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I am not one to write reviews,
however I feel I must take issue with someone who posts a
review based on listening to a short sound bite. Come on
dude, get real and listen to an ENTIRE program before
tossing in you two bits. I have listened to this ENTIRE
program and can vouch that it is well acted, and a great
interpretation of an American classic. The sound is superb
(maybe you should trade in those $3 speakers for an adult
pair), and you will feel as if you truly are in the middle
of the action (very eerie). If you are a fan of S. Crane’s
classic civil war story, you will enjoy this download. |
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Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl
and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of
doomed love. BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes
to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company
broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors
and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making
Shakespeare to be heard. With the intimacy of radio the full
beauty and meaning of some of the most lyrical lines ever
written can be truly heard: tenderness and passion, betrayal
and bigotry are brilliantly evoked as the tale comes to its
tragic conclusion. |
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I tend to think of myself as a
man of few words, but looking at this collection it seems to
have been gab gab gab for the last thirty years.'
Admittedly not all the words are his own - but even the work
of other writers can be transformed by Alan Bennett.
This unique anthology of Bennett's BBC radio and television
work features extracts from his diaries and readings, as
well as tributes to friends Russell Harty and Peter Cook. |
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All at sea in the Senior
Service were conniving Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass
Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips and the constantly bemused
Stephen Murray as 'Number One'. Below decks Ronnie Barker
was just about working his passage as (Un)Able Seaman
'Fatso' Johnson.The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest
running laughter-makers, kept the nation of on the crest of
a comic wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior
Service were conniving Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass
Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips and the constantly bemused
Stephen Murray as 'Number One'. |
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The award-winning His Dark
Materials trilogy is a breathtaking epic adventure spanning
a multitude of worlds. Northern Lights, the opening
installment, sees Lyra and her shape-changing daemon embark
on a dangerous quest.
In Oxford, Lyra learns that children are being kidnapped by
the mysterious Gobblers. When her friend Roger vanishes she
determines to find him, and is given a powerful alethiometer
which can reveal the truth in all things. After discovering
that the adults around her are not what they seem, Lyra and
Pantalaimon join forces with a band of gyptians. |
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Stupid in a bright sort of
way.
When three young, largely unknown, comedians took their show
to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, they promptly won the
Perrier Best Newcomer Award.
Barely six months later, they were starring in their very
own series on BBC Radio 4.
Written and performed by Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and
James Rawlings, The Consultants mixes music with comedy,
silly with sublime, and inventive with irreverent. The
hottest sketch team around, this multi-talented threesome
look set to follow the same hit trajectory as those other
Perrier Award winners, the League of Gentlemen. |
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Eyewitness provides a rare and
fascinating opportunity to hear the events of the century
described by those who saw them happen. A wealth of BBC
archive recordings, some never previously broadcast, is
interwoven with an illuminating commentary by the historian
Joanna Bourke. Published in ten volumes, Eyewitness examines
the role and the life of the British people in each decade
of the century.
'A wonderful idea and excellently executed... best possible
use of the medium and a great narrator.' --- The Independent
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