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What begins as a routine journey on the luxurious Orient Express soon unfurls into Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery. This all-star production features lead performances from Tom Conti ( The Dark Knight Rises, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence) as Hercule Poirot, Sophie Okonedo ( After Earth, Hotel Rwanda and Ace Ventura) and Eddie Marsan ( Sherlock Holmes, V for Vendetta and Hancock) plus a full supporting cast.

Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is a city in the grip of tulip mania, basking in the wealth it has generated. Sophia’s husband Cornelis, an ageing merchant, is among those grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his young bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and as ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception, their reckless gamble propels their lives towards a thrilling and tragic conclusion.

Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a Heinz spaghetti hoop. Sharply observant, evocative, full of tastes and talk of food, hers is a delicious, poignant memoir of an unusual life and the food she loves to cook, which launched a culinary revolution.She arrived in England in 1949 when much of Britain was a culinary wasteland, married an Englishman, and stayed on.

Five exciting novelisations featuring adventures for the Doctor and his companions on weird and wonderful planets. In The Rescue, the First Doctor meets the sole survivors of a crashed spaceliner on Dido. In Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit, the ruthless Lady Adrasta is keeping an...

Ten high achieving ladies are gathered together in the week between Christmas and the New Year, at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking, through Botox, aromatherapy and general all round pampering, a new beginning to their lives.

Olivia has settled on the tiny Greek island of Halemni; she is married to a Greek man and is mother of two small sons. As the turquoise of summer dissolves into the cool of autumn, so the rhythm of island life goes on unchanged, until an earthquake ravages the Turkish coast, sending a tidal wave to envelop the island. Its force devastates Halemni, tearing apart the fabric of the small community.

Bath-based BBC Audiobooks hosted a sell-out event for the Bath Literature Festival. Reading Between the Lines: From Page to Production featured Rula Lenska, Lynne Truss, Sir Derek Jacobi, and Lorelei King in an entertaining and lively discussion about the art of the audiobook. They were joined by Sunday Times audio critic Karen Robinson, BBC Audiobooks' Publishing Director Jan Paterson, and Senior Producer Kate Thomas.

Helen A, ruler of colony Terra Alpha, is determined that happiness will prevail. And if any killjoys insist on being miserable, the fun guns of the Happiness Patrol will remove them; or they will vanish into the Kandy Kitchen, where the Kandy Man will deal with them.

When hordes of people descend on the picturesque village of Nasely for the annual celebration of its most famous resident, murder mystery writer Agnes Crabbe, events take a dark turn as the festival opens with a shocking death. Each year the residents are outnumbered by crowds dressed as Crabbe’s lady detective, Millicent Cutter. The weekend is never a mild-mannered affair as fan club rivalries bubble below the surface, but tensions reach new heights when a second Crabbe devotee is found murdered. Though the police are quick to arrive on the scene, the facts are tricky to ascertain as the witnesses, suspects and victim are all dressed as Miss Cutter.

Rula Lenska, who is portraying Princess Dragomiroff in Audible's new audio drama of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss this adaptation. Rula tells Robin about the character of The Princess and why Murder on the Orient Express has such enduring appeal today. They also discuss Rula’s 40 year career as an actress, being a success on both stage and screen.

Here, there, and everywhere, flicking her tail up and down in excitement, Xixi, the tender hearted bush squirrel and her friend Merlin Monkey have many bush adventures.

True to his reputation, Rip Rhino never could control his temper. Maddened by the insults of a cheeky monkey troop, he charges blindly in the direction where they are playing. Rip's great horn gets stuck in the old sycamore fig tree. Finding himself all alone, for the first time in his life he feels afraid. Will he ever be free again?

Two impala rams are engaged in a fierce battle to win the attention of a herd of ewes. Their horns become locked and cannot be pulled apart, despite the valiant efforts of Wally Warthog and Hatty Hyena. Dudu Dove flies off to find the largest animal on earth, Rumble Drum, the wise and strong tusker. Will he be in time to save the rams?

Tops Giraffe, tallest of animals, wakes up one morning with a terrible sore throat. Blessed as she is with so many caring friends, no one can soothe away the pain, except for grumpy old Mr. Honey Badger. Is he in a good-enough mood to help Tops? And what will Tops do for Mr. Honey Badger in return?

When young Splash finds himself lost on land and all alone in the dark of night, he seeks friendship and help where the frightened little one least expects it! Guided by Whoo Hoo the wood owl, Hatty Hyena, and Roly Dung Beetle, they go in search of Splash's mother. Will they find her ? And what welcome lies in store?

Young Zillah Zebra is celebrating that her stripes have just turned from baby brown to black. She gallops joyfully to the water pool where the animals meet to drink and rolls in the nearby mud hole. Much to her dismay, she discovers that she has lost her stripes, and they cannot be found.

Rumble Drum is in a very angry mood as Slink the leopard and other animals in the bush are making fun of him. How does the big tusker gain the animals' respect and show them that he really is Lord of the Land?

A story about Spinosa spider! Loved and admired for her wisdom, Spinosa will ever be remembered as the bush journalist. She loves to meet her friends at the hippo pool, the center of life. It is a sad day when she hears that her friend, Mr. Rana the frog, has disappeared. Will he be found?

Buzz Bee is proud of the fact that she and her kind are the cleverest, the busiest, and the most useful of all creatures on earth. Ambassadors of nature, bees are a vital link between plants and animals. Who, but the amazing honey bee, can find the way home on a sunbeam? And what would we do without honey?

The loyalty and courage of Wally are as long as his whip-ended tail. Guiding his friends fearlessly in front, he leads them to food and water while staying ever alert. One day, chased by Gruff the lion and his pride, Wally retreats backside first into Hatty Hyena's den.