Arts & Drama: Downloadable audio books - 5
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An abandoned hilltop farmhouse, seven desperate people, and a surrounding darkness ripped by bloodcurdling cries of anguish.
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It is 1793, France, the year of the guillotine. Already Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and terror reigns. In Ninety-Three, Victor Hugo's inspired last novel, that tumultuous year's events are woven into an epic masterpiece which captures brilliantly the moment that shaped the...
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The NIV Dramatized Audio Bible - New Testament is more than a Bible you listen to. It's an experience that helps you enter into God's Word . . . So God's Word can ent
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The NIV Dramatized Audio Bible - Old Testament is more than a Bible you listen to. It's an experience that helps you enter into God's Word . . . So God's Word can ent
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The NIV Dramatized Audio Bible is more than a Bible you listen to. It's an experience that helps you enter into God's Word . . . So God's Word can ent
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A perfect blend of vintage Noel Coward sure to be enjoyed by faithful fans and new listeners.
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The thrilling tale of the wanderings of the hero Odysseus after the end of the Trojan war.
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Homer's Adventures of Odysseus. Translated by Samuel Butler.
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer's epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon Armitage and starring Tim McInnerny and Amanda Redman.
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In this new translation, performed by an outstanding cast led by Michael Sheen, the searing inevitablity facing Oedipus proves as shocking as it was 2.500 years ago when it was first presented.
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Tim McInnerny stars as the murderous Bill Sikes with Pam Ferris as Mrs Mann and Edward Long as Oliver in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of one of Dickens' best known novels.
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Clare Charwell has just fled her sadistic husband in Ceylon and boarded a ship back to England. On the boat, she meets the charming Tony Croom, who falls madly in love with her. Though Clare's relationship with Tony is platonic, her husband has been secretly gathering "evidence" to accuse her of...
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Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her...
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Aeschylus here dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos. The action begins when King Agamemnon, returning victorious from the Trojan War, is treacherously slain by his wife. It end
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The second in Shakespeare's greate sequence of four tragedies.
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The stormy passions of Shakespeare's tragedy resonate with powerful emotion in this BBC radio 3 production.
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This terse and startling novel is the story of a struggle for possession and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young...
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A white lie about a smear of blood and a garage door leads two young twins to alarming assumptions.
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Set in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic, where she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how...
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Pam Ayres at her entertaining best in a live stage show from Stratford-upon-Avon...
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Warm and witty, direct and droll, the sharply funny Pam Ayres has been amusing and entertaining her many fans for years...
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The horrors of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory are left far behind. Ultimately, in Paradise, Dante is granted a vision of God's Heavenly court - the angels, the Blessed Virgin and God Himself.
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Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language.
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Full-Cast. An indigestible tragic romantic comedy of love, jealousy, betrayal and murder.
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Popular actress Penelope Keith discusses her work as a reader for BBC Audiobooks.
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Pensees (Thoughts) is a collection of Pascal's notes and ideas for a book in defense of faith in a rational world. These fragments give evidence of a profoundly original thinker who has resolved his conflict between a scientific mind demanding proof and a spiritual position maintained by faith.
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Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia.
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of J. M. Barrie's tale of childhood adventure starring Toyah Willcox as Peter Pan and Ron Moody as Captain Hook
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In this seminal story of naval life during the Napoleonic War, Frederick Marryat's young hero embarks upon a life at sea and finds it to be a rough school indeed. Peter Simple is a towering tale from the great age of sail, filled with keen wit, vivid characters, and gripping adventure.
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Here are 60 of the finest and most entertaining poems for younger listeners.
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Plutarch's unique insight into the great men of the Ancient World through his biographies.
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This specially commissioned recording offers a wide-ranging choice of Burns's songs and lyrical poems; and longer poems...
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This unique package provides a multi-media poetry experience from one of today's most beloved performers.
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Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices.
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These days, English professors teach anything and everything but classic English literature. They prefer to indoctrinate their students in Marxism and feminism and propagandize against our "oppressive" Western culture. Take a fascinating tour through our great literature, in all its politically...
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Three men, Kevin, Dermot and Joe, stand and tell their stories on a bare stage. They never meet. Or do they?
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Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left a remarkable legacy when she died. Her bold, brilliant canvasses had a stunning, profound, and lasting influence ...
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MODERN RADIO'S GREATEST WESTERN SERIES RETURNS WITH ALL NEW EPISODES!
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Two wiley prospectors arrive in the mountains belonging to Dan MacMasters, and will stop at nothing, including using dynomite, to strike it rich.
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IN CHICAGO. Britt and Chad travel to Chicago where Doc is hospitalized.
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While in Chicago,Britt once again encounters Jenny White.
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A young lady is the sole survivor of an Indian attack on a raft traveling on the Powder.
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Doc wants to join Britt and Dawes in their search for the attackers of the raft.
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Britt fears another uprising with the Sioux.
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Britt takes on the river pirates who have been attacking boats and homesteads along the Powder.
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A mysterious visitor takes a room at Millie's Hotel.
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The railroad arrives in Clearmont, bring one thousand workers and trouble.
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While hunting buffalo for the railroad, peace with the Sioux is threatened.
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Tragedy and death strike Clearmont, in this, the most dramatic episode of the Powder River series.
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Natty Bumppo in his ninetieth year is still competent as a frontiersman and trapper. He is drawn into conflict with society in the form of an immigrant party led by the surly Ishmael Bush. Once again this great man of nature is called upon to exhibit his courage and resourcefulness to rescue...
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Kahlil Gibran's greatest achievement.
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A truly strange tale told by our narrator, a puddle obsessed busker.
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Purgatory is the second part of Dante's The Divine Comedy. We find the Poet, with his guide Virgil, ascending the terraces of the Mount of Purgatory inhabited by those doing penance.
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An extraordinary adventure through every strata of modern-day India, from orphanages to brothels, gangsters to beggar-masters, into the homes of Bollywood's rich and famous.
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Two Kidnappers learn their plan is less than perfect
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Two childrens classics involving children being taken from their parents as a punishment.
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When Maxim de Winter brings his shy new bride to his beautiful stately home on the Cornwall coast, it seems like all her dreams have come 1...
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Anna Leath, an American widow living in France, has engaged in a love affair with George Darrow, a diplomat. However, when Darrow is on his way to consolidate marriage plans at Anna's French chateau, he encounters Sophy Viner, who is as sprightly and spontaneous as Anna is restrained and demure....
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Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, marks the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth in BBC R3's Sunday Feature 'Rembrandt 400'...
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Clym Yeobright, a diamond merchant in Paris, returns to his home in Egdon where he falls in love with the sensuous Eustacia Vye. She marries him, hoping he will take her away to Paris. But Eustacia's dreams of escape are not to be realized. Clym Yeobright, the returning native, cannot bring her...
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Samuel West stars as Richard II with Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt in Shakespeare's lyrically tragic history.
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A comic masterpiece brimming with false identities!
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*Stop Press* BBC's Robin Hood audiobook download available in January ! Meanwhile, listen to Richard Armitage, who plays Guy of Gisbourne, talk about his character..
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Auguste Rodin was not only the greatest sculptor but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times. Grunfeld's exhaustive biography documents artistic and personal struggles against...
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Mr. Frank Softly was sent to one of the most fashionable and famous of the great public schools. He said, "I ran away three times, and was flogged three times. I made four aristocratic connections, I learnt to play at cricket, to hate rich people. . . and to receive kicks and serious advice...
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Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire. Here he considers some of the major figures who had left their stamp.
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Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love. The full beauty and meaning of some of the most lyrical lines ever written can truly be heard.
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Shakespeare's play is filled with wit, tenderness, dramatic variety and poetic beauty.
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Douglas Henshall stars as Romeo with Sophie Dahl as Juliet and Susannah York as Lady Capulet in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love...
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In this novel, Eliot re-creates the upheavals of fifteenth-century Florence through the noble and courageous Romola, who finds herself increasingly disillusioned by the career of Savonarola and repelled by her unscrupulous, self-indulgent husband.
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The image and lifestyle of Jimi Hendrix was larger-than-life, but beyond this was a complex man who struggled to accept his role as an idol. This sensitive, meticulously-researched biography recounts the entire arc of Hendrix's twenty-seven years, from po
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Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. M. Forster's glorious tale of love in Italy and England...
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Devastated by the end of her relationship, Rose reunites with her best friend from high school.
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While on holiday in 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire. To console him...
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The ethereal words of the great thinker Omar Khayyam.
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In these episodes Rumpole is played by Timothy West, whilst the part of She Who Must Be Obeyed is taken by his real-life wife, Prunella Scales.
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The Bunbury Banter Theatre Company presents 'The Sallow Child' by Lee Ravitz.
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"Who is this man, this Scarlet Pimpernel?" Each day this question grew more pressing to the rulers of the French Revolution. Only this man, this maddeningly elusive figure, threatened their total power, defying the vast network of fanatics, informers, and secret agents that the Revolution spread...
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A sophisticated man is thrust into the dangerous world of a sealing sailor
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The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead.
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Was Jesus actually married to Mary Magdalene? Did they have a child together? In the Secrets of the Code, Burstein attempts to distill expert opinion on the subject.
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An Anthology of Poetry with Music.
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Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations.
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A lesser known but heart warming Charles Dickens Christmas story, set on Christmas Eve.
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Bill Bryson's short biography of William Shakespeare for the Eminent Lives series, pairing great subjects with writers known for their strong sensibilities and sharp, lively points of view.
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All 154 of the Shakespeare's sonnets are beautifully read.
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'To be or not to be - that is the question...'
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Richard Burton's rich and resonant voice delivers Henry V's address to his army on the eve of Agincourt!
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Alec Guinness's performance as King Lear stirs the listener in this recording from the BBC Sound Archives.
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