Chris McManus uncovers the secrets of a collection of six thousand dusty old postcards which turned up in a forgotten cupboard in the Psychology Department of University College London...
From Superman's very first deed of daring to his battle of wits with evil business tycoon Lex Luthor, 'The Adventures of Superman' tells the story of the Man of Steel from the beginning.
Described by the Radio Times as ‘a brilliant observer of the domestic scene, a master reporter of life as we know it’, Al Read’s weekly show drew audiences of 35 million during the 1950s and ‘60s...
In this brilliant forerunner to Bennett's series Talking Heads monologues, Patricia Routledge plays Margaret Schofield. a woman whose existence revolves around the gossip and minutiae of office life..
Untold Stories is a poignant family memoir recalling the marriage of Alan's parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret, an incredible piece...
Since Mr Dodsworth retired, he has had all the time in the world. Then he has a visitor from his old firm's Miss Prothero, who is eager to tell him all the news.
Taken from Alan Bennett: Triple Bill, April 2007 Release. A naive, inexperienced social worker calls on an elderly couple; but does she need more help than they do?
Taken from Alan Bennett: Triple Bill, April 2007 Release. A middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman engage in polite conversation in a hotel on the Cornish Riviera.
Film horror legends Peter Cushing and Vincent Price play Lark and Cornelius in this six-part series, which also features Richard Hurndall (Blake's 7 and Doctor Who) amongst the cast.
Ballet Shoes is a classic of 20th-century children's literature. The lively humour and sense of fun that have made the novel such a favourite are brought to life in this enchanting dramatisation.
Blake's 7 is a much-loved classic TV science fiction series, in which a band of rebels fight the despotic Federation, heading by Supreme Commander Servalan.
Full-Cast. Bill Gates tries to take over the world. A satirical look at corporate greed in America. This sci-fi broadcast pulls you into a live event with news coverage you'd swear is real.
Sony Award-winning comedian Chris Addison stars in a fantastically funny new series of comedy lectures, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 'Superlative, intelligent comedy'
This is the Sony Radio award wining Radio 4 series from Chris Addison, which precedes Civilization. The four episodes are called Language and Communication, Social Development....
With a stupid and gullible donkey posing as Aslan and the devious ape, Shirt, in charge, confused talking beasts and dwarves are allowing themselves to be sold into slavery in neighbouring Calormen.
King Caspian has grown old and sad in the ten years since the disappearance of his only son. With time running out, Jill and Eustace embark on a perilous quest to find the Prince.
Edmund and Lucy join King Caspian to find the seven lost Lords of Narnia. So begins a perilous new quest that takes them to the farthest edge of the Eastern world on board the mighty Dawn Treader.
When Lucy comes across an old wardrobe standing alone in the spare room, she thinks she has found a good place for hide and seek. But then she tumbles headlong into a magical world.
Laurie Lee's autobiographical tale of his childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley has become a modern classic. This BBC Radio 4 production was recorded on location in Gloucestershire.
Nothing will ever be quite the same, even when their possessions mysteriously turn up again, exactly as they left them... Sad and funny, poignant and perceptive, this is Bennett at his brilliant best.
As the 'season of goodwill' approaches, Captain Mainwaring and his men use their rifles and their wits in a no-holds-barred contest with Captain Square and the Eastgate Platoon...
Dad's Army fan Phill Jupitus has selected four of his favourite episodes from the evergreen radio series, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn.
The BBC Radio 4 comedy series in which Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest consider the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public.
Graham Norton meets his match in Brian from Big Brother, Rabbi Lionel Blue is stranded on a reality radio version of Desert Island Discs, and demons quake when they face Hyacinth the Vampire Slayer.
Just when politicians, celebrities and presenters thought they had got away with it, the award-winning Dead Ringers team is back with highlights from its third television series.
The Commander is on the trail of a serial killer who has been creating a climate of mounting fear in the small community of Larksoken on the desolate Norfolk coast.
The TARDIS brings the crew to the south coast of present-day Earth. Something nasty is lurking in the gas pipelines of the North Sea, and before long the nearby refinery is attacked...
Travel behind the scenes in the company of David Tennant, Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman, Catherine Tate, Sarah Parish, Jessica Hynes, Thomas Sangster, and many other stars of series Two and Three.
The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 space drama arrives on CD in its entirety for the very first time - with a bonus introduction by creator and writer James Follett.
He’s back! Budleigh Salterton’s most famous citizen is off round the world on another six adventures. Meet Giles Wemmbley Hogg. 2m’s, 2g’s. Traveller, backpacker, ethnologist, etc, etc.
A further helping of humour from the original BBC Radio 4 radio sketch series which grew into a hit television show. Hilarious and irreverent, it is fronted by a team of award-winning young actors...
From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influencial clowns in the history of radio. Four more classics of cult muttery from those wireless wizards.
The historic reunion of radio's greatest comedy team to celebrate 50 years of the BBC was their farewell performance and proved so momentous it was broadcast complete with the pre-show warm-up.
Michael Sheen stars as Hamlet with Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beaven as Ophelia in the best-known and most powerful tragedy of modern times...
Welcome back to 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, where loveable curmudgeon Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock is still suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...
Once again, the master of misery is supported by a star cast including Sid James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques, and four sparkling scripts by the masters of mirth, Galton and Simpson
In The Poetry Society, an evening with a group of Hancock’s new avant-garde friends produces gems of abstract poetry, not only from the group but also from Sid and Bill...
The Wild Man of the Woods shows Hancock’s desire to get away from it all. It leads him to camp first in a bus shelter on Clapham Common, and then in a bit of forest rented from Sid...
Four classic BBC Radio episodes from the comic genius of Tony Hancock. The Diary/The Old School Reunion/Hancock in the Police/The East Cheam Drama Festival...
Have you heard the story about Alan Titchmarsh in the flower bed with Charlie Dimmock? Or Hinge & Bracket at the Edinburgh Festival? Or Richard Digance on his first date?
Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son, Hal, in this powerful production, which also stars Timothy West and Prunella Scales...
Panic! It's the last ever instalment of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Mostly Harmless, the final book in Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts
With a wealth of sketches, clips and interviews, plus four fantastic episodes, this is an unmissable treat for all fans of these two great radio comedies...
Sir John Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates and even a hundred years after his birth he continues to attract acclaim and admiration.
Episode 1. "A journey into space. What is space? It is nothing: yet it exists everywhere...". These words, spoken by Guy Kingsley Poynter, opened the first episode...
Episode 2. "A journey into space. What is space? It is nothing: yet it exists everywhere...". These words, spoken by Guy Kingsley Poynter, opened the first episode...
Episode 4. "A journey into space. What is space? It is nothing: yet it exists everywhere...". These words, spoken by Guy Kingsley Poynter, opened the first episode...
Episode 5. "A journey into space. What is space? It is nothing: yet it exists everywhere...". These words, spoken by Guy Kingsley Poynter, opened the first episode...
Episode 6. "A journey into space. What is space? It is nothing: yet it exists everywhere...". These words, spoken by Guy Kingsley Poynter, opened the first episode...
Episode 7. "A journey into space. What is space? It is nothing: yet it exists everywhere...". These words, spoken by Guy Kingsley Poynter, opened the first episode...
Episode 9. "A journey into space. What is space? It is nothing: yet it exists everywhere...". These words, spoken by Guy Kingsley Poynter, opened the first episode...
Episode 11. "A journey into space. What is space? It is nothing: yet it exists everywhere...". These words, spoken by Guy Kingsley Poynter, opened the first episode...
Episode 12. "A journey into space. What is space? It is nothing: yet it exists everywhere...". These words, spoken by Guy Kingsley Poynter, opened the first episode...
In this second series Captain Jet Morgan and his crew of Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet are on board the flagship Discovery, leading a fleet of space ships..
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s.This is the first of twenty episodes and was broadcast on 6/9/54..
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. This is the third of twenty episodes and was broadcast on 20/9/54..
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s..
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s.This is the seventh of twenty episodes and was broadcast on 18/10/54..
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. This is the eighth of twenty episodes and was broadcast on 25/10/54..
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. This is the ninth of twenty episodes and was broadcast on 1/11/54..
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s.This is the tenth of twenty episodes and was broadcast on 08/11/1954..
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. This is the eleventh of twenty episodes and was broadcast on 15/11/54..
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. This is the thirteenth episodes of twenty and was broadcast on 29/11/54..
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. This is the fifteenth of twenty episodes and was broadcast on 13/12/54..
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s.This is the sixteenth of twenty episodes and was broadcast on 20/12/54...
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. This is the eighteenth of twenty episodes and was broadcast on 3/1/55..
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s.This is the nineteenth of twenty episodes and was broadcast on 10/1/55...
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. This is the final of twenty episodes and was broadcast on 17/1/55..
Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger to another as they faced the unknown perils of space.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
Their orders - to discover all they can about the threatened Martian invasion of Britain. Jet and his comrades are stretched to their limits as they taken on the awesome Martian power.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
Their orders - to discover all they can about the threatened Martian invasion of Britain. Jet and his comrades are stretched to their limits as they taken on the awesome Martian power.
In this epic series Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone.
Political intrigue and fierce battle rage in this tense and dynamic production in which a country is torn apart under the legacy of Julius Caesar, 'the colossus'.
Its mix of irreverent fun and ferocious competition has always attracted stellar names from the world of comedy and theatre, all of whom pit their wits against regulars such as Kenneth Williams
Its mix of irreverent fun and ferocious competition has always attracted stellar names from the world of comedy and theatre, all of whom pit their wits - and their wit - against regular players...
Its mix of irreverent fun and ferocious competition has always attracted stellar names from the world of comedy and theatre, all of whom pit their wits against regular player including Paul Merton...
Just as uproariously funny – and terrifically popular – today as when it first began on BBC Radio 4 in 1968, Just a Minute challenges contestants to speak for one minute on a given subject.
It's Piffle! It's The Shipping Forecast! It's Dating Agencies! It's Windpower!" These are just some of the subjects hilariously tackled by radio's favourite chatterers for Just A Minute.
Described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘the wizard of the talking book’, Martin Jarvis has made the voices of William and his gang of outlaws his own in these marvellous readings.
Another welcome volume of stories in which Martin Jarvis, ‘the wizard of the talking book’, makes the voices of Richmal Crompton's scruffy hero William – and his gang of outlaws – his own.
Perpetually scruffy, mud-stained and mischievous - that's how some folks think of William but others know that his well-meant schemes often turn out for the best!
Always polite but not always nice, the two ladies’ letters are often acerbic, one might even say bitchy, yet their subtle put downs create wonderful letters full of humour.
Alistair Cooke’s weekly sound postcards from the States have become a broadcasting institution. Personally selected by Alistair Cooke, this volume covers the early years from 1946 to 1968.
Once more personally selected by Alistair Cooke these middle years in America bring reports on the black revolution and ’60s counter culture as well as fascinating memories.
Four of the best recent episodes of the comedy news show, including an appearance by the late Linda Smith, as well as Simon Hoggart's final edition as Chairman...
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer’s epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon Armitage and starring Tim McInnerny and Amanda Redman.
From Andy Hamilton, co-creator of drop the dead donkey, six episodes from the first two BBC radio 4 series of the fiendishly funny comedy - set in hell!
Crabby, crusty and curmudgeonly he may be, but Victor Meldrew - played brilliantly by Richard Wilson - voices the exasperation of the once silent majority
The Conrad Case takes Paul and Steve to Bavaria to help find Betty Conrad. But their only clue is an unusual cocktail stick found in her finishing school bedroom.
In this western adventure drama, complete with a full cast, sound effects, and music, a mysterious visitor takes a room at Millie’s Hotel, a young woman is the sole survivor of an Indian attack on a raft traveling the Powder River, and the railroad arrives in Wyoming Territory, bringing one...
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis lead an ordinary suburban life with Mother and Father and trips to the zoo and the pantomime. But when Father is mysteriously taken away one night, everything changes...
It's a situation which cries out for Jeeves you would think. But Bertie is fed up with the assumption that he is merely an addendum to his personal attendant. Stand back - Wooster is on the case!
Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love. The full beauty and meaning of some of the most lyrical lines ever written can truly be heard.
The story of Britain from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, specially written for BBC Radio 4 by Christopher Lee, narrated by Anna Massey
The story of Britain from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, specially written for BBC Radio 4 by Christopher Lee, narrated by Anna Massey
The story of Britain from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, specially written for BBC Radio 4 by Christopher Lee, narrated by Anna Massey
Lee's history of Britain provides the definitive radio account of the events and personalities that have shaped our nation. From foreign invasions and war to economic crises and social revolution...
Lee's history of Britain provides the definitive radio account of the events and personalities that have shaped our nation. From foreign invasions and war to economic crises and social revolution...
Using a range of contemporary documents, this is an informative, engaging and fascinating insight into the rise - and eventual fall - of the British Empire.
The Twentieth Century, continues the story, taking us through decades of whirlwind change and technological advancement in the diverse and colourful country that stands on the brink of the millennium.
These editions, especially dramatised for BBC Radio, are of timeless tales that have enchanted generations of readers both young and old. The wonder and excitement of these much-loved tales lives on!
A coded warning of imminent danger sends Holmes and Watson to the country house of the reclusive Jack Douglas. When they arrive too late to prevent his death, they get straight on the trail...
In these full-cast original adventures Bert Coules, the chief dramatist of BBC Radio 4's celebrated complete Sherlock Holmes canon, has imaginatively fleshed out four unrecorded cases
Come with us to Shepherd's Bush on a decrepit horse and cart, and view the young-ish Harold Steptoe and his beloved father Albert in their natural habitat of the scrapyard at 24, Oil Drum Lane.
Come with us to Shepherd's Bush on a decrepit horse and cart, and view the young-ish Harold Steptoe and his beloved father Albert in their natural habitat of the scrapyard at 24, Oil Drum Lane.
This collection of six Individual portraits from the master of the monologue are Darker and more intense than the first collection, these six stories uncover the secrets behind ordinary suburban lives
At the farthest reaches of the British Empire, four men swear an oath to keep a terrible secret, a secret drenched in blood which is the key to immense wealth...
In this episode from the series, Sir Laurence Olivier stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the famous Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde classic by Robert Louis Stevenson...
Theatre Royal: In this episode from the series, Ralph Richardson stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the famous Private Rooms classic by J.B.Priestley...
First broadcast as an half-hour radio programme in the 1950's, this performance captures the marvellous theatrical style of post-war radio before the advent of television and offers the experience...
This BBC dramatisation of Robert Louis Stevenson's most popular novel stars Jack Shepherd , lain Cuthbertson , Buster Merryfield and James McPherson as young Jim Hawkins
The Twilight Zone™ Radio Dramas will keep you glued to the edge of your seat. Collection 2 includes: "To Serve Man," "A Quality of Mercy," plus 3 more radio dramas.
General Fentiman can be found every day at his club, sat with a newspaper in his favourite chair. So it comes as a shock when another member notices that the General isn't sleeping at all - he is dead
Venus in Copper finds our hero being hired by a family of rich freed slaves to investigate Severina Zotica, a widow whose previous three husbands have mysteriously died...
When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs...