Agatha Christie - Murder is Easy - Audiobook
Publisher: HarperCollins Audio | 15 Mar 2004 | ISBN:0007170483 | MP3 | 24Kbps | 58 Mb | 6 hrs

A new Agatha Christie thriller, featuring the return of Superintendent Battle. Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood -- or her speculation that the local doctor was next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke was inclined to think so -- until he read in The Times of the unexpected demise of Dr Humbleby...

Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven - Audiobook
Read by: Christopher Walken | 8 Mb | 128 Kbps | 9 min´s

Clive Anderson looks at one of the world's fastest growing websites, the online encyclopedia to which anybody can contribute.

Is Wikipedia a valuable source of human knowledge or a symptom of the spread of mediocrity and the devaluation of research?

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll1and Mr Hyde is a novella written by Robert Louis Stevenson about a lawyer, Gabriel John Utterson, who investigates the strange link between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic man Edward Hyde. It was first published in 1886.

In his central theme of duality, "that strong sense of a man's double being which must at times come in upon and overwhelm the mind of every thinking creature", Stevenson had been inspired by a real life figure, Deacon Brodie, a respected member of the community by day, and a burglar by night.

Writer HG Wells based his novel War of the Worlds on the ideas of American astronomer Percival Lowell.

Lowell suggested that that the canals on Mars carried water from the poles across an ancient and desolate planet.

In Wells’ book Martians flee their dying planet in rockets and descend on London in an attempt to take over the world.

This classic early science fiction novel was written by H.G. Wells in 1898. It describes the invasion of the earth by Martians using heat rays and fighting machines. It has been adapted many times for radio and movies.

The Prisoner of Zenda , a popular adventure story published in 1894, relates the tale of Rudolf Rassendyll who has to impersonate a king, whom he happens to closely resemble, when the king is abducted by enemies on the eve of his coronation.