The Archers: The Death of Grace Archer
Alan Bennett: Keeping On Keeping On
Neil Gaiman: How The Marquis Got His Coat Back
Agatha Christie Close Up
Tom Baker A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special
All available from amazon.co.uk
I have become a huge fan of audio books since becoming a mother. I love reading but fitting in the time, or even just managing to sit down is impossible sometimes. So having someone read them to you is just perfect. Like most children I loved Roald Dahl. I was obsessed with his stories and they still stay with me now I am an adult. I cannot wait for my son to discover them. When the CD of Boy & Going Solo dropped through our letterbox we were excited. These are two wonderful BBC Radio 4 full cast dramas. They star Patrick Malahide. With a run time of 3 hours, you can become fully immersed in these wonderful stories. Frost loves.
Two new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Roald Dahl’s gripping autobiographical stories.
These two compelling adaptations, based on Roald Dahl’s real-life tales of his of his boyhood and youthful overseas adventures, celebrate his remarkable life and commemorate his genius.
Boy Dahl’s childhood was one of excitement, wonder, terror and sadness. From his fascination with the local sweetshop to the Great Mouse Plot, the horrors of boarding school, the obnoxious Boazers and his time as a chocolate taster for Cadbury’s, we hear of the extraordinary events that shaped him and inspired his bestselling books.
Going Solo Setting sail for Africa on the SS Montola, aged 22, Dahl is plunged into an unfamiliar world of eccentric colonial characters. In Tanzania he enjoys life on the savannah, encountering lions and deadly mambas – but when World War II breaks out, and he must round up the Germans in Dar es Salaam, he experiences the brutality of war. As he leaves the bush behind and takes to the skies as an RAF pilot, many thrilling adventures and dangerous missions will ensue before he finally makes his way back home…
Starring Patrick Malahide as the voice of Dahl, these colourful dramatisations will carry you away into worlds every bit as amazing, strange and memorable as the ones in his acclaimed fiction. Duration: 3 hours approx
“None of these things is important, but each of them made such a tremendous impression on me that I have never been able to get them out of my mind.” Roald Dahl
Boy & Going Solo: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas is available here.
Celebrate Halloween with an exclusive video interview of Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens talking about his latest project – Frankenstein. The award-winning actor and narrator has recorded an uncanny audiobook performance of Mary Shelley’s timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch exclusively for Audible.co.uk, available for the first time ever to listeners in the UK.
In Frankenstein, the young student Victor Frankenstein tries to create life, unleashing forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.
Best known as Matthew Crawley in the hit ITV drama Downton Abbey, Dan Stevens’ other television work includes lead roles in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty and Andrew Davies’s adaptation of Sense & Sensibility.
Dan Stevens is also a prolific narrator of audiobooks: his reading of Louisa Young’s My Dear I Wanted to Tell You won the 2011 Audiobook of the Year at the Galaxy National Book Awards. He also recorded Stef Penney’s The Invisible Ones.
The Frankenstein audiobook by Mary Shelley is available only from Audible.co.uk.
Frankenstein
Unabridged
By Mary Shelley
Narrated by Dan Stevens
Regular Price: £15.49
Publish Date: 29 October 2013
I am a ferocious reader. In my other life as an actor I have been known to read a book a day on set. But as I get more busy one of the things I hate the most is that I do not have time to read. This is why I love buying an audio book. I recently bought Rob Lowe’s Stories I Only Tell My Friends and Lowe narrated the story himself. This brings an entire new dimension to the experience of books and especially autobiographies. It is one thing to read Lowe’s book, but to hear him tell his own story is pretty cool.
You can ‘read’ while working, doing your emails, cleaning, walking. Audio books may not be new, but they have really taken off in recent years, and I think it is because we are getting busier all the time. I am also someone who multitasks all of the time, so audio books are perfect for me. I even listen to audio books when I have free time now.
I believe that when someone is well-read it comes across in how they think and speak. Nothing educates people more than books. People who have problems with their eyes and people with dyslexia can also enjoy audio books.
Do you love audio books? What is your favourite audio book?
Audiobooks can be bought easily online on audiogo.com
