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ID: 356979

Title: Tristram Shandy: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

Author: Laurence Sterne

Narrator: Adrian Scarborough, David Troughton, Full Cast , Julia Ford, Neil Dudgeon, Paul Ritter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:04:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-19

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

A full-cast dramatisation of this comic tale about an eighteenth-century gentleman who tries to tell his life story, but continually finds that he must digress...

Featuring some of the best-known and well-loved characters in English literature, including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Dr Slop and the Widow Wadman. Beginning (or attempting to begin) at the moment of his own conception, Tristram Shandy recounts his progress through the world and utterly fails to stick to the point.

Sterne's comic masterpiece is an extravagantly inventive work which was hugely popular when first published in 1759, and is now considered a landmark in the history of the novel. Its often bawdy humour and numerous digressions are combined with bold literary experiments, and 260 years after its publication it remains one of the most influential and widely-admired books of the 18th century. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations.

Also included in this release is a bonus programme - In Our Time: Tristram Shandy - in which Melvyn Bragg discusses the comic masterpiece with Professor Judith Hawley (University of London), Professor John Mullan (UCL) and Dr Mary Newbould (University of Cambridge).

Cast:

Tristram...Neil Dudgeon

Mother...Julia Ford

Father...David Troughton

Uncle Toby...Adrian Scarborough

Corporal Trim...Paul Ritter

Dr Slop...Tony Rohr

Obadiah...Stephen Hogan

Susannah...Helen Longworth

Great-Grandmother/Bridget...Ndidi Del Fatti

Great-Grandfather/Pontificating Man/Death...Stuart Mcloughlin

Bishop Hall/Le Fever...Hugh Dickson

Widow Wadman...Deborah Findlay

Dramatised by Graham White

Directed and produced by Mary Peate

A BBC Studios production

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ID: 356987

Title: To Hull and Back: The Complete Series 1-3: The BBC Radio 4 comedy

Author: Lucy Beaumont

Narrator: Full Cast , Lucy Beaumont, Maureen Lipman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-19

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

A BBC comedy sitcom from BBC New Comedy Award winner Lucy Beaumont, also starring Maureen Lipman.

Sophie still lives at home with her mum in Hull. They make a living doing car boot sales at the weekend. Except they don't really make a living because her mum can't bear to get rid of any of their junk. Plus, they don't have a car. As their house gets more cluttered, Sophie feels more trapped. She dreams of moving to London to meet her dad and to become a famous actress. Will this dream ever come true?

Starring Lucy Beaumont as Sophie and Maureen Lipman as her mum, Sheila.

Written by Lucy Beaumont

Produced by Carl Cooper

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ID: 367741

Title: Whispering Land

Author: Gerald Durrell

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:11:55

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-19

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Travel Tips

Summary:

Following on from the events in A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land sees Gerald Durrell and his wife Jacquie travel to Argentina to collect animals for their newly established zoo. With rare insight and unique charm, Durrell pulls the listener into the tropical landscape of Patagonia, where he witnesses magical moments with penguins, seals and ocelots, and encounters a hilarious cast of characters, including a swearing parrot and a belching guanaco.

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ID: 367744

Title: Beasts in My Belfry

Author: Gerald Durrell

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:54:03

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-19

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Travel Tips

Summary:

Beasts in My Belfry is the wonderfully funny memoir about Gerald Durrell's time at Whipsnade Zoo and his experiences as a young zookeeper. Following the Second World War, Durrell joined Whipsnade Zoo as a junior keeper - an opportunity that fulfilled a lifelong dream. Thanks to Rupert Degas's brilliant voicing, which captures all of Durrell's charm and wit, the listener can enjoy being taken behind the scenes of one of the world's very first zoos. This is a delightful portrait of the animals who lived there and those who looked after them.

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ID: 367742

Title: Concise History of France

Author: Roger Price

Narrator: Mark Meadows

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:27:20

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-19

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: History, Europe

Summary:

Ranging from the early Middle Ages to the present, this is one of the broadest and most up-to-date studies of French history available in English.. Amongst its central themes are the relationships between state and society, the impact of war, competition for power, and the ways in which power has been used. Whilst taking full account of major figures such as Philip Augustus, Henri IV, Louis XIV, Napoleon and de Gaulle, it sets their activities within the broader context of changing economic and social structures and beliefs, and offers rich insights into the lives of ordinary men and women. The recording also includes a chapter on contemporary France - its society and political system as a result of globalisation, rising unemployment, a failing educational system, growing social and racial tensions, corruption, the rise of the extreme right, and a widespread loss of confidence in political leaders.

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ID: 367743

Title: Travels of Marco Polo

Author: Marco Polo, Rustichello Da Pisa

Narrator: Peter Wickham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:55:20

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-19

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Travel Tips

Summary:

The Travels of Marco Polo is the classic account of Marco Polo's journey to China from Venice, and his discoveries as an emissary to the great Kublai Khan. Polo explores everywhere from Baghdad, Armenia and Russia to the Caspian Sea, the Gobi Desert and the small fishing villages of China, describing the geography, architecture and customs of these exotic places. He tells stories of assassins, cannibals, fantastical animals, feasts and battles, and gives a fascinating account of the multicultural empire of Kublai Khan. The Travels is said to have inspired the voyages of Magellan and Columbus, the latter having kept an annotated copy among his belongings. It remains one of the most entertaining travelogues in existence.

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ID: 367740

Title: Bostonians

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Adam Sims

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:59:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-19

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Taking place in Boston, Massachusetts, a decade after the Civil War, The Bostonians tells the story of two cousins who battle for the affections of and control over an enchanting prophetess. While visiting his cousin Olive Chancellor, a fierce feminist deeply involved in the Suffragette movement, Basil Ransom, a Confederate Civil War veteran turned lawyer, attends a speech by the talented young orator Verena Tarrant.

Basil quickly falls in love with Verena, although he disagrees with her politics; Olive, however, sees her as the future of the women's rights movement. Will Verena join forces with Olive and fight to further the women's cause, or will she fall for Basil's romantic advances?

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ID: 367738

Title: Scarlet Pimpernel

Author: Baroness Orczy

Narrator: Bill Homewood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:55:04

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-19

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

With the Reign of Terror at its peak, and the death toll mounting, France's violent revolutionists suddenly find themselves frustrated by a mysterious vigilante. Known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, the enigmatic hero rescues the country's ill-fated aristocrats from the doom of the guillotine and whisks them away to safety, with a band of gallant cohorts at his aid. Meanwhile, in England, beautiful Frenchwoman and former actress Lady Marguerite Blakeney finds herself drifting apart from her inane and foppish husband Sir Percy Blakeney - until Marguerite's brother is found to be in league with the Pimpernel and the villainous Chauvelin blackmails her into discovering the true identity of the masked man...

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ID: 368254

Title: Body of Horror - A Short Story Volume

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:21:33

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-19

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Our greatest fears are of the unknown. Usually we think those fears are in front of us...or behind us. But perhaps the human body itself holds the greatest horror. What happens after death? Do our bodies have a new existence either in whole.....or part? Will others seek to claim them and do unspeakable things? We don't know. But our authors do. And they have the talents and wits to make these diabolical stories vehicles for horror, for terror, for the unimaginable....

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ID: 368251

Title: Cockney Novelists - A Short Story Volume

Author: Arthur Morrison, Edwin Pugh, Richard Whiteling

Narrator: Jake Urry, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:48:09

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-19

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

The Cockney Novelists flourished towards the end of the nineteenth century and spilled over into the next. They included Arthur Morrison, Edwin Pugh, William Pett Ridge and Clarence Rook. Authors being authors they, of course, dealt with their subject matter in different ways. As a group they moved away from treating the London working classes as comedy cameos or social stereotypes. Now they were depicted as layered three dimensional characters. Some were brutal, some were criminal, some were devious but the many were decent hard-working people trying to make ends meet and like all of us - trying to make life more joy than burden.

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