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A High Wind In Jamaica

2309800490?profile=originalTo say A High Wind in Jamaica is a tale about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.

The story begins almost whimsically in Jamaic

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The Great Secret by L. Ron Hubbard

The Great Secret by L. Ron Hubbard Fanner Marston was raised a slave as a child, became a petty street thief as a teen, and now masters his own craft and crew as a grown man. He's also gone completely mad. Driven by privation, with a vicious gre

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The Baghdad Baggage by William Fox

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The Baghdad Baggage
by William Fox
Produced by Shaun MacLoughlin
SNT 1975-08-03
80K

Lieutenant Charles Willoughby finds himself driving a truck of gold bullion from Baghdad to Tehran in support of the historic 1943 conference, but spies are out to

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Nightmares by Dave Simpson

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Nightmares by Dave Simpson

BBC Radio 4 - The Saturday Play - 2004-10-16

Can a woman's recurring nightmare come true? A psychological thriller.

Jilly ......... Gillian Kearney

Nick ........... Chris Gascoyne
Penny ........ Deborah McAndrew
Ben ..........

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The Saint

The Saint Simon Templar, the Robin Hood of modern crime, makes a welcome return to BBC 7 in 3 sixty minute thrillers by Lesley Charteris, two of which are dramatised by the prolific dramatist/abridger Neville Teller. The Saint Overboard, The Saint C

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Smoke Screen by John Lawson

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Smoke Screen
by John Lawson
13 Dec 1980 (Saturday Night Theatre)
with Victor Carin and Gwynneth Guthrie

When glib criminal Adrian Lucas discovers that the body at his uncle's cremation isn't the right one, he puts a job on hold and uses his contacts to

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Jumbo by James Follett

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James Follett  -  Jumbo
BBC Radio 4: Saturday Night Theatre
Broadcast: Saturday 13th March 1976 @ 8:30 p.m.

When Transatlantic Airlines flight No. TA 510 leaves Kennedy airport for London it seems just another routine flight, but many
tricks of f

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She by H.Rider Haggard

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She
by H.Rider Haggard
SNT 14.4.1979? All databases have a blank entry for THIS Saturday
Afternoon Theatre 20.4.1979 it was customary to repeat SNTs during the next week once for those that missed it on Saturday.
Elizabeth Bell/Derek Godfrey/Paul

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