Showing results by publisher "BBC Audio" in Literature & Fiction
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Torchwood: First Born
- By: James Goss
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Kai Owen, Joe Jameson, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance34
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Story34
Gwen and Rhys are on the run. Rhys was hoping this meant a windswept cottage on a cliff top, but he’s had to settle for a miserable caravan in the isolated village of Rawbone. With the locals taking an unhealthy interest in their daughter, Gwen and Rhys start to realise that something is very wrong. As they uncover the village’s terrible past, Gwen discovers that Torchwood will never leave her behind, and now she and Rhys stand alone in defence of the Earth. And the children of Rawbone can only bring her closer to the secret forces that want her out of the way.
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gripping right to the end
- By Amazon Customer on 23-09-20
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Torchwood: First Born
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Kai Owen, Joe Jameson, Carole Boyd, Michael Stevens, Susie Riddell
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 08-11-11
- Language: English
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Miles Jupp Is Literally Unputdownable
- Ten Lively Literary Investigations
- By: Miles Jupp
- Narrated by: Miles Jupp
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Story20
In these 10 entertaining documentaries, he explores why some books, games and binge-watched box sets are, as they say, 'literally unputdownable'; peers into Plotto, an ingenious manual of story devices, to discover whether it really can make writing easy; takes a sideways look at some familiar characters from literature, including James Bond, Dracula, Fu Manchu and Carruthers; delves into the intricacies of the locked-room murder; and revisits his old prep school to find out whether a book of stirring 19th-century verse can work its magic on today’s young people.
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Strangely smug
- By Liz on 01-01-21
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Miles Jupp Is Literally Unputdownable
- Ten Lively Literary Investigations
- Narrated by: Miles Jupp
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-10-20
- Language: English
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Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock
- 4th Doctor Novelisation
- By: Terrance Dicks
- Narrated by: Louise Jameson
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance36
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Story36
On a remote rocky island a few miles off the Channel coast stands Fang Rock lighthouse. There have always been tales of the beast of Fang Rock, but when the TARDIS lands here with Leela and the Doctor, the force they must deal with is more sinister and deadly than the mythical beast of the past.
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Another solid adaptation
- By Kindle Customer on 07-02-17
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Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock
- 4th Doctor Novelisation
- Narrated by: Louise Jameson
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 02-02-17
- Language: English
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Journey's End
- A BBC Radio 4 drama
- By: R C Sherriff
- Narrated by: Derek Seaton, Garard Green, Martin Jarvis, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance29
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Story30
Journey's End is an unflinching vision of life in the tranches towards the end of the First World War. The play opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new 18-year-old officer fresh out of school, joins the besieged company of his friend and hero Stanhope. But when he arrives in the trenches, he finds Stanhope dramatically changed. This vintage BBC radio production from 1970 stars Martin Jarvis as Captain Stanhope.
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Great performance but difficult to navigate scenes
- By EllenL on 09-07-24
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Journey's End
- A BBC Radio 4 drama
- Narrated by: Derek Seaton, Garard Green, Martin Jarvis, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Release date: 14-06-18
- Language: English
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Shush!: The Complete Series 1 and 2
- A BBC Radio 4 Comedy
- By: Morwenna Banks, Rebecca Front
- Narrated by: full cast, Rebecca Front, Morwenna Banks
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Story12
Meet Alice (Rebecca Front) - a former child prodigy who won a place at Oxford aged nine, but because Daddy went too she never needed to have any friends. She's scared of everything - everything that is, except libraries and Snoo (Morwenna Banks), a slightly confused individual, with a have-a-go attitude to life, marriage, haircuts and reality. Snoo loves books and fully intends to read one someday. And forever popping into the library is Dr Cadogan (Michael Fenton Stevens), celebrity doctor to the stars and a man with his finger in every pie.
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Stupid rather than silly, and few laughs
- By markfromlodz on 27-12-25
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Shush!: The Complete Series 1 and 2
- A BBC Radio 4 Comedy
- Narrated by: full cast, Rebecca Front, Morwenna Banks
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-02-21
- Language: English
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Rubbish: The Complete Series 1 and 2
- A Full-Cast BBC Radio Comedy
- By: Tony Bagley
- Narrated by: Reese Dinsdale, Kevin Eldon, Nicola Walker, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance1
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Martin Christmas is a local government worker in the Sanitation department, whose days are shaped by endless recycling initiatives and green league tables, and whose nights are shadowed by his failed relationships and curmudgeonly interior monologues. While Martin is trying to cultivate his inner peace, things keep getting in his way.
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Local Government at it's comedic best!
- By Melanie on 30-01-24
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Rubbish: The Complete Series 1 and 2
- A Full-Cast BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: Reese Dinsdale, Kevin Eldon, Nicola Walker, James Lance, Neil Dudgeon, Paul Copley, Martin Trenaman, Pippa Haywood, Oriane Messina, Katy Brand, Russell Tovey, Matthew Cottle, Mark Maier, full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 14-12-23
- Language: English
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Tsar
- An Epic Chronicle of the Russian Leaders
- By: Mike Walker
- Narrated by: David Threlfall, Hugo Speer, Samantha Spiro, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance29
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Story28
Eleven compelling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of the Russian tsars. Broadcast to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this extraordinary drama cycle by Mike Walker comprises 11 ambitious plays spanning over 400 years, exploring the lives of Russia’s key rulers from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin.
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Put off by accents
- By Christine on 29-07-19
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Tsar
- An Epic Chronicle of the Russian Leaders
- Narrated by: David Threlfall, Hugo Speer, Samantha Spiro, Anton Lesser, Amanda Root, Raymond Coulthard, Paul Ritter, full cast, Hattie Morahan
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 06-09-18
- Language: English
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Joan of Arc, and How She Became a Saint
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Drama
- By: Patrick Barlow
- Narrated by: Dawn French, full cast
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
Can a young country girl lead an army? Joan, guided by her guardian angels St Catherine and St Margaret, decides to wage war against the English. Starring Dawn French as Joan of Arc. The cast also includes Anne Reid, Maggie Steed, Kevin Eldon and Jim Broadbent.
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Andrew Dunn is the only redeeming feature
- By R on 02-09-24
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Joan of Arc, and How She Became a Saint
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Drama
- Narrated by: Dawn French, full cast
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 20-06-19
- Language: English
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Victoria Station
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Drama
- By: Steve Chambers
- Narrated by: full cast, Sean Baker, Philip Jackson, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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Story17
In these two series, set on selected dates in January 1895 and December 1896, we follow the day-to-day shenanigans of Bridgford station master Joe Braddock and his staff, along with a motley crew of passengers and passers-by. Each episode is a self-contained drama, as well as telling the ongoing story of the crises and challenges tackled by the team, and their rivalries, enmities, friendships and burgeoning romances.
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LOVE THIS - EXCELLENT LITTLE STORIES - MORE PLEASE AUDIBLE
- By Highlight on 01-05-22
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Victoria Station
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Drama
- Narrated by: full cast, Sean Baker, Philip Jackson, Christopher Scott, Julia Ford, Colleen Prendergast, Pauline Letts, John Hartley, Gavin Muir, Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Time
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: Marcel Proust
- Narrated by: full cast, Derek Jacobi, Frances Barber, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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Story10
Waking in the small hours, Marcel Proust embarks on a retrospective journey, endeavouring to capture the elusive moments that shaped his life. A sip of tea and the taste of a madeleine prompt further recollections, and the floodgates of memory open, pouring forth a torrent of vivid reminiscences.
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The best audiobook ever
- By Anna on 19-07-23
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In Search of Lost Time
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: full cast, Derek Jacobi, Frances Barber, Paterson Joseph, Simon Russell Beale, Hattie Morahan, Robert Glenister
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-04-22
- Language: English
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Brian Friel: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Translations, Faith Healer & More
- By: Brian Friel
- Narrated by: Adrian Dunbar, Samuel Barnett, Dermot Crowley, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance1
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Known as the 'Irish Chekhov', Brian Friel was one of the most renowned dramatists of his generation, producing over 30 plays in a career spanning six decades. Included here are some of his best-known works, as well as mesmerising radio documentaries featuring the author himself, in his own words.
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Brian Friel: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Translations, Faith Healer & More
- Narrated by: Adrian Dunbar, Samuel Barnett, Dermot Crowley, Phil Daniels, Lia Williams, Mark Bazeley, full cast, Aiofe McMahon
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 25-08-22
- Language: English
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Henrik Ibsen
- Nine Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations
- By: Henrik Ibsen
- Narrated by: David Threlfall, Full Cast, Harriet Walters, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance12
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Often described as ‘the father of realism’, Henrik Ibsen was a pioneer of modernist drama. He influenced playwrights as diverse as George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, and is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. Included in this collection are adaptations of his tragicomic masterpiece The Wild Duck, his complex and compelling play Rosmersholm, the epic drama Brand and the tragedy John Gabriel Borkman.
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I love Ibsen, which is why I HATED this!
- By Benedicte Hovda on 25-11-20
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Henrik Ibsen
- Nine Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations
- Narrated by: David Threlfall, Full Cast, Harriet Walters, Helen Baxendale, Indira Varma, Lesley Manville, Nicholas Farrell, Samuel West
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-09-20
- Language: English
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Siadwel: The Complete Series 1-3
- BBC Radio Stand-Up Comedy
- By: John Sparkes
- Narrated by: John Sparkes
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance0
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Step into the charming and bewildered world of Siadwel: poet, philosopher, as endearing as he is perplexed. With his signature anorak and National Health Service specs, Siadwel has become a cultural icon, offering his unique and often befuddled perspective on the conundrums of everyday life. The beloved Welsh geek has been tickling audiences’ funny bones for decades, having first appeared on television screens as part of the sketch series Naked Video, which ran from 1986 to 1991.
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Siadwel: The Complete Series 1-3
- BBC Radio Stand-Up Comedy
- Narrated by: John Sparkes
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 23-01-25
- Language: English
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BBC Radio Shakespeare
- A Collection of Three Roman Plays
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Frances Barber, Full Cast, and others
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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A collection of BBC Radio 3's iconic Shakespeare productions: three Roman plays with all-star casts including Gerard Murphy, Nicholas Farrell, Susannah York, Samuel West, Frances Barber and David Harewood. The plays included in this collection are: Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra.
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BBC Radio Shakespeare
- A Collection of Three Roman Plays
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Frances Barber, Full Cast, Gerard Murphy, Nicholas Farrell, Samuel West, Stella Gonet, Susannah York
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 20-08-20
- Language: English
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Shardlake: Dark Fire
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- By: C. J. Sansom
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Justin Salinger, Robert Glenister
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall146
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Performance125
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Story124
A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on the second novel in C. J. Sansom's best-selling Tudor crime series. Summer, 1540. It has been three years since the terrible events at Scarnsea monastery, and lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is living a quiet life in London - until a summons from Cromwell sees him embarking on another dangerous secret assignment.
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Good Adaptation.
- By JPH on 28-09-16
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Shardlake: Dark Fire
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Justin Salinger, Robert Glenister
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 01-09-16
- Language: English
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Cold Comfort Farm
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- By: Stella Gibbons
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Proud, Full Cast, Miriam Margolyes, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall101
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Performance83
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Story83
Patricia Gallimore and Miriam Margolyes star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic comic novel. Strong of will and slender of ankle, 20-year-old orphan Flora Poste is blessed with every virtue save that of being able to earn her own living. Casting around for suitable...
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Mmm, not my cup of tea...
- By Lorna Davies on 28-05-19
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Cold Comfort Farm
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Proud, Full Cast, Miriam Margolyes, Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-06-17
- Language: English
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Nikolai Gogol: A BBC Radio Collection
- Nine Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrated by: Mark Heap, Michael Palin, Toby Jones, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Ukrainian-born humorist, dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol is widely believed to have led the realist revolution in Russian literature. His surreal, absurdist satires liberated comedy from its sentimental traditions and influenced writers both within Russia and worldwide, among them Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka and Flannery O’Connor.
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absolutely bonkers - in a good way!
- By G Beynon on 21-07-25
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Nikolai Gogol: A BBC Radio Collection
- Nine Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Mark Heap, Michael Palin, Toby Jones, Frances Barber, Russell Tovey, Griff Rhys Jones, Stephen Moore, Patrick Barlow, Tim Key, full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 26-06-25
- Language: English
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Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor Novels Volume 3
- By: Paul Finch, Jonathan Morris, George Mann, and others
- Narrated by: Arthur Darvill, Clare Corbett, Nicholas Briggs, and others
- Length: 23 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance2
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Four original stories featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory: In Hunter's Moon, the travellers visit Leisure Platform 9, where gamblers and villains mix with socialites and celebrities. In Touched By An Angel, the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon - and the Doctor, Amy and Rory must stop them. In Paradox Lost, an ancient android is dredged from the Thames, with a message that can only be delivered to the Doctor. In Borrowed Time, by Naomi Alderman, the three friends go undercover at a bank where time is the commodity on offer for loan.
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Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor Novels Volume 3
- Narrated by: Arthur Darvill, Clare Corbett, Nicholas Briggs, Meera Syal
- Length: 23 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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Weak at the Top: The Complete Series 1 and 2
- By: Guy Browning
- Narrated by: Alexander Armstrong, full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance25
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He's randy, devious, sexist and drink-sodden, a high-powered marketing director with the morals of a skunk, the skin of a rhino and the brain of a one-celled organism - John Weak puts the man into management. Series 1 and 2 follow the devious exploits of John Weak, played by Alexander Armstrong as he runs his agency. Starring Alexander Armstrong as John Weak, Clare Perkins as Hayley, Geoffrey Whitehead as Sir Marcus, Ron Cook as Bill Peters, Ewan Bailey as Tim Smallwood and Colleen Prendergast as Debbie.
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Great stories
- By vanessa on 25-05-24
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Weak at the Top: The Complete Series 1 and 2
- Narrated by: Alexander Armstrong, full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-02-20
- Language: English
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Caryl Churchill: Top Girls, The Skriker, Serious Money, A Number and More
- 13 BBC Radio Full-Cast Productions
- By: Caryl Churchill
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales, Michael Gambon, Daniel Craig, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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A collection of dramatisations and original radio plays by the award-winning playwright - plus bonus documentary. Caryl Churchill is one of Britain's most innovative and influential dramatists. Versatile and prolific, she has written over 50 plays for stage and screen and is renowned for her revolutionary theatrical techniques and themes of feminism, social politics and the abuse of power.
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A Masterclass In Language And Post-modernism
- By mr J. R. Jolley on 29-01-24
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Caryl Churchill: Top Girls, The Skriker, Serious Money, A Number and More
- 13 BBC Radio Full-Cast Productions
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales, Michael Gambon, Daniel Craig, Maxine Peake, Lesley Manville, Bertie Carvel, Tobias Menzies, Dinsdale Landen, Deborah Findlay, full cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-03-23
- Language: English
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