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Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Quentin Blake
Duration 4h 38m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Going Solo by Roald Dahl, read by Dan Stevens. This is the second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable life story, following on from Boy. When he grew up, Roald Dahl left England for Africa - and a series of dangerous adventures began. From tales of plane crashes to surviving snake bites, this is Roald Dahl's ex...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Kate Winslet
Duration 26m
Penguin presents The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl, read by Kate Winslet. 'Well, that did it. I saw red. And before I was able to stop myself, I did something I never meant to do. I PUT THE MAGIC FINGER ON THEM ALL!'
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Julian Rhind-Tutt
Duration 3h 17m
Penguin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, read by Green Wing actor Julian Rhind-Tutt. The audiobooks features original music and '3D' sound design by Pinewood film studios. James Henry Trotter's parents have been eaten by a rhinoceros, so now he lives with his two repulsive aunts. One hot day something peculiar happens...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 1h 35m
Penguin presents a brand new, downloadable audiobook recording of Roald Dahl's classic George's Marvellous Medicine. George Kranky is eight-years-old and wondering what sort of mischief he might get into. George's Grandma is a grizzly old grouch and George wants to teach her a lesson...And when Grandma's finished drinking George's marvellous medici...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Chris O'Dowd
Duration 1h 15m
Puffin presents a marvellous new celebrity reading of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox. The audiobook features original music and 3D sound design by Pinewood film studios. Mr Fox steals food from the horrible farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean-one fat, one short, one lean. These three crooks concoct a plan to dig Mr Fox out of his home, but they don't...
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Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Peter Serafinowicz
Duration 4h 27m
Penguin presents Roald Dahl's classic Danny the Champion of the World, read with real warmth by the actor and comedian Peter Serafinowicz. Danny thinks his dad is the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had - but Danny's dad has a very big secret. This secret leads them both into the strangest adventure of their lives, and a daring plo...
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Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Douglas Hodge
Duration 3h 15m
Penguin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, read by the actor Douglas Hodge, who plays Willy Wonka in the hit musical adaptation of the book. Charlie Bucket and his family are rushing around the Earth at seventeen-thousand miles an hour in a great glass elevator. It belongs to the fantastic Mr Willy Wonka, and...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator David Walliams
Duration 4h 24m
Penguin presents Roald Dahl's The BFG, read by actor, writer, and Britain's Got Talent judge David Walliams. This audiobook features original music and sound design by Pinewood film studios. The BFG is a nice and jumbly giant. In fact, he is the only big friendly giant in Giant Country. All the other giants are big bonecrunching brutes, and now the...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 1h 4m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of William and Mary, a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. Read by Juliet Stevenson and Adrian Scarborough. In William and Mary, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wrong...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Stephanie Beacham
Duration 32m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Way Up to Heaven, a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. read by the actress Stephanie Beacham. In The Way Up to Heaven, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a woman o...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Adrian Scarborough
Duration 1h 8m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Royal Jelly, a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. Read by Oliver-award-winning actor Adrian Scarborough. In Royal Jelly, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a husband a...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 55m
From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected audiobook of his darkest stories, read by Juliet Stevenson, Cillian Murphy, Adrian Scarborough, Tamsin Greig, Stephanie Beacham and Andrew Scott. 'There is a pleasure sure in being mad, which none but madmen know' Our greatest fear is of losing control - of our lives, but, most...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Various
Duration 10h 13m
From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected audiobook of his darkest stories, read by Mark Heap, Derek Jacobi, Richard E Grant, Gillian Anderson, Shane Rimmer, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Jessica Hynes. We fall not in love but in lust . . . Lust, in all its myriad forms, consumes us. What won't we do to achieve our heart's des...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Miranda Richardson
Duration 4h 28m
Penguin presents a brand new recording of Roald Dahl's classic The Witches, read by Miranda Richardson. The Witches have a motto: One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear. The Grand High Witch of All the World is the scariest of the lot, but one boy and the grandmother he adores have a plan to g...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Richard Ayoade
Duration 57m
Penguin presents a marvellous new reading of Roald Dahl's The Twits read by IT Crowd star Richard Ayoade. The audiobook features original music. Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man with bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard. Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye. They've kept Muggle-Wump monkeys caged in the garden for far too long,...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Various
Duration 35m
Penguin presents Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl, complete and unabridged and raucously read by Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Mangan, and Tamsin Greig. This audiobook also contains original music. You can think again if you thought you knew the stories of some of the most popular fairy tales. Here are six of the best known retold, with more than a twist...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Bill Bailey
Duration 46m
Little Billy doesn't really believe there are monsters in the wood, but the red-hot smoke-belching gruncher is real enough, and so are the tiny minpins, whose miniature world is in danger.
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Sophie Okonedo
Duration 17h 55m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Only This, a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. Read by the actress Sophie Okonedo. In Only This, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells of a mother restlessly waiting for her bomber crewman son to return form a raid...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 2h 50m
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...
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Murphy Cillian
Duration 55m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Katina by Roald Dahl, read by Cillian Murphy. In Katina, Roald Dahl tells of a young Greek girl fascinated by the British planes and airbase that have come to her village. Katina is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartim...
View BookGalloping Foxley (a Roald Dahl Story)
Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Richard Griffiths
Duration 37m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Galloping Foxley by Roald Dahl, read by Richard Griffiths. In Galloping Foxley, Roald Dahl tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a commuter is disturbed by an encounter with a man he vividly remembers from school . . . Galloping Foxley is taken from the short story collection S...
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