Witches of Pendle
By: Rowena Akinyemi
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Witches are dangerous. They can kill you with a look, or a word. They can send their friend the Devil after you in the shape of a dog or a cat. They can make a clay picture of you, then break it ...and a few weeks later you are dead. Today, of course, most people don't believe in witches. But in 1612 everybody was afraid of them. Young Jennet... Read more
View audiobookUnder the Moon
By: Rowena Akinyemi
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die ...In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from... Read more
View audiobookSherlock Holmes and the Sport of Kings
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Jennifer Bassett
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win races, they can make a lot of money too - money for the owners, for the trainers, and for the people who put bets on them to win. Silver Blaze is a young horse, but already the winner of many races. One night he disappears from his... Read more
View audiobookThe Withered Arm
By: Thomas Hardy & Jennifer Bassett
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman and a man ...words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her ...It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time - today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among... Read more
View audiobookSherlock Holmes: Two Plays
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & John Escott
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective the world has ever seen, and he knows it. As the famous bank-robber, John Clay, says to him, 'You think of everything, Mr Holmes. You're very clever.' People come to him with problems that no one, not even the police, can solve. Holmes sits, and thinks, and smokes his pipe, and in the end he finds the... Read more
View audiobookRemember Miranda
By: Rowena Akinyemi
Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Cathy Wilson is driving to Norfolk, to begin her new job with the Harvey family. She is going to look after the two young children, Tim and Susan. Cathy meets the children's father, and their grandmother, and their aunt. She meets Nick, the farmer who lives across the fields. But she doesn't meet Miranda, the children's mother, because Miranda... Read more
View audiobookPocahontas
By: Tim Vicary
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes. A friendly smile, a laugh, a look of love ...But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy. The girl is the daughter of King Powhatan, and the Englishman is a white man. And the Indians of Virginia do not want the white men in their beautiful country.... Read more
View audiobookSister Love and Other Crime Stories
By: John Escott
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when they were small, there was love between them, but that was a long time ago. They say that everybody has one crime in them. Perhaps... Read more
View audiobookNew York Café
By: Michael Dean
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
It is the year 2030, and an e-mail message arrives at New York Café: 'I want to help people and make them happy!' But not everybody is happy about the e-mail, and soon the police and the President are very interested in the New York Cafe. Read more
View audiobookOrca
By: Phillip Burrows & Mark Foster
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
When Tonya and her friends decide to sail around the world they want to see exciting things and visit exciting places. But one day, they meet an orca - a killer whale - one of the most dangerous animals in the sea. And life gets a little too exciting. Read more
View audiobookVoodoo Island
By: Michael Duckworth
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti. There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard; and Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man. But the old man has friends - friends in the graveyard, friends who lie dead, under the ground.... Read more
View audiobookPolice TV
By: Tim Vicary
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 17 minutes
Abridged: No
'Every day someone steals money from people near the shops. We must stop this,' says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many suspects - who is the robber? Read more
View audiobookMary Queen of Scots
By: Tim Vicary
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens - Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen. Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with... Read more
View audiobookSilas Marner
By: George Eliot & Clare West
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 2 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his... Read more
View audiobookThe Fifteenth Character
By: Rosemary Border
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 18 minutes
Abridged: No
'It's an interesting job,' says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong - very wrong. Read more
View audiobookDead Man's Island
By: John Escott
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Mr Ross lives on an island where no visitors come. He stops people from taking photographs of him. He is young and rich, but he looks sad. And there is one room in his house which is always locked. Carol Sanders and her mother come to the island to work for Mr Ross. Carol soon decides that there is something very strange about Mr Ross. Where did... Read more
View audiobookEngland
By: John Escott
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London. But England is full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with great shops and theatres, and quiet little villages. You can visit old castles and beautiful churches - or go to festivals with music twenty-four hours a day.... Read more
View audiobookSally's Phone
By: Christine Lindop
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Sally is always running - and she has her phone with her all the time: at home, on the train, at work, at lunchtime, and at the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has a different phone ...and it changes her life. Read more
View audiobookLondon
By: John Escott
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Come with us to London - a city as old as the Romans, and as new as the twenty-first century. There are places to go - from Oxford Street to Westminster Abbey, from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to Wimbledon Tennis Club. And things to do - ride on the London Eye, visit the markets, go to the theatre, run in the London Marathon. Big, beautiful,... Read more
View audiobookGirl on a Motorcycle
By: John Escott
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 17 minutes
Abridged: No
'Give me the money,' says the robber to the Los Angeles security guard. The guard looks at the gun and hands over the money. The robber has long blond hair and rides a motorcycle - and a girl with long blond hair arrives at Kenny's motel - on a motorcycle. Is she the robber? Read more
View audiobookThe Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins & Richard G. Lewis
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret - a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to... Read more
View audiobookStarman
By: Phillip Burrows & Mark Foster
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on an empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried. And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the man he meets. Very strange ... Read more
View audiobookDrive into Danger
By: Rosemary Border
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 22 minutes
Abridged: No
'I can drive a truck,' says Kim on her first day at work in the office. When Kim's passenger Andy finds something strange under the truck things get dangerous - very dangerous. Read more
View audiobookJane Eyre
By: Charlotte Brontë & Clare West
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she... Read more
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