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William Shakespeare

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Stephen Dillane, Fiona Shaw, Denys Hawthorne, Declan Conlan, Adam Kotz, Colin Tiernay, Nicholas Gecks, Bruce Alexander, Bill Paterson, Annette Badland, Joyce Henderson, Pauline Lynch, June Watson, John Rogan, Benjamin Soames, James Boxer, Stella Gonet, Stephanie Lane, David Timson, Jonathan Keeble, Peter Yapp

Macbeth, Shakespeare’s last great tragedy, has remained one of the most popular plays since it’s first performance in 1606 probably in front of King James. This exciting new audiobook production is directed with fresh imagination by Fiona Shaw who breaks the conventional strait jacket that has hampered the development of Shakespeare on audio. We are as much in the twenty-first century as in medieval Scotland the tensions, the politics, the struggle for power and dark ambition is part of ou...

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Simon Armitage

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Ian Mckellen, Samuel West, Maxine Peake, Lily Cole, Rachael Stirling, Christopher Eccleston, Kirsty Wark, Full Cast, Stephen Dillane

Canonical stories, reimagined for a modern audience, by poet Laureate Simon Armitage, with stellar casts including Sir Ian McKellen, Samuel West, Maxine Peake and Christopher EcclestonPoet Laureate Simon Armitage is known and loved for his witty, accessible and profound original poetry, offering an innovative perspective on contemporary society. Yet he has also retold numerous classical tales, including Ancient Greek myths and Arthurian legends, which have been ada...

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Samuel Beckett

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Stephen Rea, Ian Mckellen, Ron Cook, Monica Dolan, Louise Brealey, Brian Protheroe, Stephen Dillane, Stanley Townsend, Nick Underwood, Carl Prekopp

Broadcaster Matthew Sweet presents a sequence of radio plays by Samuel Beckett, with star casts including Stephen Rea and Ian McKellenSamuel Beckett captured the pathos and irony of modern life like no other dramatist. In the decade following the success of Waiting for Godot (1952), he wrote some of his most absorbing work for radio, among them this sequence of short pieces. Suffused with the same musicality as his stage plays, they are increasingly differ...

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Leo Tolstoy

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Simon Russell Beale, Amanda Redman, Emily Mortimer, Teresa Gallagher, Toby Stephens, Richard Dillane, Ian McDiarmid, Haydn Gwynne, Full Cast, Katherine Igoe

BBC Radio adaptations of Tolstoy's three major novels, plus a reading of his profound philosophical memoir, an original drama based on his life and a bonus documentaryOne of the greatest novelists of all time, Leo Tolstoy is famed worldwide for his masterpieces of realist fiction, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. This comprehensive collection contains both those iconic works, as well as his final novel

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Bruce Chatwin

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Hugh Fraser

Brought to you by Penguin.The audio edition of In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin.Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road.

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Umberto Eco

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George Guidall

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William Weaver

The author of the international sensation The Name of the Rose returns to the Middle Ages in this beguiling tale of history, myth, and invention.It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story...

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Josephine Angelini

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Devon Sorvari

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Starcrossed Trilogy

The passionate romance of Twilight meets Greek mythology in this dazzling debut about star-crossed demigods.How do you defy destiny?Helen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is - no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it's getting harder.Nightmares of a desperate desert journey have Helen waking parched, only to find her sheets damaged by dirt and dust. At school she's hau...