Author: Nick Warburton
Author Nick Warburton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 4h 39m
The Gospel story as you've never heard it before. Everyone knows the story of Jesus' life as told in the Gospels - and perhaps because it is so familiar, we have forgotten what an extraordinary life it was. Through these five plays, the story is pieced together as if from the memories of those who were there and saw events for themselves: Jesus' mo...
View BookAuthor: Lawrie Wyman
Series: The Navy Lark, Book 21
Author Lawrie Wyman
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 21
Duration 1h 48m
The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest of a wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior Service were conniving Chief Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips, and the constantly bemused Stephen Murray as 'Number One', while Tenniel Evans made mischief as Leading Se...
View BookAuthor: Carlo Collodi
Author Carlo Collodi
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
Gepetto's creation, the wooden puppet Pinocchio, longs to be a real boy. This is the story of all the mischief he makes and his incredible nose which grows whenever he tells a lie!
View BookAuthor: Stephen Crane
Author Stephen Crane
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 5h
Henry Fleming, a new recruit in the American Civil War, is desperate to prove his courage but is unprepared for the horror he must witness. A powerful story of fear and duty.
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Ian Craig
Duration 3h
A memoir of Roald Dahl's childhood containing some hilariously true stories, such as the great mouse plot of 1924, when an eight year old Dahl and his gobstopper-loving friends took a just revenge on the disgusting sweetshop owner Mrs Pratchett. Dahl also recounts the deaths of his father and his sister within the space of a few short weeks, the ca...
View BookThe Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Author: Roald Dahl
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Hugh Laurie
Duration 45m
What else could a giraffe with an extending neck, a pelican with an expanding Beak, and an athletic little monkey be but `The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company?' When this trio are invited to clean all 677 windows belonging to the Duke of Hampshire, it is no wonder that they have adventures.
View BookAuthor: Harper Lee
Author Harper Lee
Narrator Benedikte Faulkner
Duration 11h
Scout is a young girl whose father, Atticus, is a small-town lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white girl. The book is set in Alabama in the 1930s and although one of the major themes of the book is racism, it also tackles the issue of how children view the world and how their understanding of the society they live in changes and dev...
View BookAuthor: Michelle Magorian
Author Michelle Magorian
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 3h 30m
The gruff and surly Mr Thomas Oakley is less than pleased when he is landed with a scrawny little city boy as a guest, but because it is compulsory that each villager takes in an evacuee he reluctantly agrees. It soon becomes obvious to Mister Tom that Willie Beech is hiding something, and as the pair begin to form an unlikely bond, Willie begins t...
View BookAuthor: Daphne Du Maurier
Author Daphne Du Maurier
Narrator Sarah Robson
Duration 10h 30m
After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan travels to Jamaica Inn on bleak Bodmin Moor to live with her Aunt Patience. The coachman warns her of the strange happenings there, and Mary suddenly finds her life to be in the hands of strangers: her uncle, Joss Merlyn, whose crude ways repel her; Aunt Patience, who seems mentally unstable and perpetuall...
View BookAuthor: E. Nesbit
Author E. Nesbit
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 47m
When father mysteriously has to go away for a time, three children and their mother leave their comfortable home in London for the country. The children seek solace in the nearby railway station, making friends with Perks the porter and with the station master himself. But will their father ever return?
View BookAuthor: Philippa Pearce
Author Philippa Pearce
Narrator Jan Francis
Duration 4h 45m
Tom has to stay with his uncle and aunt when his brother gets measles. Bored and lonely, he eventually finds what seems to be the ideal escape. Every night, after the clock strikes thirteen, he finds he can travel back in time to a mysterious Victorian garden just by walking out of the back door. None of the adults can believe that the garden exist...
View BookAll Quiet On the Western Front
Author: E M Remarque
Author E M Remarque
Narrator Robert Gladwell
Duration 7h
Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of the First World War. Youthful and enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as the war continues, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that pit young...
View BookThe Hundred and One Dalmatians
Author: Dodie Smith
Author Dodie Smith
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 45m
Cruella de Vil is determined to have a beautiful new coat made from the fur of 101 Dalmatians. Can Pongo and Missis save their beloved puppies from her evil clutches?
View BookThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4
Author: Sue Townsend
Series: Adrian Mole, Book 1
Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Nicholas Barnes
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 1
Duration 5h 15m
Adrian Mole is having a hard time, trying to deal with his parents' crumbling marriage, his spots, his school, his unrequited love for Pandora and the erratic behaviour of his dog.
View BookAuthor: Bill Bryson
Author Bill Bryson
Narrator William Roberts
Duration 10h 30m
Bill Bryson drove 14,000 miles in search of the mythical small town of his youth. Instead he found a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger joints; a continent lost to itself through greed, pollution and television, and lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country. A funny and analytical view of smalltown America.
View BookAuthor: Virginia Ironside
Author Virginia Ironside
Narrator Maureen Beck
Duration 10h 15m
Virginia Ironside, a journalist and writer on personal and family relationships, examines bereavement. The death of her own father and her researches since highlight that many people find grief a chaotic and violent process. This audiobook looks at the feelings of shock, anger, guilt, powerlessness and fear which surround the informal rituals of de...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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 BookSomething Like Fire: Peter Cook Remembered
Author: Lin (editor) Cook
Author Lin (editor) Cook
Narrator Robert Pennant Jones
Duration 10h
Peter Cook's comic genius set the tone for the new British comedy of the sixties. His appearances on stage, television and film over three decades were legendary, as was his partnership with Dudley Moore. This audiobook offers a composite portrait, both of the public performer and the private man, written by many of the writers, performers and frie...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Faulks
Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Peter Firth
Duration 15h 10m
Set in France before and during the First World War, this is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who finds his true love on a trip to Amiens in 1910. Unfortunately, she's already married to a wealthy textile baron. Wraysford convinces her to leave a life of passionless comfort to be at his side, but things do not turn out according t...
View BookAuthor: Lynne Truss
Author Lynne Truss
Narrator Lynn Fairleigh
Duration 8h
A pre-Bridget Jones collection of comic journalism in the form of a guide to the life of a cat-owning modern single woman in her 30s. Truss struggles with procrastination, single bananas, unclear cooking instructions and the ungrateful (and occasionally homicidal) nature of cats.
View BookAuthor: John Casson
Author John Casson
Narrator John Casson
Duration 13h
In 1909, actress Sybil Thorndike wed Welsh-born actor/director Lewis Casson. This is the story of their great theatre partnership as told by their son John.
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