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In the Company of Sherlock Holmes

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This follow-up to the national best seller A Study in Sherlock is a stunning new volume of original stories compiled by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger.

The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were rec

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James Bond: BBC Radio Collection

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The BBC produced a series of radio dramatizations of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, starting in 2008. The first installment, "Dr. No," was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of the centenary celebration of Fleming's birth, with Toby Stephens voici

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Terry Pratchett: BBC Radio Drama Collection

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A collection of the full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of novels by Terry Pratchett.

Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but whic

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John Wyndham: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

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Bill Nighy, Barbara Shelley and Peter Sallis are among the cast in six classic BBC Radio dramatisations of stories by one of Britain's most popular science fiction authors.

'The Day of the Triffids', first broadcast in 1968, is set in a world in w

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The Clitheroe Kid

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The Clitheroe Kid was a BBC Radio comedy show featuring diminutive Northern comic Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy, who lived with his family at Lilac Avenue in an unnamed town in the North of England. The pilot show, pilot series

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Father Brown: The Complete Series 1 and 2

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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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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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