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Doctor Who: Pull to Open
- The Creation of Doctor Who
- By: Paul Hayes
- Narrated by: Christopher Naylor
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Christopher Naylor reads the inside story of how the BBC created and launched Doctor Who. In early 1963, a chain of events led to the creation of what would become one of the best-loved, and most successful, of all British television programmes. This is the tale of how Doctor Who embarked upon its epic journey - one which still continues today. It is also the story of the people involved, from Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson to Verity Lambert, Waris Hussein and William Hartnell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating detailed history
- By Amazon Customer on 09-11-24
- Doctor Who: Pull to Open
- The Creation of Doctor Who
- By: Paul Hayes
- Narrated by: Christopher Naylor
Fascinating detailed history
Reviewed: 09-11-24
really interesting background, that not only tells the story of Doctor Who, but also puts it into the historical context of what else is going on in 1963 (Kennedy assination, Profuno scandal etc), what was on the other networks and so on. great storytelling and research.
highly recommended
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The News Quiz: A Heritage Collection
- Highlights from the Topical Radio 4 Panel Show
- By: BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: various
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
As highly prized as a Ming vase or a Regency sideboard, this fine collection of 14 vintage episodes of BBC Radio 4’s long-running panel show - chaired by Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Bill Tidy and Sandi Toksvig - is at last available for all to hear. Those in the know will discern a clear patina of sensible, silly and salacious news items from Britain, America and all around the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliantly Funny
- By Amazon Customer on 11-07-24
- The News Quiz: A Heritage Collection
- Highlights from the Topical Radio 4 Panel Show
- By: BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: various
Brilliantly Funny
Reviewed: 11-07-24
Another fantastic collection of BBC Archive programmes from this long running series. Makes me laugh out loud.
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Tony Benn at the BBC
- The Benn Tapes, Free at Last! and more
- By: Tony Benn
- Narrated by: Tony Benn
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Tony Benn was the patriarch of the Labour left, a radical statesman, orator and anti-war campaigner who spent over 50 years as an MP, serving in the Cabinet under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. A prolific diarist, his political memoirs have been compared to Pepys in their detail, scope and accuracy. Three volumes are included here, read by Benn himself, together with four fascinating programmes focussing on the man behind the diaries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent BBC Archive recordings
- By Amazon Customer on 11-07-24
- Tony Benn at the BBC
- The Benn Tapes, Free at Last! and more
- By: Tony Benn
- Narrated by: Tony Benn
Excellent BBC Archive recordings
Reviewed: 11-07-24
This is an amazing collection. It has edited extracts from Benn's own recordings made at the end of the day when he was in politics, and then his Free at Last diary, and then some exclusive BBC radio programmes. I was not specially a fan of Benn, but am interested in the period and this collection really throws a light on that, but I did get to know Benn much better through this, and came to like him and admire his commitment to Parliament and Democracy. Well worth a listen
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Shakespeare
- The Man Who Pays the Rent
- By: Judi Dench
- Narrated by: Brendan O’Hea, Barbara Flynn, Judi Dench
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 189
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 181
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Story5 out of 5 stars 181
For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra. In a series of intimate conversations with actor & director Brendan O'Hea, she guides us through Shakespeare's plays with incisive clarity, revealing the secrets of her rehearsal process and inviting us to share in her triumphs, disasters, and backstage shenanigans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic listen
- By Friend of Felix on 28-10-23
- Shakespeare
- The Man Who Pays the Rent
- By: Judi Dench
- Narrated by: Brendan O’Hea, Barbara Flynn, Judi Dench
weird
Reviewed: 08-06-24
why oh why do we not have Judi's own interviews. it is so weird to have Barbara Jefford pretending to be Judi. it does not work. total failure. I can't bear to listen. let's please have the original interviews which I imagine are brilliant.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete BBC Collection
- 60 Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Bert Coules
- Narrated by: Clive Merrison, Michael Williams, Brian Blessed, and others
- Length: 48 hrs and 33 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story5 out of 5 stars 57
Beginning with A Study in Scarlet and concluding with The Hound of the Baskervilles, this epic project took over 8 years to complete - and this landmark collection contains the extraordinary result. Here is the world's first ever fully dramatised Sherlock Holmes canon: 56 short stories and 4 novels, all made by the same team of directors, producers, dramatists and leading actors, and packed with the high production qualities of a film or TV drama that set it apart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- By Amazon Customer on 09-09-23
- Sherlock Holmes: The Complete BBC Collection
- 60 Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Bert Coules
- Narrated by: Clive Merrison, Michael Williams, Brian Blessed, Judi Dench, Andrew Sachs, Robert Glenister, Harriet Walters, full cast
Fantastic
Reviewed: 09-09-23
I originally had all these on CDs, now all out from BBC and on Audible at a great price. listening to them all again, they are fantastic, I prefer the dramatised versions to one that at one actor reading, and the BBC radio versions make the SH stories completely alive, as if you are listening in on them. Totally recommended.
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Alan Bennett: Plays
- BBC Radio Dramatisations
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: John Gielgud, Maggie Smith, Patricia Routledge
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 256
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 257
A unique collection of 12 full-cast BBC Radio productions of plays by Alan Bennett. The titles are: 40 Years On, A Visit from Miss Prothero, Say Something Happened, Kafka's Dick, Two in Torquay, The Madness of George III, The History Boys, An Englishman Abroad, A Question of Attribution, The Lady in the Van, Cocktail Sticks and The Last of the Sun.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Plays by Alan Bennett
- By Edwin on 29-09-16
- Alan Bennett: Plays
- BBC Radio Dramatisations
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: John Gielgud, Maggie Smith, Patricia Routledge
no chapter headings maddening
Reviewed: 22-12-22
these are brilliant plays superbly produced but Audible it is maddening on an anthology that there are no titles chapter headings text or on the recording which makes it really hard almost impossible to navigate
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The Day of the Triffids
- By: John Wyndham
- Narrated by: Kingsley Ben-Adir
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,748
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,584
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,580
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere 24 hours before is gone forever. But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great material, questionable narration
- By Machiavelli on 27-11-21
- The Day of the Triffids
- By: John Wyndham
- Narrated by: Kingsley Ben-Adir
great book. poor reader
Reviewed: 10-07-22
this is a classic story. but this version is spoilt by the staccato treatment of the reader. I have found an alternative reading by Samuel West which for me is far superior but it's not on Audible.
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Diary of an MP's wife
- Inside and Outside Power
- By: Sasha Swire
- Narrated by: Leo Merton
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 253
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 226
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Story4 out of 5 stars 222
What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid. For more than two decades she has kept a secret diary detailing the trials and tribulations of being a political plus-one; the travel, the security, the challenges to family life and the unpredictable events. A professional partner as well as a life partner and one with strong political opinions herself, she detonates the image of the dutiful stereotype.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dreadful narration
- By annie buxton on 29-09-20
- Diary of an MP's wife
- Inside and Outside Power
- By: Sasha Swire
- Narrated by: Leo Merton
Repellent yet compulsive
Reviewed: 08-07-22
If you want a reason to NEVER vote Conservative, this is it.
Swire artfully and maliciously documents her time during the Cameron/May and finally the early days of the Johnson Conservative governments. What we find is that they are vulgar, self-seeking, totally out of touch with real people, seeing politics as a game rather than something to work hard at to help everyone get a better life through opportunities and support.
The contempt at which the local members of Swire's constituency party are held, and depicted with 'funny' west country 'yokel' accents is despicable.
Yet, the horror of it, makes it somehow compulsive,
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Black Gold
- The History of How Coal Made Britain
- By: Jeremy Paxman
- Narrated by: Jeremy Paxman
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 165
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 165
Coal mining in the UK dates back to Roman times, but in the 21st century, has practically disappeared. In this history, Jeremy Paxman charts our vital relationship with coal and all the extraordinary change it has fuelled. Told through the stories of real people, Paxman travels the regions of the UK where communities were built around coal, to the industrial revolution, to the beginnings of time and coal’s geological formation, to the great tragedies such as Aberfan, and to the picket lines of the miners’ strike.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Poorly Edited
- By Helpless on 03-11-21
- Black Gold
- The History of How Coal Made Britain
- By: Jeremy Paxman
- Narrated by: Jeremy Paxman
Terrific, easy to follow history of coal mining
Reviewed: 08-07-22
Very well written, this is an easy to follow history of coal mining in the UK. Paxman is expansive in his telling of the effects of coal, and forthright (as you would expect) in calling out some of the calamities, betrayals and the sheer challenge of being a miner. Some of his descriptions of how it was down the pit are chilling.
However, Paxman is not a great reader, he is a great broadcaster and interviewer, but as a reader it sounds like he is announcing. I think an trained actor would have been a better choice.
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Inspector Steine
- The Complete BBC Radio 4 Comedy Crime Drama
- By: Lynne Truss
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Jan Ravens, Matt Green, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 out of 5 stars 36
Brighton, 1957: a sunny seaside resort with a sinister underbelly. This den of villainy is policed by the touchingly innocent Inspector Steine, who naively believes he wiped out all the hoodlums in the Middle Street Massacre six years earlier. Can long-suffering Sergeant Brunswick and keen Constable Twitten persuade him that a criminal mastermind is at large - and that the station's charlady, Mrs Groynes, might bear investigation?
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2 out of 5 stars
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not for me
- By alanjbell on 10-04-22
- Inspector Steine
- The Complete BBC Radio 4 Comedy Crime Drama
- By: Lynne Truss
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Jan Ravens, Matt Green, John Ramm, Samantha Spiro, full cast
wonderful
Reviewed: 07-04-22
lynn truss is a genius comic writer of radio dramas and this one is sheer joy.
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