MP3 audiobooks with a british accent, and associated media files to download and keep.

Sunday 2 June 2019

Little Fuzzy

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H. Beam Piper's classic and much-loved science fiction novel Little Fuzzy.

Jack Holloway lives a solitary life in a wilderness of the planet Zarathustra. When a strange intelligent animal walks into his life from out of the forest everything is set to change.

The animal that he names 'Little Fuzzy' seems sapient and that threatens the charter of the company that owns the planet. With the company profits threatened, there's a lot riding on the sapience/non-sapience of Little Fuzzy and his fellows. Jack realises that both his life and that of Little Fuzzy are in danger.

Run time: 5 hours 52 minutes

Available from Audible

The People that Time Forgot

Tyler's manuscript detailing his life in a land filled with pre-historic dinosaurs has been found and returned to his family home. Tom Billings, a family retainer, leads a rescue mission. Loading up a ship with men, arms, ammunition, and even a flying boat, they head into the frozen waters of the Antarctic to the hidden land of Caspak.

In this unabridged sequel to The Land that Time Forgot, the adventure continues and we learn more about the mysteries of Caspak.

Run time: 3 hours 41 minutes

Available from Audible

Saturday 1 June 2019

Triplanetary

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of the classic sci-fi space opera Triplanetary.

Mankind's evolution has not been a purely natural event. There are races with powers far greater than ours that have manipulated the development of the human race as part of a power struggle to gain dominance of the known universe.

From the ancient nuclear war that sank Atlantis to the far future where mighty space fleets battle with unimaginable lasers and super beams, this exciting story will keep you listening.

Run time: 9 hours 32 mins

Available from Audible

Wanat

On 13 July 2008, nine American Soldiers perished while fighting a pitched battle in the village of Wanat in Afghanistan's Waygal Valley. On that day the men of Company C, 2d Battalion, 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment, endured four hours of intense close-quarters combat and mounting casualties.

The contingent of 49 United States and 24 Afghan National Army Soldiers valiantly defended their small outpost against a coordinated attack by a determined insurgent force armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons. This audiobook narrates the Combat Studies Institute's historical and tactical analysis of the combat and its environment.

Run time: 8 hours 27 minutes

Available from Audible

Around the World in 80 Days

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

Phileas Fogg is a man of regular orderly days, down to the minute. His acquaintances know where he will be and when, with perfect regularity. Discussion in the Reform Club turns to an article concerning a theorised journey around the world in only 80 days. From this a gentleman's bet is placed, and there is nothing more important to a gentleman than a bet!

Mr Fogg's life is thrown into turmoil as he commences the journey around the world. Taking his servant, one change of clothes, and a carpetbag stuffed with money, he starts leaping from train to train to steamer. Alas for him, his journey will not follow the carefully planned itinerary! Before the trip is over, there will be battles, rescues, arrests, mishaps and piracy.

Run time: 6 hours 33 minutes

Available from Audible

Sci Fi Shorts Volume 3

Sci-Fi Shorts is a collection of classic science fiction stories from the golden age of space fiction. This group of six unabridged short stories by various authors covers such adventures as secret research projects, underground robot organisations, a subjugated Earth, getting trapped in the void, alien minds, and strangers from Jupiter.

Run time: 3 hours 48 mins

Available from Audible

Sci Fi Shorts Volume 2

Sci Fi Shorts is a collection of classic science fiction stories from the golden age of space stories. This group of four unabridged short stories by various authors covers such adventures as invading technological hordes, super weapons on the moon, meteors with strange powers, and robot armies waging war on mankind.

Run time: 4 hours 35 mins

Available from Audible

The Call of Cthulhu

Professor Angel was an expert on ancient languages. When a young man brought a grotesque carving to his office that contained a strain of hieroglyphics that were unreadable to all, it started the strangest and most horrific research of his life.

The statue would lead the professor and is great-nephew to discover the awful truth of the cult of Cthulhu and what its existence meant for the future of mankind.

Run time: 1 hour 19 minutes

Available from Audible

The First Men in the Moon

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H. G. Wells' classic science fiction tale.

Bedford runs away from London to escape his debtors and to write a play. Instead of the peace and solace he seeks, he finds Cavor, an eccentric scientist on the eve of a fantastic discovery. Together they create Cavorite, a material that allows them to construct a flying machine capable of reaching the moon!

Join Bedford and Cavor as they go on an adventure unlike any that man has had before!

Run time: 6 hours 46 minutes

Available from Audible

A History of the Peninsular War Volume 4

FNH Audio presents a slightly abridged performance of this fourth volume of Charles Oman's military history classic. In this fourth volume, a detailed examination is made of the period from December 1810 to December 1811. This volume covers the battles of Gebora, Barrosa, Fuentes de Ornon, Albuera and the seiges of Badajoz and Tarragona.

This history, written many years after Napier's, draws its information from more firsthand accounts and corrects some of the more glaring mistakes and biases of Napier. Although this audiobook is abridged, the only text removed is that in French or Spanish, namely Appendix 13. A small number of footnotes scattered throughout the book in those languages have also been omitted. All English text from the appendices and footnotes is present.
Run time: 26 hours 18 minutes

Available from Audible


Conan: Beyond the Black River

Conan is working for pay as a soldier at the frontier fort of Tuscelan. While out scouting he saves the life of Balthus, and the two become embroiled in a fight for their lives and a war against the invading picts.

Can Conan and Balthus defeat the evil sorcerer that has summoned ancient monsters and bound the pictish clans as never before?

Run time: 2 hours 11 minutes

Available from Audible

Monday 27 May 2019

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of this classic tale of super science and murder.

When Gabriel Utterson takes charge of the will of his good friend Dr Jekyll, in which the doctor leaves everything to the mysterious Mr Hyde, he's alarmed at what appears to be a recipe for murder. Over the following months, he investigates Mr Hyde until he uncovers a horrific murder. What's the relationship between his friend and the murderer, and can Utterson save the doctor?

Runtime: 2 hours 34 minutes

Available from Audible

The Lost World

A reporter for the Daily Gazette asks for an exciting assignment from his editor and ends up taking part in one of the most astounding and dangerous expeditions ever mounted.

Professor Challenger claims to have found a remote land in the heartland of South America where prehistoric dinosaurs still roam and thrive. Called a liar and mocked by his peers, Professor Challenger leads a scientific mission back to the Lost World to gather proofs and discover more of the strange survivors of ancient times. Before the heroes return to civilisation, they will be hunted, chased, betrayed and assaulted. This classic tale has stood the test of time with outstanding characters that you'll love - and love to hate.

Runtime: 7 hours 18 minutes

Available from Audible

Iraq Inquiry Executive Summary: The Chilcot Report

In 2003, for the first time since the Second World War, the United Kingdom took part in an opposed invasion and full-scale occupation of a sovereign state - Iraq.

Cabinet decided on 17th March to join the US-led invasion of Iraq, assuming there was no last-minute capitulation by Saddam Hussein. That decision was ratified by Parliament the next day and implemented the night after that.

In June 2009, Prime Minister Gordon Brown ordered an Inquiry to be conducted to identify lessons that could be learned from the Iraq conflict. The inquiry was to not only look at the conflict and post-conflict phases, but additionally it was to inquire into the decision to carry out the invasion and the intelligence that led to that decision.

This audiobook is an unabridged reading of that report's executive summary.

Runtime: 6 hours 42 minutes

Available from Audible

Red Nails (a Conan story)

Conan and Valeria discover a lost city that is walled in and roofed over, allowing none to enter or leave. Within its walls are riches beyond compare and a seething war between the tribes of degenerates who live there.

FNH audio presents an unabridged reading of Red Nails. Red Nails was the last Conan story penned by Robert E. Howard and is often represented by Howard scholars as one of the best.

Runtime: 3 hours 11 minutes

Available from Audible

Counterinsurgency, FM 3-24

FNH audio presents a reading of the revolutionary military guide on how to handle and run a counterinsurgency. Gen. David Petraeus saw a need for new updated manual on how to actually wage a counterinsurgency (COIN) conflict, as all existing military manuals were showing their age and out of sync with modern thinking.

With experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, he was able to construct the new definitive guide from actual experience and with reference to previous conflicts.

Please note, although listed as abridged, the only items left out of this narration are the extensive bibliography, source notes, and glossary. The full text of the book's actual content and appendices is included.

Runtime: 15 hours 18 minutes

Available from Audible

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Victor Frankenstein is a driven man. His single-minded scientific drive has controlled his life from childhood. It has driven him to do the unthinkable, to carry out fiendish, craven tasks, to do that which only God has done before.

His goal of creating life - a living, thinking being, a man - has come to pass. Little did he expect that his zeal would forge a monster, an intelligent being set upon Victor's complete destruction.

The story of Frankenstein has become a rightful classic of its time. The doctor and his monster stand preeminent in the culture of horror stories, an equal of the vampire and the werewolf. Mary Shelly has crafted a tale of desire, horror and despair that has stood the test of time.

Runtime: 7 hours 57 minutes

Available from Audible

King Solomon's Mines

Famous elephant hunter Allan Quatermain is approached by Sir Henry Curtis to help him search for his brother who disappeared in the dark heart of Africa.

When Allan accepts the job, little does he know that the quest for the missing man will drag him over mountains, through deserts, under ground, and into the midst of a bloody war.

Runtime: 8 hours 7 minutes

Available from Audible

The Ghost Pirates

The Mortzestus is sailing far from shore when the wind drops away and a mysterious mist surrounds the ship.

After a few days becalmed in the mist, Jessop spots something creeping over the taff rail, the men in the rigging are attacked, a man disappears, and everyone is scared. Then Jessop sees something below the water following the ship....

Runtime: 4 hours 27 minutes

Available from Audible


Mr Standfast

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Mr Standfast.

In this thrilling adventure, Richard Hannay the star of The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle, returns to continue his personal battle against the enemies of Great Britain during the Great War.

The war on the continent is raging. The German hordes are pushing the allies back into their trenches, the line is barely holding, and it's at this moment that Richard find himself pulled out of the lines for special duty.

Going against everything Hannay believes in, he finds himself working undercover infiltrating a pacifist organisation. This group is not all it seems to be, as behind the pacifist masks there are German spies and saboteurs.
Runtime: 11 hours 56 mins

Available from Audible

A Princess of Mars

FNH audio presents an unabridged reading of A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

When John Carter wakes up, he finds himself mysteriously transported to the planet Mars, where the people are constantly at war. In the lower gravity of the red world, John discovers his Earth strength makes him almost superhuman, able to leap huge distances and kill with a single punch.

In this classic tale of mighty men fighting with sword, pistol, and lance, Edgar Burroughs has created a fascinating world and a cast of characters you can easily fall in love with.

Nonstop adventure and high action draw you along on this roller-coaster ride where John Carter carries the fate of a world in his hands.
Runtime: 6 hours 30 minutes

Available from Audible 

At the Earth's Core

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of "At the Earth's Core". When their Iron Mole drilling machine goes off course, David and Abner find themselves in another world - the interior or the Earth!

In a land populated by monsters and dinosaurs, humans exist subjugated beneath of claws of other intelligent races. Can the two heroes of the upper world survive in a world they're unprepared for,? Can they defeat the evil Mahar overlords and free humankind from tyranny?

This story represents Burroughs at his adventurous storytelling peak, telling a tale of heroes, monsters and love in an alien world.

Running Time: 4 hours 47 mins
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