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G. K. Chesterton: Three BBC Radio Mysteries: The Man Who Was Thursday, The Club of Queer Trades & Th

Three BBC Radio performances of works by the great G. K. Chesterton Best known as the creator of clerical detective Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton was a prolific and talented writer in virtually every area of literature: from novels, poetry and short stories to plays, biographies and essays. A noted thinker, controversialist, raconteur and wit, he has influenced authors from Neil Gaiman to Jorge Luis Borges. This collection comprises his two most famous novels, The Man Who Was Thursday and The Napoleon of Notting Hill, as well as half a dozen tales from his short story collection, The Club of Queer Trades. The Man Who Was Thursday - Poet turned Scotland Yard detective Gabriel Syme goes undercover in Edwardian London to investigate a secret society of anarchists - all of whom are named after days of the week... Read by Geoffrey Palmer. The Club of Queer Trades - In these six full-cast comedy crime dramas, retired KC Basil Grant, his brother Rupert and friend Charlie Swinburne explore the extraordinary stories of people who earn their living by some novel and unusual means. Starring David Warner as Basil, Martin Freeman as Rupert and Geoffrey McGivern as Charlie. The Napoleon of Notting Hill- Written in 1904, Chesterton's comic political satire is set in London 80 years on. The city is still full of horse-buses and hansom cabs, but democracy is dead, and the King is chosen by lottery. No one cares, because none of it matters - until the choice falls on Auberon Quin... This full-cast drama stars Roger Hammond as G. K. Chesterton and David Collings as Auberon Quin, with Kim Wall, Stuart Organ and Paul McGann. First published 1904 (The Napoleon of Notting Hill), 1905 (The Club of Queer Trades), 1908 (The Man Who Was Thursday) The Man Who Was Thursday Read by Geoffrey Palmer Directed by Lawrence Jackson First broadcast BBC Radio 7, 10-28 March 2005 The Club of Queer Trades Basil Grant - David Warner Rupert Grant - Martin Freeman Charlie Swinburne - Geoffrey McGivern Major Brown/Lord Beaumont - Geoffrey Whitehead Lady - Vicki Pepperdine PG Northover/Gardener/Old Man/Constable/Dr Colman - Martin Hyder Drummond - Nicholas Farrell Wimpole/Burrows - Justin Edwards Sir Walter Chumley/Rev Shorter - Richard Griffiths Muriel - Alice Lowe James - Alexei Sayle Mowbray - Nell Edmond Brett - Matthew Holness Lieutenant Keith - Jeff Harding Montmorency - Simon Jones Christina - Amelia Bullmore Bingham - Chris Douglas Adeleide - Felicity Montagu Prof Chadd - John Nettleton Greenwood - James Rawlings Old Lady - Angela Thorne Dramatised by Simon Littlefield Produced by Simon Nicholls First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 4 April-9 May 2005 The Napoleon of Notting Hill G. K. Chesterton - Roger Hammond Auberon Quin - David Collings Wilfred Lambert - Kim Wall James Barker - Stephen Hattersley President del Fuego - Manning Wilson Policeman/Mr Wilson - Stuart Organ Boy Adam Wayne - Alexander Goodman Adam Wayne - Paul McGann Mr Buck - Aubrey Woods Mr Mead - Paul Gregory Mr Bowles - Brian Hewlett Mr Turnbull - Gordon Reid Dramatised by Peter Buckman Produced by Eric Stovell Directed by Richard Imison First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 22 December 1986 © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (p) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

G.K. Chesterton (Author), David Collings, David Warner, Full Cast, Geoffrey Mcgivern, Geoffrey Palmer, Kim Wall, Martin Freeman, Paul Mcgann, Roger Hammond, Stuart Organ (Narrator)

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Age of the Undead

In a fantasy realm shattered by the zombie apocalypse, a bold Knight must enlist unlikely allies while discovering the source of undead corruption, in this darkly humorous adventure from the bestselling game range, Zombicide: Black Plague When Knight Alaric von Mertz loses his family to a ravenous zombie horde, he swears revenge on the necromancer responsible. But a quest for vengeance is no easy matter in a world overrun by the walking dead. Joined by a sharp-tongued rogue, a witch hunter with secret knowledge, a novice wizard, and a dwarf demolition master, Alaric's journey leads him from magical fire moats to the zombie-ridden catacombs of the witch hunters to uncover a spell book of insurmountable power. As zombies claw and bite, Alaric fears he will never avenge his family. For in this age of the undead, betrayal and magic lurk around every corner, spelling either doom or salvation for them all.

C L Werner (Author), Gareth Richards (Narrator)

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Aurora

Soon to be a film from Netflix and Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow. ‘Fantastic story, a real page-turner. Impossible to put down’ Stephen King ‘Forget a good night’s sleep. Aurora is epic’ Linwood Barclay When the lights go out no one is safe… A planet without power. When a solar storm hits the earth, the lights go out across the planet. But this time the blackout won’t be over soon – it could last for years. Aubrey and her stepson now face the biggest challenge of their lives. A society without rules. Soon they hear rumours of riots, the struggle for food becomes real, and even within their small communities, the rule of law is collapsing. Aubrey’s estranged brother Thom, a self-made billionaire who abandoned her years ago, retreats to a gilded desert bunker where he can ride out the crisis in perfect luxury. A race to build a better world… But the complicated history between the siblings is far from over, and what feels like the end of the world is just the beginning of a personal reckoning long overdue…

David Koepp (Author), Rupert Friend (Narrator)

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Dream Walker: Visions Of The Dead Book 1

What if you had the ability to see things before they happened? Saw a zombie outbreak unfold before your very eyes? Could you embrace visions of the dead coming back to life? For Kaylee, who has been chosen to receive this gift, these visions are the beginning of a nightmare. She watched in horror as zombies came for her and a friend, but when she woke, she realized it hadn’t happened yet. So she prepares herself, just in case what she saw in her dream turns out to be reality. And it does. As the sickness turns helpless citizens into zombies, Kaylee, along with her friends, Deuce and Finn, try to prepare for what’s coming. The three friends choose to split apart, but they must come back together if they want to survive the worst nightmare anyone could imagine. While each of them faces the hungry infected coming from every corner, Kaylee is preoccupied with a single thought: How will they escape? But amid the midst of her most terrifying visions, Kaylee dreams of amber eyes and an infectious love she always longed to have. Maybe the zombie apocalypse has more in store for her than she could’ve ever imagined… What if all her dreams end up coming true?

E. Bowser (Author), Aura Nash, Martin Martinez (Narrator)

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Se ahogarán en las lágrimas de sus madres (They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears)

Se ahogarán en las lágrimas de sus madres, ganadora del Premio August, es una de las novelas suecas más importantes de la última década. Un libro que nos hará reflexionar sobre las sociedades europeas actuales y futuras. Tres personas entran en una librería e interrumpen con un disparo la presentación de un controvertido artista, famoso por sus dibujos sobre el profeta Mahoma. El pánico estalla y todos los asistentes son tomados como rehenes. Pero uno de los tres atacantes, una joven cuya tarea es filmar la violencia, tiene un secreto que puede cambiarlo todo. Dos años después, esta mujer anónima invita a un famoso escritor a visitarla en la clínica psiquiátrica donde reside y comparte con él una historia increíble: ella asegura venir del futuro. Merecedora de un éxito formidable de crítica y ventas, esta palpitante novela de Johannes Anyuru envuelve al lector en una historia sobre esperanza y desesperanza en la Europa de hoy, sobre amistad y traición, y sobre el teatro del terror y el fascismo.

Johannes Anyuru (Author), Jerry Soto (Narrator)

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Watch Dogs Legion: Daybreak Legacy

The underground resistance movement from Day Zero returns to navigate the perils of emergent AI and an authoritarian state, in this gritty, high-tech thriller set in the world of Watch Dogs®: Legion London is still going to hell, even with Albion on the back foot, but Olly and Ro are hard at work finding allies for DedSec and taking down the bad guys. When a job goes awry, they end up doxxed, on the run, and in serious trouble. Bagley, the DedSec AI, gets involved and discovers someone new, someone just like him . . . another ghost in the machine. Frenemy hacktivist network, 404, tips them off that since terminating the ambitious plan to digitize human consciousness, Project Daybreak, DedSec has become the target for a new player in London. Looks like Project Daybreak isn't as dead as they thought, and neither are those who died with it.

Stewart Hotston (Author), Sam Kusi (Narrator)

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Kraken [Dramatized Adaptation]: Deathlands 145

'Continuing the timeline established in Deathlands 136: Trade War. Beneath the waters of Lake Huron a monstrosity lurks, and Krysty Wroth may be its victim. The companions' journey across Lake Huron is interrupted by a pirate attack during a furious storm, and Krysty is pulled overboard during the fray. The companions seek refuge on a submerged freighter occupied by ex-pirate “Mean Pete'' Kellogg, and his crew. They tell stories of 'He Who Shouts in the Lake', a creature under the control of Heidecker labs. The stories say the director of Heidecker labs is brutal and unforgiving, burning local villages to the ground and infecting them with disease. Forget the stories. Ryan knows only one truth. He must get Krysty back. Performed by Richard?Rohan,?Terence?Aselford,?Lolita Horne, Colleen Delany, Nanette Savard, Stephon Walker, Alysia Beltran, Bradley Foster Smith, Darius Johnson, David Engel, Eric Messner, Jean Rosolino, Joy Jones, Karen Novack, Katie Boothe, Keith Richards, Ken Jackson, Marie Hoffman, Megan Dominy, Michael John Casey, Nickolette Kong, Rana Kay, Rob McFadyen, Ryan Haugen, Ryan Reid, and Scott McCormick.'

James Axler (Author), Alysia Beltran, Bradley Foster Smith, Colleen Delany, Darius Johnson, David Engel, Eric Messner, Lolita Horne, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Stephon Walker, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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The Legacy: James

His game plan was simple. Qualify for the Culling. Find a woman. Win the presidency. It was a carefully cultivated plan that dictated all his life's decisions . . . until two women upend everything. Twenty-one years after his parents won the presidency, a Culling is called. James has waited his entire life for this moment, a chance to carry on his parents' legacy. Meanwhile, whispers in Denver of an 'Heir's Curse' make a Reed winning the presidency seem impossible. A presidential heir has never won a Culling before, but there has also never been a Culling where three heirs could qualify. James and his siblings are determined to break the so-called curse and prove them all wrong. But when forced to choose between the easy love that could secure the presidency and a difficult one, what will James do?

Tricia Wentworth (Author), Austin Rising (Narrator)

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The Greater Good [Dramatized Adaptation]: Safe Zone 1

'The virus sweeps across South America. The world is on high alert. It's coming for us... A video hits the Internet and quickly goes viral. A video showing a woman, attacked, bitten and dying.... before rising again. Experts confirm the video as a fake. A prank. But all the expert denials count for nothing when the virus reaches the UK. Chloe finds herself left behind, abandoned by Steve who rejoins the army to fight the new enemy. She'll be forced to survive on her own. Whatever it takes. They must all make sacrifices to do what is right. To do what is right for the greater good. Don't miss this gritty and harrowing look at the end of the world, featuring a dark, realistic vision of the Zombie Apocalypse that will keep you up at night. Performed by: Yasmin Tuazon, Jenna Sharpe, Stewart Crank, Lucy Symons, Elena Anderson, Shanta Parasuraman, Ian Russell, John Kielty, Alex Hill-Knight, Bradley Foster Smith, Christopher Williams, Colleen Delany, Hannah Curtis, Karen Novack, Katie Boothe, Kay Eluvian, Keval Shah, Mark Harrietha, Martin Dickinson, Nora Achrati, Peter Holdway, Terence Aselford, Wyn Delano, and Zeke Alton.'

Suzanne Sussex (Author), Alex Hill-Knight, Bradley Foster Smith, Christopher Williams, Elena Anderson, Ian Russell, Jenna Sharpe, John Kielty, Lucy Symons, Shanta Parasuraman, Stewart Crank, Yasmin Tuazon (Narrator)

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Tempus Fury

Time shatters into shards of the past, present, and future. A group of survivors dodges threats from across history to locate the source and repair the damage before it's too late. When time shatters, the survivors must fight their way to the ends of the Earth before it's too late. They call it 'the Event'-an unimaginable cataclysm that renders 600 million years of the world's timeline into jumbled fragments. Our Earth is gone, instantly replaced by a new one made of fractured remnants of the past, present, and future. All exist alongside one another in a nightmare patchwork of 'time shards'-some hundreds of miles long, and others no more than a few feet across. With surprising help from throughout history, an American girl and her companions first must save ancient Alexandria, the last bastion of civilization, from a panzer tank invasion. Then they will face the ultimate challenge at the end of the world . . . the shatterfield. Crossing it sends them on a final quest spanning time, space, and dimensions. Only then will they learn if their mission will save their world-or destroy it.

Dana Fredsti, David Fitzgerald (Author), Aaron Shedlock (Narrator)

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Rebelión en la granja

1. Todo lo que camina sobre dos pies es un enemigo. 2. Todo lo que camina sobre cuatro patas o tiene alas es un amigo. 3. Ningún animal usará ropa. 4. Ningún animal dormirá en una cama. 5. Ningún animal beberá alcohol. 6. Ningún animal matará a otro animal. 7. Todos los animales son iguales. Estos son los Siete Mandamientos iniciales que quedaron escritos en la pared trasera del gran granero y que formarían una ley inalterable por la cual todos los animales de la Granja Animal deberían vivir para siempre, tras expulsar al granjero Jones. Así es como el grupo de animales de la granja, comenzaría un sistema de gobierno propio que acaba convirtiéndose en una nueva tiranía. 'Rebelión en la granja' es una breve novela satírica del escritor británico George Orwell. Publicada en 1945, la obra nos ofrece una fábula mordaz sobre cómo el régimen soviético de Stalin corrompe el socialismo.

George Orwell (Author), Israel Elejalde (Narrator)

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Batey Descendiendo: La historia de Chilly: una chica dañada que está acostumbrada a cuidar de sí mis

En un futuro distópico, donde el comportamiento humano finalmente ha conducido a la destrucción de la Tierra, una raza alienígena ha salvado a algunos de los que estaban dispuestos a escapar de un planeta condenado. Mientras viven en su enorme nave nodriza y con todo lo que necesitan, un antiguo juego con raíces caribeñas se reinventa. El Nuevo Batey se convierte en su entretenimiento y surgen nuevos héroes para jugarlo. Chilly es una de ellos. La hermana mayor de Nico destaca en este entorno de ritmo rápido e intimidante, luchando para ser vista como una jugadora tan buena como cualquier otra, y luchando por sí misma todos los días de su joven vida. Pero, ¿cuánto tiempo podrá soportar la adulación de la multitud? ¿Cuánto tiempo podrá permanecer tan distante y fría como lo ha sido toda su vida? ¿Y cuánto tiempo podrá permanecer literalmente prisionera en una nave alienígena que promete todo, pero en realidad no ofrece nada? A medida que la acelerada competencia de Batey continúa consumiendo su vida, es posible que Chilly se esté tropezando sin darse cuenta con las respuestas. ¡Sube y reserva ahora!

Nico Pengin (Author), Fiorella Amer Carr (Narrator)

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