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Oliver Jeffers, Judith Kerr, Emma Chichester Clark, Jez Alborough, Rob Scotton, Simon Puttock, Rachel Bright, Jackie French

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Emilia Fox, Terence Stamp, Tacy Kneale, Matt Lucas, Anthony Head, et al.

Ten of the best-loved picture book stories to get your little ones through the longest journeys this summer.Worried about how to keep your little ones occupied this Summer? … Worry no more with this compilation of eleven of the best-loved picture book stories. One hour of audio fun to keep your children entertained on even the longest journeys – keeping at bay the dreaded question, ARE WE THERE YET?Featuring some of the biggest names in children’s ...

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Francis Durbridge

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Anthony Head

Anthony Head reads three unabridged novels by Francis Durbridge.In The World of Tim Frazer, the engineer-turned-spy's friend and ex-business partner Harry Denston has gone missing. That's not all: he owes money, and there are several people desperate to track him down. Frazer must put the pieces together.In Tim Frazer Again, when special agent Leo Salinger is killed by a fast car in Amsterdam, Frazer is se...

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Anthony Head, Mary Theresa Vasquez

The inspirational biography of Juan F. Vasquez, the first Hispanic American appointed to the United States Tax Court. The book depicts his journey surmounting numerous challenges such as poverty, manual labor, and discrimination. It explores his pursuit of education to build -- with the support of family, friends, and mentors - -a professional career serving family, community, taxpayers, and the tax system.Judge Vasquez’s story demonstrates that one can excel in the practice of tax...

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Anthony Head, Kirk Weddle

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The Texas Experience, Books made possible by Sarah '84 and Mark '77 Philpy

While sometimes mischaracterized as the last respite of alcoholism, despair, and questionable motives, Texas dive bars are a reminder that life is not limited to the pressures and profits of the 9-to-5 world. A true dive earns its status through age and patron loyalty, so while dives are outposts from much of society, they’re typically stable businesses and often active in their neighborhoods. Dives are also gathering places, where the members, lubricated by affordable beer and long pours ...

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Neil Gaiman

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Anthony Head, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, David Harewood, David Schofield, Full Cast, James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, Sophie Okonedo

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Neil Gaiman Full-Cast Radio Adaptations

Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere... An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into the strange world of London Below. There he meets the Earl of Earl's Court, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with the Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington. Accompanied by the mysterio...

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Jacqueline Rayner, Stephen Cole, Justin Richards, Mike Tucker, Colin Brake

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David Tennant, Anthony Head, Don Warrington, Shaun Dingwall

David Tennant, Anthony Head, Don Warrington and Shaun Dingwall read these six original stories featuring the Tenth Doctor.In 'The Stone Rose', a missing boy and a strange stone effigy spell trouble for the Doctor and Rose. In 'The Feast of the Drowned', the dead crew of a naval cruiser haunt loved ones all over London. 'The Resurrection Casket' finds the Doctor and Rose in search of lost treasure, whilst 'The Nightmare of Black Island' takes them to a Welsh village where children a...

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Anthony Head

As he lay bleeding in a Vietnamese rice paddy, his right arm shredded by shrapnel, artist Jesse Treviño realized that he wanted to honor and preserve his family and his cultural heritage through his artwork. After receiving a Purple Heart and undergoing two years of rehabilitative therapy and the amputation of his right forearm—including his painting hand—Treviño enrolled in San Antonio College, determined to learn how to draw and paint with his left hand.In 1974 he produced the im...

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Francis Durbridge

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Anthony Head

Anthony Head reads eight abridged novels by Francis Durbridge.Send for Paul Temple, based on the first ever Paul Temple radio serial, centres around the mystery of The Green Finger.In Paul Temple and the Front Page Men, a series of thefts is linked to high profile kidnapping cases - and then murder.News of Paul Temple links a vivacious actress, a mysterious letter and an e...

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Mark Haddon

A magical celebration of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing from the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.Years ago there was a little boy who dreamed of rocketing to the moon, of landing on the crumbly rock and walking across the Sea of Tranquility.He borrowed library books and read how astronauts had orbited the earth and walked in space. And every night he hoped that they would find a way to land on the moon and walk where he had ...

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Walter de la Mare

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Walter de la Mare, Julian Wadham, Anthony Head, Kenneth Cranham, Richard E. Grant, Emma Fielding, Samuel West, Jonathan Keeble, Margaret Robertson, Andrew Wincott, Garard Green, Full cast

Full-cast dramatisations and readings of classic tales by Walter de la Mare – plus bonus material.An award-wining poet, short story writer and novelist, Walter de la Mare is probably best known for his works for children and his perennially popular poem ‘The Listeners’. His ghost stories were much admired by H. P. Lovecraft and inspired subsequent authors of supernatural horror such as Robert Aickman and Ramsey Campbell.In 1921, his novel Memoir...

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Justin Richards, Gareth Roberts, Steve Lyons

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Stuart Milligan, Anthony Head, Camille Coduri

Stuart Milligan, Anthony Head and Camille Coduri are the readers of these three original novels featuring the Ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack, as played on TV by Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper and John Barrowman.In these adventures in time and space, the travellers discover a dangerous alien predator at an abandoned Soviet naval base, a Neanderthal man in modern day London, and a world on which fiction has been outlawed.

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BBC, BBC Audio

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Anthony Head

Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper are among those talking exclusively about the smash hit 2005 TV series Doctor Who in this BBC Radio 2 documentary, presented by Anthony Head. Project: Who? goes exclusively behind the scenes of Doctor Who to discover how the action-packed new BBC1 series was made, with award-winning writer and executive producer Russell T Davies at the helm. Featuring new and exclusive interviews with the cast and creative team, the programm...