
Typhoon
Reader: Roger Allam
'Typhoon' is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest and of the captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit.
Captain MacWhirr was an ordinary man. However,...$8.97 $14.95
Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii
Reader: McAvoy Lane
Mark Twain fell in love with Hawaii. His expected stay of one week expanded to four months, and he sent delightful missives back to the Sacramento Union newspaper, painting a vivid portrait of the...
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Ulysses
Reader: Sinead Cusack
A dramatized reading of James Joyce's masterpiece adapted for BBC Radio 4, starring Stephen Rea and Sinead Cusack. Timelessly evocative, it is far more than the story of Stephen Dedalus' journey...
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The Little Mermaid and other stories
Reader: Tamsin Greig
Magical retellings of four classic fairy tales. The Little Mermaid read by Tamsin Greig: The youngest child of the Mer King lives in a beautiful underwater city. But on her first trip to the world...
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So Disdained
On a rain-swept night on the Sussex Downs in the uneasy peace between the wars, Peter Moran stopped his car to give a lift to a man. His unexpected passenger turned out to be an old wartime...
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Middlemarch
Reader: Maureen O’Brien
George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose...
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Great Expectations
When orphan Pip meets the escaped convict Magwitch in an overgrown churchyard on the Kent marshes, little does he know that the incident will change his life forever. Some years later, now...
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A Town Like Alice
During the war against Japan, a group of English women and children are marched across Malaya. Constantly fighting dysentery and exhaustion, many die on the way but the rest survive. Led by Jean...
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Dick Whittington
Reader: Stephen Mangan
Dick Whittington and his family are very poor. So, hearing that the streets of London are paved with gold, Dick decides to go to this city of opportunites and make his fortune. A magical retelling...
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The Way We Live Now
When Trollope returned to England in 1872, after a long visit to Australia, he was horrified by the immorality and dishonesty he found. In a fever of indignation he wrote 'The Way We Live Now',...
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Howards End
Reader: Edward Petherbridge
When Helen Schlegel falls suddenly in love with Paul Wilcox she breaks off the engagement almost at once, perceiving the spiritual gulf between their two families. But when her sister, Margaret,...
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Aesop: The Too Fat Fox
Reader: Jane Horrocks
One of Aesop's best-known fables is brought to life by Jane Horrocks in this adaptation for children aged 5 to 9. It is a freezing winter, and Fox is starving. Then he suddenly smells food......
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Huckleberry Finn (Classic Drama)
Reader: Full Cast
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Mark Twain’s classic novel of adventure, loyalty and responsibility.Young Huck Finn can’t get along with the Widow Douglas’ attempts to...
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Great Classic Horror
The Victorian-era writers featured in this collection are known for their power of invention and command of horror and the supernatural. Includes 'A Watcher by the Dead' by Ambrose Bierce; 'The...
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Giovanni's Room
Reader: Dan Butler
Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James...
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The Chrysalids & Survival (Classic Radio Sci-Fi)
Reader: Full Cast
This audio title brings together two John Wyndham novels. The featured titles are 'The Chrysalids' and 'Survival'.‘The Chrysalids’ Ten-year-old David is a happy, ordinary boy, untroubled...
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Demian
Reader: Jeff Woodman
A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication. A landmark...
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The Mystery of the Mystery of Edwin Drood
Reader: Frances Fyfield
Writer Frances Fyfield uses the manuscript of Dickens's last, unfinished, novel to work on the mystery of what happened to the book's eponymous hero Edwin Drood. First broadcast: BBC Radio 4, 19...
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Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend: Part 1
Charles Dickens' classic novel stars Alex Jennings as Charles Dickens and Pauline Quirke as Mrs Boffin. Adapted by Mike Walker. Following his father's death, John Harmon returns to London to claim...
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South Riding
Reader: Full Cast
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel of 1930s Yorkshire.It is the summer of 1932, and Sarah Burton embarks on a new beginning as the headmistress of...
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Remember, Remember: The Selected Stories of Winifred Holtby
Reader: Susan Jameson
Entertaining stories which Jameson describes as 'easy to pick up and more tantalising for one's bedside table than a novel'.
This selection of Winifred Holtby's short stories is drawn...$17.97 $29.95
Classic Gothic Tales
Reader: Various
Schalken the Painter by J. S. Lefanu; Sredni Vashtar by Saki (H. H. Munro); The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson; Charles Ashmore's Trail by Ambrose Bierce; The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard...
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The Railway Children
Reader: Full Cast
A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of E. Nesbit’s enchanting and unforgettable classic.
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis lead an ordinary suburban life with Mother and Father and trips to...$7.77 $12.95
Oliver Twist
Reader: Martin Jarvis
Born and raised in the workhouse, orphan Oliver Twist’s life is miserable. When he is taken on as an apprentice by Mr Sowerby the undertaker, he hopes things will get better, but Sowerby’s...
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Reader: Tony Britton
Drunk at a country fair, Michael Henchard sells his wife to a sailor for five guineas. Overcome with guilt and remorse, he vows not to drink for 21 years. Decades later his wife seeks him out in...
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