Publication date: 2008-07-10
RRP: £9.77
Price: £6.46
Review The Jungle Book (BBC Children's Classics) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-02-28
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.81
Review The Fearmonger (Doctor Who) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Creator: Graeme Malcolm
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2008-08-25
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.41
Review The Other Queen / HarperCollins Audio:Philippa Gregory has long been one of the most assured practitioners of historical fiction, but her profile was raised even higher by the film of her novel The Other Boleyn Girl. Gregory admirers, however, were heard to remark of that movie: `Not as good as the book!' And if her new novel, the highly accomplished The Other Queen is ever afforded the Hollywood treatment, there will no doubt be a similar chorus. The reason for this dedication by her readers is not hard to fathom: assiduously researched historical facts are married to consummate storytelling skills - and the effortless ability to rescue historical figures from the dusty pages of the past. At the centre of this novel is Mary Queen of Scotland, forced to flee into England. Mary, a devout Catholic, is, of course, a living threat to the rule of her cousin Elisabeth, whose Protestant reign is uncertain. We've been here before, of course, in various books and films. But Philippa Gregory's story this time has a different emphasis: Elizabeth's chief advisor, Cecil, formulates a plan in which the destabilising Mary will live under guard with his faithful friend, Bess of Hardwick. Bess is a remarkable woman herself; someone who has forged her own destiny, and is now in her fourth marriage, to the distinguished Earl of Shrewsbury. But soon Bess and Mary find themselves plunged into very different personal crises - with Bess's marriage under considerable strain. The Other Queen is wonderfully accomplished stuff, evoking a much-pored-over era with a totally fresh eye. [+]-Barry Forshaw.
Publication date: 2000-05-01
Dewey code: 420
RRP: £14.67
Price: £3.39
Review German With Michel Thomas Short Course CD / Hodder Arnold:
Publication date: 2006-11-03
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.73
Review Just Julie / Macmillan Audio Books:
Publication date: 2001-01-30
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £13.99
Review Storm Warning (Doctor Who) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-04-04
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.98
Review "Father Ted" (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-11-06
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £44.03
Price: £44.03
Review Hancock's Half Hour: Collectors Edition (Series One: November 1954 - February 1955) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:When Ray Galton and Alan Simpson created Hancock's Half Hour-their first big hit before Steptoe and Son-they needed a supporting cast, and their choices were inspired. Sid James became the quintessential shifty crook, Bill Kerr played Tony Hancock's best friend while Moira Lister became his girlfriend, and as Kenneth Williams intoned a variety of authority-voices-police, magistrates, etc. -another comic star was born. Out of the 16 original programmes from the period under review, the BBC managed to lose six-culpable carelessness-but among the extant 10 there are outright gems, some of which will be unfamiliar even to fans, and many of which would today be banned as hopelessly un-PC. Viz Hancock's cheery greeting: "Morning Charlie. Working? Oh, of course you don't need to, with 28 children!" Or his observation-of some sluggish British workmen building a house-that he's glad they've been provided with shovels complete with arm-rests. Asked for his own address, he replies "I've just moved. They pulled down my house to build a slum". Relayed cold, such comments may not even raise a smile: Hancock's magic was all in the telling, and in the momentum he built up, as in his Monte Carlo rally programme, in which signposts were turned round and bridges blown up. One of the nicest sketches evolves out of him being left to do the housework like Cinderella, while everyone else troops off to the ball. [+]When he died, a victim of depression, in Australia in 1968, Britain lost something irreplaceable: this five-CD set, with its accompanying booklet, makes a splendid memento. The next batch of releases is eagerly awaited. -Betty Tadman.
Publication date: 2006-07-03
RRP: £9.77
Price: £4.10
Review The Wrath of Mulgarath (Spiderwick Chronicles) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-01-01
RRP: £15.22
Price: £10.00
Review I'm Dry at Night: Stop Bedwetting (for Children Aged 6 - 9 Years) - Children Imagine How to Lock Up Their Bladders for the Night. BEST SELLER!: Stop Bedwetting ... "Unlock Your Life" Audio CDs for Children) / Firstwayforward Audio Books:
Creator: Viola Ann Seddon
Publication date: 2007-11-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.67
Review The Sleeping Beauty Ballet Theatre / Walker Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-06-07
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.30
Review Princess Poppy: The Fair Day Ball (Princess Poppy Book & CD) / Picture Corgi:
Publication date: 2009-05-07
RRP: £13.70
Price: £13.02
Review Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur / Random House Audiobooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Dewey code: 791.4028092
RRP: £22.50
Price: £19.15
Review Home: A Memoir of My Early Years / Hyperion Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-01-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.00
Price: £4.23
Review "Doctor Who" and the Pescatons (BBC Audio Collection) / Doctor Who:
Publication date: 2006-06-19
RRP: £24.47
Price: £9.77
Review This Sceptred Isle: 1876-1947 v. 3: Empire (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-10-02
RRP: £15.65
Price: £6.99
Review That Mitchell and Webb Sound, Series 1 (BBC Audio) / David Mitchell & Robert Webb:
Publication date: 2005-10
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.64
Review Scaredy Cat (Doctor Who) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Creator: Sandra, Burr
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-04-08
Dewey code: 158.24
RRP: £20.04
Price: £9.32
Review Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love / Brilliance Corporation:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Publication date: 2002-11-04
RRP: £15.65
Price: £9.27
Review Just William: No.8 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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