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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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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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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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Mike Walker

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Anton Lesser, Bill Paterson, Blake Ritson, Brian Cox, Fenella Woolgar, Full Cast, James Fleet, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Kate O'Flynn, Pip Torrens

Eleven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of Mary Queen of Scots and the Stuart royalsUnder the Stuarts, Britain entered the modern world. But with great change came turmoil, and for 111 years, the Stuart monarchs faced dynastic struggles, religious conflict, the rise of parliamentary democracy – and civil war. These dramas chart that turbulent epoch through its royal family, from Mary, Queen of Scots to the ‘last Stuart’, Bonnie Prince Charlie’s daug...

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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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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:...

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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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Mervyn Peake

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Carl Prekopp, Full Cast, James Fleet, Miranda Richardson, Olivia Hallinan, Paul Rhys, Tamsin Greig

Paul Rhys, Miranda Richardson and Carl Prekopp star in this major six-part BBC Radio Classic Serial based on the writings of Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore.The life and times of Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Gormenghast - a vast stronghold of crumbling masonry steeped in immemorial ritual and inhabited by an extraordinary cavalcade of characters including the kitchen boy, Steerpike, who ruthlessly rises to the upper echelons of dynasti...

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Andy Hamilton, Jay Tarses

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Andy Hamilton, Full Cast, James Fleet, Jay Tarses

All four series of the hilarious historical sitcom set just before and during the American RevolutionBaltimore, 1770, and shopkeeper Samuel Oliphant has much to worry about. Storm clouds are gathering, business is bad, and to make matters worse, he’s been forced to play host to two British soldiers. Hapless officer Captain Brimshaw is decent enough, but his fellow redcoat – the one-eyed, one-eared, one-armed and one-legged Sergeant McGurk – is a shameless rascal ob...

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Lynne Truss

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Alison Steadman, Samantha Bond, Tony Robinson, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sandi Toksvig, James Fleet, Lee Mack, Pam Ferris, Hugh Dennis, Full Cast

Three series of funny natural history tales from Lynne Truss, featuring a star cast of narratorsRecorded in front of a live audience, these wry, funny tales introduce us to the varied creatures who make their homes on the shoreline, in garden ponds and in our attics. In 18 comic monologues, they reveal the truth about what life is really like in their respective habitats - and it's much more eventful than you might think...Tidal Tales from the Rock Pool...

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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 ...