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John Dickson Carr

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Wendy Craig, Donald Sinden, John Hartley, Nigel Davenport, Full Cast, Patrick Allen, Andrew Wincott, James Fleet

Eight BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Golden Age detective Gideon Fell, starring Donald SindenWith his cape, canes and shovel hat, portly amateur sleuth Dr Gideon Fell cuts an eccentric figure - but his odd appearance belies his sharp intellect and astonishing faculty for deduction. Created by crime novelist John Dickson Carr, and supposedly based on fellow author G. K. Chesterton, Dr Fell appeared in 23 novels between 1933 and 1967. This radio collection comprise...

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Olivia Manning

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Joanna Lumley, Honeysuckle Weeks, James Fleet, Khalid Abdalla, Alex Wyndham, John Rowe, Full Cast

A sweeping adaptation of Olivia Manning's classic war novels, starring Joanna Lumley and Honeysuckle Weeks'A rare and many-layered pleasure' Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph1939, and naive young newlywed Harriet Pringle arrives in Bucharest with her husband, Guy - just as Europe is about to rip itself apart. She believes she knows everything about the man she has married, but soon realises she knows nothing.Guy is o...

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Jean Paul Sartre

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David Haig, James Fleet, Zoe Wanamaker, Imogen Stubbs, Ciarán Hinds, David Collings, Tony Robinson, Miriam Margolyes, James Wilby, Miles Anderson, Stella Gonet, Josette Simon, Christian Rodska, Christopher Scott, John McAndrew, Martyn Read, Full Cast

A selection of the renowned French philosophers Sartre’s plays.This collection features several dramatisations of Jean-Paul Sartre's works, including The Roads to Freedom, No Way Out (or "Huis Clos"), Assassins and Nekrassov. These productions showcase Sartre's exploration of existentialism, freedom, and political themes. Notable cast members include David Haig, James Fle...

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Georgette Heyer

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Elizabeth Proud, Simon Shepherd, Simon Russell Beale, Anna Massey, Nathaniel Parker, James Fleet, Helen Baxendale, Full Cast, Elli Garnett, James Frain

BBC Radio adaptations of three of Georgette Heyer's sparkling Regency romances and a classic comedy thrillerThe acknowledged 'queen of Regency romance', bestselling author Georgette Heyer, also penned a dozen delightful mystery novels. Included here are dramatisations of four of her finest stories from both genres, full of her characteristic wit, charm and period detail.Regency BuckPretty but shrewd Judith Taverner gallops i...

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Andrew Scott, Clarke Peters, Full Cast, James Fleet, Kerry Shale, Sean Barrett

Edgar Allan Poe's most celebrated stories, as heard on BBC Radio - plus bonus documentaries and two thrilling original dramasThe master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe has inspired generations of horror writers with his chilling Gothic tales, and is also credited with inventing the detective fiction genre in The Murders in the Rue Morgue.This radio collection features five of his classic tales - The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale ...

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Rob Grant, Andrew Marshall

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James Fleet, Cassie Layton, Kevin Eldon, Freddie Fox, John Sessions, Rachel Atkins, Ryan Sampson

London, England, 1952.Meet the mercurial genius Professor Quanderhorn (James Fleet) - a maverick scientist with absolutely no moral compass. Join him and his rag-tag crew on their frontal-lobe-knotting escapades as they:· Battle insane hybrid creatures: the Gorrirrel and the Squirrilla, to the death!· Become Gods to a Stone Age tribe· Are engulfed in a Martian invasion of Earth· Escape shipwreck on the Moon in a spacecraft powered by anger· Evade...

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Clive Coleman

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Alex Lowe, David Harewood, Full Cast, James Fleet, John Bird, Lesley Sharp, Rebecca Front, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Sarah Lancashire, Sue Johnston

All fourteen episodes of the legal sitcom about a group of barristers who never let justice get in the way of making moneyJohn Fuller-Carp, the Machiavellian head of chambers at Forecourt Buildings, is determined to become a QC and will perform almost any moral contortion to achieve his goal.When left-wing Ruth Quirke, rumoured to be a High Court judge's daughter, applies to join his chambers, Fuller-Carp's imagination goes into overdrive and promotion seem...

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Nick Warburton

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Full Cast, David Bradley, Adjoa Andoh, Don Gilet, James Fleet, Sarah Gordy, Claire Rushbrook

Five original dramas about life, love and death in a cathedral close in Holy WeekCathedrals are at the heart of our cities. Beautiful, imposing and steeped in history, they were once potent symbols of temporal power and technological wonder. But what do they mean to us today? These five linked dramas explore how our great cathedrals – borderlands between God and people – embody the complexities and contradictions of faith in 21st century Britain.Penned by a...

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Dawn French

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Beattie Edmondson, Celine Rosa Tan, Dawn French, Gareth Armstrong, Jack Lowden, James Fleet, James McArdle, Jane Collingwood, Llewella Gideon, Maggie Steed, Patrice Naiambana, Pauline McLynn, Ruby Turner

Dawn French, number one bestelling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous and one of Britain's best loved comic writers, returns with Oh Dear Silvia, a darkly comic pageturner that will have you hanging on her every word.Who is in Coma Suite Number 5?A matchless lover? A supreme egotist? A selfless martyr? A bad mother? A cherished sister? A selfish wife?All of these. For this is Silvia Shute who has always done e...

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Edgar Allan Poe, Jacques Futrelle

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Full Cast, James Fleet, Tim Pigott-Smith

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard introduces 12 dramatised stories, featuring detectives whose abilities rival that of the great Sherlock Holmes.Dramatised for radio by Chris Harrald, these 12 stories are written by masters of the crime and thriller genre, all contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle. They include:The Murders on the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan PoeThe Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques FutrelleMurder By Proxy by Matthias McDon...

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Kim Fuller, Paul Alexander, Nick Doody, Matt Kirshen, Paul Dornan

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James Fleet, Neil Dudgeon, Ingrid Oliver, Full Cast

Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, starring James Fleet (The Vicar Of Dibley), Neil Dudgeon (Life Of Riley, Midsomer Murders), Martha Howe-Douglas (Horrible Histories) & Ingrid Oliver (Doctor Who).Thrill! - as brave knight Sir William De Warenne’s dungeon renovation falls foul of the Health & Safety inspectorsSwoon! - as young Lady Anne tries to lose her cut-glass accent in an attempt to get on “The Only Way Is W...

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Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis

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James Fleet, Simon Greenall, Geoffrey McGivern, Geraldine McNulty, Matilda Ziegler, Neil Edmond, Sarah Solemani, Rachel Atkins, Full Cast

All three series of the satirical sitcom by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, following the fortunes of a hapless backbench MPEver since he fell off the stage live on Question Time, Labour MP Duncan Stonebridge has been stuck in political limbo. Struggling with a tiny majority and a career that's going nowhere, he's caught between the impossible demands of his constituents and the dictates of Westminster - and constantly afflicted by the bane of all politicians:...