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A look inside the mind of Detective William Murdoch, Canada’s most popular detective. 

Jon Hamm leads an all-star cast that includes Kate Mara, Ana de la Reguera, John Slattery, and Bradley Whitford in the riveting true story behind the making of the one American movie the FBI never wanted you to see.

Long before Paris, even long before Zsa Zsa, there was Alice. Theodore Roosevelt’s eldest daughter was known for drinking, smoking, and gambling. She was rarely found without her pistol, her copy of the Constitution, or her pet snake. She was charming and witty and, despite her antics, she was America’s princess. Based on true, historical events, Crowded Hours is the story of the fierce tribalism and savage rivalry that defined the complicated Roosevelt family, told from Alice’s perspective. It is a story for American history buffs, for those who yearn to know more about our nation’s past.

The Foundry's Hindi translation of Jane Austen’s distinctive novel navigates a society remarkably obsessed with manners, marriage and status just as the arrival of eligible wealthy bachelors in the countryside causes a stir in the Bennet family of five daughters. Willful Elizabeth Bennet is quick to adopt a prejudice against the prideful Mr. Darcy tossing them and other couples into a tumultuous journey for happiness in requited love.

Mrs Beatrice Dark, the wife of powerful cabinet minister, Joseph Dark, enters the office of a tabloid newspaper and shoots her husband’s enemy, the editor of the tabloid on the eve of World War Two. A sensational murder trial occurs, with its unfolding secrets, lies and sex scandals, mesmerising the nation, with those who believe she should be acquitted and those who think she should hang. But what is the real reason she killed Steven Hood, the editor?

Operation Cordelia is an espionage-comedy told through “found audio” (news reports, tapped phone calls, bugged offices, and people secretly wearing wires) about one neurotic CIA agent’s attempt to stop a mass terror attack in 1970s Berlin.

Homeless Bodies and Other Stories is an original fiction podcast featuring audio-exclusive short stories from award-winning authors and Sunday Times best-sellers, inspired by objects & artefacts from Wellcome Collection's permanent exhibition, 'Medicine Man', in London.

An entertaining drama based on Nye Bevan’s race to create the new NHS by 5 July 1948. Getting Better is a roller coaster period drama based on real political events alongside the fictional story of front-line tears, trauma and triumph at The Park Hospital in Manchester. As Bevan faces up to the establishment in Parliament, Dr Eva Callaway faces the same challenges – facing poverty, sexism and homophobia in a system stuck in the past.   

Audible presents The Golden Knot, an Audible Original.

हूप एंटरटेनमेंट प्रस्तुत करते हैं, मगध: एक खोज, एक ऑडिबल एक्सक्लूसिव शो

Dame Edith Sitwell is on the final leg of a sell-out Recital Tour of America. Eccentric, old, aristocratic and extremely English, she has taken the States by storm. Nevertheless she is annoyed that her sponsors, Life Magazine, are holding her to her contract getting her to write an article interviewing a relatively unknown film actress, about to hit the big time.

विलियम लोवेल केन और एबेल रोस्नोवस्की, एक बोस्टन के करोड़पति के बेटा और एक निर्धन पोलिश आप्रवासी, केवल एक ही चीज दोनों में समान थी । वे दोनों एक ही दिन में दुनिया के विपरीत छोर पर पैदा हुए थे, लेकिन उनकी राहें एक दूसरे से टकरा कर एक ऐसी लड़ाई मैं बदल गयी जहाँ यह के दुसरे को तबाह करने मैं जुट गए!

UNDERCOVER: CODE: CHEETAH kahani hai ek daringbaaz ladke Ravi ki jiskey pitah, chacha aur fufaji ki nirmam hatya kar di jaati hai.

This Audible Original is supported by the IMDA.

Yoddha with Neelesh Misra, Season 2 is a 20-episode series, created and narrated by Neelesh Misra. This series takes you on a journey to meet the bravehearts of Indian Army, Navy, Air Force, Police Force, and other defence institutes who have laid down lives, fought bravely and stood their ground against all odds to defend the honour of our country. The stories are based on real life defence personnel.

  日本文学の巨匠たちによる珠玉の22作品をポッドキャストで配信。 

Revisit the fascinating folktales and legends of our ancestors. Enter the magical world of talking animals, kings, queens, fakirs and everyone in between.

Audible presents Gumnaam Shaheed Season 1: Madanlal Dhingra. Sunita Dhanraj runs an NGO named Shaheed Swabhimaan Manch. This NGO has decided to honour the Shaheed who laid their lives for the freedom of India and make people aware about them. In this process, Sunita comes to know about Shaheed Udham Singh who was hanged in Pentonville jail of London on 31 July 1940. He was buried there. But when Sunita goes to London to visit this burial place, she comes to know about another Shaheed who was forgotten by India. Who is that Shaheed and will Sunita be able to know about him?

Chronicles of India audio series yaadgar banaata hai bharat ke swarnim itihaas ke bhule bisare panno ko jinki wazah se ye sadiyon purana safar aaz is mukaam par pahuncha hai.... Bharat yun hi nahin bana aur naa hi India yun ban gaya....

The Puranas contain narratives about the history of the Universe from creation to destruction and the genealogies of kings, heroes, sages, and deities. Some of the Puranas are discourses on cosmology, geography, and Hindu philosophy.