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Listener's Corner
 
Listener's Corner
 
Wondering what you might enjoy?  Sample the flavour of a few that have been made into audio books.  I love audio books – especially in the car.  Such a treat to have someone read to me as I drive.  There are more – check out the full list under “Audio Books” – but the rest are on good old-fashoned cassette. I wish more unabridged books found their way into bookshops – the British ones you will find only in a library.  But if you like what you hear, the books are easy to come by and they contain all the same words!
 
I am so grateful to the wonderful actors who recorded these for Chivers/BBC or Full Cast Audio.
 
To listen click on the images below
 
    Kite Rider  

 
    THE KITE RIDER    
    The reader is Anton Lesser.

   
Hao You is working for a circus, riding kites high in the sky.  But a boy in the sky makes a useful weapon of war.  That’s how the kite-rider finds himself holding two bombs, fuses lit, just as a typhoon smashes into Cathay…
 
In the States, it is available from Full Cast Audio.
   
 

 

  

Peanut Butter and Cello

  

 
PEANUT BUTTER AND CELLO
Not an audio book, this, but a story commissioned for a series of three called “Come Away!  Come Away!” on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. 
         
     It is read by Melody Grove.    
         
   

Smile!

  

 
    SMILE!    
A story about photography: what it can do and what it can’t. 
         
    It is read by Richard Morant.    
         
    Stop The Train    
    STOP THE TRAIN    
Laurel Lefkow reads the story of a town in the Oklahoma Prairie. Herman, Kookie and Frank have just been thrown off a train in the middle of nowhere. If they can just tap into the telegraph wire, they can summon help.  Herman has made a ‘ground return’ with a metal spike; only snag is: the ground needs to be wet for the electricity to flow…
         
In the States, the superb Full Cast Audio version used a record number of actors to portray the townsfolk of Florence. 
         
   

Theseus

  

    THESEUS    
Full Cast Audio “We put more actors in every box!” 
The narrator is Cynthia Bishop.
         
    Questing Knights of the Faerie Queene    
                                     QUESTING KNIGHTS OF THE FAERIE QUEENE
Sidney Spenser (400 years ago) demonstrated, with a string of adventures, the various qualities needed by a knight who means to serve the sublime Faerie Queen.
                       Read by Wayne Forester for OAKHILL CHILDREN’S AUDIO BOOKS
         
    Peter Pan in Scarlet    
                                                     PETER PAN IN SCARLET
Peter and friends, stranded on a beach and surrounded by forest fire are glad when a ship looms out of the smoke and beaches itself. They climb aboard….
              In the States Tim Curry reads the book for McElderry Children’s Books. 
                                                Here is it read by Andrew Sachs.
         
    The Death-Defying Pepper Roux    
                                          THE DEATH-DEFYING PEPPER ROUX
Pepper Roux is on the run, pretending to be other people, because Pepper Roux really ought to be dead.  While working as a newspaper reporter, he calls himself Pepper Papier. But some memories just can’t be escaped – like the ship he was pretending to captain when it sank…
                                         It is brilliantly read here by Anton Lesser.
         
    The White Darkness    
                                                   THE WHITE DARKNESS
Sym and Sigurd are walking ahead of a Hagglund caterpillar-track vehicle, roped to its fender, testing the ice underfoot for crevasses.  Every step takes them farther from safety, from the hope of being found, across a landscape famous for its cruelty, its treachery…. and its extraordinary tricks of the light…
            It is read by Ruth Sillers.     
         Sym’s imaginary ally, Antarctic explorer Titus Oates – is played by Richard Morant.
         
    Tamburlaine's Elephants    
                                                 TAMBURLAINE’S ELEPHANTS
Rusti has just ridden into battle for the first time. A fallen battle elephant has presented him with his first chance to kill – a little Indian elephant boy called Kavi.  Two boys and an elephant alone on a battlefield – there’s a language problem, naturally.
          Anton Lesser is the reader.    
         
         
         
         
         
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