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Captivating radio dramatisations of seven of Charles Dickens' most famous novels. Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this first digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes seven of his most popular novels.

Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster and best-selling author Sam Harris has been exploring some of the greatest questions concerning the human mind, society and the events that shape our world. Harris’ search for deeper understanding of how we think has led him to engage and exchange with some of our most brilliant and controversial contemporary minds - Daniel Kahneman, Robert Sapolsky, Anil Seth and Max Tegmark - in order to unpack and understand ideas of consciousness, free will, extremism and ethical living.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Charles Dickens; Franz Kafka; Herman Melville; Leo Tolstoy, amongst a host of others.

In these ten witty, dark and disturbing episodes some of Britain’s best comedians come together to perform simultaneously hilarious and unsettling stories that will have you gripped. Sticky situations on ski slopes, placating an unruly ghost, a boy stuck at the bottom of well and an unusual adventure weekend with romantic overtones - are just some of the scenarios from comedy writers Mark Maier and Daniel Maier (a long term collaborator of Charlie Brooker and Harry Hill).

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Way We Were by Sinead Moriarty, read by Robert Portal, Rachel Louise Miller, Alison McKenna and Daniel Weyman. Alice and Ben are a couple like any other bound together by love, work, children, familiarity, and a shared sense of purpose. Arguing about the usual things, too - in-laws, whose career is more important, which of them is a soft touch with the children, who hates change and who craves it.

Introducing Stock Market Secrets: Your Blueprint for Confident and Profitable Investing. Created for both beginners and those looking to sharpen their skills, this audiobook offers a clear and proven path to mastering the stock market. Packed with practical advice and expert insights, it demystifies complex concepts, empowering you to invest with clarity and confidence.

Joe Orton was among the towering geniuses of 1960s theatre. His life was tragically cut short in 1967, but he left behind him a handful of shocking and scabrous black comedies that will live on in the public imagination for years to come. Featured here are two of his lesser-known works, The Erpingham Camp and The Ruffian on the Stair, collected together as a double bill.

On a damp July morning in 1946, two schoolboys find a woman’s body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife and mother who lived in a war-damaged terrace a few streets away. The police assume that Lil must have been the victim of a vicious sexual assault; but the autopsy finds no evidence of rape, and Divisional Detective Inspector Jim Cooper turns his attention to her private life. How did Lil come to be in the bomb site – a well-known lovers’ haunt? If she had consensual sex, why was she strangled?

The way we communicate has changed. Today many of our interactions are digital, but until recently writing letters was the norm. Drawing from over 100 miles of records held at the UK's official government archive, The National Archives at Kew, this collection of letters, postcards and telegrams will shine a spotlight on a range of significant historical moments and occurrences, recapturing a lost world in which correspondence was king.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Three is the third instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Three features 10 essential works that reach further back into early Greek and Italian stories from Dante, Machiavelli, and Homer, as-well as comparatively modern works from Daniel Defoe, Henry David Thoreau, and others. Read by a cast of incredible narrators including David Rintoul; Daniel Weyman; Rachel Atkins; and more, this is a chance to expand your listening by going back to some of the earliest pieces of classic literature.

Amarante is paradise... An uninhabited, unspoilt island somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Only those who know it exists can find it. But paradise comes with a price... Virginie and Jake sail to Amarante for their honeymoon, but they are not alone. They have to adjust to life on the island with five strangers. And not everyone will live to tell the tale…

Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families, many depicted from a kid's-eye-view, are the theme for this compilation. Being part of a family is often trying, and stranger than any fiction, but never dull and always worth it in the end. Join these very different families as they face the shrinking of parents, the pre-emptive guilt of First Confession, the secret worlds of children, and more!

On the morning of July 12, 2017, the FBI Boston field office receives what appears to be a hoax call: a man rescued from the waters off Massachusetts has claimed that his sailboat was hijacked and used to smuggle weapons and terrorists into the United States. With local agents tasked to prepare for an evening presidential visit to downtown Boston, and with procedures requiring a response to any threat, can Ben, untrained in field work and relying only on his wits and intuition, uncover the deadly plot...in time to stop it?

Der Lotus: Klaus und Veruca stehlen den Mönchen, die die Geschichte Chinas dokumentieren, eine Schriftrolle und entkommen. Po und Wandelnde Klinge kommen ihnen zu Hilfe. Doch Älteste Huang glaubt, Zhen, eine von den Mönchen, sei der Übeltäter. Die Kaiserliche Leibwache ist verständigt, Zhen wird in einem Käfig gefangen gehalten. Da Zhen aber Auskunft über Klaus und Veruca geben kann, beschließt Wandelnde Klinge, sie zu befreien. Po hat ein Problem damit, sind doch die Mönche die einzigen, die ihn noch als Drachenmeister anerkennen.

"Die Handschuh-Herausforderung": Po bricht auf eine Schlemmerreise durch China auf. Sein erstes Ziel ist Pei-Peis Haus der Fettknödel im Dorf Wankun. Dort befindet sich auch der WuGao-Handschuh, der seinem Besitzer unglaubliche Macht verleiht. Aus diesem Grund haben es Klaus und Veruca, zwei Kriminelle aus England, auf ihn abgesehen. Po versucht vergeblich, die beiden vom Diebstahl des Handschuhs abzuhalten. Zu seinem Vater Mr. Ping zurückgekehrt muss er erfahren, dass der Kaiser ihm der Titel Drachenmeister entzogen hat, nachdem das Dorf Wankun verwüstet wurde.

Das Tor zur Wüste: Nachdem Po von der Verbotenen Gesellschaft verhaftet wurde, soll er soll zum Kaiser gebracht werden. Doch ein geheimnisvoll-gruseliger Kuttenträger sorgt dafür, dass Po entkommen kann. Rabia, ein kleines Mädchen aus dem Dorf, in dem Li Gao lebte, verfolgt Wandelnde Klinge und möchte sich dafür revanchieren, dass Klinge ihr das Leben gerettet hat. Am liebsten möchte Klinge Rabia nach Hause schicken. Sie willigt dann aber ein, dass das Mädchen sie zum Markt am „Tor zur Wüste“ begleiten darf. Weimin, einer der Komodos der Verbotenen Geselllschaft, ist Po gefolgt und tut so, als wolle er sich mit ihm anfreunden.

Die Aufzeichnungen von Bradford Moss bringen Victor Frankenstein, Theodora Sachs und Aleister Crowley auf eine neue Spur. Wenn die Notizen des Weltreisenden der Wahrheit entsprechen, dann gibt es in Griechenland eine Geheimgesellschaft, die Äskulap verehrt und zudem im Besitz eines Bildes des Stabes ist, welches angeblich schon zu Äskulaps Zeiten gefertigt wurde. Doch war Bradford Moss tatsächlich noch bei klarem Verstand, als er die Aufzeichnungen verfasste? Robur und Killjoy machen sich auf die Suche nach Frankenstein und gelangen schon bald nach Moss Hall.

Robin erneuert. Der Sheriff hat Tom in den Tod geschickt oder so dachten wir. Aber Robin entdeckt ihn lebend, während er versucht, den Seeernten zu helfen, die jetzt kränker und hungriger sind als je zuvor. Doch ihr Wiedersehen ist nur von kurzer Dauer, da der Sheriff persönlich hinter Tom her ist und ihm eine tödliche Wunde zufügt.

No one has ever paddled the entire length of the Bronx River--until now. Two underqualified adventurers explore history and disparity when they launch from Westchester's richest neighborhood and come ashore in the nation's poorest, the South Bronx. New York City's only freshwater river coalesces from brooks and streams in Westchester County and dumps itself 23 miles south in the face of Rikers Island. The river is witness to more of our country’s income inequality than its surrounding residents...

Der Besuch eines jahrhundertealten Klosters in den österreichischen Alpen wird für Niklas, Linus und Melissa - Mitglieder der Pfadfindergruppe "Pollution Police" - zu einem unvergesslichen Abenteuer. Mysteriöse Ereignisse versetzen die Mönche schon seit geraumer Zeit in Angst und Schrecken.