Language audiobooks

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What - or who - is attacking these ships? Aronnax, Conseil, and the Canadian, Ned Land, find the answer to this question when they meet the strange Captain Nemo. After a long journey under the sea in Nemo's submarine, the... Read more

Rapid Cantonese (Vol. 1)

By: Earworms Learning

Narrated by: Marlon Lodge & Eva Wan

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Earworms MBT Rapid Cantonese - your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! Volume 1 is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or vacation. Read more

Rapid Polish (Vol. 1)

By: Earworms Learning

Narrated by: Oliwia Pawlak & Marlon Lodge

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Earworms MBT Rapid Polish - your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! Volume 1 is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or vacation Volume 2 for more conversational items allowing you to talk about yourself, past, present and... Read more

White Fang

By: Jack London & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is hard and dangerous for both people and animals in the frozen Canadian North. For a wolf like White Fang it is a continuous fight to find food - a fight in which many animals die. When White Fang meets the people of the North - first Indians and then White Men - he learns to live with them like a dog. But some men are cruel to their dogs... Read more

The Lost World

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Susan Kingsley

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

'You said that you wanted danger, didn't you?' says McArdle, the editor of the Daily Gazette. And he sends his young reporter, Malone, on a strange journey into South America with the famous Professor Challenger. Challenger believes he can find a lost world full of dinosaurs in the middle of the Amazon forest. But this world is dangerous to... Read more

The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the year 1627, and young d'Artagnan comes to Paris with a dream - to become a King's Musketeer. Three of these brave soldiers - Porthos, Athos and Aramis - soon become his friends. After a short time d'Artagnan has fallen in love and into great danger. Can the three musketeers and d'Artagnan fight against the evil plans of the beautiful... Read more

Ariadne's Story

By: Joyce Hannam

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

'When he went home to Athens, the great prince Theseus left me on the island of Naxos. But why did he leave me? Everyone says that he was tired of me. But when we met, I was the princess of Crete and the most beautiful woman in the Aegean Sea.' Ariadne's story is one woman's tale of secret love, adventure and of escape - both from danger and... Read more

William Tell and Other Stories

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The men and the woman in this book - William Tell, Tom Blood, Lord Bao, King Matthias, Johnny Appleseed, and Lady Godiva - are all real people from history. But every time someone tells an old story, they change things in it, to make them bigger, better, and more exciting. So what is true in this book and what is not? Read all six of the... Read more

Sinbad

By: Janet Hardy-Gould

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Sinbad the sailor spends many years at sea. He visits strange countries, meets some strange people and some very frightening animals. He is sometimes rich, sometimes poor... and always in danger. But all the time he is learning from his adventures, until finally he returns home to Baghdad, an older and wiser man. Read more

Sherlock Holmes: The Emerald Crown

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Janet Hardy-Gould

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A man from the British royal family leaves an expensive gold and emerald crown at Holder and Stevenson's – one of the best banks in London. When someone tries to take the crown from Mr Holder's desk, he asks Sherlock Holmes for help. Who wants the crown and why? Only Sherlock can find the answers. Read more

Mulan

By: Janet Hardy-Gould

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Emperor calls every man to join the army and fight the enemy, Mulan's father is old and ill, and cannot go. Wearing men's clothes and riding a horse, Mulan leaves her family and fights bravely for the Emperor in her father's place. She is soon a hero for all the soldiers in the Chinese army. One of them, Ye Ming, is her best friend. But... Read more

The Happy Prince

By: Oscar Wilde & Bill Bowler

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Happy Prince is a beautiful golden statue high up on a column in the city. Everyone loves him. He feels sad about the city's poor people, but what can he do? He can't leave his column. Then the swallow arrives, and helps the Happy Prince to do many good things. But what about the swallow's dream of flying to Egypt? And what does the Mayor do... Read more

Changing Places

By: Alan Hines

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Hal works at the zoo every day and his life isn't exciting until he meets Tim. Tim is a movie star. He has a difficult life, and he is unhappy until he meets Hal. But when they meet, and agree to change places, interesting things start to happen. And, by changing places, the two men learn what is truly important in their lives. Read more

Studio Five

By: Anthony Manning

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Fay loves making The Friends' Hour for Studio Five, but her boss – Jason – is always angry with her. One day, a young man – Simon Jones – phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend – Wing – stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends? Read more

The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare & Bill Bowler

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Prospero, the Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda are far away from home, alone on an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. They want to return to Milan...Then, one day, Prospero sees a ship near the island carrying his greatest enemies. Prospero, with the help of his magic and the island spirit, Ariel, makes a magic storm - a... Read more

Typhoon

By: Joseph Conrad & Tim Herdon

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

'There's some bad weather out there,' Captain MacWhirr said to himself just before he sailed his ship, the Nan-Shan, into the middle of the most terrible storm in the South China Sea. The typhoon brings out the best in some men on the ship, and the worst in others. Can MacWhirr bring the ship through the storm safely? And what will happen to all... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: The Norwood Mystery

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Jeremy Page

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

'For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,' says Holmes. 'I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?' Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes' room. He has a story... Read more

Blackbeard

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1717. It is a bad time to be the captain of a ship in the Caribbean because of pirates. The most frightening pirate on the sea is Edward Teach, or 'Blackbeard'. 'The Governor of Virginia wants us all dead!' Blackbeard thinks. 'But can he kill me – the most famous pirate in the Caribbean? No!' This is his story... Read more

Kidnap!

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One cold winter morning, a famous movie star and her teenage daughter are driving along a country road... A blue van is waiting for them. Tom is in the van, but he's not a kidnapper – he's an artist. He usually draws pictures for adventure stories. Now he's in a real life adventure. Read more

Housemates

By: Alison Watts

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris leaves his home in a small town in Australia to go and study at the University of Sydney. He needs to find somewhere to live. But it's not easy to find a house to share in a big city. Every house has its problems, and not all of Chris's housemates are easy to live with. In fact, some of them are very difficult people! Can Chris find the... Read more

The Big Story

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

'Bring me something new and exciting. Bring me a BIG story!' says Rosie's editor at The Record newspaper. And, when she leaves the office, Rosie does find a story. A story that is bigger than she expects. A story that takes her across Europe, into a dangerous world of art and art thieves. Read more

Eight Great American Tales

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone's clever plans all go wrong? These sweetly surprising short stories - about... Read more

The Curse of the Mummy

By: Joyce Hannam

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary. But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun... Read more

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

By: Jules Verne & Merinda Wilson

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In Hamburg, Germany, Professor Otto Lidenbrock comes home with an old Icelandic book. In it there is a message about a journey to the centre of the Earth. This is the beginning of one of Jules Verne's most exciting stories. 'Is this message true? We must go to Iceland and see!' says Lidenbrock excitedly. But his nephew, Axel, wants to stay at... Read more