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Out of Character

From Abigail’s Party to Gavin and Stacey, and everything in between

by Alison Steadman ...

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey: it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to interest everybody' TelegraphThe first memoir from the national treasure, critically acclaimed actress and much-loved Gavin and Stacey star.Candice Marie in Nuts in May. Beverly in Abigail’s Party.... ... Read more

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A Waterstones Best Book of 2024'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey: it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to interest everybody' TelegraphThe first memoir from the national treasure, critically acclaimed actress and much-loved Gavin and Stacey star.Candice Marie in Nuts in May. Beverly in Abigail’s Party....
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The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection

15 BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations

by Charles Dickens ...

Narrated by Alison Steadman, Andrew Scott, Robert Glenister, Tim McInnerny, Geraldine McEwan, Robert Lindsay, Kenneth Cranham, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Alex Jennings, Anna Massey, Phil Daniels, Julia McKenzie, Indira Varma, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

71 hours 42 min

Riveting radio dramatisations of Charles Dickens' fifteen full-length novels.Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes fifteen of his most popular novels.This collection includes the episodic adventure Nicholas Nickleby, comic tale The Pickwick Papers, poignant melodrama The Old Curiosity Shop, the much ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Riveting radio dramatisations of Charles Dickens' fifteen full-length novels.Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes fifteen of his most popular novels.This collection includes the episodic adventure Nicholas Nickleby, comic tale The Pickwick Papers, poignant melodrama The Old Curiosity Shop, the much
... Read more
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The Switch

A Novel

by Beth O'Leary ...

Narrated by Alison Steadman, Daisy Edgar-Jones ...

Unabridged

10 hours 11 min

"Daisy Edgar-Jones and Alison Steadman team up as a fun, quirky grandmother and granddaughter pair in this lively narration...The two narrators, each portraying her respective character's point of view, are a perfect match." --AudioFile Magazine**This program is read by British actors Alison Steadman and Daisy Edgar-Jones, star of Hulu's Normal People.A grandmother and granddaughter swap lives in ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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"Daisy Edgar-Jones and Alison Steadman team up as a fun, quirky grandmother and granddaughter pair in this lively narration...The two narrators, each portraying her respective character's point of view, are a perfect match." --AudioFile Magazine**This program is read by British actors Alison Steadman and Daisy Edgar-Jones, star of Hulu's Normal People.A grandmother and granddaughter swap lives in
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Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black and more

A BBC Radio Drama Collection

by Hilary Mantel ...

Narrated by Hilary Mantel, Alison Steadman, Rosie Cavaliero, Bill Wallis, Miriam Margoyles, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

5 hours 7 min

Two of Hilary Mantel's finest novels, adapted for BBC Radio 4 - plus an exclusive short storyOne of the 21st century's most celebrated authors, Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in her phenomenally successful Thomas Cromwell trilogy, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third novel in the series, 2020's The Mirror and the Light, won the Walter Scott ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Two of Hilary Mantel's finest novels, adapted for BBC Radio 4 - plus an exclusive short storyOne of the 21st century's most celebrated authors, Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in her phenomenally successful Thomas Cromwell trilogy, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third novel in the series, 2020's The Mirror and the Light, won the Walter Scott
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John Finnemore's Double Acts

Six BBC Radio 4 Comedy Dramas

by John Finnemore ...

Narrated by Alison Steadman, Celia Imrie, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

2 hours 46 min

Winner of the Writers Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy and the Comedy.co.uk awards for Best Radio Sketch Show!Celia Imrie, Alison Steadman, John Bird and Rebecca Front are among the cast of these BBC Radio 4 comedy dramas from the writer and producers of Cabin Pressure.These six self-contained duologues, each one brimming with humour and charm, come from the pen of John Finnemore, author and star ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Winner of the Writers Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy and the Comedy.co.uk awards for Best Radio Sketch Show!Celia Imrie, Alison Steadman, John Bird and Rebecca Front are among the cast of these BBC Radio 4 comedy dramas from the writer and producers of Cabin Pressure.These six self-contained duologues, each one brimming with humour and charm, come from the pen of John Finnemore, author and star
... Read more
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The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years

Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations

by Charles Dickens ...

Narrated by Alison Steadman, Andrew Scott, Geraldine McEwan, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Kenneth Cranham, Robert Lindsay, Full Cast, Indira Varma ...

Unabridged

36 hours 35 min

Enthralling radio dramatisations of eight of Charles Dickens' much-loved novels.Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this second digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes eight of his classic novels.This collection includes the epic masterpiece David Copperfield, described by Dickens as his ‘favourite child’; suspenseful mystery Bleak House; ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Enthralling radio dramatisations of eight of Charles Dickens' much-loved novels.Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this second digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes eight of his classic novels.This collection includes the epic masterpiece David Copperfield, described by Dickens as his ‘favourite child’; suspenseful mystery Bleak House;
... Read more
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Blood, Sex and Money

A BBC Radio 4 serialisation of Zola's epic saga

by Emile Zola ...

Narrated by David Schofield, Angela Griffin, Full Cast, Glenda Jackson, Alison Steadman, Robert Lindsay, Anna Maxwell Martin, Paul McGann, Holliday Grainger, Emma Rigby, Fenella Woolgar, Samuel West, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Georgina Campbell ...

Unabridged

23 hours 18 min

Glenda Jackson stars in this award-winning BBC Radio series, inspired by literature's greatest ever whistleblower, Émile Zola, and his epic saga of the Rougon-Macquart family‘Unmissable’ Daily TelegraphFirst published between 1870 and 1893, Émile Zola’s 20-book cycle chronicling four generations of the Rougon-Macquarts was a shocking exposé of the decadence, degradation and moral decay of 19th ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Glenda Jackson stars in this award-winning BBC Radio series, inspired by literature's greatest ever whistleblower, Émile Zola, and his epic saga of the Rougon-Macquart family‘Unmissable’ Daily TelegraphFirst published between 1870 and 1893, Émile Zola’s 20-book cycle chronicling four generations of the Rougon-Macquarts was a shocking exposé of the decadence, degradation and moral decay of 19th
... Read more
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Miranda Hart’s Joke Shop

The Complete BBC Radio Comedy Series

by Miranda Hart, James Cary, Simon Day ...

Narrated by Miranda Hart, Patricia Hodge, Sarah Hadland, Tom Ellis, Alison Steadman, Morwenna Banks, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

2 hours 23 min

The complete BBC Radio 4 collection by the BAFTA nominated and NTA award winning Miranda Hart.Miranda is an unconventional woman. She’s six feet tall, self-conscious and posh. And is frequently mistaken for a man. She’s also invested her inheritance in a joke shop that she runs with her friend Stevie while trying to deal with her outrageously embarrassing mother.Though surrounded by chocolate ... Read more

$19.99 USD

The complete BBC Radio 4 collection by the BAFTA nominated and NTA award winning Miranda Hart.Miranda is an unconventional woman. She’s six feet tall, self-conscious and posh. And is frequently mistaken for a man. She’s also invested her inheritance in a joke shop that she runs with her friend Stevie while trying to deal with her outrageously embarrassing mother.Though surrounded by chocolate
... Read more
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Gloomsbury

The complete series 1-5 of the hit BBC Radio 4 comedy

by Sue Limb ...

Narrated by Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman, Nigel Planer, Roger Lloyd Pack, Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy, John Sessions, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

13 hours 59 min

'... one of the funniest, slyest, most naughtily inventive and brilliantly performed shows on the air' - Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph'A gloriously silly show' - The LadyMiriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman and Nigel Planer star in Sue Limb's wickedly funny comedy parodying the arty and adulterous adventures of the Bloomsbury Group, who dominated the English cultural scene in the early 20th ... Read more

$19.99 USD

'... one of the funniest, slyest, most naughtily inventive and brilliantly performed shows on the air' - Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph'A gloriously silly show' - The LadyMiriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman and Nigel Planer star in Sue Limb's wickedly funny comedy parodying the arty and adulterous adventures of the Bloomsbury Group, who dominated the English cultural scene in the early 20th
... Read more
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A Tale Of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens ...

Narrated by Alison Steadman, Full Cast, Robert Lindsay ...

Unabridged

3 hours 40 min

Robert Lindsay stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens. From the echo of the first line ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’ to the final ‘It is a far far better thing that I do than I have ever done’, Dickens’ classic novel of the French revolution tells a story of the redemptive powers of love in the face of cruelty, violence and ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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Robert Lindsay stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens. From the echo of the first line ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’ to the final ‘It is a far far better thing that I do than I have ever done’, Dickens’ classic novel of the French revolution tells a story of the redemptive powers of love in the face of cruelty, violence and
... Read more

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Out of Character

From Abigail’s Party to Gavin and Stacey, and everything in between

by Alison Steadman ...

Narrated by Alison Steadman ...

Unabridged

10 hours 40 min

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey: it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to interest everybody' TelegraphThe first memoir from the national treasure, critically acclaimed actress and much-loved Gavin and Stacey star.Candice Marie in Nuts in May. Beverly in Abigail’s Party.... ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey: it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to interest everybody' TelegraphThe first memoir from the national treasure, critically acclaimed actress and much-loved Gavin and Stacey star.Candice Marie in Nuts in May. Beverly in Abigail’s Party....
... Read more

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William Boyd: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

A Good Man in Africa, An Ice Cream War, Restless and more

by William Boyd ...

Narrated by Alan Rickman, Alison Steadman, Bill Paterson, Bill Nighy, Tom Goodman-Hill, Ben Miles, Niamh Cusack, Fenella Woolgar, Full Cast, Eileen Atkins ...

Unabridged

10 hours 1 min

A collection of BBC dramatisations and readings of William Boyd's award-winning novels and short storiesOne of Britain's foremost contemporary writers, William Boyd is renowned worldwide for his bestselling novels, which have been translated into over 30 languages. He has won numerous awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award (for A Good Man in Africa), the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for An Ice ... Read more

$19.99 USD

A collection of BBC dramatisations and readings of William Boyd's award-winning novels and short storiesOne of Britain's foremost contemporary writers, William Boyd is renowned worldwide for his bestselling novels, which have been translated into over 30 languages. He has won numerous awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award (for A Good Man in Africa), the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for An Ice
... Read more

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