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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë, Amanda Root ...

Narrated by Amanda Root ...

Unabridged

4 hours 1 min

One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester. What lurks in the attic at Thornfield, the ancestral home of the surly Mr Rochester? Will the governess Jane Eyre discover his secret and having discovered it, live to regret that knowledge? Battling inside Jane are passion and prudence; she struggles to survive the ... Read more

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One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester. What lurks in the attic at Thornfield, the ancestral home of the surly Mr Rochester? Will the governess Jane Eyre discover his secret and having discovered it, live to regret that knowledge? Battling inside Jane are passion and prudence; she struggles to survive the
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Pride and Prejudice

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

by Jane Austen ...

Narrated by Amanda Root, David Troughton, Full Cast, Samantha Spiro ...

Unabridged

2 hours 50 min

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Mrs Bennet is determined to see her five daughters married off and secure a future for them all.When the wealthy Mr Bingley arrives in the neighbourhood, Mrs Bennet wastes no time in making his acquaintance. His friend Mr Darcy, however, discourages Mr Bingley from marrying Jane Bennet, and also appears to snub ... Read more

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In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Mrs Bennet is determined to see her five daughters married off and secure a future for them all.When the wealthy Mr Bingley arrives in the neighbourhood, Mrs Bennet wastes no time in making his acquaintance. His friend Mr Darcy, however, discourages Mr Bingley from marrying Jane Bennet, and also appears to snub
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Barbara Pym: A BBC Radio drama collection

Some Tame Gazelle, No Fond Return of Love, Crampton Hodnet & More

Narrated by Miriam Margolyes, Hannah Gordon, Samantha Bond, Rebecca Front, Penny Downie, Amanda Root, Annette Crosbie, Penelope Wilton, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

16 hours 33 min

Dramatisations and a reading of selected novels by Barbara Pym - plus bonus materialBarbara Pym is one of the 20th Century's wittiest, and most underrated, novelists. Her perceptive comedies of manners, centred around the domestic lives and loves of unassuming middle-class Englishwomen, won her many devoted readers and saw her hailed as a modern-day Jane Austen. Yet she spent 15 years out of print ... Read more

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Dramatisations and a reading of selected novels by Barbara Pym - plus bonus materialBarbara Pym is one of the 20th Century's wittiest, and most underrated, novelists. Her perceptive comedies of manners, centred around the domestic lives and loves of unassuming middle-class Englishwomen, won her many devoted readers and saw her hailed as a modern-day Jane Austen. Yet she spent 15 years out of print
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HER Story: Women’s Untold Histories

10 BBC Radio full-cast dramas

by Various ...

Narrated by Katy Brand, Amaka Okafor, Niamh Cusack, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Amanda Root, Indira Varma, Rebecca Humphries, Full Cast, Anton Lesser ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

10 dramas focusing on women's untold stories from history.This diverse, eclectic collection of plays explores an array of social, political and historical events from a female point of view. In these captivating dramas, we see the world through their eyes, giving us a fresh perspective on a female history that is too often unrecorded, misrepresented or misunderstood.Featuring a multiplicity of ... Read more

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10 dramas focusing on women's untold stories from history.This diverse, eclectic collection of plays explores an array of social, political and historical events from a female point of view. In these captivating dramas, we see the world through their eyes, giving us a fresh perspective on a female history that is too often unrecorded, misrepresented or misunderstood.Featuring a multiplicity of
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Nancy Mitford: Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate & More

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama collection

by Nancy Mitford ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Jane Knowles, Amanda Root, Teresa Gallagher, Pauline Letts, Edward de Souza, Elizabeth Proud ...

Unabridged

6 hours 10 min

BBC Radio adaptations of Nancy Mitford's most famous novels and acclaimed biography of Madame de Pompadour plus bonus programmesThe eldest of the notorious Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford was renowned for her comic novels of upper-class life. An aristocrat and socialite, she mingled with the 'Bright Young Things' in interwar London, and went on to satirise their foibles in razor-sharp, wickedly ... Read more

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BBC Radio adaptations of Nancy Mitford's most famous novels and acclaimed biography of Madame de Pompadour plus bonus programmesThe eldest of the notorious Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford was renowned for her comic novels of upper-class life. An aristocrat and socialite, she mingled with the 'Bright Young Things' in interwar London, and went on to satirise their foibles in razor-sharp, wickedly
... Read more
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Northanger Abbey

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

by Jane Austen ...

Narrated by David Harewood, Julia McKenzie, Amanda Root, Jenny Agutter, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

2 hours 51 min

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Catherine Morland's overactive imagination makes her life more complicated than she would have wished...Catherine is obsessed with Gothic novels, often getting swept up by her taste for the dramatic and tragic. Did Mrs Tilney really die nine years previously, or has she been murdered or imprisoned in her chambers ... Read more

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In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Catherine Morland's overactive imagination makes her life more complicated than she would have wished...Catherine is obsessed with Gothic novels, often getting swept up by her taste for the dramatic and tragic. Did Mrs Tilney really die nine years previously, or has she been murdered or imprisoned in her chambers
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Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright ...

Narrated by a full cast, Dinsdale Landen, Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Julian Glover, Amanda Root ...

Series series The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection
Unabridged

2 hours 11 min

Shakespeare’s most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity.Duke Orsino is in love with the noblewoman Olivia. She, however, has fallen for his servant Cesario, who is actually Viola, a woman disguised as a man, who loves Orsino: confusion is rife. Meanwhile, Olivia’s arrogant steward Malvolio is cruelly tricked by her uncle Sir Toby Belch, his ... Read more

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Shakespeare’s most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity.Duke Orsino is in love with the noblewoman Olivia. She, however, has fallen for his servant Cesario, who is actually Viola, a woman disguised as a man, who loves Orsino: confusion is rife. Meanwhile, Olivia’s arrogant steward Malvolio is cruelly tricked by her uncle Sir Toby Belch, his
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Letters from a Lost Generation

First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends

by Mark Bostridge, Alan Bishop ...

Narrated by Amanda Root, Full Cast, Jonathan Firth ...

Abridged

3 hours 23 min

A selection of the powerful and poignant wartime letters of Vera Brittain and her friends.‘If war spares me,’ wrote Vera Brittain to her brother Edward in 1916, ‘it will be my one aim to immortalise in a book the story of us four.’ Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed Testament of Youth.This series of letters was the inspiration behind Testament. Written between ... Read more

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A selection of the powerful and poignant wartime letters of Vera Brittain and her friends.‘If war spares me,’ wrote Vera Brittain to her brother Edward in 1916, ‘it will be my one aim to immortalise in a book the story of us four.’ Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed Testament of Youth.This series of letters was the inspiration behind Testament. Written between
... Read more

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The Complete Barchester Chronicles

The Complete

by Anthony Trollope ...

Narrated by Anna Massey, Brenda Blethyn, Eleanor Bron, Full Cast, Kenneth Cranham, Leo McKern, Simon Russell Beale, Alex Jennings, Amanda Root, David Haig, Emma Fielding, Rosemary Leach ...

Unabridged

18 hours 50 min

The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial lifeOne of the most respected, successful chroniclers of nineteenth-century life, Anthony Trollope is still widely read and much-loved today. The Barchester Chronicles - witty moral comedies with a wonderful range of characters - are among his most popular tales.The first in the series, The Warden, ... Read more

$30.99 AUD

The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial lifeOne of the most respected, successful chroniclers of nineteenth-century life, Anthony Trollope is still widely read and much-loved today. The Barchester Chronicles - witty moral comedies with a wonderful range of characters - are among his most popular tales.The first in the series, The Warden,
... Read more
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Floodland

by Marcus Sedgwick ...

Narrated by Amanda Root ...

Unabridged

3 hours 6 min

A gripping, prizewinning novel about a girl surviving in a devastated world.Imagine that a few years from now England is covered by water, and Norwich is an island.Zoe, left behind in the confusion when her parents escaped, survives there as best she can. Alone and desperate among marauding gangs, she manages to dig a derelict boat out of the mud and gets away to Eels Island. But Eels Island, ... Read more

$22.99 AUD

A gripping, prizewinning novel about a girl surviving in a devastated world.Imagine that a few years from now England is covered by water, and Norwich is an island.Zoe, left behind in the confusion when her parents escaped, survives there as best she can. Alone and desperate among marauding gangs, she manages to dig a derelict boat out of the mud and gets away to Eels Island. But Eels Island,
... Read more
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Little Women, Good Wives & A Marble Woman

Three BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations

by Louisa May Alcott ...

Narrated by Bryony Hannah, Lorelei King, Natasha J Barnes, Bill Paterson, Amanda Root, Tara Ward, Alex Lanipekun, Gayle Hunnicutt, Jemma Redgrave, Marcus D'Amico, Martin Jarvis, John McArdle, Full cast ...

Unabridged

6 hours 4 min

Dramatisations of Louisa May Alcott’s evergreen classic and its sequel, plus her Gothic tour de force about an orphan girl and her controlling guardianBorn in 1832 in Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was best known for Little Women, her phenomenal bestseller loosely based on her childhood experiences with her own sisters. Adapted numerous times for stage and screen, it is dramatised here alongside ... Read more

$26.81 AUD

Dramatisations of Louisa May Alcott’s evergreen classic and its sequel, plus her Gothic tour de force about an orphan girl and her controlling guardianBorn in 1832 in Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was best known for Little Women, her phenomenal bestseller loosely based on her childhood experiences with her own sisters. Adapted numerous times for stage and screen, it is dramatised here alongside
... Read more
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Tsar: An epic chronicle of the Russian leaders

Eleven BBC Radio 4 dramas

by Mike Walker ...

Narrated by David Threlfall, Hugo Speer, Samantha Spiro, Anton Lesser, Amanda Root, Raymond Coulthard, Paul Ritter, Full Cast, Hattie Morahan ...

Unabridged

10 hours 22 min

Eleven compelling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of the Russian tsarsBroadcast to mark the centenary of the Russian revolution, this extraordinary drama cycle by Mike Walker comprises eleven ambitious plays spanning over 400 years, exploring the lives of Russia’s key rulers from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin.Ivan the Terrible: Absolute Power - The rise and fearsome reign of ... Read more

$21.99 AUD

Eleven compelling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of the Russian tsarsBroadcast to mark the centenary of the Russian revolution, this extraordinary drama cycle by Mike Walker comprises eleven ambitious plays spanning over 400 years, exploring the lives of Russia’s key rulers from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin.Ivan the Terrible: Absolute Power - The rise and fearsome reign of
... Read more