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Shakespeare's dramatic and complex comedy.
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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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Gaskell's powerful drama, adapted here for Woman's Hour, is regarded as one of the most important novels of its time...
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When a prince deserts his subjects, death comes looking for him.
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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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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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A Midsummer Night's Dream must be one of the most enduringly popular of Shakespeare's plays, and it is not difficult to see why: the work blends several kinds of comedy with a powerful atmosphere...
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"The course of true love never did run smooth" —Lysander A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's best early works, an airy, romantic romp in the woods among bumbling rustics,...
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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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The Lives of the Great Artists was the first truly comprehensive history of art.
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Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian and...
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Dante's vision, The Divine Comedy, has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early 14th century. Here is a brief account of his life, compiled from various sources...
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The plays of William Shakespeare, and his famous lines, are part of the national consciousness. There may be few solid facts about Shakespeare the man, and yet not only do we want to know all about...
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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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By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601),...
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Being an account in words and music of the great Anglo-French Mangle War of 1897, and the patriotic roll a Music Hall song played in its outcome.
Both the script and music were writen by...
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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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"...All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death." — Macbeth Macbeth is among the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies, a dark but fascinating glimpse into the...
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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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The second in Shakespeare's greate sequence of four tragedies.
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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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In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian...
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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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Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language.
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'I have been in the Heaven that takes up most of his light, and saw things there that those who descend from that height cannot speak of or forget...' Led by his guide Beatrice, Dante leaves...
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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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Winner of a Gold Award for Abridged fiction at the Spoken Word Awards 2005 A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer’s epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon...
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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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On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on...
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A full-cast performance of one of the greatest verbal sparring matches in all of literature.
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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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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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A perfect blend of vintage Noel Coward sure to be enjoyed by faithful fans and new listeners.
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Homer's Adventures of Odysseus. Translated by Samuel Butler,
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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 horrific modern comedy which includes readings of several Poe works. Based on the stage play.
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The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war.
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A tale of madness, or possession, or perhaps both.
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Twain's story of an orphan is often cited as the greatest American novel.
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The first of Homer's epic poems. Translated by Samuel Butler.
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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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One night, while dumping a corpse in a swamp, a killer unexpectedly discovers love and horror.
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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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A court jester seeks revenge against the king, who brutalized his love.
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Brilliant in front of the camera but shy in person, Johnny Carson seldom gave interviews. Only Ed McMahon, Carson's personal friend and showbiz sidekick for over forty years, can tell the stories t...
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Alan Bennett's new, award-winning play as heard on BBC Radio 3 features the National Theatre cast...
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Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and Prince Hal in Shakespeare's stirring history.
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Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son, Hal, in this powerful production, which also stars Timothy West and Prunella Scales...
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Here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music.
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An enthralling story - told with nearly 100 famous musical extracts.
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Here is the diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre.
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The story of literature that has touched the hearts & stirred the minds of countless readers.
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This absorbing history is illustrated by over 100 musical examples.
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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 presented by Naxos AudioBooks...
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Oscar Wilde's first play confronts the hypocrisy of public 'morality'.
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The story of a foolish and self-indulgent king who learns the value of self-knowledge.
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Shakespeare's bitter tragedy of loyalty, power and politics.
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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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W.B. Yeats remains one of the most popular poets of the twentieth century. The Lake Isle of Innisfree, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, Down by the Salley Gardens, The Secret Rose - these...
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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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The Headless Horseman roams Sleepy Hollow in Washington Irvings Classic tale.
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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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Farcical comedy tells the tale of the Killist, the meanest, toughest, orneryest gun in the old west.
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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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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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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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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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The Robert Louis Steven Adventure Classic is now a thrilling Audio Play!
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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...
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Full-Cast. An indigestible tragic romantic comedy of love, jealousy, betrayal and murder.
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Shakespeare's magical, other-wordly final play.
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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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"Our revels now are ended... this rough magic I here abjure..." In Shakespeare hinting at the end of his own magnificent career in these and others lines spoken by the great magician,...
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Ian McKellen, as Prospero, heads a strong cast in Shakespeare's last great play. The wronged Duke raises a tempest to shipwreck his old opponents on his island so that he can ensure justice...
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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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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
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Also sprach Zarathustra was conceived and written by Friedrich Nietzsche during the years 1881 -1885; the first three Parts were published in 1883 and 1884. The book formed part of his 'campaign...
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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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"All for one and one for all!" 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...
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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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By the shores of Gitche Gumee By the shining Big-Sea-Water Stood the wigwam of Nokomis Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis The Song of Hiawatha was one of the most loved and quoted...
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Every bit as dazzling as the best of his dramas and comedies, Shakespeare's sonnets represent one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. And because they are love poems of an extraordinarily...
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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 from the planet Tralfamadore. In a...
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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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Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like 'the darling buds of May', or 'remembrance of things past',or 'the marriage of true minds'. For centuries...
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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 lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones. In 1200 years, classical music grew from the...
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The "two cities" are Paris in the time of the French Revolution, and London. Dr. Manette, a French physician, having been called in to treat a young peasant and his sister, realizes that they have...
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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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Historial recordings of poetry, humor and drama. 1908 - 1947.
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'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left...
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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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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. Based on...
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Wuthering Heights is the story of love turning on itself and of the violence and misery that result from thwarted passion. A book of immense power, it is filled with the raw...
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A womans's discovery of a haunted wedding dress leads to a tragic end.
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An eccentric architect and Egyptologist dies leaving a bizarre will for this family to discover.
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Hear LA sleuth Mark Markheim solve crime all whilst adroitly enunciating elaborate alliterations
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A multi-voice audio recording of a fresh, new translation for today’s generation.
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The narrator of this timeless adventure story is the lad, Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow, an inn on the west coast of England in the 18th century. An old buccaneer takes up...
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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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Twelfth Night, nowadays one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most-admired comedies, was not always so regarded: Samuel Pepys saw the play three times in the 1660s and judged it 'silly'. Modem...
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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. Indeed,...
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Brilliantly produced horror story about vampire neighbours from the acclaimed FearsForEars anthology
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Personal recollections of the foundations of the BBC in an old army hut in Essex.
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"The joy for me is knowing that somebody can have this strange audio experience. They're getting something as good as you get from radio." - Neil Gaimen Produced by the Sci-Fi Channel and...
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A comic masterpiece brimming with false identities!
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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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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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Samuel West stars as Richard II with Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt in Shakespeare's lyrically tragic history. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when...
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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 on the history of...
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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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Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love. BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly...
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Shakespeare's play is filled with wit, tenderness, dramatic variety and poetic beauty.
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Two childrens classics involving children being taken from their parents as a punishment.
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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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In this, the first prose history in European civilization. Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia. Here are not...
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Here are 60 of the finest and most entertaining poems for younger listeners. There are nonsense poems (The Jumblies) classic animal poems (The Snail ) stories of adventure (The Ballad of Sir...
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'The truth untold,/ The pity of war, the pity war distilled...' Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had...
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'Now of that second kingdom I shall sing where human souls are purified of sin. and made worthy to ascend to Heaven.' Purgatory is the second part of Dante's The Divine Comedy. We find...
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Two Kidnappers learn their plan is less than perfect
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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? From this simplest of dramatic devices emerges a rounded tale of Irish life across the...
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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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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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Alec Guinness's performance as King Lear stirs the listener in this recording from the BBC Sound Archives.
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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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This impassioned speech is beautifully spoken by Fay Compton in this BBC Sound archives recording.
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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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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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Richard Burton's rich and resonant voice delivers Henry V's address to his army on the eve of Agincourt!
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This release comprises four 45 minute BBC Radio 4 plays adapted by John Mortimer from four stories in his latest published collection, Rumpole and the Primrose Path. Rumpole is a wine-imbibing...
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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. Phil Lesh first met Jerry Garcia in...
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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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An Anthology of Poetry with Music.
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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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Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his...
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A lesser known but heart warming Charles Dickens Christmas story, set on Christmas Eve.
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During her long career, Helen Hayes moved among the world's most famous and talented. She offers deft private portraits of such personalities as Joan Crawford, Charlie Chaplin, F. Scott Fitzgerald,...
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Dr. Peter Blood gives medical attention to a wounded man after the battle of Sedgemore, as the Dragoons arrive in search of rebels.
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Falsely accused of being a rebel, Peter Blood is sent to Barbados and sold into slavery.
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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Blood secures a small boat and plans to escape from Barbados
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Blood poses as a liberated Spanish prisoner, as his captured ship is stopped off Hispaniola by a a Spanish Galleon.
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While in Tortuga, Captain Blood meets the French Buccaneer Levasseur, who wants to join forces with Blood's crew.
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A Spanish pirate ship attacks Bridgetown, as Blood and his fellow slaves plan to escape the plantation.
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The pirates loot the town of Bridgetown, as Blood and the convicts discover their escape boat has been sunk.
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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An audio anthology of the most dramatic moments in American history.
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"The Alien at Planet X" is the first Brad Lansky adventure, captured in hi-fi stereo.
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A man's fascination with his wife's teeth ends with tragic consequences.
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A Jules Verne adaptation about an English Blockade Runner in the American Civil War
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"The Alien Engineer" is the second Brad Lansky adventure, captured in hi-fi stereo.
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A comic look at Julius Caesar, his closest confidant, his relationship with the Queen of Egypt and the Senators who plotted his assassination.
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This modern translation of these sometimes bawdy stories, written in the 14th century by the Father of English Poetry, entertain while telling us about England before the Renaissance.
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A full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's great classic story of a lost golden age.
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The Enormity of Man and written words...
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Installment #1 of the Case. Try for FREE!
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FULL CAST. Vancouver BC Radio Detective Stanley Park investigates the murder of...a radio detective!
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The Greatest Pirate Adventure Of Them All!
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When all the roads go missing, PI Stanley Park races to save Vancouver's famous Grand Prix.
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Installment #1 of the series. Try for FREE!
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First recorded in February of 1952, this remastered recording of Dylan Thomas reading his A Child's Christmas in Wales recalls all of the sights, smells, and sounds of a long-ago-Christmas....
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A classic Charles Dickens story set on New Years Eve - with the haunted chimes in a church tower
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The only thing that gets Julie through the day is her CAT. But the beast had friends down the road.
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The poems of Yeats, Swift, Burns and other Celts.
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Captain Blood sails into Port Royal for the final showdown with the French fleet.
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Heavily outnumbered, Captain Blood devises a plan to escape from Maracaybo.
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Arabaella Bishop and Lord Julian are sailing to Barbados, when their ship is attacked by Don Miguel and the Milagrosa.
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Captain Levasseur captures the son and daughter of the Governor of Tortuga, and takes them to the island of the Virgin Magra.
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Captain Blood and his crew are trapped by Spanish Galleons, anchored outside the harbor of Maracaybo.
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Captain Blood attacks the Milagrosa, not knowing Arabella is onboard.
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Captain Blood and his fleet join forces with the French to attack Cartagena.
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In a spectacular battle on both land and sea, Captain Blood and his buccaneers attack Cartagena.
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Outnumbered by Colonel Bishops Jamaica Fleet, Captain Blood accepts a Kings Commission from Lord Julian to escape capture/
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Even holding a Kings Commission, Colonel Bishop plans to capture and hang Captain Blood at Port Royal.
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Phil begins to uncover clues about her husbands murder. Part 1 of 2
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WAITING FOR REDEMPTION - Part 2: The final episode - as Phil solves her husbands murder.
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A famous crime writer is being blackmailed and hires Phil.
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The ruby bracelet begins to cause more problems as several people claim ownership.
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It's Aesop's Fables - told by Aesop himself, in the highly entertaining production in the classic CRT style!
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Mark Twain's classic tale recounts the adventures of the ever resourceful Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn...
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The masterpiece of Rome's greatest poet, Virgil's Aeneid.
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First published in 1885, 'Huckleberry Finn' is one of the undoubted masterpieces of American literature...
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The Illiad and the Odyssey are retold in a glorious saga.
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Another murder, but Phil is not sure it was the intended victim.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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Twelve Books that Changed the World presents a rich variety of human endeavour and a great diversity of characters. There are also surprises. Here are famous books by Darwin, Newton..
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One isolated lighthouse. Three misfit men. Thousands upon thousands of ravenous flesh-eating RATS!
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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Phil is hired to protect a Debutant .... from her mother.
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A cat wearing a ruby necklace starts Phil on a new lead.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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Allow the Arabian Nights tales weave their enchantment.
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Classic story of a hasty world tour taken up on a gentelmen's club wager
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Full-cast tale of espionage, betrayal and romance set against the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
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Frances Barber and David Harewood star in Shakespeare's towering tale of great love, political intrigue and tragedy. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923,...
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Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind with David Morrissey as Orlando and Natasha Little as Celia in Shakespeare's festive comedy. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to...
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A perfect introduction to The Ballet.
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"How did Arkman Noah/Provide for protozoa?" It's not often that an acclaimed historian is revealed to be the author of light verse, but John R. Alden here presents 1,707 couplets, quatrains, and ot...
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A quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown.
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Anecdotes, jokes, poems and sketches from the ever-entertaining Pam Ayres
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Andersen's tales have become part of universal folk lore.
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Alan Bennett presents highlights from his remarkable career at the BBC.
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The fantasy worlds in which Alice finds herself introduce her to some well known characters!
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These wonderful stories have delighted adults and children for centuries.
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An author's agent finds he's in for an outrageous night when his two Best Selling clients meet.
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The national debate over popular music's effect on character is both furious and confused. Carson Holloway is out to shatter the assumptions of pop's critics and defenders alike, showing that music...
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Sian Phillips, Emma Fielding and Miriam Margolyes star in Shakespeare's comedy of men behaving badly and women doing it for themselves. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to...
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A Garden fairy tale.
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An anthology of Shakespearian speeches performed by the world's leading actors.
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A collection of poems by one of the greatest literary & cultural figures of the 20th century.
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A wonderful reading of the story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas.
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Four couples explore the hopelessness of their invlovements within the same motel room.
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This unique combination of historical and new recordings celebrates Dylan Thomas as poet, writer and performer. Here are some of his greatest poems, stories and broadcasts: readings given by Thomas...
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The complete book of Revelation taken from Zondervan’s acclaimed, Audie Award®-winning NIV Audio Bible Dramatized New Testa...
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Representing the work of more than thirty poets, and extending from Thomas Hardy’s lines on the loss of Titanic to the present-day...
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The stories, poetry, and music of the Bible come alive in this 60-minute performance based on the acclaimed book. Distinguished for being named an Au
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Fears for Ears is an Award Winning CD of unique horror fiction stories in full audio theatre format
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At the site of a 100-year-old massacre, unseen forces swirl about in the wind...
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Farmer Giles of Ham is one of Tolkien’s most popular stories, full of wit and humour, set in the days when giants and dragons walked...
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Father Brown is traveling to London to attend a meeting of priests, and he is carrying with him a priceless silver cross, studded with blue sapphires.Flambeau, the thief, plans to steal it.
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Do you know the difference between seeing what you saw, and saying what you saw?
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Andrew Marvell’s classic plea to his mistress to show her love for him while they are both still young and passionate...
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Traces the events leading up to and after one of Edwardian London's most publicized crimes
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Christopher Marlowe’s emotional appeal to his lady to run away with him...
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John Donne’s famous poem about two lovers surprised by the astonishingly rapid arrival of sunrise...
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In this illuminating biography, Ronald L. Davis focuses on John Wayne's human side, portraying a complex personality defined by insecurity as well as courage and strength. Davis traces Wayne's stor...
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13 Episode High Fantasy drama. A battle between Good and Evil in a land of magic and power.
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20 of Poe's chilling stories and poems performed by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone.
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Dylan Thomas reads his own prose and poetry in this unique collection from the archives. He is widely regarded as one of the 20th Century's most influential lyrical poets.
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The complete book of Acts taken from Zondervan’s acclaimed, Audie Award®-winning NIV Audio Bible Dramatized New Testament...
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To be or not to be... Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow... O for a Muse of Fire... The quality of mercy is not strained... This sceptred isle... Once more unto the breach dear...
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What was it about a small, humble folk instrument that allowed it to become an American icon? The guitar is "wall-to-wall popular in the United States," says Brookes in this chronicle of the guitar...
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Full-Cast. The great Tootenhotep unveils the 7-1/2th Wonder of the World!
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Some of the finest and most memorable works in the English language.
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Michael Sheen, Kenneth Cranham and Juliet Stevenson star in the best-known and most powerful tragedy of modern times. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since I...
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A journey to genuine haunted places of the American South.
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A journey to genuine haunted places of the American South.
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Shakespeare's classic as dramatized by renowned vocal actor David I. Davies
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The first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies.
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Prehistoric homo habilis takes a step towards the future.
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Alan Bennett stars in a new production of his own acclaimed satirical comedy.
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The gothic tale of Frankenstein and his construction of a human being who runs amok.
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Full Cast. Flash battles the merciless Emperor Ming of Mongo. Winner 2000 Silver Mark Time Award.
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Nearly five decades of theatrical anecdotes as David Barry {Frankie Abbott in 'Please, Sir!) recalls working with the likes of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh...
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Creepy tales from the cities of the dead.
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A captain. A battleship. A pitch dark night.
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The Bard gets a jolly lesson in ye olde show biz.
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In this remarkable anthology of historical recordings are many of the great artists of the past. Early cylinder recordings of Sir Henry Irving preserve the voice and character of the greatest actor...
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Marie Antoinette goes on a picnic.
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Samuel West and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's great tragedy of power and pride.
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Love stories of the haunted.
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Ten enduring Kipling poems recited in the wonderful Cockney lilt.
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Shows what can happen when two very different societies come together.
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Love stories of the haunted.
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Cuculian, 'The Hound of Ulster', is the champion of Ireland and is best remembered for his single-handed defense of Ulster. The author of these accounts is Standish O’Grady whose writings...
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Full-cast, very modern update of the classic Bram Stoker novel.
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Another Charles Dickens holiday classic brimming with holiday charm.
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Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recrimination that quickly develops men denounce their neighbours...
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In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to the great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers. Classical Music 101 is a high...
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The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne.
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Deep underground, a web of evil magic holds a prince in captivity. Narnia ... where owls speak, where evil weaves a spell ... where sorcery enslaves the land. Narnia is in peril, and...
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The story of how the extraordinary events of Christmas Eve change the miserly Scrooge forever have made A Christmas Carol one of the greatest of all Christmas stories...
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Magnificent production of the most beloved of Dickens seasonal classics
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"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else." Bob Dylan's...
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An absolute joy to listen to. An attractive and accessible collection.
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Five stories from women writers of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th.
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The radio play of The Chronology Protection Case was adapted by Mark Shanahan with Paul Levinson...
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From the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day.
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A short section from Milton’s epic poem, expressing how much sweeter the world is when you are with the one you love...
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From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Some meditations on love from Edward Fitzgerald’s translation...
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A Birthday: Christina Rossetti’s joyful celebration that her one true love has arrived, read by Jenny Agutter...
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Robert Herrick’s poetic tribute to his mistress’s beautifully carefree style of dress...
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From The Song of Solomon: A beautiful extract from the famous biblical hymn to love..
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Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet, in which he tries, and fails, to find an apt comparison in nature, read by Bill Wallis..
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Edward Lear’s much-loved comic poem, featuring the most elegant fowl in literature and his beautiful feline friend...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s plea to her lover to love her just for herself, and not for any qualities that may fade away..
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Robert Burns’s well-known poem celebrating the enduring power of true love, read by Bill Wallis..
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Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter...
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Hear LA sleuth Mark Markheim solve crime all whilst adroitly enunciating elaborate alliterations
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The glorious but tragic story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
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This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years. One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage imperiled...
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Abandon All Hope You Who Enter Here
(Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate)
Dante's Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for...
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Gibbon's work occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces.
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Children's story uses tragedy to underscore the gulf between devotion and selfishness.
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Perhaps the most well-known collection of reminiscences.
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One of the greatest texts in the English language.
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Lush imagery and the mellifluous voice of the poet imbued with music and sounddesign.
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