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Daphne du Maurier: The BBC Radio Collection

Including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman’s Creek & more

by Daphne du Maurier ...

Narrated by Christopher Cazenove, Cathryn Harrison, Adam Godley, Hugh Burden, Roger Allam, Jonathan Firth, Ian Richardson, Diana Quick, Paula Wilcox, Alice Hart, Susannah Corbett, Nicola Walker, Lorna Heilbron, Jamie Parker, Full Cast, Aisling Loftus, Lucy Boynton, Bethany Muir ...

Unabridged

21 hours 27 min

A comprehensive collection of dramatisations of Daphne du Maurier’s works'Containing performances from well-known actors from past and present, Daphne du Maurier: The BBC Radio Collection is a rich feast for all fans of the writer's work.' - Entertainment FocusDaphne du Maurier was one of the 20th century’s most popular writers. Extraordinarily prolific, she produced a string of bestsellers, many ... Read more

$21.99 USD

A comprehensive collection of dramatisations of Daphne du Maurier’s works'Containing performances from well-known actors from past and present, Daphne du Maurier: The BBC Radio Collection is a rich feast for all fans of the writer's work.' - Entertainment FocusDaphne du Maurier was one of the 20th century’s most popular writers. Extraordinarily prolific, she produced a string of bestsellers, many
... Read more
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The Forsyte Saga

4 Full Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

by John Galsworthy ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Dirk Bogarde, Diana Quick, Amanda Redman, Michael Williams, Maurice Denham, Sophie Thompson, Dr Alan Howard, Michael Hordern ...

Unabridged

21 hours 46 min

An epic BBC radio adaptation of John Galsworthy's complete Forsyte Chronicles, narrated by Dirk Bogarde and with an all-star cast'Hallmarked with elegance and craftsmanship' The Evening StandardFirst broadcast in 1990, this monumental adaptation of John Galsworthy's Nobel Prize-winning novel series was a radio event. It was the most expensive drama serial ever produced, featured one of the biggest ... Read more

$21.99 USD

An epic BBC radio adaptation of John Galsworthy's complete Forsyte Chronicles, narrated by Dirk Bogarde and with an all-star cast'Hallmarked with elegance and craftsmanship' The Evening StandardFirst broadcast in 1990, this monumental adaptation of John Galsworthy's Nobel Prize-winning novel series was a radio event. It was the most expensive drama serial ever produced, featured one of the biggest
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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy ...

Narrated by Diana Quick ...

Abridged

2 hours 24 min

Towering over the other characters, Tolstoy’s beautiful tragic heroine, Anna Karenina, dominates the action of the great book which bears her name. Anna is sensitive, generous, warm-hearted and intelligent, but all her virtues count for nothing when she is overcome by passionate love for Count Vronsky. Handsome and sensual, Vronsky is everything Anna’s dry, legalistic husband is not. Their love, ... Read more

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Towering over the other characters, Tolstoy’s beautiful tragic heroine, Anna Karenina, dominates the action of the great book which bears her name. Anna is sensitive, generous, warm-hearted and intelligent, but all her virtues count for nothing when she is overcome by passionate love for Count Vronsky. Handsome and sensual, Vronsky is everything Anna’s dry, legalistic husband is not. Their love,
... Read more

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Aurora Leigh

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ...

Narrated by Diana Quick ...

Abridged

2 hours 55 min

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s classic poem, read by Diana Quick.Written in blank verse, Aurora Leigh is Browning’s self-styled ‘novel in verse’, a first-person narration of the lives of Marian Erle and the eponymous Aurora. Travelling across Florence, London, and Paris, and playing off the works of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël and George Sand, Aurora Leigh is one of the greatest poems of the ... Read more

$16.99 USD

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s classic poem, read by Diana Quick.Written in blank verse, Aurora Leigh is Browning’s self-styled ‘novel in verse’, a first-person narration of the lives of Marian Erle and the eponymous Aurora. Travelling across Florence, London, and Paris, and playing off the works of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël and George Sand, Aurora Leigh is one of the greatest poems of the
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Sophocles’ Greek Tragedies: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

Oedipus, Antigone, Electra and more

by Sophocles ...

Narrated by Fiona Shaw, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Kenneth Cranham, Vinette Robinson, Stephen Rea, John Lynch, Nadine Marshall, Brendan Gleeson, Jack Lowden, Russell Dixon, Michael Feast, William Ash, Jude Akuwudike, Diana Quick, Full cast ...

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6 hours 27 min

A collection of full-cast dramatisations of Sophocles’ finest Greek tragediesOne of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays during his 60-year career, though only seven survive today. The most famous of these are the Theban Plays, all three of which are included in this collection alongside adaptations of Electra and Philoctetes, brought to life by ... Read more

$19.99 USD

A collection of full-cast dramatisations of Sophocles’ finest Greek tragediesOne of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays during his 60-year career, though only seven survive today. The most famous of these are the Theban Plays, all three of which are included in this collection alongside adaptations of Electra and Philoctetes, brought to life by
... Read more
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North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell ...

Narrated by Diana Quick ...

Series series The Penguin English Library
Abridged

6 hours 4 min

Penguin Classics presents Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actress Diana Quick.'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original ... Read more

$13.99 USD

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Penguin Classics presents Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actress Diana Quick.'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original
... Read more

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I Used to Live Here Once

The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

by Miranda Seymour ...

Narrated by Diana Quick ...

Unabridged

14 hours 9 min

An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction—above all, the extraordinary ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction—above all, the extraordinary
... Read more

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Rosamond Lehmann: A BBC Radio Collection

Four Full-Cast Dramatisations including The Weather in the Streets

by Rosamond Lehmann ...

Narrated by Julia Hills, Rosina Carbone, Annabel Scholey, Tom Ferguson, Diana Quick, David Lloyd, Eve Best, Jonathan Firth, Rachel Lewis, Janet Suzman, Susan Engel, Maureen O'Brien, Lin Sagovsky, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

5 hours 38 min

BBC adaptations of four of Rosamond Lehmann’s best-known novels, plus short stories and a bonus documentaryRosamond Lehmann’s first novel, Dusty Answer, was published in 1927 when she was just 26. It was a scandalous success, and was followed by six more acclaimed novels exploring human relationships and the emotional lives of girls and women. Four of the finest are dramatised here, alongside ... Read more

$19.99 USD

BBC adaptations of four of Rosamond Lehmann’s best-known novels, plus short stories and a bonus documentaryRosamond Lehmann’s first novel, Dusty Answer, was published in 1927 when she was just 26. It was a scandalous success, and was followed by six more acclaimed novels exploring human relationships and the emotional lives of girls and women. Four of the finest are dramatised here, alongside
... Read more
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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy ...

Narrated by Diana Quick ...

Abridged

2 hours 24 min

Married to a man of importance in 19th century St.Petersburg, Anna's world crumbles when she falls passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky, and is forced to choose between her lover and her young son. Her tragedy lies in the cruelty meted out to her in high society by those who had been her friends.A masterpiece of 19th century fiction, Tolstoy's classic romantic tragedy remains as ... Read more

$15.99 USD

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Married to a man of importance in 19th century St.Petersburg, Anna's world crumbles when she falls passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky, and is forced to choose between her lover and her young son. Her tragedy lies in the cruelty meted out to her in high society by those who had been her friends.A masterpiece of 19th century fiction, Tolstoy's classic romantic tragedy remains as
... Read more

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The Aeneid

by Virgil ...

Narrated by Anna Massey, Diana Quick, Eleanor Bron, Full Cast, Gina McKee ...

Unabridged

1 hour 54 min

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Virgil's sweeping epic, starring Ralph Fiennes as Aeneas and Derek Jacobi as the Narrator. One of the classics of all time, The Aeneid was Virgil's last and greatest work. In it, he recounts in vivid imagery the legendary origin of the Roman Empire. The story begins after the Greeks have destroyed the city of Troy. The Trojan Prince Aeneas, defeated and depressed, ... Read more

$6.99 USD

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A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Virgil's sweeping epic, starring Ralph Fiennes as Aeneas and Derek Jacobi as the Narrator. One of the classics of all time, The Aeneid was Virgil's last and greatest work. In it, he recounts in vivid imagery the legendary origin of the Roman Empire. The story begins after the Greeks have destroyed the city of Troy. The Trojan Prince Aeneas, defeated and depressed,
... Read more

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The Spellbound Horses

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

by Julia Blackburn ...

Narrated by Brian Bowles, David Troughton, Diana Quick, Jacqueline Tong, Martin Bonger, Sally Orrock ...

Unabridged

42 min

A BBC Radio 4 drama of mesmerising delicacy from Julia Blackburn, winner of the Pen Ackerley prize for memoir 2009, and daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 29 March 2011. Thomas Blackburn was an alcoholic before he became a poet, but in spite of his drunken rages, his erratic behaviour and his crazy obsession with death, Julia always knew that he ... Read more

$5.99 USD

A BBC Radio 4 drama of mesmerising delicacy from Julia Blackburn, winner of the Pen Ackerley prize for memoir 2009, and daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 29 March 2011. Thomas Blackburn was an alcoholic before he became a poet, but in spite of his drunken rages, his erratic behaviour and his crazy obsession with death, Julia always knew that he
... Read more

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Great Gatsby, The

by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Matthew Schmitz E ...

Unabridged

4 hours 18 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a timeless tale of love, wealth, and the American Dream, set in the opulent world of the Roaring Twenties. The story is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a young man who moves to West Egg, Long Island, and becomes entangled in the lavish yet mysterious life of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby—a wealthy an... ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a timeless tale of love, wealth, and the American Dream, set in the opulent world of the Roaring Twenties. The story is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a young man who moves to West Egg, Long Island, and becomes entangled in the lavish yet mysterious life of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby—a wealthy an...
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