These three commentators have all become part of summer - both past and present. Now available together for the first time, you can hear cricket’s leading personalities in their own voices. Combining years of experience in the game with some of the best storytelling in the business, Brian Johnston, Henry Blofeld and Richie Benaud offer memorable and often hilarious insights into the world of cricket and into their own lives.
Lemony Snicket’s world famous saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to alarm and depress its ever-growing number of distressed fans! Here, the entire series - thirteen full length novels on 53 CDs - is read by Tim Curry, adding an even more dastardly and evil dimension to this already miserable tale. Lemony Snicket advises, “if you may be more comfortable getting a good night’s sleep, I suggest you should probably choose some other CDs to save yourself from a heapful of horror and woe”. This unique audio collection comes in a handy travel tin so you can take your sorrows with you, wherever you go.
A brilliant way to take the tedium out of travel, this collector’s tin contains 37 CDs that bring to life the first six adventures of the world’s most famous teenage spy. From Stormbreaker to Ark Angel, this popular series from best-selling author Anthony Horowitz will have your youngster happily absorbed in the thrilling tales for hours… 42 and a half hours to be exact! All packed away in a handy carry tin, this superb set is ideal for taking with you wherever you go.
The adventures of that irrepressible and ageless schoolboy William Brown have been delighting generations of children - and grown-ups - for decades. In this audio CD collection, beautifully packaged in a handy zipped tin, William and his faithful Outlaws embark on more intrepid adventures and once again find themselves pitted against the fearsome wiles of their lisping nemesis, Violet Elizabeth Bott. Read by Martin Jarvis for Radio 4, the whole family is in for a treat. 112 laugh out loud stories on 10 cd’s.
Famed for his gentle innocence and brilliant observational wit, comedian Alan Carr describes his childhood growing up in a football-mad family in Northampton and his rise to become one of Britain’s best-loved comedians.
Anton Lesser reads Kenneth Grahame’s much-loved tale about a dragon who doesn’t want to fight and the boy who becomes his friend. The Boy lives in a cottage with his mother and father, and the Dragon lives in a cave on the Downs. He’s not the sort of dragon one might expect to meet, however - he’s polite, friendly, composes poetry and purrs when he’s happy. Lazy and peace-loving, he just wants to lead a quiet life. But when the villagers discover his existence, they send for St George immediately to slay the dreadful monster. So when the saint arrives, with the intention of killing him, The Boy needs to do some persuading. After all, George and the Dragon are supposed to fight - aren’t they? A charming, humorous story from the acclaimed author of “The Wind in the Willows”.
Minty has now got her man, her six-year-old twins and her covetable lifestyle. But can the transition from office sex siren to coddled dependent be entirely satisfactory?
Read by Emma Fielding.
This is a brand new, made-for-radio “Torchwood” episode, based on the hit BBC TV series. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2008, it stars John Barrowman as Jack and Freema Agyeman as Martha, with Eve Myles as Gwen and Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto. The adventure begins when Captain Jack and the team investigate events at the real-life CERN particle accelerator project near Geneva. Also included on the CD is “Torchwood All Access”, a 25 minute look behind the scenes of the second TV series, featuring interviews with Russell T Davies, Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd.
Roald Dahl continues to entertain children with his wickedly irreverent humour and his wonderfully subversive story-telling.
This unique offer features ten stories, some full-length and some abridged, read out loud by some of Britain’s finest actors, including June Whitfield, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Featuring 27 CDs and 1600 minutes of first class entertainment, this special collection comes in a handy travel case, making it ideal for taking with you wherever you go.
The stories on these CDs include Matilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Fantastic Mr Fox and Other Animal Stories, The Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and Danny the Champion of the World.
Karl Pilkington, the confutian like savant of the “Ricky Gervais Podcast” show, has led an extraordinary and curiously individual life. Here for the first time on CD the world record breaking Podcast show, featuring all 12 episodes, is presented in mp3 format.