Comedy
Children's
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Fiction and Drama
Non-Fiction

September - October

2007

Presented By James Naughtie
The Making of Music, Volume 1

The history of classical music is inextricably linked with its place, purpose and patrons - not to mention politics. From the earliest music of the monasteries to the court and church music of the Renaissance and Reformation, composers have had to adapt their styles as technology offered new possibilities and religion imposed new restraints.

Bach and Handel were contemporaries, both German by birth, but the settings in which they worked could hardly have been more different. Haydn and Mozart relied on rich patrons, but the influence of the French Revolution on musicians like Beethoven changed the role of the composer dramatically. The huge growth in the nineteenth-century passion for amateur music-making and the celebrity status of Paganini, Uszt and Chopin has a remarkable contemporary resonance. And the modern day popularity of the Proms is witness to the continuing appeal of the great music of the past to the audiences of the present.

Read By Adjoa Andoh
Doctor Who: Wooden Heart

A vast starship, seemingly deserted, is spinning slowly in the void of deep space. Martha and the Doctor explore this drifting tomb and discover that they may not be alone after all.

Who survived the disaster that overcame the rest of the crew? What continues to power the vessel? And why has a stretch of wooded countryside suddenly appeared in the middle of the craft? As the Doctor and Martha journey through the forest, they find a mysterious. fog-bound village - a village traumatised by missing children and prophecies of its own destruction. Featuring the Doctor and Martha, as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.

Songs and sketches from the groundbreaking BBC comedy series show starring Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson.

Not The 9 O'Clock News is regarded as one of the great classics of British television humour. Written by some of Britain's finest comedy writers, including Richard Curtis, Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, the show was innovative, shocking and rude - and extremely funny.

Published on CD for the first time, this compilation includes some of the very best sketches and songs. With its irreverent and outrageous look at everything from TV programmes such as Question Time and The Two Ronnies to the Royal Family, pop stars and squashed hedgehogs, this release will appeal to all those who fondly remember the original series, and to anyone who wants to sample some of the sharpest, wittiest comedy around.