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ID: 785120

Title: Protesting Too Much: A BBC Radio 4 Sitcom

Author: Kate Brooke, Sally Phillips

Narrator: Alan Francis, Brian Bowles, Chris Pavlo, Eleanor Bron, Full Cast , John Fortune, Louisa Milwood-Haigh, Sally Phillips, Sue Elliott-Nicholls

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:53:31

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Family Life

Summary:

A hilarious 90s BBC Radio 4 sitcom performed by an all-star cast

Starring comedian John Fortune, best known for the satirical TV show Bremner, Bird and Fortune, and screen legend Eleanor Bron, Protesting Too Much is written by Sally Phillips and Kate Brooke. A classic comic caper that will have you in stitches.

Set on the eve of the 1997 general election, bumbling Conservative MP George Dank climbs a tree in protest at the building of a new bypass through his constituency. The protest soon draws all the wrong kind of attention as smears hit the newspaper, orchestrated by the villainous Robbins. To make matters worse, university job cuts are looming, which means George could be soon joined by his scholarly wife, Hermione. Hermiones hero is Dante and she cant help finding parallels between the poet and her husband. As she falls in love all over again with her formally inept, but now seemingly dashing husband, things get complicated when their daughter Anne comes to join them too Will the disaster-prone MP ever be able to climb down from his bypass protest? Is Hermiones instruction of fellow protestors in medieval siege tactics really the best idea? And what on earth will they do with that stuffed owl? The battle rages and George is up a tree - can he save his family, the constituency and moreover, the day?

Protesting Too Much writer Sally Phillips is an actor, comedian, and television presenter. Phillips is known for her roles in Jam & Jerusalem, Im Alan Partridge and Miranda as well as playing the title role in the BBC Radio 4 comedy show Clare in the Community. Kate Brooke is a film and TV writer whose credits include Mr Selfridge and A Discovery of Witches. This hilarious sitcom also features cameos from broadcasting legends Brian Perkins and John Humphrys.

Cast and credits

Written by Sally Phillips and Kate Brooke

Produced by Jane Berthoud

George Dank - John Fortune

Hermione Dank - Eleanor Bron

Anne Dank - Louisa Milwood-Haigh

Robbins - Brian Bowles

Dan Richard/ Ernie 2- Chris Pavlo

Skip/Gladys/Irma/WPC Pierce - Elliott Nicholls

Jennifer/Aurora - Sally Phillips

Taxi Driver/Nigel/Peter/Ernie 1/Ken/Sarge/Security Guard - Alan Francis

Brian Perkins - as himself

John Humphrys - as himself

First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 30 Jul 3 Sep 1997

©2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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ID: 785121

Title: Any Other Business: A BBC Radio Sitcom

Author: Lucy Flannery

Narrator: Full Cast , Howard Lew Lewis, James Grout, Jan Ravens, John Duttine, June Whitfield, Nelson David, Nick Hardy, Rosy Fordham, Toby Longworth, Vivienne Rochester

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:53:58

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

All six episodes of the small-town comedy about electoral shocks and local government capers

When long-serving council leader Roland Whittaker loses his seat to a Monster Raving Loony Party candidate with the same surname and initials, he is both flabbergasted and furious. Young Robin Whittaker (who conducted his entire campaign dressed in a chicken outfit and a Viking helmet) isnt happy either he only stood for election as a student prank. Everyone expects him to resign, but hes persuaded to stick it out, and its not long before hes being proclaimed Mayor (and appointing a very unconventional Mayoress...)

With Labour now controlling the council on a wafer-thin majority, the town of Chesbury is facing a hurricane of change but the old Tory guard arent giving up without a fight. And Robin may be full of bright ideas, but his naivety makes him ripe for manipulation. As he attempts to get his head around local government, save Chesbury FC, launch a new currency and deal with Trekkies and a German delegation, will he manage to push through his policies? Or will his schemes be scuppered by argy-bargy, blackmail and political shenanigans?

Created by award-winning writer Lucy Flannery (Rent), this wry, well observed sitcom features an exciting ensemble cast including John Duttine, James Grout, Sally Grace, Jan Ravens and June Whitfield.

Please note some of the humour on this recording reflects the era in which it was first broadcast

Production credits

Written by Lucy Flannery

Produced by Liz Anstee

Starring Matthew Bell, Nelson David, John Duttine, Rosy Fordham, Sally Grace, James Grout, Nick Hardy, Jeffrey Holland, Howard Lew Lewis, Toby Longworth, Jan Ravens, Vivienne Rochester and June Whitfield

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 31 May-5 Jul 1995

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ID: 722841

Title: Dragonlance: Dragons of Eternity: (Dungeons & Dragons)

Author: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:56:23

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

The third new Dragonlance novel from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, featuring fan-favorite characters from the iconic first two trilogies, Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance Legends--books that brought a generation of readers into the fantasy fold.

An intrepid woman and her friends must somehow undo the great damage they have done to the future of their world in the thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Dragonlance series

When Destina Rosethorn and her companions were transported to a time 300 years before their birthto the days of the Third Dragon War famed in song and storythe last thing they wanted to do was upset history. But upon returning to the near-past from which they departed, they discover a world completely altered. Thanks in no small part to the Graygem of Gargath that Destina carries, the war that was once won is now lost, and the forces of evil hold sway over the land.

The river of Time is rising, flowing inexorably towards present day. So it is up to Destina and her friends to make one last, desperate attempt to restore Times river to its proper channel. For if they cannot manage it, the altered past will sweep over the present until no trace of their old world remains.

©2024 Margaret Weis (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 763862

Title: Get In!: Football according to Mark Goldbridge

Author: Mark Goldbridge

Narrator: Mark Goldbridge

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:28:13

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Soccer, General Comedy

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

It doesn't really matter who you support. Football is a cruel, cruel game. All of us fans have had moments of shock, disappointment, and feeling like a right knobhead. We want our teams to play like winners wholl fight for the badge to their last breath. More often, there's so many clowns on the pitch we think the circus is in town. We've endured abject surrenders in the pissing down rain, watched multi-millionaire managers lose the plot, and signed players who couldn't pass a parcel, all to the sound of Michael Owen's 'expert' analysis. Season after bloody season. It stings so much your team might as well be sponsored by Dettol. Why do we do it to ourselves?

Theres a lot to love I guess. Nothing will ever emulate the high that a major win or seeing your team lift a trophy brings. Take Manchester United winning the treble: footballing perfection. And nothing else will ever come close. Life doesnt get any better than that.

As I talk you through everything from transfers to trophies to touchline tantrums, join me as I give my definitive take on football. There's a lot to get through, so take my hand like an over-eager mascot and walk with me out of the tunnel into the glaring floodlights of what it means to be a fan

and how to survive it.

©2024 Mark Goldbridge (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 742653

Title: Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than The Life You Deserve

Author: Drew Afualo

Narrator: Drew Afualo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:32:26

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science, Philosophy

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

The empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first book by the TikTok and Spotify star Drew Afualo.

Drew Afualo is best known as the internets 'Crusader for Women' and is at the head of a new generation of entertainments rising stars, with more than nine million followers across her social platforms. She soon realized that men on social media were creating sexist content aimed at disparaging women, and also containing rampant fatphobia, racism, and other forms of bigotry with very real-life consequences. It didnt take long for her to step into the role of unofficial watchdog for misogyny, and her signature laugh is now recognized as a feminist call to arms.

Loud is part manual, part manifesto and part memoir. It is a summoning cry to rid the internet (and our hearts, minds, and lives) of terrible men and create a space to fight outdated patriarchal ideals. Above all, it makes it clear that behind Drews fearsome laugh is a mission and a life philosophy, a strategy for self-confidence from the inside out, and a pathway to once and for all remove men from the centre of how women and fems think about themselves.

© Drew Afualo 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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ID: 768350

Title: Sue Perkins: Nature Table: Series 1-4 of the BBC Radio 4 Comedy Show

Author: Catherine Brinkworth, Jenny Laville, Jon Hunter, Kat Sadler, Nicky Roberts

Narrator: Sue Perkins, Various

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:53:20

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: General Comedy

Summary:

Sue Perkins presents the 'Show and Tell' series that celebrates the natural world in alll its weird and wonderful eccentricity

The world of wildlife is full of surprising and magical quirks - and Sue Perkins - comedian, broadcaster and Just a Minute host - is on a mission to discover them all. In this fantastic series, recorded at ZSL London Zoo and the Eden Project, she's joined by a diverse group of comedians and natural history experts for some entertaining sessions of 'Show and Tell'.

Her special guests all bring along their amazing objects from the wild world and the stories that go with them - sparking lively, enlightening and hilarious discussion. There are also fun games and challenges, and in the episodes not recorded during lockdown, we hear from members of the public and staff as they share their own intriguing items, fascinating facts and amusing anecdotes.

Among the celebrities taking part are zoologists Lucy Cooke and Billy Heaney, naturalist Nick Baker, actress Sally Phillips, and comedians Dave Gorman, Felicity Ward, Jessica Fostekew, Lucy Porter, Sindhu Vee, Desiree Burch, Josie Long and Shaparak Khorsandi. Their show and tell delights include a porcupine's spine, the jaw of a tiger shark, the fossilised eardrum of a whale, a beaver's anal gland, the feather of a lesbian albatross - and a head of broccoli from Tesco... And in an extended Christmas Special, actor Stephen Mangan helps Sue make sense of the gifts brought to her by presenters Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan and ethnobotanist James Wong - including reindeers, robins, turtle doves, holly and partridges.

Find out why geckos have dispensed with the patriarchy, why menopausal orcas are so aspirational, why male redback spiders somersault during mating, how ergot could have caused the Salem Witch Trials, how the giant water lily changed the face of modern architecture - and more. You'll learn about our planet's astonishing flora and fauna, while at the same time having a giggle - so gather round the nature table and prepare to be amazed...

Production credits

Presented by Sue Perkins

Written by Catherine Brinkworth, Kat Sadler, Jon Hunter, Jenny Laville and Nicky Roberts

Music by Ben Mirin

Sound Recordist & Editor: Jerry Peal

Additional sounds provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Produced by Simon Nicholls

© 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

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ID: 760992

Title: Echoes

Author: Evie Wyld

Narrator: Sebastian Humphreys, Vivien Carter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:33:45

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Max didnt believe in an afterlife. Until he died.

As a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, Max watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him. In the weeks and months before Maxs death, Hannah is haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape.

A relationship with Max seems to offer the potential of a different story, but the past refuses to stay hidden. It finds expression in the untold stories of the people she grew up with, the details of their lives she never knew and the events that broke her family apart and led her to Max.

Both a celebration and autopsy of a relationship, The Echoes is a novel about stories and who has the right to tell them, asking what of our past can we shrug off and what is fixed forever.

'A book that will stay with you forever' OBSERVER

'Sharp prose weaving intergenerational trauma and a ghost story' SINÉAD GLEESON

'It takes brilliance to leap into the darkness' ANNE ENRIGHT

'My favourite Wyld novel' PAULA HAWKINS

© Evie Wyld 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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ID: 743443

Title: Self-Storage: The Complete Series 1 and 2: A BBC Radio 4 Sitcom

Author: Barnaby Power, Tom Collinson

Narrator: Mark Heap, Phil Nichol, Reece Shearsmith, Rosie Cavaliero, Susan Earl, Tom Goodman-Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:44:36

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Family Life

Summary:

All twelve episodes of the BBC comedy drama about a man forced to live in a storage unit, starring Reece Shearsmith

When his marriage breaks up and he loses his job, Dave Preston has no choice but to move all his possessions and himself into The Storage Garden. But hes not alone in his predicament his fellow storage dweller, the mysterious and slightly psychotic Geoff, is in the same situation, and both are under the watchful eye of cultured security guard Ron.

As he hunkers down among the boxes of pebbles, unidentifiable bits of metal and cups without saucers, Dave picks over his failed relationship with ex-wife Sarah, and prepares to face the future. But life gets a lot more complicated when his sister Judy has a string of rows with her husband and decides to move in with Dave. Then, just as hes becoming resigned to his fate, Dave finds a new place to stay but can he go through with it?

Wry, warm and wonderfully written, this offbeat sitcom stars Reece Shearsmith (Inside No. 9) as Dave, Mark Heap (Upstart Crow) as Geoff, and Tom Goodman-Hill (Lewis) as Ron, with Rosie Cavaliero (Gentleman Jack) as Judy and Philip Jackson (Agatha Christies Poirot) as Dad.

Production credits

Written by Tom Collinson and Barnaby Power

Produced by Ed Morrish

Cast

Dave Reece Shearsmith

Geoff Mark Heap

Ron Tom Goodman-Hill

Judy Rosie Cavaliero

Sarah Susan Earl

Boss/Estate agent/Des Phil Nichol

Dad Philip Jackson

Liz Nadia Kamil

Mickey Paul Putner

Shop Assistant/Sioux/Stewardess Helen Longworth

Brian Stephen Critchlow

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 19 September-24 October 2007 (Series 1), 5 November-10 December 2008 (Series 2)

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ID: 711745

Title: Alvesdon

Author: James Holland

Narrator: Rachel Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:46:49

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

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

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

The village of Alvesdon has been home to the Castells for generations. But the year is 1939 and the peace and tranquillity there is about to be shattered once more by the stormclouds of war in Europe. As three generations of the family gather, they must all face the prospect of their lives being transformed beyond recognition the moment Britain declares war on Germany.

When the inevitable happens and Britain finds itself at war, the younger members of the family and farm workers are called up to fight and those who remain must battle to keep the home fires burning and the farm afloat. The gentle certainties of rural life are replaced by the urgent clamour of war, in the air, at sea and on land, where events unfold with dizzying rapidity and unexpected consequences.

Stretching from the glorious summer of 1939 to the Battle of Britain the following year, acclaimed historian James Holland paints a compelling and immersive fictional portrait of how the war changed everything. For one family and for a community, their way of life can never really be the same again

©2024 James Holland (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 733687

Title: Exile

Author: Patrick Worrall

Narrator: Olivia Vinall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:36:56

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction, Political Thriller, Espionage

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

It's 1951 and the servants of Stalin are closing in on the occupied nations of eastern Europe. As the Red Army tightens the net, Greta - best and bravest of freedom fighters - is told to escape to the West and undertake a dangerous mission.

Greta's task is to find a missing girl: the precious daughter of a partisan general who was sent into exile in the final days of the war.

But the so-called Free World is no place for vulnerable young refugees. Europe is in ruins, the old Empires are dying, and a spectacular cast of spivs, gangsters and rival intelligence agencies are fighting over the scraps.

Crossing the Iron Curtain will require nerves of steel as Greta faces down the French mob, ex-Nazis, Soviet spies, all the glamour and temptation of Paris and ultimately, her own demons.

The Exile is the stunning prequel to The Partisan, Patrick Worrall's critically-acclaimed debut, which introduced the world to the force of nature that is Greta. This is her white-knuckle ride into the black heart of postwar Europe - a terrifying world in which allies and enemies are impossible to tell apart.

Praise for The Partisan

'Fast-paced, intriguing and deeply atmospheric' Tom Bradby

'Remarkedly assured debut ... the advent of a real talent...One to watch' Sunday Times

'Impressive ... The scene-setting is finely detailed and evocative, the characters skilfully drawn' Financial Times

'Immersive, intriguing, and intelligent - incredibly impressive, up there with the best in the genre' Lee Child

© Patrick Worrall 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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