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Flashman & more

Three Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

by George MacDonald Fraser ...

Narrated by Joss Ackland, Nigel Anthony, Christian Rodska, William Hope, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Vivienne Dixon, Crawford Logan, Katherine Igoe, Mark McDonnell, Tom Fleming, Rhys Meredith, Angus Wright, Jayne McKenna, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

5 hours 26 min

Full-cast adaptations of two Flashman novels, plus a standalone historical romp, a humorous short story and an interview with George MacDonald FraserScottish author George MacDonald Fraser took the loutish bully from Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown's Schooldays and gave him a new lease of life. Over the course of 12 novels, caddish anti-hero Flashman swashbuckled his way around the British Empire, ... Read more

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Full-cast adaptations of two Flashman novels, plus a standalone historical romp, a humorous short story and an interview with George MacDonald FraserScottish author George MacDonald Fraser took the loutish bully from Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown's Schooldays and gave him a new lease of life. Over the course of 12 novels, caddish anti-hero Flashman swashbuckled his way around the British Empire,
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Les Miserables

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

by Victor Hugo ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Joss Ackland, Roger Allam ...

Unabridged

5 hours 40 min

Joss Ackland, Roger Allam and Leslie Phillips star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation 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 France, he is sentenced to nineteen years’ hard labour. On his release, his fortunes change and he ... Read more

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Joss Ackland, Roger Allam and Leslie Phillips star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation 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 France, he is sentenced to nineteen years’ hard labour. On his release, his fortunes change and he
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Nostromo

by Joseph Conrad ...

Narrated by Joss Ackland ...

Abridged

6 hours 5 min

Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures?Nostromo is an ... Read more

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Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures?Nostromo is an
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Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad ...

Narrated by Joss Ackland ...

Abridged

2 hours 45 min

‘Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!’Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his mettle. When the boat he sails in threatens to sink, Jim abandons ship in fear in order to save himself, leaving the other passengers to their fate. However, the ship does not ... Read more

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‘Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!’Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his mettle. When the boat he sails in threatens to sink, Jim abandons ship in fear in order to save himself, leaving the other passengers to their fate. However, the ship does not
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The Screwtape Letters

by C. S. Lewis ...

Narrated by Joss Ackland ...

Unabridged

3 hours 59 min

A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable AnswerC.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the unique vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis ... Read more

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A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable AnswerC.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the unique vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis
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C. S. Lewis Essential Audio Library

by C. S. Lewis ...

Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Joss Ackland, James Simmons, Douglas Gresham ...

Unabridged

38 hours 50 min

Nine essential works by C. S. Lewis in one deluxe audioedition: • Mere Christianity • The Screwtape Letters • The Great Divorce •Miracles • The Problem of Pain • A Grief Observed • The Abolition of Man • TheWeight of Glory • George MacDonald • ... Read more

$66.99 CAD

Nine essential works by C. S. Lewis in one deluxe audioedition: • Mere Christianity • The Screwtape Letters • The Great Divorce •Miracles • The Problem of Pain • A Grief Observed • The Abolition of Man • TheWeight of Glory • George MacDonald •
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Murder International

Ten Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Crime Dramas

by Guy de Maupassant, Francis King, Alexander Pushkin, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, H. G. Wells, Julian Symonds, Wilkie Collins, Honoré De Balzac, W. Somerset Maugham, Stacy Aumonier ...

Narrated by Dennis Quilley, George Cole, Joss Ackland, Michael Denison, Christopher Cazenove, Maureen O'Brien, George Baker, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

4 hours 47 min

Ten vintage dramas on the theme of murder, written by internationally recognised authors and set across the globe‘Murder is murder, anywhere in the world. The taking of life, the most terrible crime a human being can commit, is the same in any language, whether it springs from vengeance, greed, hate, love or whatever...’Conceived by BBC World Service producer Derek Hoddinott, the 1976 anthology ... Read more

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Ten vintage dramas on the theme of murder, written by internationally recognised authors and set across the globe‘Murder is murder, anywhere in the world. The taking of life, the most terrible crime a human being can commit, is the same in any language, whether it springs from vengeance, greed, hate, love or whatever...’Conceived by BBC World Service producer Derek Hoddinott, the 1976 anthology
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Chronicle Box Set, The

An epic journey into the past - The Complete Series

by Mr Punch ...

Narrated by Charles Dance, Dame Harriet Walter, & Full Supporting Cast, Dame Maureen Lipman, Eleanor Bron, Imogen Stubbs, James Bolam, John Sessions, Joss Ackland, Robert Powell, Sir David Suchet, Sir Donald Sinden, Timothy West, Tony Britton ...

Series Audiobook 5 - The Chronicle
Unabridged

11 hours 24 min

Behold The Chronicle: an epic journey through history.Join us for an exhilarating and immersive adventure through 500 years of history, told entirely in the words of those who were there. With their artless prose and their polished & witty gossip, these are the men and women who have shaped our past. Brought to life by an award-winning all-star cast of 30 celebrated actors, including Charles Dance ... Read more

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Behold The Chronicle: an epic journey through history.Join us for an exhilarating and immersive adventure through 500 years of history, told entirely in the words of those who were there. With their artless prose and their polished & witty gossip, these are the men and women who have shaped our past. Brought to life by an award-winning all-star cast of 30 celebrated actors, including Charles Dance
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Chronicle Book One

An epic eye-witness history of the British Isles

by Mr Punch ...

Narrated by Charles Dance, Dame Harriet Walter, Sir David Suchet, Dame Maureen Lipman, Timothy West, Jenny Agutter, Sir Donald Sinden, Joss Ackland, James Bolam, Robert Powell, Full Supporting Cast ...

Series Audiobook 1.0 - The Chronicle
Unabridged

2 hours 35 min

The Chronicle is an exhilarating and immersive journey through 500 years of British history, told entirely in the words of those who were there and performed in a dramatised setting.Brought to life by an award-winning all-star cast of 30 celebrated actors, including Charles Dance, Dame Harriet Walter, Sir David Suchet, Dame Maureen Lipman, Timothy West, Jenny Agutter, Sir Donald Sinden, Joss ... Read more

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The Chronicle is an exhilarating and immersive journey through 500 years of British history, told entirely in the words of those who were there and performed in a dramatised setting.Brought to life by an award-winning all-star cast of 30 celebrated actors, including Charles Dance, Dame Harriet Walter, Sir David Suchet, Dame Maureen Lipman, Timothy West, Jenny Agutter, Sir Donald Sinden, Joss
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My Better Half and Me

by Rosemary Ackland, Joss Ackland ...

Rosemary Ackland began writing her diary in 1945, aged just fifteen. For the next fifty-eight years, through happiness and heartache, she continued to write. Even after the tragic onset of Motor Neurone disease, which left her mute and immobile, her diary was still an outlet - in fact, then more than ever.Her simple, heartfelt jottings were never intended for an audience. But, during her last days ... Read more

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Rosemary Ackland began writing her diary in 1945, aged just fifteen. For the next fifty-eight years, through happiness and heartache, she continued to write. Even after the tragic onset of Motor Neurone disease, which left her mute and immobile, her diary was still an outlet - in fact, then more than ever.Her simple, heartfelt jottings were never intended for an audience. But, during her last days
... Read more
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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad ...

Narrated by Joss Ackland ...

Abridged

3 hours 3 min

‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for his fearsome reputation. ... Read more

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‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for his fearsome reputation.
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The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad ...

Narrated by Joss Ackland ...

Abridged

2 hours 53 min

Its genesis a real attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, Conrad’s novel offers an ironic meditation not only on anarchy and revolution, with all the deception and intrigue they imply, but also on loyalty – to friends and family, to country and ideals.‘They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, ... Read more

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Its genesis a real attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, Conrad’s novel offers an ironic meditation not only on anarchy and revolution, with all the deception and intrigue they imply, but also on loyalty – to friends and family, to country and ideals.‘They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed,
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