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The Mumbai Chuzzlewits
- By: Ayeesha Menon
- Narrated by: Roshan Seth
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Award-winning writer Ayeesha Menon's reworking of Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit is set amongst the Catholic community in modern-day Mumbai. Convinced his relatives are after his money, Martin Chuzzlewit, a wealthy old landlord, has adopted orphan girl Mary as his carer with the understanding she will be housed and fed as long as he lives - but on his death, she will inherit nothing. But when his grandson Mickey falls in love and wishes to marry Mary, Martin's plans are thrown into disarray.
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The Mumbai Chuzzlewits
- Narrated by: Roshan Seth
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2012
- Language: English
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Q & A (filmed as Slumdog Millionaire)
- By: Ayeesha Menon, Vikas Swarup
- Narrated by: Anand Tiwari, Sohrab Ardeshir, Henry Goodman, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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When Ram Mohammad Thomas, an orphaned, uneducated street kid from Mumbai, wins a billion rupees on a live TV quiz show, he finds himself beaten up and thrown in jail by the programme's producers. During his interrogation he explains, through a series of flashbacks, how he knew the answers to all the show's questions. What he describes about his life is jaw-dropping: "You learn a lot about the world by living in it." he says.
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Q & A (filmed as Slumdog Millionaire)
- Narrated by: Anand Tiwari, Sohrab Ardeshir, Henry Goodman, Caran Arora, Rajit Kapur
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-12-2007
- Language: English
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The Jungle Book
- A BBC Radio Full-Cast Reimagining of The Classic Story
- By: Ayeesha Menon, Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs
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Mowgli, an orphan boy, is being brought up by "the Wolves", a gang of petty criminals in a tenement block, and quickly learns how to survive in that world. But when the villainous Tiger Khan threatens Mowgli's life, two residents of the tenement block, "black panther" Bagheera and the "bear" Baloo, offer to help him escape and he embarks on a journey of self-discovery through the city.
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The Jungle Book
- A BBC Radio Full-Cast Reimagining of The Classic Story
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs
- Release date: 15-04-2021
- Language: English
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