Language audiobooks

Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens & Richard Rogers

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering... Read more

The Butler Did It and Other Plays

By: Bill Bowler

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you get a licence if you want to keep a monkey? What can you do if your wife has a lover? How can you see into the future? Where can you go for an exciting but cheap holiday somewhere hot and far away? How can you persuade your girlfriend or boyfriend to marry you? The characters in these six original short plays are looking for answers... Read more

Goodbye, Mr. Hollywood

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Nick Lortz is sitting outside a cafe in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick 'Mr Hollywood'? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next... Read more

Christmas in Prague

By: Joyce Hannam

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast - Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But... Read more

Carpe Diem

By: Harry Mount

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this lighthearted guided tour of Latin, journalist and former Latin tutor Harry Mount breathes life back into the greatest language of all, drawing on everything from a Monty Python grammar lesson to Angelina Jolie's tattoos. Filled with fascinating tidbits and humorous asides, Carpe Diem will delight the word lovers who made Eats, Shoots and... 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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