Radio & Audiobook

Audio Music Nation

March 2012

Concert recorded for BBC Radio 3.

Highlights from Music Nation concerts across the length of England, featuring...

Audio A Short Gentleman

January 2012

4 x 30min serial for BBC Radio 4.

Adaptation of Jon Canter's novel. Robert Purcell has had a privileged...

Audio The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I

September 2011

5 x 15min readings for BBC Radio 4.

Hugh reads the Book of the Week; a story of secret agents, cryptic codes and...

Audio Words & Music: Turning Points

June 2011

1 x 75min episode for BBC Radio 3.

Helena Bonham Carter and Hugh explore Turning Points, from life-changing and...

Audio Kermode & Mayo's Film Review

May 2011

1 x 1hr programme for BBC Radio 5 Live.

Hugh takes a look back at the highlights from 10 years of Mark Kermode...

Audio At the Foot Of The Cross

April 2011

Broadcast on BBC Radio 2.

A 2hr concert for Good Friday from St Alban's Cathedral, hosted by Aled Jones, with...

Audio King James Bible: History & Readings

January 2011

2 x 15min readings for BBC Radio 4’s day commemorating the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. Edited by...

Audio Heart and Soul: Saint Bede

December 2010

1 x 30min programme for BBC World Service.

Francis Spufford looks at how Bede, an obscure monk living in a...

Audio Letters to Monica

November 2010

Book of the Week. 5 x 15min readings for BBC Radio 4.

Hugh reads a selection of Philip Larkin's Letters to...

Audio My Family and Other Animals

September 2010

Audiobook. Available from CSA Word.

Hugh reads the autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of...

Audio Just When Stories

August 2010

Audiobook. Available from Beautiful Books Limited.

Five new stories inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s Just So...

Audio Solar

March 2010

Book at Bedtime. 10 x 15min serial for BBC Radio 4.

Hugh reads an abridged version of Ian McEwan's latest novel....

Audio The Honourable Schoolboy

January 2010

A 3 x 1hr serial for BBC Radio 4. Audiobook available from BBC Audiobooks Ltd.

Dramatisation of John le Carre's...

Audio Towards Zero

January 2010

A 4 x 30min serial for BBC Radio 4. Audiobook available from BBC Audiobooks Ltd.

Dramatisation of Agatha...

Audio Big in Samoa

January 2010

Friday play for BBC Radio 4.

Dog walker Caleb's life is about to change - an album he cut in his twenties and...

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