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Peyton Place

2010-01-28T21:44:00.001-06:00

Here is a stream of Peyton Place I captured off of internet radio awhile back. Not sure of the date.

Peyton Place was a 1956 novel by Grace Metalious.
Selling sixty thousand copies within the first ten days of its release, it was publishing's second "blockbuster," (following Gone with the Wind in 1936) and remained on the New York Times best seller list for fifty-nine weeks. The main plot follows the lives of three women - lonely and repressed Constance MacKenzie, her illegitimate daughter Allison, and her employee Selena Cross, a girl from "across the tracks" or as it is called in the book "from the shacks" - and how they come to terms with their identity as women and sexual beings in a small New England town.

Peyton Place

The Mighty Boosh – The Complete Radio Series

2010-01-25T18:59:00.000-06:00

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The Mighty Boosh – The Complete Radio Series: "

This work features the complete “BBC Radio 4″ series from Perrier award-winning comedy duo Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding plus an exclusive interview with The Mighty Boosh. Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt are The Mighty Boosh and together they write and star in their first radio series which won the Douglas Adams Award for Innovative Comedy Writing. Here are all six episodes of the “BBC Radio 4″ series, complete and uncut, from the winners of the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. Welcome to the surreal world of Zooniverse where two zookeepers Howard Moon (Julian Barratt) and Vince Noir (Noel Fielding) embark on an array of magical and bizarre adventures that include a trip to the Arctic tundra to find a lost egg, an expedition deep into the jungle and being trapped inside a hitchhiker’s box. Feel the bracken, isolate the crisps and calm your llama down with some blue pants – this is a madcap style of music and mayhem which sounds mighty like The Boosh. Described by the “Observer” as ‘Some of the most inventive comedy writing of the decade’, and eliciting an exclamation of ‘Wow!’ from “Simpsons’” creator Matt Groening, come with us now on a journey through time and space – to the world of The Mighty Boosh…’

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Doctor Who – Prisoner Of The Daleks Unabridged Audio Book

2010-01-25T18:56:00.001-06:00

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Doctor Who – Prisoner Of The Daleks Unabridged Audio Book: "

Type : Audio
Codec : mpga
Channels : Stereo
Sample Rate : 44100 Hz
Bitrate : 320 kb/s
Synopsis (from CD Cover)

The Doctor is captured by Daleks and facing extermination in this thrilling adventure, read by ‘voice of the Daleks’ Nicholas Briggs.

The Daleks are advancing, their empire constantly expanding into Earth’s space. The Earth forces are resisting the Daleks in every way they can. But the battles rage on across the countless solar systems. And now the future of our galaxy hangs in the balance …

The Doctor finds himself stranded on board a starship near the frontline with a group of ruthless bounty hunters. Earth Command will pay them for every Dalek they kill, every eye stalk they bring back as proof. With the Doctor’s help, the bounty hunters achieve the ultimate prize: a Dalek prisoner – intact, powerless, and ready for interrogation. But where the Daleks are involved, nothing is what it seems, and no one is safe.

Before long the tables will be turned. How will the Doctor survive when he becomes a prisoner of the Daleks?

Featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit BBC series, Prisoner of the Daleks is ready by Nicholas Briggs, who is the voice of the Daleks on television.

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The Heart Of A Goof – P.G.Wodehouse

2010-01-25T18:52:00.001-06:00

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The Heart Of A Goof – P.G.Wodehouse: "

It was a morning when all nature shouted “Fore!” P. G. Wodehouse leads the listener out on to this little nine-hole course with a collection of nine Golf stories, as observed by the Oldest Member. The stories included are: The Heart of a Goof, High Stakes, Keeping in with Vosper, Chester Forgets Himself, The Magic Plus Fours, The Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh, Rodney Fails to Qualify, Jane Gets off the Fairway and The Purication of Rodney Spelvin..

Author: P.G.Wodehouse
Read By: Jonathan Cecil
Year of Recording: 2008
Year Book Published: 1926
Genre: Fiction: Humour
Publisher: BBC Chivers Audiobooks
Abridged: No
Total Duration: 7.4 hrs
Total book size: 407 Mb
No. of mp3 files: 6
Encoded at: 128kbps

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Rapidshare Links

2009-12-25T18:44:00.004-06:00

A Life of Bliss

2009-08-09T22:00:00.001-05:00

George Cole and Petula Clark at the microphone recording A Life of Bliss.

A Life of Bliss, a new radio sitcom, was introduced by the BBC on the 29th of July, 1953 starring George Cole as awkward, absent-minded bachelor David Bliss. In the early episodes Nora Swinburne played Bliss's sister and Esmond Knight his brother-in-law, playing a married couple, Robert and Pamela Batten, with Rosalind making an appearance in a 1954 as Marie. Later their parts were taken over by Diana Churchill and Colin Gordon.

Listen and download shows here: COTR Archives

American in England, An

2009-07-06T15:56:00.002-05:00

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An American in England was the story of Norman Corwin's visit to wartime Britain. He had been asked by CBS to observe and report on the character and hardships of a nation under siege.

The US Government arranged for CBS and the BBC to collaborate on this series, intended to give Americans a better understanding of our Ally, Great Britain. Corwin was sent to Britain to create and produce the programs, to be sent via short-wave and rebroadcast in America over CBS. Edward R. Murrow and the CBS staff in London helped a great deal.

In his four months in England, wrote Corwin,

"I did not once interview a high government official. The main objective of the series was to establish the character of the British people and not disseminate the handouts of the Ministry of Information. The people were soldiers, sailors, workers, miners, the theater manager, the elevator man, Police Officer Gilbert, the Everingtons, the Westerbys, Betty Hardy the actress, Henry Blogg the lifesaver, Mary Seaton the newspaperwoman, the RAF officer who handed me a dish in the mess and explained, 'This sausage is made of two ingredients--paper and sawdust'; the navigator, just returned from Wilhelmshaven, who said wistfully, 'Somehow we're always first in over the target'; the woman in Swansea who went to the Guildhall one morning following a severe blitz and turned in two suits of clothes, both nearly new, saying she had bought them for her two boys, killed in the raid."

Ten shows aired under the AN AMERICAN IN ENGLAND banner, broadcast in 2 series. The first were 6 shows aired from August 3, 1942 through September 7, 1942. They were created in England and were broadcast via shortwave to the US as well as broadcast from US stations. The second series consisted of only 4 shows, produced in the US after Mr. Corwin's return, and aired December 1, 1942 through December 22, 1942. One of those 4 was a repeat from the first run. All shows were approximately 30 minutes in length.

The seventh show of the series, "Cromer", was re-broadcast May 9, 1944 as the 10th show in the Columbia Workshop: Columbia Presents Corwin series.

All Shows

An American in England.zip

Single Shows

Thriller: Michael Jackson's Masterpiece

2009-06-28T18:48:00.003-05:00

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Captured from a Free-To-Air broadcast from BBC Radio 2

Trevor Nelson tells the story of Michael Jackson's classic album Thriller.

In December 1982, two of the music industry's biggest stars - artist Michael Jackson and producer Quincy Jones - came together to produce what would become the biggest-selling album in history.

The album would turn Jackson into the world's biggest superstar and the elaborate, accompanying music videos would become a world-wide phenomenon.

Twenty-five years after this album first went on sale, Trevor Nelson discovers how the album tracks came to be, what role MTV played in the process and how it all nearly fell apart.

This special program features all nine album tracks and exclusive interviews with Quincy Jones, MTV founder Bob Pittman and Moonwalker Jeffery Daniel.

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Thriller: Michael Jackson's Masterpiece

Big Audio Drama

2009-06-20T22:04:00.006-05:00

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Big Audio Drama is a blog I truly enjoy and thought would pass along the link for others who might like to visit. It has a great selection of BBC content from the past available for download, and I am sure you will find something of interest.

Below is a preview of of some of the content Big Audio Drama has available. Just click on the page ## to view and look over the selections. Click on a selection title to go to download page. Some pages have at the top a download link and password for the selections on that particular page.

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Secrets of Scotland Yard (OTRR Certified)

2009-06-01T05:48:00.002-05:00

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In an earlier time, just prior to and following the Second World War, the general public was fascinated by the subject of crime. Numerous magazines of "True Crime Stories" filled the newsstands. Radio also helped fill the need with fictional heroes such as Johnny Dollar and The Saint. Few true crime dramas, other than Gangbusters or Dragnet, sustained long term success on radio.

The Secrets of Scotland Yardwas a successful crime drama series, initially airing internationally between 1949 and 1951. Selected episodes finally came to a US radio network for a brief run much later in 1957 over the Mutual Broadcasting System.

The series boasted well over 100 episodes, one of which, "The Bone From A Voice Box", apparently served as the prototype for another well remembered Towers Of London dramatic series, The Black Museum. In both series, well known actors were employed as host / narrator, Orson Welles in The Black Museum and Clive Brook here. In fact, the shows were so similar that some of the same actual Scotland Yard cases were dramatized for both series (with totally different scripts, and casts).

The Secrets of Scotland Yard was an independent production of the Towers of London syndicate in England for world wide distribution. Each week, an audience of anxious radio-listeners tuned in to hear these true crime stories of the London Metropolitan Police unfold, as the detectives at the Yard investigated some of England’s most famous criminals. Their trials have become legendary.

Stories presented in the series include the theft of the British crown jewels by Colonel Thomas Blood; the story of a man who finds an armless and legless body wrapped in ribbons and lace; or the strange story of two close brothers who love one another enough to contemplate the murder of a brother’s affluent, yet unsightly and ignorant, wife.

Murders, forgery, and robberies all get a through review on the program. Each time, Scotland Yard detectives are afoot to solve the crime mystery!

The Secrets of Scotland Yard was initially hosted by Clive Brook, probably for the first year or so. To add to the air of authenticity, Brook sometimes discusses matters with Percy Hoskins, a 1950s crime expert and reporter for the London Daily Express. Hoskins knew every nook and cranny in London’s seedier districts and personally reported on many of the major crimes of the day. A student of crime, Hoskins was also one of the founders of the Saints and Sinners Club of London, an educational organization dedicated to true crime investigation methods and results.

Brook had his own Scotland Yard experience previously when he played retired naval commander Stevenson in the 1936 film, "Scotland Yard Commands". American audiences will however probably more familiar with Brooks’ portrayal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes in the 1932 film of the same name. Brook was eventually replaced by an actor portraying the character Superintendent X of Scotland Yard.
(From the Old Time Radio Researcher's Group)

Download Secrets of Scotland Yard (OTRR Certified) here.
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Atlantis

2009-05-30T20:50:00.003-05:00

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Marine archeologist Jack Howard may have found the key to uncovering Atlantis, the legendary sunken city purportedly built by a flourishing culture. A scrap of papyrus discovered in an Egyptian desert, which may contain a secondhand account of the lost city, sends Jack scrambling to assemble a team, including Costas, an MIT- and Stanford-trained expert in "submersible technology" and Katya, a beautiful Russian Atlantis specialist. Once prepped and in position in the Aegean Sea, Jack and company find themselves caught up with Kazakhstan terrorists and a multicountry fight over a missing Soviet nuclear submarine—and that's before they've uncovered the ancient secrets of the lost city.

David Gibbins (born 1962) is an underwater archaeologist and a bestselling novelist. He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to English parents who were both academic scientists. He travelled around the world with them by sea as a boy, including four years living in New Zealand, before returning to Canada. He attended the University of Bristol, England, where he was awarded a First Class Honours Degree in Ancient Mediterranean Studies. He then went to Cambridge University as a Research Scholar of Corpus Christi College, where he completed a PhD in Archaeology in 1990. Gibbins learned to scuba dive at the age of 15 in Canada, and dived under ice, on shipwrecks and in caves while he was still at school. He has led numerous underwater archaeology expeditions around the world, including five seasons excavating ancient Roman shipwrecks off Sicily and a survey of the submerged harbour of ancient Carthage. In 1999-2000 he was part of an international team excavating a 5th century BC shipwreck off Turkey. His many publications on ancient shipwreck sites have appeared in scientific journals, books and popular magazines. Most recently his fieldwork has taken him to the Arctic Ocean and to Mesoamerica.

This is his first novel.

Visit David Gibbins official website to find out more about the author and his books.

Found these links on Mediafire:

Atlantis part 1
Atlantis part 2
Atlantis part 3
Atlantis part 4
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Ice Station

2009-05-30T20:11:00.004-05:00

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Ice Station's plot follows the events that occur in the wake of the disappearance of a diving team at a remote Antarctic research station. A team of Force Reconnaissance Marines led by Lieutenant Shane Schofield is dispatched to secure the station, where they learn the scientists at the base had discovered something made of metal buried within layers of ice hundred of millions of years old.

Offers nonstop thrills as Schofield and his team fight for their lives and for those of the remaining American scientists against French and British commandos and a secret American spy group, against killer whales and strange aquatic mammals, and against time, for both the French and British commandos harbor "eraser" plans to wipe out all survivors in case of mission failure.

Ran across these links from Mediafire:

Matthew Reilly - Ice Station.part1.rar
Matthew Reilly - Ice Station.part2.rar
Matthew Reilly - Ice Station.part3.rar
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Dad’s Army

2009-05-28T23:01:00.004-05:00

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Dad’s Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The series ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio series, a feature film and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers and is still repeated today on BBC Two.

Download: Dad's Army Documentary - The Dad's Army Story

Find more Dad's Army on Calfkiller Video

Random Links

2009-04-30T18:56:00.005-05:00

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Here is some links ran across on Avax. Just click on image of choice to go to download and information page.

Dracula - (Recorded from BBC Radio 1979)

2009-04-01T05:52:00.003-05:00

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This play was recorded from a BBC broadcast on 22 Sept. 1979 , dramatized by Eric MacDonald, and featured Michael Harbour and Rosalind Shanks. Probably the best audio adaptation of "Dracula" ever done. David March and Aubrey Woods as the Count and Dr Van Helsing.

Dracula 49.2 MB

Radio Downloader

2009-02-20T19:03:00.003-06:00

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Radio Downloader is NerdoftheHerd.com's utility for downloading radio station content.

Radio Downloader brings Podcast-like abilities to stream downloading, as well as handling Podcasts RSS feeds. This gives you the convenience of being able to subscribe to regular downloads of your favorite programs, which you can then listen to on your PC or mp3 player.

Allows you to download radio programs made available from BBC iPlayer. The show list also has shows on it that will be broadcast in the future.

Allows you to download files made available as attachments to RSS feeds.

One of the best features of the program is the schedule function. Select a program like Afternoon Play, Book At Bedtime, Saturday Play and so on, click on the subscribe button and it will automatically download the show for you daily automatically. Best of all it goes ahead and converts to mp3 format for you. And it's FREE.

It is simple to use.

Download here NerdoftheHerd.com

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

2009-02-05T18:32:00.003-06:00

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"This is a BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation of Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. The Cast includes Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Wooster. Also featuring Paul Eddington & John Le Mesurier.

In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, fate conspires to draw Bertie Wooster back to Totleigh Towers, the site of an earlier ordeal that nearly landed our hero in prison and, worse still, in continuing danger of marriage to Madeline, the svelte and sadly syrupy daughter of the house. Only one thing stands between Bertie and the dreaded state of matrimony, and that is his good friend Gussie Fink-Nottle, lover of newts and Madeline. So long as Gussie and Madeline continue to profess their undying love for each other, Bertie is safe...but disaster looms when Gussie rebels at Madeline's attempt to turn him into a vegetarian."

Batman: Knightfall

2009-02-05T18:06:00.003-06:00

"Gotham City is reeling from the shocking news that Batman is confined to a wheelchair. Who will now protect the innocent from the dangerous inmates of Arkham Asylum, whom Bane has released? A new hero - Asrael - takes up the mantle of the Bat. But Azrael is a more brutal Batman than Bruce Wayne, and far more eager to punish the guilty than to protect the innocent. Will he destroy Gotham City in order to save it?

This fantastic full-cast adventure stars Bob Sessions, Michael Gough, Peter Marinker and Kerry Shale, and it comes from the renowned producer Dirk Maggs, of Superman and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio fame.

This stunning audio production was first aired on BBC Radio 1, and it's cliffhanging, all-action adventure can now be heard uninterrupted and remastered - complete with dazzling sound effects."

http://depositfiles.com/files/3025184

The War Of The Worlds

2009-01-18T16:41:00.001-06:00

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The War Of The Worlds ~ (BBC Audio Radio Collection)
MP3 | 128kbps Spoken Word Audio | 3 x RAR | Total Size 147 Mb | 2Hrs 50Mins

When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven underground. Scientist John Nicholson (Paul Daneman) tells how he was plunged into a paralysing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction. Martin Jarvis, Peter Sallis and Anthony Jackson also feature in this thrilling six-part dramatization of HG Wells' book, first broadcast on Radio 4 in 1967. From EBOOKEE

Round The Horne - Series 3 - BBC Radio Collection

2009-01-18T16:24:00.000-06:00

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Ran across these links at http://freebooksource.com/?p=3644 and passing along.

Series 3 ~ (BBC Audio)

MP3 | 128kbps Spoken Word Audio | 10 x RAR | Total Size 615 Mb | Approx 10Hrs

Round the Horne was one of the most influential BBC Radio comedy programmes, comparable to The Goon Show in its influence on other comedy programmes.[citation needed] It was transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968.

The series was created by writers Barry Took and Marty Feldman — with other writers contributing to later series after Feldman returned to performing — and starred Kenneth Horne, with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and Douglas Smith. It had musical interludes by the Fraser Hayes Four, and accompaniment by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers, except for the fourth series, when the musical duties were performed by The Max Harris Group. Took and the cast had worked on the predecessor series Beyond Our Ken.

All shows were produced by John Simmonds.

Series 1-3

Series 1 ran for 16 episodes from 7 March 1965, Series 2 for 13 episodes from 13 March 1966, and Series 3 for 20 episodes from 12 February 1967. The scripts were written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman. The cast were Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and announcer Douglas Smith, with music by the Fraser Hayes Four and Paul Fenoulhet and the Hornblowers (Edwin Braden replaced Fenoulhet from episode 7 of Series 1).

Series 4

Series 4 ran for 16 episodes from 25 February 1968. The scripts were written by Took, Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Donald Webster. The cast were Horne, Williams, Paddick, Marsden and Smith, with music by the Max Harris Group.

The Invisible Man (1958 British TV series)

2009-01-15T16:43:00.000-06:00

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The Invisible Man was a 1958 ITC Entertainment series for Associated TeleVision. The series was networked on CBS in the United States. It ran for 26 half-hour monochrome episodes across two seasons and was nominally based on the novel by H.G. Wells, one of four such television series.

The series follows the adventures of Doctor Peter Brady, a British scientist who, while attempting to achieve invisibility with light refraction (a completely different technique than the protagonist of the novel utilized), has an accident which turns him permanently invisible. He is initially declared a state secret and locked up, but eventually convinces the UK government, represented by Sir Charles Anderson, to allow him to return to his laboratory and search for an antidote ('Secret Experiment'). Almost immediately, British intelligence recruits him for an assignment ('Crisis in the Desert'), but soon security is breached ('Behind the Mask') and he becomes a celebrity ('Picnic with Death'), consequently also using his invisibility to help people in trouble, as well as solve crimes and defeat spies for his country.

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ParsleySidings

2009-01-15T15:59:00.000-06:00

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Parsley Sidings was a BBC Radio sitcom created by Jim Eldridge and with actors Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender, who were starring in the television war sitcom Dad's Army at the time of broadcast, as well as Kenneth Connor of Carry On fame.

The scripts were Jim Eldridge's (who would later go on to write for many more series, the most successful being the BBC's King Street Junior), and are set in a sleepy out of the way railway station on the line between London and Birmingham, in the Midlands. The main characters are Mr Horace Hepplewhite (Arthur Lowe), the station master, his son Bertrand Hepplewhite (Ian Lavender), Percy Valentine (Kenneth Connor) the porter, Mr Bradshaw the signalman and the secretary Gloria Simpkins (Liz Fraser, also from Carry On and the Dad's Army feature film). Guest actors included Bill Pertwee and Roger Delgado.

The series was produced by Edward Taylor and broadcast on BBC Radio 2. Due the BBC's former practice of wiping tapes after the broadcast of a show, or not recording it to tape at all, only a minority of the 21 episodes produced are still in their archives - Goodbye, Parsley Sidings and The Entente Cordial are aired on BBC 7 occasionally and have always remained in the BBC archive, while A Night Out, A Bird in the Hand, The New Level Crossing and The Secret Agent were recovered between 2001 and 2003 as off-air recordings from members of the public. These episodes have also been aired in early 2007 on the same channel. Other episodes are known to exist in private hands. The announcer for the programme was Keith Skues.

From archive.org

Agatha Christie Stories

2009-01-07T16:47:00.000-06:00

BBC - The Twilight Zone

2009-01-07T16:01:00.001-06:00

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Here is a few links ran across for some free-to-air broadcast of The Twilight Zone from the BBC.

The Twilight Zone was created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, or horror , often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

The program followed in the tradition of earlier radio programs such as The Weird Circle and X Minus One.

0638 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
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0655 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - A Kind of Stopwatch
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0639 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - A Most Unusual Camera
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0620 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
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0656 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - A Stop at Willoughby
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0621 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Back There
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0622 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Cavender is Coming
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0657 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Escape Clause
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0636 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Four O’Clock
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0658 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - In Search of an Exit
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0659 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Long Distance Call
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0623 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Mr Dingle: The Strong
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0624 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Mr Garrity and the Graves
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0660 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Nervous Man in A Four Dollar Room
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0661 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Night of the Meek
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0625 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - No Time Like the Past
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0626 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
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0627 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - One For The Angels
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0662 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Ring-a-ding Girl
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0628 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Still Valley
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0663 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The After Hours
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0629 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Bard
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0630 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Fear
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0664 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Lateness of the Hour
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0631 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Lonely
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0665 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Man in the Bottle
http://rapidshare.com/files/111888757/0665.rar
0666 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Midnight Sun
http://rapidshare.com/files/111888851/0666.rar
0667 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
http://rapidshare.com/files/111888902/0667.rar
0632 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Obsolete Man
http://rapidshare.com/files/111211565/0632.rar
0668 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Parallel
http://rapidshare.com/files/111889455/0668.rar
0633 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Passersby
http://rapidshare.com/files/111211769/0633.rar
0635 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Rip Van Winkle Caper
http://rapidshare.com/files/111213445/0635.rar
0669 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Thirty & Fathom Grave
http://rapidshare.com/files/111889844/0669.rar
0637 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Twenty-Two
http://rapidshare.com/files/111890283/0637.rar
0670 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Uncle Simon
http://rapidshare.com/files/111890142/0670.rar
0634 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Walking Distance
http://rapidshare.com/files/111211776/0634.rar

DRACULA

2008-12-01T19:14:00.000-06:00

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A Radio 4 dramatization, first broadcast in seven episodes in 1991 and 1992, of the classic vampire tale set in Transylvania and told through the diaries of a young solicitor, his fiancee and her friend, and the superintendent of a large lunatic asylum. Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor, is on his way to Transylvania to give information to the mysterious Count Dracula about his new estate in London. Dracula takes the young man prisoner, and Jonathan sees many strange and evil things in the castle.

The Portrait of a Lady

2008-12-01T18:37:00.000-06:00

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The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1880. Isabel Archer, a young woman of intelligence, imagination and beauty, travels from nineteenth-century America to England and across Europe on a journey that encompasses not only continents, but the crossing from innocence to experience. This production was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop - A Mrs Bradley Mystery

2008-12-01T18:07:00.000-06:00

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The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop - A Mrs Bradley Mystery

Another mystery for amateur sleuth Mrs Bradley who this time investigates a disappearance and the discovery of a body in the village of Wandles Parva.

Opening with the discovery of the absence of the squire, continuing with the discovery of his presence, cut up and hung from hooks in the local butcher's shop, and the discovery of a human skull growing in the cliffs, this classic tale of village life features Mrs Bradley at her wittiest and most discerning - her detection a joy to behold, as she finds a solution Agatha Christie would be proud to have written.

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The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

2008-12-01T17:48:00.000-06:00

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BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization starring June Whitfield as the sharp-witted spinster sleuth. Dolly Bantry, mistress of Gossington Hall, is enjoying a pleasant doze when suddenly her dreams take a strange turn. The housemaid Mary is telling her that there is a body in the library. As she wakes up, it turns out to be true But who is the strange young blonde sprawled on the library floor? Enter St Mary Mead's resident sleuth, Miss Mary Marple.

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Code of The Woosters

2008-12-01T06:20:00.000-06:00

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When Bertie goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lover's tiff between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there, especially when she commissions (or rather blackmails) him to steal a silver cow-creamer from Sir Watkyn Bassett - Madeline's father and owner of Totleigh Towers. Unfortunately, Sir Watkyn and his friend Roderick Spode are already convinced that Bertie is one of London's leading kleptomaniacs. Bertie finds himself in a spot of bother that even Jeeves finds hard to undo - until he discovers Roderick's guilty secret. Jeeves has his work cut out for him!

Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials Trilogy (BBC Dramatisation)

2008-12-01T05:54:00.000-06:00

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Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials Trilogy (BBC Dramatisation)

Northern Lights

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the first book in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. Set in a world which is like, yet very unlike, our own, the story begins in Oxford. Children are disappearing from the streets, and when Lyra's friend Roger also vanishes she sets out to find him. The story mixes science, theology and magic to fantastic and exciting effect.

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The Subtle Knife

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the second book in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. The story begins in Oxford, where Will Parry is desperate to discover the truth about his disappeared father. Climbing through an extraordinary window in the air, Will meets Lyra and her personal daemon - who we first met in Northern Lights. Together they embark on a fantastical quest which mixes science, theology and magic to stirring and exciting effect.

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The Amber Spyglass

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the third book in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. Bringing the saga to a thrilling close, it reintroduces familiar characters such as Lyra, Will, Mrs Coulter and Dr Mary Malone, the latter of whom possesses the powerful amber spyglass. Finally, the outcome of the battle within the Kingdom of Heaven will reveal the sought-after secret of Dust.

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Life With The Lyons

2008-11-10T22:39:00.000-06:00

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This BBC radio comedy series, probably the first sitcom in Britain, ran for twelve years between 1950 and 1961, and starred American movie stars Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels, and their children Barbara and Richard. It broke the mold of BBC radio comedy of the day, which usually comprised sketches alternating with musical items or guest star spots.

Bebe Daniels, the creative side of the couple, came up with the format of the Lyons playing themselves, with Ben working for a film company, living in London, bringing up their children, even giving their (almost correct) home address. From 1950 to 1961 we listened to them raising their children, watching them mature, get engaged and married. She made them larger than life, but basically they played themselves. Bebe was the scatterbrain, Ben the authoritarian father, Barbara the teenager flitting from romance to romance with the catchphrase "I'll die...... I'll just die" when things went wrong. Richard would do anything for a shilling but never spent one. They had a hard time with Barbara & Richard who didn't want the discipline of a regular radio show, with Bebe's rules - no nights out, no onions or garlic, before a broadcast. Barbara especially became a "star" in her own mind until Bebe sorted her out. Bebe worked as script editor from the writers' layouts, honing the scripts until she was happy. They recorded rehearsals, playing the acetates that night to cut out unsuccessful lines, or make improvements. Acting was second nature to her, but praise for her scripts brought her real pleasure. Bebe finalised the scripts in her basement at Southwick Street, from drafts by Bob Block, Ronnie Hanbury and others, including at one time Bob Monkhouse. Brad Ashton was brought in to help following Ronnie Hanbury's death in a car crash in France. During out-of-season breaks each year, they went back to America where in 1954 Bebe was surprised by "This Is Your Life", thinking she was going to praise Louella Parsons. (from Phil Watson OTRR)

Available for download is 21 shows from the 1950 - 61 time period. Click link below to go to download page.

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Red Dwarf (Radio Series)

2008-11-01T22:05:00.000-05:00

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Red Dwarf was created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, the radio and TV comedy writers behind Son of Cliché and Spitting Image. It was based on a series of radio sketches they had written called 'Dave Hollins - Space Cadet' about a man stranded on a space ship, alone except for his computer.

An American Werewolf In London

2008-11-01T21:54:00.000-05:00

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An American Werewolf in London was a comedy/horror film released in 1981, written and directed by John Landis. Adapted, written, and directed by Dirk Maggs starring Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine, Brian Glover, Eric Meyers, and William Dufris, this BBC Radio adaptation of American Werewolf captured the tone of Landis' film completely.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2008-11-01T21:45:00.000-05:00

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon. Adaptations have included stage shows, a series of five books first published between 1979 and 1992 (the first of which was titled The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and three series of three-part comic book adaptations of the first three novels published by DC Comics between 1993 and 1996.

These are all of the radio adaptations.

Absolute Power - The Complete Radio Series

2008-11-01T20:09:00.000-05:00

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Having prudently terminated the In the Red/Chair/Balance saga with 1999's In The End, writer Mark Tavener swiftly abstracted what were arguably the series' two strongest characters as the basis for a new project. Absolute Power told the continuing story of Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe (Stephen Fry and John Bird), originally conceived as conniving BBC Radio controllers: various thwarted schemes had seen them shunted sideways around the Corporation's hierarchy and ultimately, as the result of one management rationalisation too far at the conclusion of In The End, out onto the street. Branching out into a new career chosen to capitalise on their principal talents (namely skulduggery and swinging the lead) the duo set up a partnership specialising in 'government-media relations consultancy' -- otherwise known as 'spin-doctoring', by now an omnipresent satirical target thanks to the paranoiac PR policies of the New Labour government.

By talking up the extent of their personnel and facilities -- which actually consisted of Sandy (Siobhan Hayes), a reluctant work-experience secretary wedded to the NVQ rulebook, and a fridge -- the consultancy was able to pull in contracts to achieve a variety of seemingly impossible tasks, such as relaunching the Sun as an organ of the pro-European movement and revitalising the Church of England. However, since Charles's many ingenious 'wheezes' met with only intermittent success (and Martin had never really developed much of an understanding of the causal link between work and being paid), Prentiss McCabe relied for its survival on under-the-counter payments from Number Ten, conveyed via the agency's governmental handler Archie (Tony Gardner), in exchange for a variety of dirty deeds. This often led to complicated Yes Minister-style conflicts of interest -- especially when the team were also working on behalf of the Conservative Party... Among the more regular members of the variable supporting cast were Simon Greenall and Beth Chalmers; at least one episode in the series was written not by Tavener but by Mark Burton.

In The Red

2008-11-01T12:23:00.000-05:00

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A series which has attained an unusual position in BBC history. In its original form, In The Red was a novel based on author Mark Tavener’s experience of working for the Corporation and at the offices of the Liberal Party: a broadly comic thriller, it had a three-stranded plot involving a serial murderer working his way through London’s bank managers, a crisis for the tiny Reform Party in the shape of a by-election it might actually win, and the nefarious schemes of two BBC Radio controllers plotting to overthrow the director-general.

The seven-part radio version was the result of an adaptation by Tavener himself and the comedian Peter Baynham. The cast included Michael Williams as George Cragge, a seasoned, hard-drinking BBC crime correspondent of the old school who is contacted by the killer, and Barry Foster (star of Van der Valk in the 1970s) as the policeman leading the enquiry; Stephen Fry and John Bird played the radio controllers. A sequel along similar lines, In The Balance, went out on Radio 4 the following year.

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The Lord of the Rings

2008-11-01T07:31:00.000-05:00

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In 1981 the UK radio station BBC Radio 4 broadcast a dramatization of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in 26 half-hour stereo installments. The 26-part series was subsequently edited into 13 hour-long episodes, restoring some dialogue originally cut for timing (since each hour-long episode is actually around 57 minutes, as opposed to 54 minutes for two half-hour episodes with overlaps and extra credits removed), rearranging some scenes for dramatic impact and adding linking narration and music cues. It is the story of Frodo and Samwise, and their epic journey to destroy the evil master ring found by Bilbo so many years ago. A great cast that includes Ian Holm, Michael Hordern and John LeMeasurier. A magnificent BBC production.

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Innocent Graves (Inspector Alan Banks Series #8)

2008-10-31T22:39:00.000-05:00

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Detective Inspector Banks had seen crimes just as savage in London, but somehow the murder of a teenage girl seemed all the more shocking in the quiet Yorkshire village of Eastvale. Deborah Harrison had been found one foggy night in the churchyard behind St Mary's, strangled with the strap of her school satchel. But Deborah was no typical sixteen-year-old. Her father was a powerful financier who ran in the highest echelons of industry, defense and classified information.

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A Necessary End (Inspector Alan Banks Series #3)

2008-10-31T22:29:00.000-05:00

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Chief Inspector Alan Banks of Britain's Eastvale Regional Police reappears in another fluently written, superior mystery. In this third outing he plays good cop while Supt. Richard ("Dirty Dick") Burgess, a special investigator from London CID, plays bad cop in investigating the murder of a young constable sent to keep order at an anti-nuclear demonstration. "A full-blown riot in Eastvale, admittedly, on a small scale, was near unthinkable," Banks muses. It's a drowsy town of 14,000 that time has passed by, yet a murderer--one of the demonstrators--undeniably has struck with a flick-knife (switchblade). Dirty Dick, a notorious stud and heavy drinker, roars into town, convinced that Bolshies and terrorists have killed PCsic Gill. A user of terror tactics himself, he's intent on making a collar even if the evidence must be bent. He brushes off Banks's suggestions that the demonstration may have been used as cover for a grudge killing.

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Superman - Doomsday & Beyond

2008-10-30T06:02:00.000-05:00

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This thrilling full-cast original radio drama is based on the long-running comic strip. Whilst Daily Planet lovebirds Clark Kent and Lois Lane finally get engaged, the villainous Lex Luthor dies in a plane crash. Metropolis is thriving with prosperity and happiness under Superman’s care - or so it seems…Produced by Dirk Maggs, who directed the recent new episodes of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, this production is hugely acclaimed by fans.

Whilst Daily Planet lovebirds Clark Kent and Lois Lane finally get engaged, the villainous Lex Luthor dies in a plane crash. Metropolis is thriving with prosperity and happiness under Superman's care - or so it seems.

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Planet of the Apes

2008-06-15T22:22:00.000-05:00

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BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime" Series:
Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes
Read by Michael Maloney

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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

2008-04-13T08:14:00.000-05:00

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC or simply Clue, is a BBC radio comedy which has run since April 11, 1972. Since then, the programme has had several series each year, being broadcast on BBC Radio 4, BBC 7 and the BBC's World Service. The show, introduced as "the antidote to panel games", consists of a panel of four comedians, split into two teams and "given silly things to do" by a chairman.

The show was conceived as a parody of the then-ubiquitous radio panel game, and includes elements that satirise such shows, both on radio and television. The start of the 50th series of the show aired on Monday November 12, 2007 on BBC Radio 4 at 6.30pm.

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The Clitheroe Kid

2007-09-11T22:45:00.000-05:00

The Clitheroe Kid was a long-running BBC radio comedy show featuring diminutive comedian Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy who lived with his family at 33 Lilac Avenue. Jimmy's best friend was Ossie, alias Oswald Higginbottom, a character who was only heard of secondhand and didn't actually appear. The pilot series and 16 subsequent series equate to 289 episodes originally broadcast between July 1, 1957 and August 13, 1972. Apart from Clitheroe, the show's stars included Peter Sinclair playing Clitheroe's Scottish grandad, Patricia Burke as his mother (in the earliest shows the part was played by Renee Houston), and Diana Day as his long-suffering sister Susan (in the earliest shows the sister was played by Judith Chalmers). Danny Ross played Alfie Hall, Susan's daft, tongue-tied boyfriend who was often drawn into Jimmy's reckless schemes, never learning to steer clear of him. And Tony Melody played Mr Higginbottom, a six foot four inch taxi driver who constantly threatened to give Jimmy a good hiding for what he had done to Ossie. Horatio Higginbottom (the first name was very rarely used) was also grandad's drinking partner. Jimmy Clitheroe was 35 when he started playing the part in 1956, but he could pass as an 11-year-old boy because he had never grown physically beyond that age, though in later years his face gave his real age away. The series was made with a studio audience and there were frequent gales of laughter at Jimmy's schoolboy humour, as well as at Alfie Hall's mangling of the English language as he tries to explain something and makes it worse. Internet Archive

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Déjà Vu Audiobook by Ian Michael Hocking

2007-09-01T06:09:00.000-05:00

Ian Michael Hocking (born Truro, UK, November 6, 1976) is a British author who writes in the genres science fiction and techno-thriller. His debut novel, Déjà Vu, was published by The UKA Press in January 2005. The author released Déjà Vu as a free audiocast under a creative commons license between November 2005 and June 2006. Hocking's fiction often features explorations of identity and free will. He has a PhD in experimental psycholinguistics (on the influence of working memory on syntactic processing) from the University of Exeter and teaches psychological research methods at the UK's Open University.

Author's introduction

Here is the link to all the MP3s for the free audio book version of Déjà Vu.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth

2007-08-30T21:55:00.000-05:00

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the "Center of the Earth". This audio theater production is from BBC 1963. The story begins on Sunday 24 May 1863, in the Lidenbrock house in Hamburg, with Professor Lidenbrock rushing home to peruse his latest purchase, an original runic manuscript of an Icelandic saga written by Snorri Sturluson. While looking through the book, Lidenbrock and Axel find a coded note written in runic script. While looking through the book, Lidenbrock and Axel find.

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Journey Into Space

2007-08-30T21:45:00.000-05:00

Journey Into Space was a BBC Radio science fiction program, written by BBC producer Charles Chilton. Three series were produced, which have been translated into 17 languages and broadcast worldwide. In the UK it was the last radio program to attract a bigger evening audience than television. Internet Archive.

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Hancock's Half Hour

2007-08-30T21:37:00.001-05:00

Hancock's Half Hour was a ground-breaking and influential BBC radio comedy series of the 1950s, starring Tony Hancock, with Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. From 1956 it also became a television comedy series. The show was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and produced by Dennis Main Wilson, although, after Main-Wilson departed for his television career, this role was later taken by Tom Ronald. The distinctive tuba-based theme tune was composed by Wally Stott. Most radio episodes were recorded between one day and three weeks in advance, except in the case of Series 6 which was mostly recorded over a three-week period in June, 1959 to avoid clashing with the pre-recording of Series 5 of the television show. All of the regular cast members played "themselves", except Kenneth Williams (who played a series of unnamed characters referred to in the scripts -- but not on air -- as "Snide"); Alan Simpson (who played an unnamed man who would listen patiently to Hancock's long-winded stories); and Hattie Jacques (who played Hancock's secretary Griselda Pugh). Internet Archive

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The Men from the Ministry

2007-08-30T21:24:00.000-05:00

The Men from the Ministry was a British radio comedy series broadcast by the BBC between 1962 and 1977, and starring Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Murdoch and, from 1966, when he replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White, Deryck Guyler. Written by Edward Taylor with occasional contributions from John Graham and Ronald Baddiley, it ran for 14 series, totaling 147 half-hour episodes. A further 14 episodes were made by the BBC Transcription Service in 1980 but were never broadcast in the UK. Versions of the series were also made by YLE in Finland and Springbok Radio in South Africa. Internet Archive

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Dad's Army

2007-08-16T17:00:00.000-05:00

Dad's Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the Second World War, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The series starred several veterans of British film, television and stage, including Arthur Lowe (1915–82), John Le Mesurier (1912–83), Arnold Ridley (also a veteran playwright; 1896–1984), John Laurie (1897–1980) and Clive Dunn (b.1920). Relative youngsters in the regular cast were Ian Lavender (b.1946) and James Beck (1929–1973), the latter dying suddenly part way through the program's long run despite being one of the youngest cast members. Many TV episodes were remade for BBC Radio 4 with the original cast, although other actors played Walker after James Beck's death. These radio versions were adapted by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles and also starred John Snagge as a newsreader who would set the scene for each episode. Different actors were used for some of the minor parts; Mollie Sugden played the role of Mrs Fox and Pearl Hackney played the role of Mrs. Pike for example. Internet Archive

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Fear on Four

2007-08-03T07:21:00.001-05:00

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FEAR ON 4 is the British Broadcasting Corporation's continuation of a tradition of horror shows dating back to 1943. Back then, the BBC offered APPOINTMENT WITH FEAR, the title given to ten series of programs running from 1943 to 1955. The Man in Black returned to radio again in 1988, this time played by Edward de Souza. FEAR ON 4, airing on BBC Radio Four, continued in the tradition of its predecessors. Four series were produced from 1988 through 1993 with a fifth series in 1997.

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John Steinbeck - The Grapes Of Wrath (BBC)

2007-07-31T12:55:00.000-05:00

The Grapes of Wrath is a classic novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel and the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes. A celebrated Hollywood film version was made in 1940, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, however, the endings differ greatly. Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath at his home, 16250 Greenwood Lane, in what is now Monte Sereno, California. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry. In a nearly hopeless situation, they set out for California along with thousands of other "Okies" in search of land, jobs, and dignity. The novel is meant to emphasize the need for cooperative, as opposed to individualistic, solutions to social problems brought about by the mechanization of agriculture and the Dust Bowl drought. (From Boxcars711 Podcast)

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Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot

2007-07-29T18:55:00.000-05:00

Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters and has appeared in 39 novels and 50 short stories. Poirot has been portrayed on screen, for films and TV, by various actors including Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and, most recently, and famously, David Suchet.Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 — 12 January 1976), also known as Dame Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is chiefly remembered for her 66 detective novels.

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