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ID: 732082

Title: Death at the Sign of the Rook

Author: Kate Atkinson

Narrator: Jason Isaacs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:31:50

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Detective Stories

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Welcome to Rook Hall. The stage is set. The players are ready. By nights end, a murderer will be revealed.

Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town, and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting. But one theft leads to another, including the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace, home to Lady Milton and her family. Once a magnificent country house, Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel, hosting Murder Mystery weekends.

As paying guests, a vicar, an ex-army officer, impecunious aristocrats, and old friends converge, we are treated a fiendishly clever mystery; one that pays homage to the masters of the genrefrom Agatha Christie to Dorothy Sayers.

Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinsons signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, Death at the Sign of the Rook may be Jackson Brodies most outrageous and memorable case yet.

'How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon becomes a landscape that could only have been crafted from the pen of the incomparable Kate Atkinson' Ian Rankin

'Christie would be proud . . . I defy you not to snort with laughter as the novel progresses to its farcical denouement. Atkinson is brilliant' Observer

©2024 Kate Atkinson (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 745783

Title: Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

Author: Peter F. Hamilton

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30:58:49

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

‘Gloriously imaginative’SFX Magazine

Explore EXODUS, a new sci-fi action-adventure RPG coming soon from Archetype Entertainment featured in this epic novel from legendary author Peter F. Hamilton.

A fight for freedom among the stars . . .

In a past age, humanity fled a dying Earth in massive ark ships. These searched the galaxy to find a new home. Then one fleet found Centauri, a dense cluster of stars teeming with habitable planets. Now, thousands of years later, Centauri’s settlers have evolved into advanced beings known as Celestials – and their great houses rule vast star systems.

As they vie for supremacy, Earth’s ark ships continue to arrive, and humans must serve these repressive masters. But is there a better life beyond the empire? Finn is a Centauri-born human and yearns for a brighter future. So, when another ark ship arrives, previously thought lost, Finn seizes the chance to become a Traveler. These heroes explore the vast unknowns of distant space, dedicated to humanity’s survival. And they hope – one day – to find freedom.

EXODUS is an action-adventure roleplaying game from Archetype Entertainment, led by industry veterans from BioWare (Mass Effect), 343 (Halo), Electronic Arts, Naughty Dog (The Last of Us) and other AAA studios.

Exodus: The Archimedes Engine is the first book in a duology by legendary author Peter F. Hamilton. It’s an original novel set in the universe of EXODUS and explores Hamilton’s richly-imagined worlds.

Praise for EXODUS: The Archimedes Engine

‘Always one of SF’s most incisive voices. A perfect balance of ingenious ideas and intricate execution. Real big picture Sci-fi’ – Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time

‘EXODUS is a binge-worthy read from a master of science fiction’ – William C. Dietz, author of Halo: The Flood

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ID: 737664

Title: On Freedom

Author: Timothy Snyder

Narrator: Timothy Snyder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:48:38

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Politics, World, Philosophy, Political Advocacy

Summary:

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Freedom is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good. The moment you believe freedom is given, it is gone. There is no freedom without solidarity; freedom for you means freedom for me.

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a brilliant exploration of freedom what it is, how its been misunderstood, and why its our only chance for survival.

Freedom is our great commitment, but we have lost sight of what it means leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: we think were free if we can do and say as we please. But true freedom isnt so much freedom from, as freedom to the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible.

Drawing on the work of philosophers and political dissidents, conversations with contemporary thinkers and his own experiences, Snyder identifies the practices and attitudes that will allow us to design a government in which we and future generations can flourish. Intimate yet ambitious, this book forges a new consensus rooted in a politics of abundance, generosity and grace.

On Tyranny inspired millions around the world to fight for freedom; On Freedom helps us see exactly what were fighting for. It is a thrilling intellectual journey and a tour de force of political philosophy.

In these hard times for liberty, On Freedom makes the case that freedom, once explored and understood, is the way forward PRESIDENT ZELENSKY

Everyone who cares about freedom should read this book ANNE APPLEBAUM

Passionate, intimate, compelling a clarion call PHILIPPE SANDS

© Timothy Snyder 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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ID: 786429

Title: Old Dog and Partridge: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Comedy

Author: Joe Turner

Narrator: Cherry Morris, Full Cast , Lisa Coleman, Michael Williams, Simon Greenall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:49:43

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Family Life

Summary:

Michael Williams and Lisa Coleman star in this six-part family sitcom set in a village pub

Landlord Jack and his daughter Nicola used to be close when she was seven, and all she talked about was ponies. Now shes 26 and works in the City, and theyve drifted apart. So when she comes back for a Christmas visit and announces she wants to stay and help manage the pub, hes less than thrilled. Barmaid Mrs Drummond is unimpressed too shes never liked Nicola but regular customer Andy is delighted shes back home.

Adapting to being a co-landlord is difficult for Jack, whos run things single-handed since Nicolas mum died. Hes a creature of habit, an old dog who wont be taught new tricks. Having his grown-up daughter around all the time is a challenge, especially when she breaks his favourite bowl and keeps insisting he talk about his feelings. But neither Jack nor Nicola wants to call time on their relationship can they accept each others foibles and find a way to reconnect?

Created by veteran Coronation Street writer Joe Turner, this warm-hearted comedy drama stars Michael Williams (A Fine Romance) as Jack and Lisa Coleman (The Story of Tracy Beaker) as Nicola, with Simon Greenall (Im Alan Partridge) as Andy and Cherry Morris (Mapp and Lucia) as Mrs Drummond.

Production credits

Written by Joe Turner

Produced by Liz Anstee

Cast

Jack Michael Williams

Nicola Lisa Coleman

Mrs Drummond Cherry Morris

Andy Simon Greenall

Brian/Steve/Derek/Joe/Various Toby Longworth

Andys Mum/The Inspector Sally Grace

Arthur Finetime Fontayne

Ralph John Duttine

Kirstie Debra Stephenson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 7 January-11 February 1999

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

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ID: 782418

Title: Human Design Made Simple: Unlock your strengths & discover your true purpose

Author: Emma Dunwoody

Narrator: Emma Dunwoody

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:10:03

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

Brought to by Penguin.

Human Design gives us the blueprint to our personality: our strengths and weaknesses, our energy type, who we work best with, how we communicate, and so much more.

Behavioural Specialist, Master Coach and Neuro-Linguistic Programming expert Emma Dunwoody reveals the power of her new modern method, Transformational Human Design, in simple steps, teaching you how to integrate the knowledge into your everyday, moving from thinking to feeling, and transform your life.

Drawing inspiration from many different schools of wisdom, including the chakras, Tree of Life, I Ching and Western astrology, Human Design is a system based on our time and date of birth, illustrated as a unique chart that reveals our opportunities, challenges, personality, strengths, relationships and much more.

Through Human Design, you can tap into a detailed and unique toolkit to help you unlock your true power. Human Design Made Simple will show you how to:

- find out what your Internal Guidance is, and how you can harness it

- discover what your energy type is, and tap into its power

- stop striving to be someone you're not and feel comfortable in your own skin

- understand your intuition, personality, habits, relationships, and more

Personal and easy-to-understand, Human Design Made Simple will show how to apply your new understanding to day-to-day living. Through Emma's Transformational Human Design you'll find ways to recondition your habits, find your true purpose and truly live life to the full.

© Emma Dunwoody 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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ID: 774442

Title: Third Gilmore Girl

Author: Kelly Bishop

Narrator: Kelly Bishop

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:48:42

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, Women

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Beloved award-winning actress Kelly Bishop, famous for playing the iconic Emily Gilmore in Gilmore Girls, finally tells the whole story of her six decades in show business in this long-awaited, candid, wise and captivating memoir.

Kelly Bishops storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Greys mother in Dirty Dancing, but it is probably her role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy.

Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future, sharing some of her greatest stories and the life lessons shes learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experiencedamong them marching for womens rights and losing her second husband to cancerBishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life.

Full of witty insights, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and powerful memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades and has no plans on slowing down.

© Kelly Bishop 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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ID: 798063

Title: I Brought the War with Me: Stories and Poems from the Front Line

Author: Lindsey Hilsum

Narrator: Lindsey Hilsum, Mikhail Sen, Nadia Albina

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:37:09

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Literary

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.

In nearly four decades as a journalist covering conflict from Rwanda to Kosovo to Palestine, Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry. In Ukraine, she tweeted a poem a day, and people began to read, to share, to ask for more.

Here, Lindsey collects her favourite poems from ancient times to modern, by writers from all around the world. Alongside each, she recalls a memory from her own work, whether interviewing the warlords of Bosnia, meeting child soldiers in Uganda or giving testimony in Rwanda. Her prose reveals comic absurdity and astonishing courage, meaning and its absence, unexpected moments of love and the untold consequences that come long after most cameras disperse. She explores the pity of war and its fatal attraction.

'Remarkable: combines her exceptional experience as a war correspondent with selected poetry in an act of witness' ANDREW MOTION

'Profound, revelatory, distressing and timely' CAROL ANN DUFFY

'Fantastic, beguiling and movingly profound' WILLIAM BOYD

'Brings us darkness and light in the most moving, magical way' CHRISTINA LAMB

© Lindsey Hilsum 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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ID: 785117

Title: Nick Mohammed: A BBC Radio Comedy Collection: Nick Mohammed in Quarters, Nick Mohammed in Bits, Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed & more

Author: Nick Mohammed

Narrator: Anna Crilly, Colin Hoult, Nick Mohammed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:57:35

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Four BBC Radio 4 comedies from the award-winning Nick Mohammed, featuring an array of comic creations including Mr Swallow

Delightfully bonkers! The Guardian

Double Emmy-nominated actor, comedian and writer Nick Mohammed is well known for his portrayal of Nate in Ted Lasso and his stage and screen performances as his critically-acclaimed alter ego Mr Swallow. For radio, he has written and starred in four fantastic comedy series, collected together in this audio anthology and co-starring Anna Crilly (Lead Balloon) and Colin Hoult (After Life).

Nick Mohammed in Quarters features fast-paced sketches and monologues from Nick and friends. In these four episodes, youll meet an awkward loans clerk, a multi-tasking air traffic controller, a travel agent who doesn't do 'exotic and a manic anger management facilitator. Plus, theres the weather forecast delivered backwards, smoothies in the jungle and the job interview from hell...

Nick Mohammed in Bits comprises four one-off comic plays showcasing some of his best and most idiosyncratic characters, from a detective taking witness statements from an unhappy couple to self-important Sloane student Lila, clueless wildlife presenter Daniel Thornthwaite and lifestyle guru Mr Swallow.

In the hit sitcom Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed, we join DS Nick and his long-suffering CID colleagues Colin and Anna (plus special guests Peter Dickson, Kate Alexander, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Will Andrews) as they attempt to solve a murder, tackle hostage negotiations, get to grips with a student protest (with the help of Lila from In Bits), and deal with a bank heist. Series 2 sees the DS discovering a forgery ring, testifying in court, on the trail of a dangerous fugitive and providing additional security for a major event. Never have serious crimes been made more entertaining, whilst remaining utterly, utterly tasteful!

Also included is Apollo 21, a one-off mockumentary profiling the pioneering astronauts from the 1968-1972 moon missions. Forty years after man first set foot on the lunar surface, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins come together to commemorate the anniversary and tell their stories with contributions from Neil Armstrongs mum and Laika, the first dog in space.

Cast and credits

Written and performed by Nick Mohammed

With Colin Hoult and Anna Crilly

Nick Mohammed in Quarters

Produced by Victoria Lloyd

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 21 Jan-11 Feb 2009

Nick Mohammed in Bits

Produced by Victoria Lloyd

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 31 Aug-21 Sep 2010

Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed

With special guests Peter Dickson, Kate Alexander, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Will Andrews

Produced by Tilusha Ghelani and Victoria Lloyd

Script Editor: Johnny Sweet

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 14 Dec 2011-4 Jan 2012 (Series 1), 3-24 Sep 2013 (Series 2)

Nick Mohammed: Apollo 21

Produced by Victoria Lloyd

Recorded at Bedford University

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 11 Nov 2009

Cover photography by Vanessa Whyte

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ID: 759627

Title: Arnhem: Black Tuesday

Author: Al Murray

Narrator: Al Murray

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:28:48

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: History, World, Europe, Military

Summary:

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The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but thwarted attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas. It is always written about, with the benefit of unerring 20/20 hindsight, as being doomed to fail, but the men who fought there, men of military legend, didn't know that that was to be their fate.

By focusing on the events of one day as they happened through the eyes of the British participants and without bringing any knowledge of what would happen tomorrow to bear, Al Murray offers a very different perspective to a familiar narrative. Some things went right and a great many more went wrong, but recounting them in this way allows the reader to understand for the first time how certain decisions were taken in the moment and how opportunities were squandered.

Tuesday 19 September 1944 was that terrible day which became known as Black Tuesday. From just after 12:00 hours while plans were being made to seize the initiative and optimism reigned, to the following midnight, when Arnhem was burning and the Allied fortunes looked very different, a mere twenty-four hours changed the course of the war.

Al Murray has always been obsessed with Arnhem, and in Arnhem: Black Tuesday, brings all of his knowledge, interpretation and enthusiasm to bear to tell the story of one of historys great heroic failures differently for the first time.

© Al Murray 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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ID: 727371

Title: Occupation: Spy: Eight Full-Cast BBC Radio Spy Thrillers

Author: Ted Allbeury

Narrator: Barry Foster, Christian Rodska, David Mcalister, Full Cast , James Bolam, James Kerry, John Forbes-Robertson, Kate Binchy, Kim Thomson, Louise Germain, Margaret Robertson, Michael Cochrane, Michael J. Shannon, Michael Melia, Nigel Hawthorne, Robert Beatty, Steve Hodson, Susannah Fellows

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:42:06

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Espionage

Summary:

A collection of full-cast dramatisations and original radio plays from master storyteller Ted Allbeury plus bonus programmes

Described by Len Deighton as a classic writer of espionage fiction, Ted Allbeury based his many acclaimed spy novels on his own real-life experiences. In World War II, he served as an intelligence officer with Special Operations Executive, and subsequently ran agents across the border between East and West Germany during the Cold War. He began writing in his fifties, and went on to pen over 40 bestselling books, five of which are dramatised here alongside three plays specially written for BBC Radio and two bonus documentaries.

The Lonely Margins tells the story of James Harmer, parachuted into France in 1944 on a secret mission. Christian Rodska and Kim Thomson star in this tense tale of danger and deceit.

Inspired by actual events, The Other Side of Silence sees MI6 agent John Powell tasked with finding out why notorious traitor Kim Philby wants to return to England from Russia. James Bolam stars as Powell, with Nigel Hawthorne as Philby.

In Long Ago and Far Away, starring David McAlister and Kate Binchy, two ex-SOE operatives find the past returning to haunt them when a voice on the radio brings back memories best left dormant.

In Pay Any Price, a Presidential assassination sparks trouble for the CIA and SIS, as they deal with the consequences of a sinister programme known as MKUltra Starring Barry Foster, Robert Beatty, Susannah Fellows and Michael J. Shannon.

The Way We Live finds Andrew Collins discovering the unexpected repercussions of being positively vetted by the Security Service, starring John Forbes-Robertson.

Time Spent in Reconnaissance sees Peter Harvey finding out how an old military adage applies to his professional and private lives. This thrilling radio play stars Michael Cochrane.

No Place to Hide centres around John Rennie (James Kerry), a secret agent whose loyalty is tested when he is ordered to do something he considers abhorrent.

Meanwhile, in Deep Purple, starring Michael Melia, Louise Germain and Steve Hodson, the fates of a Secret Intelligence Service officer, a Russian defector and a prostitute are inextricably linked.

We conclude with the fascinating two-parter Occupation: Spy, in which Ted Allbeury gives us his unique perspective on the shadowy world of spies and spying.

NB: The language in these programmes reflects the era in which they were first broadcast

Due to the age of these archive recordings, the sound quality may vary

Text copyright © Ted Allbeury 1981 (The Lonely Margins, The Other Side of Silence), 1982 (Long Ago and Far Away), 1983 (Pay Any Price, The Way We Live, Time Spent in Reconnaissance), 1984 (No Place to Hide), 1989 (Deep Purple)

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