Language audiobooks

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

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

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

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

Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp

By: Judith Dean

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's... Read more

The Murder of Mary Jones

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

At the start of this play, the court room is full for today's trial. Two young men, Simon Clark and Dan Smith, stand up. The clerk asks, 'Are you guilty of the murder of Mary Jones?' 'Not guilty!' they reply. But perhaps they are guilty. The police found the murder weapon in their stolen car, and there was blood on Simon's face. If the court... Read more

Five Short Plays

By: Martyn Ford

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where time doesn't matter so much. What if you dream of travelling to other countries, but your friends just laugh? Do you stay at home with them? Or do you decide to be more... Read more

A Ghost in Love and Other Plays

By: Michael Dean

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you believe in ghosts? Jerry doesn't. He's a nineteen-year-old American, who just wants a good holiday with his friend, Brad. They are travelling round the north of England by bicycle. But strange things begin to happen in the small hotel where they are staying. First, Brad seems to think that he has been there before. And then a girl called... Read more

Coldest Place on Earth

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest... Read more

The Lottery Winner

By: Rosemary Border

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very... Read more

Mary Queen of Scots

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens - Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen. Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with... Read more

The Omega Files: Short Stories

By: Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI.... Read more

One-Way Ticket: Short Stories

By: Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life. This is a collection of short... 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

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

Drive into Danger

By: Rosemary Border

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

'I can drive a truck,' says Kim on her first day at work in the office. When Kim's passenger Andy finds something strange under the truck things get dangerous - very dangerous. 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

Starman

By: Phillip Burrows & Mark Foster

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on an empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried. And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the man he meets. Very strange ... Read more

The Woman in White

By: Wilkie Collins & Richard G. Lewis

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret - a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to... Read more

Girl on a Motorcycle

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

'Give me the money,' says the robber to the Los Angeles security guard. The guard looks at the gun and hands over the money. The robber has long blond hair and rides a motorcycle - and a girl with long blond hair arrives at Kenny's motel - on a motorcycle. Is she the robber? Read more

London

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Come with us to London - a city as old as the Romans, and as new as the twenty-first century. There are places to go - from Oxford Street to Westminster Abbey, from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to Wimbledon Tennis Club. And things to do - ride on the London Eye, visit the markets, go to the theatre, run in the London Marathon. Big, beautiful,... Read more

Sally's Phone

By: Christine Lindop

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Sally is always running - and she has her phone with her all the time: at home, on the train, at work, at lunchtime, and at the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has a different phone ...and it changes her life. Read more

England

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London. But England is full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with great shops and theatres, and quiet little villages. You can visit old castles and beautiful churches - or go to festivals with music twenty-four hours a day.... 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