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  • The Help
    By Kathryn Stockett
    Narrated by Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell
    4.80  (965 ratings)
    Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Aibileen is a black maid raising her 17th white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi: a wonderful cook with a gossip's tongue. Graduate Skeeter returns from college with ambitions, but her mother will not be happy until she's married. Although world's apart, Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny's lives converge over a clandestine project that will change the town of Jackson forever.
    4.80  (965 ratings)
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    Kathryn Stockett
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Volume 2: The Ring Goes East
    By J.R.R. Tolkien
    Narrated by Rob Inglis
    4.80  (144 ratings)
    Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin, alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.
    4.80  (144 ratings)
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Volume 2: The End of the Third Age
    By J.R.R. Tolkien
    Narrated by Rob Inglis
    4.80  (137 ratings)
    The Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures as the quest continues. Aragon, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and took part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry and Pippin, captured by orcs, escaped into Fangorn Forest and there encountered the Ents. And all the time the armies of the Dark Lord are massing.
  • The Green Mile
    By Stephen King
    Narrated by Frank Muller
    4.80  (84 ratings)
    At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers such as "Billy the Kid" Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in "Old Sparky". Guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them.
    4.80  (84 ratings)
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    Stephen King
  • The Woman in Black
    Written by: Susan Hill
    Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
    4.3 (99 ratings)
    Eel Marsh house stands alone, surveying the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Once, Mrs Alice Drablow lived here as a recluse. Now, Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor with a London firm, is summoned to attend her funeral, unaware of the tragic and terrible secrets which lie behind the house's shuttered windows.
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  • The Help
    Written by: Kathryn Stockett
    Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell
    4.8 (965 ratings)
    Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Aibileen is a black maid raising her 17th white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi: a wonderful cook with a gossip's tongue. Graduate Skeeter returns from college with ambitions, but her mother will not be happy until she's married. Although world's apart, Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny's lives converge over a clandestine project that will change the town of Jackson forever.
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  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    Written by: Stieg Larsson
    Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    4.5 (1998 ratings)
    Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own family. He employs journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.
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  • The Girl Who Played with Fire
    Written by: Stieg Larsson
    Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    4.6 (1654 ratings)
    Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists are murdered and Salander's fingerprints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable behaviour makes her the official suspect, but no-one can find her. Salander may be an expert at staying out of sight, but she also has ways of tracking down her most elusive enemies.
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  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Volume 1: The Ring Sets Out
    Written by: J.R.R. Tolkien
    Narrated by: Rob Inglis
    4.6 (255 ratings)
    In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.
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  • Breaking Dawn: The Twilight Saga, Book 4
    Written by: Stephenie Meyer
    Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin, Matt Walters
    4.5 (379 ratings)
    Twilight tempted the imagination . . . New Moon made readers thirsty for more . . . Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon . . . And now - the book that everyone has been waiting for . . . Breaking Dawn. In the much anticipated fourth book in Stephenie Meyer's love story, questions will be answered and the fate of Bella and Edward will be revealed.
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  • One Day
    Written by: David Nicholls
    Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
    4.0 (650 ratings)
    He is Dexter Mayhew, tall, dark and (she can't deny it) handsome. She is Emma Morley, bottled red hair, wilfully badly dressed, all principles and no action. Could this be the dawn of the rest of their lives? Or are Dex and Em living proof that - despite an unlikely beginning - men and women really can be just good friends?
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  • Dune
    Written by: Frank Herbert
    Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance
    4.5 (698 ratings)
    Shortlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
    Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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  • Cabin Pressure, The Complete Series 1
    Written by: John Finnemore
    Narrated by: Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam, Benedict Cumberbatch
    4.7 (152 ratings)
    John Finnemore (Dead Ringers & Mitchell & Webb) has written this brilliant new sitcom starring Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam & Benedict Cumberbatch. Cabin Pressure is set in a small airline business. The flipside of the glamorous world of international airlines.
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  • Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? (Complete Series)
    Written by: Micky Flanagan
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    Cockney comedian Micky Flanagan's debut radio show charts the ups and downs of his life, from Billingsgate fish porter to successful stand-up comic and from Sunblest to panini, tabloids to broadsheets and the street party to the dinner party. Each week's episode focuses on a different decade of Micky's life, and he regales us with autobiographical stories told through stand-up comedy. In between the laughs, the programme goes behind the scenes with short interviews that give an insight into Micky the man.
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  • Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 3
    Written by: John Finnemore
    4.8 (24 ratings)
    Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Roger Allam star in the first series of the hit sitcom about the tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.
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  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    Written by: Jonathan Safran Foer
    Narrated by: Barbara Caruso, Richard Ferrone, Jeff Woodman
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    Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, great explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies, Beatles memorabilia, miniature cacti and coral. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks, his inward journey towards some kind of peace takes him on an odyssey through the five boroughs of New York, as he attempts to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet....
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  • Charlie Rose: February 21, 2012
    By Charlie Rose
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    Charlie Rose: February 21, 2012
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  • The News from Lake Wobegon from A Prairie Home Companion, February 18, 2012
    By Garrison Keillor
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    "It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my hometown..." Garrison Keillor first did his monologue in 1974 to an audience of 20 in a St. Paul theater. Today, more than 2.2 million people tune in each week to hear the tall tales and sweet stories about the citizens of this small Minnesota town. It's a town where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all of the children are above average."
    The News from Lake Wobegon from A Prairie Home Companion, February 18, 2012
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  • McLevy: Complete Series 5
    By David Ashton
    Narrated by Brian Cox
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    Brian Cox stars as McLevy with Siobhán Redmond as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Mulholland in these BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulholland. In Series 5, the episodes are:
    • To Keep Him Honest
    • Picture of Innocence
    • The Chosen One and
    • The Reckoning
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  • Andrew Zimmern Visits Huatulco: Chapter 6 from 'The Bizarre Truth'
    By Andrew Zimmern
    Narrated by Andrew Zimmern
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    Andrew Zimmern, the host of the Travel Channel's hit series "Bizarre Foods", has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that's consumed as food globally. For Zimmern, local cuisine is not simply what's served at mealtime. It is a primary avenue to discovering what is most authentic - the bizarre truth - about cultures everywhere. In this section, Zimmern catches and cooks Huatulco's native octopuses.
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  • Arthur Smith's Balham Bash: Complete Series Three
    By Arthur Smith
    Narrated by Arthur Smith
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    Series 3 of the sociable show in which Arthur Smith presents music and comedy from his home in South London. Among the guests finding a performance space amid the debris that is Arthur's life are Katie Melua, Roisin Conaty, Alun Cochrane, Nick Helm, Jenny Eclair, Simon Evans, John Smallshaw, Alex Wilson and his salsa combo, Sean Lock, Annette Fagon, Squeeze, Billy Jenkins, Kevin Eldon, Imran Yusuf and Kate Fox. Series produced by Alison Vernon-Smith.
    Arthur Smith's Balham Bash: Complete Series Three
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  • McLevy: Complete Series 6
    By David Ashton
    Narrated by Brian Cox
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    Brian Cox stars as McLevy with Siobhán Redmond as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Mulholland in these BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulholland. In Series 6, the episodes are: A Bolt from the Blue, End of the Line, Jack O' Diamonds and Queen of Spades. Directed by Patrick Rayner.
    McLevy: Complete Series 6
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  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    By Jonathan Safran Foer
    Narrated by Barbara Caruso, Richard Ferrone, Jeff Woodman
    Not rated yet
    Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, great explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies, Beatles memorabilia, miniature cacti and coral. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks, his inward journey towards some kind of peace takes him on an odyssey through the five boroughs of New York, as he attempts to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet....
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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  • The News from Lake Wobegon from A Prairie Home Companion, February 11, 2012
    By Garrison Keillor
    Not rated yet
    "It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my hometown..." Garrison Keillor first did his monologue in 1974 to an audience of 20 in a St. Paul theater. Today, more than 2.2 million people tune in each week to hear the tall tales and sweet stories about the citizens of this small Minnesota town. It's a town where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all of the children are above average."
    The News from Lake Wobegon from A Prairie Home Companion, February 11, 2012
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  • Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? (Complete Series)
    By Micky Flanagan
    Not rated yet
    Cockney comedian Micky Flanagan's debut radio show charts the ups and downs of his life, from Billingsgate fish porter to successful stand-up comic and from Sunblest to panini, tabloids to broadsheets and the street party to the dinner party. Each week's episode focuses on a different decade of Micky's life, and he regales us with autobiographical stories told through stand-up comedy. In between the laughs, the programme goes behind the scenes with short interviews that give an insight into Micky the man.
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  • The Goon Show Classics, Volume 1: The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurlery of Bexhill-on-Sea & The Histories of Pliny the Elder (Vintage Beeb)
    By Spike Milligan
    Narrated by Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe
    1.00  (1 ratings)
    Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe star in two classic BBC Radio episodes, The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea and The Histories of Pliny the Elder. The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea: No fewer than 38 Batter Puddings have been hurled at Minnie Bannister, the world famous poker player. (Give her a good poker and she'll play any tune you like.) A madman is at large so it's time to call in Scotland Yard!
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  • Welcome to the Wasteland (Afternoon Play)
    By D.J. Britton, Stephen Hogan
    Narrated by Lesley Sharp, Anamaria Marinca, Lizzy Watts, Sam Dale, Ben Askew, Philip Fox
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    As Chief Executive of her local council, Robyn has just days to stop recycling being wiped from her ambitious environmental plans. But the credit crunch continues to put pressure on other priorities. Meanwhile, her daughter, Afrah, provides a safe house for a fiercely committed environmentalist from Eastern Europe. Written by D. J. Britton and starring Lesley Sharp, Anamaria Marinca, Lizzy Watts, Sam Dale, Ben Askew, Stephen Hogan, and Philip Fox. Produced by Pam Marshall.
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  • To the Manor Born (Vintage Beeb)
    By Peter Spence
    Narrated by Penelope Keith, Peter Bowles
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    Soundtrack highlights from the original much-loved BBC TV series starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles. This collection was first published on LP in the 1980s. When Audrey fforbes-Hamilton's husband dies, and she is forced to leave Grantleigh Manor, she takes up residence at the nearby Lodge from where she can keep a watchful eye on the Manor s new owner, Richard DeVere!
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