In Jamaica Inn, at the heart of the bleak Bodmin Moor, young Mary Yellen soon discovers mysterious goings-on in the dead of night. But worse is yet to come as Mary finds herself helplessly ensnared in the deadly activities taking place around her.

Evocative, atmospheric and chilling, this adaptation of Jamaica Inn has all the hallmarks of a great adventure classic. A full-cast radio dramatisation of the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Dame Daphne du Maurier DBE (13 May 1907 - 19 April 1989) was a famous British novelist best known for her short story "The Birds" and her classic novel Rebecca, published in 1938. Both were adapted into films by Alfred Hitchcock and Rebecca was an Oscar-winning film.

Daphne du Maurier is often mistakenly categorised as a "romantic novelist", but she was in fact a major force in post-war horror and science fiction. The BBC is celebrating the centenary of her birth with an airing of all of her material in it's archives. Four episodes of approx one hour each in high quality MP3.

Episode 1: ---------- Cornwall, 1810. A coach slowly navigates the mire. Inside, Mary trembles at the fate that is taking her to Jamaica Inn.

Episode 2: ---------- Mary is now at her aunt and uncle's inn. Its brooding power gradually ensnares her in the dark schemes enacted behind its walls.

Episode 3: ---------- Forced to watch as another ship is lured to its doom by her uncle's gang, Mary is more determined than ever to exact revenge.

Episode 4: ---------- In the final part of Daphne du Maurier's novel, there's spying to be done on the conspirators and their dark schemes.

Jamaica Inn - 1 of 4.mp3

Jamaica Inn - 2 of 4.mp3

Jamaica Inn - 3 of 4.mp3

Jamaica Inn - 4 of 4.mp3

Country Music is a documentary miniseries created and directed by Ken Burns and written by Dayton Duncan that premiered on PBS on September 15, 2019.

The TV series presented country music from its earliest stars, such as the Carter Family, and Jimmie Rodgers, followed by influential singers of the likes of Hank Williams, through to notable acts of the second half of the 20th century such as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton, finishing in the 1990s.

Ken Burns Country music 1 & 2.mp4

Ken Burns Country music 3 & 4.mp4

Ken Burns Country music 5 & 6.mp4

On the night of 15 September, Starvel House burnt to the ground and its three inmates perished in the flames. An inquest brought in a verdict of accidental death, but Inspector French thinks differently!

by Freeman Wills Crofts, adapted by Alan Downer

Director: David Johnston
Inspector French: Edward De Souza
Detective Constable Tanner: Jonathan Tafler
Pierce Whymper: Gary Cady
Chief Inspector Mitchell: Reginald Marsh
Sgt Kent: Alan Downer
Dr Philpot: Michael Deacon
Ruth Averill: Zelah Clarke
Mrs Oxley: Joan Matheson
Mrs Palmer-Gore: Diana Olsson
Mr Dashwood: John Baddeley
Jeweller: William Simons
Manager at Thomas Cook's: Alan Dudley
Landlord: Michael Tudor Barnes

First Broadcast December 1987 on BBC Radio 4

The Starvel Tragedy - Inspector French.mp3

In 1964, about a decade after The Shadow's final radio broadcast, this pair of all-new adventures were recorded with members of the original cast, including Bret Morrison as The Shadow and Grace Matthews as Margo Lane. While never broadcast, the new dramas ended up being released by Leo the Lion Records (a division of MGM Records) as an LP titled The Official Adventures of The Shadow. It was the first time the phantom avenger ever appeared on record. Produced and directed by Herb Gale, written by John Fleming, and featuring supporting turns from Santos Ortega, Mandel Kramer, Ken Roberts, Bob Dryden, Lawson Zerbe.

Napoleonic seafaring adventure starring Michael Troughton and Nigel Anthony.

1. The Question of Preferment

1/6 Captain Jack Aubrey awaits the verdict in his court martial for the loss of his ship.

2. The Question of Seamanship

2/6 Jack tests the Sophie, and Stephen's romantic notions of naval life are tarnished.

3. The Question of Loyalty

3/6 The discipline of HMS Sophie's crew is tested and found to be wanting.

4. The Question of Attraction

4/6 Money is shown to be the root of all evil, and Captain Jack divides the men from the goats

5. The Question of Principle

5/6 A difficult decision as the life of a member of the crew is weighed against prize money.

6. The Question of Dishonour

6/6 The loss of the Sophie is finally revealed. Will Aubrey survive his court martial?

ADULT CONTENT

The KCRW Production "Mean Streets USA" is a collection of short crime fiction stories, a highly-produced series, recorded and produced at KCRW. It features detective stories by contemporary and classic mystery writers like Walter Mosley, Sue Grafton and Michael Connelly, read by Stacy Keach, Sharon Lawrence, Meschach Taylor, Tony Plana and others.

These were recorded off the internet, but the quality is decent.

MS 1 The Angry Man by Ross Macdonald read by Stacy Keach part 1

MS 2 The Angry Man by Ross Macdonald read by Stacy Keach part 2

MS 3 Silver Lining by Walter Mosley read by Meshach Taylor

MS 4 Serpents Dance by Jim Fusilli read by Tate Donovan

MS 5 The Parker Shotgun by Sue Grafton read by Harriet Harris

MS 6 The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us by George P. Pelecanos read by Tony Plana

MS 7 Cielo Azul by Michael Connelly read by John Michael Higgins

A series of true stories of the unceasing search for enemy spies in War Time, based on the memoirs of Lieutenant Oreste Cornel Pinto of the Allied Counter Intelligence service Oreste Pinto was a Dutch Intelligence Officer whom General Eisenhower called "the greatest living expert in security." The radio program, Spy Catcher, was based on Pinto's work in the Allied Counter intelligence Service.

Each episode has Pinto interrogating a political refugee or seeming Allied Serviceman. Using all the psychological and verbal tricks at his command, Pinto tries to prove that the subject is a Nazi Spy. Spy Catcher was penned by Robert Barr, and starred Bernard Archard as Pinto. Barr went on to write twenty six episodes for Radio, with Archard continuing his role.

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, his works have spawned several Oscar-winning films and been translated and performed worldwide.

Collected here are some of the best, beginning with the play that launched Williams’ career: The Glass Menagerie. Telling the story of a family in crisis in 1930s St Louis, it is one of his most autobiographical works, and a timeless evocation of lost love and loneliness. It is introduced by Williams’ biographer, John Lahr, and stars Anastasia Hille, George MacKay, Patsy Ferran and Sope Dirisu.

Next up is his masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire. With an introduction by author Sarah Churchwell, it stars Olivier Award-winning actress Anne-Marie Duff as damaged Southern belle Blanche Dubois, pushed to the brink of sanity by her explosive brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski (Matthew Needham). It is followed by one of Williams’ earliest plays, Spring Storm, about Heavenly Critchfield, a young woman forced to decide between a respectable suitor and a handsome, wild, lover. Liz White stars as Heavenly, with Matthew Malarkey and Michael Thomson.

First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2006, Tennessee’s Women comprises five one-act plays: This Property is Condemned, Something Unspoken, The Long Goodbye, Portrait of a Madonna and 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Among the casts are Maria Watton-Graham, Barbara Jefford, Elizabeth McGovern, Nick Sayce, Eleanor Bron and Gerard Murphy.

01 – The Glass Menagerie

02 – A Streetcar Named Desire

03 – Spring Storm

04 – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

05 – The Rose Tattoo

MP3s of Best Country Songs from Top Country Music Videos

1. Murder Mansion.mp3

It's 1934 and a New York warehouse is ablaze on the Lower East Side. A gang of gun-runners are holed-up until their supply of ammo explodes.

2. Carnage at Sea.mp3

Heroic agent X-9 takes on the law to pursue his arch enemy in the heart of 1930s New York.

3. The Powers That Be.mp3

The all-American hero battles to save gold bullion and solve Evelyn's disappearance.

4. You're the Top.mp3

The action hero finally confronts his nemesis at the top of a New York landmark. Stars Stuart Milligan and Connie Booth.

Starring Stuart Milligan and Connie Booth.

The heroic agent's adventure from the comic strip created by Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond. Syndicated by King Features, it ran from 1934 to 1996.

Dramatised in four parts by Mark Brisenden,

X-9 ...... Stuart Milligan
Grace Powers ...... Connie Booth
The Top ...... William Hootkins
Evelyn Powers ...... Rachel Power
Deacon ...... Peter Marinker
Matthew ...... Michael John Paliotti
Captain Brady ...... John Guerrasio
Jude ...... Bruce McGregor
Cop 1 ...... Clive Rowe

All other parts played by the cast.

Originally agent X-9 had no name, but opted to call himself "Dexter" in the opening tale.

Dashiell Hammett wrote The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, while Alex Raymond famously created sci-fi comic hero Flash Gordon.

Producer: Chris Wallis.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in January 1994.

Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater is a local, grassroots theater group founded in 1982 with the purpose of helping to revive and extend the American genre of Radio Mystery Theater. Through a series of original radio mysteries and thrillers set on Cape Cod, the group’s programs have been heard on more than 225 NPR stations and distributed nationally across bookstores, libraries and the Internet

• 01 A Test for Murder.mp3
• 02 The Caller on Line One.mp3
• 03 Playback.mp3
• 04 The Hypnotist.mp3
• 05 The Legacy of Euriah Pillar.mp3
• 06 Mr Hugos Night to Remember.mp3
• 07 The Buoy.mp3
• 08 Five Fathom Rip.mp3
• 09 The Case of the Murdered Miser.mp3
• 10 Case of the Shooting Star.mp3
• 11 The Golden Idol, Magwitch and the Donkey Tail.mp3
• 12 The Curse of the Whales Tooth.mp3
• 13 Whereabouts of Heidi McKnown.mp3
• 14 Murder From the Bridge.mp3
• 15 The Case of the Automatic Murders.mp3
• 16 Danger at Seven Mile Bend (Part 1).mp3
• 17 Danger at Seven Mile Bend (Part 2).mp3
• 19 The Automatic Murders.mp3
• 20 The Mystery of Anna Gale.mp3
• 21 Murdering Dickens.mp3

Jonathan Myerson's dramatisation of Boris Pasternak's epic tale spanning four decades of war, revolution, passion and terror.

Episode 1:
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Yuri and Lara are coming of age on different sides of Moscow. Their lives are parallel but on very different tracks.

Episode 2:
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An affluent childhood in Imperial Moscow has left Yuri Zhivago with a career as a doctor and an engagement to Tonya. But his life will change when he meets Lara.

Episode 3:
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Returning to Moscow, Yuri finds it hard to adjust to post-revolutionary family life. The city has become a dangerous place, and the only safety lies in leaving and going east. But Lara has also gone in that direction.

Episode 4:
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Yuri and his family have fled Moscow. Arriving in the remote Ural mountains, they find civil war raging and the mysterious Bolshevik general Strelnikov in charge of the nearest town, which happens to be where Lara is.

Episode 5:
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Kidnapped by Red partisan troops to serve as their doctor, Yuri has been a prisoner in the forest for two years. The waste of life sickens him, and he has no news of Tonya or Lara. At last the chance comes to escape back to Yuryatin.

Episode 6:
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Even in the wilds of Siberia, Yuri, Lara and Pasha face death in Bolshevik purges. Komarovsky brings them an impossible choice. The revolutionary events which brought Yuri and Lara together are finally pulling them apart, but there is one more meeting to come.

With:
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Voice....Ian McDiarmid
Yuri....Tom Goodman-Hill
Lara....Eve Best
Tonya....Clare Corbett
Komarovsky....Henry Goodman
Liberiy....Darrell D'Silva
Pamphil....Malcolm Storry
Kubarikha....Kathryn Hunter
Lidochka....Sam Dale
Sivobluy....John Lloyd Fillingham
Angelar....Anthony Glennon
Pelageya....Rachel Atkins
Agatha....Katy Cavanagh
Terenty....Lloyd Thomas
Seryozha....Gregg Sulkin
Pasha (Strelnikov)....Don Gilet
Misha....Carl Prekopp
Yevgraf....Stuart McQuarrie
Vassya....Alex Lanipekun
Markel....John Dougall
Marina....Anna Bengo
Lena....Joannah Tincey
Katya....Skye Bennett
Alexander....Alan David
Amalia....Annette Badland
Anna....Susan Jameson
Tishkyevitch....Jeremy Swift
Olya....Katy Cavanagh
Galliulin....Kulvinder Ghir
Mlle Fleury....Helen Schlesinger
Gintz....Paul Richard Biggin
Pritulyev....Ben Crowe
Voronyuk....Sean Baker

Poems translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater, Jonathan Myerson, Jon Stallworthy and Peter France. Cello played by Anna Edwards.

Directed and produced by Jonquil Panting.

A close election sees evil Chief Whip Francis Urquhart start scheming his way into 10 Downing Street. Stars Daniel Masse

1 The Insane Route – A close election sees evil Chief Whip Francis Urquhart start scheming his way into 10 Downing Street.

2 The Dart of a Chance – Francis puts pressure on Roger, and a press leak occurs. Meanwhile, Mattie wonders who her new ally is.

3 The Unkindest Cut– Francis deals with an irate media mogul who wants the Prime Minister replaced, after sitting on a leak.

4 In Hot Pursuit– Francis uses the Prime Minister’s brother as the lynchpin to his plans. Mattie starts to get suspicious.

5 The Path to Danger– An unpopular media merger seems to put Francis’ plans at risk. Roger is once more forced to co-operate.

6 Death and the Maiden – Roger finally stands up for himself, but pays the price. His misfortune, however, gives Mattie her lead.

By: George Mann, Cavan Scott
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton, Frances Jeater, Don Gilet, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Ivanno Jeremiah, Amy McAllister, full cast
Length: 8 hrs

There is a plot to kidnap Queen Victoria and only Sherlock Holmes can stop it...or can he?

Investigating a crime seemingly unconnected to the Royal Family, Holmes & Watson uncover a conspiracy to kidnap Queen Victoria and destabilise the British Empire.

With a ticking clock to her next public engagement, Holmes and Watson must discover who is behind the plot and locate her majesty, while Mycroft tries to keep the monarch’s disappearance a secret from the British people.

At first, Holmes believes Moriarty is responsible for the abduction, but when the Napoleon of Crime is proved innocent, Holmes must work with his arch-nemesis to rescue the Queen.

An Audible Original drama starring Nicholas Boulton as Sherlock Holmes and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Dr. John Watson alongside a full cast.

A man goes missing from a liner as it approaches England. His sister is adamant that it wasn’t suicide.

Vintage 80s crime drama, as Southampton Police investigate the disappearance of a passenger from an inbound ship.

Cast:

DC ‘Birdie’ Partridge …. Patrick Mower
DS Dunne …. Geoffrey Matthews
Ruth Cobb …. Helen Atkinson Wood
Martin Lennister …. David McAlister
Captain of the Carthena …. Nicholas Courtney
Australian Driver …. Anthony Jackson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1981.

• Written by Chris Boucher
• Producer: Gerry Jones

01 – Did He Fall Or…

E02 – Hostile Witness

E03 – Unofficial Investigations

E04 – Mistaken Identity

E05 – The Ends Justify the Means

Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world’s greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new adventures share all the suspense of the original tales.

In a drawer in his bureau, Dr. Watson keeps a locked cedarwood chest—a “box of secrets.” It contains an archive of notes referring to some of Holmes’ cases that, for one reason or another, never saw the light of day. Now, for the first time, Watson has decided to reveal the truth to the world. In these four thrilling stories, Holmes experiments with the science of ballistics, locates some missing gold bullion, investigates the theft of a large amount of money, and solves the baffling mystery of the Stovey murder.

An Inscrutable Masquerade.mp3

The Conundrum of Coach 13.mp3

The Trinity Vicarage Larceny.mp3

The 10:59 Assassin.mp3