Santa: A Life
By Jeremy Seal
Abridged by Polly Coles
Read by Alan Cox.
Produced by Clive Brill.
Book of the Week, 20051212 to 20051216
Repeated on Radio 7, 20101220 to 20101224
Jeremy Seal's quest to discover the real St Nicholas takes him from Birmi
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
Author...................... Michael Dibdin
Read by.................. Robert Glenister
Abr/Unabr.............. Unabridged
Genre................... Fiction - Mystery (19xx)
Source................... Electro
Book at Bedtime
A Night with a Vampire
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 22 Nov to 26 Nov 2010 at 22:45.
Five episodes of app. 14 mins each.
Reader: David Tennant
Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
* Episode 1
I was undecided whether to place this here or in mysteries, as it is a full-cast, unabridged dramatic reading of the classic detective novel, done by KCRW in 2000.
I decided to place it here. :>)
The cast (see below) is amazing.
Note that I hav
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The wonderful voice of Dylan Thomas as he reads his own childhood memoir of Christmas
A lovely little series of readings with Tom Conte called"Christmas With The Detectives", 2006 from BBC Radio 2. There are 4 episodes and here are the first 2. Nothing like a little mayhem and brilliant detecting to start the Holiday season off rig
You might be familiar with Shirley Jackson's writing; her novels "Hangsaman" and "The Haunting of Hill House" come to mind, and you would be hard pressed to find someone who had made it through middle and high school in this country without reading S
Read more…An excellent collection, well read.
Note: The encode is rather lo-fi, but listenable. the "esses" are a bit sibilant.
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Love in Amsterdam - A Van der Valk Crime Thriller - BBC Radio Audiobook
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The first Van der Valk mystery by Nicolas Freeling.
A Van der Valk Thriller - Elsa de Charmoy is
Hi This is my first attempt at uploading files, hopefully it will be Mr Standfast by John Buchan in two parts. There is a slight lead in from the preceding program which I must learn to erase in future uploads. Richardaustin
Read more…BBC R4 - John Buchan's 'Sick Heart River'
Adapted by Trevor Royle
Read by Paul Young
Produced by Hamish Wilson
Broadcast in ten parts February-March, 1990
This recording made from R7 - 2008
Coded from a digital source at 128/44.1
A search for a missing re
The Heinlein Centenary marked Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday
The Green Hills of Earth
Last broadcast on Wed, 22 Oct 2008, 00:30 on BBC Radio 7 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
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A fantastic tale about the he
Book at Bedtime
BBC radio 4
Antoine Augustin Calmet published an apparently serious anthropological history of the Vampire throughout Europe in the early 19century called "The Phantom World." All the people he spoke to w
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Jokester - by Isaac Asimov - BBC Radio Audio-Short-Story
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Where does man's sense of humour come from? Discover the answer in this intriguing story by sci-fi master, Isaac Asimov.
Read by Henry
Unabridged readings of Dexter's novels featuring the famous Oxford-based detective.
Heart-Shaped Box
Unabridged
Joe Hill
Stephen Lang (Narrator)
Do you sleep with the light on? Are you in the habit of checking your doors and windows before you go to bed? Maybe even checking under your bed? If you are about to crack open Joe Hill's
Pilot Tucker Case has a weakness--well, Tuck really has two--and the combination of drinking and sex in the cockpit of the pink Mary Jean Cosmetics Learjet puts him on the front page of papers all over the planet. But he finds another job with a my
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