A loving and hilarious - if occasionally spiky - valentine to Bill Bryson’s adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter.  Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and...

The Road to Little Dribbling

Twenty years ago Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation’s heart and became the best-...

My name is Rex. I am a good dog.... Rex is also seven feet tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy-calibre weaponry, and a deadly weapon in a dirty war. He's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campech...

Dogs of War

The Sorrows, an island off the coast of northern California, and its castle have been uninhabited since a series of gruesome murders in 1925. But its owner needs money, so he allows film composers Ben and Eddie and a couple of their female friends to...

The Sorrows

Jules Verne's two novels featuring Captain Nemo (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island), condensed down to two thrilling hours.  In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, marine scientist Professor Aronnax and his stowaway daughter, Connie, j...

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea & The Mysterious Island

‘I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.’ So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanid...

Middlesex

The world needs to change.  We have unleashed an ecological mega-crisis which is threatening the future of life on Earth. The actions we take over the next decade are critical. They will determine the destiny of our descendants and the fate of our wo...

How Soon Is Now

The dramatic story of the married scientists who founded BioNTech and developed the first vaccine against the COVID-19 pandemic. Nobody thought it was possible. In mid-January 2020, Ugur Sahin told Özlem Türeci, his wife and decades-long research par...

The Vaccine

Harold Silver, a Richard Nixon Scholar, has spent a lifetime watching his younger, taller, and more successful brother, George. But Harry knows that George has a murderous temper, and when he finally loses control the result is an act of violence whi...

May We Be Forgiven

Penguin Classics presents Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Nathan Osgood. He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it...

Ethan Frome

Being a health hero means being an advocate for yourself and your family - in sickness and in health. It's about building the confidence to gain knowledge and to use that knowledge to make tough decisions. In Ask Dr. Nandi, Dr. Nandi gives listeners ...

Ask Dr. Nandi

Captivating BBC radio adaptations of three of Anne Tyler’s best-selling novels Award-winning author Anne Tyler is loved worldwide for her fiction exploring the intricacies of marriage and domesticity. These three acclaimed books, each set in Baltimor...

Anne Tyler: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years & The Amateur Marriage

It's 1960s America, and Herbie Gneiss is forced to leave college to get a job. Mr. Gibbon, a patriotic veteran of three wars, works with Herbie at Kant-Brake toy factory. When Herbie is drafted, Mr. Gibbon feels that he, too, should do something for his country; and so he decides to rob the Mount Holly Trust Company....

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