Fiction - Historical Fiction
The Pride and the Anguish
Reader: David Rintoul
November 1941. Lt Ralph Trewin, DSC, arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of the shallow-draughter HMS Porcupine.
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Beyond the Reef
Reader: Michael Jayston
In March 1808, as Napoleon holds Portugal and threatens his old ally Spain, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is dispatched once more to the Cape of Good Hope to establish a permanent naval force...
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The Last Raider
Reader: David Rintoul
December 1917. Germany opens the final, bitter round of the war with a new and deadly weapon in the struggle for the seas _x001A_ the Vulcan sails from Kiel Harbor. To all appearances she is a...
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The Latter Days at Colditz
Reader: Terrence Hardiman
In 'The Colditz Story', Pat Reid told the story of the escape academy that sprang up inside the most impregnable German POW camp of the Second World War, ending appropriately with his own...
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An Apple from Eden
Reader: Eve Karpf
The Seatons, affluent members of the Protestant gentry, own The Haven, a lush, opulent estate in the Scottish countryside. The Flynns, proud Catholics to the core, spend their working days in the...
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The Aye-Aye and I
In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like radar dishes...I had had my first encounter with...
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The Girl in the Blue Beret
Reader: Fred Sullivan
Inspired by a true story, the bestselling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him...
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The Iron Hand of Mars
Reader: Full Cast
Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the fourth novel in Lindsey Davis's bestselling series featuring Roman private eye Falco.The Iron Hand of Mars...
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The Schoolmaster's Daughter
With the outbreak of the American Revolution, Abigail Lovell's family is torn apart—while her schoolmaster father is an outspoken loyalist and prominent figurehead in the community, she and her...
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The Iron Pirate
Reader: David Rintoul
The crack German cruiser Prinz Luitpold had always been lucky in battle. To the beleaguered army on the Baltic coast she was their one remaining symbol of hope.
But it is the summer of...$15.57 $25.95
The Soldier's Wife
Reader: Charlotte Anne Dore
The Soldier's Wife examines how three generations of a family struggle with the impact of war on their relationships, long after the tour of duty is over. Dan Riley is a major in the British Army....
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Command a King's Ship
Spithead, 1784. His Majesty's frigate, Undine, sets sail for India and the seas beyond. Europe may be at peace - but in colonial waters the promises of statesmen count for little and the bloody...
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Battlecruiser
Reader: David Rintoul
Conceived as an invincible defence against enemy commerce raiders, the battlecruiser was hailed as a triumph. Designed to outrun and outshoot its opponents, its weakness was exposed at the Battle...
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Pompeii
Reader: Steven Pacey
Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? All along the coast, the Roman Empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world’s...
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Lady's Maid
Reader: Carole Boyd
London 1844, and a shy young woman has arrived to take up a new situation in the grandeur of No. 50, Wimpole Street. Subtly and compellingly, ‘Lady’s Maid’ gives voice to Elizabeth...
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The White Guns
Reader: David Rintoul
There will be days when you wonder at and question some of the risks you had to take, the sacrifices you were forced to offer in the face of death. In Kiel Harbour, 1945, the war in Europe is at...
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The Governess
Reader: Sheila Mitchell
When Harriet Unwin takes the position of governess in the well-to-do Thackerton household, it would seem that fortune has smiled on her at last. That is until William Thackerton is found stabbed,...
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The Blue Noon
Paris, 1945. A manhunt is raging across the liberated city, conducted by the British, American and French intelligence services.
One man is more eager than most to find the quarry:...$17.97 $29.95
Poseidon's Gold
Reader: Full Cast
Returning to Rome after his mission to Germania, Falco finds that his mother is being harassed by a centurion named Censorinus, who says he is chasing a debt owed to him by Falco’s brother...
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Odysseus II: The Journey Through Hell
Reader: Tony Robinson
It has taken ten long, bloody years for the Greeks to win the Trojan War and now Odysseus, their victorious leader, wants nothing more than to return home to his wife and son. But the only person...
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Dive in the Sun
Reader: David Rintoul
Adriatic, 1940s... Curtis was the pro. He could steer a sub through a saloon and no one would notice. Duncan was the grumbler, more at home in the Aussie Outback than twenty fathoms under the...
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The Undertow
Reader: Anna Bentinck
This is the story of the Hasting family - their secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks - captured in a seamless series of individual moments that span the years between the first...
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Sloop of War
April 1778, English Harbour, Antigua. As the French enter the American War of Independence in earnest, young Richard Bolitho is given his first command: Sparrow—a fast, well-armed fighting...
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Three Hands in the Fountain
Reader: Christian Rodska
Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked -- by a gruesomely severed human hand. Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts and...
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Odysseus: The Greatest Hero of Them All
Reader: Tony Robinson
The most powerful men in the world were all together in a circle in the middle of the room. Drawing their daggers, they cut their right hands and, above the pile of gold, swore Odysseus’ vow:...
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