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A Bit of Fry & Laurie
- The BBC TV Soundtracks
- By: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
- Narrated by: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story5 out of 5 stars 73
In this classic TV soundtrack, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie explore a seemingly inexhaustible list of subjects with a delicious turn of phrase and elaborate wordplay. The hilarity includes regular acts such as not so super spy Tony Mercheson and his boss Control, yuppies, John and Peter and the critics. With four brilliant series of great satire, comic genius and hilarious use of language, the show cemented Fry & Laurie as a double act and paved the way for their future stardom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So funny!
- By John Venn on 22-04-21
- A Bit of Fry & Laurie
- The BBC TV Soundtracks
- By: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
- Narrated by: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
Love it
Reviewed: 22-02-23
Two legends being very funny. Odd visual joke doesn’t work but 99% is fine in audio format.
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Manhunt
- Hunting Britain's Most Wanted Murderer
- By: Peter Bleksley
- Narrated by: Peter Bleksley
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 515
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 457
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 456
In June 2004, 16-year-old Liam Kelly was lured to a location in Liverpool in the early hours of one morning and shot dead. The following year, another Liverpudlian, 22-year-old mother of three Lucy Hargreaves, was shot dead in her own home. Her partner and their two-year-old daughter escaped after the house was set alight by leaping from a first-floor bedroom window.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Autobiography
- By steve v on 06-08-21
- Manhunt
- Hunting Britain's Most Wanted Murderer
- By: Peter Bleksley
- Narrated by: Peter Bleksley
Awful
Reviewed: 18-02-23
Story pretty dull but made so much worse but the reader/author. His voice is a grating, 40 fags a day, London accent. Worse, he reads like a teenager in school, with zero feeling or emphasis
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Ep. 3: Prison Warden
- By: Steve Nelson
- Narrated by: Marek Larwood, Vicki Pepperdine
- Length: 30 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4 out of 5 stars 60
Sent to prison for a job to which he will not commit, Warren turns up to work as a prison warden but immediately falls for the oldest trick in the book, swaps places with an inmate, and runs in to an old acquaintance. But will prison life treat him as badly as Aimee warns him it will?
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5 out of 5 stars
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HILARIOUS
- By Amazon Customer on 04-02-19
- Ep. 3: Prison Warden
- By: Steve Nelson
- Narrated by: Marek Larwood, Vicki Pepperdine
Just perfect
Reviewed: 05-04-22
I loved it but I wonder who had the voice as warrens prison friend? He was my favourite person in it. But yeah just hilarious and just overall great!
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The Gestapo
- The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police
- By: Frank McDonough
- Narrated by: Paul McGann
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 198
Professor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars and most popular writers on the history of Nazi Germany. His work has been described as 'modern history writing at its very best...Ground-breaking, fascinating, occasionally deeply revisionist' by renowned historian Andrew Roberts. Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this audiobook relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Reasonable But Bias Narrative
- By Adrian Chan-Wyles Ph.D on 20-12-20
- The Gestapo
- The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police
- By: Frank McDonough
- Narrated by: Paul McGann
Disappointed
Reviewed: 07-08-21
Nothing new here. Very disappointed as I am a fan. Is it just the market is saturated?
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Bedlam
- By: Christopher Brookmyre
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 213
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 196
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Story4 out of 5 stars 194
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter a video game? A realm where you can look like a hero or a goddess, fly space-ships, slay dragons, a realm where there are no consequences and no responsibilities. Or would it be your worst nightmare? Stuck in an endless state of war and chaos where not even death can offer an escape…This is where you find out. This is Bedlam.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Is CB going to give us more of this ?
- By Mark on 30-07-13
- Bedlam
- By: Christopher Brookmyre
- Narrated by: Angus King
Awful
Reviewed: 29-11-14
What disappointed you about Bedlam?
I loved Brookmyre when he started out, Quite Ugly One Morning was refreshingly brilliant. Unfortunately he has got progressively more disappointing, dipping to a new low with this completely boring drivel
What was most disappointing about Christopher Brookmyre’s story?
The characters are people I could not care less about. The humour is non-existent. The twist? I gave up well before it was likely to happen.
What didn’t you like about Angus King’s performance?
I thought the performance was ok but crying out for David Tennant to do it with some panache
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Bedlam?
Most of them.
Any additional comments?
Brookmyre has one last chance with me. Please return to former glories!!
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