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I, Regress: The Complete Series 1-2: A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama

All ten episodes of the dark, surreal comedy featuring Matt Berry's twisted regression therapist Unorthodox, unpredictable, and verging on the unprofessional, Dr Berry is a deeply disturbing hypnotherapist. His experimental regressive technique is both strange and terrifying, and involves taking unsuspecting clients on unsettling journeys through their subconscious. Each episode sees him dealing with a patient who needs treatment for a particular problem. There's Karen House-Water, who's aquaphobic (and therefore afraid of half her own name); Ray Highknock, a smoking addict who wants to kick the habit; a pair of East End twins with unexpected past lives and a man who's scared of everything about cats (including the musical). As the doctor puts them into a trance, we take a trip into the deepest recesses of their minds, experiencing alongside them the dreamlike - or nightmare-like - situations that their brains (and Dr Berry) have created. But as they're faced with talking dolphins, an interplanetary voyage, the inside of a whale and the God of Thunder, they soon realise that the cure could be worse than the disease... Brilliantly bizarre and an ideal late-night listen, this dark, Lynch-meets Kaufman-style series won the 2012 Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy. It stars Matt Berry (Toast of London, The IT Crowd) as Dr Berry, with a stellar cast including Katherine Parkinson, Simon Greenall, Morgana Robinson, Bob Mortimer, Steve Pemberton and Daisy Haggard. Cast and credits Written and performed by Matt Berry With Katherine Parkinson, Tara Flynn, Alex Rivers, Paul Moriarty, Simon Greenall, Jack Klaff, Morgana Robinson, Derek Griffiths, Alex Lowe, Deeivya Meir, Nick Lucas, Simon Bubb, Alan Ford, Lewis MacLeod, Tracy-Ann Obeman, Bob Mortimer, Amaka Okafor, Steve Pemberton, Daisy Haggard, Steve Furst, Isabel Fay, Daisy Beaumont, Julia Deakin, Michael Shelford Produced by Sam Bryant First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 3 January-7 February 2012 (Series 1), 3-24 April 2013 (Series 2) ©2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Matt Berry (Author), Alex Lowe, Amaka Okafor, Bob Mortimer, Daisy Haggard, Full Cast, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry, Morgana Robinson, Steve Pemberton, Steve Pemberton (Narrator)

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Fish Heads and Duck Skin: A Novel

On the advice of a five-dollar psychic, Tina Martin, a zany, overworked mother of two, quits her high-powered job and moves her family to Shanghai. Tina yearns for this new setting to bring her the zen-like inner peace she’s always heard about on infomercials. Instead, she becomes a totally exasperated fish out of water, doing wacky things like stealing the shoes of a shifty delivery man, spraying local women with a bidet hose, and contemplating the murder of her new pet cricket. It takes the friendship of an elderly tai chi instructor, a hot Mandarin tutor, and several mah-jongg-tile-slinging expats to bring Tina closer to a culture she doesn’t understand, the dream job she never knew existed, and the self she has always sought. Fish Heads and Duck Skin will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered who they are, why they were put here, and how they ever lived before eating pan-fried pork buns.

Lindsey Salatka (Author), Hannah Baker (Narrator)

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New Teeth: Stories

Laugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the "Serena Williams of humor writing" (New York Times Book Review) about raising babies and trying to learn how not to be one. Called a "comedic Godsend" by Conan O'Brien, and "the Stephen King of comedy writing" by John Mulaney, Simon Rich is back with New Teeth, his funniest and most personal collection yet. Two murderous pirates find a child stowaway on board and attempt to balance pillaging with co-parenting. A woman raised by wolves prepares for her parents' annual Thanksgiving visit. An aging mutant superhero is forced to learn humility when the mayor kicks him upstairs to a desk job. And in the hard-boiled caper, "The Big Nap," a weary two-year-old detective struggles to make sense of "a world gone mad." Equal parts silly and sincere, New Teeth is an ode to growing up, growing older, and what it means to make a family.

Simon Rich (Author), Fred Berman (Narrator)

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Heartbreak for Hire: A Novel

A smart, sexy, and witty romantic comedy—perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne—about a twentysomething who lives out every woman's fantasy: getting paid to give men who do us wrong a taste of their own medicine. But when a previous target unexpectedly shows up at her office, she's forced to rethink her life as a professional heartbreaker. Brinkley Saunders has a secret. To everyone in the academic world she left behind, she lost it all when she dropped out of grad school. Once a rising star following in her mother's footsteps, she's now an administrative assistant at an insurance agency—or so they think. In reality, Brinkley works at Heartbreak for Hire, a secret service that specializes in revenge for jilted lovers, frenemies, and long-suffering coworkers with a little cash to spare and a man who needs to be taken down a notch. It might not be as prestigious as academia, but it helps Brinkley save for her dream of opening an art gallery and lets her exorcise a few demons, all while helping to empower women. But when her boss announces she's hiring male heartbreakers for the first time, Brinkley's no longer so sure she's doing the right thing—especially when her new coworker turns out to be a target she was paid to take down. Though Mark spends his days struggling up the academic ladder, he seems to be the opposite of a backstabbing adjunct: a nerd at heart in criminally sexy sweater vests who's attentive both in and out of the bedroom. But as Brinkley finds it increasingly more difficult to focus on anything but Mark, she soon realizes that like herself, people aren't always who they appear to be. With Sonia Hartl's "bitingly funny" (Publishers Weekly) prose, Heartbreak for Hire is a clever romcom you and your girlfriends won't be able to stop talking about.

Sonia Hartl (Author), Shaina Summerville (Narrator)

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Jared Pond och de tadzjikistanska baggarna.

När Jared Pond skickas på ett uppdrag för att hjälpa diktatorn i Tadzjikistan, Kokhir Ramon, för att säkra fyra tadzjikiska baggar åt Scurry Morrissette, står han inför ett dilemma: Han vet ingenting om Tadzjikistan. Men efter en rad misslyckade uppdrag, är Jared besluten att följa sina order till punkt och pricka. Men är det vettigt att hjälpa diktatorn att eliminera oppositionen medan han avstår från att ha sex med Kokhirs vackra dotter, Madina?

Martin Lundqvist (Author), Martin Lundqvist (Narrator)

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Jared Pond och Kiribatikonfrontationen

Efter ett fylleslag på kasinot beslutar sig Jared för att lämna Australien för att undvika mediauppmärksamhet . För att fördriva tiden, bestämmer han sig för att konfrontera den mordiska galningen Martin Orchard i hans söderhavsherrgård. Men är det klokt att konfrontera en galning eller kommer Jareds senaste dårskap att ytterligare förstöra hans rykte?

Martin Lundqvist (Author), Martin Lundqvist (Narrator)

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Z Diaries, Staffel 1, Teil 5 (ungekürzt)

Anja Hansen (Author), Martin Kuupa (Narrator)

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Tender is the BIte

Spencer Quinn's Tender Is the Bite is a brand new adventure in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series that Stephen King calls 'without a doubt the most original mystery series currently available.' Chet and Bernie are contacted by a terribly scared young woman who seems to want their help. Before she can even tell them her name, she flees in panic. But in that brief meeting Chet sniffs out an important secret about her, a secret at the heart of the mystery he and Bernie set out to solve. It's a case with no client and no crime and yet great danger, with the duo facing a powerful politician who has a lot to lose. Their only hope lies with a ferret named Griffie who adores Bernie. Is there room for a ferret in the Chet and Bernie relationship? That's the challenge Chet faces, the biggest of his career. Hanging in the balance are the lives of two mistreated young women and the future of the whole state.

Spencer Quinn (Author), Jim Frangione (Narrator)

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What to do if you see a ghost?

Barakath (Author), Barakath (Narrator)

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The World of Glimpse

An Audiobook for All Ages. The World of Glimpse is a make-believe world of contagious rhythms, luminous color and vibrant landscapes. The Glimpsibles of Glimpse live a life of creativity, productivity, collaboration, and joyful exuberance. Contrasting with this world is Sooma Sooma, the junk-dump of the universe and home to the Dreaded Drooma who spend their time plotting just how to drain color, joy and creativity from the World of Glimpse. Will Spunktaneous become the seventh and final Spark of Glimpse and protect their beloved world from the greed and destructivity of the Dreaded Drooma who continually thwart his journey to sparkhood? An invitation to you to unwind your flow ... By penetrating a glimpse- without intention... you'll step into a world from a new dimension. If you...shut your eyes, you'll hear some cosmic verse... Songs and sounds of the Universe.

Ellen Palestrant (Author), Ellen Palestrant (Narrator)

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Weird Santa: & other Xmas Tales

Weird Santa & other Xmas Tales is magic realism with a dash of erotic spiciness. The ten independent stories in this collection range from “A Doggie’s Tale,” a boy-and-his-dog story appropriate for children, to “Never Too Old, Never Too Late” in which an old babushka recounts her Christmases in the Old Country. After receiving her magic gingerbread cookies, Ana’s young American friends, two couples, discover the depth of their passion for each other on a snowy Christmas Eve. In the previous two volumes of short fiction the stories were interconnected. Here they stand alone and there is something in this anthology for everyone to enjoy, whether they hate the winter holidays or revel in them. More than one Scrooge is happily converted before the story’s conclusion. This collection of Christmas tales is illustrated with wintry scenes from holidays past and present. As Hypatia says in “Weird Santa,” the title story, “Many impossible things happen at Christmas, I guess, and if they happen, then they must be possible.”

Brian Allan Skinner (Author), Brian Allan Skinner (Narrator)

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The Magic of Kindness: A Novel in Short Stories

“The Magic of Kindness” is magic realism with a dash of erotic spiciness. Like the author’s previous collection of tales, it is a “novel in short stories.” The eight quirky tales in the present volume are connected not only by plot elements, but also by everyday objects and characters who appear in more than one story. A few of the tales are inadvertent romances. The author draws once again upon his stable of six trustworthy players who first appeared in, “Shoot Me, Jesus: Tales of the Old & New Southwest.” Though some of the characters have changed their names and others wear disguises, they will still be familiar to readers who enjoyed the previous volume. Each of these stories is a stand-alone work of short fiction that can be read in any order. The connected tales are founded on the sparks and flashes of insight in daily life, enlivened with humor and a positive attitude in the face of unpleasant realities. The stories are those of the characters, who speak in their own voices. The rhythm of their dialogue, the music of their speech, is drawn from the rich vocal textures and languages of New York City and other places. Though fictional, with often fantastical elements, the stories take place in real life.

Brian Allan Skinner (Author), Brian Allan Skinner (Narrator)

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