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Murder for Crime at Christmas

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 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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The Wilkie Collins BBC Radio Collection

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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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The Last of the Mohicans & The Spy

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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

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Limelight

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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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First Blood

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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

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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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Orbit One Zero

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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...’

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The Fisherman

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By: John Langan
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
 

An upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a

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BBC Classics Children’s Library

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A Timeless Collection of 21 Tales for All Ages

An irresistible anthology of folklore, fables and perennial favourites, including four novels and 17 short stories.

This superlative collection of children's stories brings together a feast of fantast

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Teixcalaan (2 book series)

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Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining station, has died. But no one will admit that his

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Inspector Purbright

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A collection of cosy crime dramas adapted from Colin Watson's Flaxborough Chronicles, set in a small Lincolnshire market town in the 1960s and '70s.

Inspector Purbright is a thoroughly English policeman: affable, polite, dogged and decent. Create

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Robinson Crusoe (BBC Classics)

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BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of one of the most famous adventure stories of all time, starring Roy Marsden as Robinson Crusoe.

Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parent's warnings, he run

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Cold Blood & Other Stories by Simon Bovey1

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Four gripping sci-fi adventures from acclaimed scriptwriter Simon Bovey

Simon Bovey is an established writer and director who has penned numerous compelling dramas for BBC Radio. Collected here are four of his sensational sci-fi tales, packed wi

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Moriarty by Charles Kindinger

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The Devil's Game

New addition to the Sherlock Holmes universe, Moriarty: The Devils Game, dares to ask: What if Holmes’ most villainous nemesis was actually an innocent man?

Featuring Dominic Monaghan (Lord of the Rings, Lost) in a riveting lead p

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The Susan Hill BBC Radio Drama Collection

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The Susan Hill BBC Radio Drama Collection is a compilation of full-cast dramatizations and original radio plays written by the award-winning British author Dame Susan Hill for the BBC over many decades. The collection features 14 full-cast dramas

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Destination – Fire!

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Destination – Fire! was a BBC Radio crime drama series from the 1960s about a fire investigator named Quentin "Q" Barnaby. The show featured a full cast of actors and ran for three series on the BBC Light Programme between 1962 and 1966.  

  
Plot

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Dad's Army

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From 1974 to 1976, the popular BBC sitcom Dad's Army was adapted into a radio series that ran for 67 episodes. The radio show was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and featured most of the original television cast, bringing the comedy to a new format.

 

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