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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë, Amanda Root ...

Narrated by Amanda Root ...

Unabridged

4 hours 1 min

One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester. What lurks in the attic at Thornfield, the ancestral home of the surly Mr Rochester? Will the governess Jane Eyre discover his secret and having discovered it, live to regret that knowledge? Battling inside Jane are passion and prudence; she struggles to survive the ... Read more

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One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester. What lurks in the attic at Thornfield, the ancestral home of the surly Mr Rochester? Will the governess Jane Eyre discover his secret and having discovered it, live to regret that knowledge? Battling inside Jane are passion and prudence; she struggles to survive the
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She Stoops to Conquer & The Vicar of Wakefield

Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions

by Oliver Goldsmith ...

Narrated by Julia McKenzie, Clive Francis, Amanda Root, Adrian Scarborough, Sunny Ormonde, Peter Jeffrey, Michael Cochrane, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

5 hours 24 min

Full-cast BBC adaptations of Oliver Goldsmith’s two most famous worksAnglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith was one of the most accomplished writers of the 18th century. A novelist, playwright, poet and essayist, he came to fame with his novel The Vicar of Wakefield and comic play She Stoops to Conquer. Both those classics are included here, with star casts including Julia McKenzie, Amanda Root, ... Read more

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Full-cast BBC adaptations of Oliver Goldsmith’s two most famous worksAnglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith was one of the most accomplished writers of the 18th century. A novelist, playwright, poet and essayist, he came to fame with his novel The Vicar of Wakefield and comic play She Stoops to Conquer. Both those classics are included here, with star casts including Julia McKenzie, Amanda Root,
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Northanger Abbey

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

by Jane Austen ...

Narrated by David Harewood, Julia McKenzie, Amanda Root, Jenny Agutter, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

2 hours 51 min

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Catherine Morland's overactive imagination makes her life more complicated than she would have wished...Catherine is obsessed with Gothic novels, often getting swept up by her taste for the dramatic and tragic. Did Mrs Tilney really die nine years previously, or has she been murdered or imprisoned in her chambers ... Read more

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In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Catherine Morland's overactive imagination makes her life more complicated than she would have wished...Catherine is obsessed with Gothic novels, often getting swept up by her taste for the dramatic and tragic. Did Mrs Tilney really die nine years previously, or has she been murdered or imprisoned in her chambers
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Ivan Turgenev: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Drama Collection

First Love, Father and Sons, A Month in the Country & more

by Ivan Turgenev ...

Narrated by Bill Nighy, Hugh Dickson, Patrick Troughton, mx Tim Pigott-Smith, Ian Holm, Timothy West, Norman Shelley, Amanda Root, David Horovitch, Full Cast, Rosalind Ayres, Maureen O'Brien ...

Unabridged

13 hours 26 min

Nine classic works by the Russian literary giant, adapted for BBC RadioIvan Turgenev stands alongside Tolstoy and Dostoevsky as one of the three great Russian novelists of the 19th century. He was also a consummate short story writer, poet and playwright, and the first Russian author to become popular in the West. This specially curated collection showcases his key works, from the most celebrated ... Read more

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Nine classic works by the Russian literary giant, adapted for BBC RadioIvan Turgenev stands alongside Tolstoy and Dostoevsky as one of the three great Russian novelists of the 19th century. He was also a consummate short story writer, poet and playwright, and the first Russian author to become popular in the West. This specially curated collection showcases his key works, from the most celebrated
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Loving, Doting & Party Going

Three Full - Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

by Henry Green ...

Narrated by Martin Kemp, Pauline Quirke, Joanna David, Claudia Harrison, Amanda Root, Zoe Tapper, Rupert Everett, Rosalind Shanks, Penelope Lee, Selina Cadell, Frances Jeater, John Forbes-Robertson, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

4 hours 49 min

A trio of dramas based on Henry Green’s most notable novelsBorn Henry Yorke, aristocrat and industrialist Henry Green led a double life as a managing director of an engineering firm and one of the finest English modernists of the 20th century. A contemporary and friend of Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell, he penned nine novels before giving up writing in 1952 at the age of 47. Three of them are ... Read more

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A trio of dramas based on Henry Green’s most notable novelsBorn Henry Yorke, aristocrat and industrialist Henry Green led a double life as a managing director of an engineering firm and one of the finest English modernists of the 20th century. A contemporary and friend of Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell, he penned nine novels before giving up writing in 1952 at the age of 47. Three of them are
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Little Women, Good Wives & A Marble Woman

Three BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations

by Louisa May Alcott ...

Narrated by Bryony Hannah, Lorelei King, Natasha J Barnes, Bill Paterson, Amanda Root, Tara Ward, Alex Lanipekun, Gayle Hunnicutt, Jemma Redgrave, Marcus D'Amico, Martin Jarvis, John McArdle, Full cast ...

Unabridged

6 hours 4 min

Dramatisations of Louisa May Alcott’s evergreen classic and its sequel, plus her Gothic tour de force about an orphan girl and her controlling guardianBorn in 1832 in Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was best known for Little Women, her phenomenal bestseller loosely based on her childhood experiences with her own sisters. Adapted numerous times for stage and screen, it is dramatised here alongside ... Read more

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Dramatisations of Louisa May Alcott’s evergreen classic and its sequel, plus her Gothic tour de force about an orphan girl and her controlling guardianBorn in 1832 in Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was best known for Little Women, her phenomenal bestseller loosely based on her childhood experiences with her own sisters. Adapted numerous times for stage and screen, it is dramatised here alongside
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HER Story: Women’s Untold Histories

10 BBC Radio full-cast dramas

by Various ...

Narrated by Katy Brand, Amaka Okafor, Niamh Cusack, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Amanda Root, Indira Varma, Rebecca Humphries, Full Cast, Anton Lesser ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

10 dramas focusing on women's untold stories from history.This diverse, eclectic collection of plays explores an array of social, political and historical events from a female point of view. In these captivating dramas, we see the world through their eyes, giving us a fresh perspective on a female history that is too often unrecorded, misrepresented or misunderstood.Featuring a multiplicity of ... Read more

£11.70

10 dramas focusing on women's untold stories from history.This diverse, eclectic collection of plays explores an array of social, political and historical events from a female point of view. In these captivating dramas, we see the world through their eyes, giving us a fresh perspective on a female history that is too often unrecorded, misrepresented or misunderstood.Featuring a multiplicity of
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House of Cards

A BBC Radio Drama

by Michael Dobbs ...

Narrated by Daniel Massey, Amanda Root, Geoffrey Whitehead, Stephen Critchlow, Roger May, Colm McConvey, Denis Hawthorne, David Timpson, Buddy Osman, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

2 hours 53 min

The classic political drama that inspired the hit Netflix seriesFrancis Urquhart, Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, wants to get to Number 10 and will stop at nothing in his pursuit of power. This full-cast dramatisation packs a powerful punch in the fast-paced political thriller based on Michael Dobbs bestselling novel of the same name.The country is undecided after a close election and the ... Read more

£12.60

The classic political drama that inspired the hit Netflix seriesFrancis Urquhart, Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, wants to get to Number 10 and will stop at nothing in his pursuit of power. This full-cast dramatisation packs a powerful punch in the fast-paced political thriller based on Michael Dobbs bestselling novel of the same name.The country is undecided after a close election and the
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Floodland

by Marcus Sedgwick ...

Narrated by Amanda Root ...

Unabridged

3 hours 6 min

A gripping, prizewinning novel about a girl surviving in a devastated world.Imagine that a few years from now England is covered by water, and Norwich is an island.Zoe, left behind in the confusion when her parents escaped, survives there as best she can. Alone and desperate among marauding gangs, she manages to dig a derelict boat out of the mud and gets away to Eels Island. But Eels Island, ... Read more

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A gripping, prizewinning novel about a girl surviving in a devastated world.Imagine that a few years from now England is covered by water, and Norwich is an island.Zoe, left behind in the confusion when her parents escaped, survives there as best she can. Alone and desperate among marauding gangs, she manages to dig a derelict boat out of the mud and gets away to Eels Island. But Eels Island,
... Read more
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Nancy Mitford: Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate & More

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama collection

by Nancy Mitford ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Jane Knowles, Amanda Root, Teresa Gallagher, Pauline Letts, Edward de Souza, Elizabeth Proud ...

Unabridged

6 hours 10 min

BBC Radio adaptations of Nancy Mitford's most famous novels and acclaimed biography of Madame de Pompadour plus bonus programmesThe 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 ... Read more

£12.60

BBC Radio adaptations of Nancy Mitford's most famous novels and acclaimed biography of Madame de Pompadour plus bonus programmesThe 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
... Read more
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Wally K. Daly: The Scream Trilogy & other sci-fi dramas

Six BBC Radio 4 full-cast productions

by Wally K. Daly ...

Narrated by Bill Nighy, Patrick Troughton, James Laurenson, Donald Hewlett, Geoffrey Whitehead, John Shrapnel, Amanda Root, Nigel Anthony, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

7 hours 19 min

Wally K. Daly's acclaimed trilogy about alien invasion, plus three more gripping sci-fi thrillersWally K. Daly was a prolific, award-winning dramatist, whose writing credits included Casualty, Juliet Bravo and Doctor Who. He wrote 38 radio plays during his 30-year career, across a range of genres including comedy, horror and science fiction. This collection includes his best-known SF serial, The ... Read more

£11.70

Wally K. Daly's acclaimed trilogy about alien invasion, plus three more gripping sci-fi thrillersWally K. Daly was a prolific, award-winning dramatist, whose writing credits included Casualty, Juliet Bravo and Doctor Who. He wrote 38 radio plays during his 30-year career, across a range of genres including comedy, horror and science fiction. This collection includes his best-known SF serial, The
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Tsar: An epic chronicle of the Russian leaders

Eleven BBC Radio 4 dramas

by Mike Walker ...

Narrated by David Threlfall, Hugo Speer, Samantha Spiro, Anton Lesser, Amanda Root, Raymond Coulthard, Paul Ritter, Full Cast, Hattie Morahan ...

Unabridged

10 hours 22 min

Eleven compelling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of the Russian tsarsBroadcast to mark the centenary of the Russian revolution, this extraordinary drama cycle by Mike Walker comprises eleven ambitious plays spanning over 400 years, exploring the lives of Russia’s key rulers from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin.Ivan the Terrible: Absolute Power - The rise and fearsome reign of ... Read more

£9.90

Eleven compelling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of the Russian tsarsBroadcast to mark the centenary of the Russian revolution, this extraordinary drama cycle by Mike Walker comprises eleven ambitious plays spanning over 400 years, exploring the lives of Russia’s key rulers from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin.Ivan the Terrible: Absolute Power - The rise and fearsome reign of
... Read more