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Sense and Sensibility
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Annette Crosbie
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Jane Austen's acclaimed comedy of manners contains a truly memorable cast of characters, including the snobbish Mrs Ferrers, impetuous Marianne, selfish John Dashwood, and his awful, grasping wife. Annette Crosbie captures all the wit and charm of the romance in this BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour reading.
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Misleading description!
- By Tamara Nutting Rodriguez on 15-09-08
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Sense and Sensibility
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- Narrated by: Annette Crosbie
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 29-08-07
- Language: English
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Gulliver's Travels
- By: Jonathan Swift, Matthew Broughton
- Narrated by: Arthur Darvill, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
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Gulliver is shipwrecked on the Island of Lilliput where the natives are tiny people living in a miniature society. With his unique overview of this realm, Gulliver discovers a world of petty politics and small minds. Coerced into a war between two nations who disagree on the best way to eat boiled eggs, Gulliver finds himself betrayed by friends and battered by enemies - escape is his only option if he wants to survive! Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput are hilarious, disturbing and profound.
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The Most Marvellous Adaptation
- By Lauri Sim on 10-05-21
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Gulliver's Travels
- Narrated by: Arthur Darvill, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 03-10-19
- Language: English
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Oliver Twist (Dramatised)
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Tim McInnerny, Pam Ferris, Edward Long
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dickens' famous novel, starring Pam Ferris, Adjoa Andoh and Tim McInnerny with Edward Long as Oliver. Born and brought up in the appalling deprivation of the workhouse, the orphaned Oliver escapes and heads for London, only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart, and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful Dodger to teach him the tricks of the pick-pocket's trade.
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A dramatisation of Oliver Twist
- By Kate on 06-05-17
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Oliver Twist (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Tim McInnerny, Pam Ferris, Edward Long
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 24-12-08
- Language: English
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Rabindranath Tagore: A BBC Radio Collection
- Including The Home and the World & The Red Oleander
- By: Rabindranath Tagore
- Narrated by: Sacha Dhawan, Indira Varma, Sam Dastor, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. A novelist, poet, playwright, composer, artist and philosopher, he wrote both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems; exchanged ideas with Yeats, Einstein and Gandhi, and was hugely influential in promoting Indian culture to the West. This collection includes some of Tagore's key novels, plays and short stories, as well as his best-known poem and four fascinating biographical programmes.
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Rabindranath Tagore: A BBC Radio Collection
- Including The Home and the World & The Red Oleander
- Narrated by: Sacha Dhawan, Indira Varma, Sam Dastor, Renu Setna, Ronny Jhutti, Saeed Jaffrey, Aileen Gonsalves, Shireen Shah, full cast, Zia Mohyeddin, Peter Barker
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 14-12-23
- Language: English
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Villette (Dramatised)
- By: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: Catherine McCormack, Joseph Fiennes, Harriet Walter
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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Catherine McCormack, Joseph Fiennes, and Harriet Walter star in this BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's last and most remarkable novel. Passion and perception run through this fascinating study of loneliness, love, and ultimate triumph over adversity.
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Another beautiful Brontë story
- By Jess66 on 01-09-18
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Villette (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Catherine McCormack, Joseph Fiennes, Harriet Walter
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 31-08-07
- Language: English
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Frankenstein (Dramatised)
- By: Mary Shelley
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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Frankenstein is a dark and brooding dramatisation of Mary Shelley's famous novel, and stars Michael Maloney as the scientist who makes a creature in his own name.
Denied a female counterpart, the creature turns on his creator, then murders Frankenstein's brother. In an attempt to destroy his creation, the scientist tracks him to the Arctic.
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Abbreviated a fair amount but a decent adaptation
- By Zach Bromfield on 14-10-21
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Frankenstein (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 12-08-08
- Language: English
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The Bat Man
- A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation
- By: Amelia Bullmore
- Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Katherine Parkinson, Jenny Agutter, and others
- Length: 44 mins
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A BBC Radio 4 'Afternoon Play' starring Bill Nighy as widower Christopher, originally broadcast on 20 April 2011. When his wife died three years ago, Christopher fled London for a simpler existence in Cornwall, where he has settled on bat protection as his mission. Colette and her noisy daughters rent the holiday cottage next door and disturb the peace - both his and that of his beloved bats. The Bat Man stars Bill Nighy, Katherine Parkinson, Jenny Agutter, Sean Baker, Lauren Mote and Georgia Groome.
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Mesmerising
- By T. Dalton on 16-03-21
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The Bat Man
- A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation
- Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Katherine Parkinson, Jenny Agutter, Sean Baker, Lauren Mote, Georgia Groome
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 10-10-11
- Language: English
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Tom Jones
- By: Henry Fielding
- Narrated by: Patience Thompson, Anton Lesser, Annette Crosbie, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Henry Fielding's rollicking comic masterpiece. Found one evening in the bed of the rich and benevolent Mr Allworthy, baby Tom grows up in the guardianship of the kindly squire. He develops into a good-hearted fellow who is nonetheless resented by Allworthy's mean-natured heir and nephew, Blifil. Tom's naive inability to resist a pretty face lands him in hot water when the gamekeeper's daughter declares herself pregnant.
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First rate adaption of a great English novel
- By Stewart Gardiner on 15-01-17
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Tom Jones
- Narrated by: Patience Thompson, Anton Lesser, Annette Crosbie, Hannah Gordon, Sarah Badel, Martin Jarvis
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-07-12
- Language: English
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Faith, Hope and Glory: Series 1 and 2
- An Epic BBC Radio 4 Drama
- By: Winsome Pinnock, Roy Williams, Rex Obano
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner, Danielle Vitalis, Shiloh Coke, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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London, 1946. Struggling to cope with the idea of raising her daughter in a hostile environment, African Caribbean nurse Hope makes the difficult decision to entrust her precious baby to her best friend, Eunice, to take back home to Antigua. But their plan goes disastrously wrong. In the decades that follow, all of them will witness - and play a part in - the seismic changes rocking the British Isles, as the old establishment crumbles, immigration builds and the country adjusts to the realities of a post-war, post-colonial future.
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Faith, Hope and Glory: Series 1 and 2
- An Epic BBC Radio 4 Drama
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner, Danielle Vitalis, Shiloh Coke, full cast
- Series: Faith, Hope and Glory, Book 1-2
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: Carson McCullers
- Narrated by: Coco Green, David Bower, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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John Singer is a lonely deaf-mute who comes to stay as a lodger in Mick's house. No-one knows where he's from. A disparate group of people who live in the town are drawn towards Singer's kind, sympathetic nature: the owner of the café where Singer eats every day, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated Black doctor. Each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant. And he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways the could never imagine.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Coco Green, David Bower, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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Doctor Who
- Fury From the Deep
- By: BBC Audiobooks
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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Patrick Troughton battles to save mankind in this classic six-part "lost" television adventure, with linking narration by Frazer Hines. The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria to the south coast of present-day Earth. Something nasty is lurking in the gas pipelines of the North Sea, and before long the nearby refinery is under attack. Landing on a foam-covered beach, the travellers are at first mistaken for saboteurs.
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Salty Seaweed Terror !!!!
- By Perry on 11-05-07
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Doctor Who
- Fury From the Deep
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 20-11-06
- Language: English
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Bindi Business
- A BBC Radio Full Cast Drama: Series 1 and 2
- By: Tanika Gupta
- Narrated by: Chris Nayak, full cast, Krupa Pattani, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
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All 10 episodes of the BBC Radio 4 comedy about an eccentric 'olderpreneur' and her adventures in business. At the age of 51, Bindi Banerjee unexpectedly finds herself out of a job. But she has her redundancy pay-off and a can-do attitude, and as series 1 opens, Bindi decides to start up her own business. Bindi’s Beauty Box soon gets off to a promising start, but Bindi must get her reluctant children on board if she is going to succeed. When she runs into some bumps in the road, Bindi wonders if she’s taken on more than she can manage.
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Bindi Business
- A BBC Radio Full Cast Drama: Series 1 and 2
- Narrated by: Chris Nayak, full cast, Krupa Pattani, Meera Syal
- Series: Bindi Business, Book 1-2
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-04-20
- Language: English
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The Good Soldier Svejk
- By: Jaroslav Hasek
- Narrated by: Sam Kelly, Adrian Lukis
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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This tale charts the exploits during the First World War of ‘European Forrest Gump’ Svejk, in his progress through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian army. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army’s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it.
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I'm going to have to read this again!
- By MBT Salisbury on 23-12-12
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The Good Soldier Svejk
- Narrated by: Sam Kelly, Adrian Lukis
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 28-10-10
- Language: English
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BBC International Short Story Award 2012 (Shortlist)
- By: AudioGO Ltd
- Narrated by: AudioGO Ltd
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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All 10 shortlisted titles for the BBC International Short Story Award 2012: 'Escape Routes' by Lucy Caldwell, 'The Goose Father' by Krys Lee, 'Sanctuary' by Henrietta Rose-Innes, 'Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes' by M.J. Hyland, 'Black Vodka' by Deborah Levy, 'East of the West' by Miroslav Penkov, 'A Lovely and Terrible Thing' by Chris Womersley, 'In the Basement' by Adam T. Ross, 'Before He Left the Family' by Carrie Tiffany, and 'The iHole' by Julian Gough.
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BBC International Short Story Award 2012 (Shortlist)
- Narrated by: AudioGO Ltd
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 11-10-12
- Language: English
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The Waves (Dramatised)
- By: Virginia Woolf, Terence Davies (dramatisation)
- Narrated by: Janet Suzman
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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The Waves: Terence Davies's dramatisation of Virginia Woolf's story. Episode 1: Louis, Bernard, Neville, Jinny, Susan, and Rhoda recall their childhood and first steps into adulthood. Episode 2: Louis, Bernard, Neville, Jinny, Susan, and Rhoda struggle to come to terms with life after Percival.
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BEAUTIFUL ADAPTATION of THE WAVES
- By Highlight on 03-11-17
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The Waves (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Janet Suzman
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-05-13
- Language: English
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Persuasion
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Janet Suzman
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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A 'Woman's Hour' reading by Janet Suzman of Jane Austen's last completed work. When the personable Captain Wentworth reappears in Anne Elliot's life several years after she had been persuaded to break off their engagement, he at first makes no secret of his angry indignation.
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a wonderful adaptation of persuasion,
- By j on 13-12-18
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Persuasion
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- Narrated by: Janet Suzman
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-04-06
- Language: English
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The Ramayana (Dramatised)
- By: Amber Lone - adaptation
- Narrated by: Manjinder Virk
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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A distinctive modern version of an ancient Indian epic and one of the world's most popular love stories. Part 1: Teenage Sita sees the most beautiful stranger in the street. She'll marry him or die. He is Prince Rama, heir to the throne, but his stepmother wants Rama sent into exile. Part 2: Sita has been abducted by a ruthless warlord. Rama enlists the help of an army of monkeys to get her back. But has she betrayed him with the evil ruler of Lanka? The ancient Indian epic The Ramayana is one of the world's most popular love stories.
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The Ramayana (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Manjinder Virk
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-05-13
- Language: English
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Bar Mitzvah Boy
- By: Jack Rosenthal
- Narrated by: Hugo Raine
- Length: 54 mins
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BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Jack Rosenthal’s award-winning television play, starring Hugo Raine. At the tender age of thirteen Eliot Green is about to become a man - in the Jewish religion at least. In synagogue, in front of the whole congregation, he will read and sing in Hebrew from the Torah (the Hebrew scrolls) - this after a year of intensive tuition. Later he will enjoy receiving gifts from relatives and friends as he celebrates with them at his Bar Mitzvah party.
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Bar Mitzvah Boy
- Narrated by: Hugo Raine
- Length: 54 mins
- Release date: 20-11-11
- Language: English
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Two On A Tower (Bbc Radio 4 Classic Serial)
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Maggie O'Neill, Blake Ritson
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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Two on a Tower' is Hardy's ninth novel and contains perhaps his most complete treatment of the theme of love across the class and age divide, and also the fullest expression of his fascination with astronomy and science.
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Strange pacing
- By Cassie Tremblay on 21-08-18
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Two On A Tower (Bbc Radio 4 Classic Serial)
- Narrated by: Maggie O'Neill, Blake Ritson
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-11-10
- Language: English
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