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Bestselling and classic audiobooks (free to stream on the BBC website)
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Thought this post might be helpful to those who aren't aware of this service.
Current availability includes:
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood.
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummings (being released in instalments).
The Mirror and the Light (abridged) by Hilary Mantel.
Classics:
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Silas Marner by George Eliot.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
Orlando by Virginia Woolf.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan.
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
Dramatisations:
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (being released in instalments).
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Thirty-nine steps is terrific (though bears no resemblance to the film)
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They're radio 4 / BBC Sounds broadcasts/streams and some have a limited time left to listen"And suddenly I find myself listening to a man I've never known before,Telling me about the sea..."1
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