BBC Radio Collection

November/December
2002

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Roald Dahl
The Complete Tales of the Unexpected

This slipcase contains Tales of the Unexpected, More Tales of the Unexpected and Further Tales of the Unexpected on six cassettes. Also included is Ron Grainer's original theme tune to the television series, which dramatised many of the stories to popular acclaim in the Seventies and Eighties.
6 cassettes, 8hrs 40mins, ISBN 0563 528729 £22.50

Roald Dahl
Further Tales of the Unexpected
This third and final instalment in the canon contains seven Roald Dahl short stories: Galloping Foxley, The Umbrella Man, Royal Jelly, William & Mary, Skin, Genesis and Catastrophe, and The Butler. Readers include Joanna David, Geoffrey Palmer and Tom Hollander.
2 cassettes, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 528583 £9.99
2 CDs, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 528710 £12.99


Dad's Army Collection: Volume 2
Contains volumes 4,5 and 6 of the classic wartime comedy. Episoes include: The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones, Sergeant Wilson's Little Secret, Operation Kilt, Battle School, Something Nasty in the Vault, The Showing Up of Corporal Jones, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Walker, Sorry Wrong Number, Under Fire, The Bullet is Not For Firing, Room at the Bottom, The Menace from the Deep.
6 cassettes, 6hrs, ISBN 0563 528656 £22.50

Dead Ringers Series 4
Six episodes from the fourth series of the wickedly funny radio comedy show. Once again Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens and fellow impersonators ransack the worlds of politics and broadcasting in the name of comedy. Popular favourites such as 'Brian Perkins', 'The Doctor', 'Alan Bennett' and the cast of the Archers feature.
2 cassettes, 1hr 45mins, ISBN 0563 536330 £9.99
2 CDs, 1hr 45mins, ISBN 0563 536349 £12.99

Dead Ringers Series 5 & 6
In this bumper edition of episodes from the fifth and sixth series, Graham Norton meets his match in Brian from Big Brother; Rabbi Lionel Blue is stranded on a reality radio version of Desert Island Discs, and demons face Hyacinth the Vampire Slayer. Add infidelity in Ambridge, George Bush's Christmas and more phone calls from the Doctor for another riotous collection of sketches starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Kevin Connelly, Mark Perry and Phil Cornwell.
4 cassettes, 3hr 35mins, ISBN 0563 528559 £13.99
4 CDs, 1hr 45mins, ISBN 0563 528567 £16.99

Dead Ringers Collection
A slipcase containing eight CDs with Volumes 1, 2 (parts 1 & 2) & 3 of the wickedly funny BBC Radio 4 comedy show. Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens and others.
8 CDs, 7hrs 35mins, ISBN 0563 528516 £50.00

Doctor Who:
The Savages

William Hartnell stars as the first Doctor in this exclusive recording of a 'lost' television adventure. The Savages marks the final appearance in the programme of Peter Purves, who also provides the linking narration for this release.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 535024 £13.99

A.J. Cronin
Dr Finlay
John Gordon Sinclair plays Dr Finlay, Scotland's most famous doctor in six episodes that follow the doctor's life from his welcome into the new practice with a black eye to his patients' grudging admiration. The episodes are: The Resolution That Went Wrong, Who Laughs Last, The Day Dandini Came to Town, Wee Robertson, The Wife of a Hero, The Sisters Scobie.
2 cassettes, 2hrs 50mins, ISBN 0563 528753 £9.99

Fawlty Towers: Volume 3
Newly available on CD, Volume Three contains the classic episodes: A Touch of Class, The Anniversary, The Psychiatrist, The Wedding Party. An exclusive interview with John Cleese is included.
2 CDs, 2hrs 5mins , ISBN 0563 528494 £12.99

Hancock's Half Hour
The Collector's Edition: Series 5

Contains all 20 shows from the fifth series, published here on 10 CDs in a luxury box set. Episodes are: The New Radio Series, The Scandal Magazine, The Male Suffragettes, The Insurance Policy, The Publicity Photograph, The Unexploded Bomb, Hancock's School, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Americans Hit Town, The Election Candidate, Hancock's Car, The East Cheam Drama Festival, The Foreign Legion, Sunday Afternoon at Home, The Grappling Game, The Junk Man, Hancock's War, The Prize Money, The Threatening Letters, The Sleepless Night.
10 CDs, 10hrs, ISBN 0563 528923 £79.99

J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings box set
An all-time bestseller, this splendid CD box set contains the highly-regarded BBC radio dramatisations of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings along with a CD containing Stephen Oliver's soundtrack. Among the cast are John le Mesurier, Ian Holm and Michael Hordern. A must for all Middle Earth fans.
19 CDs, 17hrs 5mins, ISBN 0563 528443 £120.00

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Anniversary Special

Celebrate 30 years of the cult BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game with this release, which brings together two special editions: the Anniversary Special and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Desert Island. Also included is the first-ever edition of the programme originally broadcast 11 April 1972.
2 cassette, 1hr 55mins, ISBN 0563 528524 £9.99
2 CDs, 1hr 55mins, ISBN 0563 528532 £12.99

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Collection

Newly available on six CDs, this collection contains volumes 1-3 of inspired ad-libbery from the multi award-winning BBC Radio 4 series in a specially designed slipcase.
6 CDs, 5hrs 50mins, ISBN 0563 528508 £35.00

Just A Minute 6
Released to tie in with 35th anniversary of the programme, these four episodes are taken from the first series of 2002. Nicholas Parsons keeps order as the contestants attempt to speak on a given subject for one minute with hesitation, repetition or deviation. Contestants are Clement Freud, Paul Merton, Stephen Fry, Liza Tarbuck, Sheila Hancock, Graham Norton, Tony Hawks, Wendy Richard, Sue Perkins, Ross Noble, Kit-Hesketh Harvey, Linda Smith, Chris Neill.
2 cassettes, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 536233 £9.99
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 528486 £12.99

Richmal Crompton
Just William 8
Twelve more adventures about schoolboy William Brown and the outlaws: William Turns Over a New Leaf, William and Dear Little Peter, William and the Waxwork Prince, William and the White Cat, William and Photography, The Great Detective, The Fete–and Fortune, The Weak Spot, The Outlaws go a-Mumming, William's Double Life, William to the Rescue and William the Film Star.
2 cassettes, 2hrs 50mins, ISBN 0563 528389 £9.99
3 CDs, 2hrs 50mins, ISBN 0563 528397£15.99

The Ladies of Letters Collection
A slipcase featuring all four volumes of the collected correspondence between pensioners Vera Small (Patricia Routledge) and Irene Spencer (Prunella Scales). Enjoy the petty rivalries and pithy observations of Ladies of Letters...and More, Ladies of Letters Log On, Ladies of Letters.Com and Ladies of Letters Make Mincemeat.
7 cassettes, 8hrs 55mins, ISBN 0563 528435 £25.00

The League of Gentlemen (TV)
Following the radio series On the Town with The League of Gentlemen, this comprises a selection of highlights from the second BBC television series starring Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.
2 cassette, 2hrs 5mins, ISBN 0563 528419 £9.99
2 CDs, 2hrs 5mins, ISBN 0563 528427 £12.99

The Porridge Collection
This slipcase contains the first three Radio Collection volumes of Porridge taken from the BBC television series starring Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale and Fulton Mackay. The episodes included are: Prisoner and Escort, No Way Out, The Desperate Hours, Pardon Me, An Evening In, Heartbreak Hotel, The Harder They Fall, Disturbing the Peace, No Peace for the Wicked, Poetic Justice, Rough Justice, A Test of Character.
1 cassette, 6hrs 5mins, ISBN 0563 528672 £22.50

The Royle Family 3
Four episodes from the third series of the smash hit BBC television series that follow the inevitably mundane exploits of Denise, Dave, Jim, Barbara, Antony, Nana and Baby David. The couch potato Royles are played by Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Ricky Tomlinson, Sue Johnston, Ralf Little and Liz Smith.
2 cassette, 2hrs 5mins, ISBN 0563 536314 £9.99
2 CDs, 1hr 35mins, ISBN 0563 536322 £12.99

The Royle Family Collection
Contains the first three BBC Radio Collection volumes of the hit BBC television series, featuring 12 full-cast episodes taken from series 1, 2 and 3.
6 cassettes, 6hrs, ISBN 0563 528664 £22.50