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1) The birds
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BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2007
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Here is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of horror. The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to a farm from her house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field while above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed an idea about the birds becoming hostile and attacking him.In her story, the birds become hostile after a harsh winter with little food....
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This is a vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belonging to a now distant past.
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Methuen Drama
Pub. Date
2010
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A practical, how-to guide to producing and presenting radio to a professional standard, this work contains day-to-day advice that aims to capture the essence and buzz of live broadcasting. It gives advice from preparing your show before it goes out, last minute changes to running orders, deciding what to drop in over a track and more.
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Bolinda/BBC audio
Pub. Date
2017
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Round the Horne breathed daring new life over the BBC radio airwaves from 1965 to 1968, a madcap mix of daring double entendres, captivating characters and bawdy badinage. In this exhaustive collection of rare material, two complete episodes - series 1, episode 5 and series 1, episode 15 - are presented complete and remastered alongside a cornucopia of previously unpublished segments from the series' original run. In addition there's a host of rarities...
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BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2019
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Over the years the BBC has broadcast readings of many of F. Scott Fitzgerald?s novels, novellas and short stories. This collection includes some of his most famous works alongside various lesser-known tales, including three ?lost stories? (first published in 2017 and with an introduction written by editor Anne Margaret Daniel). Contents and track listing: Track 1-10 - The Great Gatsby - read by Sam Robards Track 11 - The Diamond as Big as the Ritz...
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For a long time, I felt that I couldn't write this book. At first, I didn't think I'd lived enough, then life got busy and filled with distractions. In more recent years, there was always a very painful consideration - I knew where it would eventually have to go. I have recently decided that the truth is the only thing that can set me free. The truth has taken a long time to make itself clear to me, but now is the right time to share it, all of it....
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Radio DJ and team captain on 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks', Phill Jupitus takes us on a romp through the highest profile slot in radio - the breakfast show. From Terry Wogan to Chris Moyles, Phill looks at some of the most popular shows in the country before taking us on an eye-opening journey through the teams of people who make our mornings.
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Bolinda/BBC audio
Pub. Date
2017
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Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips and Stephen Murray star in the complete Series 15 of the fondly remembered nautical radio sitcom. All eleven episodes of this, the final full series from 1976, are included, alongside the 1977 Jubilee special and other bonus items.
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Canongate
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'Just a Minute' has consistently entertained BBC Radio 4 listeners, and many others around the world, since its first broadcast in December 1967. Inspired by a punishment handed out at school, the show's creator Ian Messiter devised a deceptively simple and versatile set of rules that has allowed the game to adapt and thrive as each new era of comedy entertainers emerges. In this official celebration, chairman Nicholas Parsons, the only person to...
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BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019
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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.
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Jammer Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2021.
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As a radio DJ in London, Christian O'Connell appeared to have it all. He held the number one spot nationally, with a faithful audience of millions who'd listened to him for years. Celebrities flocked to come on his show and no other radio DJ had won more awards. But not everything was as it seemed. Minutes before going live one morning, something happened that changed everything and led to a decision of seismic proportions. He quit his job, moved...
19) I'm sorry I haven't a clue: a third treasury: specials and spin-offs from the BBC radio 4 comedy
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BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2019
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This third and final Clue treasury features a panoply of specials based around the perennial ?antidote to panel games?. In the mix are I?m Sorry I Haven?t a Christmas Clue, featuring the team?s unique interpretation of A Christmas Carol; Humph in Wonderland, in which they venture down a rabbit hole; and In Search of Mornington Crescent, in which Andrew Marr peers behind the veil of secrecy surrounding that illustrious game. Also included are two shows...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2014
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Radio Caroline was the world's most famous pirate radio station during its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, but did the thousands of people tuning in realise just what battles went on behind the scenes? Financed by respected city money men, this is a story of human endeavour and risk, international politics, business success and financial failures. A story of innovation, technical challenges, changing attitudes, unimaginable battles with nature, disasters,...