Audiobooks narrated by Jim Barclay

The Young Postmen: A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Audiobook

A surreal comedy about the escapades of a trio of Post Office workers In Swansden, it seems like the men and women of the Post Office must make their own fun. From following mystic runes on a fantasy journey and competing in a little light professional competitive cycling, to fighting the Tuareg in a fort in Africa after joining the French Foreign Legion and engaging the Jupiter aliens in an amateur musical, via climbing Mount Everest and attempting to record a Christmas Number One - Brian, Derek and Sue will just have to make sure all the boring stuff like sorting and handing out the post is actually done at some point... A delightful bite of comedy with a star-studded comic cast in their early days, including Ben Miller (Armstrong & Miller, Death in Paradise), John Thomson (Cold Feet, The Fast Show), Felicity Montagu (I'm Alan Partridge, Bridget Jones's Diary), Alistair McGowan (The Big Impression, ElvenQuest), Jim Barclay (The Young Ones, Jossy's Giants) and even Vinnie Jones (The Musketeers, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), this hilarious series is ideal for fans of Space Hacks, Harry Enfield and Chums, and The Penny Dreadfuls. Cast and credits Brian - Ben Miller Derek - John Thomson Sue / Madonna - Felicity Montagu Mr Tippett / Captain / Simon Bates / Gary Lineker / DJ - Alistair McGowan Mr Tilbury / George Michael / Burton - Jim Barclay Melinda - Joanna Brooks Jack Finlay - David Mellor Tony Hadley - Vinnie Jones Written by Ben Miller Produced by Gareth Edwards Music by Murray Gold Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4: 19 November - 24 December 1992 ©2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Ben Miller (Author), Alistair Mcgowan, Ben Miller, David Mellor, Felicity Montagu, Full Cast, Jim Barclay, Joanna Brooks, John Thomson, Vinnie Jones (Narrator)

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Republic

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Jim Barclay, best known for their roles in The Young Ones and Jeeves and Wooster. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe, also read by Jim Barclay. 'We set about founding the best city we could, because we could be confident that if it was good we would find justice in it' The Republic, Plato's masterwork, was first enjoyed 2,400 years ago and remains one of the most widely-read books in the world: as a foundational work of Western philosophy, and for the richness of its ideas and virtuosity of its writing. Presented as a dialogue between Plato's teacher Socrates and various interlocutors, it is an exhortation to philosophy, inviting its readers to reflect on the choices to be made if we are to live the best life available to us. This complex, dynamic work creates a picture of an ideal society governed not by the desire for money, power or fame, but by philosophy, wisdom and justice. Christopher Rowe's accurate and enjoyable new translation remains faithful to the many variations of the Republic's tone, style and pace. This edition also contains a chronology, further reading, an outline of the work's main arguments and an introduction discussing Plato's relationship with Socrates, and the Republic's style, ideas and historical context. © Christopher Rowe 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Plato (Author), Jim Barclay (Narrator)

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Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Cramped, dust-choked, wielding a five-pound pick by candlelight. Eighteen years old, he's been down the pits on and off for more than a decade, and now it looks like a life sentence. No unusual story, although Charles is a clever lad - gifted at maths and languages - and for a time he hoped for a different life. Many hoped. Charles Hutton, astonishingly, would actually live the life he dreamed of. Twenty years later you'd have found him in Slaughter's coffee house in London, eating a few oysters with the President of the Royal Society. By the time he died, in 1823, he was a fellow of scientific academies in four countries, while the Lord Chancellor of England counted himself fortunate to have known him. Hard work, talent, and no small share of luck would take Charles Hutton out of the pit to international fame, wealth, admiration and happiness. The pit-boy turned professor would become one of the most revered British scientists of his day. This book is his incredible story.

Benjamin Wardhaugh (Author), Jim Barclay (Narrator)

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Wisden: Overseas Tour

Wisden- Overseas Tour. Travel around the world from Australia to Trinidad, the Antarctic to Cambodia, in the company of some of Cricket's most notable personalities, witnessing both triumphs and disasters as we recreate the game's unpredictable adventures abroad. Join a cricket match played in a Japanese POW camp, marvel as Garfield Sober's surpasses Hutton's world record test innings, hear of the arrest of an English wicket-keeper in colonial Australia and relive Don Bradman's record breaking 1930 season. Our cast includes Nicola Barber, Terence Edmond, Stephen Thorne, Jim Barclay, David Goodhand, Howard Ward, Nicholas Day, David Pullan, Andrew Wincott, Amerjit Deu, Keith Stewart and Jonathan Wrather.

Sue Rodwell (Author), David Goodhand, Howard Ward, Jim Barclay, Nicola Barber, Stephen Thorne, Terence Edmond (Narrator)

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Wisden: Tea in the Pavilion

Wisden - Tea In The Pavilion, take your seat at the most momentous and curious English cricket matches as we relive some of the more colourful and intriguing events in the history of the game: King George VI taking a hat trick in the grounds of Windsor Castle, a cricket-loving vicar escaping death on the high seas, Denis Compton scoring 18 centuries in the glorious summer of '47 and a wartime bomb stopping play at Lords. Our cast includes Nicola Barber, Terence Edmond, Stephen Thorne, Jim Barclay, David Goodhand, Howard Ward, Nicholas Day, David Pullan, Andrew Wincott, Amerjit Deu, Keith Stewart and Jonathan Wrather.

Sue Rodwell (Author), David Goodhand, Howard Ward, Jim Barclay, Nicola Barber, Stephen Thorne, Terence Edmond (Narrator)

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Wisden: 137 Not Out

Wisden 137 Not Out. Cricket's legends play again as we join WG Grace, Jack Hobbs, Denis Compton. Geoffrey Boycott and other great cricketers. We relive Len Hutton's 13-hour stand against Australia in the summer of '38, marvel at lan Botham's 1981 tour de force at Old Trafford, accompany Ted Dexter as he stands for Parliament and join Wilfred Rhodes, aged 49, taking six for 79 as he saves England from defeat in 1962. Our cast includes Nicola Barber, Terence Edmond, Stephen Thorne, Jim Barclay, David Goodhand, Howard Ward, Nicholas Day, David Pullan, Andrew Wincott, Amerjit Deu, Keith Stewart and Jonathan Wrather.

Sue Rodwell (Author), David Goodhand, Howard Ward, Jim Barclay, Nicola Barber, Stephen Thorne, Terence Edmond (Narrator)

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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached surgeons, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again.

Henry Marsh (Author), Jim Barclay (Narrator)

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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

What is it really like to be a brain surgeon, to hold someone's life in your hands, to drill down into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? In this brutally honest account, one of the country's top neurosurgeons reveals what it is to play god in life-and-death situations. Henry Marsh gives us a rare insight into the intense drama of the operating theatre and the exquisite complexity of the human brain.

Henry Marsh (Author), Jim Barclay (Narrator)

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The English Girl

Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a spellbinding new thriller from No.1 bestselling author Daniel Silva. For all fans of Robert Ludlum.When a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister's career is threatened with destruction. And Gabriel Allon, master art restorer, spy, and assassin, is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what it seems ... and where the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth ...

Daniel Silva (Author), Jim Barclay (Narrator)

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The Gunpowder Plot: History in an Hour

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.'Remember, remember, the fifth of November'. The gunpowder plot is a famed tale of treachery that continues to fascinate and capture the imagination four hundred years on.The Gunpowder Plot in an Hour reveals the elaborate background to the infamous plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and James I, the ultimate act of treason. This compelling and engaging account of one of the most famous historical events in English history follows the Catholic protagonists hatching their plan through to their inevitable, gruesome deaths.Learn who the Catholic traitors were, what drove them to such desperate measures, and how the plot was discovered. The Gunpowder Plot in an Hour gives a concise overview of this enduring event and is a must for all history lovers.Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour...

Sinead Fitzgibbon (Author), Jim Barclay, Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Jim Barclay