Books & Stories
Celebrate our National Year of Reading by delving into the magical world of storytelling. Imagine yourself in a new world and revisit old favourites with our wide selection of stories.
CBeebies Bedtime Stories
Get cosy and snuggle up for a bedtime story from a special guest reader.
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Banshee
Original stories by Ireland's most exciting female writers, retelling ancient Irish myths.
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Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Popular fairy stories by Hans Christian Andersen.
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll’s curiouser and curiouser tale of a girl discovering a strange new world.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Read by Susan Jameson. Produced by Ross Burman.
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Children's Stories—Classic Stories
Folklore, fables and fairy tales from yesteryear - for both the young and young at heart.
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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
Listen to Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, narrated by Hugh Bonneville.
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The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
E Nesbit’s heart-warming story of three siblings hoping to be reunited with their father.
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Nobody's Perfect by Lionel Shriver
A specially commissioned story from American author Lionel Shriver.
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Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift’s satire following Lemuel Gulliver’s strange travels through odd lands.
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The Diaries of Adrian Mole
Harry McEntire reads Sue Townsend's hilarious diaries of Adrian Mole.
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Jane Austen Stories
Listen to Jane Austen’s classic tales, narrated by Julie Andrews.
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Other by Leïla Slimani
A writer's journey through the experience of otherness.
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Few and Far Between by Jan Carson
A magically surreal story about history, identity and redemption.
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Lifeboat at the End of the World by Dominic Gregory
Dominic Gregory charts the experience of being part of the Dungeness lifeboat crew.
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The Radio Universe
Astrophysicist Emma Chapman's love letter to radio astronomy.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
James Joyce's autobiographical modernist masterpiece. Read by Andrew Scott.
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Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
Benjamin Wood's quietly profound story is set on the Lancashire coast in the early 1960s.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Special readings from Orwell's dystopian classic, now celebrating its 75th anniversary.
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Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
Rebecca F Kuang’s deliciously dark, witty thriller with a deeply flawed narrator
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The White Lady of Morecambe by Jenn Ashworth
Julie Hesmondhalgh narrates a new ghost story, set on the shifting sands of Morecambe Bay.
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Maame by Jessica George
The story of a young woman finding her own voice, and her own place in the world.
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The Wedding Suit by Rachel Joyce
A specially commissioned five-part serial by best-selling novelist Rachel Joyce.
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