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James Acaster's Classic Scrapes
- Written by: James Acaster
- Narrated by: James Acaster
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story5 out of 5 stars 36
James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times and has appeared on prime-time TV shows....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny
- By Grace on 2019-10-21
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Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection
- Written by: Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn
- Narrated by: Paul Eddington, full cast, Nigel Hawthorn
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story5 out of 5 stars 23
For the first time in one audio collection, all sixteen Yes Minister radio episodes plus six further TV episodes....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bahahaha
- By Jim Brown on 2019-08-25
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Blackadder: The Complete Collected Series
- Written by: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis
- Narrated by: full cast, Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Through the ages of Britain, from the 15th century to the 21st, Edmund Blackadder has meddled his way along the bloodlines, aided by his servant and sidekick, Baldrick, and hindered by an assortment of dimwitted aristocrats....
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It's Me Again
- The Bandy Papers
- Written by: Donald Jack
- Narrated by: Robin Gabrielli
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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As usual, the RAF top brass don't know what to do with maverick flying ace and well-known loose cannon Major Bartholomew Bandy. They pack him off to a squadron where everything's as smart as paint and the flying record barely registers, thinking it'll keep him out of their hair....
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What Makes Sammy Run?
- Written by: Budd Schulberg
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The classic book that shaped two generations' view of the movie business and introduced the archetypal Hollywood player Sammy Glick. As Budd Shulberg follows Sammy's relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character....
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George Carlin Reads to You
- An Audio Collection Including Grammy Winners 'Braindroppings' and 'Napalm & Silly Putty'
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Story4 out of 5 stars 108
If one George Carlin audio is funny, then two are funnier and three must be funniest, right? That's our thinking behind this new collection....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I miss George!
- By Jessica Timmins on 2019-03-21
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James Acaster's Classic Scrapes
- Written by: James Acaster
- Narrated by: James Acaster
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story5 out of 5 stars 36
James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times and has appeared on prime-time TV shows....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny
- By Grace on 2019-10-21
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Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection
- Written by: Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn
- Narrated by: Paul Eddington, full cast, Nigel Hawthorn
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story5 out of 5 stars 23
For the first time in one audio collection, all sixteen Yes Minister radio episodes plus six further TV episodes....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bahahaha
- By Jim Brown on 2019-08-25
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Blackadder: The Complete Collected Series
- Written by: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis
- Narrated by: full cast, Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Through the ages of Britain, from the 15th century to the 21st, Edmund Blackadder has meddled his way along the bloodlines, aided by his servant and sidekick, Baldrick, and hindered by an assortment of dimwitted aristocrats....
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It's Me Again
- The Bandy Papers
- Written by: Donald Jack
- Narrated by: Robin Gabrielli
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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As usual, the RAF top brass don't know what to do with maverick flying ace and well-known loose cannon Major Bartholomew Bandy. They pack him off to a squadron where everything's as smart as paint and the flying record barely registers, thinking it'll keep him out of their hair....
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What Makes Sammy Run?
- Written by: Budd Schulberg
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The classic book that shaped two generations' view of the movie business and introduced the archetypal Hollywood player Sammy Glick. As Budd Shulberg follows Sammy's relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character....
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George Carlin Reads to You
- An Audio Collection Including Grammy Winners 'Braindroppings' and 'Napalm & Silly Putty'
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Story4 out of 5 stars 108
If one George Carlin audio is funny, then two are funnier and three must be funniest, right? That's our thinking behind this new collection....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I miss George!
- By Jessica Timmins on 2019-03-21
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
- Written by: Fran Lebowitz
- Narrated by: Fran Lebowitz
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6
In "elegant, finely honed prose" ( The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life....
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Vanity Fair
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 33 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Vanity Fair is a satirical novel of manners which takes place during, and in the decade after, the battle of Waterloo in 1815. The various scenes in the novel range across Europe and England. It was first published in serial form beginning in 1847....
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Broadway Bound (Dramatization)
- Written by: Neil Simon
- Narrated by: Dan Castellaneta, Caroline Aaron, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Having returned from World War II, Eugene Jerome and his brother Stanley pair up to break into the world of professional comedy writing....
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Mapp and Lucia
- Written by: E. F. Benson
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Mapp and Lucia is the centrepiece of E.F. Benson's series of Lucia novels - bringing together for the first time the eponymous middle-aged doyennes of polite 1930s society....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, but too short
- By John on 2019-12-13
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Napalm & Silly Putty
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
Yes, George Carlin is here with more of what he did better than any other comic: uproarious observations, laser-targeted crankiness, linguistic legerdemain, and inspired weirdness....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very amusing and funny
- By Ahmed on 2020-03-03
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Brain Droppings
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
The thinking person's comic who uses words as weapons, George Carlin shares all-new, cutting-edge opinion and observational humor in this best seller...
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Written by: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle
- Length: 53 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Perhaps the ultimate in TV madness and absurdity, this is innovative and ground-breaking comedy....
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The Comedians
- Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy
- Written by: Kliph Nesteroff
- Narrated by: Kliph Nesteroff
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6
Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent research, annoying impressions
- By Christine Hackman on 2020-03-13
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The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Included in this collection are 19 of Wodehouse's classic pre-World War II stories....
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The Goon Show, Volume 1
- Moriarity, Where Are You?
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Here's a crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe....
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Old-Time Radio's Greatest Stars: Lucille Ball Collection 1
- Written by: Black Eye Entertainment
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Original Recording
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Lucille Ball was an accomplished actress, comedian, model, entertainment studio executive and producer. This collection contains 10 of her popular radio performances, and we hope you will Love Lucy all over again....
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Occupational Hazards: The Blue-Collar Omnibus
- Written by: Geoff Sturtevant
- Narrated by: John McLain, Jonathan Sleep, Steven Jay Cohen, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Occupational Hazards is an unflinching ride through the absurdity of it all. Existentialism, absurdism, and outlandish humor merge with ordinary, workaday life for a truly unique perspective of the human experience. Not recommended for the faint of heart or easily offended. But if meaty stories are what you're after....
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Dad Jokes
- Gift Book
- Written by: Ralph Lane
- Narrated by: Ralph Lane
- Length: 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Now, the best dad joke book is available on Audible for even more dad jokes fun. Ralph Lane reads his hilarious jokes with all the gusto that made him a local legend, except you get the added bonus of crazy sound effects in addition to Ralph's uproarious narrating style....
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Fawlty Towers, Volume 1
- Basil the Rat
- Written by: John Cleese, Connie Booth
- Narrated by: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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An Ideal Husband
- Written by: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Michael Ward
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of 24 hours....
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Fawlty Towers, Volume 2
- The Germans
- Written by: John Cleese, Connie Booth
- Narrated by: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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Fawlty Towers, Volume 3
- The Psychiatrist
- Written by: John Cleese, Connie Booth
- Narrated by: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas
- Written by: Lewis Black
- Narrated by: Lewis Black
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
From Lewis Black, the uproarious and perpetually apoplectic New York Times best-selling author comes a ferociously funny book about his least favorite holiday, Christmas....
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
- Written by: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, Mark Twain discusses the telling of stories, rather than providing more stories....
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Love Among the Chickens [Classic Tales Edition]
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Stanley Featherstonehough Ukridge is positively convinced that his complete ignorance of chicken farming gives him a particular advantage in the subject. A bombastic blowhard, he persuades his wife and his mild-mannered chum to start a chicken farm with him....
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Paranormal Misdirection
- Sasha Urban Series, Book 5
- Written by: Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
With my seer powers finally under my control, I'm ready to plunge into the unknown to find my father. He may have abandoned me, but I’ll go to the ends of the Otherlands to save him from his torment....
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4 out of 5 stars
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spoiler alert
- By Terranth on 2019-08-29
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The Goon Show Compendium: Volume 11 (Series 9, Pt 2 & Series 10)
- Twenty episodes of the classic BBC radio comedy series
- Written by: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Twenty remastered episodes of the legendary series plus bonus material. Popular and hugely influential, the groundbreaking radio series changed the face of British comedy....
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A Tramp Abroad
- Written by: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A Tramp Abroad (1880) by Mark Twain is a travel journal which includes autobiography and fictional events. The book chronicles a journey by the author and his friend Harris through central and southern Europe....
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Abbott & Costello
- Masters of Comedy
- Written by: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection presents the flat-out funny misunderstandings and wacky word play you expect from Bud and Lou....
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A Woman of No Importance
- Written by: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes, Samantha Mathis, Rosalind Ayres, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer....
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The Noël Coward Collection
- Written by: Noël Coward
- Narrated by: Annette Bening, Joe Mantegna, Eric Stoltz, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Original Recording
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Six phenomenally sophisticated Noël Coward comedies: Fallen Angels, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Blithe Spirit, Present Laughter....
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The Man Upstairs [Classic Tales Edition]
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 36 mins
- Unabridged
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P. G. Wodehouse gives us a delightful romantic comedy of two struggling artists who fantastically misunderstand each other....
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Something Fresh
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
The one thing that could be expected to disturb the peace of life at Blandings is the incursion of imposters....
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The Good Life: The Complete Collection
- Written by: John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
- Narrated by: Felicity Kendal, full cast, Paul Eddington, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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The escapades of the mismatched next-door neighbours whose friendship is constantly being tested to the limits are collected here with 30 hilarious episodes from the much loved BBC television series....
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The Importance of Being Earnest
- Written by: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Matt Montanez
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, one of the comic masterpieces of all time, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1895....