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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 12h 30m
Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This memoir promises to be courageously frank, honest and poignant. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with writing that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you a...
View BookAuthor Alphonse Daudet
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 7m
Originally written in French, The Girl from Arles is a doomed love story concerning a young and handsome man named Jan, who falls in love with a woman who can never be his. A heart-rending and tragic-romantic short story that will move even the most hardened souls.
View BookAuthor 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 BookAuthor Eleanor Updale
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesMontmorency, Book 1
Duration 5h 11m
Fleeing across a roof on a dark night in Victorian London, a thief crashes through a glass skylight to almost certain death. But an ambitious young doctor revives and reconstructs his shattered body, proudly showing off his handiwork at the Scientific Society where the city's intelligentsia meet. It's there that the robber picks up the key to a new...
View BookAuthor Eleanor Updale
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesMontmorency, Book 2
Duration 8h 5m
The sequel to 'Montmorency' sees the flawed hero back in London, five years after giving up his life of crime in the sewers. But his evil alter ego, Scarper, is back too, pulling him into a dark world of addiction. Some respite on a Scottish island throws up another mystery, with the discovery of a row of tiny graves. As Montmorency struggles to re...
View BookAuthor Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 3h 3m
This is a diary of Stephen Fry's trips to Peru tracking Paddington Bear's roots and more seriously, rescuing a young Spectacled bear, one of the world's endangered species. He also includes how a mate was found for the first bear while on a subsequent trip to Peru, as well as how a charitable foundation - Bear Rescue - was established for the purpo...
View BookStephen Fry On the Phone, the Chips That Smartphones Smart
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesStephen Fry on the Phone Series, Book 5
Duration 13m
Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone. Today, 85% of the silicon chips inside all mobile phones are designed by one Cambridge-based company, ARM. Two computer engineers needed some micro-processors but didn't like what they saw and decided to make their own. Strapped for cash, they designed chips that were small, cheap and exception...
View BookStephen Fry On the Phone, Shrinking the Handset
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesStephen Fry on the Phone Series, Book 4
Duration 13m
Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone. In this third episode, he looks at the discovery of text messaging. The engineers who designed the early texting facilities didn't imagine that anyone might want to reply. (Just in case, they added a short list of possible pre-set answers: yes, no and maybe). In the eighties, when network cove...
View BookStephen Fry On the Phone, the Accidentaldiscoveroftext
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesStephen Fry on the Phone Series, Book 3
Duration 13m
Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone. In this third episode, he looks at the discovery of text messaging. The engineers who designed the early texting facilities didn't imagine that anyone might want to reply. (Just in case, they added a short list of possible pre-set answers: yes, no and maybe). In the eighties, when network cove...
View BookStephen Fry On the Phone, From Carphones To Executive Bricks
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesStephen Fry on the Phone Series, Book 2
Duration 13m
Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone. There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys who made it all possible and hears how the technology succeeded, in ways that the geeks had not necessarily intended. In this second episode, he traces the evolution of the mob...
View BookStephen Fry On the Phone, Episode 1 Creating A Network
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesStephen Fry on the Phone Series, Book 1
Duration 13m
Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone. There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people on the planet: In this first episode, Stephen Fry explores the creation of the mobile phone network. Richard Frenkiel, a Bell Labs engineer, who created the cellular networks on which all mobile phones depend, was himself never pa...
View BookAuthor Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 6m
Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to carry the battery, to the smartphones available today. There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys who made it all possible and hears how the technology su...
View BookHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author J.K Rowling
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesHarry Potter, Book 7
Duration 24h
Harry Potter is preparing to leave the Dursleys and Privet Drive for the last time. But the future that awaits him is full of danger, not only for him, but for anyone close to him - and Harry has already lost so much. Only by destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes can Harry free himself and overcome the Dark Lord's forces of evil. In a final pe...
View BookHarry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
Author J.K Rowling
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesHarry Potter, Book 6
Duration 20h 36m
It is Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Voldemort's sinister forces amass and a spirit of gloom and fear sweeps the land, it becomes clear to Harry that he will soon have no choice but to confront his destiny. Can Harry succeed in the death-defying tasks ahead?
View BookHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Author J.K Rowling
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesHarry Potter, Book 5
Duration 29h 7m
Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is desperate to find out why his friends, Ron and Hermione, have been secretive all summer. But before he even gets to school, Harry survives a terrifying encounter with two Dementors, attends a court hearing at the Ministry of Magic and is escorted on a n...
View BookHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author J.K Rowling
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesHarry Potter, Book 4
Duration 21h
The summer holidays seem never-ending and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school term. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and there are spells to learn and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to attend. But Harry needs to be on his guard at all times - his worst enemy is preparing a horrifying f...
View BookHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Author J.K Rowling
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesHarry Potter, Book 3
Duration 12h 7m
Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays (who wouldn't if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?). But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass murd...
View BookHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Author J.K Rowling
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesHarry Potter, Book 2
Duration 9h 47m
Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The three friends, Harry, Ron and Hermione, are soon immersed in the daily round of Potions, Herbology, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts and Quidditch. Then mysterious and scary things start happening. First Harry hears strange voices, and then Ro...
View BookDirk Gently Book 3: The Salmon of Doubt
Author Douglas Adams
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesDirk Gently, Book 3
Duration 8h 2m
Rescued from his beloved Macintosh, The Salmon of Doubt provides us with the opportunity to linger and frolic one last time in the uniquely entertaining and richly informative mind of Douglas Adams. For the millions of readers who expressed their grief and shock at his untimely death, this is a treasure; his final book and our last chance to see ne...
View BookAuthor Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 8h 28m
Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax devi...
View BookAuthor Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 9h 1m
Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend...
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