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The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie
- A Satirical Short Story
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance24
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My husband is dead. I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger sandwiches and deviled eggs and miniature beef wellingtons that cost more than my first car. My point is, Grant is gone. And so are all his many, many deep, dark secrets which I never really ever bothered to ask him about. He is never coming back.
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Humour but also gripping
- By Anon on 08-11-24
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The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie
- A Satirical Short Story
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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The Alan Davies Show
- By: Alan Davies
- Narrated by: Alan Davies
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance9
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Story9
Award-winning comedian Alan Davies stars in his own BBC Radio sitcom. Meet Alan. He's a struggling actor trying to cope with life in the 90s - the friends, the work, the romance... Meet the friends: Murray is a local journalist, who's given a crash course in tabloid sensationalism when the entire staff comes down with Peruvian flu. Kate is a primary school art teacher, who tussles daily with the obnoxious seven-year-old Tamara and tries to save time by getting the children to write their own reports.
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excellent show but not full series
- By N. Smith on 03-12-12
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The Alan Davies Show
- Narrated by: Alan Davies
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-05-12
- Language: English
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Hocus Pocus
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance53
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Story53
Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device - a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.
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Hocus Pocus
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-06-15
- Language: English
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Ed Reardon’s Week: Series 15
- A BBC Radio 4 Sitcom
- By: Andrew Nickolds, Christopher Douglas
- Narrated by: Christopher Douglas, Full Cast, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Author, curmudgeon and master of the complaining letter and the abusive email Ed Reardon is back for a 15th series. Further thoughts on the world from the much loved (if flawed) writer perpetually on the brink of the breadline. Will he take a chance on success, or stay in his cosy, rather fetid rut? Hope springs eternal.
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The Post Elgar Days
- By Gale on 14-09-23
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Ed Reardon’s Week: Series 15
- A BBC Radio 4 Sitcom
- Narrated by: Christopher Douglas, Full Cast, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Pippa Haywood, Philip Jackson, Lisa Coleman, Geoffrey Whitehead, Sally Grace, Ellen Thomas
- Series: Ed Reardon's Week, Book 15
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 14-09-23
- Language: English
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The American No
- By: Rupert Everett
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Freddie Fox, Rupert Everett
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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Story15
Seven stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers. A brilliantly witty, funny and tender collection of stories that draws on the wealth of film and TV ideas Rupert Everett has created over the course of his career, The American No will delight and surprise his many fans.
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Witty and Engaging
- By Mark on 03-11-24
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The American No
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Freddie Fox, Rupert Everett
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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Trust Fall
- By: Claire Friedman
- Narrated by: Colin Jost, Wanda Sykes, Chris Parnell, and others
- Original Recording
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Performance3
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Trust Fall isn't your typical 9-to-5 comedy. Created by Claire Friedman and featuring a cast that reads like a humor hall of fame—Colin Jost, Wanda Sykes, Chris Parnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Cecily Strong, and more—this is a sidesplitting adventure in the corporate circus.
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Hilarious!
- By Olivia on 30-10-24
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Blue Skies
- By: T. C. Boyle
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Welcome to America. On the East Coast, homes are being swallowed by the ocean; on the West Coast, California is engulfed with wildfire. But for one family, the impending environmental disaster is the least of their worries. Party girl Cat just impulse-purchased a snake; her pious brother Cooper is wrestling with a tic bite; and their mom Ottilie has resorted to cooking with crickets. Everyone is drinking too much – and the bugs seems to be disappearing. It seems as if it's anything but blue skies ahead...
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A convincing vision of our near future.
- By Clare D on 29-09-23
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Blue Skies
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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His Master’s Voice
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Comedy Drama
- By: Mark Tavener, Steve Punt
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy, Tony Gardner, Michael Maloney, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Media mogul Lord Malan is the billionaire owner of The Blue Touch Paper, an old-fashioned, hard-right weekly magazine with traditional Conservative values. But the paper is so true blue, it’s losing its touch. Sales are falling and circulation is down – mainly because its core readers are either on the brink of death or foam-flecked with rage. It’s time for a new editor, and political commentator Anna is sure she’s a shoo-in for the position. Much to her disappointment, however, Malan picks a different candidate: Keith, the Guardian’s token Tory, who champions compassionate Conservatism.
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His Master’s Voice
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Comedy Drama
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy, Tony Gardner, Michael Maloney, Amelia Bullmore, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 25-07-24
- Language: English
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Point Counter Point
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In music, counterpoint is the art of writing melodies that play in conjunction with one another, according to a strict set of rules, in order to emphasize the melody by contrast. In debate, point/counterpoint is a means of persuasion in which the speaker begins by conceding to their opponent’s argument before refuting it wholeheartedly. Aldous Huxley follows these traditions in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. The polarity between passion and reason in the intellectual life of the 1920s is demonstrated both in form and in theme in Huxley’s ambitious satire.
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Point Counter Point
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-02-24
- Language: English
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Offshore
- By: Penelope Fitzgerald, Alan Hollinghurst - introduction
- Narrated by: Jot Davies, Stephanie Racine
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance66
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Story68
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FEATURED ON BBC’S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the...
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Fabulous book, strangely affected reading
- By Struweltiger on 31-05-17
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Offshore
- Narrated by: Jot Davies, Stephanie Racine
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 15-12-16
- Language: English
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The Rules of Attraction
- By: Bret Easton Ellis
- Narrated by: Brian Hutchison, Luis Moreno, Jennifer O'Donnell, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall78
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Performance69
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Lauren, who changes the man in her bed even more often than she changes course, is dating Victor but sleeping with Sean. Sean - cool, ambivalent and deeply cynical - might be in love with Lauren, but he’s not going to let that stop him from bedding Paul. Paul, as shrewd as he is passionate, is Lauren’s ex-lover and the final point in this curious triangle. From the author of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis' The Rules of Attraction is a breathtaking tale of sex, expectation, desire and frustration.
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Blah...
- By James on 16-07-24
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The Rules of Attraction
- Narrated by: Brian Hutchison, Luis Moreno, Jennifer O'Donnell, John Skelley, Morgan Hallett
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 15-08-19
- Language: English
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Come Knocking
- A Novel
- By: Mike Bockoven
- Narrated by: Ryan Haugen, Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Story11
When Come Knocking came to Los Angeles, the interactive theater production that took over six floors of an abandoned building was met with raves, lines for tickets, and reviews calling it the “must-see experience of a generation.” But after dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured on a bloody night of chaos during the show’s run, the nation was captured by one inescapable question: How could this happen?
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Solid variation on a theme
- By bookeater_anon on 07-04-26
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Come Knocking
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ryan Haugen, Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 14-10-25
- Language: English
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Little Blighty on the Down: Series 1-5
- A BBC Radio 4 Political Comedy Satire
- By: Mark Burton, John O’Farrell, Mike Coleman
- Narrated by: full cast, Alistair McGowan, Michael Troughton, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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Story10
Little Blighty is an idyllic part of the world, with a church, a market, a small school and a pub, The Cock and Bull. Village life is pretty uneventful, though the humdrum happenings include social turmoil, economic upheaval and vicious political squabbles - all presided over by the redoubtable head of the Parish Council and secretary of the Rotarians, Mrs Roberts.
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The joy of opposition
- By Tom Watts on 19-08-22
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Little Blighty on the Down: Series 1-5
- A BBC Radio 4 Political Comedy Satire
- Narrated by: full cast, Alistair McGowan, Michael Troughton, Jo Kendall, Andrew Sachs, Nick Hancock
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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Vernon God Little
- By: D.B.C. Pierre
- Narrated by: Nick Landrum
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall206
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Performance177
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Story177
Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his hole-in-the-wall town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing. Eulalio Ledesma is his particular nemesis, manipulating things so that Vernon becomes the fulcrum for the bizarre and vengeful impulses of the townspeople of Martirio.
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Blackly Funny
- By Sara on 15-12-11
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Vernon God Little
- Narrated by: Nick Landrum
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-01-11
- Language: English
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She's a Lamb!
- By: Meredith Hambrock
- Narrated by: Stephanie Willing
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who occasionally books yogurt commercials and certainly not a lowly usher at one of Vancouver's smallest regional theatres. No, she is bound for greatness, and that's why the part of Maria in the theatre's upcoming production of The Sound of Music is hers. Or it's going to be.
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narration was incredible
- By Marie on 09-09-25
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She's a Lamb!
- Narrated by: Stephanie Willing
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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Kill Story
- By: JD Maduro
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Some people will do anything to feel like they belong. American ex-pat twenty-three-year-old Skye Sullivan is Influence Manager for Amsterdam's hottest startup. CoHab is a co-living community founded by charismatic Silas Hayes, and earmarked as the Next Big Thing. Everyone wants to work there...
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Kill Story
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 10-09-26
- Language: English
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The Robot Who Looked Like Me
- Stories
- By: Robert Sheckley
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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In "The Robot Who Looked Like Me," a busy man and a busy woman find a way to carve out time to romance each other—by having look-alike robots made to do the job—who then run away together.
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Fantastic readers.
- By Andrew G. on 05-01-24
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The Robot Who Looked Like Me
- Stories
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-07-22
- Language: English
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Five Go on the Piste
- A Raucous Giles Curtis Comedy
- By: Giles Curtis
- Narrated by: Mike McAlpine
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Getting the gang back together to revisit their annual ski trip after 10 years of recession and child-rearing seemed like a good idea to Will. But the manopause was approaching. Judah’s whipping indiscretion with a young student has hit the headlines, and an ambulance patient has threatened Al with assault. Mac has finally found a client with money, but she’s after more than just remodeling her house; and Rick is diverting his grief into ludicrously high risk activities. Will struggles to get them to the slopes, but there they find the mishaps are just beginning...
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Five Go on the Piste
- A Raucous Giles Curtis Comedy
- Narrated by: Mike McAlpine
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 15-06-20
- Language: English
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Erasure
- now a major motion picture 'American Fiction'
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Overall90
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Performance81
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Erasure is Percival Everett's hilarious satire about race and publishing, now an Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross. 'Hilarious . . . Everett is a first-rate word-wrangler.' – Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian...
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Deleted at Chapter 2
- By Jo Foster on 10-08-24
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Erasure
- now a major motion picture 'American Fiction'
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-03-24
- Language: English
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