In Search of Lost Time
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Marcel Proust
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A landmark BBC radio production of Proust's epic masterpiece, starring Derek Jacobi as the narrator, Marcel.
Waking in the small hours, Marcel Proust embarks on a retrospective journey, endeavouring to capture the elusive moments that shaped his life. A sip of tea and the taste of a madeleine prompt further recollections, and the floodgates of memory open, pouring forth a torrent of vivid reminiscences.
Beginning with his childhood summers in Combray, and the long nights waiting for his mother to come and kiss him goodnight, he looks back on the places and people who have had a significant lasting impact on him. The tragic story of his neighbour, Charles Swann's, obsessive love for the seductive Odette brings to mind his own youthful experiences and amours in Paris, Balbec and Venice; his mistress, Albertine; his closest companion, Robert; his predatory acquaintance the Baron de Charlus; and his many high-society friends and associates.
Time, and the Great War, take their toll on Marcel and his circle, rendering the world he knows unrecognizable. But as he attempts to reconcile his past with his present, an encounter with an old flame sparks an epiphany, enabling him to finally become the writer he has always yearned to be....
Adapted from the French by acclaimed playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, this superb dramatisation of Proust's allegorical reflection on time, memory, art and love boasts an all-star cast including Derek Jacobi, Frances Barber, Paterson Joseph, Simon Russell Beale, Hattie Morahan and Robert Glenister.
Production credits
Translated and adapted from the French by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Produced and directed by Celia de Wolff
Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Tombling
Recording and Sound Design: David Chilton and Lucinda Mason Brown
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4
Cast
Marcel (narrator) - Derek Jacobi
Young Marcel - Isaac Watts
Maman - Sylvestra le Touzel
Papa - Oliver Cotton
Grand-mère - Joanna David
Françoise - Susan Brown
Madame Verdurin - Frances Barber
Monsieur Verdurin - Jeff Rawle
Doctor Cottard - Lloyd Hutchinson
Tante Leonie/Marquise de Sainte Euverte/Madame de Sazerat - Pamela Miles
Mademoiselle Vinteuil/Prostitute/Madame d'Arpajon - Charlotte Blandford
Mademoiselle Vinteuil's friend/Another prostitute - Phoebe Marshall
Odette - Bessie Carter
Pianist/Lift boy/Servant - Daniel Whitlam
Charles Swann - Paterson Joseph
Remi/Ski/Man at desk - Nicholas Armfield
Elstir Biche/Monsieur de Breaute/Butler - Daniel Flynn
Madame de Gallardon/Queen of Naples - Christine Kavanagh
Brichot - Hugh Ross
Forcheville/Boss/Bloch - Nicholas Gleaves
Saniette/Older man - Roger Watkins
Madame Cottard/Princess de Parme/Madame de Cambremer/Woman guest - Emma Amos
Young Gilberte - Mary Glen
Young Marcel - Isaac Watts
Marcel - Blake Ritson
Gilberte - Emma Mackey
Monsieur de Norpois/De Boulbon/Servant/Jupien/Marquis de Cambremer - Ben Crowe
Robert de Saint Loup - Kyle Soller
Basin, Duke of Guermantes - Robert Glenister
Oriane, Duchess of Guermantes - Fenella Woolgar
Baron de Charlus - Simon Russell Beale
Albertine - Hattie Morahan
Morel - Tom Glenister
Andree - Georgina Beedle
Madame de Villeparisis - Serena Evans
Servant/Concierge/Manager/Doctor - Finlay Paul
Other voices - Nicholas Armfield, Phoebe Marshall
Soldiers - Daniel Whitlam, Nicholas Armfield, Toheeb Jimoh, Tom Glenister
Telephone operator - Alice Hoskyns
Young men - Toheeb Jimoh, Finlay Paul, Daniel Whitlam, Sam Rawle
Other parts played by members of the company
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 24th - 26th August 2019
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The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.
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The actual book The Art of War, not a commentary
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By: Sun Tzu
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 286
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Three friends from small-town Pennsylvania set out to conquer Denali, North America's highest peak, but only two come down alive. On the mountain, their grand adventure unravels into a harrowing tale of survival, betrayal, and the haunting consequences of ambition pushed too far. For fans of Into Thin Air, Touching the Void, and 127 Hours, Denali has a full cast, jaw-dropping twists, and immersive sound design that will transport you to one of the most extreme environments on earth.
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- Unabridged
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,036
Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.
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Not too outlandish
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George Orwell’s 1984
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- Original Recording
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It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 736
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Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator doesn’t get Backman’s satire or rhythm
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The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The actual book The Art of War, not a commentary
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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
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You think you know the truth about the people you love. But one discovery can change everything.... Eight-year-old Billy goes missing one day, out flying his kite with his sister Rose. Two days later he is found dead. Sixteen years on, Rose still blames herself for Billy's death. How could she have failed to protect her little brother? Rose has never fully recovered from the trauma, and one of the few people she trusts is her neighbour Ronnie, who she has known all her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How much do we really know about the ones we love?
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Starship Troopers
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Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The definitive version!
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Brain Damage
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As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who Else Laughed, Cried, and Shuddered?
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As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful narration. Mediocre stories.
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Dead Med
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When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hmm
- By Morgan Meaux on 08-22-24
By: Freida McFadden
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Laurence Sterne’s most famous novel is a biting satire of literary conventions and contemporary 18th-century values. Renowned for its parody of established narrative techniques, Tristram Shandyis commonly regarded as the forerunner of avant-garde fiction. Tristram’s characteristic digressions on a whole range of unlikely subjects (including battle strategy and noses!) are endlessly surprising and make this one of Britain’s greatest comic achievements.
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Like discovering Frank Zappa in 250 years
- By Darwin8u on 01-02-14
By: Laurence Sterne
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Death in Venice
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.
By: Thomas Mann
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- Anonymous User
- 03-08-24
Brilliant story
This was amazing on so many levels. First the audio sound effects added such a dimension where you could see what you were hearing. And Proust. Thank you for this amazing work. I believe I must surrender to myself and return to writing after this one.
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- Fiat Lumen
- 01-28-23
Before reading the longest novel every written
I don’t believe spoilers are a problem when you embark on literature. Just as I have a map to arrive to my destination- anticipate of landmarks and final objectives included - this audio book allows one to see the long road of Marcel Proust in discovering what the subject of his book would be and understanding by episode 10 that it is inevitable that it must be written: for it justified the experience of life. Well worth the listen if (and before) you ever plan to read the thousands of pages he wrote…
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- Josh
- 09-10-24
My first foray into Proust
Let me preface this by saying that I’m not so fond of society literature, a la Jane Austen, and so if you are, you’ll enjoy this much more than I did. Several sections were interesting with character relations and Proust’s ruminations on his place in time; others, rather trite. The acting is superb.
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