During the 1970s and 80s, books on tape (cassette) were in their heyday. This channel contains digitalized books on tape which are rare and no longer published or streaming on subscription sites. However, the stories and reading performances are too good to be lost forever. Most of the stories released back then were abridged i.e. movie length*. Yet, they keep the spirit of the story intact. Click on Videos to see all the books on tape. Not sure if you want to listen to a particular audiobook, give it a 10 minute listen to decide. Enjoy!
* I found that most unabridged versions, of the audiobooks on this channel, are on paid streaming channels and so I can't put them online without getting a copyright strike. Plus there's more cost and work involved. A 20 hour book on tape (vs say a 3 hour abridged) takes 20 hours to upload (vs 3 hours). Additional time is required to remove; hissing, pops, and improve the sound. If you want unabridged audiobooks, you'll want to look elsewhere.
"Its not our "fault"/ responsability all these men are KILLED. Its 'the war'. In TRUTH, what if they gave a war and NO ONE CAME? Beautifully written. Very well read.
If anyone hasn't seen the 1973 film, I can highly recommend it. My only gripe with the movie is that I wanted it to be longer. The film companies want the maximum amount of cinemagoers, so they keep movies to about 90 minutes and cut out all "extraneous" detail. The Day of the Jackal would have made a great 3.5 hour epic in 70 millimetre. This abridged, radio version isn't bad at all. It has most of the desirable aspects of the original book (which is a wonderful read and explains the detection in better detail). To whoever uploaded this radio drama - thank you for all your efforts.
Nice to hear Gillian reading these, watched all the series and films in their times. Even did a re run a while back tombs was my fave one . Amongst many others.
I've not heard or read this one before now. I'm only an hour or so into this and not at all sure that I'll make it to the conclusion. I'm finding the abysmal german accent laughable, and not in an amusing manner. However, despite my personal opinion i thank you for posting.
The knight walking around and asking random people if they were there to replace him and then crawling up the stairs after the earthquake, kind of ruined the story
my friend Norm Freeman of Batersea Ont started as a secretary to the captain in late 39 and was released from duty in 45. he said it was 5 years of wet misery too cold and too hot always ... don't recall the ship unfortunately since it was so early ion the war the corvette was probably English made and loaned to the Canadian navy. he survived the war and became probably one of the first teaching professors of Ecological science. he was a riveting personality in Battersea.
This basically is the movie version seriously abridged from approximately 7 hours down to less than two hours. Claire Bloom does a wonderful job, but don’t expect the whole work.
Oh wow thank you for this This was one of my favourite tapes through my childhood I’ve not heard this for over 40 years and I cannot tell you how many memories it brings back !
Wonderful performance! Just so others know, this is an abridged version, with many ellipses and some variations in vocabulary, though it is quite faithul to the original text. To read the text out loud in full takes about 4 hours.
This was written by a woman who beat and raped her children. See the book THE LAST CLOSET by her daughter Moria Greyland. Her polyamorous husband also didn't draw the line at their children though the was not as punchy and slappy as MZB. He, Walter Breen, may be dead, but MZB's late life female partner who ignored MZB's history of horrendous behavior still gets all the money from her work. Think about that before buying anything with authors name on it. BTW. Ms. Greyland's assertions were fully back by her sibling.
In 1982 we got our first video recorder. The night before I deployed to the Falklands I watched the superb film version. Not long afterwards I felt like I was living the movie. It resonated hugely, especially when I lost friends. After that it became a tradition to watch the film before I deployed on operations. Possibly the best British war film ever made.
