Language audiobooks

Little Women

By: Louisa May Alcott & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his... Read more

Black Beauty

By: Anna Sewell & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and... Read more

Three Men in a Boat

By: Jerome K. Jerome & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

'I like work. I find it interesting ...I can sit and look at it for hours.' With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun... Read more

Chemical Secret

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it. They gave him the job because he couldn't say no; he couldn't afford to be honest. And the job was like a poison inside him. It changed him and... Read more

The President's Murderer

By: Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him - people with lights, and dogs, and guns. A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired and needs to sleep. But first he must find the other man, and bring him back - dead or alive. Two men:... Read more

New Yorkers: Short Stories

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry's famous... Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully ...It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!' In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But... Read more

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

By: Janet Hardy-Gould

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

There were six of them - three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life. After the King's death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters - one from each of the first... Read more

The Piano

By: Rosemary Border

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish,' he says. In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him - and the music... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens & Ralph Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES.' The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-hearted... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Patrick Nobes

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one... Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

'Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to run ...' But young Jim Hawkins does not escape from the pirates this time. Will he and his friends find the treasure before the pirates do? Will they escape from the... Read more

Anne of Green Gables

By: L. M. Montgomery & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy,... Read more

Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

'Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall ...I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.' But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets... Read more

The Thirty-Nine Steps

By: John Buchan & Nick Bullard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do,... Read more

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson & Rosemary Border

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that... Read more

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask. In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in... Read more

Huckleberry Finn (Adaptation) - Abridged

By: Mark Twain & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars... Read more

The Secret Garden

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden ...which has been locked for ten years. And no one... Read more

Love or Money?

By: Rowena Akinyemi

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr Huxtable has a school for boys in the north of England. When the Duke of Holdernesse decides to send his young son there, that is good news for the school. The Duke is a very important person, and Dr Huxtable is happy to have his son in the school. But two weeks later Dr Huxtable is the unhappiest man in England. Why? And why does he take the... Read more

Elephant Man

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film. Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain & Nick Bullard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see... Read more

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula - a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon,... Read more