Pippa Haywood has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors. The most-rated is Forest 404.
Beasts on the Lawn
Summary
Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short stories by Saki (H. H. Munro) recycled and restaged in a modern-day gated community for the far-too-wealthy-for-their-own-good. The tales are woven together by the character of Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange days and long nights. The five stories are: "Tobermory", "The Interlopers", "Sredni Vashtar", and "Gabriel Ernest and Mrs Packletide's Tiger". Starring Pippa Haywood as Clovis, with Nick Mohammed, Alan Coveney, Dolly Wells, Ed Weeks, Jennifer Lee, David Collins, Paul Dodgson, Barbara Flynn, John Sessions, Malcolm Hamilton, Amy Clifton, Carl Prekopp, Ed Weeks, Dolly Wells, Marcia Warren, and Jennifer Lee Jellicorse. Adapted by Sean Grundy. Director: Alison Crawford.
©2012 Saki (P)2012 AudioGO Ltd
Beauty of Britain
Summary
The complete series 1-3 of the BBC Radio 4 narrative comedy featuring Beauty Oolonga's adventures as a care worker, starring Jocelyn Jee Esien.
Beauty of Britain breaks the embarrassed silence about what happens to us when we get old and start to lose our faculties. It shows the process in all its chaotic tragi-comedy, but it does so from the point of view of a migrant worker, Beauty, whose Zimbabwean Shona background has taught her to respect age. Beauty sees Britain at its best and its worst and also sometimes without its clothes on running the wrong way down the M6 with a toy dog shouting, 'Come on!'
In the first series Beauty discovers the glories of Weston-super-Mare's charity shops, has a disastrous crush on worship leader Wayne and looks after the elderly Mr Easterby, who has a new girlfriend and is behaving like a lovestruck teenager.
In the second series, Beauty’s employer, the Featherdown Agency, sends her to provide care for those who need it - and some who don't, but all of whom have relatives with guilty consciences.
In the third and final series Beauty's mother pays her a visit, finds herself on the receiving end of a surprising proposal and wonders is Stephen, a charming English gent, is just like Hugh Grant in those movies.
Jocelyn Jee Esien heads up a starry cast that includes Jenny Agutter, Felix Dexter, Pippa Haywood, Paterson Joseph, Julia Mackenzie, Felicity Montagu, Geoffrey Palmer and Clive Swift.
Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson.
Produced by Tilusha Ghelani.
©2019 BBC Worldwide Ltd (P)2019 BBC Worldwide Ltd
Dadland
Summary
Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had bargained for. Tom Carew was a maverick, a left-handed stutterer, a law unto himself. As a member of an elite SOE unit he was parachuted behind enemy lines to raise guerrilla resistance in France, then Burma, in the Second World War. But his wartime exploits are only the start of it.... is a manhunt. Keggie takes us on a spellbinding journey, in peace and war, into surprising and shady corners of history, her rackety English childhood, the poignant breakdown of her family, the corridors of dementia and beyond. As Keggie pieces Tom - and herself - back together again, she celebrates the technicolour life of an impossible, irresistible, unstoppable man. Foreword and afterword read by the author. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying photographs will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
©2016 Keggie Carew (P)2016 Random House Audiobooks
Forest 404
Summary
Forest 404: nine-part thriller, nine-part talk, nine-part soundscape and exclusive bonus documentary. Can you feel loss for something you've never known? Meet Pan. She lives a few centuries from now, in a future beyond a data crash that wiped out most records of life from before the 23rd century: the Cataclysm. Her job is to sort through the old sound recordings that survived from before the crash - from the Slow Times. When winters were still cold. When the USA still had people in it. All day she listens to sounds from the Slow Times, and she decides which noises live and which can just...finally die. Deleted to make space. Because data costs. But when she finds an old recording of a rainforest, she has no idea what it is. Because forests no longer exist. And the sound of it haunts her - she is compelled to hunt down the truth about how the forests of the old world died. But the agents of new world have other ideas.... A sci-fi thriller starring Pearl Mackie (Doctor Who), Tanya Moodie (Sherlock, Motherland) and Pippa Haywood (Green Wing, Bodyguard). Each episode is accompanied by a talk which looks at the issues raised by the drama, featuring a diverse range of speakers: musicians, bio-futurists, anthropologists and tree-climbers. They explore questions ranging from 'Why should I listen to trees?' to 'Would you vote for an AI government?' and 'What is death in the digital age?' Each episode also comes with a soundscape of natural world environments, mixed in binaural sound for an immersive headphone experience. You can hear the sound of the Sumatran rainforest, the songs of whales, a chorus of frogs and a full playout of Bonobo's specially composed theme music. Lastly, this release includes an exclusive bonus documentary episode, which looks at the making of the series, featuring interviews with writer Timothy X Atack and director Becky Ripley. It also shares the findings of The Forest 404 Experiment: a related project in collaboration with Exeter University and the Open University, about the effects that different natural sounds have on our moods and mental health. Credits: Pan - Pearl Mackie Daria - Tanya Moodie Theia - Pippa Haywood With theme music by Bonobo Directed by Becky Ripley Track listing: Episode 1: 'Life in the Fast Times' Talk 1: Why should I listen to trees? Soundscape 1: 'Rainforest Symphony' Episode 2: 'The Fumetown Priest' Talk 2: How is the sound of the world changing? Soundscape 2: 'Frog Chorus' Episode 3: 'Into the Inner' Talk 3: Could I live in darkness? Soundscape 3: 'Whale Songs' Episode 4: 'Of Earthly Delights' Talk 4: Why do trees live so long Soundscape 4: 'Woodland Walk' Episode 5: 'Last Days of the Slow World' Talk 5: Will we all become cyborgs? Soundscape 5: 'Theia's Hometown' Episode 6: 'A New Leaf' Talk 6: What is death in the digital age? Soundscape 6: 'Pan's Dwindling' Episode 7: 'Dreams of the Autopilot' Talk 7: Would you vote for an AI government? Soundscape 7: 'Daria's Nightmare' Episode 8: 'Future Conditional' Talk 8: How will humans die out? Soundscape 8: 'The Memory Transfer' Episode 9: 'Enigmata' Talk 9: Love Letter to the Forest... Soundscape 9: 'Bonobo's Theme' Exclusive bonus 'making of' documentary
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