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On the Discworld, Gods are as numerous as herring roe, all elbowing for space at the top. In such a competitive environment, you need an acolyte, and fast. For the Great God Om, Brutha is the Chosen One, or at least the only One available...
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From Eternity is the second short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Monsters. It was written by Jim Mortimore. Performed by Jonathon Carley.
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Hopeless young peasant Mort is hired as an apprentice to Death. He'll have free board, use of the company horse, and being dead isn't even compulsory. In fact, it's a dream job - until he discovers that it can be killer for his love life...
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When precocious young Eric Thursley summons a demon from the loathsome pit to fulfil his every wish, he wants what everyone wants - immortality, to rule the world, and have the most beautiful woman love him. Instead he gets Rincewind, the Disc's most incompetent wizard.
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The Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night are a secret brotherhood with a dastardly plan and an incompetent army. Discworld adventure.
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All Quiet on the Western Front A full-cast dramatisation of one of the greatest war novels of all time. First published as a novel in 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a group of young German soldiers who are enduring, and then coming to terms with, the realities of the First World War. At the age of 19, following the outbreak of the First World War, Paul Bäumer enlists in the German Army. He is deployed to the Western Front, where the experience of life and death in...
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A Hundred Years Ago, BBC Radio 3 In Concert In their spectacular season opener Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in music by three composers who served as Kappelmeisters in Weimar, hub of German humanism in the 18th and 19th centuries and home to Friedrich Schiller: literary giant, political philosopher, champion of German unity and author of the Ode to Joy. In 1859, Franz Liszt's contributions to Weimar's Schiller centenary celebrations included his collaboration with...
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Charlotte Rampling: Desert Island Discs Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Charlotte Rampling. Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Dune by Frank Herbert Luxury: Ballet picture by Degas BBC Radio 4, first aired 3rd April 1976, 7pm
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Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's celebrated apocalyptic comic novel, with bonus length episodes and outtakes. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4.... Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards...
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Helen Forrester's moving story of an English girl and her love affair with an Indian man. Peggy Delaney was a Lancashire girl born and bred, beginning to live again after the heartache of the war. Ajit Singh was a charming young Indian student, shortly to return to his homeland and an arranged marriage. When Peggy and Ajit fell in love, each one knew the future would not be easy. But as they began their new life, far from their homes and their families, they found that love could bring two...
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Doctor Who: The Memory of Winter Jemma Redgrave narrates this brand-new original adventure for the 12th Doctor and Clara. In 15th-century France the time travellers encounter a band of soldiers protecting a mysterious young woman. Joan of Arc is troubled by voices telling her things she should not know about: things concerning the Doctor's own people, the Time Lords. Compelled to discover where she is getting the information from, the Doctor and Clara are drawn into danger. Written by George...
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Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf Classic Stories: Stories for Valentine's Day Virginia Woolf's experimental story taking us into the minds of a group of strolling couples enjoying Kew Gardens. Read by Carolyn Pickles. Produced by Simon Richardson. BBC Sounds, 05 February 2019 Duration: 18 minutes
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The Kiss by Kate Chopin Classic Stories: Stories for Valentine's Day Kate Chopin's story of a woman scheming to marry a wealthy man and maintain a young lover. Read by Carolyn Pickles. Produced by Julian Wilkinson. BBC Sounds, 05 February 2019 Duration: 8 minutes
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A Respectable Woman by Kate Chopin Classic Stories: Stories for Summer Mrs Baroda, the respectable wife of a sugar planter, finds herself confused and ambivalent when an old friend of her husband’s comes to stay in this cleverly observed story. Read by Carolyn Pickles. Produced by Julian Wilkinson. BBC Sounds, 21 June 2019 Duration: 11 minutes
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Second Best by DH Lawrence Classic Stories: Stories for Summer A disturbing and powerful story about growing up and coming to terms with life’s realities. Read by Carolyn Pickles. Produced by Simon Richardson. BBC Sounds, 21 June 2019
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The Christening by DH Lawrence Classic Stories: A Celebration of the Short Story DH Lawrence’s story of a young unmarried mother, her baby and her stern collier father. Read by Carolyn Pickles. Produced by Julian Wilkinson. BBC Sounds, 09 September 2019
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Mrs Gaskell’s much-loved portrait of life in a small town and its female inhabitants. Read by Carolyn Pickles. Produced by Julian Wilkinson. BBC Sounds, 01 November 2019
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The New Dress by Virginia Woolf Classic Stories Stories for Summer Virginia Woolf’s sharply observed tale of a young woman’s fashion faux pas. Read by Carolyn Pickles. Produced by Simon Richardson. BBC Sounds, first broadcast 21 June 2019
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Charlotte Rampling Who I Am Spectator Books podcast 2017 A few years ago, Charlotte Rampling signed a contract to write her autobiography - and then, the project not long underway, called the whole thing off. But this month she publishes something quite out of the usual run of celebrity memoirs. Who I Am, co-written with the French man of letters Christophe Bataille, is a slender, riddling approach to the actor's inner life - not a catalogue of film anecdotes but rather a hesitant return to the...
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The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf Classic Stories: A Celebration of the Short Story Virginia Woolf’s sketch of a woman finding emotions and storylines in music. Read by Carolyn Pickles. Produced by Simon Richardson. Release date: 09 September 2019
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Lewis Carroll’s curiouser and curiouser tale of a girl discovering a strange new world. Read by Carolyn Pickles. Produced by Simon Richardson. BBC Sounds, November 2019
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Amateur sleuth Jane Marple must solve the mystery surrounding a young woman's terrifying childhood memory - before the murderer is provoked to strike again. Published posthumously in 1976 but set in the 1930s, Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss Marple. Miss Marple …. June Whitfield Dr James Kennedy …. Julian Glover Gwenda Reed …. Beth Chalmers Giles Reed …. Carl Prekopp Mrs Hengrave …. Hilda Schroder Edith …. Joan Littlewood Richard Erskine …. Derek Waring...
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