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Leo Tolstoy

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Toby Stephens, Full Cast

Tolstoy's story of one woman's fate is brought powerfully to life in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens. Anna Karenina enjoys a privileged and aristrocratic lifestyle as the wife of influential government official Alexy Karenin. Yet their ten-year marriage is devoid of tenderness, and when Anna falls in love with the handsome Count Vronsky they embark upon a deep and passionate affair. Reflecting the social conditions of the era in which it w...

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Wilkie Collins

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Full Cast, Juliet Aubrey, Toby Stephens

Toby Stephens and Juliet Aubrey star in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Wilkie Collins’ chilling Gothic dramaA lonely stretch of road on Hampstead Heath is the venue for Walter Hartright’s midnight first encounter with a mysteriously distressed figure in white. As he helps the woman to escape from unnamed pursuers, he has little understanding of the way she will affect his future.At Limmeridge House, in Cumberland, Walter meets and falls in love with Laura, who str...

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William Shakespeare

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Paul Scofield, Alec McCowen, Kenneth Branagh, Harriet Walter, Sara Kestelman, Emilia Fox, Peter Blythe, Jack Klaff, Richard McCabe, Toby Stephens, David Burke, John McAndrew, Simon Treves, Matthew Morgan, Steve Hodson

The tragedy of King Lear receives an outstanding performance in an all-star cast led by Britain’s senior classical actor, Paul Scofield. He is joined by Alec McCowen as Gloucester, Kenneth Branagh as The Fool, Harriet Walter as Gonerill, Sara Kestelman as Regan and Emilia Fox as Cordelia. This is the ninth recording of Shakespeare plays undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press, and is directed by John Tydeman. It was released to mark the eightieth birth...

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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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Robert Louis Stevenson, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Jerome K. Jerome, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, F.M. Mayor, Charlotte Brontë

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Juliet Stevenson, Samuel West, Anne-Marie Duff, Alan Cumming, Amanda Hale, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Rea, Douglas Hodge, Toby Stephens

A bumper collection of accessible classics from the perennially popular BBC Radio 4 seriesThis diverse, wide-ranging anthology features readings of 10 of the greatest books in the English language, taken from the BBC's Book at Bedtime and performed by a stellar cast of narrators. Here are nearly 27 hours of sensational stories, from iconic romances and humorous travelogues to pioneering Modernist masterpieces and compelling explorations of the human heart....

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Wilbur Smith

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Toby Stephens, Toby Stephens

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Jack Courtney Adventures

Brand new Wilbur Smith series for readers of 10+ - starring fourteen-year-old Jack Courtney.Jack Courtney has lived in the UK his whole life. But this summer his parents are travelling to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a gorilla conference, and they've promised to take Jack and his friends with them.When his parents go missing in the rainforest, abducted by mercenaries, nobody seems to have any answers. Jack is pretty sure that it...

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Wilkie Collins

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Harry Lloyd, John Sharp, Full Cast, Abigail Docherty, Sophie Thompson, Toby Stephens, David Suchet, Marcia Warren, Ronald Pickup

BBC radio productions of the finest works of Wilkie Collins: sensation novelist, early master of the mystery story, and pioneer of detective fictionWilkie Collins was one of Victorian England's best-loved and best-selling authors, and a crime fiction pioneer. His enthralling 'sensation novels' such as The Woman in White paved the way for today's thrillers, and his tour de force The Moonstone is one of the first, and greatest, mode...

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Chris Allcock

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Toby Stephens

Long ago, at the height of the Golden Age of Piracy, the infamous pirate Ramsey and his shipmates sacrificed everything to embark on an impossible journey into the Sea of Thieves.In the present day, Larinna, an ambitious stowaway determined to leave her mark on history, joins forces with a wild and adventurous captain seeking the greatest treasure ever buried.Separated by time but united by their drive to uncover the secrets of the Sea of Thieves, both crews face tricks, tr...

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Francis Durbridge

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Toby Stephens

Toby Stephens reads three thrilling unabridged novels by Francis Durbridge.In Paul Temple Intervenes, the murder of a well-known American heralds a spate of celebrity deaths that become known as the Marquis murders. The police are baffled, and the Home Secretary is calling for Paul Temple to intervene...In Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery, Paul faces danger once again as he and Steve must find the answer...

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Raymond Chandler

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Full Cast, Kelly Burke, Toby Stephens

The complete collection of landmark BBC Radio dramas of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mysteries.Philip Marlowe is the archetypal noir detective: wisecracking and world-weary, hardboiled yet honourable. This volume includes all eight dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's groundbreaking crime novels featuring his iconic hero.The Big Sleep Marlowe is consulted by a wealthy family man with two big problems: his children.Farewell My Lovely Marlowe's ...

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Jim Ross

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Toby Stephens

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Tom Hawk

A KILLER IN THE COURTSWhen High Court judge William Ryland is found dead inside the Royal Courts of Justice, it seems like a tragic accident.But young, high-flying lawyer Tom Hawk suspects there's more to his death than meets the eye. When he takes over Ryland’s final case – a battle between two Russian billionaires – he’s thrust into a murky world of deception, where nothing is quite as it seems...AN INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY

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Raymond Chandler

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Full Cast, Toby Stephens

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In The Long Goodbye, Marlowe forms an uneasy friendship with a drunk named Terry Lennox. So when Lennox shows up late one night, looking guilty and asking for a ride to Tijuana airp...