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Echoes of Sherlock Holmes

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A brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canon.

In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Leslie Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great wri

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Comedy-Drama on 4

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All My Life I've Wanted to Be Someone - Now Who Was It?
A group of scatty 20-something friends share a flat in London.  Juby thinks the man from the lido might be the one, Beena will stop at nothing to advance her career and Ruth wants to take th

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Aliens in the Mind: Classic Radio Sci-Fi

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Launching a new range of Classic Radio Sci-Fi releases, this six-part BBC radio drama stars none other than Peter Cushing and Vincent Prince, who between them became two of the most famous horror film stars of the 1950s and 1960s.

Aliens in the

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Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries

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The complete series 1-5 of the thrilling mystery series. On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to so

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Big Broadcast: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Caper

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The fast-talking glamorous musical drama set in a 1930s Chicago radio studio.

A radio caper set in Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Broadcast sees radio station WKAZ's most successful programme, 'The Hour of Charm', face trouble from gangsters, sponsor

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Dick George: Private Investigator

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Francis Matthews stars in this trilogy of crime capers spoofing 1930s Hollywood movies.

Paul Temple star Francis Matthews gives his best Cary Grant impression as suave PI Dick George in these three comedy adventures, with Margaret Robertson channe

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The Citadel

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An epic BBC radio drama series set in the Welsh valleys, about medical life before the NHS

Based on AJ Cronin’s award-winning 1937 novel of the same name, which partly inspired Nye Bevan to create the NHS, this gripping dramatisation centres on An

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Alan Le May - The Searchers

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By Alan Le May
Dramatised for radio by Adrian Bean

Adaptation of the classic western novel, upon which the famous film was based.

Texas, 1848. When Comanches attack the Edwards family's settlement on the Texas plains, they kidnap two girls - seven

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Riders of the Purple Sage

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Tthree-part dramatisation of Zane Gray 's classic novel of love and violent revenge, the first western to be adapted as a Classic Serial.
1: Utah, 1871. Mormon rancher Jane Withersteen is resisting Elder Tull 's attempts to take her and Cottonwoo

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Elvenquest

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ElvenQuest is a comic fantasy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto, and starring Stephen Mangan, Alistair McGowan, Darren Boyd, Kevin Eldon, Sophie Winkleman and Dave Lamb. The series takes place in the world of Lower Earth, a

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Absolute Power

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Stephen Fry and John Bird star in all four series of the BBC Radio 4 satirical comedy, plus the 2006 special episode.

Set in the Machiavellian world of modern PR, Absolute Power introduces us to London-based 'government-media relations consultancy

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Vogel & Fraser

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Sergeant Jimmy Vogel is an old-school, down-to-earth copper. Dedicated and tenacious, he's happy to work overtime to get results (to the dismay of his long-suffering wife, Mo). But after repeatedly missing out on promotion, he finds himself workin

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Weird Tales

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Eleven uncanny stories inspired by the master of uncanny terror, H.P. Lovecraft

One hundred years ago, H.P. Lovecraft created the Necronomicon, a grimoire of lost souls, magical rites and forbidden lore. Now, locked away, the hoarder of horror is

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William Boyd: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

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A collection of BBC dramatisations and readings of William Boyd's award-winning novels and short stories

Narrated by:  Alan Rickman, Alison Steadman, Bill Paterson, Bill Nighy, Tom Goodman-Hill, Ben Miles, Niamh Cusack, Fenella Woolgar, Eileen Atk

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Behind Closed Doors: Series 1-4

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The complete BBC Radio 4 legal drama, starring Claire Rushbrook and Clare Corbett.

Behind Closed Doors is a courtroom drama with a difference - it centres around civil law, not criminal. In these nine plays, London barrister Rebecca Nyman takes on

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