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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by Anton Lesser, Edward de Souza, Susan Engel, Emma Fielding, Peter Jeffrey, Sean Baker, Jamie Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead, Gavin Muir, Peter Yapp, Benjamin Soames, David Timson, Richard Pearce, Paul Panting ...

Unabridged

3 hours 22 min

Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth ... Read more

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Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth
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Rapunzel

The Graphic Novel

by Stephanie True Peters ...

Illustrated by Jeffrey Stewart Timmins ...

Series series Graphic Spin
Long ago, a beautiful maiden named Rapunzel lived a life of loneliness. Taken at birth by an evil witch, she remained hidden, locked within a giant tower. Then one day, a prince heard her voice through the forest. To reach her, he must climb Rapunzel’s lovely locks and avoid being caught by the witch. ... Read more

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Long ago, a beautiful maiden named Rapunzel lived a life of loneliness. Taken at birth by an evil witch, she remained hidden, locked within a giant tower. Then one day, a prince heard her voice through the forest. To reach her, he must climb Rapunzel’s lovely locks and avoid being caught by the witch.
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Robert Louis Stevenson: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and more

by Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by David Tennant, Wally K. Daly, Jack Lowden, Phyliss Logan, Alan Cumming, Peter Jeffrey, Michael Nardone, Stuart McQuarrie, John Dougall, David Rintoul, Tony Osoba, Nina Wadia, Madeleine Worrall, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

12 hours 22 min

A thrilling collection of dramatisations from the classic Scottish master of talesRobert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, and created some of the most famous and influential characters in modern literature. From Long John Silver and David Balfour to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, his figures swiftly became the shorthand for piracy, monstrous medicine, and the slave trade ... Read more

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A thrilling collection of dramatisations from the classic Scottish master of talesRobert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, and created some of the most famous and influential characters in modern literature. From Long John Silver and David Balfour to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, his figures swiftly became the shorthand for piracy, monstrous medicine, and the slave trade
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She Stoops to Conquer & The Vicar of Wakefield

Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions

by Oliver Goldsmith ...

Narrated by Julia McKenzie, Clive Francis, Amanda Root, Adrian Scarborough, Sunny Ormonde, Peter Jeffrey, Michael Cochrane, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

5 hours 24 min

Full-cast BBC adaptations of Oliver Goldsmith’s two most famous worksAnglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith was one of the most accomplished writers of the 18th century. A novelist, playwright, poet and essayist, he came to fame with his novel The Vicar of Wakefield and comic play She Stoops to Conquer. Both those classics are included here, with star casts including Julia McKenzie, Amanda Root, ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Full-cast BBC adaptations of Oliver Goldsmith’s two most famous worksAnglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith was one of the most accomplished writers of the 18th century. A novelist, playwright, poet and essayist, he came to fame with his novel The Vicar of Wakefield and comic play She Stoops to Conquer. Both those classics are included here, with star casts including Julia McKenzie, Amanda Root,
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The Image of God

A BBC Radio Adaptation of the Medieval Mystery Plays

by David Buck ...

Narrated by David Buck, Timothy West, Denis Quilley, Peter Jeffrey, Hannah Gordon, Julian Glover, Richard Briers, John Rowe, Annette Crosbie, John Shrapnel0, Nigel Anthony1, Full Cast2 ...

Unabridged

5 hours 22 min

A full-cast three-part adaptation of the Medieval Mystery Plays, introduced by David BuckDuring medieval religious holidays in certain English towns and cities, members of the various guilds would gather in the streets to re-enact Bible stories, from the Creation to the Last Judgment. Often staged from dawn to dusk on a single day, they were performed on a procession of pageant wagons, and the ... Read more

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A full-cast three-part adaptation of the Medieval Mystery Plays, introduced by David BuckDuring medieval religious holidays in certain English towns and cities, members of the various guilds would gather in the streets to re-enact Bible stories, from the Creation to the Last Judgment. Often staged from dawn to dusk on a single day, they were performed on a procession of pageant wagons, and the
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Inspector Purbright

Five BBC Radio 4 full-cast crime dramatisations from The Flaxborough Chronicles

by Colin Watson ...

Narrated by Peter Jeffrey, John Rowe, John Pullen, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

11 hours 13 min

A collection of cosy crime dramas adapted from Colin Watson's 'Flaxborough Chronicles', set in a small Lincolnshire market town in the 1960s and '70sInspector Purbright is a thoroughly English policeman: affable, polite, dogged and decent. Created by award-winning crime writer Colin Watson, he appeared in 12 Flaxborough mysteries, four of which were adapted for BBC TV under the title Murder Most ... Read more

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A collection of cosy crime dramas adapted from Colin Watson's 'Flaxborough Chronicles', set in a small Lincolnshire market town in the 1960s and '70sInspector Purbright is a thoroughly English policeman: affable, polite, dogged and decent. Created by award-winning crime writer Colin Watson, he appeared in 12 Flaxborough mysteries, four of which were adapted for BBC TV under the title Murder Most
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The Eagle has landed, The Eagle has Flown and Exocet

Three BBC Radio Full-Cast Thrillers

by Jack Higgins ...

Narrated by Michael Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Whitehead, Peter Jeffrey, Moir Leslie, Peter Acre, David Bamber, Frank Grimes, Graham Padden, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

5 hours 48 min

Full-cast dramatisations of three of Jack Higgins’ best-known novelsJack Higgins (the pen name of Henry Patterson) was the internationally bestselling author of 85 novels. He shot to fame with The Eagle Has Landed, which sold 50 million copies worldwide and became a hit film. Adapted for radio, it is included here, together with its gripping sequel The Eagle Has Flown and the sensational Falklands ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Full-cast dramatisations of three of Jack Higgins’ best-known novelsJack Higgins (the pen name of Henry Patterson) was the internationally bestselling author of 85 novels. He shot to fame with The Eagle Has Landed, which sold 50 million copies worldwide and became a hit film. Adapted for radio, it is included here, together with its gripping sequel The Eagle Has Flown and the sensational Falklands
... Read more
Unequal Gains

American Growth and Inequality since 1700

by Peter H. Lindert, Jeffrey G. Williamson ...

Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
"Brilliant. . . . A masterpiece in quantitative and qualitative economic research destined to become a classic in its field." ― Library JournalUnequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States. While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson focus instead on income—and the result is a bold ... Read more

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"Brilliant. . . . A masterpiece in quantitative and qualitative economic research destined to become a classic in its field." ― Library JournalUnequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States. While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson focus instead on income—and the result is a bold
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Constantine Cavafy

A New Biography

by Gregory Jusdanis, Peter Jeffreys ...

A long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern poets.In 1933, on his seventieth birthday, the poet Constantine Cavafy died in an Alexandrian hospital, surrounded by friends. He left behind a small, curated oeuvre of 154 poems, along with fragments and drafts of incomplete works. Throughout his life, Constantine had kept a tight grip on the distribution of his poetry, but ... Read more

$20.99 USD

A long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern poets.In 1933, on his seventieth birthday, the poet Constantine Cavafy died in an Alexandrian hospital, surrounded by friends. He left behind a small, curated oeuvre of 154 poems, along with fragments and drafts of incomplete works. Throughout his life, Constantine had kept a tight grip on the distribution of his poetry, but
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This Sceptred Isle Collection 2: 1702 - 1901

The Classic BBC Radio History

by Christopher Lee ...

Narrated by Anna Massey, Peter Jeffrey, Brett Usher, Denys Hawthorne, David Holt, Keith Drinkel, Patrick Reinhardt, Sean Baker ...

Unabridged

14 hours 13 min

The final five volumes from the landmark BBC radio series This Sceptred Isle.Christopher Lee's epic history tells the story of Britain from the Romans to the death of Victoria. This collection includes the original volumes 6-10:1702-1760: The First British EmpireThe reign of George I; Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, and the first rendition of Rule Britannia.1760-1792: The Age of ... Read more

$21.99 USD

The final five volumes from the landmark BBC radio series This Sceptred Isle.Christopher Lee's epic history tells the story of Britain from the Romans to the death of Victoria. This collection includes the original volumes 6-10:1702-1760: The First British EmpireThe reign of George I; Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, and the first rendition of Rule Britannia.1760-1792: The Age of
... Read more
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Kingsley Amis: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

I Spy Strangers, I Want It Now, All Free Now based on Girl 20 and more

by Kingsley Amis ...

Narrated by Christopher Cazenove, Gayle Hunnicutt, Iain Cuthbertson, Tom Watson, Freddie Jones, Peter Jeffrey, Ken Stott, Nigel Anthony, Anna Calder-Marshall, Alan Bennett, Robert Hardy, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

6 hours 30 min

Adaptations of Kingley Amis’s great novels and acclaimed short storiesNovelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest post-war writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Adaptations of Kingley Amis’s great novels and acclaimed short storiesNovelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest post-war writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and
... Read more
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Margaret Oliphant: Miss Marjoribanks, Phoebe Junior and Hester

A BBC Radio Collection

by Margaret Oliphant, Kate Clanchy, Zena Foster, Elizabeth Proud ...

Narrated by Charlotte Attenborough, Elizabeth Spriggs, Full Cast, Lyndsey Marshall, Penelope Wilton, Peter Jeffrey, Teresa Gallagher ...

Unabridged

9 hours 3 min

Three BBC radio adaptations of famous novels by the prolific 19th-century author Mrs Oliphant – plus an episode of Reading Aloud, with extracts from her autobiographySometimes called ‘the feminist Trollope’, Margaret Oliphant wrote over 100 works of fiction in a wide variety of genres, ranging from novels of small-town life to historical tales and supernatural stories. Included here are three of ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Three BBC radio adaptations of famous novels by the prolific 19th-century author Mrs Oliphant – plus an episode of Reading Aloud, with extracts from her autobiographySometimes called ‘the feminist Trollope’, Margaret Oliphant wrote over 100 works of fiction in a wide variety of genres, ranging from novels of small-town life to historical tales and supernatural stories. Included here are three of
... Read more

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Hamlet

Rapunzel

Robert Louis Stevenson: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

She Stoops to Conquer & The Vicar of Wakefield

The Image of God

Inspector Purbright

The Eagle has landed, The Eagle has Flown and Exocet

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