AuthorBenjamin Zephaniah
NarratorThe Author
Duration1h 30m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS2
PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing
VersionUnabridged
Brought to you by Penguin. Enter the crazy world of rap poet Benjamin Zephaniah! Funky Turkeys is the first audio edition of Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry collection for children - playful, clever and provocative - this is performance poetry on the page at its very best. An unconventional collection of straight-talking poems about heroes, revolutions, racism, love and animal rights, among other subjects, that will entice many new readers to poetry. Poems in this audiobook were first published in Funky Chickens and Talking Turkeys.
Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 24m
Cutting-edge performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah has written poems about 13 children from all over Britain who come from a whole range of different backgrounds. This is the rhyming, rapping, rhythmic way to learn about Britain in the 21st Century!
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Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator The Author, Peter Kenny
Duration 6h 10m
Life is not safe for Alem, His father is Ethiopian, his mother Eritrean - and with both countries at war, he is welcome in neither place. So his father does an astonishing thing, which at first appears callous, but is in fact the ultimate gift of love from a parent to a child. This audio book also features an exclusive commentary by the author, in...
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Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator Ewan Goddard
Duration 3h 51m
Rico knows to stay away from trouble as best he can. But he's angry and frustrated at the injustices he sees happening at home and around the world. He wants to do something-but what? When he is approached by Speech, a mysterious man who shares Rico's hacktivist interests, Rico is given the perfect opportunity to speak out. After all, what harm can...
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Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator The Author, Peter Kenny
Duration 4h 25m
After suffering severe facial injuries in a joyriding accident, Martin must adjust to living with his new appearance, and to coping with the changing and sometimes discriminatory attitudes of those around him. This audio book also features an exclusive commentary by the author, in which he discusses what inspired him to write the book.
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The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator Benjamin Zephaniah
Duration 10h 45m
Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life. In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets protesting about unemployment, homelessness and the National Front, Benjamin's poetry could be heard at demonstrations, outside poli...
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