Audiobooks narrated by Jasper Britton

Maureen & Friends: A BBC Radio Collection of Comedy Monologues and Dramas

Two series of Maureen Lipman's monologues and musings, plus four comedy dramas written especially for her 'Marvellous' Daily Telegraph Award-winning actress and comedian Maureen Lipman has been entertaining audiences for over half a century. Her career has encompassed film, theatre, TV and radio; she has written several bestselling autobiographies; and in 2020 she was made a Dame in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. In this sparkling collection, the irrepressible 'Queen of Coronation Street' takes to the airwaves with her hilarious monologues, diverting duologues and amusing anecdotes - all recorded in front of a live audience. Also included are four comedy dramas showcasing her manifold talents. Maureen & Friends finds her following in the footsteps of the late, great Joyce Grenfell as she brings her own incisive wit to the monologue tradition. Series 1 finds her riffing on topics as diverse as Jane Austen, pesky rodents, stroppy teenagers, Balkan windscreen-washers and life in the Covid era; while in Series 2 she is joined by fellow actor Oliver Cotton to give life and opinions to a variety of comic characters, both human and animal - from a crossword whiz to a Canada goose. In A Month of Maureen, she stars in four comedy dramas specially scripted for her: Three Journeys tells the poignant, funny tale of a mother and son Five Lessons is a delightful comedy about a pianist and his pupil Dead Rellies centres around a revelatory trip to a Jewish cemetery Theodora Potts: Victorian Psychic is a surreal comedy-drama featuring a medium with a secret, who's about to meet her match. Among Maureen Lipman's co-stars are Jasper Britton, Julian Rhind-Tutt, George Layton and Tracy-Ann Oberman. Credits Maureen & Friends Written and performed by Maureen Lipman with Oliver Cotton Produced by David Hunter and Tracey Neale First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 27 December 2019-3 January 2020 (Series 1) and 16-23 March 2022 (Series 2) A Month of Maureen Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 6-27 November 2017 Three Journeys Molly - Maureen Lipman Paul - Jasper Britton Written by Gary Brown Five Lessons PW - Maureen Lipman Conrad - Julian Rhind-Tutt Written by Marcy Kahan Pianist Peter Ringrose Dead Rellies Fay - Maureen Lipman Alan - George Layton Cynthia - Julie Teal Written by Gary Brown Theodora Potts: Victorian Psychic Theodora Potts - Maureen Lipman Sioux Sioux - Tracy-Ann Oberman Adolphus/Dr von Ubermench - Neil McCaul Countess - Ellie Darvill The Earl - Clive Hayward Mr Brown - Rupert Holliday Evans Clemmie - Abbie Andrews Mr Soames - Gary Duncan Woman with birthmark - Isabella Inchbald Written by Tracy-Ann Oberman and Ivor Baddiel © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Maureen Lipman (Author), Full Cast, George Layton, Jasper Britton, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Maureen Lipman, Oliver Cotton, Tracy-Ann Oberman (Narrator)

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The Law Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

Discover the big ideas behind more than 90 of history's most important legal rulings and milestone laws - from the earliest civilizations to the 21st century. From the philosophical, religious, and moral codes of the world's earliest societies, such as the Law Code of Hammurabi and the Ten Commandments, through groundbreaking legislation such as The Book of Punishments, Magna Carta and the Slavery Abolition Act, The Law Book offers an engaging and accessible overview of legal history across the world all the way into the 21st century with copyright in the digital age, gay marriage, and the 'right to be forgotten'. With entries on the fight for universal suffrage and workers' rights, and the establishment of international legal bodies like INTERPOL and the European Court of Justice, The Law Book explores and explains the stories behind each milestone development. Using the Big Ideas series' trademark combination of authoritative, informative text, The Law Book makes each entry accessible and easy to understand. Packed with inspirational quotations and more, it offers essential listening for anyone with a professional or personal interest in law, the legal system, or history and social change. © 2020 Dorling Kindersley Ltd © 2020 DK Audio

Dk (Author), Jasper Britton (Narrator)

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Gulliver's Travels

Lemuel Gulliver, a slightly staid ship's doctor, relates the tales of his astonishing travels. He encounters the tiny, warring Lilliputians; the giant, sceptical Brobdingnagians; the ludicrously intellectual Laputans; and the idealistic - if rather stolid - Houyhnhnms and their bestial servants, the Yahoos. An immediate best-seller when it was first published in 1726, Gulliver's Travels has remained a favourite ever since. It was an attack on the politics and society of Swift's day, but it is also a polemical, inventive, surreal, vitriolic and wonderfully imaginative masterpiece, whose powerful satire continues to strike home.

Jonathan Swift (Author), Jasper Britton (Narrator)

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Pirates!

Which pirate incubated chickens in camel-dung? What would Blackbeard do if you didn't hand over your jewellery (it wasn't nice)? Which pirate was called 'The Exterminator'? Where's the treasure buried? Why were two women dressed as men on the same pirate ship? Who made the Jolly Roger famous? And who was the greatest pirate ever? This 2-CD history answers all these questions and many more; it is the ideal introduction to the facts behind the great legends of piracy. Whatever you think you know about pirates, the truth is even more extraordinary! **Please contact member services for additional documents**

Roy McMillan (Author), Jasper Britton (Narrator)

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The Great Poets William Wordsworth

The Great Poets series launched in 2007 has proved very popular, offering many of the best-loved poems by popular poets in an inexpensive 1 CD collection ? and well read by leading actors. This anthology of the leading ?Lake Poet?, with poems that many can still recite, will undoubtedly become a best-seller. The collection includes I wondered lonely as a cloud, I travelled among unknown men, My heart leaps up and Tintern Abbey.

William Wordsworth (Author), Jasper Britton, Oliver Ford Davies (Narrator)

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

A mysterious knight all in green arrives at King Arthur's court and issues a bizarre challenge. Gawain answers the knight - but at what cost? This new translation keeps all the poetic power of the original's extraordinary alliteration. In doing so it brings the saga vividly to life, and in a manner that demands to be heard. One of the greatest stories of English literature from any period, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a magical medieval combination of the epic and the uncanny.

Various Authors (Author), Jasper Britton (Narrator)

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island must be the most enthralling adventure book ever written. As we listen to the voice of Jim Hawkins telling his extraordinary tale, and later that of his companion Dr Livesey, we are plunged into a world of pirates, buried treasure, mutiny and deceit. We meet Billy Bones, Blind Pew, Black Dog and, of course, the charming buccaneer Long John Silver. The action and adventure never falter, and the spell of this enduring story is sustained until the very last word.

Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Jasper Britton (Narrator)

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Othello

This great tragedy confronts the mystery at the heart of evil and contains some of Shakespeare’s most magnificent dramatic verse. Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian senator. But Iago, Othello’s malignant ensign, is determined to destroy their happiness. Cunningly bending Othello to his own purposes, Iago persuades the Moor that Desdemona is unfaithful to him. Tormented in a hell of jealousy, Othello moves inexorably toward the destruction of his innocent wife and himself. Othello is played by Don Warrington, David Threlfall is Iago, Anne-Marie Duff is Desdemona, and Jasper Britton plays Cassio.

E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Tom Wheelwright, William Shakespeare (Author), A Full Cast, Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, Don Warrington, Jasper Britton (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Jasper Britton