Audiobooks narrated by Sarah Douglas

"“An amazing audio adventure…David Warner is a terrific Rune…the thing’s so flipping entertaining, you’d be perfectly happy to sit through another six-and-a-half hours. 5/5” – SFX This is the tale of two incredible people – one who knows he is incredible and the other who learns to be incredible. Set in 1960 in the UK south-coast resort of Brighton, self-styled guru and magus Hugo Rune rescues a young man from drowning and persuades him to become his assistant and partner in solving 12 mysteries. Rizla (for such is the young man’s assumed name) agrees to help as he has lost his memory and has nowhere else to go. There then follows 12 of the most baffling, surreal, exciting, head-scratching and downright far-fetched mysteries ever written…all based in and around the suburbs of Brighton. In between the adventures our heroes are able to enjoy the bizarre surroundings of Fangio’s pub, where the bar lord is always happy to talk some old toot and occasionally some exposition as well. Across the mysteries Rizla and the audience learn about the Brighton zodiac, the chronovision, time travel, centaurs, a dastardly plot where the NHS kidnap vagrants for body parts, space pirates, the real history of Victorian Britain, Brighton pirates and the fate that awaits mankind should Hugo Rune fail in his task. And of course, there’s a very bad man involved indeed – Hugo Rune’s arch-nemesis of the ages, Count Otto Black – who wants to rule the world (what else!) You will never hear anything else quite like this in your lifetime. 13 x 30’ Episodes Full Cast Drama/Comedy Adapted from Robert Rankin's original novel"

Elliot Stein, Neil Gardner, Robert Rankin (Author), Andy Serkis, Ben Miller, David Warner, Kerry Shale, Mark Wing-Davey, Martin Jarvis, Rupert Degas, Sarah Douglas (Narrator)

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Mathilda

"The second novel from Mary Shelley, written in 1819/20 but not published in full until 1959. The story deals with common Romantic themes, but also incest and suicide. Narrating from her deathbed, Mathilda tells the story of her unnamed father’s confession of incestuous love for her, followed by his suicide by drowning; her relationship with a gifted young poet called Woodville fails to reverse Matilda’s emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death. The act of writing this short novel distracted Mary Shelley from her grief after the deaths of her one-year-old daughter Clara at Venice in September 1818 and her three-year-old son William in June 1819 in Rome. These losses plunged Mary Shelley into a depression that distanced her emotionally and sexually from Percy Shelley and left her, as he put it, “on the hearth of pale despair”. The story may be seen as a metaphor for what happens when a woman, ignorant of all consequences, follows her own heart while dependent on her male benefactor. Mary Shelley sent the finished Mathilda to her father in England, to submit for publication. However, though Godwin admired aspects of the novel, he found the incest theme “disgusting and detestable” and failed to return the manuscript despite his daughter’s repeated requests. In the light of Percy Shelley’s later death by drowning, Mary Shelley came to regard the novel as ominous; she wrote of herself and Jane Williams “driving (like Mathilda) towards the sea to learn if we were to be for ever doomed to misery”. The novel was published for the first time in 1959, edited by Elizabeth Nitchie from dispersed papers. It has become possibly Mary Shelley’s best-known work after Frankenstein."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Sarah Douglas (Narrator)

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Murder on 81st Street

"New York, 1939. Running into his old friend Dorothy Parker on the street, Dorian finds himself accompanying her to the opening of an antiquities exhibition. But when one of the guests is murdered, Dorian and Dorothy have no choice but to find the killer before their culprit has a chance to strike again..."

David Llewellyn (Author), Alexander Vlahos, Sarah Douglas (Narrator)

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Classic Tales of Horror

"Classic Tales Of Horror offers up fifteen slices of powerful story-telling from the world’s great authors. From Henry James and Ambrose Bierce to Bram Stoker and Charles Dickens. Read by John Waite (BBC Radio 4), Sarah Douglas (Superman I & II), Michael Fenton-Stevens (Spitting Image, KYTV, Hitch-hiker’s Guide) and Ben Onwukwe (London’s Burning, Othello). The Man & The Snake by Ambrose Bierce – Read by Sarah Douglas Man-Size In Marble by E Nesbitt – Read by John Waite The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce – Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens The Mysterious Mansion by Honore De Balzac – Read by Ben Onwukwe The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker – Read by Sarah Douglas Lost Face by Jack London – Read by John Waite A Confession Found In A Prison by Charles Dickens – Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens The Ghostly Rental by Henry James – Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens The Phantom Coach by Amelia B Edwards – Read by John Waite The Picture In The House by HP Lovecraft – Read by Ben Onwukwe True Relation Of The Apparition Of One Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe – Read by Sarah Douglas Transformation by Mary Shelley – Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens The Monkey’s Paw by WW Jacobs – Read by John Waite William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe – Read by Ben Onwukwe Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook by M.R. James – Read by John Waite"

Ambrose Bierce, Amelia B Edwards, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, E Nesbitt, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Henry James, Honore de Balzac, Jack London, M.R. James, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Ww Jacobs (Author), Ben Onwukwe, John Waite, Michael Fenton-Stevens, Sarah Douglas (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Sarah Douglas

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