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China Towns: Based on the Five Towns Novels
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Kate O'Flynn, Neil Dudgeon, Tim McInnerny, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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In this radical reinterpretation of six brilliant Arnold Bennett novels, it’s the 19th-century Midlands and over 10-and-a-half sweeping hours individuals rise and fall, they age, flourish, and try to keep up as the world around them changes into something unrecognisable, transformed by new technology. Fortunes are made and lost, hearts broken, empires built and deals made. These tales of aspiration and passion, damage and danger are told with Bennett's forensic, (journalist’s) eye for human psychology and a surprising degree of witty comedy.
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Strange brew but still tasty....
- By Arthur Mennym on 05-11-20
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China Towns: Based on the Five Towns Novels
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Kate O'Flynn, Neil Dudgeon, Tim McInnerny, Don Gilet, Rebekah Staton, full cast
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 19-09-19
- Language: English
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Radio 4 Reading)
- By: Louis De Bernieres
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn't so bad - at first anyway. The officer in command of the Italian garrison is the cultured Captain Antonio Corelli, whose most precious possession is his mandolin.
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Wonderful Book.
- By Laurraine de Melchor on 04-09-20
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Radio 4 Reading)
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 18-11-11
- Language: English
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The Far Pavilions
- By: M. M. Kaye
- Narrated by: Vineeta Rishi, Blake Ritson, Ayesha Dharker
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of M.M. Kaye’s epic novel of love and war. M.M. Kaye’s masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that spans over twenty years, moving from the foothills of the Himalayas, to the burning plains, to the besieged British Mission in Kabul. It begins in 1857 when, following the Indian Mutiny, young English orphan Ashton is disguised by his ayah Sita as her Indian son, Ashok. As he forgets his true identity, his destiny is set...
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A wonderful story, theatrically and convincingly told.
- By Amazon Customer on 25-09-22
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The Far Pavilions
- Narrated by: Vineeta Rishi, Blake Ritson, Ayesha Dharker
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 16-03-11
- Language: English
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The Tree of Strife
- A BBC Radio 4 Icelandic Saga Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: David Wade
- Narrated by: Bernard Hepton, Maureen O'Brien, Struan Rodger, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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Written by an anonymous storyteller in the 13th Century, and describing events between 960 and 1020, Njáls saga is one of the great works of medieval literature. The longest and most celebrated of the Icelandic sagas, it deals with family honour, vengeance and a vicious blood feud spanning almost 50 years. Based on the classic translation by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson, this gripping dramatisation centres around two friends.
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Very Enjoyable
- By Highlight on 26-11-22
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The Tree of Strife
- A BBC Radio 4 Icelandic Saga Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Bernard Hepton, Maureen O'Brien, Struan Rodger, Norman Rodway, Barbara Jefford, Robert Glenister, Maggie McCarthy, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 20-10-22
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Al Murray, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Comedian Al Murray plays his great-great-great-grandfather William Makepeace Thackeray as the unreliable narrator in this radical makeover of his ancestor’s celebrated satire on class, sex, money, hypocrisy and snobbery in 19th-century England. As the curtain rises on our ‘story without a hero’, moneyless Becky Sharp leaves school with her upper-class best friend Amelia Sedley. Clever, cunning and ambitious, Becky is determined to make her way in Regency society - and she’ll trample on anyone who gets in her way.
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Vanity Fair
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Al Murray, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 25-07-19
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina (Dramatised)
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Teresa Gallagher, Toby Stephens
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
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Anna Karenina enjoys a privileged and aristrocratic lifestyle as the wife of influential government official Alexy Karenin. Yet their ten-year marriage is devoid of tenderness, and when Anna falls in love with the handsome Count Vronsky they embark upon a deep and passionate affair. Reflecting the social conditions of the era in which it was written, Tolstoy's masterpiece sets a doomed love story against a harsh and unforgiving backdrop.
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Enjoyable
- By claudia on 10-11-15
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Anna Karenina (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Teresa Gallagher, Toby Stephens
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-08-12
- Language: English
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- A BBC Radio Full-Cast Production
- By: John Ford
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley, full cast, Damien Molony
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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With its shocking portrayal of incest, intrigue and murder, this powerful Jacobean revenge drama scandalised audiences when it was first performed in the 1620s and it is still controversial today. When siblings Giovanni and Annabella embark on a passionate affair, Annabella falls pregnant with her brother's child. Knowing she must marry to protect her honour, she chooses one of the many suitors clamouring for her hand - but when her secret is revealed, the lovers are caught up in a bloody chain of events that culminate in a poisoning, a blinding, a stabbing and a brutal massacre.
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Loved this performance
- By El F B on 24-04-21
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- A BBC Radio Full-Cast Production
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley, full cast, Damien Molony
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Release date: 24-09-20
- Language: English
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The Women in His Life
- A BBC Radio Dramatisation
- By: Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Narrated by: Robin Ellis, Alexandra Bastedo, Nicola Pagett, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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When a beautiful piece of music stirs mega-tycoon Maximilian West, he remembers the women who have loved him and shaped his life. So begins a dazzling tale, taking us from the streets of London to the suites of New York, from the rise of Nazi Germany to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Strong, powerful, enigmatic, aloof, and adoring - many women made Maximilian the man with everything, but there is only one woman who can make him feel truly alive.
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The Women in His Life
- A BBC Radio Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Robin Ellis, Alexandra Bastedo, Nicola Pagett, Emma Fielding, Dorothy Tutin, Kim Wall, Alex Lowe, Sian Philips, Joanna Munro, Alice Arnold, full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 18-01-24
- Language: English
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Two On A Tower (Bbc Radio 4 Classic Serial)
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Maggie O'Neill, Blake Ritson
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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Two on a Tower' is Hardy's ninth novel and contains perhaps his most complete treatment of the theme of love across the class and age divide, and also the fullest expression of his fascination with astronomy and science.
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Strange pacing
- By Cassie Tremblay on 21-08-18
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Two On A Tower (Bbc Radio 4 Classic Serial)
- Narrated by: Maggie O'Neill, Blake Ritson
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-11-10
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
- A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: full cast, Kate Phillips, Alfred Enoch, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Beautiful and intelligent young Anna suffers in her loveless marriage, dreaming of the romantic life she should be living, and the love that others around her should be sharing honestly with one another. When she meets the dashing Vronsky he seems to offer everything she has been craving, but the cost she will pay is higher than she could have imagined. Meanwhile Konstantin Levin, a gentle landowner who shares Anna's belief in sincerity, attempts to channel his beliefs into his land, his family, and his love for beautiful aristocrat Kitty.
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Anna Karenina
- A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: full cast, Kate Phillips, Alfred Enoch, Rory Kinnear
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 15-06-23
- Language: English
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The Go-Between
- By: L. P. Hartley
- Narrated by: Harriet Walter, Richard Griffiths, Lydia Leonard
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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A new adaptation of L. P. Hartley's story of a boy who is betrayed by a sophisticated young rich woman and her farmer lover who use him to ferry letters back and forth in the blazing summer of 1900 - with Richard Griffiths and Harriet Walter. It's best known from the 1970 film, which focused on the main plot line. But on re-reading the book, adaptor Frances Byrnes found within it another drama perfect for audio in which an old man finds a boyhood diary and is forced to unlock the trauma inside.
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Not Unabridged!!!
- By alun385 on 01-11-13
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The Go-Between
- Narrated by: Harriet Walter, Richard Griffiths, Lydia Leonard
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-06-13
- Language: English
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Sense and Sensibility
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Annette Crosbie
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Jane Austen's acclaimed comedy of manners contains a truly memorable cast of characters, including the snobbish Mrs Ferrers, impetuous Marianne, selfish John Dashwood, and his awful, grasping wife. Annette Crosbie captures all the wit and charm of the romance in this BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour reading.
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Misleading description!
- By Tamara Nutting Rodriguez on 15-09-08
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Sense and Sensibility
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- Narrated by: Annette Crosbie
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 29-08-07
- Language: English
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Persuasion
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Janet Suzman
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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A 'Woman's Hour' reading by Janet Suzman of Jane Austen's last completed work. When the personable Captain Wentworth reappears in Anne Elliot's life several years after she had been persuaded to break off their engagement, he at first makes no secret of his angry indignation.
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a wonderful adaptation of persuasion,
- By j on 13-12-18
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Persuasion
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- Narrated by: Janet Suzman
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-04-06
- Language: English
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The Custom of the Country (BBC Radio 4: Classic Serial)
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Edith Wharton’s 1913 satire of marriage and money in early-20th century American society. ‘The Custom of the Country’ was originally broadcast as the ‘Classic Serial’ from 3 - 17 January 2010. The play follows the beautiful Undine Spragg as she arrives in New York and sets her sights on Ralph Marvell, then travels to Paris where she meets a charming French aristocrat. Will Undine ever find real happiness?
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The Custom of the Country (BBC Radio 4: Classic Serial)
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-05-11
- Language: English
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