Alexei Sayle reveals his true vocation: proprietor of an imaginary sandwich shop. Blending politics, comedy, philosophy and memoir, this is the Godfather of Alternative Comedy at his most anarchic and irresistibly entertainingAlexei Sayle has been telling people he runs a sandwich bar on Gray's Inn [...]
Kate Harper and Lydia Wilson star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Armistead Maupin's classic, groundbreaking novel Tales of the City. Set in 1976 in San Francisco, Tales of the City is the first of a sequence of novels about the unconventional tenants of 28 Barbary Lane, the domain of[...]
Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of Raymond Chandler s first Philip Marlowe mysteryFast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 40s and 50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit a[...]
Joss Ackland, Roger Allam, and Leslie Phillips star in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatization of Victor Hugo's classic novel. When poverty drives Jean Valjean to steal a loaf of bread from a baker's window, it is an action that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A citizen of post-revolutionary[...]
Toby Stephens and Juliet Aubrey star in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Wilkie Collins chilling Gothic drama. A lonely stretch of road on Hampstead Heath is the venue for Walter Hartright s midnight first encounter with a mysteriously distressed figure in white. As he helps the woman to esc[...]
Brian Cox stars as the Edinburgh detective in nine episodes of the BBC Radio series. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulholland. Pilot Episo[...]
June Whitfield returns as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth in three full-cast BBC Radio dramatizations. Specially broadcast to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie s birth, these brand new dramas are based on three of her best short stories. "Tape-Measure Murder" When Mrs Spenlow is mur[...]
20-year-old orphan Flora Poste is blessed with every virtue save that of being able to earn her own living. Casting around for suitable relatives with whom she can make her home, Flora alights on the mysterious Starkadders and heads down to darkest Sussex, where she is confronted by an exceptionally[...]
Earthsea is based on the first three books in the Earthsea Cycle. It tells the stories of Ged and Tenar, inhabitants of a vast archipelago where magic is part of life. Young wizard Ged releases a terrible shadow into the world; meanwhile, Tenar is taken from her home and family to become priestess a[...]
A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. At its heart is an enigma: what is the strange connection between the apparently unrelated Dr Henry Jekyll and Mr Edward Hyde? A battle between good and evil is played out in Victorian London, and its ori[...]
Winter, 1537: Henry VIII has declared himself Supreme Head of the Church, and instructed his Cromwell to dissolve England's religious houses and seize their wealth. But when one of the King's Commissioners is been found brutally murdered in a monastery, the King needs a quick, discreet result. He se[...]
Includes "The Empty House," "The Norwood Builder," "The Dancing Men," "The Solitary Cyclist," "The Priory School," "Black Peter," "Charles Augustus Milverton," "The Six Napoleons," "The Three Students," "The Golden Pince-Nez," "The Missing Three-Quarter," and "The Abbey Grange." Among the guest cast[...]
Tales of the Perilous is a collection of four short stories, penned by J.R.R Tolkein. Including; Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of Wootton Major, Leaf of Niggle and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Dramatised for Radio 4 and now available with bonus interviews.[...]
Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries.Samuel Pepys was 26 when he decided to start keeping a diary, in January 1660. For the next ten years he faithfully recorded the day's events and confessed his innermost thoughts[...]