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Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal - including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other....

A dynamic remastering of the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - Fit the First to Fit the Sixth - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend. The original series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, remastered by Dirk Maggs (director of the Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases) to give a full, vibrant sound, now with Philip Pope’s version of the familiar theme tune and specially re-recorded announcements by John Marsh. 

Stranded on Prehistoric Earth since the end of the first series, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are once again trying to hitch their way off the planet. Zaphod finds his visit to the offices of the Guide rudely interrupted by Frogstar fighters, who further threaten to feed him to the Total Perspective Vortex. Eventually reunited, the three fetch up on the planet Brontitall and discover the indigenous species in something of a flap. Arthur meets Lintilla (several of her), Marvin gets to be a hero once again, and there is a meeting with the Man in the Shack who apparently runs the Universe.... 

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of one of the earliest plays by Alan Bennett. The 1970s are a time of change, but Labour MP George Oliver feels stuck in one place: distrusting the ‘mawkish mentality’ of the young and fearing the encroaching life of the middle-aged, with little to look forward to but the imminent end of a not-very-interesting road.

Read by Hannah Gordon, Susan Sheridan and Rupert Degas. Mog, everyone’s favourite cat, is back and she is not happy…Mog loves her garden, but somehow it seems to have completely disappeared over night. What Mog doesn’t realise is that the flappy floppy thing that has replaced her garden is in fact a marquee put up for a cat show. Mog hides in the house and is oblivious to the cats of various sizes and colours who parade themselves hoping to be winners. Then curiosity takes over and Mog makes a spectacular entrance in true prize-winning form!

Two books in one volume featuring the lovable Fanny Witch, the village schoolteacher who goes on all sorts of rescue missions. Everyone loves Fanny Witch, but she's not so popular when she magics up a brontosaurus to show the children. Then the Thunder Lizard steals her Spell Book...

A wonderful counting book from Judith Kerr, the best-selling author of the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came to Tea"One moonlit, magical night in the zooAn elephant jumped in the air and flew.But nobody knew."It's only once all the visitors have gone home that the real fun starts in the Zoo! Follow all the animals throughout the night in this gorgeous picture book and find out what mischief they get into.

Join in with BBC presenters, Susan Sheridan and Jimmy Hibbert as they sing along to their 60 favourite nursery rhymes. These include: "Sing a Song of Sixpence"; "London Bridge is Falling Down"; "Jack and Jill"; "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary"; "Hey Diddle Diddle the Cat and the Fiddle"; "I Saw Three Ships"; "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"; "Wee Willie Winkie"; "One, Two, Buckle my Shoe"; "Humpty Dumpty"; "See-Saw Margery Daw"; "The Grand Old Duke of York"; and more.