It’s more than twenty years since single art teacher Marion Hardcastle visited Italy, but memories of that happiest of times still haunt her. So, when Tom and Janice invite her on holiday, the...

Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language – as heard on BBC Radio 4.'Current Puns' Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun? And...

Whoever said the afterlife would be easy? Noël Coward is the toast of twenties society... a brilliant playwright, composer and entertainer whose witty songs and pithy lines don't quite tell the...

Richmal Crompton's 'William' is known even to those who have never read the books featuring his anarchic exploits. For many, the scruffy, adventurous and exuberant William and his trials and...

These wonderfully funny short stories feature a cast of outrageous characters, all plotting to save themselves from wedlock, poverty or ignominy – with various degrees of success.

On doctor’s orders, Bertie Wooster retires to sample the bucolic delights of Maiden Eggesford. But his idyll is rudely shattered by Aunt Dahlia who wants him to nobble a racehorse. Similar blots...

Seventeen favourite stories about the irrepressible William Brown, specially selected and read by Martin Jarvis.Whether a long-standing fan or a first time listener, this collection of stories...

It’s the beginning of the summer holidays and William and the Outlaws see an endless expanse of gloriously carefree days stretching ahead - but how to fill them... ?

The six classic...

Things on board the RMS Atlantic are terribly, terribly complicated...

Monty Bodkin loves Gertrude, who thinks he likes Lotus Blossom, a starlet who definitely adores Ambrose, who...

When Maud Marsh flings herself into George Bevan’s cab in Piccadilly, he starts believing in damsels in distressGeorge traces his mysterious travelling companion to Belpher Castle, home of...

Fanny, who is married to the bumbling, absent-minded Oxford don Alfred, is content with her role as a plain, tweedy housewife. But her life changes overnight when Alfred is appointed English...

When Bill Bannister meets Dr Sally Smith, love blossoms immediately. Unfortunately there is just the small problem of Lottie Higginbotham, former actress, serial bride and human fireball, with...

Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4.'The Mouth':Why is the human food processor and word processor in the...

A fourth volume of stories by Richmal Crompton. Described by ‘The Daily Telegraph’ as 'the wizard of the talking book', Martin Jarvis has made the voices of William and his gang of Outlaws his...

If Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge had a fiver for every dodgy scheme he had ever floated, he would be a very rich man indeed.

In these ten stories he tries every way of making...