Four hundred years after its first performance, Shakespeare's play The Tempest still captivates its audiences with a story of usurping brothers, monsters, magic and romance. Prospero, the exiled...

Highlights of his cricketing commentaries by the BBC’s very own ‘voice of summer’.

The imagery and wit of an incomparable broadcaster is captured here in a unique collection of...

David Soul ('Starsky and Hutch') narrates and Simon Day ('The Fast Show') stars in this fantastical BBC Radio 4 comedy series looking at the most entertaining apocalypses on parallel Earths....

Michael Maloney stars in this dark, brooding dramatization of Mary Shelley's famous novel.

'Frankenstein', first published in 1818, is widely recognised as being one of the first...

Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s sixth Philip Marlowe mystery.Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind...

A fascinating collection of archive interviews with the famed lead singer of the Rolling Stones. In this archive we hear--in his owns words--about being the voice of his generation. He talks about...

British and Irish Lions legend Willie John McBride looks back on meteoric career in the game.

An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'.Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor...

A collection of fab sketches from 'Round the Horne's most flamboyant duo.In this first fantabulosa selection of sketches from BBC Radio's classic comedy 'Round the Horne', we find that two...

Series 2 - Highlites: Retouched. The country's worst hairdressers go mobile. By Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding. With Lorraine Ashbourne as Bev, Rosie Cavaliero as Shirley, Stephanie Racine as...

With the Lower Loxley New Year Ball on everyone’s mind, Lily has to remind Freddie to behave. At the Ball Kirsty tells Tom he’s lucky to have found his soulmate in Brenda, Kirsty’s not so...

Highlights from the satirical, political comedy TV sketch show starring Alan Bennett, John Sergeant and Virginia Stride.‘On the Margin’ was a six part BBC TV satirical comedy sketch show...

The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature’s most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers’ charming...

Lyn Took and Lauretta Feldman select four of their favourite 'Round the Horne' episodes all taken from radio Series One: 4 April 1965, 2 May 1965, 9 May 1965 and 30 May 1965.Four bona shows...

‘The history of crime detection has produced no more famous name than that of Sexton Blake…’William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant...