January/February
2004

One Foot in the Grave
Volume 1
Richard Wilson and Annette Crosbie star in four episodes specially adapted for BBC Radio 2 by One Foot in the Grave creator David Renwick and re-recorded by the cast. The four episodes are:
Alive and Buried - Victor Meldrew is made redundant at 60 but has his work cut out, dealing Age Concern workers and unreliable mechanics.
Timeless Time - It’s night-time. Victor can’t sleep, which means Margaret won’t either.
In Luton Airport No-one Can Hear You Scream - Victor and Margaret return from holiday to find their home demolished.
The Beast in the Cage - Victor encounters road rage when he’s stuck in a bank holiday traffic jam.
2 CDs, 1hr 50mins, ISBN 0563 495049 £12.99

One Foot in the Grave
Volume 2
Now on CD, Richard Wilson and Annette Crosbie star in three classic episodes from the BBC1 series:
The Man in the Long Black Coat - Victor Meldrew’s feud with neighbour Patrick continues apace following the garden gnome incident. He decides to take revenge with a pile of radioactive horse manure.
The Broken Reflection - Victor becomes a neighbourhood vigilante and suffers a traumatic reunion with his long-lost brother.
The Trial - Victor is left to ruminate on life, wood lice and everything while he awaits the call of jury service.
2 CDs, 1hr 25mins, ISBN 0563 495057£12.99

Porridge
Now on CD, four classic episodes from the original BBC TV prison comedy starring Ronnie Barker who, as usual, is making the most of his stay at Her Majesty’s Pleasure. The episodes are:
Prisoner and Escort (1 April 1973), No Way Out (11 March 1977), The Desperate Hours (24 December 1976), Pardon Me (11 March 1977). Brian Wilde, Richard Beckinsale and Fulton Mackay also star.
2 CDs, 2hrs 15mins, ISBN 0563 495065 £12.99

Vicar of Dibley Volume One
Dawn French stars as the new vicar with a bob and a magnificent bosom in four classic episodes from the original BBC TV series. Gary Waldhorn, James Fleet, Roger Lloyd Pack, Emma Chambers and Trevor Peacock also feature in these classic episodes by Richard Curtis, writer of Notting Hill and Love Actually. The episodes are:
Arrival - the vicar increases the church-going public.
Songs of Praise - Geraldine finds something remarkably attractive about television.
Easter Special - the vicar learns about suffering by giving up chocolate for Lent.
The Christmas Lunch Incident - the vicar's desire to show goodwill to all leaves her with a bad case of indigestion.
2 CDs, 2hrs 15mins, ISBN 0563 495022 £12.99

Vicar of Dibley Volume Two
Now on CD, four special holiday episodes from the original BBC TV series starring Dawn French as the genial vicar Geraldine Granger. Life in Dibley seems slow, but look back over a year and you'd be amazed at the things that have happened. Geraldine found love and nearly accepted a shocking proposal, Alice and Hugo put their honeymoon to good use and Owen and the others revealed undiscovered thespian talents. The episodes are: Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer.
2 CDs, 2hrs 30mins, ISBN 0563 495030 £12.99

Doctor Who
Fury from the Deep
Patrick Troughton battles to save mankind in this classic six-part 'lost' television adventure in which the TARDIS brings the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria to the south coast of present-day England. Something nasty is lurking in the gas pipelines of the North Sea, and before long the nearby refinery is under attack. First broadcast in 1968, Fury from the Deep is the last story to feature Deborah Watling as the Doctor's companion Victoria. Long missing from the television archives, it is regarded as a classic adventure from the era of the Second Doctor. With linking narration by Frazer Hines.
2 CDs, 2hrs 20mins, ISBN 0563 524103 £13.99

Essential Poems to Fall in Love With
These memorable love poems from the BBC2 series are read by a host of top performers including Andrew Lincoln, Greg Wise, Emilia Fox, Amanda Holden and Matthew MacFadyen. When you’re smitten, nothing quite hits the spot like a good love poem. They reflect exactly what you're feeling, and when you’re sad, they reassure you that you’re not alone. This selection, chosen by Daisy Goodwin, will strike a chord with anyone who has ever been in love. It's divided into themes from love's First Flush and Wild Nights through to the intimacy of domestic bliss explored in Talking in Bed, and the attraction of the forbidden in The Grass is Greener to a celebration of enduring love in Love in Life.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 523107 £12.99

Bill Bryson
Journeys in English
Bill Bryson presents a fascinating exploration of the English language in this BBC Radio 4 series based on his best-selling book 'Mother Tongue'. Listen as he romps through the history of Britain to reveal how English became such an infuriatingly complex – but ultimately world-beating – language. The six programmes cover the arrival of the Angles and the Saxons, the rules which brought order to a disorderly language, the million and one ways to have fun with English, the struggle with phrasal verbs (and the way things often get lost in translation) and the future of English - does Estuary English really rule?
3 CDs, 3hrs approx, ISBN 0563 496266 £15.99

P.G. Wodehouse
Meet Mr Mulliner
Richard Griffiths stars as incomparable pub raconteur, Mr Mulliner, who, with all the known veracity of a fisherman, holds forth with some of the most diverting of P.G Wodehouse's stories. Partly recorded on location at one of London's most celebrated public houses, Ye Olde Mitre (est. 1546), Roger Davenport's dramatisations ingeniously transform the regulars of the tavern into the characters of the stories. Mr Mulliner’s fellow drinkers, known to us by their tipples - A Pint of Stout, A Port, A Light Ale and A Small Bitter - step comfortably from the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest into the fantastical narratives to become the young suitors, the clergymen, and the sporty animal rights activists of the 1920s. The stories are: Honeysuckle Cottage, A Slice of Life, The Smile that Wins, Open House, Came the Dawn, Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo.

3 CDs, 3hrs, ISBN 0563 523964 £15.99

P.G. Wodehouse
Meet Mr Mulliner
Once again we join tale-teller Mr Mulliner in the snug bar of the Angler's Rest with four more tall tales as heard on BBC Radio 4. These full-cast dramatisations star Richard Griffiths as P.G. Wodehouse's pub storyteller. In The Bishop's Move, the pub regulars remind Mulliner about a tale he told of his nephew Augustine and a wonder drug, Buck-U-Uppo. The Ordeal of Osbert Mulliner concerns another hapless relation, rejected in love. In The Knightly Quest of Mervyn, young Mervyn Mulliner must prove his love for the glamorous Clarice. The last story is The Truth About George, who is advised to talk to strangers to cure his stuttering. The result - he is mistaken for a lunatic and pursued across the country.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 524804 £12.99

Available from 16 Feburary 2004

Dinnerladies
Now on CD, four hilarious episodes of Victoria Wood's acclaimed canteen comedy, with an introduction by Duncan Preston. Julie Walters, Celia Imrie and Thelma Barlow star with Victoria Wood in the show where the jokes fly as thick and fast as granary torpedoes. The episodes are: Monday (12 November 1998), Royals (19 November 1998), Moods (3 December 1998), Party (10 December 1998).
2 CDs, 1hr 55mins, ISBN 0563 495073 £12.99

Dinnerladies 2
A second helping of episodes from Victoria Wood's successful sitcom now available on CD. These four episodes are taken from the second series and once again Bren, Tony, Jean, and the rest of the kitchen staff battle with the everyday ups and downs of canteen life. Their routine is usually interrupted by a variety of interlopers from the outside world - including Bren’s eccentric, caravan-dwelling mother, played by Julie Walters. The episodes are: Catering (25 November 1999), Minnellium (30 December 1999), Gravy (20 January 2000), Toast (27 January 2000).
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 495081 £12.99

Ladies of Letters Spring Clean
Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge make a clean sweep and are back with more razor-sharp reflections in the BBC Radio 4 comedy hit. This time spring is in the air and the ladies are full of recipes and tips for a long and healthy life. Reunited at the bedside of a mutual old flame, Irene and Vera feel a sudden urge to focus on all things dietary and medical. From rest cures to rest homes, the intrepid ladies find themselves launching into battle with doctors, dieticians, their own families and – of course – each other.
1 CD, 1hr 15mins, ISBN 0563 523050 £8.99
1 cassette, 1hr 15mins, ISBN 0563 52300x £7.99