The Pam Ayres Poetry Collection
Author: Pam Ayres
Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres
Duration 2h 5m
Pam Ayres reads over 50 of her best-known and loved poems, including 'I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth', 'I'm a Starling, Me Darling' and 'Thoughts of a Late-Night Knitter'.
View BookAuthor: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Richard Mitchley
Duration 4h 7m
The first book in the Johnny Maxwell series. 12-year-old Johnny loves playing the computer game `Only You Can Save Mankind' where he has to save mankind from the alien hordes, but the aliens aren't so happy. When they get killed off they really die, so the alien Captain decides to take matters in her own hands, and surrenders. Suddenly Johnny finds...
View BookAuthor: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Richard Mitchley
Duration 3h 59m
Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can, and he's got bad news for them. The council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny, and they're not going to take it lying down...especially since it's Halloween tomorrow. Besides, they're beginni...
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Series Book 3: The Horse and His Boy
Author: C S Lewis
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 3
Author C S Lewis
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 3
Duration 6h
Bree the horse has been kidnapped from Narnia and longs to return there. Shasta, on the verge of being sold into slavery, decides to run away with him in search of his beloved home. Before they know it, the horse and his boy find themselves on a wild and dangerous journey through evil cities, eerie tombs and harsh deserts. This is the third book in...
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Series Book 1: The Magician's Nephew
Author: C S Lewis
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1
Author C S Lewis
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1
Duration 6h
In The Magician's Nephew, nothing is quite as it seems. Digory and Polly find themselves magically transported to a Wood between the Worlds, where several small ponds act as gateways to different worlds. They discover the dead world of Charn and together with Aslan the lion the pair fight against the evil Queen Jadis, restoring the land to its natu...
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Series Book 6: The Silver Chair
Author: C S Lewis
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6
Author C S Lewis
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6
Duration 6h
Eustace and Jill are called back to Narnia where they meet Aslan the lion who sets them the task of finding King Caspian's long lost son, Rilian. The pair stumble across Harfang, the castle of giants, and are invited to stay for the Autumn Feast. little realising that they are the main ingredients. This is the sixth book in the Narnia series.
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Series Book 5: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Author: C S Lewis
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 5
Author C S Lewis
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 5
Duration 6h
Edmund and Lucy are gazing miserably at the picture of the ship with the dragon prow when it slowly begins to rock, and the wind starts to blow. The frame disappears, and Lucy, Edmund and their awful cousin Eustace are suddenly swept into the picture. They find themselves in the magical kingdom of Narnia, and on a dangerous voyage of discovery to t...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
Series: This Sceptered Isle, Book 10
Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
SeriesThis Sceptered Isle, Book 10
Duration 3h
The tenth part of a major Radio 4 series that tells the history of Britain from the Roman invasion to the death of Queen Victoria. This audiobook focuses on the Victorian period.
View BookThe Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Author: Roddy Doyle
Author Roddy Doyle
Narrator Ger Ryan
Duration 3h
Paula Spencer struggles to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem. She recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she had as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her feeling powerless.
View BookAuthor: Bernieres Louis De
Author Bernieres Louis De
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 3h 25m
In 1941 Captain Antonio Corelli is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia. It isn't long before he is involved in a heated affair with Pelagia, a local girl, despite her engagement to a young fisherman, Mandras, who has gone off to join Greek partisans. Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers are on the same side, but as Core...
View BookAuthor: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Author Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrator Janet Mcteer
Duration 8h 35m
After the death of her parents, Mary Lennox is brought back from India as a forlorn and unwanted child to live in her uncle's great lonely house on the moors. Then one day, she discovers the key to a secret garden and, as if by magic, her life begins to change.
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Series Book 7: The Last Battle
Author: C S Lewis
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 7
Author C S Lewis
Narrator Jamie Glover
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 7
Duration 6h
A false Aslan is commanding all Narnians to work for the cruel Calormenes and striking terror into every heart. Jill and Eustace find themselves called into Narnia once more, this time to aid King Tirian in the mightiest of all battles. This is the seventh book in the Narnia series.
View BookAuthor: Johanna Spyri
Author Johanna Spyri
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 50m
Orphaned at the age of five, Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Heidi is growing to love her new life and friends when suddenly she is taken away to Frankfurt. As a companion to an invalid girl, Clara, Heidi brings kindness and joy, yet she pines for her life in the mountains.
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 50m
A tale of comical misadventure with Mister Pickwick and his companions - the amorous Tupman, the 'poetic' Snodgrass and the `sporty' Winkle - all battling to extricate themselves from a seemingly endless succession of comic trials and tribulations.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Series: Miss Marple, Book 10
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 10
Duration 2h 30m
When Miss Marple comes up from the countryside for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakeable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 14
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 14
Duration 2h 20m
The brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot becomes involved in an unusual case after a member of an archaeological expedition is murdered at an ancient site in the Iraqi desert.
View BookAuthor: Dylan Thomas
Author Dylan Thomas
Narrator Richard Burton
Duration 1h 40m
The 1963 radio dramatisation, with Richard Burton as the narrator, of Dylan Thomas's play for voices, about the inhabitants of a small Welsh village.
View BookAuthor: F Scott Fitzgerald
Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 3h
Written for Esquire magazine late in Fitzgerald's career, 'The Pat Hobby Stories' are a bittersweet, humorous recollection of a down-and-out Hollywood screenwriter trying to break back into show business, whose career has started to flag since the emergence of 'upstarts' such as Orson Welles.
View BookAuthor: Jane Asher
Author Jane Asher
Narrator Eileen Mills
Duration 8h 7m
John Hamilton didn't want children with his wife, but that was because he had led a secret life for 20 years, in the shape of a mistress and a 19 year-old daughter. Now, following a car crash which has left him in a vegetative state, the three women that he deceived decide his fate.
View BookAuthor: Jane Gardam
Author Jane Gardam
Narrator Caroline John
Duration 5h
A collection of short stories, including the long, three-part story, 'Telegony', which is a depiction of three generations of women and the clash of two very different cultures, English and Italian. The collection includes two ghost stories, 'Dead Children' and 'The Meeting House'.
View BookAuthor: George Eliot
Author George Eliot
Narrator Lucy Briars
Duration 7h
After he is wrongly accused of a crime and expelled from his community, weaver Silas Marner becomes a miser and a recluse. A strange sequence of events, and the appearance of a small child, transforms his life and awakens him to the redemptive power of love.
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