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The collected BBC radio adaptations of George Eliot’s pioneering Victorian novels, known for their realism and psychological insight. Includes Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.

A collection of four ghostly tales inspired by M. R. James: Casting the Runes, Lost Hearts, The Treasure of Abbott-Thomas and A View from the Hill.

Christopher Lee's highly acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 history of the British Empire.

First published between 1870 and 1893, Émile Zola’s 20-book cycle chronicling four generations of the Rougon-Macquarts was a shocking exposé of the decadence, degradation and moral decay of 19th-century France. It included some of his greatest novels, among them his masterpiece, Germinal. These innovative, ambitious dramas, first broadcast on Radio 4 over 24 hours in 2015-16, are a radical reimagining of Zola’s classic series, introducing us to 104-year-old matriarch, Dide, imprisoned in an asylum in southern France.

A collection of dramas by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Mamet A novelist, playwright, filmmaker and director, David Mamet ranks among America’s most famous living writers. He has penned more than 40 stage plays and over 20 screenplays, won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize...

“A guide for those who dare to challenge the status quo and create spaces of equity and opportunity.” —Serena Williams Leadership insights from one of history’s most influential voices. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated more than 55 years ago, yet his words continue to inspire...

Full-cast dramatisations of three insightful novels by Christopher Isherwood, plus a bonus interview Novelist and playwright Christopher Isherwood is best known for The Berlin Stories of pre-Hitler Germany, which inspired the musical Cabaret . Many of his works have been adapted for stage and screen. This BBC Radio collection comprises full-cast adaptations of three of the Anglo-American's acclaimed works, together with a riveting interview with Isherwood himself.

In 1966, two authorities on LSD—Richard Alpert, PhD, AKA Ram Dass, and Sidney Cohen, MD—spoke out on the merits and dangers of the psychedelic drug as acclaimed photographer Lawrence Schiller documented the experiences as they were happening. This Commemorative Edition of LSD looks back at the public’s use of LSD in the 1960s and features a new introduction that explores the book’s relevance to today’s psychedelic renaissance.

Joe Orton was among the towering geniuses of 1960s theatre. His life was tragically cut short in 1967, but he left behind him a handful of shocking and scabrous black comedies that will live on in the public imagination for years to come. Featured here are two of his lesser-known works, The Erpingham Camp and The Ruffian on the Stair, collected together as a double bill.

If you like natural sound, water running in stream, birds chirping nicely in the morning... then this one is for you. With this audiobook, experience the power of nature like on a dreamlike vacation. Nature Sounds - with over 3 hours of ambient sounds, recorded all over the world. Using state-of-the-art recording technology, with extremely high fidelity, and the best spatial atmosphere. Listening to "nature's perfect white noise" instantly ensures considerable inner peace and can also have a very helpful effect on tinnitus. What WON'T You Get? Distractions.

A tender love story, a serpentine villainess, a glittering setting in London society, and a showering of Wildean witticism are only a few of the reasons why this play has enjoyed hugely successful revivals in London, in New York, and on the silver screen. This 1895 drama is eerily prescient, as it examines the plight of a promising politician, desperate to hide a secret in his past. With empathy and wit, Oscar Wilde explores the pitfalls of holding public figures to higher standards than the rest of us.

In a grim, not-so-distant future, humanity is in crisis. A deadly pandemic has confined billions to their homes, leaving society completely isolated in their homes and utterly dependent on the mega-global Chum Corporation. For some lucky beta testers, the only escape is to log into New Arcadia—a real-as-life role-playing game set in a gleaming 1990s-inspired city. There, they can enjoy the freedoms denied to them in the real world—like Prime Beta Tester John Chambers, who has reinvented himself in New Arcadia as street-fighting hero Blaze.

An acclaimed novelist, short story writer and critic, Leslie Poles Hartley is best known for his 1953 novel The Go-Between, which won the W. H. Heinemann Award and was adapted as a BAFTA-winning film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates. Included here is a radio dramatisation of that classic tale, alongside adaptations of three further novels and five short stories.

Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce. Young and beautiful, Isabel Archer thinks that she is in control of her fate. Little does she know, however, that others behind the scenes are pulling the strings. The beautiful and free-spirited Isabel Archer is now a very rich woman. Two men have declared their love for her but she does not want to be married. Resolved to enjoy her fortune, she begins her travels. Starring Anna Maxwell Martin, Haydn Gwynne, Robert Bathurst, Gayle Hunnicutt and full cast. Pianist Duncan Walsh Atkins. Directed by Tracey Neale.

The original version of LATW’s groundbreaking docudrama about the Pentagon Papers, the infamous classified documents about US involvement in the Vietnam War, and how The Washington Post fought the government to publish them. Includes a 1991 panel discussion with journalists Ben Bradlee, Peter Braestrup, Robert Maynard, Carla Robbins, Robert Scheer, and George Wilson.

Für Caiden Sloane, Teamkapitän der Arizona Armadillos, gibt es seit Jahren nur eine Frau: Arielle Remington, die Tochter von Armadillos Teambesitzer John Remington und erfolgreiche Managerin der Denver Demons. Als Caiden endlich den Mut aufbringt, Arielle seine wahren Gefühle zu gestehen, wird sie als neuer Boss der Arizona Armadillos vorgestellt. Aber so sehr Caiden auch versucht, die Finger von Arielle zu lassen, enden ihre hitzigen Wortgefechte immer auf ein- und dieselbe Art: Im Bett.

New Orleans. Eine bunte Stadt voller Geheimnisse. Doch auch Gefahren scheinen an jeder Ecke und in jeder Straße zu lauern. Menschen verschwinden spurlos oder werden mit grauenhaften Verletzungen tot aufgefunden. Inmitten dieses Sumpfes betreibt Dracula mit seinen Gegnern ein gefährliches Katz-und-Maus-Spiel. Doch auch der dunkle Graf ist nicht vor Gefahren gefeit. Eine alte Macht scheint in der Stadt zu neuer Stärke zu erwachen.

Ein namenloser Gefangener darbt in den Kerkern der spanischen Inquisition. Nur eine Stimme im Dunkeln leistet ihm Gesellschaft und versucht, ihn vor dem Wahnsinn zu schützen. Doch auch dieser geheimnisvolle Freund ist machtlos gegen das berüchtigte Pendel des Todes. (Nach E. A.

Till und seine Verlobte Anna wollen den Sommer bei ihrem Kumpel Jamie in Florida verbringen und freuen sich auf geruhsame Tage. Daraus wird allerdings nichts, als sie während eines Tauchgangs auf das Wrack eines U-Boots stoßen. Denn als die drei Freunde die Ladung bergen wollen, bekommen sie es nicht nur mit gefräßigen Haien zu tun...

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