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Good night and good riddance : how thirty-five years of John Peel helped to shape modern life / by Cavanagh, David,1964-2018,author.(CARDINAL)689510;
Includes bibliographical references."A chronological history of 265 programmes presented by John Peel between 1967 and 2003. It's the story of a changing music scene, a changing radio landscape and a changing Britain. the story of how a shy man who played records for a living ended up having an impact as far-reaching as any rock group. A social history, a diary of a nation's changing culture, and an in-depth appraisal of one of our greatest broadcasters, a man who can legitimately be called the most influential figure in post-war British popular music. Without the support of John Peel, it's unlikely that innumerable artists - from David Bowie to Dizzee Rascal, Jethro Tull to Joy Division - would have received national radio exposure. But Peel's influence goes much deeper than this. Whether he was championing punk, reggae, jungle or grime, he had a unique relationship with his audience that was part taste-maker, part trusted friend. The book ... [gives] a thorough overview of Peel's broadcasting career and placing it in its cultural and social contexts. Peel comes alive for the reader, as do the key developments that kept him at the cutting edge - the changes in his tastes; the changes in his thinking. Just like a Peel show, Goodnight and Good Riddance is warm, informative and insightful, and wears its enthusiasm proudly."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Peel, John, 1939-2004.; BBC Radio 1.; Radio broadcasters; Radio and music; Radio broadcasting; Popular music; Indie pop music;
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War and peace [sound recording] / by Tolstoy, Leo;
Subjects: Historical drama.; Radio plays.; War stories.; Audiobooks America.; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815;
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Petite Mort / by Hitchman, Beatrice,1980-author.(CARDINAL)609828;
Spanning seven decades, this thriller offers insights into early Parisian film making and the amoral glitterati who brought it to dizzying life. Adele Roux starred in PetiteMort, a 1914 silent film that was believed destroyed in a fire at the Pathé factory before it could be distributed. Adele's involvement in a murder case later that year ensured that the film was not reshot. Provocative snippets of the actress's titillating memoirs, told in her old age to journalist Juliette Blanc, chronicle her passionate affairs with seductive special-effects inventor André Durand and his ravishing and sinister actress wife, Luce. The memoir's chilling glimpses of the leading characters' precociously lethal early lives counterpoint the 1967 rediscovery of the lost film with one crucial scene missing.A silent film, destroyed in a fire in 1914, before it was seen by its director. A lowly seamstress who believes her talent - and the secret she keeps - will soon get her a dressing room of her own. A beautiful house in Paris, with a curving staircase, a lake and locked rooms. A famous creator of cinematic illusions, husband to a beautiful actress, the most adored icon of the Parisian studios. All fit together, like scenes in a movie. And as you will see, this plot has a twist we beg you not to disclose.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Actors; Motion picture industry; Murder; Nineteen sixties; Silent films; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Women journalists; Love triangles.;
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Death on the Nile [sound recording] / by Christie, Agathaauthor.; Moffatt, Johnnarrator.;
Read by Various Readers, John Moffatt.Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Detective and mystery stories.; Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character); Private investigators; Murder; Belgians;
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The Hobbit [sound recording] by Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.; Kilgarriff, Michael.; Powell, John.; Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Hobbit.; British Broadcasting Corporation.;
Adapted by Michael Kilgarriff; produced by John Powell; musi by David Cain...Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit, is a peaceful sort who lives in a cozy hole in the Shire, a place where adventures are uncommon--and rather unwanted. So when the wizard Gandalf whisks him away on a treasure-hunting expedition with a troop of rowdy dwarves, he is not entirely thrilled.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Middle Earth (Imaginary place); Radio plays.;
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Dead man's folly [sound recording] by Christie, Agatha,1890-1976.(CARDINAL)140064; Moffatt, John,1922-2012,performer.;
BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt.Ariadne Oliver, Queen of Crime Fiction, has been asked to devise a Murder Hunt for a fete at Nasse House, the home of Sir George Stubbs. But she begins to suspect that someone is manipulating the scenario of her game and fears that something very sinister is being planned. She sends for her old friend Hercule Poirot. At first he is not inclined to take her very seriously, but soon, a series of events propels him to change his mind. Then suddenly, all of Ariadne's worst fears are realised when the girl playing the part of the murder victim is found strangled in the boat-house.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Audiobooks.; Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character);
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Cards on the table [sound recording] by Christie, Agatha,1890-1976.(CARDINAL)140064;
Five people in one room, four of them absorbed in a game of bridge, the fifth sitting quietly by the fire with a steel dagger in his heart. Hercule Poirot heads the investigation to find which of the four is the most likely killer.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Audiobooks.; Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character); Talking books.;
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The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. [sound recording] : BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. by Maggs, Dirk.,author.; Adams, Douglas,1952-2001,author.(CARDINAL)313074; Colfer, Eoin,author.(CARDINAL)356916; Dramatization of (work)Colfer, Eoin.And another thing.;
Written and directed by Dirk Maggs.Starring John Lloyd as The Book, with Simon Jones as Arthur, Geoff McGivern as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Sandra Dickinson and Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Jim Broadbent as Marvin the Paranoid Android and Jane Horrocks as Fenchurch, the cast also includes Samantha Beart, Toby Longworth, Andy Secombe, Ed Byrne, Lenny Henry, Philip Pope, Mitch Benn, Jon Culshaw and Professor Stephen Hawking.The brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast series based on "And Another Thing...' the sixth book in the famous Hitchhiker's Guide "trilogy". Forty years on from the first ever radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent and friends return in six brand new episodes, in which they are thrown back into the Whole General Mish Mash in a rattling adventure involving Viking Gods and Irish Confidence Tricksters, with our first glimpse of Eccentrica Gallumbits and a brief but memorable moment with The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast Of Traal. This edition also includes over 50 minutes of unbroadcast bonus material. Listeners are reminded that the relaxed attitude to danger provided by Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses is no substitute for running around, screaming.Contains strong language.
Subjects: Science fiction plays.; Comedy plays.; Radio plays.; Dent, Arthur (Fictitious character); Prefect, Ford; Extraterrestrial beings;
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Hercule Poirot in Lord Edgware dies [sound recording] / by Christie, Agatha,1890-1976.(CARDINAL)140064; Moffatt, John,1922-2012.;
Starring John Moffatt.Lady Edgware never kept quiet about wanting out of her unhappy marriage. But when she stands accused of murdering her husband, expert sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates her claim of innocence.
Subjects: Talking books.; Detective and mystery stories.; Radio plays.;
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The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club [sound recording] / by Sayers, Dorothy L.,1893-1957,author.;
Dramatised by Alistair Beaton ; directed by Simon Brett.Ian Carmichael, Peter Jones, Martin Jarvis, and a full cast.When aristocratic amateur-sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey finds General Fentiman dead in his favourite chair, the dignified calm of the Bellona Club is shattered. A straightforward death by natural causes? Perhaps ... but why can no-one remember seeing the General the day he died? And who is the mysterious Mr Oliver? Moving between London and Paris, salon and suburbs, Lord Peter Wimsey unfolds an intriguing case and reveals all in one of Dorothy L. Sayer's most popular mysteries.
Subjects: Radio programs. ; Detective and mystery stories. ; Audiobooks.; Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character); Private investigators;
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