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ID: 320562

Title: Relaxation

Author: Hugh Fraser

Narrator: Hugh Fraser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:55:45

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Health & Wellness, Fitness

Summary:

This recording offers a guided development towards a state of deep relaxation and calm. It will provide a means of unlocking and freeing habitual muscular tension and pacifying the autonomic nervous system.

After instructions as to the appropriate position and situation in which to listen to the tape are given, you will be encouraged to slow down your breathing mechanism and allow yourself the time to release any tightness or tension in the body.

Once the breathing rhythm and a general calm has been established you will be guided through a progressive relaxation procedure, focusing on each part of the body in turn, releasing muscular tension and easing stress while maintaining awareness of a gentle breathing rhythm. With the music and instructions you will drift peacefully into deeper and deeper relaxation.

Once the stage by stage relaxation of the body has been completed you will be encouraged to imagine yourself lying peacefully on a tropical beach and move into an ever deeper state of relaxation, calmed and pacified.

Finally you will be brought gradually back to a state of wakefulness, rested and refreshed.

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ID: 320486

Title: Elizabeth

Author: David Starkey

Narrator: Patricia Hodge

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:05:40

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

A brilliant and compelling account of the apprentice years of Elizabeth I.

An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a mans world, passionately sexual yet she said a virgin, Elizabeth I was to be famed as Englands most successful ruler. This absorbing new book, by concentrating on the early years from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558, shows how her experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs.

For in her youth she had experienced every vicissitude of fortune and every extreme of condition. She had been Princess and inheritrix of England then bastardized and disinherited. At sixteen she was the head of a great princely household. Not much later she was an accused traitor on the verge of execution in the Tower. Among all this, she had been taught the most advanced curriculum of the day. But it was her lessons in the school of life that mattered more and that taught her humanity.

Dr David Starkey recreates a host of extravagant characters, mad-cap schemes and tragic plots, while using original documents to point up the importance of the rituals of power and life at court. He writes with admirable clarity about religion and constitutional history. This brilliant book contrasts the daughters of Henry VIII: the pious Catholic Mary and her clever sister. The key to understanding Elizabeth is her determination not to make the same mistakes as Mary.

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ID: 320469

Title: Vanity Fair

Author: William Thackeray

Narrator: Miriam Margolyes

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Family Life

Summary:

Looking with vicious wit at dazzling high-society and criminal low-life, privilege and ambition, this is a classic yet anything but stuffy.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts

Self-serving social climber and anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her status and attain wealth and standing with smart Society. Clever, lively and resourceful, orphan Becky is the the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered, yet good-natured girl from a wealthy family. As both women build lives for themselves in London, Thackeray decadently satirises the corruption and flaws of 19th-Century English Society.

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ID: 320481

Title: Audience with Barry Cryer

Author: Barry Cryer

Narrator: Barry Cryer

Format: Abridged

Length: 01:47:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: General Comedy

Summary:

The first in what will become the quintessential list of the best of live British comedy, AN AUDIENCE WITH BARRY CRYER brings you up close and personal with one of bastions of British comedy in this live recording of his sellout comedy tour.

Available for the first time as a downloadable audio file.

The AN AUDIENCE WITH series will bring you a succession of live performances by some of Britain's best-loved comedians, opening with Barry Cryer, one of the stalwarts of Radio 4.

The quintessential grumpy old man, Barry Cryer's standup combines the quick wit of Radio 4 with the charm and class of the 'Great Men of Comedy'. He has been a regular panelist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and Just a Minute, the latter of which he also chaired. In 1998, Barry wrote his autobiography, You Won't Believe This But, which has been broadcast on Radio 4.

Barry is also famous for having written gags for some of the legends of British comedy, including Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper, Stanley Baxter, Dick Emery, Dave Allen, Les Dawson, Bob Hope, Kenny Everett, Sir Harry Secombe, Billy Connolly, Jasper Carrot and Richard Pryor.

With a CV that reads like the 'Who's Who of British Comedy Greats', Cryer's unique blend of old-school gentility and cutting edge intellect facilitates an audience-base that spans generations.

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ID: 320494

Title: Secret Agent

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Joss Ackland

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:54:02

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Espionage, Psychological

Summary:

Its genesis a real attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, Conrads novel offers an ironic meditation not only on anarchy and revolution, with all the deception and intrigue they imply, but also on loyalty to friends and family, to country and ideals.

They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic to terror, too, perhaps.

Considered one of Conrads most political works, The Secret Agent is set against the dismal backdrop of a drab and alienating London, and tells the story of the bombing of Greenwich Observatory by a group of anarchists.

Shopkeeper, spy and reluctant anarchist Mr Verloc becomes embroiled in this terrorist plot, exploiting his mentally disabled brother-in-law Stevie in the process, leading to tragic circumstances.

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ID: 320500

Title: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Author: Robert Burns

Narrator: John Cairney

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:59:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

This specially commissioned recording offers a wide-ranging choice of Burns's songs and lyrical poems; and longer poems such as 'Tam o'Shanter', and 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' are also included in their entirety. All are read by John Cairney, world-famous for his many stage and television performances of the life and work of Scotland's national bard. Lovers of Burns's poetry will find much to enjoy in this selection, which also provides an extensive introduction for those as yet unfamiliar with his work

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ID: 320458

Title: Rebel

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: David Rintoul

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

The first book in Bernard Cornwells bestselling series on the American Civil War.

It is summer 1861. The armies of North and South stand on the brink of Americas civil war.

Nathanial Starbuck, jilted by his girl and estranged from his family, arrives in the capital of the Confederate South, where he enlists in an elite regiment being raised by rich, eccentric Washington Faulconer.

Pledged to the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck becomes a northern boy fighting for the southern cause. But nothing can prepare him for the shocking violence to follow in the war which broke America in two.

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ID: 320460

Title: English Passengers

Author: Matthew Kneale

Narrator: Simon Callow

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:46:12

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

WINNER WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2000

The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson sets out from England, in the summer of 1857, with an expedition to find the Garden of Eden, which he is convinced lies on the island of Tasmania. Unknown to him, others in the party have very different agendas, notably the surgeon, Dr Potter, who is developing a revolutionary and sinister thesis of his own on the races of man. To complicate matters further, the ship Wilson has hurriedly chartered, crewed by Captain Kewley and his secretive Manxmen, is in fact an ill-starred smuggling vessel, its hidden compartments filled with contraband brandy and tobacco. As the vessel journeys haplessly southwards, in Tasmania itself an Aboriginal named Peevay recounts his peoples struggle against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty. This is no Eden but a world of hunting parties and colonial ethnic cleansing. As the English passengers near Peevays land, their bizarre notions ever more painfully at odds with reality, it grows clear that a mighty collision is approaching.

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ID: 240902

Title: Twelfth Night

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Full Cast

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:13:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-03

Publisher: Caedmon

Genres: Drama, Shakespeare

Summary:

A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts.

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ID: 33975

Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Rex Harrison

Format: Abridged

Length: 01:59:26

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-03

Publisher: Caedmon

Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama, Shakespeare

Summary:

Two couplesBenedick and Beatrice, and Hero and Claudiomust overcome deception, gossip, and, occasionally, their own misplaced pride if their love is to persevere. Aided by military commander Don Pedro and impeded by his brother Don John, the friends go to great lengths in the pursuit of marriage.

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