Martin Jarvis

Martin Jarvis has been a popular stage, film, radio and TV actor for several decades. He has also made the talking book his own medium. Here he relates some acting adventures, funny and peculiar, he has experienced in Britain and America.

Tom Forsyth returns to Lambourn, his childhood home, after being badly wounded by an IED in Afghanistan. Never having seen eye to eye with his racehorse trainer mother, Tom doesn't expect a hero's welcome, but even he's not prepared for the reception that awaits him.

Tom Forsyth returns to Lambourn, his childhood home, after being badly wounded by an IED in Afghanistan. Never having seen eye to eye with his racehorse trainer mother, Tom doesn't expect a hero's welcome, but even he's not prepared for the reception that awaits him.

The TARDIS has stalled in mid-flight, and it is only on the planet Varos that the Doctor can find the precious Zeiton-7 ore he needs to continue his travels through Time and Space. Arriving on the planet, he saves the rebel Jondar from execution, and incurs the wrath of Sil, the sadistic representative of the Galatron Mining Corporation on Varos. The hunt is on for the Doctor and his rebel friends. And as they are pursued through the corridors of the deadly Punishment Dome, the Doctor discovers that the people of Varos have some very disturbing ideas of entertainment...

A collection of stories following the adventures of Bertie Wooster. His Aunt Agatha decides it is time for Bertie to abandon his life of frivolity in favour of wedding bells. Can Jeeves save him from marriage?

The second instalment of Jeeves and Wooster's bally spiffing adventures. Amusing stories of money-making schemes involving placing wagers on the lengths of vicars' sermons to poor Bingo Little producing the village school Christmas entertainments.

Richmal Crompton's stories featuring irrepressible schoolboy William Brown have been firm favourites with both young and old for decades. Perpetually scruffy, mud-stained and mischievous, he is a lovable scamp whose pranks usually end in disaster - for his harassed elders at least. With friends Ginger, Douglas and Henry (the Outlaws) and the angelic thorn-in-his-side, the lisping Violet Elizabeth Bott, William has rightly joined the literary, and radio, immortals. Martin Jarvis, who has been hailed as 'the wizard of the talking book' (The Daily Telegraph), has made the voice of William his own, and this collection of 54 laugh-out-loud stories will delight long-standing fans and first-time listeners alike.

This sparkling story of transatlantic manners follows the fortunes of playboy Jimmy Crocker in England and America. When Jimmy falls for a girl in London and vows to reform himself as a result, the quest for love leads him to his Aunt Nesta's house in New York, where his escapades involve impersonating himself and attempting to kidnap Nesta's odious son Ogden - with the boy demanding a cut of the ransom money. A full flush of minor characters - pretentious poets, butlers, boxers, put-upon husbands and Wall Street businessmen - make the comedy crackle as only Wodehouse knew how.

On 19th July 2001, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years imprisonment for perjury. He spent the first twenty-two days in HMP Belmarsh, a high security prison which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals. This is his daily diary.

There is very little evidence of the Second World War in the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live. But the friends suspect the inhabitants of the Close aren't what they seem. As Keith informs his trusting friend, the district is riddled with secret passages and underground labs.

It is high summer and high comedy too, when Molly Pargeter drags her amiable, bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. She is saddled with her father - aged roué and columnist Haverford Downs, a lawyer husband - suspected of infidelity, and three daughters. So begins this elegant story of atmosphere, comedy and mystery.

Post-war Vienna is a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and with the police closing in, Rollo must find the third man who witnessed the murder of Harry Lime...

What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye - including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and heroic battles with swans, kettles and tins of pineapple!

Bond is shattered by the death of his wife at the hands of Blofeld. M sends him on a mission to Japan that may well be his last!