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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright ...

Narrated by a full cast, Adjoa Andoh, Rupert Penry-Jones, Clarence Smith, Amanda Root, David Harewood, Roy Hudd, Saskia Wickham ...

Series series The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection
Unabridged

2 hours 18 min

Shakespeare’s most imaginative and merry play is set in an enchanted wood amidst fairies and sprites.When Oberon, King of the Fairies, uses his magic upon four runaway lovers in a midsummer wood outside Athens, chaos ensues. Who really loves whom? Meanwhile, a band of well-meaning but bungling local actors have their rehearsal sabotaged by the mischievous Puck, who bewitches their leader, Bottom, ... Read more

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Shakespeare’s most imaginative and merry play is set in an enchanted wood amidst fairies and sprites.When Oberon, King of the Fairies, uses his magic upon four runaway lovers in a midsummer wood outside Athens, chaos ensues. Who really loves whom? Meanwhile, a band of well-meaning but bungling local actors have their rehearsal sabotaged by the mischievous Puck, who bewitches their leader, Bottom,
... Read more

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Pride and Prejudice

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

by Jane Austen ...

Narrated by Amanda Root, David Troughton, Full Cast, Samantha Spiro ...

Unabridged

2 hours 50 min

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Mrs Bennet is determined to see her five daughters married off and secure a future for them all.When the wealthy Mr Bingley arrives in the neighbourhood, Mrs Bennet wastes no time in making his acquaintance. His friend Mr Darcy, however, discourages Mr Bingley from marrying Jane Bennet, and also appears to snub ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Mrs Bennet is determined to see her five daughters married off and secure a future for them all.When the wealthy Mr Bingley arrives in the neighbourhood, Mrs Bennet wastes no time in making his acquaintance. His friend Mr Darcy, however, discourages Mr Bingley from marrying Jane Bennet, and also appears to snub
... Read more
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Little Women, Good Wives & A Marble Woman

Three BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations

by Louisa May Alcott ...

Narrated by Bryony Hannah, Lorelei King, Natasha J Barnes, Bill Paterson, Amanda Root, Tara Ward, Alex Lanipekun, Gayle Hunnicutt, Jemma Redgrave, Marcus D'Amico, Martin Jarvis, John McArdle, Full cast ...

Unabridged

6 hours 4 min

Dramatisations of Louisa May Alcott’s evergreen classic and its sequel, plus her Gothic tour de force about an orphan girl and her controlling guardianBorn in 1832 in Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was best known for Little Women, her phenomenal bestseller loosely based on her childhood experiences with her own sisters. Adapted numerous times for stage and screen, it is dramatised here alongside ... Read more

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Dramatisations of Louisa May Alcott’s evergreen classic and its sequel, plus her Gothic tour de force about an orphan girl and her controlling guardianBorn in 1832 in Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was best known for Little Women, her phenomenal bestseller loosely based on her childhood experiences with her own sisters. Adapted numerous times for stage and screen, it is dramatised here alongside
... Read more
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The Complete Barchester Chronicles

The Complete

by Anthony Trollope ...

Narrated by Anna Massey, Brenda Blethyn, Eleanor Bron, Full Cast, Kenneth Cranham, Leo McKern, Simon Russell Beale, Alex Jennings, Amanda Root, David Haig, Emma Fielding, Rosemary Leach ...

Unabridged

18 hours 50 min

The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial lifeOne of the most respected, successful chroniclers of nineteenth-century life, Anthony Trollope is still widely read and much-loved today. The Barchester Chronicles - witty moral comedies with a wonderful range of characters - are among his most popular tales.The first in the series, The Warden, ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial lifeOne of the most respected, successful chroniclers of nineteenth-century life, Anthony Trollope is still widely read and much-loved today. The Barchester Chronicles - witty moral comedies with a wonderful range of characters - are among his most popular tales.The first in the series, The Warden,
... Read more
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Northanger Abbey

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

by Jane Austen ...

Narrated by David Harewood, Julia McKenzie, Amanda Root, Jenny Agutter, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

2 hours 51 min

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Catherine Morland's overactive imagination makes her life more complicated than she would have wished...Catherine is obsessed with Gothic novels, often getting swept up by her taste for the dramatic and tragic. Did Mrs Tilney really die nine years previously, or has she been murdered or imprisoned in her chambers ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Catherine Morland's overactive imagination makes her life more complicated than she would have wished...Catherine is obsessed with Gothic novels, often getting swept up by her taste for the dramatic and tragic. Did Mrs Tilney really die nine years previously, or has she been murdered or imprisoned in her chambers
... Read more
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Barbara Pym: A BBC Radio drama collection

Some Tame Gazelle, No Fond Return of Love, Crampton Hodnet & More

by Barbara Pym ...

Narrated by Miriam Margolyes, Hannah Gordon, Samantha Bond, Rebecca Front, Penny Downie, Amanda Root, Annette Crosbie, Penelope Wilton, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

16 hours 33 min

Dramatisations and a reading of selected novels by Barbara Pym - plus bonus materialBarbara Pym is one of the 20th Century's wittiest, and most underrated, novelists. Her perceptive comedies of manners, centred around the domestic lives and loves of unassuming middle-class Englishwomen, won her many devoted readers and saw her hailed as a modern-day Jane Austen. Yet she spent 15 years out of print ... Read more

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Dramatisations and a reading of selected novels by Barbara Pym - plus bonus materialBarbara Pym is one of the 20th Century's wittiest, and most underrated, novelists. Her perceptive comedies of manners, centred around the domestic lives and loves of unassuming middle-class Englishwomen, won her many devoted readers and saw her hailed as a modern-day Jane Austen. Yet she spent 15 years out of print
... Read more
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Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright ...

Narrated by a full cast, Dinsdale Landen, Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Julian Glover, Amanda Root ...

Series series The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection
Unabridged

2 hours 11 min

Shakespeare’s most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity.Duke Orsino is in love with the noblewoman Olivia. She, however, has fallen for his servant Cesario, who is actually Viola, a woman disguised as a man, who loves Orsino: confusion is rife. Meanwhile, Olivia’s arrogant steward Malvolio is cruelly tricked by her uncle Sir Toby Belch, his ... Read more

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Shakespeare’s most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity.Duke Orsino is in love with the noblewoman Olivia. She, however, has fallen for his servant Cesario, who is actually Viola, a woman disguised as a man, who loves Orsino: confusion is rife. Meanwhile, Olivia’s arrogant steward Malvolio is cruelly tricked by her uncle Sir Toby Belch, his
... Read more

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Much Ado about Nothing

by William Shakespeare, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright ...

Narrated by a full cast, Amanda Root, David Bradley, Jason O'Mara, Samuel West, Abigail Docherty, Steve Hodson, Saskia Reeves, Paul Jesson, Bryan Pringle ...

Series series The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection
Unabridged

2 hours 8 min

Young Claudio has fallen for the lovely heiress Hero, who also loves him. Their path to the altar looks smooth, until the evil Don John intervenes.All ends happily, thanks to his incompetent assassins and the lucky discoveries of the bungling constable Dogberry. Central to the play, one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, are Beatrice and Benedick, masters of wit and sworn foes to marriage—until ... Read more

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Young Claudio has fallen for the lovely heiress Hero, who also loves him. Their path to the altar looks smooth, until the evil Don John intervenes.All ends happily, thanks to his incompetent assassins and the lucky discoveries of the bungling constable Dogberry. Central to the play, one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, are Beatrice and Benedick, masters of wit and sworn foes to marriage—until
... Read more

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Praying with Jane

31 Days through the Prayers of Jane Austen

by Rachel Dodge ...

Narrated by Rachel Dodge, Amanda Root ...

Unabridged

3 hours 19 min

In this lovely 31-day devotional, you will get an in-depth look at Jane Austen's vibrant, steadfast prayer and faith life. Her close relationship with the Father comes to life through her exquisite prayers, touching biographical anecdotes, intimate excerpts from family letters and memoirs, illuminating scenes from her novels, and spiritual insights. ... Read more

$28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this lovely 31-day devotional, you will get an in-depth look at Jane Austen's vibrant, steadfast prayer and faith life. Her close relationship with the Father comes to life through her exquisite prayers, touching biographical anecdotes, intimate excerpts from family letters and memoirs, illuminating scenes from her novels, and spiritual insights.
... Read more
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Mansfield Park

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

by Jane Austen ...

Narrated by Amanda Root, Full Cast, Hannah Gordon, Michael Williams ...

Unabridged

2 hours 47 min

BBC Audio presents Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's perceptive study of middle class morals in the 19th century. Jane Austen's unlikely heroine Fanny Price is plucked from her impoverished family and brought up by wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park.When two outrageous and flirtatious guests arrive at Mansfield Park, Fanny's moral compass is shattered. How will Fanny continue to appear meek and ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

BBC Audio presents Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's perceptive study of middle class morals in the 19th century. Jane Austen's unlikely heroine Fanny Price is plucked from her impoverished family and brought up by wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park.When two outrageous and flirtatious guests arrive at Mansfield Park, Fanny's moral compass is shattered. How will Fanny continue to appear meek and
... Read more
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HER Story: Women’s Untold Histories

10 BBC Radio full-cast dramas

by Various ...

Narrated by Katy Brand, Amaka Okafor, Niamh Cusack, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Amanda Root, Indira Varma, Rebecca Humphries, Full Cast, Anton Lesser ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

10 dramas focusing on women's untold stories from history.This diverse, eclectic collection of plays explores an array of social, political and historical events from a female point of view. In these captivating dramas, we see the world through their eyes, giving us a fresh perspective on a female history that is too often unrecorded, misrepresented or misunderstood.Featuring a multiplicity of ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

10 dramas focusing on women's untold stories from history.This diverse, eclectic collection of plays explores an array of social, political and historical events from a female point of view. In these captivating dramas, we see the world through their eyes, giving us a fresh perspective on a female history that is too often unrecorded, misrepresented or misunderstood.Featuring a multiplicity of
... Read more
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Letters from a Lost Generation

First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends

by Mark Bostridge, Alan Bishop ...

Narrated by Amanda Root, Full Cast, Jonathan Firth ...

Abridged

3 hours 23 min

A selection of the powerful and poignant wartime letters of Vera Brittain and her friends.‘If war spares me,’ wrote Vera Brittain to her brother Edward in 1916, ‘it will be my one aim to immortalise in a book the story of us four.’ Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed Testament of Youth.This series of letters was the inspiration behind Testament. Written between ... Read more

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A selection of the powerful and poignant wartime letters of Vera Brittain and her friends.‘If war spares me,’ wrote Vera Brittain to her brother Edward in 1916, ‘it will be my one aim to immortalise in a book the story of us four.’ Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed Testament of Youth.This series of letters was the inspiration behind Testament. Written between
... Read more