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ID: 811876
Title: Know Your Place: Selected episodes from the BBC Radio Comedy
Author: Andrew Palmer, Nell Brennan
Narrator: Bernard Bresslaw, Frances Jeater, Frank Thornton, Full Cast , John Graham, Norma Ronald, Pat Coombs, Patricia Hayes, Roy Dotrice
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-13-25
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:
Eight episodes from the 1980s sitcom about a jobsworth caretaker pursued by an over-amorous cleaner
Know Your Place ran for two series and 15 episodes between January 1982 and August 1983. Included here are all eight of the surviving shows, starring Roy Dotrice as curmudgeonly caretaker Ramsay Potts and Patricia Hayes as cheery cleaning lady Elsie Spurgeon.
Janitor Ramsay works at Worthing Court, a once-prestigious block of Edwardian flats in Bloomsbury that has seen better days. He takes pride in keeping the place spick and span, but flirty, feisty Elsie is always distracting him from his duties and getting him into trouble. While hes a stickler for the rules, she delights in breaking them, and while he respects authority, she refuses to know her place.
In these eight episodes, the odd couple join forces to deal with an MP stuck in a lift, and Elsie takes advantage when shes given a storeroom and borrows a flat. Meanwhile, the remarkable Ramsay hears the peal of wedding bells, takes on a dangerous job, is forced to give up cigarettes, has a close call with a local gangster and saves Elsie from being evicted...
Written by Andrew Palmer and Nell Brennan, and produced by Edward Taylor (The Men from the Ministry), this light-hearted sitcom also features a host of guest stars, including Frank Thornton, April Walker, Pat Coombs, Norma Ronald and Bernard Bresslaw.
NB: Some of the language and humour on this recording reflects the era in which it was first broadcast, and due to the age of the source material, the sound quality may vary.
Production credits
Written by Andrew Palmer and Nell Brennan
Produced by Edward Taylor
Cast
Ramsay Potts Roy Dotrlce
Elspeth Spurgeon Patricia Hayes
With Frank Thornton, John Graham, April Walker, John Glover, Pat Coombs, Sue Holderness, Norma Ronald, Nell Brennan, Yvonne Manners, Benny Lee, Joe Dunlop, James Taylor, Frances Jeater, Avis Bunnage, John Blythe and Bernard Bresslaw
Episode guide
1 Lift Off
2 Not to Be Used for Babies
3 Room to Manoeuvre
4 Marriage of Convenience
5 Jumpers
6 Sisterly Feelings
7 Health Can Damage Your Smoking
8 Out of the Closet
© 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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ID: 742748
Title: Doctor Who: Snakedance: 5th Doctor Novelisation
Author: Terrance Dicks
Narrator: Geoffrey Beevers
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-06-25
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:
A novelisation of a terrifying adventure for the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa.
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Manussa, about to commemorate its ancient banishment of the evil entity known as the Mara.
Unbeknownst to the Manussans, the Doctor's companion, Tegan, has become an unsuspecting medium for the Mara. Now she has helped it to return home.
The Doctor realises that this could mark the spectacular revival of the Mara's reign of terror - but it seems that no-one will heed his warning.
2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.
Reading produced by Morrison Ellis. Sound design by James Murray. Executive Producer: Michael Stevens

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ID: 801297
Title: Sounds Natural: A BBC Radio 4 nature series
Author: Derek Jones
Narrator: Andrew Sachs, Bill Oddie, Bing Crosby, Bobby Charlton, Brian Blessed, Derek Jones, Spike Milligan, Various
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19:20:00
Language: English
Release date: 12-19-24
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:
Derek Jones meets celebrities with a love of wildlife in these 38 episodes from the classic nature-themed interview show
Between 1970 and 1980, broadcaster Derek Jones invited a host of famous names to chat about their enthusiasm for nature and their encounters with animals. Delving into the BBC Sound Archive to select some of their favourite natural history recordings, they reveal their hitherto unknown passions from birds and butterflies to the countryside and conservation.
In these specially selected shows, Brian Blessed talks about his fascination with dinosaurs, keeping big cats and overcoming his fear of mountaineering, Bing Crosby tells us about wildfowling, Mister Meadowlark, naming racehorses and landing salmon; distinguished actress Dame Flora Robson speaks of her years in Hollywood, and her worries that the Los Angeles smog is killing the local flora and fauna; and Goon Show stars Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan let us in on their love for travel and wildlife photography (Harry) and ridiculous animal noises and names (Spike).
Many of Jones guests share an interest in twitching, including Eric Morecambe, who relates how his curiosity about birds began when he went fishing with his father in Morecambe Bay, and Bobby Charlton, who developed his bird-spotting hobby while becoming a Manchester United legend. Humphrey Lyteltton reminisces about observing birds on holidays in North Wales, on tour with the band and in his back garden, and Peter Cushing recalls rescuing red shanks and watching oystercatchers and whimbrels on the Kent estuary with his late wife Helen. And, thirty years before Springwatch was a twinkle in Aunties eye, Bill Oddie confesses that when he wasnt busy being a Goodie, he was busy birdwatching.
Whether theyre mad about ornithology or hooked on angling, every one of the celebrities featured has a wealth of compelling personal stories to share, and fascinating insights to impart. Part natural history show, part nostalgic memoir, this wonderfully entertaining series is sure to inspire and delight.
Cast and credits
Presented by Derek Jones
Produced by John Burton and Michael Bowen
Guests in episode order:
Robert Dougall, Cyril Fletcher, Nigel Stock, Kenneth Allsop, Humphrey Lyttelton, Percy Edwards, Peter Cushing, Barbara Mullen, Virginia McKenna & Bill Travers, Spike Milligan, Bernard Cribbins, Marghanita Laski, Adam Faith, Roger Whittaker, Flora Robson, Derek Nimmo, James Robertson Justice, Bobby Charlton, Bill Oddie, Susan Hampshire, Brian Blessed, Derek Waring, Sir Martin Furnival-Jones, Eddie Braben, Eric Morecambe, Henry Longhurst, Harry Secombe, Lord Home of The Hirsel, Bing Crosby, Eva Rueber-Staier, Esmond Knight, Andrew Sachs, Frank Thornton, Dulcie Gray, Norman Thelwell, HRH Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, The Marquess of Bath, Windsor Davies
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 3 May 1971 to 10 December 1980.
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ID: 790611
Title: Doctor Who: 73 Yards: 15th Doctor Novelisation
Author: Scott Handcock
Narrator: Susan Twist
Format: Unabridged
Length: 03:45:41
Language: English
Release date: 08-08-24
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:
Susan Twist reads this novelisation of the TV episode, featuring the Fifteenth Doctor as played by Ncuti Gatwa and Ruby Sunday as played by Millie Gibson.
How long is 73 Yards?
Haunted by a sinister presence, Ruby must cope with losing the Doctor and the life she once knew.
With her new life without her best friend becoming bleaker by the day, something terrifying is unleashed, and its up to Ruby to stop it.
Susan Twist, who appears in the BBC TV series, reads Scott Handcock's novelisation of this eerie episode from Russell T Davies.
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ID: 548413
Title: Darkest Sin
Author: D. V. Bishop
Narrator: Mark Meadows
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14:19:47
Language: English
Release date: 03-03-22
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Fiction

Summary:
*Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger 2023*
'A great insight into Renaissance Florence. What I love about these books is the seamless weaving of factual history with a great story' – Abir Mukherjee
Florence. Spring, 1537.
When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city’s northern quarter, he enters a community divided by bitter rivalries and harbouring dark secrets.
His case becomes far more complicated when a man’s body is found deep inside the convent, stabbed more than two dozen times. Unthinkable as it seems, all the evidence suggests one of the nuns must be the killer.
Meanwhile, Constable Carlo Strocchi finds human remains pulled from the Arno that belong to an officer of the law missing since winter. The dead man had many enemies, but who would dare kill an official of the city’s most feared criminal court?
As Aldo and Strocchi close in on the truth, identifying the killers will prove more treacherous than either of them could ever have imagined . . .
The Darkest Sin is an atmospheric locked-room thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Florence and is the sequel to City of Vengeance.

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ID: 561922
Title: Faith, Hope and Glory: Series 1 and 2: An epic BBC Radio 4 drama
Author: Rex Obano, Roy Williams, Winsome Pinnock
Narrator: Danielle Vitalis, Full Cast , Pippa Bennett-Warner, Shiloh Coke
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:37:19
Language: English
Release date: 03-03-22
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:
A major BBC Radio series charting the history of post-war Britain through the lives of Hope Kiffin, Eunice Lamming and Gloria de Soto, bound forever by one moment in 1946.
London, 1946. Struggling to cope with the idea of raising her daughter in a hostile environment, African-Caribbean nurse Hope makes the difficult decision to entrust her precious baby to her best friend, Eunice, to take back home to Antigua. But their plan goes disastrously wrong.
In the decades that follow, all of them will witness - and play a part in - the seismic changes rocking the British Isles, as the old establishment crumbles, immigration builds and the country adjusts to the realities of a post-war, post-colonial future.
This compelling series interweaves brilliant intimate domestic stories, told from multiple perspectives, that together illuminate the emergence of modern Britain. Written by leading Black playwrights Roy Williams, Rex Obano and Winsome Pinnock, it stars Danielle Vitalis as Hope, Shiloh Coke as Eunice/Faith and Pippa Bennett-Warner as Gloria, with a full cast including Martins Imhangbe, Stefan Adegbola, Emma Handy and Hasan Dixon.
Production credits
Written by Roy Williams, Rex Obano and Winsome Pinnock
Musical Director: Peter Ringrose
Produced and directed by Mary Peate and Jessica Dromgoole
Cast
Jim - Martins Imhangbe
Hope - Danielle Vitalis
Eunice/Faith - Shiloh Coke
Gloria - Pippa Bennett-Warner
Clement/Waiter - Stefan Adegbola
Waitress/Ida/Matron/Ag - Emma Handy
Trevor - Gary Beadle
Neville - Chris Jack
Olubuki - Rex Obano
Martina - Clare Perkins
Gerard/Dennis/Musician - Hasan Dixon
Stephens/Johnnie/Florist - Ian Dunnett Jnr
Post Mistress/Millie - Jane Whittenshaw
Sallow/Neighbour - Roger Ringrose
Lorraine - Lizzy Watts
Bert - Ben Crowe
Caleb - Dermot Daly
Parent - Cecilia Appiah
© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
(p) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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ID: 545988
Title: Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments
Author: T. L. Huchu
Narrator: Kimberly Mandindo
Format: Unabridged
Length: 09:11:58
Language: English
Release date: 03-03-22
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Paranormal

Summary:
Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T. L. Huchu is the second spellbinding audiobook in the Edinburgh Nights series.
‘Stupendously engaging’ – Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of London
Some secrets are meant to stay buried
When Ropa Moyo discovered an occult underground library, she expected great things. She’s really into Edinburgh’s secret societies – but turns out they are less into her. So instead of getting paid to work magic, she’s had to accept a crummy unpaid internship. And her with bills to pay and a pet fox to feed.
Then her friend Priya offers her a job on the side. Priya works at Our Lady of Mysterious Maladies, a very specialized hospital, where a new illness is resisting magical and medical remedies alike. The first patient was a teenage boy, Max Wu, and his healers are baffled. If Ropa can solve the case, she might earn as she learns – and impress her mentor, Sir Callander.
Her sleuthing will lead her to a lost fortune, an avenging spirit and a secret buried deep in Scotland’s past. But how are they connected? Lives are at stake and Ropa is running out of time.
Praise for The Library of the Dead:
‘Roll on the sequel’ – The Times
‘One of the strangest and most compelling fantasy worlds you'll see all year’ – SFX

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ID: 524613
Title: Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings
Author: Howard Jacobson
Narrator: Howard Jacobson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 08:41:28
Language: English
Release date: 03-03-22
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, History & Culture

Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin.
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer
It's my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in every sense the wrong way round.
In Mother's Boy, Booker-Prize winner Howard Jacobson reveals how he became a writer. It is an exploration of belonging and not-belonging, of being an insider and outsider, both English and Jewish.
Jacobson was forty when his first novel was published. In Mother's Boy he traces the life that brought him there. Born to a working-class family in 1940s Manchester, the great-grandson of Lithuanian and Russian immigrants, Jacobson was raised by his mother, grandmother and aunt Joyce. His father was a regimental tailor, as well as an upholsterer, a market-stall holder, a taxi driver, a balloonist, and a magician.
Grappling always with his family's history and his Jewish identity, Jacobson takes us from the growing pains of childhood to studying at Cambridge under F.R. Leavis, and landing in Sydney as a maverick young professor on campus. After his first marriage and the birth of his son, he lived in places as disparate as London, Wolverhampton, Boscastle and Melbourne, and worked many different jobs to make ends meet, from selling handbags on a market stall, to teaching English in schools, universities and sometimes football stadiums, and even helping to run an Australian-inspired restaurant in the middle of Cornwall.
Full of Jacobson's trademark humour and infused with bittersweet memories of his parents, this is the story of a writer's beginnings - as well as the twists and turns that life takes - and of learning to understand who you are before you can become the writer you were meant to be.
© Howard Jacobson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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ID: 524614
Title: Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal
Author: Lucy Cooke
Narrator: Lucy Cooke
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:54:24
Language: English
Release date: 03-03-22
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Social Science

Summary:
What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again.
In the last few decades a revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biology. Lucy Cooke introduces us to a riotous cast of animals, and the scientists studying them, that are redefining the female of the species.
Meet the female lemurs of Madagascar, our ancient primate cousins that dominate the males of their species physically and politically.
Or female albatross couples, hooking up together to raise their chicks in Hawaii.
Or the meerkat mothers of the Kalahari Desert - the most murderous mammals on the planet.
The bitches in BITCH overturn outdated binary expectations of bodies, brains, biology and behaviour. Lucy Cooke's brilliant new book will change how you think - about sex, sexual identity and sexuality in animals and also the very forces that shape evolution.
'A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully' THE OBSERVER
'Beautifully written, very funny and deeply important - Lucy Cooke blows two centuries of sexist myths right out of biology.' PROFESSOR ALICE ROBERTS
Praise for Lucy's previous book THE UNEXPECTED TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS
'Endlessly fascinating' - Bill Bryson
'A fabulous read' - Sue Perkins
'I cannot remember when I enjoyed a non-fiction book so much' - Daily Express
'A joy from beginning to end' - Guardian
'Best science pick: deeply researched, sassily written' - Nature
© Lucy Cooke 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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ID: 544384
Title: Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter
Author: Lizzie Pook
Narrator: Anna Skellern
Format: Unabridged
Length: 09:25:24
Language: English
Release date: 03-03-22
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction, Family Life

Summary:
Picked as one of Stylist magazine's 'Fiction Books You Can't Miss' and longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award.
Fortune favours the brave in Lizzie Pook's mesmerising and fiercely feminist historical novel, Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter.
'Immersive storytelling, a rollicking mystery and a take-no-prisoners heroine' – Stylist
1896, Bannin Bay, Australia. When British pearl-boat captain Charles Brightwell goes missing out at sea, rumours of mutiny and murder swell within the bay's dens and back alleys. Only his headstrong daughter, Eliza, refuses to believe her father is dead, and sets out on a dangerous journey to uncover the truth.
But in a town teeming with corruption, prejudice, and blackmail, Eliza soon learns that the answers she seeks might cost more than pearls. How much is she willing to sacrifice to find them?
‘Tense and vividly atmospheric, with a determined, independent heroine intent on the truth ’ - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne
'Adventure, feminist heroine, grief, love and hope . . . Lizzie shines a light on a dark part of British history with grace, skill, sensitivity and honesty. I LOVED IT' - Nikki May, author of Wahala

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