Anyone looking to let off some steam is bound to find something to love in Cabin Pressure. The combination of snappy repartee and brilliant voice-acting makes this a side-achingly funny experience from start to finish.
Cabin Pressure is a radio sitc
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Three original murder mysteries featuring Bangalore detective Uma Rao
Actor, writer and director Mahesh Dattani is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by India’s National Academy of Letters. Included here are all
Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries,
This collection includes:
Cover Her Face
P. D. James' debut novel, introducing her famous detective Adam Dalgliesh. Starring Robin Ellis as Dalgliesh.
A Taste for Death
D
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All four radio series of Robert Barr’s gripping London-based police drama.
Originally broadcast as Detective: Stories of Crime and Detection in London, this BBC radio drama ran for four series between 1980 and 1985. Written by the award-winning creat
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Andrew Sachs stars as G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric, whose unlikely methods make him one of the great heroes of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unworldly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless genial
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It is the 1980s, and Stamford Holmes is still living in the shadow of his famous grandfather. Languidly living on Sherlock's fortune, he reluctantly agrees to do some work as a consulting detective - if only to provide 'Doctor' Watson with material f
The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carré's best-selling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, H
Paul Temple is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge. Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private detective. With his wife Louise, affectionately known as 'Steve' in reference to her journalisti
All four series of Lynne Truss's comedy thrillers set in 1950s Brighton - plus Christmas special
Brighton, 1957: a sunny seaside resort with a sinister underbelly. This den of villainy is policed by the touchingly innocent Inspector Steine, who nai
Edgar Wallace was a bestselling author, journalist, playwright and film director, and the creator of King Kong. A prolific writer and celebrity superstar, he was thought to be responsible for a quarter of all new books read in Britain by the late 192
A collection of strange and fantastical tales from Algernon Blackwood, plus bonus documentaries
Described by H P Lovecraft as 'the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere', Algernon Blackwood (CBE) was the acclaimed and prolific au
A new form of radar picks up sentient life – except on a nearby hilltop crowned with a circle of stones. Martin Jarvis and Patricia Gallimore star in Stewart Farrar’s sci-fi serial
Researchers develop a system than can detect sentient life. But some
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A thrilling collection of dramatisations from the classic Scottish master of tales
Robert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, and created some of the most famous and influential characters in modern literature. From Lo
What starts out as a simple rescue mission to save a trapped miner on the Moon soon turns out to be one of International Rescue’s greatest catastrophes.
After The Hood takes members of International Rescue hostage during the rescue, a chase across sp
Read more…The Twilight Zone is a nationally syndicated radio drama series featuring radio play adaptations of the classic 1959–1964 television series The Twilight Zone. The series was produced for the British digital radio station BBC Radio 4 Extra airing for
Inspired by the real-life memoirs of Edinburgh's first detective, James McLevy, here are more fantastic fictional adventures featuring the tenacious Victorian crime-solver. Once again, McLevy and his faithful sidekick Constable Mulholland patrol the
BBC Radio adaptations of Aldous Huxley’s finest works – plus a bonus documentary programme
‘Over nine hours’ worth of quality drama… The stories presented in ‘A BBC Radio Collection’ combine to give the listener a taste of Huxley’s versatility as a w
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A six-part BBC Radio 4 crime drama set in nineteenth-century London
It is 1830, a year after Sir Robert Peel’s creation of the Metropolitan Police, known as the 'Peelers'. As the brand new bobbies patrol the beat in their smart blue uniforms, armed
Eighteen BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations featuring Raffles, the 'gentleman thief'.
Jeremy Clyde stars as the cricket playing A. J. Raffles, with Michael Cochrane as his jeweller sidekick, Bunny. Together they embark upon a series of well-planned
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