June
2005

P.D. James
A Certain Justice
Adam Dalgliesh returns in the first new full-cast dramatisation of a P.D. James mystery for nine years. Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished criminal lawyer who manages to secure the acquittal of a young man, Garry Ashe, from the charge of murdering his aunt. But shortly afterwards, the QC is murdered, followed in quick succession by her office cleaner. Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh begins to unravel the story behind the murders, culminating in a startling climax on the East Anglian marshlands.
Includes a 30-minute interview with P. D. James.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 510617 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 510560 £10.99

Dalziel and Pascoe: For Love Nor Money
Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan star in an original full-cast television episode specially adapted for audio. Dalziel and Pascoe attend a retirement party for a senior colleague, Donald Fitzgerald. But Dalziel isn't in a celebratory mood: he blames Fitzgerald for losing a recent court case against local villain Danny Macer. He's even angrier when Macer turns up. But anger turns to suspicion when Fitzgerald is found dead on a golf course the following morning.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 510935 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 510889 £10.99

Just a Classic Minute: Volume 2
Just as popular today as when it first began on BBC Radio 4 in 1968, Just a Minute challenges contestants to speak for one minute on a given subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Nicholas Parsons, at the helm since the beginning, introduces this sparkling quartet of episodes from the 1960, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and provides fascinating background information on the game along with memories of panellists and the show's devisor, Ian Messiter. Guests in these four archive shows include Kenneth Williams, Peter Jones, Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Maureen Lipman, Geraldine Jones, Sheila Hancock, Alfred Marks, John Junkin and Tim Rice. The four episodes are: 21 October 1968, 3 November 1976, 28 August 1982 and 17 March 1990.
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 525991 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 525940 £10.99

The Navy Lark: Volume 17
Taking Some Liberties
A special collection featuring Ronnie Barker as Engineer Queeg in four classic episodes of nautical mayhem on board HMS Troutbridge. In these classic capers, Leslie buys a bicycle, Troutbridge sails to France carrying the Prime Minister’s advisor, Goldstein schemes to get the CPO's job, and the ship suffers a mysterious mechanical breakdown when Pertwee decides its next mission is doomed. The episodes are: Taking Some Liberties (11 July 1965), The PM Papa (13 November 1966), Getting Rid of Pertwee (20 November 1966), and Off to Sea at Last (27 November 1966).
2 CDs, 1hr 50mins, ISBN 0563 510196 £12.99
2 cassettes, 1hr 50mins, ISBN 0563 510145 £10.99

Stephen Fry
Rescuing the Spectacled Bear
Stephen Fry reads from his inspirational book, Rescuing the Spectacled Bear, which he based on the diary he kept during filming in Peru of Stephen Fry and the Spectacled Bears - a follow up to the BBC documentary Paddington Bear: The Early Years. During the first documentary, Fry encountered a spectacled bear (so called for the markings around its eyes) named Yogi. The bear was kept by villagers in a tiny cage high in the Andes. Fry bartered to have the bear released and took it to a new enclosure at the bottom of Machu Picchu. So began his interest in saving the spectacled bears from extinction, which he recounts here along with a specially recorded update on the Bear Rescue Foundation, a charitable trust that the author co-founded to rescue and nurture distressed bears.
3 CDs, 3hrs, ISBN 0563 510692 £15.99

Available from 20 June 2005

Doctor Who Reconstructed: The Power of the Daleks (MP3-CD)
Of the 100+ episodes of Doctor Who that are absent from the television archives, only two elements survive: off-air sound recordings and 'telesnaps'. Doctor Who Reconstructed is a unique project that matches the soundtrack recording with a visual slideshow of 'telesnaps', in this case taken by the photographer John Cura. Together these elements give the closest possible simulation of this 'lost' film recording. In The Power of the Daleks, the Doctor has regenerated for the first time, and his companions aren't sure what to make of the stranger before them who claims to be their old friend. But when the TARDIS materialises on the planet Vulcan, they must fight for their lives together - against the Daleks. Anneke Wills, who plays Polly in the story, narrates this debut adventure for the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, originally broadcast in 1966.
1 MP3-CD, 2hrs 30mins, ISBN 0563 50417X £19.99

Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Quintessential Phase (CD)
The final book in Douglas Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts' includes a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Mostly Harmless. While frequent flyer Arthur Dent searches the universe for his lost love, Ford Prefect discovers a disturbing blast from the past at The Hitchhiker's Guide HQ. Meanwhile, on one of many versions of Earth, a blonder, more American Trillian gets tangled up with a party of lost aliens having an identity crisis. And just when Arthur thinks he has found his true vocation on the backwater planet of Lamuella, the original Trillian turns up with more than a little spanner in the works. Simon Jones returns as Arthur, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Sandra Dickinson as Tricia McMillian, and Stephen Moore as Marvin. William Franklyn is the Book, alongside a host of famous guest stars.
The extended CD edition features 40 minutes of material not heard on BBC Radio 4.
2 CDs, 2hrs 30mins, ISBN 0563 504072 £12.99
2 cassettes, 2hrs 30mins, ISBN 0563 504129 £10.99