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All six series of Christopher Lee's enthralling parliamentary drama - plus Christmas Special…
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A new adaptation of Owen Wister’s pioneering work of Cowboy fiction by Theo Toksvig-Stewart.
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Throughout the year 2000, NPR presented the stories behind…
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Caltex Theater was an Australian show similar to the American Lux Radio Theater. It was sponsored…
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No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: BBC Radio Casebook Summary Alexander McCall Smith's hugely…
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Alien Voices was a project set up by John de Lancie and Leonard Nimoy which specialized in…
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A dramatisation of Margaret Mitchell’s famous and contested novel, set against the epic backdrop…
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Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's…
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Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a…
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Legendary unproduced screenplays, resurrected and reinvented for BBC Radio 4 The annals of movie…
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Adapted from the novel by Karen Blixen The story follows Emily, a woman in 1868 Bristol haunted by…
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"Not with a bang, but a whimper." The finales here aren't particularly famous, but the vintage…
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The classic BBC sitcom about a father-and-son rag and bone team. 
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Full-cast dramatisations of John Fowles' three best-known novels, with star casts.
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After a lifetime spent in public relations, one-woman dynamo Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to…
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Six lavish BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Anthony Trollope's much-loved novels, plus a…
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It’s been many years since Mr. Satterthwaite has seen Mr. Harley Quin, so when Satterthwaite,…
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Full-cast dramatisations of Ruth Rendell's tense psychological thrillers.
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Mary Wimbush stars as unconventional psychoanalyst sleuth Mrs Bradley in these two full-cast…
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SPRING STORM by Tennessee Williams. A radio adaptation of the Royal and Derngate, Northampton…
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Ace in the Hole, also known as The Big Carnival, is a 1951 American satirical drama film…
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Ladies of Letters by Lou Wakefield & Carole Hayman All eleven series of barking mad misadventures…
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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The Secret Life of Sherlock Holmes's Nemesis - 37 short stories
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