Paul's picks

The Owl Service

By: Alan Garner
Narrated by: Wayne Forester
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

After hearing scratches in the attic, Alison discovers a dinner service covered in an intriguing floral owl pattern, and a series of events are set in motion that will change her life forever. Alison, her step-brother Roger and Welsh boy Gwyn are forced into a cyclical replay of the tragic Welsh legend of Blodeuwedd, in which a woman is turned... Read more

Miracle and Wonder

Conversations with Paul Simon

By: Malcolm Gladwell & Bruce Headlam
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam & Paul Simon
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon is unlike any artistic portrait you’ve ever heard before. Recorded over a series of 30 hours of conversation between Simon, Malcolm Gladwell, and Broken Record podcast co-host Bruce Headlam, the conversation flows from Simon’s music to his childhood in Queens, NY, his frequent collaborators... Read more

The Vet's Daughter

By: Barbara Comyns
Narrated by: Katherine Press
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

'A small Gothic masterpiece... I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters.Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
Length: 17 hours 27 minutes

“Martin Jarvis will forever be linked to my love of Charles Dickens. I vividly remember, decades ago as a preteen, listening to his narration of A Tale of Two Cities on cassette tape while on a long road trip and I was so struck by it that I immediately had to read everything else. That and Great Expectations remain my favorite of the canon.... Read more