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Hollywood icon Laura Dern breathes new life into Louisa May Alcott’s classic. With their father away at war, Meg, the oldest and prettiest sister, and Jo, the tomboy, take care of Beth, the shy one, and Amy, the artist. When their beloved 'Marmee' must leave to nurse Father, who is badly wounded in the war, the girls sustain themselves by putting to use the lessons of loyalty and patience they had learned from their family.

There's a serial killer targeting the streets of Newcastle, seemingly picking his victims at random but subjecting them all to the same torturous end. When the Chief Inspector on the case goes missing, it falls on DCI Ryan to track down the man who is brutally murdering women and goading the police to 'catch me if you can'. As everyone becomes a suspect, Ryan and his team get drawn further and further into the case, but for Ryan the nightmare gets closer to home than he could ever have imagined.

Swashbuckling classic adventure, with an updated twist placing Milady in the role of narrator. Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends: the Three Musketeers. Soon part of their close band, D'Artagnan's loyalty to his new allies puts him in the deadly path of Cardinal Richlieu's machinations.

Set 300 years after the events of Alien: Out of the Shadows and Alien: River of Pain, Alien: Sea of Sorrows deals with the rediscovery of dormant Xenomorphs (Aliens) in the abandoned mines of LV-178, the planetoid from Alien: Out of the Shadows, which has now been terraformed and renamed New Galveston. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation, reformed after the collapse of the United Systems Military, continue their unceasing efforts to weaponise the creatures.

Aliyah Kahn ist eine kleine Trickbetrügerin, die ihrem Gewerbe auf den Straßen von London nachgeht, indem sie Touristen das Geld aus der Tasche zieht. Ihr loses Mundwerk und ihre Aufsässigkeit haben sie nicht nur um ihren Platz an einem renommierten College gebracht, sondern bringen sie auch heute noch regelmäßig in Teufels Küche. Zu allem Überfluss hat sie sich mit einer vermeintlich sicheren Geschäftsidee auf die falschen Leute verlassen und steht jetzt bei mächtigen und sehr gefährlichen Leuten mit einer Viertelmillion Pfund in der Kreide.

Von der Pizzabotin zur Superheldin – Vicky Melchior hat alle Hände voll zu tun, um Berlin vor einer Katastrophe zu bewahren. Temporeich, witzig und getrieben von den Beats der Großstadt: die erste Serie über Superkräfte, die exklusiv fürs Hören entwickelt wurde. Mit Sinje Irslinger ("Faking Hitler"), Merlin Rose ("Wild Republic"), Burak Yiğit ("Victoria"), Maren Eggert ("Ich bin dein Mensch") und Serdar Somuncu ("So! Muncu!"). Victoria "Vicky" Melchior schlägt sich in Berlin als Pizzabotin durch und versucht nicht weiter aufzufallen.

If you didn’t manage to make it to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019, Audible has you covered! We selected a cross section of some of the most exciting new plays of the year, invited the actors and directors into the studio and recorded stirringly intimate audio performances of the plays just for you.... Portions of this audio drama contain explicit content, with mature language and themes that some listeners may find disturbing. Listener discretion is advised.

Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: Beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora’s well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Ibsen’s play is as fresh today as it was when it first stormed the stages of 19th-century Europe.

Written and performed by London-based actor and poet Jade Anouka (His Dark Materials), Heart introduces us to a woman who finds herself married and divorced at age 28. As she begins the process of piecing her life together, she confronts the insecurities and self-imposed boundaries that have always held her back. In the process, she discovers love in the last place—and with the last person—she expected.

Dans l'histoire dont il est le héros, Bjorg le barbare est associé à une Narratrice plus qu'étouffante ! Déjà qu'il n'aime pas les descriptions, mais en plus elle se permet de le juger. La vie de ce binôme change quand un jour, leurs rôles s'inversent : la Narratrice se matérialise dans un corps de personnage tandis que Bjorg devient le Narrateur de l'histoire ! Bien décidés à ce que les choses redeviennent ce qu'elles étaient, le duo doit coopérer tant bien que mal afin que chacun retrouve sa place initiale. D'autant plus que les pires périls de leur monde les attendent.

Fünfhundert Meter unter der Pazifikoberfläche liegt die hochmoderne Unterwasserstation Mareanus – ein Ort, an dem ein internationales Team von Wissenschaftlern die Geheimnisse der Tiefsee erforscht. Sie sondieren unbekannte Lebensformen, bergen Schätze des Meeresbodens und arbeiten an technischen Innovationen, die das Leben an der Oberfläche verbessern sollen. Doch als ein unerwartetes Unglück die komplexe Forschungsanlage bedroht, steht nicht nur ihre Mission auf dem Spiel – sondern das Überleben aller Beteiligten.

"Morella", novella del 1835, fa parte della serie "I racconti del terrore", scritti in un periodo storico che vede invece il trionfare del positivismo. Parecchi decenni prima dell'avvento della psicanalisi, Poe indaga con sapienza e intuizione la mente dell'uomo e sa che la paura non è condizionata soltanto da fattori esterni, ma può venire da uno stato interiore. Il senso di angoscia e paura è presente in tutto il racconto. Il protagonista, che è anche il narratore, sposa una donna molto intelligente di nome Morella.

Antigone stood defiant in the face of tyranny. Best-selling and award winning author Colm Tóibín wrote this new dramatisation of the Greek tragedy especially to be performed by Irish actor Lisa Dwan. Pale Sister gives voice to Antigone’s sister, Ismene, who recounts her sister’s defiance of the king as pressures mount on her to act to vindicate her sister, or even follow her example. Pale Sister tells Antigone’s story through Ismene: the quiet person in the corner, bearing witness to everything.

You’ve heard of an Essex Girl or even a Chelsea Girl, but what about a Hounslow Girl? Definition of a Hounslow Girl: a young Muslim woman who wears hooped earrings with her headscarf and grapples with traditional values while hustling her way through urban London. The Diary of a Hounslow Girl is a bold and provocative one-person play, written and performed by Ambreen Razia. From the joys of traditional Pakistani weddings to fights on the night bus, this is a comic story of dreams, aspirations and coming of age, told through the eyes of a 16-year-old British Muslim girl.

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord siezes the throne with the help of his scheming wife - and a trio of witches. Anthony Quayle, Robert Hardy, Ian Holm, Stanley Holloway, and Jill Balcon star in an unabridged performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ‘the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin’. This dramatisation, set in...

Carla Lemarchant was a child of five when her mother was accused and convicted of poisoning her father, the famous painter Amyas Crale. After Caroline Crale dies in prison, Carla is sent to live with her uncle and aunt in Canada. Only on her twenty-first birthday does Carla learn of her family...

Franziska Möllering, die Patentochter eines Mitglieds des Magistrats von Groß-Berlin, wird eines Nachts von einem Unbekannten verfolgt. Und das, nachdem es schon einige Anschläge auf das größte Gebäude am Spittelmarkt gegeben hat. Ein Warenhaus, das sich im Besitz von Franziskas Ehemann, Gerhard Möllering, befindet. Staatsanwalt Wenk bittet Piefke, als Verkäufer getarnt, die Ermittlungen am Spittelmarkt aufzunehmen.

The most renowned and wittiest of Oscar Wilde's comedies, The Importance of Being Earnest ridicules Victorian sensibilities and is still strikingly relevant to this day. This full-cast audio adaptation featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor as Lady Bracknell is unique yet at the same time reassuringly familiar, with wonderful performances from the Offstage Theatre Group.

Paula Beyer, il commissario capo della polizia di Dresda, si trova coinvolta in un intricato caso di adolescenti scomparsi a Freidorf, una piccola città a nord-est della Germania. Ogni angolo di Freidorf cela indizi e ogni incontro con i suoi misteriosi abitanti avvicina Paula alla verità, ma anche a pericolosi e sconvolgenti segreti. Convinta che gli adolescenti siano stati rapiti da un individuo che imita la leggenda del Pifferaio di Hamelin, Paula si scontra con lo scetticismo dei suoi colleghi, che temono stia seguendo false piste e compromettendo le indagini.