BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of the crime novels of Qiu Xiaolong, set in Shanghai. Starring Jamie Zubairi as Chief Inspector Chen Cao, an astute young policeman with twin passions for food and poetry.
Through thrilling crime drama, these ni
Three full-cast dramas by popular crime writer Peter Lovesey, plus a selection of short stories recorded for radio
Peter Lovesey is well known for his murder mysteries featuring Victorian policeman Sergeant Cribb, Bath detective Peter Diamond and
At the Universal Advertising Agency in London a murder is being planned.
Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unless they can get rid of the person who caught them. Their ringleader, thick-set
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A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age – thrills, spills and chills
It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us
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1940. France has fallen and the war between England and Germany takes to the skies.
Len is a young Geordie fighter pilot attempting to survive the endless sorties. Katie is a nurse striving to cope with the monotony and the heartbreak.
They meet a
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Twenty crime stories by the creator of Jack Reacher, never before collected
For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of the bestselling authors in the world, thanks to the popularity of his iconic and instantly recognizable hero Jack Reac
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The Waxwork by AM Burrage
In a reprise of the director's celebrated series from beyond the grave, convincing effigies become all too real.
Sredni Vashtar by Saki
Living with his cruel aunt, young Conradin worships a fierce polecat ferret which
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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an English director who is considered one of the most influential figures in cinema history. His career spanned over 50 years and included directing more than 50 films, some of which are still studied and watched to
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Fifteen of the finest works by the world-renowned playwright, as heard on BBC radio.
George Bernard Shaw - or Bernard Shaw, as he preferred to be known - was one of Ireland's foremost dramatists and thinkers. His plays range from contemporary sati
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The world’s most famous detective – and Agatha Christie’s most famous creation – returns in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders: a diabolically clever mystery soaked in period atmosphere and loaded wit
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London in the 1920s. Sitting in the corner of a branch of the (long defunct) ABC Tea Rooms sits a shabbily dressed old man, who looks more like a tramp. He sits nursing a single cup of tea and possibly a doughnut. At the start of each episode it s
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In “Deep Down,” Reacher is a young Army officer summoned to Washington, D.C. by Military Intelligence to go undercover during a congressional investigation into a new sniper rifle program. Sensitive information from closed hearings is being leaked
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Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries, plus P. D. James in Her Own Words.
This collection includes:
Cover Her Face
P. D. James' debut novel, introducing her famous detective Adam Dalgliesh. Starring Robin E
Read more…Hercule Poirot’s Christmas – By Agatha Christie, dramatised by Michael Bakewell
With Peter Sallis as Hercule Poirot, Simeon Lee is a monster to all around him and especially his family – but someone has planned to seek revenge on this particular Ch
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BBC radio productions of the finest works of Wilkie Collins: sensation novelist, early master of the mystery story and pioneer of detective fiction.
Wilkie Collins was one of Victorian England's best-loved and best-selling authors, and a crime-fi
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BBC Radio drama adaptations of two action-packed adventures by James Fenimore Cooper.
A founding father of American literature, James Fenimore Cooper was one of America's first professional novelists, and a pioneer of the Western and the histori
The System – A witty six-part thriller about a group of young radicals and the hunt for their leader by Ben Lewis. Starring Siena Kelly, Jack Rowan and Iain de Caestecker.
The House That Vanished – the true story of one man’s struggle to find out
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"HIS NAME WAS RAMBO AND HE WAS JUST SOME NOTHING KID FOR ALL ANYBODY KNEW."
The award-winning novel that inspired the legendary film series starring Sylvester Stallone.
First came the man: a young wanderer in a fatigue coat and long hair. Then ca
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15 Minute Drama, previously known as Woman's Hour Drama, was a BBC Radio 4 Arts and Drama production strand that was broadcast between 1998 and 2021. It consisted of 15-minute episodes, broadcast every weekday 10:45–11:00 am, repeated at 7:45–8:00
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A vintage British sci-fi serial involving the tracking of mysterious signals from space.
‘A glimpse across a weird threshold, on the rim of space where there should be nothing but eternal, frozen darkness. Yet where there was something more...’
