
    Written by: Gary Marcus
    Narrated by: Gary Marcus
    Not rated yet
    Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start piano at the age of six, is there any hope? Is skill learning best left to children or can anyone reinvent him-or herself at any time?
    UNABRIDGED 5 hrs and 33 mins
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    Gary Marcus
  • The Metamorphoses
    Written by: Ovid
    Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    3.8 (16 ratings)
    An undeniable masterpiece of Western Civilization, The Metamorphoses is a continuous narrative that covers all the Olympian legends, seamlessly moving from one story to another in a splendid panorama of savage beauty, charm, and wit. All of the gods and heroes familiar to us are represented. Such familiar legends as Hercules, Perseus and Medusa, Daedelus and Icarus, Diana and Actaeon, and many others, are breathtakingly recreated.
    UNABRIDGED 16 hrs and 16 mins
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    Ovid
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  • Thalia Book Club: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration
    Written by: Harper Lee
    Narrated by: Stephen Colbert, Isaiah Sheffer, Jayne Anne Phillips, Mary McDonagh Murphy, Oskar Eustis, Libba Bray, Kurt Andersen
    1.0 (3 ratings)
    Authors and actors including Stephen Colbert, Libba Bray (award winning young-adult novelist Going Bovine, winner of 2010 Printz Award), Oskar Eustis (Artistic Director at The Public Theater), Kurt Andersen (novelist and Studio 360 Host), Jayne Anne Phillips (novelist and National Book Award finalist Lark & Termite), filmmaker Mary McDonagh Murphy (author of the upcoming book Scout, Atticus, and Boo), and others pay tribute to the Pulitzer prize-winning classic novel about racial injustice and loss of innocence in a small Southern town.
    ORIGINAL 1 hr and 39 mins
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    Harper Lee
  • Alan Bennett: Triple Bill
    Written by: Alan Bennett
    Narrated by: Hugh Lloyd, Patricia Routledge, Judi Dench
    4.3 (12 ratings)
    Here are three classic Alan Bennett adaptations, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Included are "Say Something Happened", "Two in Torquay", and "A Visit from Miss Protheroe".
    ORIGINAL 1 hr and 12 mins
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    Alan Bennett
  • Murder in the Cathedral
    Written by: T. S. Eliot
    Narrated by: Robert Donat, Alan Dobie, Wolfe Morris, Patrick Wymark, Bruce Sharman
    Not rated yet
    T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral is both a fascinating retelling of the 12th-century assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket and a compelling call for resistance in the face of intimidation. Written against the backdrop of rising Fascism in 20th-century Europe, Eliot's classic verse play is as relevant now as it ever was. This re-release of the original 1953 recording stars Robert Donat whose commanding performance as the Archbishop, alongside a full cast, is widely celebrated.
    UNABRIDGED 1 hr and 45 mins
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    T. S. Eliot
  • Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems 1985-1993
    Written by: Carol Ann Duffy
    Narrated by: Carol Ann Duffy
    3.0 (1 ratings)
    Selected Poems is a collection of poetry chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first four acclaimed novels: Standing Female Nude, Selling Manhattan, The Other Country, and Mean Time (winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award).
    UNABRIDGED 2 hrs and 13 mins
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  • Bright Lights, Dark Shadows: The Real Story of Abba
    Written by: Carl Magnus Palm
    Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
    3.0 (2 ratings)
    An exploration of all aspects of the Abba member's lives and careers. Amazingly detailed, it examines the group member's family backgrounds, the pre-Abba days, the legendary 70s, the marriages, the divorces, the business ups and downs, and the post-Abba solo careers.
    UNABRIDGED 26 hrs and 8 mins
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    Carl Magnus Palm
  • The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century
    Written by: Alex Ross
    Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    4.5 (11 ratings)
    The Rest Is Noise takes the listener inside the labyrinth of modern music, from turn-of-the-century Vienna to downtown New York in the '60s and '70s. We meet the maverick personalities and follow the rise of mass culture on this sweeping tour of 20th-century history through its music.
    UNABRIDGED 23 hrs and 7 mins
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    Alex Ross
  • Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited (33 1/3 Series)
    Written by: Mark Polizzotti
    Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    4.0 (3 ratings)
    Between the fitfully brilliant Bringing It All Back Home and the sprawling masterwork that is Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited stands as the defining moment in both Dylan's career and the musical evolution of the mid 1960's. But beyond its place in history, Highway 61 works because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal.
    UNABRIDGED 4 hrs and 26 mins
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    Mark Polizzotti
  • Macbeth: Shakespeare Appreciated: (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)
    Written by: William Shakespeare, Simon Potter, Phil Viner
    Narrated by: Joan Walker, Nick Murchie, Coralyn Sheldon
    3.8 (6 ratings)
    Experience Macbeth as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds. To help you get the most out of Shakespeare, the narrator offers historical insights and background information, so you can enjoy the jokes, appreciate the references, and get a real sense of Shakespeare's world.
    UNABRIDGED 6 hrs and 55 mins
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    William Shakespeare, Simon Potter, Phil Viner

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  • Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation: Speeches and Scenes Performed as Shakespeare Would Have Heard Them
    By William Shakespeare
    Narrated by Ben Crystal, Philip Bird, Rebecca Pownell, Natalie Thomas, Benjamin O'Mahony, Matthew Mellalieu, Colin Hurley
    Not rated yet
    How did Shakespeare sound to the audiences of his day? For the first time, this audio offers listeners the chance to hear England's greatest playwright performed by a company of actors using the pronunciation of his time. Under the guidance of Ben Crystal, actor, author of Shakespeare on Toast, and an expert in original Shakespearian pronunciation, the company performs some of Shakespeare's best-known poems, solo speeches, and scenes from the plays.
    PERFORMANCE 1 hr and 15 mins
    Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation: Speeches and Scenes Performed as Shakespeare Would Have Heard Them
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    • William Shakespeare
  • The Poetry Album: A Collection of Works By Major Romantic and Victorian Poets
    By Audio Book Contractors
    Narrated by Flo Gibson
    Not rated yet
    Included in this collection are major works by Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Abraham Crowley, William Cooper, John Donne, Michael Drayton, John Dryden, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Hardy, Robert Herrick, Thomas Gray, Ben Johnson, John Keats, John Lyly, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Sir Walter Raleigh, Christina Rossetti, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Southey and more!
    UNABRIDGED 3 hrs and 52 mins
    The Poetry Album: A Collection of Works By Major Romantic and Victorian Poets
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  • 'The Song of Hiawatha' and More Poems
    By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Narrated by Flo Gibson
    Not rated yet
    Included in this collection, along with Longfellow's classic "The Song of Hiawatha", are "An April Day", "Autumn", "Woods in Winter", "The Wreck of the Hesperus", "The Village Blacksmith", "Endymion", "Voices of the Night", "Hymn to the Night", "A Psalm of Life", "The Reaper and the Flowers", "The Light of Stars", "Footsteps of Angels", "Flowers", "The Beleaguered City", "Midnight Mass for the Dying Year" and "The Day Is Done".
    UNABRIDGED 3 hrs and 47 mins
    'The Song of Hiawatha' and More Poems
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    • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Hedda Gabler
    By Henrik Ibsen
    Narrated by Flo Gibson
    Not rated yet
    Hedda Gabler is one of the most interesting and intricate figures to appear on stage. Her boredom with her mariage and jealousy of her former lover set off a chain of events that result in an untimely death. Oh, but the deceased did "die beautifully"!
    UNABRIDGED 2 hrs and 53 mins
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    • Henrik Ibsen
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  • Pygmalion
    By George Bernard Shaw
    Narrated by Flo Gibson
    Not rated yet
    A Cockney flower girl is transformed into a charming woman of the world by a professor of phonetics. This is the play that was later to be adapted as the musical, My Fair Lady.
    UNABRIDGED 2 hrs and 46 mins
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    • George Bernard Shaw
  • Hamlet (Dramatized)
    By William Shakespeare
    Narrated by Josh Stamberg, Stephen Collins, JoBeth Williams, Stacy Keach, Alan Mandell, Emily Swallow, Matthew Wolf
    Not rated yet
    Composed over 400 years ago, the tragic tale of young Prince Hamlet remains one of the theater's most studied and performed works, presented here in a new full-cast recording, directed by Martin Jarvis and featuring a special appearance by Stacy Keach as The Ghost.
    PERFORMANCE 3 hrs and 15 mins
    Hamlet (Dramatized)
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    ORIGINAL
    • William Shakespeare
  • The Rivals: A Radio Dramatization
    By Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Narrated by The Colonial Radio Players
    Not rated yet
    The idealistic Lydia Languish, reads nothing but romantic novels, and in doing so, believes she can only find true love in the arms of a man without wealth. Captain Jack Absolute has fallen in love with her, and pretends to be a penniless ensign to win her heart. Coming between these two lovers are some of the most extraordinary comic characters ever to grace a stage; the autocratic Sir Anthony Absolute, the misspeaking Mrs. Malaprop, the fiery Irishman from Clod hall - Sir Lucius O'Trigger; and poor Bob Acres, a country squire who finds himself with a dueling pistol in his hand.
    RADIO/TV PROGRAM 2 hrs and 10 mins
    The Rivals: A Radio Dramatization
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    • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Measure for Measure (Dramatized)
    By William Shakespeare
    Narrated by Oregon Shakespeare Festival
    Not rated yet
    Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's compelling tragicomedy that explores restraint-and lack thereof. The duke's authoritarian deputy, Angelo, is hell-bent on stamping out moral decay. He reactivates outdated draconian laws and aims his arrogant crosshairs at a young man whose fiancée is pregnant, sentencing him to death. Angelo is sternly incorruptible-until he meets Isabela....
    PERFORMANCE 2 hrs and 16 mins
    Measure for Measure (Dramatized)
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    • William Shakespeare
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  • Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
    By Donald Clarke
    Narrated by Anna Fields
    Not rated yet
    No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. This authentic biography sets the record straight.
    UNABRIDGED 17 hrs and 44 mins
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  • Enoch Arden: Melodrama for Speaker and Piano
    By Alfred Lord Tennyson, Richard Strauss (music)
    Narrated by Benjamin Luxon, Frederick Moyer
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    Enoch Arden first came to international attention with a recording by Claude Raines and Glenn Gould, but it has since drifted back to obscurity. This is a work that both Luxon and Moyer have loved for many years. The poem is immediately accessible to any audience and tells a heart-wrenching story of friendship, love, separation, and sacrifice. The masterful score creates a powerful soundtrack to the saga.
    UNABRIDGED 1 hr and 12 mins
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    • Alfred Lord Tennyson , Richard Strauss (music)
  • 528hz Solfeggio Meditation: Transform Your Life, Repair DNA and Create Miracles
    By Harrold Glenn, Ali Calderwood (music)
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    This is one of a series of six meditation recordings by Glenn Harrold and Ali Calderwood, which are based upon the ancient Solfeggio musical scale. Each note in this scale has specific healing properties, and this recording uses the third note, which resonates to a frequency of 528hz. This frequency works to heal broken DNA, healing on all levels - emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical - bringing relief from anxiety, fatigue, and control issues. It helps to release negative thinking.
    SPEECH 42 mins
    528hz Solfeggio Meditation: Transform Your Life, Repair DNA and Create Miracles
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    • Harrold Glenn , Ali Calderwood (music)
  • The Modern Scholar: Rock 'n' Roll and American Society: Part One: From the Beginning to 1960
    By William McKeen
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    An author and university professor whose books include scholarly works on the Beatles and Bob Dylan, William McKeen here tackles the role of popular music in American culture. Beginning with the emergence of rock in the 1950s, and including the meteoric rise of artists such as Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry, McKeen examines the growth of the recording industry while incorporating the social and intellectual history of the country.
    LECTURE 7 hrs and 36 mins
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    • William McKeen