September
2003
(Please note that the prices shown are recommended
retail prices only)
For a month-by-month guide to titles
published since November 2000, take a look
at our previous releases page
Click on title links for more information and to buy.
| Roald Dahl
Boy
In this memoir of his early years, Roald Dahl interweaves a sparkling
thread of reminiscence with wit, high spirits and a touch of the
macabre. His descriptions of an enchanted boyhood spent in Wales
and Norway is thrown into sharp relief by his cruel, often barbaric,
experiences at an English public school. His granddaughter, the
model and actress Sophie Dahl, reads the introduction and opening
chapter then Roald Dahl himself tells the rest of his story, as
originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
2 CDs, 1hr 50mins, ISBN 0563 495138 £12.99 |
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Doctor
Who at the BBC
In this special 2-CD release, Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah-Jane in
the series) and Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart)
take a journey through the archives and uncover the history of
Doctor Who on BBC radio and television. There’s a 1974 location
report from Dartmoor, The Ed Stewart Show broadcast live
from Longleat in 1983, Radio 1’s Newsbeat on the
recovery of a missing episode, and rare archive interviews with
Terry Nation, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Mary Tamm, Douglas Adams
and even the mutt-shaped K9. A wealth of comedy is also represented
with clips from Hello Cheeky, Week Ending, The
Skivers and Dead Ringers.
2 CDs, 2hrs 5mins, ISBN 0563 530871 £13.99 |
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Gardeners'
Question Time
The Four Seasons
Gardeners' Question Time is one of the longest running programmes
anywhere in the world, and in this exclusive edition of the BBC
Radio 4 series, chairman Eric Robson joins panellists Matthew
Biggs, John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness,
Roy Lancaster and Anne Swithinbank to address key gardening questions
for every season. From protecting your container plants from frost
to ensuring your spring bulbs flower, you'll find answers and
tips to all your gardening needs.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 535997 £12.99
2 cassettes,
2hrs, ISBN 0563 535989 £10.99 |
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The
Goon Show 21
The Missing Battleship
This latest release features four more episodes of classic Goonery,
starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. The
episodes featured are: The Junk Affair, The Burning Embassy,
The Missing Battleship and Ten Snowballs That Shook the
World.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 494794 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 494786 £10.99 |
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The
Goon Show Collection
Volume 2
This slipcase set contains Volumes 4,5 and 6 of BBC Radio Collection's
The Goon Show titles, starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and
Spike Milligan.
6 cassettes, 6hrs, ISBN 0563 494824 £22.50 |
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Hancock:
The Blood Donor, The Radio Ham &
Two Other TV Episodes
Now the original soundtrack from the famous episode, The Blood
Donor, is collected together with three others from the same series
(Hancock's last for BBC TV) featuring a guest cast including Michael
Aspel, Patrick Cargill, June Whitfield, Frank Thornton and Hugh
Lloyd. The episodes are: The Bedsitter (26 May 1961),
The Radio Ham (9 June 1961), The Bowmans (2
June 1961), The Blood Donor (23 June 1961)
3 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 495200 £12.99
2 cassettes,
2hrs, ISBN 0563 495197 £10.99
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I'm
Sorry I Haven't A Clue Collection 2
The second slipcase collection of the popular Radio 4 comedy quiz
programme contains three double cassette volumes – 4, 5
and 6. Join Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor
and the rest of the gang for more rounds of Mornington Crescent
and other hilarious ad-libbing.
6 CDs, 6hrs, ISBN 0563 494840 £34.99 |
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Johnners
at the Beeb
Now on CD. The sound of Brian Johnston's voice conjures up instant
images for many people: Down Your Way, coverage of myriad
royal events and countless summer test matches. This is a retrospective
of the much-loved broadcaster's forty-eight years with the BBC
– including, of course, the gaffes and the giggles.
3 CDs, 2hrs 50mins, ISBN 0563 495367£12.99 |
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Round
the Horne
Volume 15
A further four episodes from the classic BBC radio comedy series,
which took comedy to a new level of outrageousness in the late
1960s. Kenneth Horne is the suave host, while around him orbit
the no-holds-barred Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick
and Bill Pertwee. Regular characters Julian and Sandy and Rambling
Syd Rumpo make a number of appearances, along with the usual comedy
collage of sketches, songs, spoof series and news reports.
2 CDs, 1hr 50mins, ISBN 0563 494816 £12.99
2 cassettes,
1hr 50mins, ISBN 0563 494808 £10.99 |
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Round
the Horne: The Collector's Edition
Series 3
This handsome box contains the entire third series of the classic
radio comedy on 10 CDs as well as an accompanying booklet with
cast biographies, track listings and a chronicle of the series'
development. The 20 episodes are remastered and restored to their
most complete version for 10 hours of listening joy.
10 CDs, 10hrs, ISBN 0563 528257 £79.99 |
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Voices
of the Powerless
Volume 2
In this second part of his fascinating journey through British
history, Melvyn Bragg selects six more key moments from the last
millennium and travels through this country and beyond, speaking
to historians and experts about the life of the ordinary citizen
in each period. Beginning in urban Lancashire, he examines how
the Industrial Revolution fashioned men’s and women’s
lives, then moves on to Tasmania and what a sentence of transportation
to Van Diemen’s Land really meant to those who survived
the journey ‘beyond the seas’. Each of the six programmes
is illustrated with texts contemporary to the period by readers
including Robert Glenister and Jack Shepherd.
3 CDs, 3hrs 10mins, ISBN 0563 494700 £15.99 |
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