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Let’s face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg’s father. You see, Frank Heffley actually thinks he can get his son to toughen up, and he enlists Greg in organized sports and other “manly” endeavors. Of course, Greg is easily able to sidestep his father’s efforts to change him. But when Greg’s dad threatens to send him to military academy,...

Whatever you do, don’t ask Greg Heffley how he spent his summer vacation, because he definitely doesn’t want to talk about it. As Greg enters the new school year, he's eager to put the past three months behind him … and one event in particular. Unfortunately for Greg, his older brother, Rodrick, knows all about the incident Greg wants to keep under wraps. But secrets have a way of getting out … es...

I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons. Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings like him share the hallways with much bigger kids who are already shaving. But nothing scared Greg more than the moldy piece of cheese on the blacktop. Can he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, make it through the year without g...

It is 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, a successful hostess and wife of a politician, is giving a party. Life and death, sanity and insanity, memories of friendship, love and loss - all combine to fill the hours of this beautiful June day. As Clarissa Dalloway makes her final preparations for an important party, Septimus visits another doctor and becomes increasingly troubled. Mrs Dalloway: From Afternoon...

It is 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, a successful hostess and wife of a politician, is giving a party. Life and death, sanity and insanity, memories of friendship, love and loss - all combine to fill the hours of this beautiful June day. Lives interweave on the streets of London as Clarissa Dalloway makes her final preparations for an important party. Mrs Dalloway: From Breakfast to Luncheon by Virginia...

Nitya, a rebellious boy's parents remember a vow they made to place hair on the Lord's altar if he survived a sickness, when he was a child. 20 years later, they convince Nitya and together go to fulfill the vow, but face a hindrance. Malgudi Days: Nitya by R.K. Narayan Deven Bhojani... Nitya Directed by Shankar Nag

It follows a ten-year-old schoolboy, Swaminathan, and his attempts to court the favour of a much wealthier schoolboy, Rajam. Malgudi Days: Swami and Friends by R.K. Narayan Master Manjunath... W. S. Swaminathan "Swami" Directed by Shankar Nag

Before there was a famous king named Arthur, there was a curious boy named Wart and a kind old wizard named Merlyn. Transformed by Merlyn into the forms of his fantasy, Wart learns the value of history from a snake, of education from a badger, and of courage from a hawk--the lessons that help turn a boy into a man. Together, Wart and Merlyn take the reader through this timeless story of childhood...

While her flatmate is away for the weekend, Barbara commits suicide. However Inspector Japp is sufficiently concerned about this case to call for the assistance of Hercule Poirot.   Japp asks Poirot to join him at a house in Bardsley Garden Mews where a Mrs Barbara Allen shot herself the previous evening – Guy Fawkes Night – the moment of death being disguised by the noise of fireworks. Murder In...

Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. Because Hunter and other 19th-century historians discovered many different records attached to the name Robin Hood, most scholars came to agree that there was probably no single person in the historical...

Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. He knew someone was blackmailing her – and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was. But Ackroyd was dead before he’d finished reading it – stabbed through the neck where he sat in the study. The Murder of...

For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman’s throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses… and...

It is 1935 and Hercule Poirot's horror of flying is compounded when a fellow passenger on a cross-channel aeroplane is found murdered. From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gang...

The novel follows the adventures and dealings of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.. The novel follows the adventures and dealings of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayNarrator: Lorne Greene  Adapted: John BethuneMusic composed and conducted: Lucio Agostini  Producer: Andrew Allan

The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

When a young blonde is found dead at Gossington Hall, it takes St Mary Mead's most famous resident to solve the vicious murder. It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel, a portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, is perhaps the greatest book on the fallibility of the American dream. Nick Carraway arrives in Long Island and is reacquainted with his distant cousin, Daisy Buchanan. He falls in with her wealthy crowd. His neighbour, the self-made and self-invented millionaire, Gatsby, is the man who has everythi...

A gripping dramatization of the true story of a 19th-century expedition to the North Pole, and its terrible fate. Hell on Ice by Edward Ellsberg

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Sometime in the future the fireman's role has changed from stopping fires to starting them: the material being all books or printed matter of any kind. Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which books burn. But Montag the fireman is beginning to have doubts about his role ...Dark futuristic tale dramatized for radio by Gregory Evans and starring Michael Pennington. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury M...

 This Pulitzer prize winning novel is Hemingway's masterpiece; set in Cuba on the Gulf Stream, this is the thrilling and tantalising story of an epic battle between an old, experienced fisherman and a large marlin. Santiago, has gone 84 days without catching a fish, and is considered unlucky; his only friend is young Manolin, the boy whom he's taught how to fish. When on the 85th day, Santiago set...

Andha Yug by Dharamvir Bharati Assistance in Production: Prakash Chandra jainArtists : Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Manohar Singh, Raj Babbar, Nadira, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Om Shivpuri, Uttara Baokar, Deena Nath and the artists of the National School of Drama (NSD)Director: Deena Nath

Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combi...

In 1860, the formidable Countess Narona marries a rich young aristocrat in London - but shortly after travelling to Venice her husband dies, apparently of natural causes, leaving the Countess a rich woman. Years later, guests in a Venetian hotel encounter the terrifying apparition of a murder victim seeking revenge. Wilkie Collins' gothic horror tale is a powerful combination of ghost story and de...

A blast of winter sunshine as the world is turned upside-down in this magical tragi-comedy of love, music and madness. Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare Sir Toby Belch....Joss AcklandMalvolio....Iain CuthbertsonOrsino.... Michael MaloneyViola....Eve MathesonFeste....Rudolph WalkerOlivia... Carolyn BackhouseMaria.... Adjoa AndohSir Andrew Aguecheek....William ChubbFabian.... Roger HumeValentine....