These six brilliantly written episodes, brought together in Mary McCarthy's first novel, create a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle. Based loosely on the author's own life,...

So popular is Corbulo with his men that he effectively presides over an Empire within an Empire. Is Corbulo preparing to march against Rome and take the purple? Gaius Valerius Verrens, Hero of...

Good Friday, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by local magistrate, Roger Nowell. Is this a witches’ Sabbat? Two notorious Lancashire...

On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old...

Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to write the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a highly influential activist and...

The warrior queen Boudicca is ready to lead the tribes to war. The Roman grip on Britain is weakening. Emperor Nero has turned his face away from this far-flung outpost. Roman cruelty and...

Sadie Drew thinks she must be the world's worst wife. She only needs to walk into a room to make it untidy. She wears flannel pyjamas in bed. Furry things breed in her fridge. But she's a busy...

Maggie Perowne is head of Old Masters at Klinsky's auction house in London. Ben Glazier is an art expert. Ben, not as young as he was, is inescapably in love with Maggie, but she has an...

Annie has learned quite a bit about her new friend Gemma: she's from Bristol, she used to work in a pharmacy, and she's never forgiven herself for the suicide of her teenage son. She also died ten...

Harriet Goodman, brave, wry and handsome, is determined to triumph no matter what. With a decade of therapy under her belt and a new large inheritance, it seems there is nothing she cannot...

It's very easy to kill - so long as no one suspects you.' So says Miss Pinkerton when ex-policeman Luke Fitzwilliam meets her on a train. Luke doesn't take much notice of this little old lady's...

Theo is determined to seek happiness with her husband's business rival, Vincent. Having fled London for Paris, however, she soon learns of Richard's financial collapse - and discovers that rather...

Two BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations from the Queen of Crime. ‘The Unexpected Guest’ A foggy night... a lonely country house... and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery. ‘There’s Rosemary, that’s for remembrance.’ Published in 1945, Sparkling Cyanide is all about remembrance....

Two recently-rediscovered Hercule Poirot short stories by Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet.In 2004, a remarkable archive was unearthed at Agatha Christie’s family home, Greenway – 73 of...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery, starring Lyndsey Marshal, Geoffrey Whitehead and John Rowe.Ten guests travel to an island at the invitation of someone...

Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gull’s Point. Against her better judgment she has allowed her late husband’s ward, handsome tennis ace Neville Strange,...

John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christie's famous novel.Hercule Poirot is a guest at a weekend house party, given at the Cornish cliff...

A full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christie's novel featuring Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot.Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid, and his vast fortune passes to his young wife...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the sharp-witted spinster sleuth. Gwenda Reed arrives from New Zealand, travelling ahead of her husband with the task...

Harry Enfield and Billy Boyd star in a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Douglas Adams's first 'Dirk Gently' book, directed by the award-winning Dirk Maggs.Dirk Gently has an unshakeable...

From the unique mind of Douglas Adams, the legendary ‘lost’ Doctor Who story completed at last by Gareth Roberts and read by Lalla Ward.The Doctor’s old friend and fellow Time Lord...

This really is the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and Everything - all five radio series of ‘The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy’ collected together for the first time, in a handsome...

Panic! It’s the last ever instalment of 'The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy', with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of 'Mostly Harmless', the final book in Douglas Adams’ famous...

Don’t panic! The Hitchhiker's saga returns once again with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of 'So Long and Thanks for All the Fish', the fourth book in Douglas Adams's famous 'trilogy in...

The long-awaited, brand new third series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' comes to audio on CD and cassette, with 25 minutes of unbroadcast footage. Many of the cast of the original BBC...

A dynamic remastering of the second BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - 'Fit the Seventh' to 'Fit the Twelfth' - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend. The second original series of 'The...

A dynamic remastering of the second BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - 'Fit the Seventh' to 'Fit the Twelfth' - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend.

The second original series of...

A dynamic remastering of the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - 'Fit the First' to 'Fit the Sixth' - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend. Voted the nation's favourite audiobook...

Peter Jones plays the book in the original full-cast BBC Radio 4 series - Fit the first to fit the sixth - which spawned a phenomenal hitch-hiking legend. Join Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect,...

The first instalment of Tolkien's epic tale, adapted from the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.With his uncle, Bilbo Baggins, having mysteriously disappeared, Frodo finds himself in...

The second instalment of Tolkien's epic tale, adapted from the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.Having fled the Shire in their escape from Sauron's Dark Riders, Frodo and the...

The third instalment of Tolkien's epic tale, adapted from the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.The evil Saruman has been defeated by Gandalf, but in Mordor the battle for the Ruling...

The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 production of J. R. R. Tolkien's famous saga Dwarves, elves, goblins, trolls, dragons and wizards - these are the ingredients of J.R.R. Tolkien's wonderful fantasy, the...

All three instalments of Tolkien's epic tale, adapted from the original BBC Radio 4 full cast dramatisation. Widely regarded as a broadcasting classic, the BBC Radio dramatisation of 'The Lord...

The Musical Soundtrack that accompanies the BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of JRR Tolkien's classic Lord of the Rings trilogy.

This CD box set contains the highly-acclaimed BBC Radio dramatisations of 'The Lord of the Rings' and its fantastic prelude 'The Hobbit', along with two CDs of thrilling music.These magical...

Michael Hordern stars as J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, in four BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations. Tolkien's tales of myth, mystery and rumbustious exploits have...