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The Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay & The Story of the Lost Child
- The Complete BBC Radio Collection
- Written by: Elena Ferrante
- Narrated by: Anastasia Hille, full cast, Monica Dolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, The Neapolitan Novels is an exploration of the friendship between Lila and Lena, two bright young girls who grew up in the tough, rough streets of postwar Naples. This is no normal friendship; it's a friendship that loves, hurts, supports and destroys - and yet it is one that lasts a lifetime. These four full-cast BBC adaptations bring the streets of Naples vividly to life.
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The Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay & The Story of the Lost Child
- The Complete BBC Radio Collection
- Narrated by: Anastasia Hille, full cast, Monica Dolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release Date: 07-03-19
- Language: English
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Barbara Pym: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Some Tame Gazelle, No Fond Return of Love, Crampton Hodnet & More
- Written by: Barbara Pym
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes, Hannah Gordon, Samantha Bond,
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Barbara 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 the Times Literary Supplement. Her seventh novel was subsequently shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and writers from Jilly Cooper to Alexander McCall Smith continue to laud her talent today.
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Barbara Pym: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Some Tame Gazelle, No Fond Return of Love, Crampton Hodnet & More
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes, Hannah Gordon, Samantha Bond, Rebecca Front, Penny Downie, Amanda Root, Annette Crosbie, Penelope Wilton, full cast
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 17-03-22
- Language: English
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Tainted Love
- A Full-Cast Reimagining of The Rainbow & Women in Love
- Written by: D.H. Lawrence, Linda Marshall Griffiths - adaption, Ian Kershaw - adaption
- Narrated by: full cast, Cassie Bradley, Katie Redford
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Daring, transgressive and controversial, D.H. Lawrence scandalized the literary world with his frank descriptions of sex and desire. He was censored by his own publisher for being too explicit, and several of his most famous works were banned under the Obscene Publications Act. But for Lawrence, a self-described 'priest of love', passion was the stuff of life - and these two dynamic reimaginings celebrate him at his most bold, pushing the boundaries of sexuality and the fulfilment of furious need.
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Tainted Love
- A Full-Cast Reimagining of The Rainbow & Women in Love
- Narrated by: full cast, Cassie Bradley, Katie Redford
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 26-08-21
- Language: English
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The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection
- A BBC Drama Collection Including North and South, Wives and Daughters & More
- Written by: Elizabeth Gaskell, Barry Campbell, Steve Wakelam,
- Narrated by: full cast, Jodie Comer, David Threlfall,
- Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
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Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. Admired by Charles Dickens, who described her as his 'dear Scheherazade', she mingled storytelling and social realism to superb effect in her highly acclaimed fiction. This comprehensive collection comprises dramas and readings of her finest works and some lesser-known pieces.
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The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection
- A BBC Drama Collection Including North and South, Wives and Daughters & More
- Narrated by: full cast, Jodie Comer, David Threlfall, Emily Mortimer, Sue Johnston, Kenneth Cranham, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Paul Copley, Rebecca Front
- Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
- Release Date: 21-10-21
- Language: English
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Pygmalion
- A Brand New BBC Radio 4 Drama Plus the Story of the Play's Scandalous Opening Night
- Written by: Alistair McGowan, George Bernard Shaw
- Narrated by: Al Murray, Alistair McGowan, full cast,
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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Irascible phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can train Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle to talk ‘like a lady’ and pass as a duchess at the Ambassador’s Ball. As the day of reckoning approaches, can Eliza convince the assembled aristocrats that she’s one of them? And what will become of her afterwards? This effervescent radio version of Shaw’s classic comedy features a stellar cast, including award-winning comedians Alistair McGowan as Henry Higgins, Morgana Robinson as Eliza Doolittle and Al Murray as Alfred Doolittle.
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Pygmalion
- A Brand New BBC Radio 4 Drama Plus the Story of the Play's Scandalous Opening Night
- Narrated by: Al Murray, Alistair McGowan, full cast, Morgana Robinson, Siân Phillips
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 02-08-18
- Language: English
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Irène Némirovsky: Four BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- The Dogs and the Wolves, Jezebel, The Misunderstanding and Dolce from the Suite Française Series
- Written by: Irène Némirovsky
- Narrated by: Sarah Smart, Joseph Kloska, Frances Barber,
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Best known for her posthumously published novel Suite française, Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903. Her family fled the Russian Revolution for Paris, where she found fame as a novelist. But when the Nazis occupied France, she was arrested as a Jew and sent to Auschwitz, where she died aged just 39. This collection includes four of her best works, dramatised for radio with a full cast.
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Irène Némirovsky: Four BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- The Dogs and the Wolves, Jezebel, The Misunderstanding and Dolce from the Suite Française Series
- Narrated by: Sarah Smart, Joseph Kloska, Frances Barber, Sian Thomas, Eve Best, Carl Prekopp, Graeme Hawley, Anna Francolini, Natalie Grady, full cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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After Eden
- A BBC Radio 4 Comedy
- Written by: Alison Leonard
- Narrated by: Christine Pritchard, Steve Hodson, Michael Povey,
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
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When the Reverend Elaine Metcalfe is inducted as the vicar of Pontvale, she hopes the job will have more to it than lending out spare sets of keys. She soon discovers there's plenty of challenges in her new home - not least the daily needs of her parishioners, which range from community theatre productions, arranging a wedding and a funeral for the same day, and local scandal over the vicar's culottes.
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After Eden
- A BBC Radio 4 Comedy
- Narrated by: Christine Pritchard, Steve Hodson, Michael Povey, Oliver Senton, Simon Ludders, Marilyn Le Conte, Sharon Morgan, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 05-01-23
- Language: English
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Sylvia Townsend Warner: A BBC Radio Collection
- Including Lolly Willowes & The True Heart
- Written by: Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Narrated by: full cast, Louise Brealey, Tilly Vosburgh,
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Sylvia Townsend Warner was a prolific author of novels, short stories and poetry, who also wrote a biography of T. H. White, translated Proust and was an authority on Tudor church music. A sharp, insightful storyteller, she was one of the 20th Century's most acute observers of English mores, and her work is infused with subversive themes reflecting her feminist and Marxist views. This comprehensive anthology includes dramatisations of her two best-known novels.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner: A BBC Radio Collection
- Including Lolly Willowes & The True Heart
- Narrated by: full cast, Louise Brealey, Tilly Vosburgh, Edward Petherbridge, Margaret Tyzack, Penelope Wilton, Irene Sutcliffe, Joanna McCallum, Joanne Mitchell, Helen O'Hara, Mick Ford
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 20-10-22
- Language: English
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Mansfield Park
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Written by: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Lydia Wilson, Bryan Dick, Tom Mothersdale,
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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Sent away from her poverty-stricken parents in Portsmouth to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, nine-year-old Fanny Price is abruptly transplanted to a new, luxurious home: Mansfield Park. Overwhelmed by the grandeur of her surroundings, she feels out of place—and as she grows up, her spoiled cousins, Tom, Maria and Julia, never let her forget her humble beginnings. Only her cousin Edmund treats her with kindness, and the two become close companions.
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Mansfield Park
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Lydia Wilson, Bryan Dick, Tom Mothersdale, Tala Gouveia, Janice Acquah, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release Date: 25-08-22
- Language: English
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Nancy Mitford: Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate & More
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Drama Collection
- Written by: Nancy Mitford
- Narrated by: full cast, Timothy West, Prunella Scales,
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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The 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 best sellers, the semi-autobiographical The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, her delightful biography of Louis XV's chief mistress, and a pair of fascinating programmes exploring her own unconventional life.
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Nancy Mitford: Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate & More
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Drama Collection
- Narrated by: full cast, Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Jane Knowles, Amanda Root, Teresa Gallagher, Pauline Letts, Edward de Souza, Elizabeth Proud
- Series: Radlett and Montdore
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 16-06-22
- Language: English
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The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation Plus Selected Short Stories
- Written by: A. S. Byatt
- Narrated by: full cast, Rosemary Leach, Indira Varma,
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Inspired by the novels of D.H. Lawrence, particularly The Rainbow and Women in Love, this ambitious quartet from Booker Prize-winning novelist A.S. Byatt charts the lives of the Potter family between 1953 and 1970. Set against the changing social and political landscape of England in the '50s and '60s, it follows the heroine, Frederica, from precocious teenager to TV talk-show host and from her Yorkshire home to the heart of swinging London.
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The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation Plus Selected Short Stories
- Narrated by: full cast, Rosemary Leach, Indira Varma, Kate Buffery, Anna Massey, Penelope Wilton, Sheila Mitchell, Clive Owen, Hannah Watkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 11-11-21
- Language: English
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Young Victoria
- A BBC Radio 4 Drama
- Written by: Juliet Ace
- Narrated by: Adrian Lukis, Anna Massey, Christopher Cazenove,
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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This illuminating serial charts the transformation of the young Victoria from spirited teenager to shy young bride to celebrated ruler of Britain and ‘Mother of Europe’. But while her roles changed, her essential nature remained the same: vibrant, passionate, principled and fiercely independent. Through extracts from Victoria’s own diaries and letters, and dramatised episodes featuring the characters closest to her, we are given thrilling insight into the thoughts and feelings of the woman behind the crown - and the secrets of her mind and heart.
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Young Victoria
- A BBC Radio 4 Drama
- Narrated by: Adrian Lukis, Anna Massey, Christopher Cazenove, full cast, Imogen Stubbs, John Rowe, Selina Cadell
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 02-08-18
- Language: English
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Have Your Cake
- A Delicious BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Drama
- Written by: Nicola Baldwin, Amanda Whittington
- Narrated by: Lesley Sharp, Neil Dudgeon, Sheila Hancock,
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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Every year, Tess and Maggie meet up to try a different activity, something they've never done together before. This year, it's baking, and for a few hours each Friday afternoon, they put the rest of their lives on hold to make cakes. And not just ordinary cakes, but spectacular, unique and glorious gateaux, to celebrate special occasions and commemorate landmark events. When they help a neighbour in distress, they create their first showstopper - a dark, sultry bitter chocolate cake.
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Have Your Cake
- A Delicious BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Drama
- Narrated by: Lesley Sharp, Neil Dudgeon, Sheila Hancock, Louise Brealey, Tamsin Greig, Nisha Nayar, full cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 09-09-21
- Language: English
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HighLites: Series 1-6
- A BBC Radio 4 Comedy
- Written by: Steve Chambers, Phil Nodding
- Narrated by: Lorraine Ashbourne, Rosie Cavaliero, Rhys Jennings,
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Based in the little town of Bridgeford, High-Lites salon boasts the most misanthropic hairdresser in Britain: sharp-tongued, mean-minded Bev. With the help of her soft-hearted (though slightly dim) assistant, Shirley, she tends to the tresses of a motley crew of local characters. As she cuts their hair, she finds out everything that's going on in their lives - and wastes no time in spreading some gossip of her own.
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HighLites: Series 1-6
- A BBC Radio 4 Comedy
- Narrated by: Lorraine Ashbourne, Rosie Cavaliero, Rhys Jennings, Sheila Reid, full cast, Adjoa Andoh, Angela Lonsdale, Adam Nagaitis, Priyanga Burford
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release Date: 19-08-21
- Language: English
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Millport: The Complete Series 1-3
- A BBC Radio Comedy Sitcom
- Written by: Lynn Ferguson
- Narrated by: Lynn Ferguson, Lewis MacLeod, Gabriel Quigley,
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Irene Bruce spends her days pulling pints in Millport, the only town on the Isle of Cumbrae, a few miles off the west coast of Scotland. Frustrated and going nowhere fast, she yearns to escape to the mainland for a better life - or at least a bit of fun. Just over the water, there are clubs, cinemas and discos, so why is she stuck at home with tea, Scrabble and her boring sister Moira?
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Millport: The Complete Series 1-3
- A BBC Radio Comedy Sitcom
- Narrated by: Lynn Ferguson, Lewis MacLeod, Gabriel Quigley, Janet Brown, full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 15-07-21
- Language: English
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The Women in His Life
- A BBC Radio Dramatisation
- Written by: Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Narrated by: Robin Ellis, Alexandra Bastedo, Nicola Pagett,
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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When a beautiful piece of music stirs mega-tycoon Maximilian West, he remembers the women who have loved him and shaped his life. So begins a dazzling tale, taking us from the streets of London to the suites of New York, from the rise of Nazi Germany to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Strong, powerful, enigmatic, aloof, and adoring - many women made Maximilian the man with everything, but there is only one woman who can make him feel truly alive.
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The Women in His Life
- A BBC Radio Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Robin Ellis, Alexandra Bastedo, Nicola Pagett, Emma Fielding, Dorothy Tutin, Kim Wall, Alex Lowe, Sian Philips, Joanna Munro, Alice Arnold, full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release Date: 18-01-24
- Language: English
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Evelina & Dear Little Burney
- Two BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Written by: Fanny Burney
- Narrated by: Laura Doddington, Timothy West, Juliet Aubrey,
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Before Jane Austen, there was Fanny Burney. In the 1780s, she was England’s most celebrated female author, having achieved extraordinary success with two hit novels. She went on to become a royal servant, marry an exile from the French Revolution and undergo a gruelling mastectomy without the aid of anaesthetic – all events chronicled in her diaries, which were published posthumously to great acclaim. Contained here are dramatisations of her first and most famous novel, and her remarkable journals and letters.
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Evelina & Dear Little Burney
- Two BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Laura Doddington, Timothy West, Juliet Aubrey, Eleanor Bron, full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 12-06-25
- Language: English
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