Poems chosen by listeners to Poetry Please - ballards, satires, songs or prayers - for every mood and taste.

More Poetry Please (Everyman Poetry Library)

Literature & Fiction

BBC Radio

Poetry

Everyman

Lurgi Strikes Britain, The International Christmas Pudding, Napoleons Piano, and The Fleas Anarchic. Ground-breaking and hilariously inventive, The Goon Show re-shaped comedy and set new standards in the genre. The mix of brilliant wordplay, mental slapstick and surreal clowning ensures the popularity of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe will never wane.

The Goon Show: Four Digitally Remastered Episodes (BBC Radio Collection)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

AudioGO

Now on CD, this programme focuses on the largest sea-borne invasion in modern history ? and one of the world's most tightly kept secrets. It brings together despatches from the BBC War Correspondents who brought up-to-the-minute, graphic descriptions of the events to the listening public. This is a unique collection, a chance to hear history in the making: the day and the hour of D-Day June 1944.

D-Day : Despatches

BBC Audiobooks

The Two Towers: Radio Dramatization

Science Fiction & Fantasy

J.R.R.Tolkien

Fantasy

BBC Audiobooks America

This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness', by way of Larkin's 'young-leafed June' and Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'glassy peartree leaves and blooms' when 'Nothing is so beautiful as Spring'. As the year changes, so we change with it. Since time out of mind our daily lives have been shaped and directed by the seasons, and it is here that we find poems about harvest and hardship, growth and new life, the warmth of the life-giving sun, Christmas and the closing of the year. Poetry Please: Seasonal Poems is a vital and generous gathering to treasure.

Poetry Please The Seasons

GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006

Four of the best 2015 episodes of the much-loved panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Just a Minute is a national institution. The Minute Waltz has been the signature tune for wonderfully witty entertainment since 1968, making the show one of the longest-running radio comedy shows of all time. In these four episodes, recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre and Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, long-time panellists including Julian Clary, Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock and Liza Tarbuck return for more fast-paced fun.  Taking on the challenge for the first time is David Tennant, who caused headlines by speaking uninterrupted for the full 60 seconds in his very first game! Among the topics tackled are 'Exit, Pursued by a Bear', 'Canterbury Tales', 'The Garden of England', 'Death and Taxes' and 'The Count of Monte Cristo'. Chaired by the redoubtable Nicholas Parsons, these four shows from Series 71 and 72 are the cream of the crop. So why wait for 'JAM' tomorrow, when you can have the best of 2015 today? Duration: 2 hours approx.

Just a Minute: Best of 2015: BBC Radio Comedy

Puzzles & Games

BBC Books

<p>Published annually to accompany the world's greatest classical music festival, the BBC Proms Guide contains illustrated articles on composers and performers and on events commemorating the end of the First World War and the significance of 1918 for music. There are complete listings for over 90 concerts, ranging from solo recitals to Mahlers Symphony of a Thousand, and the Guide provides booking information and a pull-out calendar showing all the concerts and events at a glance.</p>

BBC Proms 2018: Festival Guide (BBC Proms Guides)

Arts & Photography

Music

BBC Proms

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