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Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Quentin Blake
Duration 4h 38m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Going Solo by Roald Dahl, read by Dan Stevens. This is the second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable life story, following on from Boy. When he grew up, Roald Dahl left England for Africa - and a series of dangerous adventures began. From tales of plane crashes to surviving snake bites, this is Roald Dahl's ex...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 2h 45m
James has lived with his two beastly aunts ever since the day his parents were eaten by an angry escaped rhinocerous outside London Zoo. Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker are really horrible... Then something very peculiar happens, something magical that is to completely change James's life and take him on the most amazing journey!
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 3h
A real witch is the most dangerous of all the living creatures. What's even more horrifying is that real witches don't look like witches. They don't ride around on broomsticks and they don't even wear black cloaks and hats. So how can you tell when you meet one? Listen to this story and you'll find out.
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 25m
The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all!
View BookCharlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator James Bolam
Duration 3h
In this sequel to `Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', Charlie, his parents, grandparents and Willy Wonka find themselves travelling through space in the Great Glass Elevator. Their adventures include an attack by the dreaded Vermicious Knids.
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Dan Stevens
Duration 4h 37m
Going Solo tells of how, when he grew up, Roald Dahl left England for Africa and a series of daring and dangerous adventures began. From tales of plane crashes to surviving snake bites, read all about Roald Dahl's life before becoming the world's number-one storyteller. This book is full of exciting and strange things - some funny, some frightenin...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Various
Duration 1h
Boggis, Bunce and Bean are just about the nastiest and meanest three farmers you could meet - and they hate Mr Fox! They are determined to catch him, and lie outside his hole, ready to shoot, starve or dig him out. But clever Mr Fox has other plans.
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 15m
Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding, but they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers.
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Geoffrey Palmer
Duration 1h
Meet a ghastly menagerie of wonderfully comic animals that could only have been invented by Roald Dahl. There is the toad that jumps to France - at his own peril; the pig who ponders the meaning of life; the ant-eater who gets the wrong end of the stick and the porcupine with its painful prickles.
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 3h
This is the tale of the Twits: Mr and Mrs Twit are an obnoxious couple who spend their lives trying to outdo each other in nastiness. But then the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve.
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Geoffrey Palmer
Duration 4h 5m
The story of a special friendship between a little girl, Sophie, and the Big Friendly Giant. Having been snatched by the BFG Sophie discovers that he is far more jumbly than his child-eating neighbours. Sophie and the BFG decide to rid the world of the hungry giants.
View BookThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 2h 20m
Things are not what they seem - turtles, fingersmiths, the Mildenhall treasure, even a man who could see with his eyes closed. Everyday life is twisted into powerful and sometimes terrifying fantasies in these seven sinister, macabre and wholly unexpected short stories.
View BookDanny the Champion of the World
Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Timothy West
Duration 2h 45m
Danny's father had looked after him ever since his mother had died when he was just four months old. Danny loved his father, and his father loved him, and that's why Danny was so surprised to discover that his father had a secret that was to lead them both into a wild scheme.
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Quentin Blake
Duration 40m
A shy man, Mr Hoppy has only the courage for polite conversation with Mrs Silver, as she tends her pet tortoise Alfie, on the balcony below. But, when he learns that her dearest wish is for Alfie to grow bigger, he hatches a plan involving a giant pair of metal claws and 140 tortoises.
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 1h
Little Billy's mother forbids him to enter the deep dark woods, but when Billy becomes tired of being good and disobeys his mother by sneaking into the forest, he ends up hiding in a tree to escape the terrifying wild beasts who live there - like the Red-Hot Smoke-Belching Gruncher! Luckily Billy discovers the Minpins, the tiny people who own the w...
View BookCharlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Eric Idle
Duration 3h 15m
Charlie Bucket loves chocolate. And Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazing chocolate factory to five lucky children. It's the prize of a lifetime! Gobstoppers, wriggle sweets and a river of melted chocolate await - Charlie needs just one Golden Ticket and these delicious treats could all be h...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Richard E Grant
Duration 1h 15m
George has a grizzly old Grandma with revolting eating habits. When he can't stand her any longer, George decides to cure her nastiness for good. He concocts a very special medicine which is as nasty as she is - with explosive results.
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Kate Winslet
Duration 26m
Penguin presents The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl, read by Kate Winslet. 'Well, that did it. I saw red. And before I was able to stop myself, I did something I never meant to do. I PUT THE MAGIC FINGER ON THEM ALL!'
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Julian Rhind-Tutt
Duration 3h 17m
Penguin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, read by Green Wing actor Julian Rhind-Tutt. The audiobooks features original music and '3D' sound design by Pinewood film studios. James Henry Trotter's parents have been eaten by a rhinoceros, so now he lives with his two repulsive aunts. One hot day something peculiar happens...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 1h 35m
Penguin presents a brand new, downloadable audiobook recording of Roald Dahl's classic George's Marvellous Medicine. George Kranky is eight-years-old and wondering what sort of mischief he might get into. George's Grandma is a grizzly old grouch and George wants to teach her a lesson...And when Grandma's finished drinking George's marvellous medici...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Chris O'Dowd
Duration 1h 15m
Puffin presents a marvellous new celebrity reading of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox. The audiobook features original music and 3D sound design by Pinewood film studios. Mr Fox steals food from the horrible farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean-one fat, one short, one lean. These three crooks concoct a plan to dig Mr Fox out of his home, but they don't...
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