Clean Reads discussion
BBC Radio book dramatizations
Micah Clarke, by Arthur Conan Doyle https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 29 days left to listen to episode 1. Adventure novel set during the Monmouth Uprising in 1685.
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Hercule Poirot - Death on the Nile https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days left to listen.Louisa May Alcott - A Marble Woman https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09s... 28 days left. One of the thrillers she wrote under a pseudonym.
Hercule Poirot - Murder on the Links https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 27 days left.
Miss Marple - Nemesis https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010... 27 days left.
E.M. Forster - A Room with a View https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 27 days left to listen.Miss Marple - A Caribbean Mystery https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 26 days left.
Earthsea series 2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bn... Dramatizations of Ursula le Guin's novels Tehanu, The Other Wind and the short story Dragonfly. 13 days left to listen.Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008... 16 days left.
Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of the Four https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 18 days left.
Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 20 days left.
Sherlock Holmes - The Valley of Fear https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 24 days left.
Lord Peter Wimsey (by Dorothy Sayers) - Busman's Honeymoon https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 27 days left to listen.
Hercule Poirot - Evil Under the Sun https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days left.
Adrian Alington - The Amazing Test Match Crime https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Comedic, gentle mystery from the late 1930s. 14 days left.
The satyrical mystery below was dramatized from a book, but I haven't read the book or listened to the program, and could only find one written review between Goodreads and Amazon (probably because it was apparently originally written in Welsh) so I'm not sure exactly how well it meets the group's parameters. Use your own discretion. And if you do listen, let the rest of us know how it was. :)
Bloody Eisteddfod (5 part edition) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 16 days left.
Bloody Eisteddfod (omnibus edition) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 22 days left.
I decided to compile into one post the various links I have previously posted that are currently available indefinitely/without expiration.Oliver Twist, in its original setting, available indefinitely, from BBC's School Radio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-ra...
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v... Dramatization. Available now/for over a year.
A Christmas Carol https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-ra... BBC School Radio version. Reading, abridged. No expiration that I am aware of.
Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz (dramatizations of Dickens short stories)
Series 1: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r...
Series 2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r...
Both series are available now/for over a year.
A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3... Dickens' classic in a modern setting, with Revolutionary France replaced with Syria's civil war. Available now/for over a year.
A House to Let: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x... Based on a collaboration between Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell. Available now/for over a year.
The Pallisers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Based on the novels by Anthony Trollope. Six episodes, available now/for over a year.
Lewis Carroll - Alice through the Looking Glass: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p... Available now/for over a year.
Henry James - The Aspern Papers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/fav... Read by Samuel West; abridged. Available now/for over a year.
Henry James - Portrait of a Lady https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008... Available now/for over a year. This one is a reading.
Jane Austen's Emma: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008... And good news--this one is available now/for over a year!
Persuasion - Jane Austen https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p087... Available now/for over a year.
Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03j... Available now/for over a year. Based on a famous Russian poem.
George Eliot's classic novel Middlemarch https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Adapted in 12 parts. The first and last episodes are about an hour each, but all the ones in between are 14 minutes apiece. Available now/for over a year.
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Available now/for over a year.
The Shakespeare Sessions https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p065... This series has several dramatizations of Shakespeare plays, interspersed with episodes of interviews about Shakespeare and his plays. The eleven plays currently available are:
The Merchant of Venice
Measure for Measure
King Lear
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Winter's Tale
Julius Caesar
Coriolanus
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Henry IV, Part I
Othello
All are available now/for over a year. They are also downloadable as a podcast; the podcast RSS can be found via the "podcast" link on the series' menu bar.
Henry IV, Part I and Othello are also available via these links:
Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Available now/for over a year.
Shakespeare's Othello https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Available now/for over a year. Dramatized in a modern setting.
Carmen https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03n... Available now/for over a year. Based on Prosper Mérimée's novella (which is what inspired Bizet's opera).
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p086... Available now/for over a year.
R.L. Stevenson’s Weir of Hermiston https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Available now/for over a year.
The Tales of Beatrix Potter https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-ra... Over a dozen of Miss Potter's tales, read by an all-star cast, including Jim Broadbent, Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson and Alison Steadman. From BBC School Radio, so no expiration that I am aware of.
War Horse, by Michael Morpurgo https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-ra... Reading, abridged, from BBC School Radio. No expiration.
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This isn't BBC, but since it's basically the same subject (book readings), I'll go ahead and mention it here.
Some of you may be aware of this, but for those who aren't, Audible has made some of its books available for streaming because of the pandemic. The focus is on kids, so most of the selections are kids' books, but there is a "literary classics" section that includes Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Shakespeare's The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Frankenstein, and Moby-Dick, among a number of others. (Also, some C.S. Lewis non-fiction in the Teen section.)
https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
"For as long as schools are closed, we're open. Right now, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.
All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet."
Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08j... 20 days left to listen.John Buchan - The 39 Steps https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l... 27 days left.
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days left.
Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 24 days left to listen. Dramatization of a romantic suspense novel written in the 1950s. I believe group members have added at least of couple of Mary Stewart's other books to this group's bookshelf.Ray Bradbury - The Golden Apples of the Sun https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 25 days to listen. Sci-fi short stories; 4 episodes, with two stories per episode.
E.F. Benson - Secret Lives https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014... 25 days left. From a novel from the 1930s. Benson is perhaps better known as the author of the Mapp and Lucia comedic novels. From remarks in reviews, this sounds to be in the same vein, though it is not a Mapp and Lucia book.
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 28 days to listen. This is a different production than the one I have posted before (including in message 57) that is available indefinitely.
Agatha Christie's Absent in the Spring https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... One of her non-crime stories, written under the pen name Mary Westmacott. 29 days left to listen.Agatha Christie's The Lie https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... One of her (non-crime) stage plays, adapted for radio. 27 days to listen.
Pepys: Fire of London https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s... Dramatization from Samuel Pepys's diary of the events of the Great Fire of London. 28 days left to listen. Pepys's complete diary covers about ten years and includes his numerous sexual exploits. Since this dramatization is about the Great Fire, I'm guessing it probably doesn't get into his sexual issues, but I have not listened as of yet, so can't say for certain. Use your own discretion. If you do listen, let us know how it is.
Unofficial Rosie https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 26 days left. Based on a mystery/thriller by Alan McDonald. I couldn't find out any information on the book from either Goodreads or Amazon reviews, so use your own discretion--and let us know what you thought, if you do listen.
Agatha Christie's The Rose and the Yew Tree https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Another of her non-crime stories, written as Mary Westmacott. 29 days left.
Miss Marple – Sleeping Murder https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r... 20 days left to listen.Elizabeth Gaskell – Mr. Harrison’s Confession https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b041... 21 days left.
Kipps, by H.G. Wells https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 22 days left.
The Great Impersonation, by E. Phillips Oppenheim https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 27 days to listen.
Gaston LeRoux – The Perfume of the Lady in Black https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 28 days left.
Hercule Poirot – Peril at End House https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010... 29 days to listen.
Miss Marple - The Murder at the Vicarage https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days left to listen.
The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe. 24 days left to listen. (This was one of the Gothic romances famously satirized by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey.) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b086... Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent. 29 days left. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007...
Gilbert Without Sullivan, Series 1. Short stories by W.S. Gilbert (half of the famous comic opera duo Gilbert and Sullivan). 10 days left on the first episode, but subsequent episodes expire later--the last one isn't even out quite yet. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007...
Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Reading. 26 days left to listen.Hercule Poirot - Three Act Tragedy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days left.
My Favorite Husband https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 13 days left on the first episode. Subsequent episodes each expire a week later than the one before (and the last two aren't even out yet). This is a radio sitcom that Lucille Ball was in before "I Love Lucy"--and is actually what was later developed into "I Love Lucy." The radio series was based on/inspired by a couple of novels, which is why I'm including it here. If you like it, you can find 100+ public domain episodes on the Internet Archive website. Memsahib Emma https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s... 16 days left. Adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma set in mid-19th century India. I haven't listened to it yet, but look forward to trying it.
George Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07d... 29 days left before expiration.
Hercule Poirot - Murder in Mesopotamia https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days left.
Measure for Measure – William Shakespeare https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0... 29 days left.
Sherlock Holmes, with Carleton Hobbs, series 7 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 27 days left on episode 1. Six episodes, each a different story.Cadfael - Dead Man's Ransom https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... Ellis Peters' mystery about a monk from the 1100s. 27 days left.
M.R. James - "Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s... Based on James' 1904 ghost story. 25 days to listen.
Ivan Goncharov's Oblamov https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... Based on a Russian novel from 1859. 22 days left to listen.
H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08g... 19 days left.
USA by John Dos Passos https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 12 days left.
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Master of Ballantrae https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c... 20 days left.Bonecrack, by Dick Francis https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 22 days to listen. Thriller set in the world of horse racing.
Proof, by Dick Francis https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 24 days. Horse racing mystery-thrillers was Dick Francis's thing.
Vinegar Girl, by Anne Tyler (15-minute per episode version) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07f... 24 days left. Adaptation in a modern setting of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Reading; abridged.
Vinegar Girl, by Anne Tyler (Omnibus version) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07g... 29 days left.
Persuasion, by Jane Austen https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 26 days left. This is a different production from the one I listed in Message 57 that is available indefinitely.
Taken at the Flood - Hercule Poirot https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 28 days left.
Kafka's Metamorphosis https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08v... 28 days. In this production, "Franz Kafka's classic [has] a modern twist with a darkly comic edge."
Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, by Dorothy Sayers https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 29 days left.Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... Comic parody/satire from 1932. 29 days left.
Shardlake: Revelation https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08j... A Tudor-setting mystery, by C.J. Sansom. 29 days left.
Gilbert Without Sullivan, Series 2. Humorous short stories with an ironic twist, by W.S. Gilbert, half of the famous comic opera duo Gilbert and Sullivan. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days left to listen to the first episode (I think subsequent episodes become available a week apart.)Herman Melville - Moby Dick https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t... 29 days left.
Miss Marple - They Do It With Mirrors https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days before expiration.
C.J. Sansom - Shardlake: Revelation (omnibus edition) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08k... Tudor mystery. 27 days left.
H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08k... 27 days left.
When in Rome - an Inspector Alleyn mystery by Dame Ngaio Marsh.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008... 29 days to listen before expiration.
Maria Edgeworth - The Absentee https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079... 27 days left. Dramatization of a novel originally published in 1812.My American, by Stella Gibbons https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 27 days left. Reading; abridged.
Edgar Allan Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 26 days left.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 26 days left.
And because it's that season of the year, I'll go ahead and repost these:
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v... Dramatization. Available now/for over a year.
A Christmas Carol https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-ra... BBC School Radio version. Reading, abridged. No expiration that I am aware of.
Agnes Grey, by Anne Bronte (Omnibus version) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h... 29 days before expiration.Agnes Grey, by Anne Bronte (15-minute-per-episode version)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08g... 23 days before expiration.
FYI, one of the characters is prone to swearing.
Aurora Leigh https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08b... Dramatization based on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic poem. Only 4 days left.Hercule Poirot - Murder on the Orient Express https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 24 days left.
Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09z... 25 days left.
Lord Peter Wimsey - Have His Carcase https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s... 26 days left.
Brother Cadfael - Monk's Hood https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 26 days left.
Herman Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 27 days left.
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 28 days left.
Hercule Poirot – Five Little Pigs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r... 27 days to listen.Agatha Christie – The Sittaford Mystery https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008... 29 days left.
A Maigret Christmas https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Reading by Sir Derek Jacobi of Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret mystery. Abridged. 29 days left.
Louisa May Alcott – Little Women https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088... 29 days left.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Dickens https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... No expiration.
Words and Music - Dickens's World https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 29 days left. Readings of letters of Charles Dickens, set to music. Read by Sam West.Robert Louis Stevenson - Markheim https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 29 days left.
P.G. Wodehouse – Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09z... 24 days left.P.G. Wodehouse – What Ho, Jeeves: Joy in the Morning https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b... 28 days left.
A Maigret Christmas (Omnibus) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Reading by Sir Derek Jacobi of Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret mystery. Abridged. 28 days left.
Charles Dickens – The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09k... A short story originally from The Pickwick Papers. 28 days left.
Joan Aiken – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 28 days left. Classic children's book.
Hercule Poirot – One, Two Buckle My Shoe https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days left.
The Mind of Mr. JG Reeder – Edgar Wallace https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008... Detective stories from the 1920s. Reading, abridged. Each episode is a different story. 29 days left.
Mad Monkton, by Wilkie Collins https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 18 days left.Edgar Allan Poe – The Oblong Box https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03b... 19 days left. Reading.
Jerome K Jerome – The Dancing Partner https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08t... 19 days left.
John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 21 days left.
Tarka the Otter, by Henry Williamson https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 21 days left. Reading, abridged.
HG Wells – Ann Veronica https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08f... 22 days left.
A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08c... 24 days left.
Dick Francis - Bolt https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 26 days left. Horseracing thriller.
Cadfael - The Virgin in the Ice https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 28 days left. 12th century mystery.
Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (Herman McNeale) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n... 28 days left. Reading, abridged.
Mr. Finchley Takes the Road https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 28 days left. Comic novel from 1940 by Victor Canning.
Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03x... 28 days left. Dramatization of the Italian Renaissance epic poem.
Jules Verne - The Mysterious Island https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 27 days left to listen.Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q... 27 days left.
Hercule Poirot - The Mysterious Affair at Styles https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days left.
Babette's Feast, by Karen Blixen https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084... 29 days left. Reading.
Anthony Hope - Rupert of Hentzau https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q... 28 days to listen. Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda.Ethel Lena White - The Lady Vanishes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017... 26 days to listen. The book was perhaps most famously adapted into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock.
Tarka the Otter (Omnibus version) - Henry Williamson https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 15 days to listen. Reading, abridged.
Devils - Fyodor Dostoyevsky https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... No expiration! The title is sometimes translated "Demons."
James Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days left.Hercule Poirot - Elephants Can Remember https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h... 26 days to listen.
Abigail wrote: "James Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days left.Hercule Poirot - Elephants Can Remember https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h... 26 days t..."
I am so very grateful for you taking the time to post these regularly!
Oh, I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying them, Florence!
John Wyndham – Trouble with Lichen https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 1960 sci-fi. 27 days to listen. Reading, abridged.Mark Twain – The Million Pound Bank Note https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018... 28 days.
The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08l... 29 days.
Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... No Expiration. I have not listened to this production as of yet, so don't know how they deal with...what happens. Use your own discretion.Omnibus version of Babette's Feast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b086... Still has 7 days left.
Florence, you're very welcome!Here are a few more.
The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler -- Omnibus version https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08m... 14 days left to listen.
Charles Dickens - Tales of the Supernatural https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072... A series of 5 Dickens short stories. Each story is different, so if you miss one before it expires, check for the others, which may still be up. 22 days left to listen to the first one.
Henry James - Daisy Miller https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08z... 29 days to listen.
Henry James – Daisy Miller (Omnibus) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 21 days.Mikhail Bulgakov – The White Guard https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 23 days to listen.
Esther Waters https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r... Dramatization of a late Victorian novel about a fallen woman, by George Moore. 25 days left.
Dodie Smith's late 1930s play "Dear Octopus" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06q... 28 days left.
Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082... 29 days left.
Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street – Edinburgh for Pretenders https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07c... 29 days left.
Father Brown Stories, by G.K. Chesterton -
Series 1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007...
Series 2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f...
Stars Andrew Sachs. No expiration.
Thomas Hardy - The Hand of Ethelberta https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... No expiration.
Stella Gibbons - Westwood https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012... 25 days left. Same author as Cold Comfort Farm.Death and the Dancing Footman - an Inspector Alleyn mystery by Dame Ngaio Marsh. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w... 28 days left.
Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street – Edinburgh for Pretenders (Omnibus version) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07d... 28 days left.
Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y... 29 days before expiration.
White Fang, by Jack London https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Reading, abridged. 29 days left.
This isn't BBC, but given that the subject is a classic book, I'll go ahead and post here, in addition to the separate thread I made for it:Christianaudio.com offers a new free download of an audiobook starting the first Friday of each month and available for the whole month. Usually they are nonfiction, but for the month of April the selection is The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan. The edition is read by Nadia May, unabridged, and 10.5 hours. You need to set up a free account to download. Download is here: https://christianaudio.com/free/ You can listen to a sample of the reading here: https://christianaudio.com/the-pilgri...
Isaac Asimov - I, Robot (Omnibus) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08d... 25 days left to listen before expiration.Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n... From a novel first published in 1902. 26 days before expiration.
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09b... First aired in 1959. 26 days left. Each episode is a different story, so check if the later episodes are still available if you miss the first before it expires.
Stand by For West - Inspector West at Bay https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... First broadcast in 1969, based on a novel published in 1952. 27 days left.
Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f... 27 days left.Lord Peter Wimsey - Five Red Herrings https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 29 days to listen.
Mr. Finchley Goes to Paris https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g... Series 2 of the Mr. Finchley adventures. 29 days left.
The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Marjoribanks https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l... From a 19th century novel by Margaret Oliphant. I have listened to it before and it is funny and charming. 24 days to listen.Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c... 29 days to listen.
"Mushrooms in the City" from Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 29 days to listen. [Edited to add: this is the first story in a set of dramatised short stories from Marcovaldo.]
The Sherlock Holmes series I mentioned a couple of posts back is now available indefinitely, instead of set to expire, as it had been. Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09b... Several of the other series featuring this actor as Sherlock have also been made available indefinitely--click on "Episodes" on the menu bar.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency -- The House of Unexpected Sisters: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... and The Colours of All the Cattle: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Available for 27 days and 28 days, respectively. Alexander McCall Smith's very cozy Botswanan detective stories.The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Series 1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... Available indefinitely. This is a different Sherlock production than the other one I recently posted with Carleton Hobbs. This one stars Clive Merrison as Sherlock and the stories are original stories written by a BBC writer. According to Wikipedia, "Each of the stories is based on a throwaway reference from an actual Doyle short story or novel."
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008... Reading, abridged, of the detective stories by Edgar Wallace. Available indefinitely.
Father Brown - The Secret Garden https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01... This stars a different actor, Richard Greenwood, than the Father Brown production I posted about a month ago that starred Andrew Sachs. Available indefinitely.
The Toff and the Runaway Bride https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... Based on John Creasey’s novel of the same name, first published in 1959. (Creasey is the same author who wrote the Chief Inspector Roger West series.) 24 days left to listen.Ivan Turgenev – On the Eve https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 27 days left.
Miss Marple - The Moving Finger https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 26 days left to listen.Elizabeth Gaskell - Curious, If True https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t... A 'collection of intriguing "true" tales.' Each story is different. 27 days left on the first story.
Lord Peter Wimsey - The Nine Tailors https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... Dorothy Sayers' 1930s detective story. 29 days to listen.
William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t... 21 days left.George Bernard Shaw - The Man of Destiny https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... 24 days left.
Murder & Mystery - Series 5, which is Edgar Allen Poe short stories https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... Readings, abridged. Each episode is a different story. 24 days left to listen.
George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g... 25 days left to listen. Production from 1991.
Hardy's Women - The Woodlanders https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/fav... Available for over a year.
This week's Drama of the Week podcast selection is Hardy's Women - The Woodlanders - Part 1
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09g... I believe it is an omnibus of what is parts 1-5 in the link just above this. It can be downloaded to listen to at your leisure for the next 13 days.
George Eliot - Daniel Deronda https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007... 24 days left.
James Fenimore Cooper - The Spy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019... 11 days left.