Elusive Pimpernel, The
Author : Baroness Orczy
Performed By : Johanna Ward
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 9 hours
Categories : Classic Literature
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"Johanna Ward brings suspense and wit to this story of intrigue set in the days following the
French Revolution....She makes good use of her native British and superb French accents to help create
vivid and complex personalities. Ward's great sense of mood and timing carry listeners through to the very
end...."--AudioFile
In this sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney's arch-enemy travels to England in pursuit
of the impudent enemy of the French Republic. Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate, once
and for all, both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife Marguerite. Lured to France, where the entire town of Boulogne
is held hostage on their behalf, they seem to be hopelessly trapped. Will the Scarlet Pimpernel prevail?
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Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks
Author : Various
Performed By : Various
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Sci-Fi
Dramatizations
Drama
TV
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' I've been renewed... without it I couldn't survive .'
Before the astonished eyes of his companions Ben and Polly, the Doctor's whole body has apparently been transformed. Now they are confronted by a stranger who claims to be their old friend - but how can they know whether to trust him?
The Tardis's arrival on the swamp planet of Vulcan brings its own problems; the Doctor is mistaken for an official come to solve the Earth colony's in-fighting, and soon he and his companions are embroiled in political wranglings. However, a far more serious threat lurks within the colony. The scientist Lesterson has discovered a crashed space capsule, within it a group of inert metallic creatures which the Doctor identifies as Daleks. Refusing to heed the Doctor's warnings, Lesterson supplies power to the Daleks and revives them.
The awakened Daleks claim to be faithful servants of humanity - but could such a thing ever be possible? By covert means they seek an increasing level of energy, but for what? By the time the Doctor and his friends discover the Daleks' true plan for the colony, it looks as if it might already be too late to stop them...
Anneke Wills , who plays Polly in the story, narrates this debut story for the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton , first broadcast in 1966 and long since missing from the television archives.
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