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My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters

A BBC Radio 4 adaptation

by Chris Barker, Bessie Moore ...

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, Louise Brealey, Jane Slavin ...

Abridged

44 min

Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey read a love story in letters, played out against the backdrop of the Second World War.‘Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me.’A small blue box opened in 2008 revealed a wartime world of love, longing and frustration. Inside ... Read more

$12.08 USD

Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey read a love story in letters, played out against the backdrop of the Second World War.‘Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me.’A small blue box opened in 2008 revealed a wartime world of love, longing and frustration. Inside
... Read more
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Michael Frayn: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

Nine Full-Cast Productions including Copenhagen

by Michael Frayn ...

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, Greta Scacchi, Simon Russell Beale, Dawn French, Samuel West, Dinsdale Landen, Penelope Wilton, Martin Jarvis, Harriet Walters, Deborah Findley ...

Unabridged

13 hours 8 min

Original plays and dramatisations from the award-winning novelist and playwright, plus bonus documentary Viewing the Century: Michael FraynA renowned playwright, novelist, journalist, memoirist and translator, Michael Frayn has had a varied and prolific literary career spannning over seven decades. His play Noises Off was one of the 20th century’s most beloved and successful plays, and he has been ... Read more

$18.79 USD

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Original plays and dramatisations from the award-winning novelist and playwright, plus bonus documentary Viewing the Century: Michael FraynA renowned playwright, novelist, journalist, memoirist and translator, Michael Frayn has had a varied and prolific literary career spannning over seven decades. His play Noises Off was one of the 20th century’s most beloved and successful plays, and he has been
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Louis Wain's Cats

by Chris Beetles ...

‘Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world’. Broadcast in 1925 by H.G. Wells, these words characteristically foretold the future of the Wain cat which has, once more, become the century’s most recognisable image in cat art. During their heyday, in the time before the First World War, Louis Wain’s cats, dressed as humans, portrayed that stylish Edwardian world having fun: at ... Read more

$20.89 USD

‘Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world’. Broadcast in 1925 by H.G. Wells, these words characteristically foretold the future of the Wain cat which has, once more, become the century’s most recognisable image in cat art. During their heyday, in the time before the First World War, Louis Wain’s cats, dressed as humans, portrayed that stylish Edwardian world having fun: at
... Read more
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The Order of Time

by Carlo Rovelli ...

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch ...

Unabridged

4 hours 19 min

One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade"Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time.Why do we remember the past and not the future? What d... ... Read more

$16.00 USD

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One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade"Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time.Why do we remember the past and not the future? What d...
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Sherlock Holmes' Rediscovered Railway Mysteries

Four original short stories

by John Taylor ...

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch ...

Unabridged

2 hours 3 min

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor'An Inscrutable Masquerade'/ 'The Conundrum of Coach 13'/ 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny'/ 'The 10.59 Assassin'Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new ... Read more

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Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor'An Inscrutable Masquerade'/ 'The Conundrum of Coach 13'/ 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny'/ 'The 10.59 Assassin'Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new
... Read more
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Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 1

A full-cast BBC Radio Comedy

by John Finnemore ...

Narrated by John Finnemore, Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast, Roger Allam, Stephanie Cole ...

Unabridged

2 hours 48 min

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether flying actresses to Italy, cricketers to the Sahara, or a cat to Abu Dhabi, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN Air's formidable boss, has employed two of the very ... Read more

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Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether flying actresses to Italy, cricketers to the Sahara, or a cat to Abu Dhabi, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN Air's formidable boss, has employed two of the very
... Read more
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Metamorphosis

A BBC Radio 4 reading

by Franz Kafka ...

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch ...

Abridged

1 hour 38 min

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafka's famous story of man-turned-insect, MetamorphosisWinner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2018After a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a huge, monstrous, cockroach-like creature, with an armour-plated back and multiple limbs.Gradually, he comes to terms with his new state - but his parents and sister are ... Read more

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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafka's famous story of man-turned-insect, MetamorphosisWinner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2018After a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a huge, monstrous, cockroach-like creature, with an armour-plated back and multiple limbs.Gradually, he comes to terms with his new state - but his parents and sister are
... Read more
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Double Blind

A Novel

by Edward St. Aubyn ...

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

***"*In his remarkable performance of Edward St. Aubyn's newest novel, stage and screen actor Benedict Cumberbatch proves yet again that he is a master of pacing and characterization...When not delivering a silky, warm, and beautifully enunciated narration, Cumberbatch subsumes himself into a multiplicity of male and female roles." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winnerDouble Blind follows ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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***"*In his remarkable performance of Edward St. Aubyn's newest novel, stage and screen actor Benedict Cumberbatch proves yet again that he is a master of pacing and characterization...When not delivering a silky, warm, and beautifully enunciated narration, Cumberbatch subsumes himself into a multiplicity of male and female roles." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winnerDouble Blind follows
... Read more

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Walk With Me in Sound

A Mindfulness Soundscape with Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh

by Marc Francis, Matt Coldrick, Thich Nhat Hanh ...

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch ...

Unabridged

1 hour 41 min

Slow down and breathe.Enter the ultimate meditative listening experience, inspired by the teachings of Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.Based on the major documentary Walk With Me, this soundscape features narration from Benedict Cumberbatch, with an introduction by Marc J. Francis, the codirector of the award-winning film.From monastic chants to mindfulness bells and the sounds of nature, ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Slow down and breathe.Enter the ultimate meditative listening experience, inspired by the teachings of Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.Based on the major documentary Walk With Me, this soundscape features narration from Benedict Cumberbatch, with an introduction by Marc J. Francis, the codirector of the award-winning film.From monastic chants to mindfulness bells and the sounds of nature,
... Read more
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Parallel Lines

A Novel

by Edward St. Aubyn ...

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch ...

Unabridged

7 hours 34 min

From the bestselling and award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose novels, a hilarious and moving story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked—a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss, written with St. Aubyn’s trademark wit and inimitable styleIt’s the summer, and Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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From the bestselling and award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose novels, a hilarious and moving story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked—a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss, written with St. Aubyn’s trademark wit and inimitable styleIt’s the summer, and Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has
... Read more

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Neverwhere

A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation

by Neil Gaiman ...

Narrated by Anthony Head, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, David Harewood, David Schofield, Full Cast, James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, Sophie Okonedo ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Neil Gaiman Full-Cast Radio Adaptations
Unabridged

3 hours 48 min

Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere... An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into the strange world of London Below. There he meets the Earl of Earl's Court, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with the ... Read more

$18.79 USD

Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere... An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into the strange world of London Below. There he meets the Earl of Earl's Court, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with the
... Read more
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Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 3

A full-cast BBC Radio Comedy

by John Finnemore ...

Narrated by John Finnemore, Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast, Roger Allam, Stephanie Cole ...

Unabridged

2 hours 48 min

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether hunting for polar bears or a cleverly-hidden lemon, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. And then there are the otters...Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN Air's formidable boss, has employed two of the ... Read more

$18.79 USD

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether hunting for polar bears or a cleverly-hidden lemon, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. And then there are the otters...Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN Air's formidable boss, has employed two of the
... Read more