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Only The Good Die Young: A BBC Radio 4 Thriller

A tense six-part techno-thriller, set during the era of George Bush and Boris Yeltsin Mike Fisher has everything to live for: a stunning model girlfriend, who has just accepted his proposal, and a successful career as a computer programmer. So why would he suddenly resign, dress up in women's underwear and crash his car into a tree? And if he wanted to kill himself, why do it on his wedding day? His death is ruled as suicide, but his fiancée Kim Drake is sure there's more to it than meets the eye. Determined to find out what really happened, she retraces Mike's footsteps across Europe, where she learns he'd been keeping crucial secrets relating to his highly sensitive job at Peregrine Communications Systems and his involvement with certain disaffected members of the European intelligence community. Aided by ex-Stasi agent Otto, rock producer Charles Causley and Mike's brother, disabled cyperpunk genius Todd Fisher, she travels across Germany, Denmark and France in search of answers. But Kim's every move is being watched by the sinister Mr Stone, and her dogged investigations are putting her in terrible danger... First broadcast in 1992, this hard-hitting, electrifying drama was created by award-winning writer and actor Shaun Prendergast, who plays Otto. It stars Siriol Jenkins as Kim, Kenneth Cranham as Stone, Neil Roberts as Mike, Okon Jones as Charles and Jack Klaff as Todd. Production credits Written by Shaun Prendergast Produced and directed by Adrian Bean Technical presentation by Wilfredo Acosta, Michael Atherton and Ian Pratt Cast Kim Drake - Siriol Jenkins Mike Fisher - Neil Roberts Anne/Optician's receptionist/Jean/Clearwater - Kate Binchy Frank/Otto/Burns - Shaun Prendergast Miss Gee - Ann Davies Stone - Kenneth Cranham Todd - Jack Klaff DI Dear - Eric Alan DS Love - Jonathan Tafler John Maschler - Terence Edmond Emma/Nurse Lewis - Caroline Strong Mary/WPC - Nicola Boyce Charles - Okon Jones Wilson - Peter Gunn Doris Meyer/Computer/Hotel receptionist - Joanna Wake Helga/Prostitute - Melanie Hudson DI Dear - Eric Allen DS Love/Victor - Jonathan Tafler Seeta Kumar - Mamta Kaash Welkin/Journalist - William Roberts Jill Noone - Alice Arnold Nelson - Kenneth McClellan Doctor - Teresa Streatfield First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 23 April-28 May 1992 ©2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Shaun Prendergast (Author), Full Cast, Kate Binchy, Kenneth Cranham, Neil Roberts, Okon Jones, Shaun Prendergast, Siriol Jenkins (Narrator)

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Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words

Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom-a timeless gift to her legion of fans. Maeve Binchy once confessed: 'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am obsessively interested in what some might consider the trivia of other people's lives.' She was an accidental journalist, yet from the beginning, her writings reflected the warmth, wit, and keen human interest that readers would come to love in her fiction. From the royal wedding to boring airplane companions, Samuel Beckett to Margaret Thatcher, 'senior moments' to life as a waitress, Maeve's Times gives us wonderful insight into a changing Ireland as it celebrates the work of one of our best-loved writers in all its diversity-revealing her characteristic directness, laugh-out-loud humor, and unswerving gaze into the true heart of a matter.

Maeve Binchy (Author), Kate Binchy (Narrator)

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The Homecoming & Other Stories

Maeve Binchy is one of Britain's most popular storytellers, and these four tales demonstrate the warmth and compassion that have made her many novels bestsellers. In Homecoming, read by Sean Campion, the Brennans run Quentin's restaurant in Dublin for the owner, who lives abroad. But what will happen when he suddenly pays a visit? Telling Stories, read by Joanna Myers, sees Irene's fiancé turning up the night before the wedding with a face as white as the dress that is to be worn the next day. Then trouble starts... In Needy, read by Patricia Hodge, Heather is painfully aware that Valentine's Day declarations of love should be viewed with suspicion, even if the sender is the one she loves. And in The Interview, read by Kate Binchy, Bessie is deaf and needs a place in a special school. But will she pass the interview? Finely crafted and full of wit and charm, these are stories that no fan of Maeve Binchy will want to be without.

Maeve Binchy (Author), Joanna Myers, Kate Binchy, Patricia Hodge, Sean Campion (Narrator)

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Aches & Pains

Get the feel-better factor from Maeve Binchy as she teams up with artist Wendy Shea to bring us ACHES & PAINS. This gem of a book includes: Five things you can say to annoy the patient in the next bed How to put on elastic stockings Six ways to make non-alcoholic drinks bearable How to be the perfect hospital visitor Unusual but essential things for your medicine cupboard Filled with fun, warmth and wisdom, for which Maeve Binchy is famous, ACHES & PAINS is the perfect alternative to a Get Well card. Read by Kate Binchy (p) 2002 Orion Publishing Group

Maeve Binchy (Author), Kate Binchy (Narrator)

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Light a Penny Candle

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O'Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakeable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor, a friendship that will endure through twenty turbulent years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams and searing betrayals. Writing with warmth, wit and great compassion, Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of the lives and loves of two women, bound together in a friendship that nothing could tear asunder -- not even the man who threatened to come between them forever.

Maeve Binchy (Author), Kate Binchy (Narrator)

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Evening Class

It was the quiet ones you had to watch. That’s where the real passion was lurking. They came together at Mountainview College, a down-at-the-heels secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin, to take a course in Italian. It was Latin teacher Aidan Dunne’s last chance to revive a failing marriage and a dead-end career. But Aidan’s dream was headed for disaster until the mysterious Signora appeared, transforming a shared passion for Italy into a life-altering adventure for them all…bank clerk Bill and his dizzy fiance Lizzie: a couple headed for trouble…Kathy, a hardworking innocent propelled into adulthood in a shocking moment of truth…Connie, the gorgeous rich lady with a scandal ready to explode…glowering Lou, who joined the class as a cover for crime. And Signora, whose passionate past remained a secret as she changed all their lives forever…. From the New York Times bestselling author of This Year It Will Be Different, The Glass Lake, and Circle of Friends, comes a novel filled with Maeve Binchy’s signature warmth, wit, and sheer storytelling genius–a spellbinding tale of men and women whose quiet lives hide the most unexpected things….

Maeve Binchy (Author), Kate Binchy (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Kate Binchy