The opening episode begins on Trantor, capital of the Galactic Empire, with the meeting of Seldon and Dornick, their trial, and their exile to Terminus. The action then jumps forward 50 years, to the first Seldon Crisis, where the repercussions of th...

The Foundation Trilogy (Dramatized)

Brought to you by Penguin.    This Penguin Classic is performed by Julian Glover, Olivier Award winning actor, also known for his roles in Game of Thrones and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. This definitive recording includes an Introduction...

Letters from a Stoic

Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity. Duke Orsino is in love with the noblewoman Olivia. She, however, has fallen for his servant Cesario, who is actually Viola, a woman dis...

Twelfth Night

This play introduces Shakespeare's greatest comedic character, the dissolute knight Sir John Falstaff.  While King Henry's England is threatened by rebellion, the king's scapegrace son Hal haunts the taverns of London, his companions a crew of rogues...

Henry IV, Part 1

Shakespeare's finest verse play is also his first portrait of the psychology of power.  The sensitive and poetic Richard II is undoubtedly the rightful king of England, but he is unscrupulous and weak. When his cousin Henry Bolingbroke returns from b...

Richard II

Prince Hal parts from his past to fulfill his royal destiny in this essential conclusion to Henry IV, Part 1.  Rebellion still simmers in England and King Henry's health is failing. Prince Hal has proved his courage but the king still fears that his ...

Henry IV, Part 2

In this BBC full-cast production of Henry IV Part 1, the lines between royalty and commoners are blurred. What, and who, makes a great ruler?  Father and son Julian Glover and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son Hal in this powerful productio...

Henry IV, Part One

In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a beautiful, pale woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows, puts his hands around her neck and strangles her. Arthur Johnson is a mild-mannered, shy man who has never known how to talk to wom...

A Demon in My View

The epic story of this hero’s battle against dragons, monsters, and their mothers is particularly suited to being recorded as an audiobook given that for the first 300 years of its existence it was only ever spoken.  The first known (and indeed the o...

Beowulf

This is the third book in the 'Blackwood' saga. For three generations, members of the Blackwood family served the Royal Marines with distinction. With the outbreak of World War I, at last comes Jonathan Blackwood’s turn to carry the family name into ...

The Horizon

First published in 1952, Herbert and Eleanor Farjeon’s Kings and Queens has attained the status of a children’s classic. The charming poems, each one dedicated to a different king or queen, tell the story of the 41 English monarchs from William I to ...

Kings and Queens

Four full-cast BBC Radio productions of Shakespeare's finest history plays. Introduced by Sir Richard Eyre, these four iconic productions, featuring star casts, bring Shakespeare's gripping histories to life in all their rich complexity. Henry IV, Pa...

BBC Radio Shakespeare: A Collection of Four History Plays

The story of the pensioner, the milk float, and the miracle worker.  Frank Derrick is 81. And he's just been run over by a milk float. It was tough enough to fill the hours of the day when he was active. But now he's broken his arm and fractured his ...

The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81

The events of Pietro Russell's life are told in 26 chapters. From A-Z each chapter is set in a different place and reveals a fragment of his story. As his memories flicker back and forth through time in his search for a resolution to the conflicts of his life, his story gradually unfolds...

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