August
2004

Alan & Thora
Showcasing the combined talents of dramatist and writer Alan Bennett and actress Thora Hird, this release features an exclusive and unique recording, The Last of the Sun, which Thora made for BBC Audiobooks just months before her death in 2003. Also included are two of Bennett's best-selling Talking Heads monologues: A Cream Cracker Under the Settee and Waiting for the Telegram. Alan Bennett recalls his time working with Thora in a specially written introduction and postscript. A fitting tribute to a unique pair of artists.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 523476 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 524758 £10.99

Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Patrick Troughton witnesses 'the final end' of the Daleks in this exclusive recording of a classic 'lost' BBC television adventure from 1967, of which all but one episode is missing from the television archives. The Daleks are in search of the Human Factor, something they believe will help their quest for universal domination. In order to achieve their aim they need the use of his TARDIS and it soon goes missing from Gatwick Airport. Frazer Hines, who plays Jamie in the story, provides linking narration.
3 CDs, 3hrs 10mins, ISBN 0563 525975 £16.99

Doctor Who: Power of the Daleks
The first Doctor becomes the second in this exclusive recording of Doctor Who's original regeneration story first broadcast in 1966 and long since missing from the television archives, starring Patrick Troughton. Before the astonished eyes of his companions Ben and Polly, the Doctor’s whole body has apparently been transformed. Now they are confronted by a stranger who claims to be their old friend – but how can they know whether to trust him? Anneke Wills, who plays Polly in the story, provides linking narrration.
2 CDs, 2hrs 30mins, ISBN 0563 525037 £13.99

Eyewitness: The 1920s
Explore the decade of flappers, jazz and Bright Young Things in the third volume of a unique history programme that uses rare archival footage to take you directly to history as it was being made. The 1920s was the decade when the BBC was founded, Wembley Stadium was completed to host the 1923 Cup Final, and Sir Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen. It was also the time of the General Strike and much post-war disillusionment. Key figures such as Sir John Reith, Ramsay MacDonald and Alfred Hitchcock recall the decade along with miners, ex-servicemen and strikebreakers.
3 CDs, 3hrs 40mins, ISBN 0563 530928 £17.99

I, Robot
Volume One
Garrick Hagon reads the first five stories of Isaac Asimov's classic science fiction series, which is the inspiration for the major film starring Will Smith. In these stories, Asimov lays down the Three Laws of Robotics and predicts a time when robots and humans live side-by-side. The year is 2057, and robo-psychologist Dr Susan Calvin recalls the history of US Robots, and some of the landmark cases in the development of man’s servant class. The five stories are: Robbie, Runaround, Reason, Catch That Rabbit, and Liar!
4 CDs, 4hrs 15mins, ISBN 0563 525762 £15.99

Round the Horne
Volume 16
In the latest offering of four more bona BBC radio episodes from the classic comedy series we listen in on an interview at the BBC personnel department; Kenneth Horne, master spy, has serious trouble with the evil Ginsberg; Julian and Sandy suggest something decadent for the garden, and Fiona finds something lacking in her marriage to Charles. Stars Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee. The programmes are from: 4 April 1965, 9 May 1965, 23 May 1965, 29 May 1966.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 524367 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 524316 £10.99

Available from 16 August 2004

Just a Minute 2
Now available on CD, radio’s favourite chatterers pit their wits – and their words – against the clock in another hilarious selection from BBC radio’s longest-running comedy game show. With Nicholas Parsons, Peter Jones, Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo, Tony Hawks, Fred MacAulay, Kit Hesketh-Harvey and Caroline Quentin. The episodes included are: 23 January 1993, 31 December 1994, 20 January 1996, 10 February 1996.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 524596 £12.99

Francis Durbridge
Paul Temple and the Conrad Case
From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife, Steve, solved case after case on BBC radio's most popular mystery serials. In this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation, Dr Conrad’s daughter Betty has disappeared from her finishing school in Bavaria. The only clue to the mystery is an unusual cocktail stick found in her bedroom. Can Paul work it out?
4 CDs, 3hrs 45mins, ISBN 0563 524642 £15.99

Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Volume Two
Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in four stories now on CD that form part of the unique fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels. The stories are: The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle and The Adventure of the Speckled Band.
4 CDs, 2hrs 55mins, ISBN 0563 524693 £15.99