Author: Patrick Ness
Format: Online
Author Patrick Ness
Narrator Jamie Glover
Duration 9h 1m
One night, George Duncan is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his life is transformed. The next day, a kind but enigmatic woman walks into George's shop. Suddenly a new world op...
View BookAuthor: Peter James
Format: Online
Author Peter James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 13h 45m
They were marked for death. The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fianc‚e, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where they live in Brighton. Then she screams and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vani...
View BookAuthor: Cecelia Ahern
Format: Online
Author Cecelia Ahern
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 12h 15m
In the south-west of Ireland, rugged mountains meet bright blue lakes and thick forests. Deep in the woods, a young woman lives alone, forever secluded from the world, her life a well-kept secret. She possesses an extraordinary talent, the likes of which no-one has seen before: a gift that will earn her the nickname Lyrebird. When Solomon stumbles...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Wise Brown
Format: Online
Author Margaret Wise Brown
Narrator Unknown
Duration 5m
Over the city, high above the sea, into a storm, and through a sky full of aeroplanes, the Noon Balloon is off on a magical journey. Read along as the boy, girl, and little dog fly away for a truly magical adventure! Part of our fantastic, Read-along collection for younger readers, these are picture books which highlight the text in time with the n...
View BookThe Long Earth Series Book 4: The Long Utopia
Author: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Narrator Michael Fenton Stevens
SeriesLong Earth, Book 4
Duration 12h
2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He's convinced they're leading a norm...
View BookAuthor: Roy Smiles
Format: Online
Author Roy Smiles
Narrator Kai Owen, Toby Longworth, James Clyde
Duration 43m
Roy Smiles' play about Spike Milligan's last days with the Goons and his complex and often fractious relationship with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe. During the 1950s, 'The Goon Show' had England laughing week after week, greatly influencing Monty Python and the Beatles, among others - and paved the way for sketch comedy as we know it today.
View BookDick Barton and the Li-chang Adventure
Author: Edward J Mason
Format: Online
Author Edward J Mason
Narrator Douglas Kelly
Duration 3h 49m
Douglas Kelly stars in another adventure for radio's greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly memorable signature tune, the adventures of Dick Barton, Jock and Snowey originally ran on the BBC Light Programme between 1946 and 1951. Very few of the BBC's original recordings still survive, however, in 1949 some were re-recorded for transmission overse...
View BookAuthor: R. K. Narayan
Format: Online
Author R. K. Narayan
Narrator Ike Khan
Duration 8h 5m
Krishna, an English teacher in the town of Malgudi, nagged by the feeling he's doing the wrong work, is nonetheless delighted by his domestic life, where his wife and young daughter wait for him outside the house every afternoon. Devastated by the death of his wife, Krishna comes to realise what he really wants to do, and makes a decision that will...
View BookJeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum: Jeeves
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Format: Online
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 18m
Hapless and often hopeless romantic Bingo Little has fallen for yet another young lady in this Jeeves and Wooster story of terrible cravats, far-from-fine dining and love's perhaps-not-so-young dream. Bertie is rather confounded by Bingo's love for a girl below his rightful station, so long-suffering Jeeves is roped in to talk to Bingo's uncle, who...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator James Saxon
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 3
Duration 5h 54m
Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when Mrs Symmington commits suicide. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict.
View BookAuthor: Edith Wharton
Format: Online
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 49m
The play follows the beautiful Undine Spragg as she arrives in New York and sets her sights on Ralph Marvell, then travels to Paris where she meets a charming French aristocrat. Will Undine ever find real happiness?
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Red Planet, Book 4
Duration 29m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...
View BookLadies of Letters Spring Clean
Author: Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
Format: Online
Author Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
Narrator Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge
Duration 1h 9m
Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge make a clean sweep in a further series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy hit. The ladies are back, and this time they're full of Springtime recipes and tips for a long and healthy life. Once again, however, disaster is never very far away... Reunited at the bedside of a mutual old flame, Irene and Vera feel a sudden u...
View BookTrevor's World of Sport, Series 1
Author: Andy Hamilton
Format: Online
Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 46m
The first series of Andy Hamilton's BBC Radio 4 comedy about sports PR agent Trevor. Trevor and Sammy are the movers and shakers at TS Sports Stars agency. Friends for twenty years, and business partners for nine, they are chalk and cheese: Trevor is thoughtful, honest and sensitive while Sammy is a rapacious dealmaker with the morals of a hyena. I...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
Format: Online
Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Maureen O'Brien
Duration 14h 30m
Clara Casey, senior cardiologist and mother of two, already has a new job to cope with - and now her ex-husband wants something from her too. For Ania, meeting Clara is a miracle. She never intended to leave Poland, but hopes a new job in a new country will mend her broken heart. Declan is looking forward to joining the clinic - but what should hav...
View BookAuthor: Sonia Purnell
Format: Online
Author Sonia Purnell
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 13h 55m
The incredible true and untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who infiltrated Occupied France for the SOE and became the Gestapo's most wanted Allied spy, by acclaimed biographer Sonia Purnell. The remarkable double life of an American-turned-British spy, Virginia Hall, a 'bolshie' woman from Maryland who, determined to...
View BookDirk Pitt Series Book 4: Raise the Titanic
Author: Clive Cussler
Format: Online
Author Clive Cussler
Narrator Scott Brick
SeriesDirk Pitt, Book 4
Duration 12h 45m
The fantastic fourth Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler. A tidal wave of pounding excitement from start to finish...Two and a half miles beneath the icy North Atlantic, the mighty Titanic holds the key to the safety of the free world. The Americans want it. So do the Russians. Ace maritime troublesh...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: Online
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 11h 18m
Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith captures the strange wonderful goings on of the residents and visitors at Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, from nasty Liberal Democrat MP Oedipus Snark to the newest resident, Pimlico Terrier Freddie de la Hay.
View BookAuthor: Marian Keyes
Format: Online
Author Marian Keyes
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 19h
Amy's husband Hugh has run away to 'find himself'. But will he ever come back? 'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' If only. Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving her. He still loves her, he's just taking a break - from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together. Six...
View BookAuthor: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Format: Online
Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrator Donada Peters
Duration 6h 56m
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the fac...
View BookAuthor: David Walliams
Format: Online
Author David Walliams
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 9m
Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for. the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning.When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, and is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter. Things go from bad to worse when he me...
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