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Barbara Pym

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

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 in the 1960s and '70s, until Philip Larkin championed her work in th...

Most students of practical theology recognize Richard R. Osmer as the originator of the "consensus model" of practical theology, one of the most accessible and widely used models of practical theological reflection in the world. Yet Osmer's influence extends beyond practical theological method. Over his long career, his writing and teaching spanned Christian education, youth ministry, spirituality, and evangelism as well, giving each of these congregational practices new theological substa...

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Paul Shearer, Richard Turner

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Full Cast, Richard E. Grant, Peter Capaldi, Tony Slattery, Amanda Root, Douglas Hodge, Hugh Bonneville, Alex Lowe, Alexander Armstrong

Richard E Grant, Peter Capaldi and Amanda Root are among the stars of this BBC radio sitcom about three promising graduates still underachieving in their 30sFlatmates Judith, Giles and David once had it all: youth, optimism, ambition, and degrees from one of the country's best universities. In their 20s, they were full of potential, but ten years later, they're simply might-have-beens. Stuck in Streatham and strapped for cash, they're forced to mooch off their more...

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Oliver Goldsmith

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Julia McKenzie, Clive Francis, Amanda Root, Adrian Scarborough, Sunny Ormonde, Peter Jeffrey, Michael Cochrane, Full Cast

Full-cast BBC adaptations of Oliver Goldsmith’s two most famous worksAnglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith was one of the most accomplished writers of the 18th century. A novelist, playwright, poet and essayist, he came to fame with his novel The Vicar of Wakefield and comic play She Stoops to Conquer. Both those classics are included here, with star casts including Julia McKenzie, Amanda Root, Peter Jeffrey and Sunny Ormond...

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Various

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

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 styles and genres, and written by a wide variet...

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Wally K. Daly

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Bill Nighy, Patrick Troughton, James Laurenson, Donald Hewlett, Geoffrey Whitehead, John Shrapnel, Amanda Root, Nigel Anthony, Full Cast

Wally K. Daly's acclaimed trilogy about alien invasion, plus three more gripping sci-fi thrillersWally K. Daly was a prolific, award-winning dramatist, whose writing credits included Casualty, Juliet Bravo and Doctor Who. He wrote 38 radio plays during his 30-year career, across a range of genres including comedy, horror and science fiction. This collection includes his best-known SF serial, The Scream Trilogy, and three other thrilling sci-fi dra...

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Louisa May Alcott

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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

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 her follow-up novel Good Wives and the thrilling se...

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Henry Green

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Martin Kemp, Pauline Quirke, Joanna David, Claudia Harrison, Amanda Root, Zoe Tapper, Rupert Everett, Rosalind Shanks, Penelope Lee, Selina Cadell, Frances Jeater, John Forbes-Robertson, Full Cast

A trio of dramas based on Henry Green’s most notable novelsBorn Henry Yorke, aristocrat and industrialist Henry Green led a double life as a managing director of an engineering firm and one of the finest English modernists of the 20th century. A contemporary and friend of Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell, he penned nine novels before giving up writing in 1952 at the age of 47. Three of them are dramatised here, with casts incuding Pauline Quirke, Amanda Root...

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Ivan Turgenev

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Bill Nighy, Hugh Dickson, Patrick Troughton, mx Tim Pigott-Smith, Ian Holm, Timothy West, Norman Shelley, Amanda Root, David Horovitch, Full Cast, Rosalind Ayres, Maureen O'Brien

Nine classic works by the Russian literary giant, adapted for BBC RadioIvan Turgenev stands alongside Tolstoy and Dostoevsky as one of the three great Russian novelists of the 19th century. He was also a consummate short story writer, poet and playwright, and the first Russian author to become popular in the West. This specially curated collection showcases his key works, from the most celebrated to the undeservedly underrated.Described as ‘one of the most ...

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Rachel Dodge

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Rachel Dodge, Amanda Root

In this lovely 31-day devotional, you will get an in-depth look at Jane Austen's vibrant, steadfast prayer and faith life. Her close relationship with the Father comes to life through her exquisite prayers, touching biographical anecdotes, intimate excerpts from family letters and memoirs, illuminating scenes from her novels, and spiritual insights.

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Jane Austen

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Amanda Root, David Troughton, Full Cast, Samantha Spiro

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 her sister Elizabeth.When Elizabeth hears that Mr Darcy himself is of poor char...

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Nancy Mitford

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

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 funny prose. Collected here are adaptations of her two bestsellers, the ...