Brian Thompson has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators. The most-rated is The Captain's Table.
Trueman and Riley
Summary
First broadcast as Trueman, the pilot episode centres around a student found shot dead. 'Angel Heights' sees Trueman and Riley reexamining the death of a jockey, while in 'The Road to Hull', two brothers claim to have given up their life of crime, but then a corpse turns up. In 'High Windows', a film crew making a biopic of Philip Larkin is plagued by pranks. Renamed Trueman and Riley, Series 1 opens with the detectives relocated from Hull to Leeds, where they probe a man’s disappearance in 'Vanished'. In 'Story', a journalist falls from a building. The duo search for a stolen ring in 'Bond' and in 'Speed', Riley is on the trail of a familiar ex-con. In Series 2’s 'The Road to Nowhere', the pair investigate a burglary upsurge. The near-drowning of an ex-student leads to the unearthing of an old secret in 'The Three Degrees', and a male midwife is suspected of stealing from pregnant women in 'A Man’s World'. Passions run high after an arson attack in 'The Other Chic', and the duo is sucked into the world of online role-playing in 'Love Bytes'. Series 3’s 'Every Dog Has His Day' sees the detectives getting a murder case - only it’s a dog. In 'Angel Delight', they look into a robbery, and in 'Family Business', they investigate a man who goes missing with £98,000 of bookie’s winnings. An environmental activist is knocked off his bike in 'Green Machine', and in 'Home Truths', Trueman and Riley’s investigative skills are challenged by a 14-year-old. Written by BAFTA-winning dramatist Brian B. Thompson, this smart, entertaining crime drama stars Robert Daws as Trueman and Duncan Preston as Riley. Written by Brian B. Thompson. Produced and directed by Toby Swift and Jenny Stevens. Trueman Pilot: Prof Creighton - Richard Lintern, Amy - Katy Cavanagh, Alison Knight - Polly Hemingway, Psychologist - Sandra Clark. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 17 April 2002. 'Angel Heights': Sir James Huntley - Michael Cochrane, Helen Turner - Sammy Dobson, Keith Fletcher - Gerard McDermott. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 15 July 2005. 'The Road to Hull': Frank Stuart - Henry Goodman, Terry Stuart - Harry Myers, Annabelle - Jo Theaker. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 22 July 2005. 'High Windows': Jimmy McEwan - Gerard Kelly, Kate Saunders - Susan Penhaligon, Phoebe Beresford - Naomi Kerbel. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 29 July 2005. Trueman and Riley 'Vanished': Janie Tully - Amy Robbins, Nick Tully - John Dougal, Barmaid - Rachel Bavidge. First broadcast on BBC Radio 7, 8 January 2008. 'Story': David - Anthony Glennon, Harriet - Jasmine Callan, Aaron - Paul Richard Biggin. First broadcast on BBC Radio 7, 9 January 2008. 'Bond': Karen - Rachel Bavidge, Bill - Paul Rider, Gerard - Mark Straker, Jane - Christine Kavanagh, Receptionist - Anthony Glennon. First broadcast on BBC Radio 7, 10 January 2008. 'Speed': Frank Butters - Sam Dale, Melanie - Christine Kavanagh, Eric Simonelli - John Dougal, Inez - Miranda Keeling, Svetlana - Jasmine Callan. First broadcast on BBC Radio 7, 11 January 2008. 'The Road to Nowhere': With Laura Molyneux, Hannah Storey, Malcolm Tierney, Benjamin Askew and Matt Addis. First broadcast BBC Radio 7, 16 March 2009. 'The Three Degrees': With Jonathan Tafler, Caroline Guthrie and Paul Rider. First broadcast BBC Radio 7, 17 March 2009. 'A Man’s World': With Benjamin Askew, Caroline Guthrie, Lizzy Watts, Stephen Critchlow, Janice Acquah and Stephen Hogan. First broadcast BBC Radio 7, 18 March 2009. 'The Other Chic': With Melanie Kilburn and Philip Fox. First broadcast BBC Radio 7, 19 March 2009. 'Love Bytes': With Rebecca Manley, Matt Addis, Malcolm Tierney, Stephen Critchlow, Benjamin Askew, Jonathan Tafler, Lizzy Watts and Paul Rider. First broadcast BBC Radio 7, 20 March 2009. 'Every Dog Has His Day': Sally - Katherine Dow, Blyton Brandon - Harry Livingstone, Patrick Makin - Gerard McDermott, Track Announcer - James Lailey. First broadcast BBC Radio 4 Extra, 26 March 2012. 'Angel Delight': Angel - Tracy Wiles, David Farr - Peter Hamilton Dyer, Martin Beer - Don Gilet, Ophelia Nuts - Susie Riddell, Cafe Owner - Harry Livingstone. First broadcast BBC Radio 4 Extra, 27 March 2012. 'Family Business': Bill - Gerard McDermott, Charlie - David Hargreaves, Dermot - James Lailey, Sandra - Christine Absalom, Waitress - Tracy Wiles. First broadcast BBC Radio 4 Extra, 28 March 2012. 'Green Machine': Terry - Don Gilet, Jenny - Susie Riddell, Tyler - Tom Meredith, Mr Eagle - James Lailey, Woman - Christine Absalom. First broadcast BBC Radio 4 Extra, 29 March 2012. 'Home Truths': Sue Stokes - Lorraine Ashbourne, Becki - Holly Matthews, PC - Harry Livingstone. First broadcast BBC Radio 4 Extra, 30 March 2012.
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The Nuclear Winter
Summary
Eighth-grader Lucy Sandoval has no hope of reaching high school. Blindsided by a terminal cancer diagnosis, she resolves to spend her last moments with the father she never knew. But he disappeared years ago, and Lucy’s mother is tight-lipped about him and their shared past beyond his vague whereabouts. With no help and little to no leads, Lucy’s loses faith, when tragedy strikes and brings her cross-country flight down mid-air. But she and her mother miraculously survive. Following a firefight with mercenaries, her mother takes down barehanded. Lucy is forced to confront a lifetime’s worth of questions, lies, and betrayal plus master an explosive newfound power all her own. Then, in a new world she barely understands, Lucy must fight death at every turn to stop a rising threat and cataclysmic, planet-altering destruction - no matter how much time she has left. The Nuclear Winter: A Reject High Legacy Novel is a thrilling hero’s journey where a young girl comes of age by learning to master the mysterious potential she finds within herself.
©2019 Brian Thompson (P)2021 Brian Thompson
The Captain's Table
Summary
London, 1875. At Lady Cornford’s famous soiree (sugared almonds and tittle-tattle), everyone is gossiping about Henry Ellis Margam’s latest hit, The Widow’s Secret. Only a few people know that one of Lady C’s guests, the enigmatic Bella Wallis, is in fact the best-selling novelist. Bella punishes evil-doers by exposing them as thinly disguised characters in the books she writes under her male pseudonym. Armed with her pen, the handsome Miss Wallis surrounds herself with useful men: the dashing Philip Westland, possibly a government spy; Captain Quigley, Bella's fixer; and his shady assistant, Murch, who can always crack a bone or two when someone needs persuading. Westland comes to Bella with a problem: his best friend, Kennett, is smitten by the heiress Miss Mary Skillane. But Mary’s father, Sir William is ‘an old fraud with a beautiful daughter’ and she has been promised to Robert Judd, a vulgar treasure seeker. Mary is due to inherit the Skillane pearls, currently residing in a red lacquer box in a Cornish bank vault. But the pearls it seems were ill-gotten, and as Bella and her band uncover more of the strange business, a new Henry Ellis Margam novel looks set to be written, if Bella can first side-step her own affairs of the heart, and evade a brutal threat to her life....
©2009 Brian Thompson (P)2010 Random House Audiobooks