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Alan
Bennett:
Double Bill
Patricia Routledge, Sir John Gielgud, Alan Bennett and Paul Eddington
star in these two plays heard on BBC Radio 4. A Woman
of No Importance is Bennett's precursor to his Talking
Heads series. Forty Years On was
one of Bennett's most popular stage plays and this radio version
features many members of the original West End cast.
2 CDs, 2hrs 10mins, ISBN 0563 494360 £12.99
Dad's
Army - The Collector's Edition
Series One
This handsome box set contains all 21 episodes from the first
radio series of Dad's Army, first transmitted on BBC Radio 4 on
28 January 1974. Also included is the Christmas Special of 25
December 1974. Accompanied by full track listings, cast biographies
and a history of the series. Episodes included are: The Man
and the Hour, Museum Piece, Command Decision, Enemy Within the
Gates, The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage, The Armoured Might of
L/Cpl Jones, Sergeant Wilson's Little Secret, A Stripe for Frazer,
Operation Kilt, Battle School, Under Fire, Something Nasty in
the Vault, The Showing Up of Corporal Jones, The Loneliness of
the Long Distance Walker, Sorry Wrong Number, The Bullet is Not
for Firing, Room at the Bottom, The Menace from the Deep, No Spring
for Frazer, Sons of the Sea, Present Arms.
11 CDs, 10hrs 20mins ISBN 0563 528575 £79.99
David Dickinson
The
Duke: What a Bobby Dazzler
He may be a smooth-talking charmer, but the life story of Bargain
Hunt's David Dickinson - read here by Mr Perm-a-tan himself -
follows a rocky route. As a young boy, David showed a talent for
wheeling and dealing but was soon sucked into the criminal world
and sent to prison. On his release, he met and married a cabaret
singer, set up a successful antiques business, and met a TV exec
who changed his life forever.
2 cassettes,
2hrs, ISBN 0563 496274 £10.99
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 496282 £12.99
A.J. Cronin
Dr
Finlay: Further Adventures of a Black Bag
Six more stories about the adventures of Scotland's favourite
doctor as heard on BBC Radio 4 starring John Gordon Sinclair.
The episodes included are: The Catch, The Fever, Miracle by
Lestrange, Birth and Death, The Golden Fishbone, and
The Match.
2 cassettes,
2hrs 45mins, ISBN 0563 495375 £10.99
3 CDs, 2hrs 45mins, ISBN 0563 494328 £15.99
Raymond Chandler
Farewell
My Lovely
Now on CD, Ed Bishop stars as the cynical, wise-cracking private
investigator Philip Marlowe in this powerful and atmospheric dramatisation.
Moose Malloy is trying to find his girl Velma but instead people
keep disappearing and it's up to Marlowe to piece things together.
2 CDs, 1hr 30mins, ISBN 0563 494379 £12.99
Raymond Chandler
Lady
in the Lake
Now on CD. Blonde, beautiful and wild, Crystal Kingsley had never
exactly been a faithful little wife. But when she's missing for
a month and a woman's body surfaces in an isolated mountain lake,
murder-a-day Marlowe is back in business. Stars Ed Bishop as Philip
Marlowe.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 49512X £12.99
P.G. Wodehouse
Jeeves
& the Feudal Spirit
Michael Hordern stars as Jeeves with Richard Briers
as Bertie in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Jeeves returns
from his annual shrimping holiday to find Bertie attempting to
grow a moustache. Throw in a couple of engagements and Aunt Dahlia's
problems with M'Lady's Boudoir and poor Bertie is in the soup
once more!
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 494395 £12.99
Richmal Crompton
Just
William 2
Available for the first time on CD, ten stories from the second
volume of selected tales read by Martin Jarvis. The stories are
The Sweet Little Girl in White, A Birthday Treat,
The Outlaws and Triplets, A Bit of Blackmail, William Makes a
Night of it, William and the Lost Tourist, The Leopard Hunter,
The New Neighbour, William the Philanthropist, William and the
Prize Cat.
2 CDs, 2hrs 30mins, ISBN 0563 494344 £12.99
Richmal Crompton
Just
William 3
Available for the first time on CD, ten stories from the third
volume of selected tales read by Martin Jarvis. The stories are
William Holds the Stage, William and the School Report, All
the News, Aunt Arabelle in Charge, William's Goodbye Present,
William - The Salvage Collector, William's Day Off, Entertainment
Provided, William and the Brains Trust, William and the Bomb.
2 CDs, 2hrs 30mins, ISBN 0563 494417 £15.99
Ladies
of Letters...and More
This CD includes the six episodes from the first series Ladies
of Letters with 10 episodes from the second series, Ladies of
More Letters. This enormously popular BBC Radio 4 series stars
Patricia Routledge as Vera Small and Prunella Scales as her friend
(or maybe enemy) Irene Spencer.
3 CDs, 3hr 15mins, ISBN 0563 494352 £15.99
Ladies
of Letters.com
Ten episodes from the third series of this successful BBC Radio
4 production in which Vera and Irene discover the instant gratification
of email.
2 CDs, 2hrs 30mins, ISBN 0563 494409 £12.99
Garrison Keillor
Lake
Wobegon Days
One of America's most popular broadcasters and writers, Garrison
Keillor reads his own affectionate portrait of a cosy, backwoods
town in the Mid-West that is half fiction, half memoir. A humorous
classic with a collection of quirky characters from a simpler,
happier time.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 494425 £12.99
Bill Bryson
The
Lost Continent
Kerry Shale reads Bill Bryson's first book in which the author
takes to the road in an ageing Chevrolet Chevette to re-discover
his home country.
2 CDs, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 494336 £12.99
Jacqueline Wilson
The
Story of Tracey Beaker/The Dare Game
Children will enjoy two new BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Jacqueline
Wilson's The Story of Tracy Beaker &
The Dare Game. Victoria O'Donnell plays Tracy, the 10-year-old
girl who lives in a children's home.
1 cassette,
1hr 30mins, ISBN 0563 529148 £8.99
2 CDs, 1hr 30mins, ISBN 0563 529156 £9.99
Vikram Seth
A
Suitable Boy
Set in 1950s India, Vikram Seth's epic love story follows the
widow Mrs Rupa Mehra's search for a 'suitable' husband for her
daughter Lata. But with Lata studying English at University there
lurks the danger she will fall in love with someone of her own
choice – someone entirely unsuitable in her mother's eyes.
Recorded on location in India, this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
was made by the producers of the award-winning Bleak House
and The Handmaid's Tale.
5 CDs, 5hrs 15mins, ISBN 0563 494433 £19.99
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