Language audiobooks

Ear-rings from Frankfurt

By: Reg Wright

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Richard Walton is in trouble again. He has lost his job, and he has borrowed money from his sister, Jennifer - again. And now he has disappeared. Jennifer is looking for him, and so are the police. They both have some questions that they want to ask him. How did he lose his job? Why did he fly to Frankfurt? Who gave his girlfriend those very... Read more

Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of... Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

'The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry,' said Elizabeth Bennet. And so Elizabeth rejects the proud Mr Darcy. Can nothing overcome her prejudice against him? And what of the other... Read more

Stories from the Five Towns

By: Arnold Bennett & Nick Bullard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick... Read more

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful - but not careful enough. He is persuasive, and she is overwhelmed. It is not her fault, but the world says it is.... 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

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

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

The Mystery of Allegra

By: Peter Foreman

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Allegra is an unusual name. It means 'happy' in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the other Allegra? The girl in a long white nightdress, who has golden hair and big blue eyes. The girl... 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

Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who the murderer is - I think it's ...' But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer's name before the end of the book. But who was Agatha... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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