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The Thursday Murder Club

By: Richard Osman

Narrated by: Lesley Manville

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture

The first installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, also author of We Solve Murders

Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves
A female cop with her first big case
A brutal murder
Welcome to...
THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB

In a peaceful retirement village, four... Read more

The Man Who Died Twice

By: Richard Osman

Narrated by: Lesley Manville

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The second installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, also author of We Solve Murders

“It’s taken a mere two books for Richard Osman to vault into the upper leagues of crime writers. . . The Man Who Died Twice. . . dives right into joyous fun."
—The New York Times Book Review

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and... Read more

Moonflower Murders

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: Lesley Manville & Allan Corduner

Length: 18 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated by Lesley ManvilleNew York Times Bestseller  1�7 Soon to be a MASTERPIECE mystery series on PBS!Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz brings back his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of Magpie Murders, in an inventive, labyrinthine story that is “catnip for classic mystery lovers 1�7 (Time magazine).Retired... Read more

The Thursday Murder Club

By: Richard Osman

Narrated by: Lesley Manville, Richard Osman & Marian Keyes

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

THE FIRST BOOK IN THE #1 BESTSELLING, MULTI MILLION COPY SELLING SERIES BY TV PRESENTER RICHARD OSMAN.

Read by Lesley Manville, soon-to-be star of The Crown. Featuring an exclusive Q&A between Richard Osman and Marian Keyes.

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to... Read more

The Man Who Died Twice

By: Richard Osman

Narrated by: Lesley Manville

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN.

Narrated by Lesley Manville, soon-to-be star of The Crown, and featuring an exclusive interview between Richard Osman and Lesley Manville.

It's the following Thursday.

Elizabeth has received a... Read more

Moonflower Murders

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: Lesley Manville & Allan Corduner

Length: 18 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin

Now a major BBC series starring Lesley Manville

Featuring his famous literary Detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide best seller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly brain-teasing literary thriller by Anthony Horowitz. The follow-up to Magpie Murders.

Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good... Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, Jay Bernard, Lesle...

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Lesley Manville (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and known for Phantom Thread and Mum), Derek Jacobi (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and known for Gladiator and Gosford Park), Michael Balogun (known for National Theatre Live: Macbeth), Jay... Read more

But If You Try Sometimes

By: Sarah Daniels

Narrated by: Alex Tregear, Amy Golden, Jelena Budimir & Lesl...

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Chloe has cerebral palsy and is certain she will lose her adored carer Rose, when Rose falls for an apparently perfect man. First broadcast in BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Drama slot. Starring Lesley Manville as Rose, Amy Golden as Chloe, Alex Tregear as Chloe's voice and Jelena Budimir as Alex. Written by Sarah Daniels. Director: Sally Avens. Read more

Caryl Churchill: Top Girls, The Skriker, Serious Money, A Number and more

By: Caryl Churchill

Narrated by: Prunella Scales, Michael Gambon, Daniel Craig, ...

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of dramatisations and original radio plays by the award-winning playwright - plus bonus documentary

Caryl Churchill is one of Britain's most innovative and influential dramatists. Versatile and prolific, she has written over 50 plays for stage and screen and is renowned for her revolutionary theatrical techniques and themes of... Read more

War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Full Cast, Harriet Walter, John Hurt, Lesley Ma...

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the stellar cast of this landmark BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Leo Tolstoy’s epic saga.

‘Tolstoy’s imagined world is recreated on air brilliantly by the extraordinary cast 1�7 The Spectator

One of the greatest novels of all time, War and Peace explores historical, social,... Read more

All Those Women: The Complete Series 1-4

By: Katherine Jakeways

Narrated by: Lesley Manville, Lucy Hutchinson, Marcia Warren...

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Starring Sheila Hancock (Series 1) and Marcia Warren (Series 2-4) as Hetty, All Those Women is a comedy series about four women living under the same roof.

All Those Women explores familial relationships, ageing, marriages - it's about life and love and things not turning out quite the way that you'd expected them to. Here we join Hetty, Maggie,... Read more

Henrik Ibsen: Nine full-cast BBC radio dramatisations

By: Henrik Ibsen

Narrated by: David Threlfall, Full Cast, Harriet Walter, Hel...

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Often described as 'the father of realism', Henrik Ibsen was a pioneer of modernist drama. He influenced playwrights as diverse as George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, and is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.

Included in this collection are adaptations of his tragicomic masterpiece The Wild Duck, his complex... Read more

Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful: The Complete Series 1-3

By: Guy Jenkin

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, Miriam Margolyes, Imelda Staunto...

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Jarvis stars in this BBC radio satire set in the competitive world of advertising

Happiness... is a career in advertising. Or is it? Activist turned ad writer Ken Handley isn't so sure. Back in the day, he used to hitch-hike and attend peace protests. Now, he finds himself writing copy for the Conservative Party and extolling the virtues... Read more