A Ghost Story
Narrated by Jeremy Northam
“‘What is it? What does it want? Why is it angry with me?’ January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So w Read more…
Thorndyke - Forensic Investigator by R. Austin Freeman
Six short mysteries set in the early 20th century featuring the brilliant Doctor Thorndyke.
Read by Jim Norton
Produced by John Taylor.
Broadcast on Radio 4 Extra, 22 to 29 Nov 2011
160/44;
are cd recordings of spectacular horror stories sprinkled with professional music and sound effects. Spooky stories have always been a source of entertainment around the Halloween holidays, but these are worth listening to on any day!
Inspired by the
The broadcast was originally from 2003 and has an excellent rosta of readers: Michael Fassbender(Jonathan Harker); Gillian Kearney (Mina Murrat); James D'Arcy (Dr Seward); James Greene (Dr Van Helsing). It was adapted by Darag
Read more…DRACULA (Spoken Arts) - (52:09) (192 kbps)
Spoken Arts produced a series of superb renditions of several classic novels. The company is, unfortunately, defunct, and there is virtually zero information about them to be found. Quite frankly, I don't ev
Paul Temple Casebook: Volume 2
A second collection of Paul Temple mysteries read by Anthony Head. ‘Eminently enjoyable listening’ - Daily Express From 1938 to 1969, crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve s
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster
by Robert van Gulik
read by Frank Muller
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Read more…A Short History of Vampires
Natalie Haynes introduces a deliciously noir series of stories showing how the vampire genre, in all its dark glory, has evolved.
Broadcast on Radio 7, 13 Feb to 6 March 2011
160/44; 139 MB total; sound quality excellent
Sun
Dolan gets everything right in his debut, a suspense novel that breathes new life into familiar themes. The enigmatic David Loogan, who's recently moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., has stumbled into an editing job for Gray Streets, a mystery magazine,
The Isle of the Torturers
By Clark Ashton Smith
Ziggurat Productions
MP3 44.1Hz / 256 kbps
50 minutes.
The plague of the “Silver Death” descended hard upon the land of Yoros, exactly as foretold by ancient astrologers. Countless victims fell instantly wh
The Graveyard Book is a children's fantasy novel by English author Neil Gaiman. The story is about a boy named Nobody Owens who, after his family is killed by a mysterious man, is adopted and raised by the occupants of a graveyard. Gaiman's first ful
Read by Alex Jennings.
Yakov Liebermann is an elderly gentleman who is known as a Nazi hunter: he runs a centre in Vienna that documents crimes against humanity perpetrated during the Holocaust. The waning interest of the Western nations in trackin
Biggles Flies North
Biggles goes to the aid of his old friend Wilkes in protecting an airline operation in remote Canada.
Wilkes had setup an airline servicing a remote goldmine. The bad guys muscled in in order to be in a permission to steal th
Read more…Animal Farm by George Orwell, read by Ralph Cosham
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Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin
Read more…A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, read by Barrett Whitener
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