Audiobooks by Neil Brand

Sneakiepeeks: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Comedy

"Meet the bungling surveillance team you won’t want on your tail. The time, now - the place, outside your window. Three surveillance operatives are on an unspecified job, working for an unspecified employer. Together, they are Beagle Team. Good surveillance operatives have patience, alertness and discretion - this is a series about the other type of surveillance operative. Bill (Richard Lumsden), career snoop and technical specialist, has long carried a torch for beautiful yet disconnected fieldworker Sharla (Nina Conti), who doesn't know he exists, despite sharing the back of a van with him for most of their working life. Mark (Daniel Kaluuya), an enthusiastic yet slightly criminal trainee, has been assigned to them by their unknown employer, who goes by the codename ‘Huntsman’. However, whilst the team should be focusing on honing their surveillance skills, they spend more time backstabbing and scapegoating each other. Usually the team member out in the field with the microphones… Faced with fresh targets, situations and locations, can the team botch their way to bringing down a team of blackmailers, stake out a Russian billionaire or learn anything from a CIA operative? What will happen when old rivals Terrier Team come onto their patch and what about that job so secret even the boss doesn’t know about it? Sneakiepeeks is a laugh-out-loud comedy featuring an all-star cast including comedian Nina Conti, Clare in the Community's Richard Lumsden and Daniel Kaluuya, star of Skins, Get Out and Black Panther. It’s written by Harry Venning, the creator of Clare in the Community, and Neil Brand, the creator of Big Broadcast. ©2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd Cast and credits Written by Harry Venning and Neil Brand Produced by Katie Tyrell Bill - Richard Lumsden Sharla - Nina Conti Mark - Daniel Kaluuya Tony Savage/Captain Le Clerc - Kevin Eldon Geoff/Boris/Bristow - John Biggins Ted/Bolkonski - Shaban Arifi Nanny/Milij/Russian Girl - Alex Tregear Mr Smith/Russian Crew/Ignatius/Fuego - Nigel Hastings Mrs Smith/Russian Girl/Mrs A/Delphine - Kate Layden Bishop/Russian Crew/Mr A - Ewan Hooper Justine/Mrs Davies/Secretary -Tessa Nicholson David/Colonel/Customer 2/Channing - Ewan Bailey Man - Rhys Jennings Edward Barraclough MP/Ian - Paterson Joseph Norris/Tim the Tea Boy - Joe Thomas Ros/Mrs Davies - Lucy Montgomery Customer 1- Harry Venning Customer 3 - Neil Brand First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 8 December 2009"

Harry Venning, Neil Brand (Author), Daniel Kaluuya, Full Cast, Nina Conti, Richard Lumsden (Narrator)

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Big Broadcast: A BBC Radio full-cast caper

"The fast-talking glamorous musical drama set in a 1930s Chicago radio studio A radio caper set in Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Broadcast sees radio station WKAZ's most successful programme, 'The Hour of Charm', face trouble from gangsters, sponsors, moral guardians and politics, not to mention Chicago's own winters. When an acrimonious songwriting couple are facing threats from notorious gangster Brannigan, will a song save the day? Sometimes the hour can seem long when you're radio staff - so what happens when Chicago snow traps you in the building completely? A new manager plans to change the whole format of the show, but a deep-voiced celebrity could use his charm to stop the manager in his tracks. And when the station is threatened with closure by the League of Decency, Katharine Hepburn herself comes to the rescue with her inimitable style. Starring Samantha Spiro (Sex Education, Game of Thrones), Josie Lawrence (Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Eastenders), and Susannah Fielding (This Time with Alan Partridge, Black Mirror), this joyful, nostalgic musical drama will transport you to a different time and place. Written by Neil Brand Music by Neil Brand Directed by David Hunter and Jessica Dromgoole Cast Samantha Spiro - Myrna (Series 2-3) Josie Lawrence - Jean Forsythe Nigel Harman - Grant Thornhill Sam Dale - Arthur Clarke (Series 1-2) Sean Baker - Brannigan Joanna Monro - Myrna (Series 1) Jane Whittenshaw - Sadie Stuart McLoughlin - Billy Jim Norton - Harry Paul Heath - Jamie Roslyn Hill - Georgia Bettrys Jones - Caitlin Ian Conningham - Doug/Jimmy Cagney/Cary Grant/Robert F. Winkler Chris Jarman - Paul Robeson Ryan Early - Arthur Clarke (Series 3) Ryan Whittle - Jerry Kerry Gooderson - Dixie Stephen Hogan - Princeton Emma Handy - Jess Elizabeth Counsell - Grace Stibbens John Lightbody - Stupendo Lauren Cornelius - Norma Chaffey Susannah Fielding - Katharine Hepburn Neil McCaul - Arthur Clarke (Series 4) Bettrys Jones - Barbara Meek Heather Craney - Ramona Fairfax Hasan Dixon - Jerry Soundguy Clive Hayward - Preston Lanister Franchi Webb - Danny Folly BBC Singers - Margaret Cameron, Charles Gibbs, Olivia Robinson, Stephen Jeffes, Helen Neeves, Katherine Nicholson, Chris Bowen, Jamie W Hall, Nancy Cole, Jimmy Holliday First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates: 1 June 2011 (Series 1) 24 December - 25 December 2014 (Series 2) 21 October - 28 October 2018 (Series 3) 20 December - 27 December 2020 (Series 4) ©2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd"

Neil Brand (Author), Emma Handy, Full Cast, Ian Conningham, Jane Wittenshaw, Josie Lawrence, Samantha Spiro, Stephen Hogan, Susannah Fielding (Narrator)

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Tommies: The Complete BBC Radio Collection

"A major BBC Radio 4 drama series following the lives of those on and behind the battlefront of World War I Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each of these 42 episodes of Tommies traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago. We follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers from the Lahore Division of the British Indian Army, as they experience life – and death – on the front line. Meanwhile, Dr Celestine de Tullio battles to save soldiers suffering from gas gangrene and trench fever – and experiences the fighting firsthand when she enlists in the Serbian Army and commands a dangerous offensive. They are all cogs in an immense machine, one which connects situations across the whole theatre of the war, over four long years. Through their voices – and a host of others – we hear untold stories about the conflict in Gaza, Gallipoli, Salonika, Serbia, Mesopotamia, Russia, Macedonia, Italy, Turkmenistan and Tanzania, as well as on the Western Front. Lee Ross, Pippa Nixon and Indira Varma are among the extensive cast of this gripping series, created by Jonathan Ruffle, who produced the acclaimed real-time radio dramatisation of Len Deighton’s Bomber. Based on actual historical records, it paints a vivid portrait of daily life for soldiers and their families during 1914-1918, and sheds new light on the reality of the Great War."

Avin Shah, Jonathan Ruffle, Michael Chaplin, Nandita Ghose, Neil Brand, Nick Warburton, Patricia Cumper (Author), Indira Varma, Lee Ross, Pippa Nixon (Narrator)

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