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The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection
- Eight Full-Cast Dramatisations and Readings
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Janet Maw, full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations and readings of W. Somerset Maugham’s fiction, with star casts including Alex Jennings, Dirk Bogarde, and Janet Maw.
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I never knew where I was.
- By Anonymous on 05-10-2025
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The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection
- Eight Full-Cast Dramatisations and Readings
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Janet Maw, full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 20-08-2020
- Language: English
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The Razor's Edge
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters: his fiancée Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions; and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
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A fascinating view of a time long past
- By davidm on 26-06-2015
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The Razor's Edge
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-12-2012
- Language: English
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Far Eastern Tales
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance18
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Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former British Empire. The stories included on this recording are Footprints in the Jungle, Mabel, P & O, The Door of Oportunity, The Buried Talent, Before the Party, Mr. Know-all, Neil MacAdam, The End of the Flight and The Force of Circumstance.
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Wonderful and evocative
- By Richard on 02-10-2019
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Far Eastern Tales
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 16-08-2006
- Language: English
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Rain and Other Stories
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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W. Somerset Maugham is one of the best-loved short story writers of the last 100 years. In this collection of his finest short work Maugham takes the listener to the sun-drenched Pacific islands where the Governor mercilessly abuses the inhabitants; to the story "Rain", in which the Reverend and the prostitute play out one of the most famous finales ever written; to the studies of chauvinistic Colonels, and snide conversations in Edwardian drawing rooms, as well as at the gates of heaven. As an introduction to one of the greatest writers in the English language Stephen Crossley's reading is the perfect place to start.
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Rain and Other Stories
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-01-2013
- Language: English
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The Painted Veil
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Sophie Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance34
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This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. When her husband discovers her deception, he exacts a terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic in China.
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Beautiful and brillant
- By Anonymous on 02-12-2024
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The Painted Veil
- Narrated by: Sophie Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-08-2007
- Language: English
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Of Human Bondage
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 25 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance26
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Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philip's youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair.
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A depressing story
- By robert a dannatt on 22-01-2021
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Of Human Bondage
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 25 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-02-2011
- Language: English
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Of Human Bondage
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: David McCallion
- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is widely considered to be Somerset Maugham’s masterpiece and is believed to have been at least partially based on Maugham’s own life. This is the tale of Philip Carey, who is orphaned at a young age and raised by his uncle. Of Human Bondage follows Philip on his travels to Paris, London, and Germany, taking the listener on an adventure of discovery as his travels brings him new discoveries and emotional growth.
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Timeless masterpiece
- By Anonymous on 05-07-2025
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Of Human Bondage
- Narrated by: David McCallion
- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-11-2017
- Language: English
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The Moon and Sixpence
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. In much of its general outline, this famous novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply-delineated, carefully wrought "private life", written by one of the most vivid and penetrating contemporary literary masters.
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Around the subject
- By Anonymous on 07-01-2026
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The Moon and Sixpence
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 14-01-2005
- Language: English
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Cakes and Ale
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance7
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When Cakes and Ale was first published in 1930 it roused a storm of controversy, since many people imagined they recognised portraits of literary figures now no more. It is the novel for which Maugham wished to be remembered.
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Just so, so brilliant.
- By Jo Bartlett on 27-01-2024
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Cakes and Ale
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 13-01-2011
- Language: English
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The Gentleman in the Parlour
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with a unique urbane, wry style. The Gentleman in the Parlour is an account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life.
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The Gentleman in the Parlour
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-11-2012
- Language: English
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Ashenden
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Christopher Oxford
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance7
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When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. Multilingual, knowledgeable about many European countries, and a celebrated writer, Maugham had the perfect cover, and the assignment appealed to his love of romance, and of the ridiculous. The stories collected in Ashenden are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and treachery, as well as its absurdity.
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Very good - and has aged surprisingly well
- By A Descendant of Scotsmen on 02-05-2025
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Ashenden
- Narrated by: Christopher Oxford
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-12-2012
- Language: English
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Classic English and Scottish Dramas Starring Ralph Richardson and John Mills, Volume 1
- By: Theatre Royal, W. Somerset Maugham, J. M. Barrie
- Narrated by: Ralph Richardson
- Length: 40 mins
- Original Recording
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Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from English and Scottish Literature. Here is the legendary Ralph Richardson starring in ‘The Colonel's Daughter’, adapted from the original tale by Somerset Maugham and Ralph Richardson starring in 'Half an Hour' adapted from the original tale by J.M. Barrie.Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950s by the late Harry Alan Towers.
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Classic English and Scottish Dramas Starring Ralph Richardson and John Mills, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Ralph Richardson
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 22-04-2011
- Language: English
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Christmas Holiday
- By: W Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Ben Elliot
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a cheerful disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one working in his father's business, he is looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with Simon, his oldest friend.
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Christmas Holiday
- Narrated by: Ben Elliot
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 29-11-2012
- Language: English
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The Moon and Sixpence
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Moon and Sixpence, Charles Strickland is a respectable London stockbroker who decides in middle age to abandon his wife and children and devote himself to his true passion: art. Strickland's destructive desire for self-expression takes him first to Paris to learn the craft of painting, and finally to Tahiti in the South Pacific. The Moon and Sixpence remains a complex and engaging novel echoing Maugham's own struggles between artistic expression and public respectability.
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insightful fictional account of the life of Paul Gauguin
- By hugh h on 13-02-2026
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The Moon and Sixpence
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2010
- Language: English
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Murder International
- Ten Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Crime Dramas
- By: Guy de Maupassant, Francis King, Alexander Pushkin, and others
- Narrated by: Dennis Quilley, George Cole, Joss Ackland, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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Ten vintage dramas on the theme of murder, written by internationally recognised authors and set across the globe ‘Murder is murder, anywhere in the world. The taking of life, the most terrible crime a human being can commit, is the same in any language, whether it springs from vengeance...
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Murder International
- Ten Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Crime Dramas
- Narrated by: Dennis Quilley, George Cole, Joss Ackland, Michael Denison, Christopher Cazenove, Maureen O'Brien, George Baker, Full Cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-01-2026
- Language: English
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Classic English and Scottish Dramas Starring Ralph Richardson and John Mills, Volume 2
- By: Theatre Royal, A. J. Alan, W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Ralph Richardson, John Mills
- Length: 57 mins
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Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from English and Scottish Literature. Here is the legendary Ralph Richardson starring in ‘My Adventure in Norfolk’, adapted from the original tale by A. J. Alan and John Mills starring in 'The Kite' adapted from the original tale by Somerset Maugham. Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950s by the late Harry Alan Towers.
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Classic English and Scottish Dramas Starring Ralph Richardson and John Mills, Volume 2
- Narrated by: Ralph Richardson, John Mills
- Length: 57 mins
- Release date: 22-04-2011
- Language: English
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The Moon And Sixpence
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. While his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.
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The Moon And Sixpence
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 25-11-2008
- Language: English
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The Trembling of a Leaf
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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When noted English writer William Somerset Maugham set off for the South Seas to regain his health, he gathered the materials and wrote the stories represented here. These are among Maugham's best, and the best stories ever written about the exotic South Seas.
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The Trembling of a Leaf
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-07-2006
- Language: English
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The Summing Up
- By: W Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of a personal credo. It is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.
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The Summing Up
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-12-2012
- Language: English
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The Painted Veil
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Philippe Duquenoy
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Painted Veil is the story of Kitty Garstin, a young woman living a high social life, who marries Walter Fane, a man that’s declared his love for Kitty, just to avoid being upstaged by her younger and less attractive sister getting married first. Shortly after the marriage, they depart England and head to China where Walter, a bacteriologist and physician, is stationed.
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The Painted Veil
- Narrated by: Philippe Duquenoy
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-02-2021
- Language: English
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