Writer Colette’s classic works brought to life in a unique audio collectionListen for the first time to this stunning collection of five of Colette’s most celebrated works, compiled and created by BBC Radio. French author and woman of letters, Colette is best known for her 1944 novella Gigi, which became the stage musical launching the career of Audrey Hepburn. Known for her frank, direct and honest way of writing about women and female friendships, Colett...

Full-cast dramatisations of six masterpieces from the founding fathers of dystopian fictionDark and disturbing, provocative and prescient, dystopian literature has long captured our imagination with its nightmarish visions of forbidding future worlds. Included here are six classic novels of time-travel, totalitarianism and terror, written by some of the masters of speculative fiction and adapted for radio with all-star casts.The Time Machine

Series 9-12 of the hit comedy featuring curmudgeonly author Ed ReardonAuthor, pipe-smoker, fare-dodger and master of the complaining letter and abusive email, Ed Reardon returns for another four series. Despite many thwarted attempts at literary succes, he's still living a precarious existence with his trusty companion Elgar, reliant on any small morsels of work Ping can offer him to keep body, mind and cat together. He also continues to have regular run-ins with h...

The complete Series 14 of the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy - plus Christmas special'Magnificent' Gillian Reynolds, The TelegraphAuthor, curmudgeon and master of the complaining letter and the abusive email, Ed Reardon is back for a fourteenth fantastic series.In these globally unprecedented times, Ed is also experiencing new and unusual circumstances. For the first time in 20 years, he's financially independent thank...

Ellie has a boyfriend! And he's really, truly interested in her – not in her best friends, Magda and Nadine! She and oh-so-gorgeous Russell have so much in common – Ellie knows they're made for each other. If only Dad thought so too. While Ellie tries her best to cope with Dad's totally unreasonable curfew, Magda's dealing with her crush on a teacher – and Nadine's falling for slimy Liam again. What they need is a girls' night out – but they might get a little more than they bargained for ...

The girls are back – but they're not very happy! Ellie's glorious romance with Russell is teetering on the rocks. Magda's lost her pet and is desperately upset (though the others didn't even know she had a hamster!). And Nadine is fed up with the other two lecturing her about the dangers of meeting someone on the Internet – she thinks her online boyfriend sounds wonderful! Buckets of tears are wept and hundreds of tissues are sniffled into – can the girls survive these testing times?

Meet Ellie and her best friends Nadine and Magda, three teenage girls just starting Year Nine with a lot on their minds – mainly boys! Ellie is desperate to have a boyfriend. Magda and Nadine (both prettier and thinner) have boyfriends, but the closest she can get is Dopey Dan, who is younger and a real swot. Find out all her secrets, squirm at her most embarrassing moment, have a laugh, and discover more about boys! Told in the bright, sparky and totally realistic voice of Ellie, Girls in...

Magda is tall and glamorous, Nadine is willowy and 'gothic'. And Ellie ... well, Ellie is just plain normal. The three girls have been best friends forever, but now Ellie is convinced she's fat, Nadine wants to be a model, and Magda worries that her appearance is giving guys the wrong idea. The pressure is on for them to change the way they look – but can they learn to love themselves, just the way they are?