Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade is hired to locate a client's sister by tailing the sister's companion. Spade's partner Miles Archer takes on the assignment, and quickly both Archer and the man he was shadowing are murdered. As Spade pursues the m
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THE GREATEST PRIVATE EYE OF ALL TIME RETURNS TO FINISH THE JOB
Legendary mystery writer Dashiell Hammett only wrote one novel about detective Sam Spade: The Maltese Falcon, the most famous private eye story ever told. But the case was never really
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An unnamed spy is dispatched to Shanghai to aid a shadowy U.S. agency known only as HQ. There he meets a mysterious woman named Mei and begins a torrid affair that threatens to expose him to Chinese intelligence, the notorious Guoanbu. As danger w
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Three detective thrillers set in the Met's Missing Persons Bureau.
After shooting a teenage boy in an undercover operation, DS Sue Manson is taken off the front line and transferred to a desk job in Missing Persons. But no sooner has she arrived t
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Subterranean Homesick Blues is a popular romantic comedy-drama series written by A.L. Kennedy.
A collection of BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of plays by Tennessee Williams, plus bonus material.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams is one of the three most important American dramatists of the 20th century, alongside Arth
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Mary Wimbush stars as unconventional psychoanalyst sleuth Mrs Bradley in these two full-cast dramatisations of stories by Gladys Mitchell. Colourful, cynical, intimidating and extremely intelligent, Mrs Bradley is one of the most unorthodox detect
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The #1 New York Times bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Tom Clancy - a gripping military thriller that introduced the world to his unforgettable hero, Jack Ryan - nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Gre
Sense and Sensibility - narrated by Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Austen introduces us to the Dashwood sisters who upon the death of their father are left with little money, status or their family home. Marianne wears her heart on her sleeve and when she falls
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The complete BBC Radio series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy consists of six distinct "Phases," spanning from the original 1978 broadcast to the final installment in 2018.
The Primary Phase (1978): Fits the First to
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Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a 'Thousand Thrills!', with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour, our fast-talking, hard-hitting adve
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Science fiction classics are brought vividly to life in these gripping BBC Radio dramatisations, with casts including Robert Glenister, William Gaunt, Carleton Hobbs and Joanne Froggatt.
Frankenstein (1994) is adapted from one of the first science
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An investigation into witchcraft, the occult and secret government operations. From H.P. Lovecraft.
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
From H.P. Lovecraft: An investigation into the disappearance of a young man from a locked room in an asylum.
The Wh
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A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling epic, starring Jamie Glover, Robert Glenister and Timothy Spall.
"All for one and one for all"....
17th Century France. Dashing young swordsman D’Artagnan heads for Paris, dreaming of
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A criminal odyssey set against the dusty, sun-kissed backdrop of Oklahoma and Kansas during America's Great Depression. Carl Webster is a rising star in the US Marshals Service, one of the elite man-hunters currently chasing the likes of Dillinger
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By: Tony Medawar , Agatha Christie , Georgette Heyer , A. A. Milne , NIcholas Blake , Christianna Brand , Philip Bretherton
This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together a selection of tales by masters of the Golden Age of De
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Alan Garner is an English novelist best known for his fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, bein
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BBC radio productions of Mark Twain's very best novels and short stories - plus bonus material
Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens), was one of the foremost writers and humorists to come out of the United States. Hailed by William Faulk
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Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice wi
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The collected BBC radio adaptations of Virginia Woolf's major novels are a series of acclaimed audio dramas, featuring star casts like Vanessa Redgrave and Kristin Scott-Thomas, bringing her modernist masterpieces like Mrs Dalloway, To the Lightho
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