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King Richard II rules England in a wasteful and short-sighted way, spending money unwisely and selecting his counsellors foolishly. His manner ostracises him from his people and his country and it’s not long before both commoners and noblemen feel Richard has gone too far. When Richard seizes land that rightfully belongs to his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke retaliates by invading England while Richard is at war in Ireland. More popular with the commoners, Henry is eventually crowned King Henry IV.

Get ready for eight fantastic new adventures in space and time with the Doctor and his companions, featuring stories from many of Doctor Who's most popular authors from the worlds of television, print, comics and audio, as well as new talent and fresh voices...and read by your favourite Big Finish actors!

Of all the sports played across the globe, none has more curses, superstitions, or supernatural events like baseball, America's national pastime. While some of these can easily be explained, there are just as many that cannot. Field of Fantasies delves right into that superstition with short stories written by several key authors about baseball and the supernatural.

Get ready for eight fantastic adventures in space and time with the Doctor and his companions, featuring stories from many of Doctor Who's most popular authors from the worlds of television, print, comics and audio as well as new talent and fresh voices...and read by your favourite Big Finish actors!

The TARDIS lands in the Wild West in this classic BBC TV soundtrack starring William Hartnell, with linking narration by Peter Purves. It's 1881 and, in the Wild West settlement of Tombstone, there are three strangers in town: "Doctor Caligari", "Steven Regret", and "Miss Dodo Dupont". They've arrived in a 20th Century blue police box, and they're about to wander into a whole heap of trouble.

It is nine months after the end of the previous book. Many noble allies have come to the Ninefold Forest for a Feast in honor of General Rudolfo's first-born child. Jin Li Tam, his wife and mother of his heir, lies in childbed. As the feast begins, the doors of the hall fly open and invisible assassins begin attacking. All of Rudolfo's noble guests are slain, including Hanric, the Marsh Queen's Shadow. And on the Keeper's Gate, which guards the Named Lands from the Churning Waste, a strange figure appears, with a message for Petronus, the Hidden Pope.

A global thriller presenting an apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of despair and destruction. What would you do if the world was brought to a standstill? If you heard deafening static followed by the words 'my children. Do not be afraid'? Would you turn to God? Subscribe to the conspiracy theories? Or put your faith in science and a rational explanation? The lives of all 26 people in this account are affected by the message. Most because they heard it. Some because they didn't.

The Roman General Titus Andronicus returns from war with four prisoners who vow to take revenge against him. They rape and mutilate Titus' daughter and have his sons killed and banished. Titus kills two of them and cooks them into a pie, which he serves to their mother before killing her, too. The Roman emperor kills Titus, and Titus' last remaining son kills the emperor and takes his place.

Count Claudio falls in love with Hero, the daughter of his host. Hero's cousin Beatrice (a confirmed spinster) and Benedict (an eternal bachelor) are each duped into believing the other is in love with them. Claudio is deceived by a malicious plot and denounces Hero as unchaste before they marry. She faints and is believed dead but recovers to be proved innocent by a chance discovery. Benedict wins Beatrice’s love defending her cousin’s honour, and to his surprise, Claudio is reunited with Hero, who he believed dead.

Die Inhalte dieser Hörspiele stammen aus der Zeit der Kämpfe zwischen den Franzosen und den Engländern um 1750-1760. James Fenimore Cooper hat in seinen Lederstrumpf-Romanen die Rolle der beiden Kolonialmächte ebenso genau geschildert wie die Bräuche und Eigenarten der verschiedenen Indianerstämme. Die Mohikaner, Delawaren und Tuscaroras sind exakt beschrieben und werden in diesen Hörspielen lebendig dargestellt.

Dreamscape: Volumes 1-3 is compiled into three short audiobooks that offers you an easy-to-understand complete guide to navigating consciously in your dreams. The compilation covers the essential topics to the hidden secrets of dream reality. Navigating through the fabric of time and space has been man's fascination for millennia.

The world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), the author of Walden, “Civil Disobedience,” and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism, an abolitionist, and a critic of materialism and technology, Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. In Now Comes Good Sailing, 27 of today’s leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them.

This book was written in Oxford and includes chapters on the history of agriculture, the Amazon people, and the life of Paul Gauguin.

Die spannenden Abenteuer des Robin Hood und seiner Gesellen faszinieren seit vielen Jahren alle Hörer und Leser. In diesem spannenden Hörspiel erwacht die Zeit des Mittelalters in den Wäldern von Sherwood zu neuem Leben. Robin kämpft tolldreist für die Unterdrückten - und für Recht und Freiheit.

"Sieben auf einen Streich" heißt die Devise des tapferen Schneiderleins. Unerschrocken und gewitzt besiegt er den tumben Riesen, zähmt ein wütendes Einhorn und lockt einen wildgeworden Eber in die Falle. Der Klassiker der Brüder Grimm ist aufwendig und liebevoll zum Hörspiel mit Musik und neuen Liedern aufgelegt worden. Ein musikalisches Märchenabenteuer mit Lars Rudolph, William Cohn, Dieter Hallervorden, Michael Rhein (In Extremo), Michaela Schober und vielen anderen.

Philomena ‘Phil’ Byrnes and her husband Peter ran the Byrnes Private Investigation company in Seattle, Washington; until Peter was murdered at his desk late one night. While keeping the company alive, Phil has been slowly gathering information to try and figure out who killed him. One night she, her business associate Buzzy and their close friend Seattle Police Detective Coleman, go up to Phil's cabin in the San Juan Islands to comb through the information and finally bring the killer to justice.