AuthorJ R R Tolkien
NarratorVarious
SeriesThe Lord of the Rings, Book 3
Duration3h 10m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Key StageKS4
PublisherChivers
VersionAbridged
A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the third book in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Brian Sibley's famous 1981 adaptation, starring Ian Holm and Michael Hordern, has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly-recorded beginning and end narration by Ian Holm (who plays Frodo in this and Bilbo in the feature films).
The Witcher Book 6: Seasons of Storms
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Author Andrzej Sapkowski
Narrator Peter Kenny
SeriesThe Witcher, Book 6
Duration 11h 45m
Geralt. The witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the monsters created with magic. A mutant who has the task of killing unnatural beings. He uses a magical sign, potions and the pride of every witcher - two swords, steel and silver. But what would happen if Geralt lost his weapons? Andrzej Sapkowski returns to his most popular he...
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Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Author Andrzej Sapkowski
Narrator Peter Kenny
Duration 12h 53m
Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually...
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Author: J R R Tolkien
Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Christian Rodska, Derek Jacobi, John Moffatt
Duration 2h 6m
Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien's children. Inside would be a letter from Father Christmas. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how all the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place and how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell...
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The Witcher Book 1: Blood of Elves
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Author Andrzej Sapkowski
Narrator Peter Kenny
SeriesThe Witcher, Book 1
Duration 10h 54m
For more than a hundred years humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other. Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers of the world have been waiting. Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Ci...
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Rivers of London Book 8: False Value
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
SeriesRivers of London, Book 8
Duration 11h 11m
Peter Grant is facing fatherhood and an uncertain future with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with ‚migr‚ Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand-new London start-up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous 'silicon roundabout', Peter must le...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Author: J R R Tolkien
Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Lord of the Rings, Book 2
Duration 4h 29m
A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the second book in J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy. Brian Sibley's famous 1981 adaptation, starring Ian Holm and Michael Hordern, has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly-recorded beginning and end narration by Ian Holm (who plays Frodo in this and Bilbo in the feature films...
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Author: Claire Wade
Author Claire Wade
Narrator Emma Gregory
Duration 11h 55m
Imagine a world where.... Everything you ate was monitored by the government. Every step you took was counted. Your children were weighed every day at school. Neighbours reported on neighbours and no one was safe from judgement. Sugar was illegal, and baking was a crime. Imagine if that world was here.... What would you do? Toe the line or fight fo...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Author: J R R Tolkien
Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Rob Inglis
Duration 16h 42m
Building on the story begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, this is the second part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the...
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Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Author Diana Wynne Jones
Narrator Kristin Atherton
Duration 8h 57m
In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and invisibility cloaks exist, young Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell....Deciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above her town, Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Author: J R R Tolkien
Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Rob Inglis
Duration 20h 1m
Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power - the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring - the ring that rules them all - which has fallen into t...
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