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ID: 693594

Title: Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

Author: Catherine Coldstream

Narrator: Catherine Coldstream

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:23:50

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Christianity, Religious Studies

Summary:

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An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery

Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity and obedience.

Finding an apparently perfect world at Akenside Priory, and a haven after the loss of her father, Catherine Coldstream trusts herself to a group of twenty silent women, believing she is trusting herself to God. As the beauty and mystery of an ancient way of life enfolds her, she surrenders herself wholly to its power, only to find that all is not as it seems behind the Order's closed doors.

Cut off from the wider world for decades, the community has managed to evade accountability to any authority beyond itself. When Sister Catherine realises that a toxic cult of the personality has replaced the ancient ideal of religious obedience, she is faced with a dilemma. Will she submit even to this, or will she be forced to speak out?

An exploration of the limits of trust, Cloistered shows us how far grief can take us along the road of self-surrender, and of how much harm is done when institutional flaws go unacknowledged. Catherine's honest account of her time in the monastery - and her dramatic flight from it - is both a beautiful love song to a lost community and a sharp critique of the abuse of power in an ancient institution.

Disclaimer: This book is a work of non-fiction based on the life, experiences and recollections of the author. In some cases names of people and places, dates, sequences and the detail of events have been changed to protect the privacy of others.

©2024 Catherine Coldstream (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 685382

Title: Mona of the Manor

Author: Armistead Maupin

Narrator: Mara Wilson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:44:45

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Romance, LGBTQ, Contemporary

Summary:

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Mona is the eccentric Lady of Easley House, running a bed and breakfast to keep her inherited English manor afloat.

Wilfred is Mona's 26-year-old adopted son who spends his weekends in London, looking for love in the gay bars of Soho while pining after his pen pal, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver.

The current guest of the manor is Rhonda, a straight-laced southern belle who has left her abusive husband and has no idea what to do next, especially in the company of the free-spirited Mona and Wilfred.

Mona of the Manor, the tenth self-contained Tales of the City chronicles, is a sharply witty comedy about identity, assumptions and finding a logical family in 1980s Thatcherite Britain.

©2024 Armistead Maupin (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 552965

Title: Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God

Author: Catherine Nixey

Narrator: Lalla Ward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:10:41

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religious Studies

Summary:

'Heresy is a brilliant book' - The Times

'Enthralling' - The Sunday Telegraph

‘In the beginning was the Word,’ says the Gospel of John. This sentence – and the words of all four gospels – is central to the teachings of the Christian church and has shaped Western art, literature and language, and the Western mind.

Yet in the years after the death of Christ there was not merely one word, nor any consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. There were many different Jesuses, among them the aggressive Jesus who scorned his parents and crippled those who opposed him, the Jesus who sold his twin into slavery and the Jesus who had someone crucified in his stead.

Moreover, in the early years of the first millennium there were many other saviours, many sons of gods who healed the sick and cured the lame. But as Christianity spread, they were pronounced unacceptable – even heretical – and they faded from view. Now, in Heresy, Catherine Nixey tells their extraordinary story, one of contingency, chance and plurality. It is a story about what might have been.

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ID: 707120

Title: Doctor Who: River of Death: 6th Doctor Audio Original

Author: John Peel

Narrator: Nicola Bryant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:18:23

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Nicola Bryant reads a brand new original adventure for the Sixth Doctor and Peri.

A visit to the Grand Canyon begins with disaster for the Doctor and Peri, when the TARDIS plunges into a ravine. The travellers' only hope is to descend to the valley on foot and then track the course of the Colorado river. Their perilous journey is fraught with danger, even before they encounter a band of 19th Century explorers led by Major John Wesley Powell. Joining the watery expedition, the Doctor and Peri begin to despair of ever seeing the TARDIS again. As food supplies dwindle, so do the group's options. This is a journey which some of them will never return.

Nicola Bryant, who played Peri in the BBC TV series, reads John Peel's stirring historical tale of human endeavour and American pioneers.

© 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Reading produced by Neil Gardner. Executive producer for BBC Audiobooks: Michael Stevens

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ID: 733663

Title: Brendan Behan: Borstal Boy, The Quare Fellow and The Hostage: Three BBC Radio Full-Cast Productions

Author: Brendan Behan

Narrator: Ann Callanan, Anne Kent, Brendan Coyle, Brian Kidd, Ewan Bailey, Full Cast , Gerard Mcdermott, John Hewitt, Jonny Holden, Joseph Ayre, Leah Marks, Louis Rolston, Michael Baguley, Michael Duffy, Samuel James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:12:54

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ+

Summary:

A collection of some of the rockstar playwrights finest work

Brendan Behan is widely remembered as a hard-drinking, wise-cracking writer who turned up roaring drunk for interviews and cared little for authority. But he was more than just a hell-raising celebrity. His wit, expressive use of language and understanding of human nature made his writing famous around the world, and his masterpieces The Quare Fellow, Borstal Boy and The Hostage rank among the greatest works of 20th century Irish literature. Dramatisations of all three appear here, alongside a short interview with Behan himself and a fascinating biographical programme celebrating his genius.

Charting Behans journey from shy, passionate young man to larger-than-life literary superstar, Borstal Boy tells the story of a stammering IRA rebel who finds true friends and first love in an English borstal. Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey) stars as Behan in this fresh take on his honest, tender 1958 memoir. Behans debut play, The Quare Fellow, first produced in 1954, was based on his own prison experiences. A darkly funny drama about a group of inmates awaiting the imminent execution of a fellow prisoner, it is performed here by players from the Arts Theatre, Lyric Theatre, and Ulster Theatre Company, Belfast. And finally, translated from the Gaelic by acclaimed writer Lorcán Ó Treasaigh, An Giall (The Hostage) revolves around a British soldier held hostage by the IRA in a Dublin brothel. This 1988 Radio 3 version is the first English production of Behans Irish tragicomedy, which formed the basis of Joan Littlewood 's 1958 Theatre Workshop hit.

Also included is a 1959 clip from BBC Televisions Tonight, featuring Brendan Behan in conversation with Derek Hart, and an episode of Great Lives in which Joan Littlewood talks to Humphrey Carpenter about her long-time friend and collaborator.

Cast and credits

Written by Brendan Behan

Text copyright © Brendan Behan 1954 (The Quare Fellow), 1958 (Borstal Boy, The Hostage)

Borstal Boy

Cast: Brendan Coyle, Jonny Holden, Joseph Ayre, Leah Marks, Ewan Bailey, Connor Curren, Samuel James, Gerard McDermott

Dramatised by Martin McNamara

Directed by Anne Isger

Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Powell

Sound: Anne Bunting, Jenni Burnett, Ali Craig and Cal Knightley

A BBC Audio Production for BBC Radio 4

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 16 Apr 2023

The Quare Fellow

Cast: John McBride, Louis Rolston, Michael Duffy, Sam McCready, Maurice OCallaghan, Michael Lynch, Charles Witherspoon, Bill Hunter, Peter Adair, Barry Cowan, Brian Cullen, Harold Goldblatt, Joe McPartland, J.J. Murphy, Patrick Brannigan, Jack McQuoid, Jeremy Jones, George Mooney

Adapted and produced by David A.

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ID: 719898

Title: Orbit One Zero: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Classic Sci Fi Drama

Author: Peter Elliott Hayes

Narrator: David Spenser, Elaine Macnamara, Felix Felton, Full Cast , Graydon Gould

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:51:01

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

A vintage British sci-fi serial involving the tracking of mysterious signals from space.

A glimpse across a weird threshold, on the rim of space where there should be nothing but eternal, frozen darkness. Yet where there was something more...

Reporter Tom Lambert decides to reinvestigate the bizarre events of a decade earlier concerning the cosmic noise. Believing the whole truth was never revealed, he tracks down the one man who knows it: retired astrophysics professor Dr Hayward Petrie. Told in flashbacks, the story unfolds from Petries recordings of the time when he experienced things that made him doubt his own sanity...

Invited to visit his old colleague Campbell McLaren, who is in charge of a radio telescope on a remote Hebridean island, Petrie asks students Clifford Brown and Elizabeth Ryder to join him. McLaren has been studying cosmic radiation, and has detected an unusual pattern of signals, apparently being transmitted by an intelligence beyond Earth. Arriving on Scara, the trio hear the signals for themselves, and while exploring the island, Clifford and Elizabeth discover a mysterious cylindrical object buried on the beach.

What is this peculiar, glowing cylinder, and how is it connected to the radio signals emanating from deep space? As its contents and awesome capabilities are revealed, its terrifying purpose becomes clear...

First broadcast in 1961 on the BBC Home Service, this six-part space adventure by Peter Elliott Hayes stars Felix Felton as Dr Petrie, David Spenser as Tom Lambert, Graydon Gould as Clifford Brown and Elaine MacNamara as Elizabeth Ryder.

Production credits

Written by Peter Elliott Hayes

Produced by David Davis

Cast

Dr Petrie Felix Felton

Tom Lambert David Spenser

Clifford Brown Graydon Gould

Elizabeth Ryder Elaine MacNamara

Professor Campbell McLaren Ian Sadler

Peter Garrick Harold Reese

Sir Edward Bancroft William Fox

Mr Morgan/Dr Trevor Hughes Basil Jones

Lord Hetherton Charles West

Police Superintendent Eric Lugg

First broadcast BBC Home Service, 21 April-26 May 1961

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

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ID: 712957

Title: Listen for the Lie

Author: Amy Tintera

Narrator: January Lavoy, Will Damron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:18:10

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

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Am I a murderer? You tell me . . .

You probably already know my name. Lucy Chase, the woman who doesnt remember murdering her best friend.

Even though they couldnt find enough evidence to charge me, I know you all think I did it. Thats OK. I realise being found wandering the streets the next day covered in her blood wasn't a great look.

Believe me, Im as frustrated as you are. Id love to know if Im a murderer its the sort of thing you really should know about yourself, isnt it?

And now, thanks to true-crime podcast Listen for the Lie, I finally have the chance to find out. But will I be able to live with myself if it turns out it was me?

And if it wasnt, will digging into the secrets of the night I forgot make me the next target of whoever did?

Perfect for fans of HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY by Bella Mackie, NONE OF THIS IS TRUE by Lisa Jewell and MURDER IN THE FAMILY by Cara Hunter.

Funny, thrilling, relatable. Couldn't put it down. I didn't want it to end! - Katy Brent, author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

Cool, smart, slick, funny, dark, sexy, sharp - I genuinely dont remember the last time reading was this much fun. - Lexie Elliott, author of Richard & Judy pick How to Kill Your Best Friend

Original and deliciously dark with a wicked sense of humour. An addictive page-turner that will keep you guessing until the end. - Alice Feeney, New York Times bestselling author of Rock Paper Scissors

©2024 Amy Tintera (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 693592

Title: Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story

Author: Sophie Elmhirst

Narrator: Florence Howard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:51:34

Language: English

Release date: 02-29-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, General

Summary:

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**A Guardian, Observer & Waterstones Nonfiction Book of 2024**

** A Financial Times BEST SUMMER READ**

'One of those very special books that makes you put everything on hold so you can get back to it' RACHEL JOYCE

What begins as an eccentric English love story turns into one of the most dramatic adventures ever recorded...

Maurice and Maralyn couldn't be more different. He is as cautious and awkward as she is charismatic and forceful. It seems an unlikely romance, but it works.

Bored of 1970s suburban life, Maralyn has an idea: sell the house, build a boat, leave England -- and its oil crisis, industrial strikes and inflation -- forever. It is hard work, turning dreams into reality, but finally they set sail for New Zealand. Then, halfway there, their beloved boat is struck by a whale and the pair are cast adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

On their tiny raft, their love is put to the test. When Maurice begins to withdraw into himself, it falls upon Maralyn to keep them both alive. Filled with danger, spirit, and tenderness, this is a book about human connection and the human condition; about how we survive -- not just at sea, but in life.

'Extraordinary . . . Elmhirst is a terrific writer' ELIZABETH DAY

**READERS ADORE MAURICE & MARALYN**

A riveting tale of survival . . . and of the power of love when all appears lost

A mind-blowing story of resilience and love in the face of adversity

The very best kind of true story, and beautifully written

I couldnt put this book down

I was absolutely hooked from the outset

©2024 Sophie Elmhirst (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 719899

Title: McLevy in the New World: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Crime Drama

Author: David Ashton

Narrator: Brian Cox, Full Cast , Siobhan Redmond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:54:17

Language: English

Release date: 02-29-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

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

Summary:

Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond return in two new series of adventures set in San Francisco.

Forced to run for his life after killing two suspects, assaulting the Chief Constable and inadvertently causing the death of Lieutenant Roach, McLevy has fled Leith for San Francisco. Somewhat rashly, and against her better judgement, Jean Brash has decided to accompany him...

Arriving in America, it seems theyve jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire. San Francisco is as cold and foggy as Leith, and home to just as many criminals. With the Gold Rush at its height, the city is a madhouse, its inhabitants driven by greed. Everyone is dying to get rich quick, and McLevy and Jean are caught in the middle.

Unimpressed by San Franciscos bawdy houses, Jean shifts from brothel-keeping to playing poker, and is soon making a killing. McLevy, however, is having a harder time adjusting. Adrift and purposeless, he goes looking for trouble and finds it in spades. As he and Jean face violence, corruption, skulduggery and murder, McLevy sets about doing what he does best: tackling crime. His time as a policeman may be over, but in this wild, lawless West, theres a desperate need for a good private investigator...

Starring Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond, these four entertaining episodes follow ex-Inspector James McLevy and former madame Jean Brash as they attempt to forge a new life in the New World.

Cast and credits

Written by David Ashton

Produced and directed by Bruce Young

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

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ID: 695001

Title: Escape Room

Author: L. D. Smithson

Narrator: Catherine Bailey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:29:57

Language: English

Release date: 02-29-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

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Eight contestants. One killer. Can you find the traitor?

'Wow! What a page-turner. I'm a Celebrity meets Lord of the Flies.' Emma Curtis

The pace never slackens. Faith Martin

Everything is a clue.

Bonnie arrives on a remote sea fort off the coast of England to take part in a mysterious reality TV show. Competing against seven strangers, she must solve a series of puzzles to win the prize money, but this is no game - and the consequences of failure are deadly.

No one leaves.

Under scrutiny from the watching public, the contestants quickly turn on one another. Who will sacrifice the most for wealth and fame? And why can't Bonnie shake the creeping sense that they are not alone?

The only way out is to win.

When the first contestant is found dead, Bonnie begins to understand the dark truth at the heart of this twisted competition: there's a killer inside the fort, and anyone could be next. If Bonnie wants to escape, she needs to win...

Are you ready to play?

©2024 L. D. Smithson (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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