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Patrick Allen stars as Inspector West in this classic radio adventure, first broadcast on BBC Radio in 1967Based on the long-running series of novels by John Creasey, the Inspector West dramas became popular with radio audiences between 1967 and 1...

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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama starring Derek Martin, the precursor to the popular TV series and novels. Jack Frost is disheveled, disorganised and disrespectful. His superiors don't like him. He has a habit of doing things his way - and getting re...

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Five full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of short stories by GK Chesterton, starring Leslie French as Father Brown and Willie Rushton as Chesterton. Short, shabby and unassuming, Roman Catholic priest Father Brown is an unlikely investigator. But h...

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Seven instalments of the classic radio crime drama starring Cecil Parker, plus special documentary feature A Case for Dr Morelle. Dr Morelle uses psychological insight, criminology and dogged persistence to solve cases. Here he must deduce the ans...

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'Radio drama of the year' - Gillian Reynolds, The TelegraphNikesh Patel stars as Saleem in BBC Radio 4's epic dramatisation of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning novel of love, history and magicSaleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on ...

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Mary Wimbush stars as unconventional psychoanalyst sleuth Mrs Bradley in these two full-cast dramatisations of stories by Gladys Mitchell. Colourful, cynical, intimidating and extremely intelligent, Mrs Bradley is one of the most unorthodox detect...

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Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in these twelve adventures from the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle''s short stories and novels The Empty House The Norwood Builder The Dancing Men The Solitary Cyclis...

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Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these definitive BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L Sayers'' classic crime novels Aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey was the master creation of Dorothy L Sayers, widely acknowledged as one...

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Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these classic BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L Sayers'' Golden Age crime novels. Gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey starred in a number of novels and short stories by Dorothy L Sayers. These ful...

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A gripping original story for BBC Radio 4 by award-winning crime writer Ian Rankin, written for the landmark Radio 4 Book at Bedtime slot Saughton Prison, Edinburgh. 1962. Prison guard Thomas Scott watches over a condemned man sentenced to hang fo...

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Bill Nighy stars as actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Simon Brett?s novel Charles? career is on the up. He?s starring in a revival of a popular (though hackneyed) 70''s farce ? and while his fell...

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Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon, based on Arthur Conan Doyle''s original short stories. The twelve dramatisations are A Scandal in Bohem...

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Once upon a time, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories-fantastical yarns of wondrous creatures in faraway places-bewitched children across the world. But times change. Today, Kipling's writing tells us a different tale; of a love of Empire, and the t...

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Brought to you by Penguin. MURDERERS, CONMEN AND THIEVES A new breed of villain has risen, possessed of extraordinary intellect and violence. Only the brilliant mind and courage of Sexton Blake, scourge of the criminal world, can stop them, in the...

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Brought to you by Penguin.From the moment Dr J. Doyle takes lodgings in Baker Street with the angel Crow, he becomes intimately acquainted with the supernatural and criminal worlds of London.But living with a rogue angel is not so easy; the pair f...

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Brought to you by Penguin.Murder. Magic. Mayhem. But keep it in the family.Shine's life is usually dull: an orphan without magic in a family of powerful mages, she's left to run the family estate with only an eccentric aunt and telepathic cat for ...

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Brought to you by Penguin.For nearly a century, Sexton Blake was the most written about character in British fiction. He starred in approximately four thousand stories by nearly two hundred authors. A cross between Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jone...

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Brought to you by Penguin.In the future, AI are everywhere - over half the human race lives online. But in the Caspian Republic, the last true human beings have made their stand; and now the repressive, one-party state is locked in perpetual cold ...

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Brought to you by Penguin.Journalist Mike Karras has heard a lot of strange things, but they're about to get stranger... and a lot more dangerous.Accounts of a 'second shooter' have attended on every assassination since JFK, but there's rarely any...

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Brought to you by Penguin."e;Citizens of the Federation. Greetings from the Core."e;Lieutenant Kalina Sokolova is aid to Counter-Admiral Kasparov the major strategist for the Russian navy. Kalina is also an agent of the Jinyiwei, an elite ...

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Runtime: 93 minutesAnyone can answer quiz questions about Sherlock Holmes. But what happens if answering wrong puts your life at risk? A couple of simple questions pose no problem, but as the difficulty ramps up so does the prize - and the penalty...

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Runtime: 385 minutesValuable diamonds are missing, and the thumb-print of one Reuben Hornby is discovered in some blood at the bottom of the safe from where they were taken. But is all as it seems? Doctor John Thorndyke has some doubts about the e...

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Runtime: 30 minutesWhen Inspector Lestrade calls on Sherlock Holmes with a tale of a mysterious conflict in a house in Holloway, Holmes is sceptical, scoffing at the existence of ghosts. However, as he investigates the case - in which a key witnes...

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Runtime: 572 minutesIn this first book of the series, Dr. Jervis encounters his old friend Dr. Thorndyke; soon after they are drawn into a mystery in which a man is accused of murder and his own bloody thumbprint - evidence that cannot be denied -...

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Nine BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of the crime novels of Qiu Xiaolong, set in Shanghai. Starring Jamie Zubairi as Chief Inspector Chen Cao, an astute young policeman with twin passions for food and poetry. Through thrilling crime drama, thes...

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Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations starring John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis, plus a bonus reading by Colin Dexter of one of his short stories. In Last Seen Wearing , Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old mis...

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'A moment of reprieve. Nobody knows you. No one owns you. You're on day release.'Lenny Henry plays double murderer Frank Watt, who is getting ready to face life on the outside after 30 years in prison. He's looking forward to getting out, but thin...

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Kenneth Cranham and Alex Lanipekun star in these fifteen hard-hitting crime dramas Chalk and cheese coppers Max Matthews and Sean Armitage are from different generations and different worlds, but together they make a remarkable team. In this power...

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A sixth collection of captivating courtroom dramas, starring Julian Rhind-Tutt as Horace RumpoleRumpole and the Way Through the WoodsRumpole makes friends with a dog named Sir Lancelot, and finds himself defending a hunt saboteur who claims to be ...

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Three thrilling full-cast dramas starring Julian Rhind-Tutt as the irrepressible Horace RumpoleRumpole and the Golden ThreadIn Africa defending an old pupil in a murder trial, Rumpole is arrested. When Phillida arrives to bail him out, a spark bet...

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