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 The Glenn Miller Story is a 1954 American biographical film about the eponymous American band-leader, directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart.

The film follows big band leader Glenn Miller (1904–1944) from his early days in the music business in 1929 through to his 1944 death when the airplane he was flying in was lost over the English Channel during World War II. Prominent placement in the film is given to Miller's courtship and marriage to Helen Burger, and various cameos by actual musicians who were colleagues of Miller.

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Twilight Zone Radio Dramas

All 176 episodes of the Twilight Zone Radio Dramas which were produced and aired on radio during the 2000's.

BBC Walter Mosley Collection


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Tennessee Williams: BBC Radio Drama Collection


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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams is one of the three most important American dramatists of the 20th century, alongside Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill. Acclaimed for their lyrical language, dark themes and vivid portrayal of the American South, Williams' works have spawned several Oscar-winning films and been…

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Kalangadog Junction: BBC Radio Drama

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A BBC Radio comedy drama about a 1950s couple from Manchester trying to make it Down Under. Dr Thomas Barrett and his wife Jane have a perfectly nice existence in 1950s Manchester, but dreams of a new life won’t let them rest....

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Algernon Blackwood: BBC Radio Collection

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A BBC Radio collection of strange and fantastical tales from Algernon Blackwood. Described by H P Lovecraft as 'the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere', Algernon Blackwood was the acclaimed and prolific author of numerous ghost stories and horror tales....

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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: BBC Radio

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it was later adapted to other formats, including novels, stage shows, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 video game, and 2005 feature film....

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Edgar Wallace: BBC Radio Collection

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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was a British writer of sensational detective, gangster, adventure, and sci-fi novels, plays and stories. Born into poverty, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the Dai....

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Weird Tales: BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas

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Eleven uncanny stories inspired by the master of uncanny terror, H.P. Lovecraft. Over one hundred years ago, H.P. Lovecraft created the Necronomicon, a grimoire of lost souls, magical rites and forbidden lore....

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Money Gone: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Drama

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Valentine’s Day 2025. The UK awakes to financial catastrophe and no one can access any money. As the country descends into chaos, some see opportunity, but the powerful want to cling to the status quo....

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Short Works: BBC Radio Short Story Collection 3

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A collection of BBC Radio short stories, some shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award between 2017 and 2023. 98' 99' "The guns began to grow late in the month. Tiny shoots pushed up, almost invisible at first....

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Gudrun: BBC Radio Full-Cast Historical Drama

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Gudrun, a young woman in 11th-century Iceland, must forge her path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising harshness and danger. Lucy Catherine’s re-telling of the Icelander classic, The Laxdæla Saga.  Written in the 13th century, it tells of the people in the Breiðafjörður are....

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Devonia: BBC Radio Full-Cast Historical Drama

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Three BBC Radio plays about the life and times of a paddle steamer and its crew depicted across three decades in the early 20th Century. The Beano It’s 1911 and a works outing aboard the Devonia reunites childhood sweethearts Harry and Mercy....

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The Sensitive: BBC Radio Full-Cast Crime Drama

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Eleven off-beat BBC Radio adventures of a psychic helping police investigations in Glasgow. 1. The Sensitive Police call in psychic detective Thomas Soutar to find a missing woman. But is his gift a blessing or curse? Thomas Soutar ..........

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Winston: BBC Radio Full-Cast Comedy Drama

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All five series of Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy drama about roguish poacher/philosopher Winston Hayballs. When the middle-class Empsons move from London to picturesque Winterleaf Gunner, they find themselves totally unprepared for country life—and utterly reliant on Winston....

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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

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A BBC Radio dramatisation of the Robert Tressell novel, first published in 1914. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists follows a house painter's efforts to find work in the fictional English town of Mugsborough (based on the coastal town of Hastings) to stave off the workhouse for himself, his wife a....

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Foul Play: BBC Radio Murder Mystery Game

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All four series of the murder mystery game played by people whose business is murder. Written and chaired by Simon Brett (author of the hugely popular Charles Paris series), this intriguing, interactive panel show challenges professional crime novelists to put their experience and expertise to the t....

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Prophet Song: BBC Radio Dystopian Drama

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A BBC Radio production of the explosive literary sensation and winner of the 2023 Booker Prize.  On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB – the Garda National Service Bureau – on her step....

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How to Build a Super Tower: BBC Radio Drama

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Property magnate Max Silver is in trouble. His West End properties are starting to crumble, his assets are turning into liabilities and his business empire's on the rocks. With the company in danger of going under, he shakes up his property portfolio, ditches his shiftless partner, Larry, and brings....

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Short Works: BBC Radio Short Story Collection 2

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A collection of BBC Radio short stories, some shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award between 2017 and 2023. A Borderline Interest Two people meet in a mental health support group and quickly grow close....

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Alexandre Dumas: BBC Radio Drama Collection

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A BBC Radio collection bringing together much-loved works by Alexandre Dumas and Alexandre Dumas fils, with all-star casts. Alexandre Dumas père and fils are among the most popular and widely read authors in French literature; their works have been adapted numerous times for stage, screen and radio....

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Kingsley Amis: BBC Radio Drama Collection

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A collection of BBC Radio adaptations of Kingsley Amis’s novels and short stories. Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest post-war writers. A master of comic fiction, he first came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils....

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Until August: BBC Radio Contemporary Drama

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Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children....

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Lord of Misrule: BBC Radio Full-Cast Drama

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1745. Wales is a land that time forgot. The burden of squalid poverty and the power of medieval superstition is writ large on the landscape as the adventurer, womaniser and dreamer Gruffydd comes to reclaim his birthright after the Jacobite Rebellion drives out George II....

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Ken Whitmore: BBC Radio Drama Collection

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Ken Whitmore, born in Staffordshire England in 1937, is a prolific author of radio plays, stage plays, short stories and poetry. His writing is characterised by black comedy and fantastical ideas, such as the complete disappearance of a man’s house, family and dog and the need for all mankind to j....

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Fame is the Spur: BBC Radio Full-Cast Drama

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Set against the wider current of events in England in the early 19th century, this is a tale of ambition.  A man who rises from the most humble of beginnings in Ancoats, Manchester to reach the very top in politics in the era when the Labour Party was born after a great struggle.   John Hamer Sha....

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Compleet Molesworth: BBC Radio Drama

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The Compleet Molesworth: Two full-cast BBC Radio Comedy Dramas Nigel Molesworth is a fictional character, the supposed author of a series of books about life in an English prep school named St Custard's....

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Down With Skool: BBC Radio Comedy Drama

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Down with Skool! & How to Be Topp Nigel Molesworth is a fictional character, the supposed author of a series of books about life in an English prep school named St Custard's. The books were written by Geoffrey Willans, with cartoon illustrations by Ronald Searle....

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The Story Of Hopalong Cassidy

Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy-hero, created in 1904 by Clarence E. Mulford and appearing in a series of popular stories and novels. In print, the character appears as a rude, rough-talking 'galoot'. Beginning in 1935, the character, played… Continue

Johnny Carson's Hafl-Century of NBC Comedy

Hosted by Johnny Carson, this two-hour retrospective reviews 50 years of classic NBC radio and television comedy performances. It aired Thanksgiving Day in 1982 as a special with Carson presenting comedy excerpts from a variety of comedy genres and… Continue

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