Arts & Drama: Downloadable audio books - 4
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This is the tale of a cat - a very special cat in fact , he is a theatrical cat , a fastidious cat , a funny cat but most of all an adored cat.
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Recorded live for BBC Radio 4, Hymn is a memoir of music in childhood, written by Alan Bennett and George Fenton
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A horrific modern comedy which includes readings of several Poe works. Based on the stage play.
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The first of Homer's epic poems. Translated by Samuel Butler.
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The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war.
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This elaborate fabrication proceeds smoothly until Jack/Ernest falls in love and his fiancee's mother discovers there is more - or, rather, less - to him than meets the eye.
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This is one of the great recordings of a great play. John Gielgud stars as Earnest and Edith Evans .....
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In Chancery is the second novel in John Galsworthy's epic Forsyte Saga, a brilliant social satire about an upper-class family. After suffering the death of her lover and abuse from her husband Soames, Irene Forsyte has finally left her marriage for good. Though disgraced by her affair, she forms...
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In WWI, possibly the most horrific modern war, two soldier poets described inner impressions telling us much about war and the people who fight them.
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The Cinderella tale of this hard-working, determined woman leaves you cheering as the triumphs of her later life overshadow the pain of her early life.
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One night, while dumping a corpse in a swamp, a killer unexpectedly discovers love and horror.
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves.
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Maeve talks about hearing her work on audio, narrated by her cousin and friend Kate Binchy...
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The tie-in to the Disney Pictures release starring Mark Wahlberg - the true story of the NFL's oldest rookie...
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A deeply spiritual works in which the author brings to life the wisdom of her beloved prose poem in such a passionate and touching manner
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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.
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Terry Wogan tells the story of his journey from Irish childhood to chat show host in his own delightfully Iaconic fashion
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This boxed set features Jack London's thrilling classics, The Call of the Wild and White Fang. London's adventurous nature, intuitive feeling for animal life, and superb storytelling skills have given his tales an enduring place in the annals of American literature.
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Jack Rosenthal had always resisted writing an autobiography, until he hit on an original way of writing it: it would be a screenplay, himself as the central character, the story that of his own life.
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This riveting biography follows Stewart from his childhood shaped by a strong-willed father to the fateful encounter with actress Margaret Sullavan, his first professional theatrical experiences on...
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Jane Eyre is the story of an unloved and penniless orphan who triumphs over harsh treatment to become a spirited and independent young woman...
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SHIVER THE TIMBERS. Screenwriter Jerry Davenport gets a surprise delivery - three orphaned nephews he never knew he had!
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Sir John Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates and even a hundred years after his birth he continues to attract acclaim and admiration.
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When Thomas Broadbent, an Englishman, visits Ireland for the first time, he is accompanied by his friend Larry Doyle, an Irishman who is returning to his homeland after being away for many years...
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This series features reconstructions of Marshall-Hall's dramatic courtroom displays and his ingenious and persuasive tactics.
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A special tribute edition of Home Truths, hosted by Tom Robinson, including a visit to John Peel's family at 'Peel Acres'...
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Political intrigue and fierce battle rage in this tense and dynamic production in which a country is torn apart under the legacy of Julius Caesar, 'the colossus'.
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Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare's most popular and polished works.
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Ever since that long gone age of railways - Whenever that was - Stations have needed porters. That special breed of men who during those long periods between trains, can find endless tasks to perform.
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Alison Steadman, Richard Griffiths and Nigel Anthony star in this BBC radio 4 version of Alan Bennett's acclaimed comedy drama...
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Karma before the Storm
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The Robert Louis Steven Adventure Classic is now a thrilling Audio Play!
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Farcical comedy tells the tale of the Killist, the meanest, toughest, orneryest gun in the old west.
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Shakespeare's bitter tragedy of loyalty, power and politics.
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The story of a foolish and self-indulgent king who learns the value of self-knowledge.
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Kenneth Branagh heads an outstanding cast in playing one of Shakespeare's strongest characters. The eighth production in the widely admired series of Shakespeare plays.
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Filled with high adventure, spectacular battle sequences, thousands of sound effects, and an exciting music score, CRT's dramatization of King Solomon's Mines is a colossal feast for the ears.
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Oscar Wilde's first play confronts the hypocrisy of public 'morality'.
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This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English.
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"Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in, delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose."--Robert Graves
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Whitman succeeded in his ambition to create something uniquely American. His poems are woven into the very fabric of the American character, from his solemn dirge "O Captain! My Captain!" to the jo...
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The Headless Horseman roams Sleepy Hollow in Washington Irvings Classic tale.
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Union supporters in President Abraham Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, Illinois, asked him to speak at a rally on September 3, 1863. Lincoln could not attend but wrote this letter instead.
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In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Anna Deavere Smith advises her young artist on everything from how to stay healthy to tips for building a diverse network of friends and profession...
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Bill Bryson's hilarious memoir of growing up in middle America in the Fifties - complete, unabridged and read by the author
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Born in Dublin in 1865, Yeats drew strength from the Irish tradition, as can be seen in this special audiobook which presents the most important poems in the context of his life and ambitions.
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The complete Gospel of Luke taken from Zondervan's acclaimed, Audie Award-winning NIV Audio Bible Dramatized New Testament...
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Here is a brief account of Dante's life, compiled from various sources (including his first biographer, Boccaccio) by Benedict Flynn.
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In this classic biography, Hesketh Pearson puts his skills as an actor and biographer to lively use, looking at the man as much through his work
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Well-known war correspondent and artist Dick Heldar returns to London and falls in love with his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. Then he learns he is going blind due to a war injury. As his vision fails, he must choose between the love of a woman and the love of the men who stood by him at the front.
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The Lives of the Great Artists was the first truly comprehensive history of art.
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Suetonius wrote Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled their extraordinary careers, presenting perspicacious insights into the men as much as their reigns.
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The First Instalment Of Tolkien's Epic Tale, Adapted From The Original BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation.
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The Second Instalment Of Tolkien' s Epic Tale, Adapted From The Original BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation.
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The Third Instalment of Tolkien's Epic Tale, Adapted From The Original BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation.
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From the author of such children's classics as The Secret Garden and A Little Princess comes this enchanting story of a young boy discovering his true destiny. Twelve-year-old Marco has spent his life traveling with his father in secrecy, forbidden to speak about their country of origin,...
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Kelly and her mother huddle on a rainy NYC street fearing they'll never know enough about each other
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This biography presents the Lucille that her fans have never known, from her virtual abandonment in childhood, through her early vaudeville and Hollywood years, to her troubled relationship with Desi Arnaz. Brady gives us the thoughtful and candid biography this great star deserves.
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Macbeth is among the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies, a dark but fascinating glimpse into the soul of evil, set in medieval Scotland.
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Iin Macbeth Shakespeare has chosen for his tragic hero a man guilty of the most terrible crime imaginable to a Jacobean audience, that of regicide - the murder of a king.
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Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's drama of greed and destiny.
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Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dramatic tale of greed and destiny...
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In a way reminiscent of Holme's art of deduction, this audio book, taken from the DVD of the same name, gets to grips with the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles. In this seventh installment, the story continues of the lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths of the fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians,...
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Tales from The Traveller's Rest. Short stories by Dennis Rookard and read by John Glasscock.
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This two-part adult fairytale by the author of The Secret Garden combines a charming Cinderella tale with an ironic look at class structure and the Edwardian marriage market in turn-of-the-century London. Emily Fox-Seton is distantly related to aristocracy, but she is struggling to make ends...
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Being an account in words and music of the great Anglo-French Mangle War of 1897, and the patriotic role a Music Hall song played in its outcome.
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In this collection of musical portraits, jazz pianist and radio host Marian McPartland pays tribute to such legendary figures as Benny Goodman, Bill Evans, Joe Morello, Paul Desmond, Alec Wilder, M...
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When a prince deserts his subjects, death comes looking for him.
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When a young woman is offered the choice of saving a man's life at the price of her own chastity, what should she do?
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Shakespeare's dramatic and complex comedy.
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Here are the beloved adventures of the mischievous hero Robin Hood and his brave and merry band of outlaws who forged a chivalrous code to protect the oppressed and despoil the oppressors. Breathtaking escapes, hilarious escapades, and classic characters make this a favorite story everywhere.
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MICHAEL PALIN's diaries begin in the late 1960s and tell how Python emerged and triumphed. Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the group then proceeded to tour in the United States and Canada..
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Michelangelo Buonarroti was a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius and a poet and writer of great accomplishment. In all his work, Michelangelo impressed his contemporaries as a divine genius...
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Middlemarch is a multilayered work centering around two expertly constructed characters: Dorothea Brooke, an idealistic young woman who traps herself into a loveless marriage, and Tertius Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor. This work is epic in scope and unsurpassed in its depiction of human nature.
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This blends several kinds of comedy with a powerful atmosphere of magic and mystery and a satisfying set of contrasts - between city and country, reason and imagination, love and infatuation.
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A joyous celebration of love, language, and life itself, A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare at his lyrical best.
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Sylvestra Le Touzel, Sam West and David Threlfall star in Shakespeare's delightful comic fantasy.
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This is a dynamic, modern dramatisation of a classic book by John Wyndham....
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From her birth in Newgate Prison, where her mother is under sentence of death for theft, to her final position of wealth, Moll Flanders demonstrates a spirit of industry and an indomitable will. One of the earliest social novels of English life, Moll Flanders features one of the most lively,...
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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast...
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David Tennant stars as Benedick with Samantha Spiro as Beatrice in Shakespeare's merry comedy of wit, words and romance.
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One of the outstanding novels in the canon of American literature, My antonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in the vast frontier farmlands of Nebraska. Infused with a gracious passion for the land, it renders a deeply moving portrait of a community and the free-spirited girl at...
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Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, reveals what it's like to be at the center of an American institution, one that reinvented the sitcom, rocked the networks to the core, and changed fore...
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With an introduction by Paul Auster, this delightful true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life -- then and now.
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This compilation brings together over forty poems from the poll conducted by BBC Television's Bookworm to find the nation's favourite poem.
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Nicholas, the hearty young hero, takes us on a journey through nineteenth-century England in a delightful series of adventures accompanied by some of Dickens's best swaggering scoundrels and most unforgettable eccentrics.
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In this Audio book from the DVD of the same name, Nick Pope for the first time since leaving the MOD goes on the record and spells out his beliefs, opinions and reveals his inside knowledge.
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