Language audiobooks

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who are you?' What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes... Read more

Red Roses

By: Christine Lindop

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

'Who is the man with the roses in his hand?' thinks Anna. 'I want to meet him.' 'Who is the girl with the guitar?' thinks Will. 'I like her. I want to meet her.' But they do not meet. 'There are lots of men!' says Anna's friend Vicki, but Anna cannot forget Will. And then one rainy day ... Read more

The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories

By: Edgar Allan Poe & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around... Read more

One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays

By: O. Henry & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Money or love? Which is more important in life? Can money buy anything? Can it help a young man to marry the girl he loves? Does money really make people happy, or does it just cause problems? These four plays about money, love, and life are adapted from short stories written a hundred years ago by the great American storyteller O. Henry. Henry... Read more

Grace Darling

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they could not hear the cries for help - only the wind. How could they save the people on the rock? Was... Read more

Five Children and it

By: Edith Nesbit & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said.... Read more

Remember Miranda

By: Rowena Akinyemi

Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Cathy Wilson is driving to Norfolk, to begin her new job with the Harvey family. She is going to look after the two young children, Tim and Susan. Cathy meets the children's father, and their grandmother, and their aunt. She meets Nick, the farmer who lives across the fields. But she doesn't meet Miranda, the children's mother, because Miranda... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: Two Plays

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective the world has ever seen, and he knows it. As the famous bank-robber, John Clay, says to him, 'You think of everything, Mr Holmes. You're very clever.' People come to him with problems that no one, not even the police, can solve. Holmes sits, and thinks, and smokes his pipe, and in the end he finds the... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the Sport of Kings

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win races, they can make a lot of money too - money for the owners, for the trainers, and for the people who put bets on them to win. Silver Blaze is a young horse, but already the winner of many races. One night he disappears from his... Read more

New York Café

By: Michael Dean

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the year 2030, and an e-mail message arrives at New York Café: 'I want to help people and make them happy!' But not everybody is happy about the e-mail, and soon the police and the President are very interested in the New York Cafe. Read more

Police TV

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

'Every day someone steals money from people near the shops. We must stop this,' says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many suspects - who is the robber? Read more

Love of a King

By: Peter Dainty

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said 'No!' He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she loved him - but she was already married to another man. It was a love story that shook the... Read more

Death in the Freezer

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellen Shore's family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first. And when they are adults, Al still comes first. He begins a rock band and makes records. Soon he is rich and famous - very rich, but he... Read more

Voodoo Island

By: Michael Duckworth

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti. There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard; and Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man. But the old man has friends - friends in the graveyard, friends who lie dead, under the ground.... Read more

The Withered Arm

By: Thomas Hardy & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman and a man ...words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her ...It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time - today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among... Read more

Pocahontas

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes. A friendly smile, a laugh, a look of love ...But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy. The girl is the daughter of King Powhatan, and the Englishman is a white man. And the Indians of Virginia do not want the white men in their beautiful country.... Read more

Witches of Pendle

By: Rowena Akinyemi

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Witches are dangerous. They can kill you with a look, or a word. They can send their friend the Devil after you in the shape of a dog or a cat. They can make a clay picture of you, then break it ...and a few weeks later you are dead. Today, of course, most people don't believe in witches. But in 1612 everybody was afraid of them. Young Jennet... Read more

Under the Moon

By: Rowena Akinyemi

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die ...In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from... Read more

Sister Love and Other Crime Stories

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when they were small, there was love between them, but that was a long time ago. They say that everybody has one crime in them. Perhaps... Read more

Orca

By: Phillip Burrows & Mark Foster

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When Tonya and her friends decide to sail around the world they want to see exciting things and visit exciting places. But one day, they meet an orca - a killer whale - one of the most dangerous animals in the sea. And life gets a little too exciting. Read more

Dead Man's Island

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr Ross lives on an island where no visitors come. He stops people from taking photographs of him. He is young and rich, but he looks sad. And there is one room in his house which is always locked. Carol Sanders and her mother come to the island to work for Mr Ross. Carol soon decides that there is something very strange about Mr Ross. Where did... Read more

Silas Marner

By: George Eliot & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his... Read more

The Fifteenth Character

By: Rosemary Border

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

'It's an interesting job,' says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong - very wrong. Read more

The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling & Ralph Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous... Read more