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| Agent Zigzag | ...Damian Lewis reads the dramatic story of the charismatic Agent Zigzag. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| All Points North | ...Poet Simon Armitage reads from his book, a series of wry, affectionate and witty reports on life in his home village of Marsden, YORKshire. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL... |
| Another World | ...In Pat Barker's new novel, a fractious family and a dying soldier reveal the past's power to haunt and distort the present. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL, read by Robert Glenister... |
| Arcanum, The | ...By Janet Gleeson, abridged in five parts by DOREEN ESTALL, read by Janet Suzman. The extraordinary true story of the search for European porcelain. Part 1.... |
| Arizona Game, The | ...by Georgina Hammick, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL and read by Haydn Gwynne.... |
| Back When We Were Grownups | ...By Anne Tyler. Rebecca, at the age of 53, discovers that she has turned into the wrong person. Read by Liza Ross and abridged by DOREEN ESTALL ... |
| Book At Bedtime | ...Read by Jim Norton and abridged by DOREEN ESTALL ... |
| Border Crossing | ...Douglas Hodge begins Pat Barker's compelling novel about children who kill, guilt, punishment and the border between good and evil. Danny, convicted of murder at the age of ten and now released into an unforgiving world, seeks out the psychologist who assessed him before the trial. Abridged in ten parts by DOREEN ESTALL ... |
| Captain's Daughter, The | ...Alexander Pushkin's classic novella, read by Jonathan Firth. A swashbuckling tale of love, heroism and civil war on the RUSSIAn Steppes, from the father of the RUSSIAn novel. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL (1/5).... |
| Clever Girl - A Sentimental Education | ...Brian Thompson's memoirs of growing up in the 50s, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL and read by David Troughton.... |
| Commonwealth Of Thieves | ...By Tom Keneally, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Continental Drifter | ...Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Dancing Away | ...The Royal Ballet's principal dancer, Deborah Bull, reads five extracts from her diary covering a year at the crisis-torn Royal Opera House. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL. Additional reporting by Jo Morris (1/5).... |
| Deprat Affair, The | ...Roger Osborne's gripping account of a scientific scandal at the start of the 20th century, in which a young geologist was accused of fraud. Read by Jamie Glover and abridged by DOREEN ESTALL ... |
| Doctor's Wife, The | ...By Brian Moore. Brian Moore's extraordinarily powerful portrayal of an ordinary woman seized by love for a younger man in the middle of her life. Read by Zara Turner. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL. Produced by Susan Carson.... |
| Dreambirds | ...By Rob Nixon. The amazing history of the ostrich is interwoven with a moving account of a South African childhood. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL... |
| Eugenie Grandet | ...Juliet Stevenson reads Balzac's novel, a story of the power of avarice and the pity of unrequited passion in provincial France. Translated by Sylvia Raphael, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL (1/10).... |
| Extra Virgin | ...Rosie Cavaliero reads Annie Hawes' account of how she left 80s London to work in a rose nursery on the Italian Riviera, and discovered a permanent home among the olive groves of Liguria. Abridged in five parts by DOREEN ESTALL ... |
| Femme Fatale - A Biography Of Mata Hari | ...Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| First Love | ...Ivan Turgenev's classic story of adolescent awakening, translated by Isaiah Berlin, read by Nigel Anthony, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL (2/5).... |
| Fish Caught In Time, A | ...Janet Suzman reads Samantha Weinberg's dramatic account of the discovery of a 400-million-year-old living fossil. Abridged in five parts by DOREEN ESTALL. (1/5).... |
| Ghost At The Table, The | ...Suzanne Berne's wry and poignant story of how childhood memories can haunt and destroy, and how we gloss the past to suit our own needs. Read by Debora Weston and abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| God's Architect - Pugin And The Building Of Romantic Britain | ...Rosemary Hill's biography of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, one of Britain's greatest architects, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL and read by Haydn Gwynne.... |
| Ground Beneath Her Feet, The | ...Salman Rushdie's latest novel is an epic tale of love, death and rock 'n' roll. Read by Art Malik, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL (1/15).... |
| Home Of The Gentry | ...By Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Freeborn and abridged in ten parts by DOREEN ESTALL. Samuel West begins a classic tale of thwarted love. 1: When Lavretsky returns from a failed marriage to his Russian homeland, he must reconcile himself to a different future and find new hope.... |
| Istanbul | ...By Orhan Pamuk, read by Michael Maloney, translated by Maureen Freely, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| King | ...John Berger reads from his novel. Somewhere on the fringes of a European city, a dog recounts the stories of his fellow wasteland-dwellers as they face 24 dangerous hours. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL... |
| Larry's Party | ...Introduced by Jenni Murray. Serial: `Larry's Party' by Carol Shields, abridged in 13 parts by DOREEN ESTALL. Read by William Hope. Part 1.... |
| Last Enemy, The | ...By Richard Hillary. Jamie Glover reads from one of the classics of the Second World War, written by a fighter pilot who took part in the Battle of Britain and who was shot down in a Spitfire over the North Sea. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Laws Of Everything, The | ...By Mary Yukari Waters. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Le Grand Meaulnes [reading] | ...Philip Franks reads Alain-Fournier's classic story of adolescent idealism, love and the search for the lost domain. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL... |
| Letters Of Gustave Flaubert, The | ...Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Lizzie Siddal | ...Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Madame Bovary [reading] | ...By Gustave Flaubert, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL, read by Juliet Stevenson... |
| Map Of The World, A | ...Liza Ross reads the first of ten extracts from Jane Hamilton's poignant and gripping bestseller, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL. Tragedy and false accusations blight the lives of a Midwest family.... |
| Mark Of The Angel, The | ...By Nancy Huston, read by Haydn Gwynne and abridged by DOREEN ESTALL. It is 1957, and Saffie has arrived from Germany in a Paris still scarred by the war. She carries a burden of horror that she tries to bury in a loveless marriage and a passionate affair.... |
| Marrying The Mistress | ...Barbara Flynn reads Joanna Trollope's new novel, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Martha Gellhorn - A Life | ...by Caroline Moorhead For over sixty years the fearless advocate of freedom and justice reported on the major events of the twentieth century - including the Spanish Civil War, the Great Depression in America and the 'liberation' of Dachau at the end of the Second World War. Along the way she had countless affairs as well as a famous but short-lived marriage to Ernest Hemingway. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL, read by Sian Thomas ... |
| Matisse The Master | ...Eleanor Bron reads from Hilary Spurling's biography of the great French artist. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Monk And Two Peas, A | ...Liza Ross and Michael Williams read from Robin Marantz Henig's biography of Gregor Mendel, the modest Moravian monk who uncovered the laws of inheritance and fathered a new science - genetics. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL (1/5).... |
| Nana | ...Juliet Stevenson reads Emile Zola's colourful novel of the Parisian demi-monde, a powerful evocation of the corrupt world of the Second French Empire that scandalised France on its original publication. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL (1/15).... |
| Odd Girl Out | ...Claire Skinner reads from Elizabeth Jane Howard's classic story of a contented marriage disrupted by the arrival of a rich and beautiful third party. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL... |
| One By One In The Darkness | ...by Deirdre Madden, read by Maggie Cronin. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Persuasion [reading] | ...Juliet Stevenson reads Jane Austen's romantic classic, the tale of Anne Elliot, prevented at the age of 19 from marrying the man she loves. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL... |
| Queen At 80. The Biographer's View, The | ...By Marion Crawford, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL and read by Hannah Gordon.... |
| Red Coral Bracelet, The | ...By Judith Hermann. A girl who lives in "a sea-green world" is bequeathed a red coral bracelet with beads that glow "as red as rage". This bracelet ties the girl emotionally and physically to her exotic grandmother's scandalous past and to a highly unsuitable boyfriend. How can the girl break these ties? Does she want to? A powerful story about colour, anger and "that moment before happiness". Translated from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo and abridged for radio by DOREEN ESTALL. Reader Mia Soteriou... |
| Return To Earth | ...Buzz Aldrin's 1973 autobiography describes his journey to the moon and the challenge he faced on his return. Abridged in five parts by DOREEN ESTALL and read by John Sharian. 1: `On the Threshold of a Dream'. Christmas Eve 1968. Apollo 8 has just completed its first successful lunar orbit.... |
| Riddle Of The Sands, The | ...Erskine Childers' famous novel published in 1903 was hailed as the first modern spy novel and influenced official thinking about naval strategy at the time. Abridged in ten parts by DOREEN ESTALL and read by Crispin Bonham Carter. Foreign office high flyer Carruthers receives an invitation from an old acquaintance to join him for some yachting in the Baltic.... |
| Running For The Hills | ...Read and written by Horatio Clare, also read by Saskia Wickham, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Sam Peckinpah - If It Moves Kill 'em | ...Bill Hootkins reads David Weddle's biography of film director Sam Peckinpah and reveals how his early life gave him a lasting vision of the American West. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Secrets Of The Flesh - A Life Of Colette | ...She went topless on the Paris stage, seduced her stepson, and worked out in her own private gym. Hailed as the century's first modern woman, her colourful life gave her rich material for her fiction. The life of French novelist Colette is celebrated in extracts from the new acclaimed biography by Judith Thurman, read by Rebecca Front. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Shooting Sean | ...Abridged in ten parts by DOREEN ESTALL... |
| Suburban Shaman | ...By Cecil Helman, read by Miles Anderson and abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Swamp Of Death, The | ...By Rebecca Gowers, read by James D'Arcy, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL... |
| Tesseract, The | ...By Alex Garland, abridged in ten parts by DOREEN ESTALL and read by Jamie Glover. The story of three people whose lives are destined to collide in a terrifying climax.... |
| Theatre Writings | ...Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Theory Of War | ...by Joan Brady, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL, read by Miriam Margolyes... |
| Therese Desqueroux | ...By Francois Mauriac, read by Juliet Aubrey, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL. A classic portrait of a young woman driven to desperate measures by her pedantic husband and the stifling conventions of provincial France (1/5).... |
| Thomas Hardy - The Time Torn Man | ...Haydn Gwynne reads from Claire Tomalin's biography of the great Victorian novelist, abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Twenty Minutes | ...Hunter Thompson lives in NEW YORK in the kind of seedy hotel that only complete losers live in. The day something finally does happen is the friday before Easter and Hunter's world is turned upside down by a new arrival. Read by Mia Soteriou Translated from German by Margot Bettauer Dembo. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL ... |
| Uncovering Iran - Telling Stories | ...By Goli Taraghi. Read by Nathalie Armin and abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |
| Woman's Hour | ...SBH:A complete edition of the programme from Beijing covering the United Nations Conference for Women. Incl. refs. to conference priorities, the one child policy in many Asian countries, problems for the NGO delegates & ints. with Chinese singer Weihua & author Jung Chang. With Woman's Hour Serial - Part 1 of 'Wild Swans' by Jung Chang. Read by Pik-Sen Lim. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL. Presenter: Jenni Murray.... |
| Woodlanders, The | ...Juliet Stevenson reads Thomas Hardy's classic tale of thwarted love and ambition, set amongst the woodsmen and women of Little Hintock. Abridged by DOREEN ESTALL.... |