A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Mark Twain’s classic novel of adventure, loyalty and responsibility.
Young Huck Finn can’t get along with the Widow Douglas’ attempts to ‘sivilize’ him, or the smothering discipline which she and her sister serve up at home. So when his drunken, good-for-nothing father turns up and kidnaps him, Huck takes his cue to leave – and escapes to Jackson’s Island.
There he meets runaway slave Jim, and the two become firm friends. Their bond of trust holds strong as they travel down the Mississippi river on a raft – witnessing misdeeds and murder along the way – and are separated, captured and re-captured before continuing in their bid for freedom.
Full of tension, excitement, comedy and drama, Twain’s sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is also regarded as a comment on the slavery and colour prejudice inherent in the mid-19th century American South.
Arthur Miller
Performed By : Stuart Pankin, Jerome Dempsey and cast
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Length : 2 hours 17 minutes
Categories : Classic Literature
Download Price : $12.75
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recrimination that quickly develops men denounce their neighbours... See full description...
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George Eliot
Performed By : Nadia May
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 30 hours
Categories : Classic Literature
Download Price : $49.95
In Daniel Deronda, George Eliot left behind the world of the Victorian middle classes that she explored so well in Middlemarch. Eliot, with her hero Deronda, attempts to come to terms with the English Jews, a society within a society, which the people of her time seemed either oblivious to or... See full description...
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Mark Twain
Performed By : Mike McShane
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Length : 2 hours 52 minutes
Categories : Classics Classic Literature Classics Over 10s
Download Price : $12.75
Mark Twain's classic tale recounts the adventures of the ever resourceful Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn... See full description...
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George Eliot
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 3 hours
Categories : Classic Literature Classics Classic Historical
Download Price : $22.75
George Eliot’s last and undeniably great novel, which tells the story of young Daniel Deronda and his fateful relationship with the astonishing Gwendolen Harleth. See full description...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Performed By : Alex Jennings with Jon Cartwright
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Length : 5 hours 20 minutes
Categories : Philosophy Classic Literature
Download Price : $18.75
A literary as well as a philosophical masterpiece, Thus spoke Zarathustra survived an initially poor reception, to be recognised as a seminal text in modern culture. See full description...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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