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This Sceptered Isle: The Dynasties



This Sceptered  Isle: The Dynasties

In 2001 a series entitled This Sceptred Isle: Dynasties was produced. This told the stories of the powerful and influential families of Britain's history, including the Godwines, the Despensers and the Churchills.

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This Sceptred Isle: Empire






This Sceptred Isle: Empire

This Sceptred Isle: Empire is a narrative history of the British Empire from Ireland in the 12th century to the independence of India in the 20th, told in 90 programmes.

This first run of 30 programmes (broadcast every wee

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy



The Road by Cormac McCarthy

New territory for McCarthy: a post apocalyptic landscape where readers meet a man who recalls a better world and a boy who doesn't. With all the trademarks of vintage McCarthy a man and his young son, a blasted American la

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Rik Mayall's Bedside Tales (BBC4)



Rik Mayall's Bedside Tales (BBC4)

Series by Rik Mayall and John Nicholson about the sometimes beautiful, sometimes bizarre and occasionally revolting oddities of human behaviour.
Rik tells the tale of The Mountain Girl.

Rik Mayall's Bedside Tales (Radi

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Catch Me If You Can

The story of notorious conman Frank Abagnale Jr read by William Hope.

The novel is the autobiography of Frank Abagnale Jr., who was one of the most famous con-artists in the 20th Century. It tells the story from his own point of view of how he managed

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City Of Darkness By Ben Bova

City Of Darkness

He's passed his college entrance exams with flying colors. He can do pretty much whatever he wants. But what teenager Ron Morgan wants most is for his father to quit telling him what to do. Quit running his life. What better way to u

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Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein



Tokyo Vice
by Jake Adelstein
abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions
Read by Jack Klaff
 
Broadcast Monday 26 to Friday 30 July 2010 (Book of the Week)

160/44; 80 MB; sound quality excellent

Jake Adelstein becomes the first foreign reporter to

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Merian C. Cooper’s King Kong



Merian C. Cooper’s King Kong

by Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland

A hulking freighter waits at a darkened pier.

Aboard, filmmaker Carl Denham prepares for a strange voyage to a distant island… an island where he hopes to make the most exciting movie of al

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Graceling by Kristin Cashore



Graceling by Kristin Cashore

If you had the power to kill with your bare hands, what would you do with it?
Feared as a killer since her childhood, graceling Lady Katsa uses her unusual gift in the service of her uncle, King Randa. Gracelings are being

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The Beast Master by Andre Norton



The Beast Master – Andre Norton

It tells the story of Hosteen Storm, an ex-soldier who travels to a distant planet with his comrades, a group of genetically altered animals with whom he has empathic and telepathic connections. The team are hired to h

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