BBC Audiobooks has 12 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 28 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 17 ratings. The most-rated is The Chrysalids & Survival.
The Chrysalids & Survival
Summary
Here's a double bill of John Wyndham stories adapted for radio.
Adapted by Barbara Clegg in 1982, The Chrysalids concerns the community of Waknut, where it is believed that mutants are the products of the Devil and must be stamped out. When 10-year-old David befriends a girl with a slight abnormality, he begins to understand the nature of fear and oppression. Then, when he develops his own deviation, he must learn to conceal his secret.
Survival is based on a short story and was produced for a 1990's Fear on Four revival. Set in the future, it concerns the first auto-piloted space flight. When the ship meets with an accident, the human passengers are cast adrift in space. What will they do when their food supplies run out?
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Doctor Who
Summary
Exterminate! Everything you wanted to know about the Daleks, but were too afraid to ask. The Daleks have a long and terrible history of aggression, and are among the most feared of all science-fiction baddies. Ruthless, cunning, and utterly evil, they have no pity, no fear, and will stop at nothing to destroy all other forms of life. Now Nicholas Briggs, the voice of the Daleks in the new BBC One
Doctor Who TV series, goes deep underground to a deserted base in the Utah Desert to unearth the truth about the most nightmarish creatures in the universe. Packed with extracts from the Daleks' many TV appearances,
The Dalek Conquests finds out where they come from, why they are bent on universal domination, and what part they played in the Time Wars. Above all, it explores their epic struggles with their nemesis, the Time Lord known as the Doctor. Featuring clips from such classic stories as "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", "Day of the Daleks", "The Planet of the Daleks", "Genesis of the Daleks", and the 2005 episodes, "Dalek" and "The Parting of the Ways", this is essential listening for Dalek fans, and foes, new and old.
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The 99p Challenge
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It's back: the Radio 4 panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats, or gardening, just funny rounds with funny ideas. Written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley, who won a BAFTA award for writing Robbie the Reindeer for Aardman Animations, the show is hosted by the glorious Sue Perkins (of Mel & Sue fame). The regulars are Simon Pegg (of Spaced and Big Train), Armando Iannucci (On the Hour and I'm Alan Partridge) and Peter Baynham (writer/performer of Blue Jam, Channel 4's Brass Eye and Steve Coogan's I'm Alan Partridge). Other guests across the series include Peter Serafinowicz (star of World of Pub and Simon Nye's How Do You Want Me?); fast-rising star of Spaced Nick Frost; banned Xfm DJ Tom Binns, star of BBC1's The Savages; Marcus Brigstocke; and writer/performer David Quantick (whose show Junkies is the first-ever sitcom premiered on the Net). The producer is David Tyler, whose radio credits include Radio Active, Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, and The Very World of Milton Jones, and whose TV credits include Spitting Image, Pauline Calf's Three Fights Two Weddings & A Funeral, Absolutely and Coogans Run. The show is a Pozzitive Television production, whose most recent TV credit is Victoria Wood's much-acclaimed sitcom Dinnerladies. Contains all six episodes.
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King Stupid
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King Stupid is a new Radio Four panel game in which four panellists are funny. It's not the News, sport, adverts, other panel games, or anything!
It has a chairman called William Vandyck; he's a writer performer and also a barrister, but he's got more hair than Clive Anderson. He's funny. It's written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley, who are two extremely original and fresh writers who, amongst their many writing credits, have contributed some of the best stuff to Friday Night Armistice. They're funny. Amongst the regular panellists are Peter Baynham, Sue Perkins, Simon Pegg, and Dave Green.
The show is produced by David Tyler for Pozzitive, the people who bought you Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation and The Very World Of Milton Jones. King Stupid: the show that likes to dumb up. This download contains all six episodes.
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50 Favourite Nursery Rhymes
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A classic BBC compilation of nursery rhymes, with light-hearted commentary from two BBC presenters.
In this popular collection, actors Andrew Branch and Anne Rosenfeld perform over 50 fantastic nursery rhymes, from familiar favourites to lesser-known gems, speaking the rhymes aloud and chatting about their meanings. As they listen, children are encouraged to think about and appreciate the words, increasing their communication skills as they join in and play.
Among the favourites included are: Humpty Dumpty; Sing a Song of Sixpence; Hickory Dickory Dock; Hey Diddle Diddle; Little Jack Horner; Polly Put the Kettle On; Mary Mary Quite Contrary; Doctor Foster Went to Gloucester; Baa Baa Black Sheep; Little Miss Muffet; Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat; Goosey Goosey Gander; The Queen of Hearts; Boys and Girls Come Out to Play; Oranges and Lemons; Wee Willie Winkie; The House That Jack Built and Little Bo Peep.
This unique collection brings to life traditional nursery rhymes with music and sound effects to thrill a new generation, and is ideal for preschool children who can listen and follow along.
Public Domain (P)2004 BBC Audiobooks LTD
The Very World of Milton Jones
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Milton Jones, Milton Jones, so good they named him. The third brand-spanking-new series of the grotesquely successful radio series returns to your dials. Series 1 was moved up from 11.30 pm to 6.30 pm after only one week, and won a British Comedy award nomination. Series 2 won a Sony Award. Series 3, who knows? All we can say is that the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton" is back with a fully working cast and a shipload of new jokes.
The cast includes Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong & Miller); Melanie Hudson (I'm Alan Partridge, Do Go On); Morwenna Banks (Absolutely); Dave Lamb (Cheeseshop, Goodness Gracious Me); and Joanna Scanlan (Channel 4's Coming Soon).
Contains all six episodes.
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The Very World of Milton Jones
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In 1998, BBC Radio 4 found it had a new star on its hands. From the opening monologue ("You see when the boys in the playground found out that I had a potentially fatal allergy to peanuts, they used to shove me up against a wall and make me play Russian roulette with a bag of Revels") to the closing number ("Milton Jones, Milton Jones, so good they named him"), everything about the show was different, weird, and funny. The first series was - unprecedentedly - moved from an 11.30 pm slot to the prestigious 6.30 pm Monday slot in mid-series, and won a British Comedy Award nomination. The second series starts transmitting in October. We urge you to come and share the sound, the sight, the smell, (but not the taste) of the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton".
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
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Mornington Crescent is a game whose rules and history are shrouded in myth and mystery. Now, in this extended version of a spoof documentary first aired on BBC Radio 4, the research team from
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue shine a light in the dark. As if that wasn't enough, Humphrey Lyttelton, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Barry Cryer also provide readings from two learned books on the subject:
The Little Book of Mornington Crescent and
Stovold's Mornington Crescent Almanac. From Roman times to Chaucer and beyond, Mornington Crescent has become a legend in its own tube stop. Now, at last, its true history can be told.
©2007 BBC Audiobooks Ltd (P)2007 BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Reading Between The Lines
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Bath-based BBC Audiobooks hosted a sell-out event for the Bath Literature Festival. Reading Between the Lines: From Page to Production featured Rula Lenska, Lynne Truss, Sir Derek Jacobi, and Lorelei King in an entertaining and lively discussion about the art of the audiobook. They were joined by Sunday Times audio critic Karen Robinson, BBC Audiobooks' Publishing Director Jan Paterson, and Senior Producer Kate Thomas.The panel discussed all aspects of what makes a good audiobook. Topics debated ranged from casting, production, recording, accents, pronunciation, translation, and editing. Rula Lenska, Sir Derek Jacobi, and Lorelei King are all highly respected readers having recorded numerous titles for BBC Audiobooks and other publishers. Lynne Truss appears in the audiobook versions of her two best sellers Eats, Shoots and Leaves and Talk to the Hand.
©2006 BBC Audiobooks LTD (P)2006 BBC Audiobooks LTD
I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again: Volume Five
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Due to popular demand, and after a long break, here is a fifth volume of episodes from the irreverent radio comedy series that ran between 1964 and 1973.
Starring John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, and Bill Oddie, ISIRTA is a mix of quick-fire sketches, bad puns, humorous songs, and TV and cinema parodies. It quickly developed a cult following, and was the forerunner of The Goodies and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
©2007 BBC Audiobooks LTD (P)2007 BBC Audiobooks LTD
Sleeping Beauty
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With music, sound effects, and all the expertise of the BBC, these 10 traditional fairy tales are bought magically to life. Included are "Sleeping Beauty", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Hansel and Gretel", and "Little Red Riding Hood".
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Volume 10
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Yes, it's time for another helping of the antidote to panel games, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, featuring inspired nonsense and pointless revelry. Here are four compilations from the hugely popular and award-winning BBC Radio 4 series.
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