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The Mine
- Cumbria Crime, Book 2
- By: Rachel McLean, Joel Hames
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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She’s solved her first murder with the help of her new team, averted a potential riot, and is starting to learn who she can trust inside Cumbria Police – and who she can’t.
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Brilliant when do we get No. 3
- By deborah andrews on 14-03-24
By: Rachel McLean, and others
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An Inspector Calls (Classic Radio Theatre)
- By: J. B. Priestley
- Narrated by: Toby Jones, David Calder, Morven Christie
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Original Recording
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The Birling family are spending a happy evening celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft. But then they receive a surprise visit from an Inspector Goole....
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GCSE text
- By Susan on 24-12-12
By: J. B. Priestley
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: William Hootkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel....
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Magnificent book!
- By C.H. on 23-09-15
By: Herman Melville
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The Idiot
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naïve? Find out....
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Good but not his best
- By MR J. on 17-02-17
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The Noel Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Seven BBC Radio Full-cast Productions
- By: Noel Coward
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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Seven BBC radio full-cast productions of Noël Coward’s classic plays – plus bonus material including a profile of Coward and extracts from his diaries....
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No chapter titles!
- By Catherine A. Miller on 26-04-20
By: Noel Coward
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Under Milk Wood
- A BBC Radio Full-Cast Production
- By: Dylan Thomas
- Narrated by: Richard Burton
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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A classic BBC Radio full-cast production of Dylan Thomas' poetic play for voices starring Richard Burton as the narrator....
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Hasn't aged a bit!
- By Stephanie Jane (Literary Flits) on 01-12-13
By: Dylan Thomas
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The Mine
- Cumbria Crime, Book 2
- By: Rachel McLean, Joel Hames
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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She’s solved her first murder with the help of her new team, averted a potential riot, and is starting to learn who she can trust inside Cumbria Police – and who she can’t.
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Brilliant when do we get No. 3
- By deborah andrews on 14-03-24
By: Rachel McLean, and others
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An Inspector Calls (Classic Radio Theatre)
- By: J. B. Priestley
- Narrated by: Toby Jones, David Calder, Morven Christie
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Original Recording
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The Birling family are spending a happy evening celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft. But then they receive a surprise visit from an Inspector Goole....
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GCSE text
- By Susan on 24-12-12
By: J. B. Priestley
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Moby Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: William Hootkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel....
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Magnificent book!
- By C.H. on 23-09-15
By: Herman Melville
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The Idiot
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naïve? Find out....
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Good but not his best
- By MR J. on 17-02-17
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The Noel Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Seven BBC Radio Full-cast Productions
- By: Noel Coward
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Seven BBC radio full-cast productions of Noël Coward’s classic plays – plus bonus material including a profile of Coward and extracts from his diaries....
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No chapter titles!
- By Catherine A. Miller on 26-04-20
By: Noel Coward
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Under Milk Wood
- A BBC Radio Full-Cast Production
- By: Dylan Thomas
- Narrated by: Richard Burton
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Original Recording
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A classic BBC Radio full-cast production of Dylan Thomas' poetic play for voices starring Richard Burton as the narrator....
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Hasn't aged a bit!
- By Stephanie Jane (Literary Flits) on 01-12-13
By: Dylan Thomas
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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Secondary Phase Special
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Stranded on Prehistoric Earth since the end of the first series, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are once again trying to hitch their way off the planet....
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Science meets philosophy - and laughs
- By Alexander Macallister on 02-02-14
By: Douglas Adams
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Bel Canto
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Ann Patchett’s award winning, New York Times best-selling Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language. The author’s lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance....
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Incredible. The story, the performance, the characters...
- By Rose on 10-01-21
By: Ann Patchett
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, his ascent of Mount Purgatory and his encounter with his dead love Beatrice, and finally, his arrival in Heaven....
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A classic
- By Cameron ms on 20-02-21
By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, and others
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The Way Forward
- By: Yung Pueblo
- Narrated by: Yung Pueblo
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most ambitious collection yet. In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes while guiding listeners further, toward a life lived authentically, intuitively, and in harmony with others....
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Message
- By George Reese on 15-01-24
By: Yung Pueblo
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The Once and Future King
- By: T. H. White
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 33 hrs
- Unabridged
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The complete "box set" of T. H. White's epic fantasy novel of the Arthurian legend....
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Magical
- By W. Reid on 05-07-11
By: T. H. White
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The Mountains Sing
- By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War....
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A family's trauma in wartorn Vietnam
- By Strayficshion on 27-10-20
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot
- Read by Jeremy Irons
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons, Dame Eileen Atkins
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity....
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I hope this helps........
- By Peter Clinch on 12-06-18
By: T. S. Eliot
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The Complete Jaipur Trilogy
- The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, and The Perfumist of Paris
- By: Alka Joshi
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan, Ariyan Kassam, Deepa Samuel
- Length: 33 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Vivid and compelling, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel. Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur....
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Indian Culture at its best
- By Janette Thomas on 12-03-24
By: Alka Joshi
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Paradise Lost
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, "to justify the ways of God to men"....
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Sonorous metal
- By Francis on 06-12-07
By: John Milton
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47 Ronin
- By: John Allyn, Stephen Turnbull - foreword
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master....
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A great story
- By Taarente on 08-08-23
By: John Allyn, and others
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The Inspector Graham Mysteries: Books 5-7
- Inspector Graham Collection, Book 2
- By: Alison Golden, Grace Dagnall
- Narrated by: Matt Jamie
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Graham's a career police officer, with a tragic past. His quiet, thoughtful exterior hides a complex mind, and a fierce determination to see justice done.
By: Alison Golden, and others
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The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
- The Complete First Edition
- By: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Jack Zipes - translator/editor
- Narrated by: Joel Richards, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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For the very first time, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm makes available in English all 156 stories from the 1812 and 1815 editions....
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160 chapters with no titles :(
- By Ruth on 10-02-21
By: Jacob Grimm, and others
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No Longer Human - Confessions of a Faulty Man
- By: Osamu Dazai
- Narrated by: Simon Jackson
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar...
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Good story but...
- By Sharon on 10-03-24
By: Osamu Dazai
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A View from the Bridge
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Mary McDonnell, Harry Hamlin, Amy Pietz, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Original Recording
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Italian-American immigrant life in the 1950’s textures this searing drama of love and revenge. Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife, Beatrice and to his niece, Catherine....
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Very well acted play, gripping
- By Happy and Smiling on 25-11-16
By: Arthur Miller
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The Canterbury Tales
- Penguin Classics
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translation)
- Narrated by: Lesley Manville, Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce....
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An Important Job Half Done.
- By Enobarbus on 14-01-20
By: Geoffrey Chaucer, and others
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Waiting for Godot
- By: Samuel Beckett
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett, David Burke, Terence Rigby, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece....
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Bizarre
- By Kamil Arakeljan on 13-01-18
By: Samuel Beckett
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Dickens' Women
- By: Charles Dickens, Miriam Margolyes
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, Dickens’ Women tells the story of Charles Dickens’ life through his beloved characters....
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Simply perfect
- By P. Kirby on 12-10-20
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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Death at Westminster
- London Cosy Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Rachel McLean, Millie Ravensworth
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Diana Bakewell is London’s savviest and best connected tour guide. As the lead guide at Chartwell and Crouch Tours, she’s busy teaching her young assistant Zaf the ropes alongside dealing with company politics and her slimy boss....
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Fun
- By Beverley on 15-12-23
By: Rachel McLean, and others
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The Henna Artist
- By: Alka Joshi
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist - and confidante - to the wealthy women of the upper class....
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A nice, gentle read
- By M. King on 23-07-20
By: Alka Joshi
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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores....
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Really disappointing
- By DiStudios on 10-08-20
By: Grady Hendrix
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The Nation's Favourite Poems
- By: BBC Audiobooks
- Narrated by: John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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In a nationwide poll conducted by BBC Television's Bookworm to find the nation's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's "If" was voted number one....
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Bad format, two chapters
- By Amazon Customer on 08-06-16
By: BBC Audiobooks
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Second Glance
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it's a burial ground....
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Excellent story
- By Kindle Customer on 09-12-22
By: Jodi Picoult
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Finnegans Wake
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Barry McGovern, Marcella Riordan
- Length: 29 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Finnegans Wake is the greatest challenge in 20th-century literature. In the rich nighttime and the language of dreams, here are history, anecdote, myth, folk tale and, above all, a wondrous sense of humor....
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Finally! Allmaziful!
- By A on 01-07-21
By: James Joyce
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Tom Stoppard: A BBC Radio Collection
- 14 full-cast productions including Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead & others
- By: Tom Stoppard
- Narrated by: Rufus Sewell, Bill Nighy, Harriet Walters, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
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This is the collected BBC radio productions of the internationally renowned playwright Tom Stoppard....
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Ideas and Language
- By Nicolas Dawson on 09-04-21
By: Tom Stoppard
New Releases
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It Could Be Worse
- By: Dara Levan
- Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Mired in self-doubt and blind loyalty, Allegra Gil suspects her charmed life may be a gilded cage. She has a devoted husband, Benito, two loving children, a thriving therapy practice, and lifelong friends. But when a surprising discovery in a piano bench reveals a shocking family secret, Allegra questions everything she thought she knew about the two people who raised her. Was it true? Did her father, a respected pediatric neurosurgeon, harm instead of heal? And Allegra's mother—how much did she know?
By: Dara Levan
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Salt Fork Stations
- By: Rock Neelly
- Narrated by: Owen Black
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Your past is your history. Your ancestors, your predecessors. How did their lives impact your own? Are you on your own path or does fate play a hand? Rock Neelly tackles these questions in a rollicking novel that bounces between the rough and rowdy settling of Oklahoma’s Cherokee Strip and the turbulent times of Lawrence, Kansas during the 1960’s civil rights unrest.
By: Rock Neelly
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Portnoy's Complaint
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Ron Silver
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Portnoy's Complaint tells the tale of young Jewish lawyer Alexander Portnoy and his scandalous sexual confessions to his psychiatrist. As narrated by Portnoy, he takes the listener on a journey through his childhood to adolescence to present day while articulating his sexual desire, frustration and neurosis in shockingly candid ways.
By: Philip Roth
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The Human Stain
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roth’s brilliant trilogy of post-war America – a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.
By: Philip Roth
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I cannot be good until you say it
- By: Sanah Ahsan
- Narrated by: Sanah Ahsan
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Intricately weaving Quranic verse, psychology, and the hip-hop soundtrack of their childhood, Sanah’s poems reach for divinity in the body; an archive that refuses erasure. These poems traverse unruly emotional and physical landscapes, Whiteness, islamophobia, homophobia, intergenerational suffering, and the politics of therapeutic processes. In these pages, belief and unbelief, goodness and badness, the material and spiritual are intertwined, reclaiming queer love and desire as holy.
By: Sanah Ahsan
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Fractured Secrets
- Lies of the Underworld, Book 2
- By: Haley Jenner
- Narrated by: Veronica Fox, Jason Clarke
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Following the devastating loss of her mother, and with no other options, Gabriella seeks out the morally gray men her mother begged her to avoid. A family found in mourning, Gabriella struggles to live within the confines of the fractured secrets her mother bestowed upon her. She's traded one prison for another. Yet, while protecting her life is a reality she's all too familiar with, guarding her heart never even crossed her mind. Standing at the altar, forcefully betrothed to one man, she pledges her life to another. A man she despises. Her brother's best friend and the head of the family.
By: Haley Jenner
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It Could Be Worse
- By: Dara Levan
- Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Mired in self-doubt and blind loyalty, Allegra Gil suspects her charmed life may be a gilded cage. She has a devoted husband, Benito, two loving children, a thriving therapy practice, and lifelong friends. But when a surprising discovery in a piano bench reveals a shocking family secret, Allegra questions everything she thought she knew about the two people who raised her. Was it true? Did her father, a respected pediatric neurosurgeon, harm instead of heal? And Allegra's mother—how much did she know?
By: Dara Levan
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Salt Fork Stations
- By: Rock Neelly
- Narrated by: Owen Black
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Your past is your history. Your ancestors, your predecessors. How did their lives impact your own? Are you on your own path or does fate play a hand? Rock Neelly tackles these questions in a rollicking novel that bounces between the rough and rowdy settling of Oklahoma’s Cherokee Strip and the turbulent times of Lawrence, Kansas during the 1960’s civil rights unrest.
By: Rock Neelly
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Portnoy's Complaint
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Ron Silver
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Portnoy's Complaint tells the tale of young Jewish lawyer Alexander Portnoy and his scandalous sexual confessions to his psychiatrist. As narrated by Portnoy, he takes the listener on a journey through his childhood to adolescence to present day while articulating his sexual desire, frustration and neurosis in shockingly candid ways.
By: Philip Roth
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The Human Stain
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roth’s brilliant trilogy of post-war America – a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.
By: Philip Roth
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I cannot be good until you say it
- By: Sanah Ahsan
- Narrated by: Sanah Ahsan
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Intricately weaving Quranic verse, psychology, and the hip-hop soundtrack of their childhood, Sanah’s poems reach for divinity in the body; an archive that refuses erasure. These poems traverse unruly emotional and physical landscapes, Whiteness, islamophobia, homophobia, intergenerational suffering, and the politics of therapeutic processes. In these pages, belief and unbelief, goodness and badness, the material and spiritual are intertwined, reclaiming queer love and desire as holy.
By: Sanah Ahsan
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Fractured Secrets
- Lies of the Underworld, Book 2
- By: Haley Jenner
- Narrated by: Veronica Fox, Jason Clarke
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Following the devastating loss of her mother, and with no other options, Gabriella seeks out the morally gray men her mother begged her to avoid. A family found in mourning, Gabriella struggles to live within the confines of the fractured secrets her mother bestowed upon her. She's traded one prison for another. Yet, while protecting her life is a reality she's all too familiar with, guarding her heart never even crossed her mind. Standing at the altar, forcefully betrothed to one man, she pledges her life to another. A man she despises. Her brother's best friend and the head of the family.
By: Haley Jenner
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Nemesis
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three-year-old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground - child by helpless child - Roth leads us through every emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering and the pain.
By: Philip Roth
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Sordidez
- By: E.G. Condé
- Narrated by: E.G. Condé, Isabel Salazar
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In the aftermath of a category 6 hurricane in Puerto Rico, aspiring journalist Vero Diaz leads an effort to rebuild his community, reviving ancient Taíno traditions to survive the storm's aftermath and their island's new colonizers. Still gripped by tradition, many do not accept Vero, a trans man, as their leader, driving him to start a new life abroad.
By: E.G. Condé
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Dance Me to the End of Love: Volume 1
- By: Regine Fisher
- Narrated by: Jadi Rae Curtis, Maxim Fisher, Donald Goodis, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events. They take place in the former Soviet Union, the United States, and the emigration in-between.
By: Regine Fisher
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan, Christabel, Frost at Midnight, the Nightingale, to William Wordsworth and Others
- By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Abridged
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a classic narrative poem that follows the harrowing journey of a mariner who faces supernatural occurrences and the consequences of his actions. Each poem in this collection showcases Coleridge's mastery of language, imagery, and symbolism, inviting readers on a journey through landscapes both real and imagined. From the eerie enchantment of "Kubla Khan" to the gothic suspense of "Christabel" and the tranquil introspection of "Frost at Midnight," this collection offers a diverse range of poetic experiences.
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The Darling
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The Darling is a short story by Russian author Anton Chekhov, first published in the No.1, 1899, issue of Semya (Family) magazine, on January 3, in Moscow. Later, Chekhov included it into Volume 9 of his Collected Works, published by Adolf Marks. The story follows the life of a woman who is referred to by others as "darling" for her generosity and submissive nature.
By: Anton Chekhov
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Birth Penalty
- By: Ngoni Chiwara
- Narrated by: Alan Matthews
- Length: 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In a world where birth heralds a battle cry, join an exiled protagonist on an odyssey through Ngoni Chiwara's debut chapbook, 'Birth Penalty.' Here, punishment is shifted across the corridors of time, echoing the deeds of past lives. Chiwara leads listeners through a tapestry of poignant short stories and evocative poetry: from the streets of Glasgow to the ancient pathways of a medieval city in Sub-Saharan Africa. Explore the depths of desire, the complexities of tribalism, the shadows of corruption, and the whispers of spirituality, all refracted through the prism of immigration.
By: Ngoni Chiwara
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The Beauties
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 20 mins
- Unabridged
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One great example of Chekhov's minimalism is found in The Beauties, a very short "story" - I use the term loosely, because it is really just two snapshots, two unrelated anecdotes in which a man describes seeing true beauty in two different women. These women are imperfect, yet enigmatically alluring. Chekhov's genius lies in the way he manages to convey with such apparent effortlessness a profound sense of the mystery of beauty, and of the sadness of those who observe and think.
By: Anton Chekhov
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The First-Class Passenger
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 17 mins
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Anton Chekhov was a Russian writer who wrote short stories and plays. His short stories are still read by many people around the world. The short story, The First Class Passenger by Anton Chekov, was first published in 1886 and reflects the social background of the Russian society of that time.
By: Anton Chekhov
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The Moon That Turns You Back
- Poems
- By: Hala Alyan
- Narrated by: Hala Alyan
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form—small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement.
By: Hala Alyan
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Natives Against Nativism
- Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France
- By: Olivia C. Harrison
- Narrated by: Siiri Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Serving as the first relational study of antiracism in France, Natives against Nativism observes how claims to indigeneity have been deployed in multiple directions, both in the ongoing struggle for migrant rights and racial justice, and in white nativist claims in France today.
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In the Shadow of the Greenbrier
- By: Emily Matchar
- Narrated by: Gilli Messer
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbrier Resort. Long a playground for presidents and film stars, the Greenbrier has its own gravitational pull. Over ten decades, four generations of the Zelner family must grapple with their place in its shadow . . . and within their own family.
By: Emily Matchar
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Asian Anthology: New Writing Vol. 1
- Stories by Writers from around the World
- By: Ivy Ngeow, E.P. Chiew, MK Eidson, and others
- Narrated by: Kelly Wilkinson
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Asian Anthology: New Writing Vol. 1 is a showcase of short stories and place writing by both new and more established prize-winning writers. Some unexpected, a few surreal and others traditional, these are 23 compelling stories of irony, humanity and satire, exploring a range of subject matter to reveal a glimpse of modern Asian society and culture: a funeral in India, a hotel encounter in Japan, a sleepless night in Hong Kong.
By: Ivy Ngeow, and others