Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Behave! 2000AD and Judge Dredd: The Secret History
Written & read by Pat Mills
As 2000AD and Judge Dredd celebrates its 40th birthday, Pat Mills at last writes the definitive history of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, and the turbulent, extraordinary and exciting events that shaped it.
Dur: 8 hours 55minsMONO
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Written & performed by Judith Paris
Dramatic audio performance
Judith Paris presents the story of the remarkable life of Madame Tussaud.
Dur: 1hr 16minsSTEREO
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Written by Richard Franklin
Performed by Robbie Curran, Oliver Scullion and Richard Franklin
EXCLUSIVE - "Luck of the Draw", a domestic take on World War 1 by Richard Franklin (Doctor Who), is a full-cast audio adaptation of the stage play, first performed on Sunday November 2nd 2014 at the Charterhouse, London.
Dur: 1 hourSTEREO
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Written by Aesop
Read by Anthony Richardson
Beloved by generations of children and adults, AESOP'S FABLES continue to be a source of pleasure and learning for millions around the world. Animalistic morality tales, short in nature, help young minds to learn many of the rules and manners of our society. Ginx TV star, journalist & comedian ANTHONY RICHARDSON performs a selection of 82 of the very best fables.
Dur: 1hr 26minsSTEREO
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Written by E.Walter Maunder
Read by Neil Gardner
A fascinating piece of historical scientific writing, written in 1913 by E. Walter Maunder (F.R.A.S.), the Superintendent of the Solar Dept. at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. The book is a snapshot in time showing the evolution of thinking on the solar system and cosmology.
Dur: 4hrs 11minsMONO
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Written by John Buchan & Peter Wear
Performed by The British Comedy Company
A gently hilarious full-cast deconstruction of John Buchan's ripping yarn, courtesy of the British Comedy Company. It's a hoot!
Dur: 1hr 07minsSTEREO
Available as 320kbps Stereo MP3 - 152MB
Written by Patrick Garland
Performed by Patrick Garland
Patrick Garland has worked with all the greats of the British stage - Gielgud, Richardson, Dame Edith Evans, Sybil Thorndike, Arthur Marshall, Coral Browne, Robert Atkins and Noel Coward. And now he's decided to peer behind the glamour and glitz and tell us what they were really like.
Dur: 2hrs 03minsSTEREO
Available as 320kbps Stereo MP3 - 281MB
Written by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Read by Barnaby Edwards
Told in four sections, the Manifesto analyses the history of the class struggle, delineates the current state of affairs in Europe and America, scrutinizes the writings of other so-called communists and socialists, and proposes a method for bringing into reality the Marxist ideals of classless equality and a centralized State.
Dur: 1hrs 43minsSTEREO
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Under Every Leaf: How Britain Played the Greater Game From Afghanistan to Africa
Written by William Beaver
Read by Peter Owen
This is the story of the shadowy Intelligence Division of the British War Office and its unsung role in the formation of the Victorian Empire and imperial policy-making from Asia to Africa.
Dur: 11hrs 13minsMONO
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The Man Who Would Be Jack: The Hunt For The Real Ripper
Written by David Bullock
Read by Peter Owen
London, 1891. Less than three weeks after the last Whitechapel murder, 25-year-old Thomas Cutbush is committed to Broadmoor for savage knife attacks on two girls. The arresting officer, Inspector William Race, intrigued by the wealth of connections with the infamous unsolved murders in the East End, starts to wonder whether he has, in fact, arrested Jack the Ripper himself.
Dur: 6hrs 36minsSTEREO
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Written by MRD Foot & JM Langley
Read by Michael Fenton Stevens
Forged passports, secret maps, ingenious disguises, underground networks – in times of war, tales of escape and evasion can be even more spectacular and heroic than those of victory in battle.
Dur: 12hrs 46minsMONO
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Red Dusk and The Morrow: Adventures & Investigations In Soviet Russia
Written by Paul Dukes
Read by Peter Owen
Paul Dukes was sent into Russia in 1918, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, by ‘C’ (the mysterious head of the British secret service). His mission: to pull together the British spy networks operating against the new regime.
Dur: 9hrs 43minsMONO
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Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England
Written by Charles Loft
Read by Michael Fenton Stevens
During the course of the 1950s England lost confidence in its rulers and convinced itself to modernise. The bankrupt steam-powered railway, run by a retired general, symbolised everything that was wrong with the country; the future lay in motorways and high speed electric – or even atomic – express trains. But plans for a gleaming new railway system ended in failure and on the roads traffic ground to a halt.
Dur: 9hrs 32minsMONO
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Bloody Sunday: Truth, Lies and the Saville Inquiry
Written by Douglas Murray
Read by Michael Fenton Stevens
Bloody Sunday was the worst massacre of British citizens by British troops since Peterloo in 1819 – a potent distillation of the rage and anguish of a bitter conflict that spanned decades and claimed three and a half thousand lives.
Dur: 10hrs 43minsMONO
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A Spy Like No Other: The Cuban Missile Crisis, The KGB and the Kennedy Assassination
Written by Robert Holmes
Read by John Banks
The arms race between the Soviet Union and the USA was the most dangerous confrontation in the history of the world. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, and US President John F. Kennedy’s willingness to call his bluff, brought the Soviet Union and the West to the edge of a cataclysmic nuclear war. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Robert Holmes, a British diplomat in Moscow during the early 1960s, provides an answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the Cold War. Kennedy’s confidence in his brinkmanship hung on the evidence provided by Oleg Penkovsky, the MI6/CIA agent inside Soviet military intelligence.
Dur: 9hrs 4minsSTEREO
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