Peter Jukes has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 17 narrators. The most-rated is Arabian Afternoons: A Dish of Pomegranates.
Day Release: The Complete Series 1 and 2
Summary
A moment of reprieve. Nobody knows you. No one owns you. You're on day release.
Lenny Henry plays double murderer Frank Watt, who is getting ready to face life on the outside after 30 years in prison. He's looking forward to getting out, but things have changed a lot since the '80s, and he's institutionalised. He quite likes his bookish, monklike life inside, and the anger he was boiling over with when he went to prison is down to a manageable simmer.
Outside, life is full on. Plus, Frank's got some old business to sort.
Playwright and journalist Peter Jukes is best known for his book about the hacking trial, Beyond Contempt (which he also dramatised for Radio 4), and more recently for his award-winning podcast and subsequent book Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder Uncovered.
Sir Lenny Henry is an award-winning actor and playwright and one of Britain's best known comedians.
Directed by Mary Peate.
©2018 Peter Jukes (P)2018 BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
Beyond Contempt: The Inside Story of the Phone Hacking Trial
Summary
You know all about the phone hacking trial, don't you? Rebekah Brooks was acquitted, and Andy Coulson went to jail. But why? Why was Brooks, the public face of the phone hacking scandal, found not guilty on all charges? Why did Coulson's expensive defense frustrate reporters? What impact did Rupert Murdoch's millions have on the trial? And why did the jurors reach the decisions they did? Blow-by-blow: Crown v. Rebekah Brooks & Others Peter Jukes, an award-winning TV crime writer, starts at the beginning: October 2013 and the Old Bailey is gearing up for an eight-month courtroom clash. It's a showdown that will pit tabloid newspaper executives in Rupert Murdoch's News International against the British state. The journalists are accused of phone hacking, corrupting public officials, and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. After years of cover up involving News International, the Metropolitan Police, and the government, the judge tells the jury, "British justice is on trial." Insight into British journalism and politics After tweeting the first few days of the case, Jukes runs out of money - and accidentally becomes the UK's first crowd-funded journalist. New media exposes the old as the trial lays bare the venality and surveillance of the news of the world: its ability to pry into the lives of anyone who matters, at any moment: a Hollywood actress, a missing girl, a cabinet minister. It's also a battle.
©2014 Peter Jukes (P)2015 Peter Jukes
A Domestic
Summary
A family cleaner sees and hears everything, from the pill packet that signals that her employers are no longer trying for another child, to that unfamiliar earring in the marital bed that signals something altogether more worrying. In this five-part drama, two successful people, prosperous and happily married, pay little attention to their Polish domestic. Perhaps they should.... The Andersons seem to have a perfect marriage. Both lawyers, they have a lot in common, and laugh riotously at the antics their warring clients get up to. As well as being good friends, they are caring parents. Then one morning their cleaner, Mariola finds an earring in the marital bed. She looks closer. It belongs to Elena, the nanny. Peter Jukes' domestic thriller series stars Lydia Leonard, Neil Stuke and Clare Lawrence-Moody. Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
©2013 AudioGO Ltd (P)2013 AudioGO Ltd
Arabian Afternoons: A Dish of Pomegranates
Summary
Written by Rachel Joyce. A wild, dark modern fairytale, set in Damascus. The second in a series of contemporary plays inspired by stories from the Arabian Nights. It is time for Shahrazad to tell another tale to save her life. In this story within a story, we find out that if Joe doesn't find the exclusive to satisfy his ruthless editor, he will lose his job. He finds three beautiful women in Damascus but what is the truth behind their secret life? The second in a series of contemporary plays inspired by stories from the Arabian Nights. Starring Sirine Saba, Kevork Malikyan, William El-Gardi, Betsabeh Emran, Zubin Varla, Allan Corduner, Keely Beresford, Stefan Kalipha, Mozaffar Shafeie, David Seddon, and Rufus Wright. Directed by Tracey Neale.
©2012 Peter Jukes (P)2012 AudioGO Ltd