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ID: 712572

Title: 20th Century Vampire: A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Drama

Author: Joe Turner

Narrator: Fine Time Fontayne, Full Cast , Jane Hazlegrove, Joanna Kanska, Louise Lombard, William Ivory

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:50:14

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Coming of Age

Summary:

The comic adventures of a checkout girl turned trainee vampire.

Sulky Goth Eloise hates her life, Monday mornings and her dreary job as a Co-op sales assistant. Shes always felt like an outsider, but as her 21st birthday approaches, she starts to wonder if shes going mad. She cant sleep, the sun hurts her skin, shes plagued by nightmares and she has an insatiable craving for blood and worst of all, she seems to be allergic to garlic bread.

Then her Transylvanian Aunt Lucretia reveals that shes a vampire, and suddenly it all makes sense. Shes happier than shes ever been: but there are still a few hurdles to overcome. Before she can fulfil her destiny, she must study for a GCSE in vampirism and teacher Lucretia is tough. She also needs to keep her secret from her boyfriend Wayne, best mate Debbie and manager Mr Jenkins; survive the staff outing to the blood donation centre; and find a way to sample her bosss extremely rare, extremely tasty Bombay blood. And when she turns Lucretias castle into a love shack while her aunts away, she finds herself facing danger...

Starring Louise Lombard as Eloise and Joanna Kanska as Lucretia, this light-hearted comedy drama will delight fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and What We Do In the Shadows. Its a sitcom you can really get your teeth into...

Production credits

Written by Joe Turner

Produced by Liz Anstee

Cast

Eloise Louise Lombard

Lucretia Joanna Kanska

Wayne William Ivory

Debbie Jane Hazlegrove

Mr Jenkins Fine Time Fontayne

With Linda Polan and Steve Hodson

First broadcast BBC Radio 5, 29 October-3 December 1993

© 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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ID: 704327

Title: Power of Du'a

Author: Aliyah Umm Raiyaan

Narrator: Aliyah Umm Raiyaan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:03:54

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Studies, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

What seems impossible can become possible through dua

In The Power of Dua, Sunday Times bestselling author and revert, Aliyah Umm Raiyaan takes you on a journey that shows how faith and practising dua (a personal supplication) can transform your life.

Featuring inspirational real-life stories from those who have experienced miraculous results from living with dua, this book is a comforting guide to revive and develop a close relationship with Al Mujeeb The One Who Responds. Through lifes challenges and struggles, with tools from the Quran and Sunnah, you will learn how to:

- Sincerely prepare your heart before dua

- Ask of Allah from a place of certainty, during dua

- Move forward in faithful trust after He responds

You will learn how to prepare your heart and then ask of Allah from a place of sincerity and certainty. This book provides tools to navigate the response to your dua, developing a close and trusting relationship with The Most High.

Deeply moving and uplifting, The Power of Dua is for anyone looking to reflect, reshape their dialogue with the Divine and walk in complete faith embracing the perfect plans Allah has for each and every one of us.

©2024 Aliyah Umm Raiyaan (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 709858

Title: Alone: The Complete Series 1-4: A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Drama

Author: Moray Hunter

Narrator: Abigail Cruttenden, Angus Deayton, Bennett Arron, Full Cast , Kate Isitt, Pearce Quigley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:41:32

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody

Summary:

An all-star comedy about love, life and everything in-between

Living in flats in a converted house in North London, a group of middle-aged neighbours navigate their careers, love lives and family dramas in this charming sitcom full of heart.

Mitch is a widower and part-time therapist who is looking to put his life back together. Now single, he has temporarily moved in with Will, his younger, more volatile and unhappily divorced half-brother. Elsewhere in the building are schoolteacher Ellie who is shy, nervous and desperately missing her ex-boyfriend, as well as overly honest, frustrated actress Louisa, and socially inept IT nerd Morris. Follow the hilarious highs and lows as these strangers connect and their lives become entwined, for better or worse

Featuring Angus Deayton (Have I Got News For You, One Foot in the Grave) as Mitch and Pearce Quigley (The Detectorists) as Will, Alone also stars TVs Abigail Cruttenden (Sharpe, Not Going Out), Kate Issit (Coupling), plus writer and stand-up comedian Bennett Arron. Listen to all four series of this hugely popular show in this brand-new collection.

This collection also includes exclusive behind the scenes interviews with the cast and with show creator Moray Hunter.

Cast and credits

Written and created by Moray Hunter

Script edited by Ian Brown and James Hendrie

Directed by Moray Hunter and Gordon Kennedy

Sound Engineer and Editor Jerry Peal

Production Manager Sarah Tombling

Produced by Gordon Kennedy

An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4

Mitch - Angus Deayton

Will - Pearce Quigley

Ellie - Abigail Cruttenden

Louisa - Kate Isitt

Morris - Bennett Arron

Helen/Hannah/Rebecca - Carrie Quinlan

Luke - Roger May

Marie - Hilary Maclean

Chris - Frances Barber

Laurence/Quiz Master - Clive Mantle

Tom (Chief Fire Officer) - Saul Boyer

Waiter - Dominic Coleman

Kath/Alice - Morwenna Banks

Connor - Fred Haig

Maya - Mina Anwar

Nina - Jocelyn Jee Esien

Josh - Jonny Weldon

First broadcast 7 January 2017 (Pilot), 26 April-31 May 2018 (Series 1), 10 October-21 November 2019 (Series 2), 7 April-12 May 2021 (Series 3), 16 August-20 September 2022 (Series 4)

©2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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ID: 709859

Title: Lucy Porter in the Family Way: Four BBC Radio Stand Up Specials

Author: Lucy Porter

Narrator: Lucy Porter, Luke Kempner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:47:15

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: General Comedy

Summary:

Lucy Porter explores family life via songs, sketches and stand-up

One of the most talented comics on the circuit Time Out

Lucy Porter is well known for her cheery, feelgood comedy. She has toured both nationally and internationally with her one-woman shows, and her many TV and radio appearances include Live at the Apollo, QI, The Now Show and The News Quiz. In this quartet of stand-up specials, she examines domestic life from the dramatic to the dreary, aided by comedian and impressionist Luke Kempner.

Lucy Porter in the Family Way sees her probing what family life means to her, as a mum and a middle-aged orphan. Beginning with her childhood in Croydon, she chats about leaving the nest, motherhood and her parenting style (benign neglect). She also offers helpful tips on swearing, sleepovers and the importance of always having a pound coin handy; addresses the pros and cons of siblings; and discusses what its like to parent your own parents. With a lot of laughs and a dollop of poignancy, this warm, witty show charts the life cycle of a typical nuclear family from soft play centres to garden centres and Morrisons café.

Lucy Porter In The Family Way Again finds Lucy pondering the concept of legacy. Contemplating the bric-a-brac her parents left behind them, she muses on the other things theyve passed on to her weak ankles, terrible teeth and a small third nipple and the weird quirks and foibles shes inherited. But its her parents values, like kindness and charity, that she wants to pass on to her own kids. Funny and moving, In The Family Way Again is a love letter from Lucy to her mum, and a tender reflection on the things our parents do that drive us mad things well inevitably end up doing ourselves.

In Lucy Porter: Back in the Family Way, recorded at Lucys local village hall with a socially distanced audience of her family, friends and neighbours, she reflects on how the pandemic affected our relationships with our loved ones. She looks back on the months spent locked down with her husband, children and cats and on the challenges of home schooling, Zoom meetings and online weddings and funerals. And, from next slide please to sourdough bread and clapping for carers, she considers all the things that brought us together even while we were kept apart.

Finally, in Lucy Porters Lucky Dip Lucy is back with a delightful celebration of midlife madness. Ably assisted by her young apprentice Luke Kempner, Lucy tackles bank holiday bin collection schedules, video doorbell footage, and being a member of the sandwich generation. Apparently, human happiness peaks at 18, dips to its lowest point between the ages of 49 and 54, then picks up again - by the age of about 65 youre as happy again as you were at 18.

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ID: 691810

Title: How AI Thinks: How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it

Author: Nigel Toon

Narrator: Joe Jameson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:47:28

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science & Technology, Computers

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big.

We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in ways that are intuitive, or respond to questions as a human might. All that has changed, dramatically, in the past few years.

Our search engines are becoming answer engines. Artificial intelligence is already revolutionising sectors from education to healthcare to the creative arts. But how does an AI understand sentiment or context? How does it play and win games that have an almost infinite number of moves? And how can we work with AI to produce insights and innovations that are beyond human capacity, from writing code in an instant to unfolding the elaborate 3D puzzles of proteins?

We stand at the brink of a historic change that will disrupt society and at the same time create enormous opportunities for those who understand how AI thinks. Nigel Toon shows how we train AI to train itself, so that it can paint images that have never existed before or converse in any language. In doing so he reveals the strange and fascinating ways that humans think, too, as we learn how to live in a world shared by machine intelligences of our own creation.

©2024 Nigel Toon (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 692282

Title: Romantic Friction: A BBC Radio Comedy Drama

Author: Michelle Read

Narrator: Adjoa Andoh, Andrew Wincott, Full Cast , Hugh Bonneville, Michael Fenton Stevens, Samantha Bond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:51:01

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Romance, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Samantha Bond and Hugh Bonneville star in this entertaining sitcom about a writer whose romance novel is interrupted by meeting a real man

Author Anna Shelby is desperately trying to finish her latest bodice-ripper, a torrid tale of passion and jealousy set against a dazzling period background. But she's finding it hard to concentrate on her plotlines as, after years of having a purely fictional love life, she's finally met a real, live man.

Unfortunately, her fantasies about Brian are constantly interrupted by her characters, chirpy Cockney muse Minnie and chisel-jawed hero Lord Robert. Concerned about the lack of authorial presence, they insist on leaping off the page to narrate their own story...

As love blossoms for Anna, her creative juices begin to flow - but when Brian's friend Dougie lures him away to the Shetland Islands to build fibreglass ducks, she's hit by a bout of writer's block. With her book on hold, her deadline looming and her heart broken, is there any hope of a happy ending?

Written by award-winning playwright Michelle Read, this sparkling rom-com stars Samantha Bond as Anna and Hugh Bonneville as Brian, with a full cast including Adjoa Andoh, Andrew Wincott and Michael Fenton Stevens.

Production credits

Written by Michelle Read

Produced by Dawn Ellis

Cast

Anna - Samantha Bond

Brian - Hugh Bonneville

Deirdre - Beth Chalmers

Fertility Doll - Adjoa Andoh

Book - Michael Fenton Stevens

Brenda - Michelle Read

Buddah - Kammy Darweish

Bob - Andrew Wincott

Minnie - Cathy Murphy/Sue Elliott-Nicholls

Dougie - Ewan Bailey

First broadcast BBC Radio 4 on the following dates:

Episode 1: Thwarted 26 June 2000

Episode 2: Love Hurts 10 October 2001

Episode 3: Clouds 17 October 2001

Episode 4: An Ending..? 24 October 2001

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

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ID: 696146

Title: Jaded

Author: Ela Lee

Narrator: Rosa Escoda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:11:11

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Multicultural & Interracial, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Jade isn't even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name.

Jade has done all the right things.

She's curated herself to fit right in at her law firm, but tells herself she has no choice.

She's with a man who loves her, but isn't always herself around him.

She's made her Omma and Baba proud, but resents that they can't properly understand her.

Jade is perfectly in control of her life.

Until one terrible night unravels Jade's carefully constructed world, leaving her wondering who she truly is.

JADED is a refreshing and bitingly honest debut novel about how one shocking event can upend everything... and asks, what would you have done in her situation?

©2024 Ela Lee (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 731591

Title: Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

Author: Will Guidara

Narrator: Will Guidara

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:37:18

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising, Business Development

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner of legendary restaurant Eleven Madison Park.

Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world.

How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining roomand memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality. Guidaras team surprised a family who had never seen snow with a magical sledding trip to Central Park after their dinner; they filled a private dining room with sand, complete with mai-tais and beach chairs, to console a couple with a cancelled vacation. And his hospitality extended beyond those dining at the restaurant to his own team, who learned to deliver praise and criticism with intention; why the answer to some of the most pernicious business dilemmas is to give morenot less; and the magic that can happen when a busser starts thinking like an owner.

Today, every business can choose to be a hospitality businessand we can all transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences. Featuring sparkling stories of his journey through restaurants, with the industrys most famous players like Daniel Boulud and Danny Meyer, Guidara urges us all to find the magic in what we dofor ourselves, the people we work with, and the people we serve.

©2024 Will Guidara (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 719903

Title: Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World

Author: David Van Reybrouck

Narrator: Neil Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22:06:36

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: History, Politics, Asia, Military

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**

A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2024*

On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on behalf of 68 million compatriots announced the birth of a new nation: Indonesia.

Four million civilians had died during the Japanese wartime occupation that ousted its Dutch colonial regime. Another 200,000 people would lose their lives in the astonishingly brutal conflict that ensued - as the Dutch used savage violence to reassert their control, and as Britain and America became embroiled in pacifying Indonesia's guerrilla war of resistance: the 'Revolusi'. It was not until December 1949 that the newly created United Nations finally brought the conflict an end - and with it, 350 years of colonial rule - setting a precedent that would reshape the world.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and eye-witness testimonies, David Van Reybrouck turns this vast and complex story into an utterly gripping narrative that is alive with human detail at every turn. A landmark publication, Revolusi shows Indonesia's struggle for independence to be one of the defining dramas of the twentieth century.

'Astounding . . . history at its best' Yuval Noah Harari

'Utterly compelling . . . masterful' Financial Times *Summer Reads 2024*

'Superb' Guardian

'A magnificent fusion of oral history, sparkling analysis, and historical wisdom. Revolusi has it all: a masterpiece' SEBASTIAN MALLABY

'One of the most unlikely and astonishing sagas ... a towering achievement' THOMAS MEANEY

'A magisterial but gripping account of events of urgent importance to us now' JASON BURKE

'At once vast and intimate, a history in colour' LAKSMI PAMUNTJAK

'A masterly display of the historians craft' J M COETZEE

'A wonderful and important book' PETER FRANKOPAN

©2024 David Van Reybrouck (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 744901

Title: Seven Deadly Psychologies: A BBC Radio Series

Author: Becky Ripley, Sophie Ward

Narrator: Becky Ripley, Sophie Ward, Various

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:13:07

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Summary:

A fascinating exploration of the psychology behind the seven deadly sins

Why have we evolved these ugly emotions? Whats going on in the brain and the body when we feel them? And how best can we live alongside them - in ourselves and with others?

Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward take a humorous and compelling look at the psychology behind each of the seven deadly sins. Rolling with the order established by Pope Gregory the Great, first up is pride, followed by greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and (finally) lazy old sloth.

With contributions from leading experts in the field, including geneticist, writer and presenter Dr Adam Rutherford, Dr Anna Machin from the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and sexologist Dr Anand Patel, this is a fascinating, funny and revelatory series that explores what makes us who we are and busts some myths along the way.

Pride - How can we have confidence without veering into arrogance? Pride can be motivating and self-affirming. But then theres the ugly side: thinking youre better than others. How can we have one without the other?

Greed - Why do we want money, land, material things and ultimately control, status, dominance, power? And can we be greedy for the good?

Lust - Lust is crucial to the continuation of our species, but it's also a form of neurochemical madness that can lead us astray. How can we best live alongside our drives and desires?

Envy - Is the grass always greener? Can we want what others have without being riddled with resentment?

Gluttony - Why do we crave what we crave? The odd bit of indulgence isn't such a bad thing - but sometimes we overdo it. We short circuit our dopamine reward systems, and before we know it, we can't stop. Can we control our cravings? And when does a little bit of binging become too much?

Wrath - Things can get pretty ugly when our blood starts to boil. Some of us are quick to flip, some of us brood, and some of us push down our anger. Anger is a motivator, a driver for change in the face of a perceived injustice. The question is, how are you going to act on it?

Sloth - Is there a place for rest in todays hyper-productive world? Our brains and bodies need rest in order to recharge. But too much sloth, and you can get stuck in a downward spiral of apathy or depression. How can we get the balance right?

Join Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward on a fascinating journey through what it means to be human in todays modern world.

Written and presented by Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward

Produced by Becky Ripley

First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 21 November 2023 2 January 2024

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

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