Arts & Drama: Downloadable audio books - 6
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From the BBC Sound Archives, one of Shakespeare's most famous and memorable speeches, with Paul Scofield and Peggy Ashcroft as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, bringing these ominous words vividly to life.
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With Denis Quilley as Macbeth, this recording from the BBC Sound Archives brings Shakespeare's memorable words to life.
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Ian Holm delivers King Richard IIIs soliloquy, bringing Shakespeare's wonderful lines, full of pyschological insight, vividly to life.
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This impassioned speech is beautifully spoken by Fay Compton in this BBC Sound archives recording.
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In this recording from the BBC Sound Archives, Hannah Gordon is Shakespeare's wise Portia.
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Full-Cast. Is it possible Holmes can be bested ... by a woman no less?
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Full-Cast. Holmes engages his arch enemy Professor Moriarty in a deadly battle of wits
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Full-Cast. Holmes and Watson investigate the terrible doings at Stoke Moran manor
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Silas Marner's redemption and restoration endorses the goodness in people...
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"But, however much or little 'A Modern Comedy' may be deemed to reflect the spirit of an Age, it continues in the main to relate the tale of life which sprang from the meeting of Soames and Irene in a Bournemouth drawing-room in 1881...."-John Galsworthy
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life but it is also much more than this.
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Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens.
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Squire Dale, the embittered old bachelor who lives in the great house at Allington, has loaned the nearby small house rent free to his widowed sister-in-law and her two daughters, Lily and Bell. The action centers on the strained relations between the two houses and on the romantic entanglements...
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Smith of Wooton Major tells of the preparation of the Great Cake to mark the Feast of Good Children and the magical...
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Kris Kelvin arrives at a scientific research station hovering above the surface of Solaris where research has been ongoing for years.
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The heroic true stroy of an American soldier and an Iraqi boy.
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The Song of Hiawatha was one of the most loved and quoted narrative poems of the 19th century.
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The audiodrama of this twelfth-century French epic allows listeners to hear the story as they might have in medieval time, when a traveling troubador would recite the poem in the village square. It describes the heroic exploits of Roland and the campaign of Charlemagne. Fired by the religious...
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A Shakespeare Recording Society Production, this selection of Shakespeare's Sonnets is read by the legendary Sir John Gielgud.
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This new recording presents all 154 of Shakespeare's Sonnets, using the New Cambridge Shakespeare texts.
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This is no ordinary celebrity biography pieced together by an outsider. Steve Martin and author Morris Walker had a close relationship growing up. They were class clowns together, charming the girls and the teachers with their wit and eventually going on the road as comedians. You'll meet the...
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Actor Steven Pacey discusses his work as a reader for audiobooks.
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Stick It! Rocking Road Stories told by legendary classic rock drummer Corky Laing...
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The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones.
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Doctor Dolittle, a little, lovable, old doctor, has so many animal pets that his people patients will not come to him any more. In fact, he likes the animals better, and he can talk to them, too! Soon his fame spreads all over the world and when the monkeys in Africa are stricken with an...
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A Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India... it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century.
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In his old age, Soames Forsyte has mellowed into a patient and benign figure, guarding with especial tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert the tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with Jon Forsyte.
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The doctor has just been released, demented, when the story opens. He is brought to England where he gradually recovers his health and his sanity.
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Orson Welles introduces and stars in true crime stories from the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's infamous gallery of death...
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Orson Welles introduces and stars in true crime stories from the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's infamous gallery of death...
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Orson Welles introduces and stars in true crime stories from the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's infamous gallery of death...
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The Crusaders, led by Richard I of England, are encamped in the Holy Land and torn by the dissensions and jealousies of the leaders, including Coeur de Lion himself and Philip of France.
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Audiences the world over still thrill to The Tempest's dark comedy and magical fantasy.
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The wronged Duke raises a tempest to shipwreck his old opponents on his island so that he can ensure justice is done.
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Shakespeare's magical, other-wordly final play.
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A beautiful woman with a young child and a mysterious past takes up residence at Wildfell Hall and becomes the passionate focus of attention of a young unmarried country gentleman, in this tragic tale that reveals the secret violence in a society considered well-mannered.
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At the farthest reaches of the British Empire, four men swear an oath to keep a terrible secret, a secret drenched in blood which is the key to immense wealth...
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In this episode from the series, Sir Laurence Olivier stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the famous Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde classic by Robert Louis Stevenson...
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Theatre Royal: In this episode from the series, Ralph Richardson stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the famous Private Rooms classic by J.B.Priestley...
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First broadcast as an half-hour radio programme in the 1950's, this performance captures the marvellous theatrical style of post-war radio before the advent of television and offers the experience...
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In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Ther�se Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband's earthy friend Laurent. But their passion for...
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The young and headstrong D'Artagnan, having proven his bravery by dueling with each, becomes a friend of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, members of the King's Musketeers.
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This historical romance, perhaps the greatest cloak-and-sword story ever written, relates the adventures of four fictional swashbuckling heroes and their escapades against the master of intrigue, Cardinal Richelieu, and the quintessential wicked woman, Lady de Winter.
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
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A literary as well as a philosophical masterpiece, Thus spoke Zarathustra survived an initially poor reception, to be recognised as a seminal text in modern culture.
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A multi-voice audio recording of a fresh, new translation for today's generation.
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A multi-voice audio recording of a fresh, new translation for today's generation.
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A multi-voice audio recording of a fresh, new translation for today's generation.
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In To Let, Jon and Fleur, now both nineteen years old, fall in love. However, when Jolyon informs his son of the past feud between the families, Jon decides that he cannot marry Fleur. Meanwhile, Soames learns that his second wife, Annette, has been unfaithful to him, and the Forsyte family...
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Stephen Glennard, a young lawyer, sells a package of love letters, written to him over the years by distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn, to raise money to pay for his forthcoming wedding to another woman. After the wedding, his secret comes back to haunt him, and when he confesses to his wife,...
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In this book that implicitly condemns slavery, David Wilson is called "Pudd'nhead" by the townspeople, who fail to understand his combination of wisdom and eccentricity. He redeems himself by solving a murder mystery and a case of transposed identities.
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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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The timeless adventure classic of young Jim Hawkins and Captain Flint's treasure.
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Modem audiences, critics and directors seem better attuned to its delicate counterpointing of romance and realism, to its ambivalent ending and to the poetic suggestiveness of Feste's songs.
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The year 1866 was marked by a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon. For some time, sea vessels had been threatened by "an enormous thing," a long phosphorescent object, infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale-until Captain Nemo put his submarine, the Nautilus, into...
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Personal recollections of the foundations of the BBC in an old army hut in Essex.
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Produced by the Sci-Fi Channel and Seeing Ear Theatre - these two plays are adapted for voice by Neil Gaiman from two of his short stories (both stories can be found in Smoke & Mirrors).
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Published in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the abolitionists' message to the public conscience - no woman before or since has so moved America to take action against an injustice.
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Dylan Thomas wrote this as a radio play for voices and this is the only recording ever made with Thomas in the cast. This play is full of humour, a joyful sense of the goodness of life and love...
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Under Western Eyes, Conrad's novel of political treachery and oppression, begins with a bomb that kills a hated Russian minister of police, along with innocent bystanders. A young student named Razumov hides the perpetrator, then betrays him and becomes a spy among his exiled comrades. He faces...
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Brilliantly produced horror story about vampire neighbours from the acclaimed FearsForEars anthology
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Hear LA sleuth Mark Markheim solve crime all whilst adroitly enunciating elaborate alliterations
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Country vicar Dr. Primrose has a good heart, a good family and a good income, but suddenly, his idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of misfortunes. Despite all the calamity, however, he never loses sight of Christian morality, and this eventually brings him justice and the restoration...
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Lucy Snowe is a stoic young Englishwoman. Beset by adverse circumstances, on a momentary whim she travels to Belgium to seek her livelihood as a teacher in a girls' boarding school. There, surrounded by giddy pupils, under the control of the cunning school matron, wooed by an...
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The Bunbury Banter Theatre Company presents 'The Visitors' by Samantha Mitschke. From Series Two of our Radio Plays.
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Historial recordings of poetry, humor and drama. 1908 - 1947.
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The Voyage Out opens as a group of lively, eccentric British tourists embark on a sea voyage from London to a resort in South America. The focus soon turns to Rachel Vinrace, a shy, awkward young woman headed on a voyage of self-discovery through love, illness, and, finally, death. A wry and...
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In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the small town of Concord for the country. Beside the lake of Walden, he built himself a log cabin.
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Leo Tolstoy's epic War and Peace chronicles one of the most turbulent eras in Russian history, encompassing the drama and intensity of life during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
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War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of each individual's place in the historical process. War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself.
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When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs...
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This powerful and moving anthology includes poems of war from the eighteenth century to our own days in the long shadow...
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Anthony Trollope's classic novel centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended. On discovering this, young John Bold determines to expose what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he...
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot...
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Every generation finds in The Way of All Flesh a reaffirmation of youth's rightful struggle against the tyranny of harsh parents and its admirable will for freedom of personal expression. This is a fascinating character study of a young man who survives the influence of a hateful, hypocritical...
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A womans's discovery of a haunted wedding dress leads to a tragic end.
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In this opening novel of the second trilogy in the Forsyte Chronicles, Fleur and Michael Mont begin to question their marriage when a love triangle develops between them and their mutual friend, author Wilfred Desert.
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How was it that Lionel Lukin, living miles from the sea, came to develop the Lifeboat?
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An eccentric architect and Egyptologist dies leaving a bizarre will for this family to discover.
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Many of Shakespeare's greatest and best-loved speeches are brought together in this superb collection, performed by outstanding artists.
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What befalls a star-crossed triangle of friends and lovers in this novel illustrates exquisitely what happens when a woman's desire for both her lover and riches makes the object of her affection question his own true worth in her eyes.
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The Winter's Tale was one of the very last plays Shakespeare wrote, a moving romance whose themes are sin, forgiveness, death, rebirth, and the power of Time and Nature to heal all wounds.
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Romantic and gothic elements combine in this tightly-constructed thriller which induces excitement and fear in its audience...
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A classic of immense power, outlining the violent result of thwarted passion.
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An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature for many generations to come...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman is best remembered for her 1892 short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," based on her own bout with severe depression and misguided medical treatment.
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