The Sign of the Four

A Study in Scarlet (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 52 mins)
• By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By Clive Merrison, Michael Williams, Full Cast

This is the story in which Conan Doyle first unleashed the most famous partnership in the history of criminal detection.

Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 48 mins)
• By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By Clive Merrison, Michael Williams, Full Cast

What turns out to be one of the most interesting cases of the great detective's career begins when a country doctor visits Holmes and Watson in London. He brings with him the legend of the hound and news of the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles' heir, Henry, is arriving from America and the doctor is afraid for the young man's life. Holmes despatches Dr Watson to accompany them back to the dark and somber estate in the Devon moor.

Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 51 mins)
• By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By Clive Merrison, Michael Williams, Full Cast

A coded warning of imminent danger sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to the fortress-like country house of the reclusive Jack Douglas. When they arrive too late to prevent a tragic death, the great detective and his chronicler must follow a series of bewildering clues to find a murderer who has vanished into thin air. Only then will they solve the mystery of the dead man's desperate plea: 'Am I never going to get out of the valley of fear?'

The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Volume Two (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By full cast

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes, with Michael Williams as Watson, in these adventures, part of the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.

A Study in Scarlet

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By Derek Jacobi
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Originally named A Tangled Skein, this is the first Sherlock Holmes story. The real strength and the unique quality of the novel lies in the introduction of Holmes and Watson to each other - and those dark early scenes when a corpse is discovered in a derelict house in southeast London. The ultimate crusader against crime and criminals, Holmes' genius is revealed here for the very first time.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Volume One (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By Clive Merrison

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these adventures, part of the unique fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.

Includes: "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed League", "A Case of Identity", "The Boscombe Valley Mystery".

AQA Power and Conflict GCSE Poetry Anthology Audio Tutorials

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Rebecca Kleanthous
• Narrated By Penny Andrews, Andrew Cresswell

In this study guide we narrate and analyse all 15 poems in the the AQA Power and Conflict poetry anthology to prepare those who are studying for their English Literature GCSE. Written by Rebecca Kleanthous, an English teacher and an examiner who specialises in poetry, this series will enable you to understand the themes and ideas across the poems, analyses the techniques used by the poets, including language and structure and provides suitable comparisons with other poems within the cluster.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Volume Two (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By full cast

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes, with Michael Williams as Watson, in these adventures, part of the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Volume Three (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By full cast

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes, with Michael Williams as Watson, in these adventures, part of the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.

Sherlock Holmes: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Classic Drama from the BBC Archives

• ORIGINAL (8 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Arthur ConanDoyle
• Narrated By Clive Merrison, Michael Williams

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes, with Michael Williams as Watson, in this collection from the unique, fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon. These 12 stories range from Holmes' very first case to the epic struggle between Holmes and Moriarty high above the Reichenbach Falls.

Ashes to Ashes

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Tami Hoag
• Narrated By David Colacci
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

He performs his profane ceremony in a wooded Minneapolis park, anointing his victims, then setting the bodies ablaze. He has already claimed three lives, and he won't stop there. Only this time there is a witness. But she isn't talking. Enter Kate Conlan, former FBI agent turned victim/witness advocate. Not even she can tell if the reluctant witness is a potential victim or something more troubling still.

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Volume One (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By full cast

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in the fifth collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon.'The Illustrious Client': An Austrian adventurer who corrupts young women proves one of Holmes' most evil adversaries in what Conan Doyle judged as one of his best stories.'The Blanched Soldier': Holmes works without Watson to help an ex-serviceman from the Boer War uncover a friend who has mysteriously disappeared.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Volume Three (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By full cast

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes, with Michael Williams as Watson, in these adventures, part of the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Volume Two (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By full cast

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in the fifth collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon. 'The Sussex Vampire': A return to the supernatural for Holmes as he investigates the case of a baby with two small wounds on his neck and a woman with blood on her lips.

Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow, Volume One (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By full cast

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes, with Michael Williams as Watson, in these adventures, part of the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Volume Three (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 1 min)
• By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By full cast

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in the fifth collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon. 'The Lion's Mane': Holmes has retired to the Sussex countryside to tend bees. But old habits linger, especially when there is a case of murder waiting to be solved. 'The Veiled Lodger': Mrs Merrilow has the perfect lodger - a gentle woman who keeps to herself and has paid the rent regularly for seven years. But why won't she show her face?

The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Volume One (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By full cast

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes, with Michael Williams as Watson, in these adventures, part of the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.

The Spire

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 49 mins)
• By William Golding
• Narrated By Benedict Cumberbatch
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in particular.From the author of Lord of the Flies, The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates.

Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 57 mins)
• By The Great Courses, Robert Sapolsky
• Narrated By Professor Robert Sapolsky

Understanding our humanity - the essence of who we are - is one of the deepest mysteries and biggest challenges in modern science. Why do we have bad moods? Why are we capable of having such strange dreams? How can metaphors in our language hold such sway on our actions? As we learn more about the mechanisms of human behavior through evolutionary biology, neuroscience, anthropology, and other related fields, we're discovering just how intriguing the human species is.

An Inspector Calls GCSE English Literature Guide - An Audiopi Study Guide

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 59 mins)
• By Laura Broadbent, Stephen Lucas
• Narrated By Peter Bartholomew, Rosemary Saunders

An Inspector Calls has an enduring appeal and still resonates today. The Audiopi GCSE English Literature audio guide for JB Priestley’s play will give you invaluable insight for your coursework and help you prepare for your exams at the end of the school year. Each chapter looks in detail at different elements of the book, including analysing the genre, structure and plot; the context of the play; and how it was a voice for Priestley’s beliefs.

The Sign of Four: A Sherlock Holmes Novel

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman---Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl.

Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow, Volume Two (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By full cast

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes, with Michael Williams as Watson, in these adventures, part of the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By David Timson
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The award-winning Sherlock Holmes narrator David Timson leads us through Conan Doyle's most famous tale. This extended story brings the archetypal detective to the moors with his friend and biographer Dr. Watson to investigate the mystery of a beast terrorizing the neighborhood.

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Volume One (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Bert Coules, Andrew Sachs
• Narrated By full cast, Clive Merrison

In the 56 short stories and four novels Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his great detective, there are many passing references to successful cases that are never actually written about. These four stories, written by the main dramatist on the complete BBC Radio 4 Sherlock Holmes canon, imaginatively flesh out the cases behind those references, to wonderful effect. As in the complete dramatised canon, Clive Merrison plays the great sleuth, with the role of Doctor Watson played by Andrew Sachs.