AuthorPeter Anghelides
NarratorVarious
Duration3h 26m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Science Fiction
Key StageA Level
PublisherBBC
VersionAbridged
A storm is brewing - the water levels of the Bristol Channel are inexplicably rising, and Cardiff Bay is under threat from the worst flooding in years. In the midst of the climate chaos, Torchwood is called to investigate a series of gruesome murders - vagrants found dead around Cardiff with their heads partially eaten. When Owen goes missing following a session on a virtual reality game, Jack, Gwen and the team must discover what's really going on before the water claims them all. And they must face the terror that lies at the bottom of the bay - waiting, feeding, controlling...
Author: Hugh Howey
Author Hugh Howey
Narrator Peter Brooke
SeriesWool Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 18h 22m
In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away. A powerful few know what lies ahead. They are preparing for it. They are trying to protect us. They are setting us on a path from which we can never return. A path that will lead to destruction; a path that will...
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Author: James Goss, Rupert Laight, Ryan Scott
Author James Goss, Rupert Laight, Ryan Scott
Narrator Barrowman John, Full Cast
Duration 2h 10m
John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd star in three Torchwood radio adventures from the Lost Files, each set before the TV story 'Children of Earth' 'The Devil and Miss Carew' sees Gwen and Rhys involved in a nursing home mystery. Why is Miss Carew, an octogenarian with terminal heart disease, suddenly looking so fit and healthy? And wha...
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Author: Rob Reid
Author Rob Reid
Narrator John Hodgman
Duration 9h 53m
In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe-and the inner workings of our absurdly dysfunctional music industry. Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it's a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous n...
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Author: George Orwell
Author George Orwell
Narrator Andrew Wincott
Duration 12h 20m
1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three great powers: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. Throughout Oceania 'The Party' rules by the agency of four ministries whose power is absolute. In The Ministry of Truth, which deals in propaganda, Winston Smith's job is to edit the past. Over time, the impulse to escape the machine t...
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Author: Whitley Strieber
Author Whitley Strieber
Narrator Joe Barrett
Duration 12h 42m
December 21, 2012, may be one of the most watched dates in history. Every 26,000 years, earth lines up with the exact center of our galaxy. At 11:11 on December 21, 2012, this event happens again, and the ancient Maya calculated that it would mark the end, not only of this age, but of human consciousness as we know it. But what will actually happen...
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Author: Anthony Burgess
Author Anthony Burgess
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 29m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Anthony Burgess's novel which became a controversial film in the 1970s. In a nightmare world of the near future, packs of teenagers run wild, beyond the control of their families or the police. Alex is a gang-leader, addicted to drug-fuelled assault, torture and rape.
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Author: James Goss
Author James Goss
Narrator Kai Owen
Duration 2h 13m
G.R. Owen is the last of Cardiff's old department stores. Times are hard and the ancient firm has gone into administration. But who are the Administrators? What goes on behind the shutters at night? And why are customers disappearing? Torchwood are already investigating; G.R. Owen is the site of their oldest unsolved cases, and Jack is determined t...
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Author: Peter Anghelides
Author Peter Anghelides
Narrator David Tennant
Duration 2h 26m
This audio original story is exclusively available from BBC Audiobooks, and is not available in print form or as TV episode. 'Pest Control' is the first such audio original, an exclusive adventure read by David Tennant. The Doctor and Donna face monstrous insects and a ruthless robot exterminator in this thrilling, exclusive audio story. The TARDIS...
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Author: Ian Edgington
Author Ian Edgington
Narrator Kai Owen
Duration 1h 10m
Washington D.C., post-Miracle. The city has been hit by a spate of very unusual serial killings. The victims are different ages and genders and the locations vary, but each body has one thing in common it has been reduced to a dried-up, dessicated husk. Special Agent Lucas Avery has dealt with some tricky puzzles in his time, but this is stranger t...
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2000ad Judge Dredd: Blood Will Tell
Author: Finish Productions Big
Author Finish Productions Big
Narrator Toby Longworth
Duration 1h 4m
When a frenzied mutant attack on Mega-City One's shield wall is revealed to be the cover for a group of infiltrators, Judge Dredd must face a deadly opponent from his past - Garris Hale, a man whose life he destroyed. Back from exile in the radioactive wilderness of the Cursed Earth, Hale has possession of a dark secret - a secret so explosive that...
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