In 2006, Bret Easton Ellis declared the novel "one of the three great books of my generation."This dramatisation of Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed, epic, award-winning novel revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-20th century to "one last Christmas" together near the turn of the millennium.A family saga, that sits against the backdrop of this century's changing face of America. The novel wa...

Six sensational spoofs of classic 1950s American science fiction storiesBBC Audio present six fantastic tales of twisted futures and times beyond tomorrow...Their Gaze Was Green - With the Earth under threat from Venusian terrorists, can clean-cut space heroes Jack and Chip thwart their evil, tentacled nemeses?And Mother Makes Millions - A dashing male stranger enters a dystopian world where human ...

Four gripping historical dramas centred around key figures who shaped America in the 20th centuryAward-winning writer Mike Walker has created many acclaimed docudramas and historical dramas for Radio 4, including The Stuarts, Tsar, Caesar! and Plantagenet. This collection includes four nuanced dramas featuring a trio of controversial men who stamped their mark on American history: J Edgar Hoover, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Richard Baines Nixon. Amo...

A collection of dramas set in South and Central America by acclaimed dramatist Mike WalkerAn award-winning dramatist, author and feature writer, Mike Walker has written numerous original dramas for BBC Radio 4, including his epic chronicles Tsar, Caesar!, The Stuarts and Castle of the Hawk. Collected here are five of his gripping dramas from the 1980s and '90s, set around the Amazon rainforest and Nicaragua.Broken Wings and Bri...