Language audiobooks

The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling & Ralph Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous... Read more

Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens & Richard Rogers

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is... Read more

The Murder of Mary Jones

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

At the start of this play, the court room is full for today's trial. Two young men, Simon Clark and Dan Smith, stand up. The clerk asks, 'Are you guilty of the murder of Mary Jones?' 'Not guilty!' they reply. But perhaps they are guilty. The police found the murder weapon in their stolen car, and there was blood on Simon's face. If the court... Read more

Five Short Plays

By: Martyn Ford

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where time doesn't matter so much. What if you dream of travelling to other countries, but your friends just laugh? Do you stay at home with them? Or do you decide to be more... Read more

Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp

By: Judith Dean

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's... Read more

A Ghost in Love and Other Plays

By: Michael Dean

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you believe in ghosts? Jerry doesn't. He's a nineteen-year-old American, who just wants a good holiday with his friend, Brad. They are travelling round the north of England by bicycle. But strange things begin to happen in the small hotel where they are staying. First, Brad seems to think that he has been there before. And then a girl called... Read more

Coldest Place on Earth

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest... Read more

The Lottery Winner

By: Rosemary Border

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very... Read more

The Omega Files: Short Stories

By: Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI.... Read more

One-Way Ticket: Short Stories

By: Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life. This is a collection of short... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering... Read more

Goodbye, Mr. Hollywood

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Nick Lortz is sitting outside a cafe in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick 'Mr Hollywood'? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next... Read more

Christmas in Prague

By: Joyce Hannam

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast - Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But... Read more

The Butler Did It and Other Plays

By: Bill Bowler

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you get a licence if you want to keep a monkey? What can you do if your wife has a lover? How can you see into the future? Where can you go for an exciting but cheap holiday somewhere hot and far away? How can you persuade your girlfriend or boyfriend to marry you? The characters in these six original short plays are looking for answers... Read more

Carpe Diem

By: Harry Mount

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this lighthearted guided tour of Latin, journalist and former Latin tutor Harry Mount breathes life back into the greatest language of all, drawing on everything from a Monty Python grammar lesson to Angelina Jolie's tattoos. Filled with fascinating tidbits and humorous asides, Carpe Diem will delight the word lovers who made Eats, Shoots and... Read more

The Thirty-Nine Steps

By: John Buchan & Nick Bullard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do,... Read more

Black Beauty

By: Anna Sewell & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and... Read more

The Piano

By: Rosemary Border

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish,' he says. In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him - and the music... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens & Ralph Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES.' The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-hearted... Read more

Chemical Secret

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it. They gave him the job because he couldn't say no; he couldn't afford to be honest. And the job was like a poison inside him. It changed him and... Read more

The President's Murderer

By: Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him - people with lights, and dogs, and guns. A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired and needs to sleep. But first he must find the other man, and bring him back - dead or alive. Two men:... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Patrick Nobes

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one... Read more

Three Men in a Boat

By: Jerome K. Jerome & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

'I like work. I find it interesting ...I can sit and look at it for hours.' With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun... Read more

Anne of Green Gables

By: L. M. Montgomery & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy,... Read more