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Author
Publisher
Random House Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Lenny Henry stars as Frank, a lifer on day release. Double murderer Frank Watt is allowed out of prison for a series of days prior to being released on licence. On day one, he's looking forward to coming out, but he's institutionalised and things have changed a lot since the 80's. Plus, Frank's got some old business to sort.
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2020
Description
J.M. Barrie is famous worldwide for his iconic creation, Peter Pan. However, many of his other works have been undeservedly forgotten. This collection contains three of his lesser-known plays, revisited for radio, as well as a dramatisation of his beloved story of the boy who never grew up.
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Dramatisations and readings of EM Forster's finest works, plus Stephen Wakelam's radio play A Dose of Fame and the documentary feature Forster in India: Sex, Books and Empire. One of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century, EM Forster was also an accomplished short story writer. This collection includes stunning adaptations of his classic novels A Passage to India, Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Room with a View and Howards End. Among the...
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30 something teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men. Over the three hilarious series of 'Up the Garden Path', Izzy, played by Imelda Staunton, deals with the complicated ups and downs of her attempts to find true love.
Author
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Sam Vimes jest uciekinierem. Wczoraj był diukiem, komendantem policji i ambasadorem w tajemniczej, bogatej w tłuszcz krainie Uberwald. Teraz nie ma nic prócz wrodzonej pomysłowości i smętnych portek wujaszka Wani (nie pytajcie). Pada śnieg. Jest mróz. I jeśli nie przedrze się przez las do cywilizacji, wybuchnie straszliwa wojna. Ale jego tropem podążają potwory. Są inteligentne. Są szybkie. Są wilkołakami - i już go doganiają. „Piąty...
12) A suitable boy
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2018
Description
This bestselling novel is a love story - the story of a young girl's search for the man she will marry. Lata's mother is determined to find a suitable boy for her daughter, through love or through existing maternal appraisal.
13) Kafka's Dick
Author
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Richard Griffiths and Alison Steadman star in this BBC Radio 4 version of Alan Bennett's acclaimed comedy drama stage play.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019
Description
`Planet B' is a virtual world with the slogan: "Where you can be whatever you want to be." Users can download themselves into it and play as a life-size avatars in a 3D world. When Lioba Fielding dies in the real world, her boyfriend John Armstrong downloads himself into Planet B in an attempt to find her avatar. As he travels between various worlds he becomes entangled in an array of strange scenarios, teleporting from each adventure to the next...
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019
Description
The definitive collection of full-cast BBC radio dramatisations of Henry James' classic novels - plus a bonus documentary about his life and work. One of the greatest and most influential American novelists, Henry James is loved for his compelling storytelling, vividly realised characters and perceptive exploration of the shifting relationships between Europeans and Americans. But he also possessed extraordinary insights into the secrets of the human...
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
1986
Description
Beckett, author of Waiting for Godot and Endgame, was one of the most influential literary figures of this century. His plays for the theatre and radio are imbued with listlessness, despair and desolation, but there is always some hope of redemption.
19) Cause celebre
Author
Publisher
Nick Hern
Pub. Date
2011
Description
This title is based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury who was tried with her 18-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. Condemned by the public more for her seduction of a young boy than for any involvement she may have had in her husband's death, Alma's fate is in the hands of the jury forewoman, Edith Davenport.
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The 'Classic Radio Theatre' range presents notable radio productions of much-loved plays by some of the most renowned playwrights, & starring some of Britian's finest actors, including Dame Judi Dench, Patricia Routledge, & Paul Scofield.