Tamsin Greig

Animal Farm [Dramatised]

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 26 mins)
• By George Orwell
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig

Animal Farm - the history of a revolution that went wrong - is George Orwell's brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power. Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organised to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges....

The Little Mermaid and Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (57 mins)
• By Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan

Magical retellings of four classic fairy tales.

"The Little Mermaid", read by Tamsin Greig: The youngest child of the Mer King lives in a beautiful underwater city. "Rumpelstiltskin", read by Stephen Mangan: A beautiful miller's daughter is locked away by the King and told she will never see her family again unless she spins straw into gold. "The Snow Queen", read by Stephen Mangan: Sebastian and Anna are best friends who do everything together. "The Little Match Girl", read by Tamsin Greig: It is bitterly cold, and the Little Match Girl is walking the icy streets in bare feet, trying to sell just one box of matches.

Cinderella and Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (44 mins)
• By Audible Studios
• Narrated By Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig

Magical retellings of three classic fairy tales, read by Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan. "Cinderella": Poor orphan girl Cinderella longs to go to the grand royal ball, but her cruel stepmother and stepsisters won't allow it. Can her fairy godmother help her dreams come true? "The Brave Tin Soldier": When a one-legged tin soldier falls in love with a beautiful ballet dancer with golden wings, it is just the start of his adventures. "The Ugly Duckling": Mother Duck's brood of little ducklings are all adorable - except for one. The ugly duckling is large, grey and awkward. But he has a surprise in store....

Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 10 mins)
• By Roald Dahl
• Narrated By Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig, Miriam Margolyes

Master storyteller Roald Dahl adds his own darkly comic twists to six favorite tales, complete with rambunctious rhymes and hilarious surprise endings. Roald Dahl's inimitable style and humor shine in this collection of poems about mischievous and mysterious animals.

The Little Match Girl

• UNABRIDGED (8 mins)
• By Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig

It is bitterly cold, and the Little Match Girl is walking the icy streets in bare feet, trying to sell just one box of matches so she can go home and get warm. But no one wants to buy.... A magical retelling of the classic tale, read by Tamsin Greig.

Aladdin and Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (45 mins)
• By Audible Studios
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan

Magical retellings of three classic fairy tales, read by Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan. In "Aladdin", Aladdin is a tailor's son who dreams of making his fortune and marrying the Sultan's daughter, but is tricked into becoming apprentice to a cunning magician. He needs Aladdin to do a very special job - climb down into a deep, dark cave and fetch an oil lamp...

The Little Mermaid

• UNABRIDGED (19 mins)
• By Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig

The Little Mermaid lives in a beautiful underwater city. But on her first trip to the world above the ocean, she meets a handsome human Prince, and falls in love... A magical retelling of the classic fairy tale, read by Tamsin Greig.

The Minister of Chance

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Dan Freeman
• Narrated By Sylvester McCoy, Jenny Agutter, Jed Brophy, and others

Winner of Best Audio Drama, BBC Audio Drama Awards, 2013. Winner of Speculative Fiction, Parsec Award, 2013. The Minister of Chance is a wildly exciting, picaresque fantasy adventure and a brilliant, Swiftian satire on politics and religion.

The Elves and the Shoemaker

• UNABRIDGED (8 mins)
• By The Brothers Grimm
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig

The shoemaker can only afford the leather to make one more pair of shoes. He cuts the leather and lays it on his workbench - and the next morning, there are two perfectly-finished shoes! But who can have made them? A magical retelling of the classic tale, read by Tamsin Greig.

Revolting Rhymes

• UNABRIDGED (35 mins)
• By Roald Dahl
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan, Miriam Margolyes

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 or two, by the master of the comic and the blood-curdling.

Pinocchio and Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (44 mins)
• By Audible Studios
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan

Magical retellings of three classic fairy tales, read by Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan. "Pinocchio": When Geppetto makes a wooden puppet of a little boy, he is astonished when the puppet comes to life! But Pinocchio dreams of being a real boy.... "The Princess and the Pea": The King and Queen have made all the plans for their son's Royal Wedding, but the Prince still hasn't chosen a bride. Will he ever find a wife who is a princess through and through? "Tom Thumb": A woodcutter and his wife are desperate for a child - even one as small as his father's thumb.

Warhorses of Letters: Complete Series 1-3: The Poignant BBC Radio 4 Comedy

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Marie Phillips
• Narrated By Daniel Rigby, full cast, Stephen Fry, and others

Stephen Fry, Daniel Rigby and Tamsin Greig star in all three series of the poignant BBC Radio 4 comedy drama. Warhorses of Letters is the world's finest and best-loved equine, military, epistolary romance, comprising the newly discovered love letters between two horses united by passion but cruelly divided by conflict.

The Landlady: A Roald Dahl Short Story

• UNABRIDGED (25 mins)
• By Roald Dahl
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig

The unabridged, digital audiobook edition of "The Landlady", a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, read by the actress Tamsin Greig. In "The Landlady", Roald Dahl, one of the world’s favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a young man in need of room meets a most accommodating landlady.... "The Landlady" is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes 10 other devious and shocking stories.

Rapunzel and Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (55 mins)
• By Audible Studios
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan

Magical retellings of four classic fairy tales. In "Rapunzel" read by Tamsin Greig, beautiful Rapunzel has been imprisoned by an evil enchantress. Every day, she sits at the window of her high tower, and sings as she lets down her long hair. Then one day, a prince comes riding by.... In "The Tinder Box" read by Stephen Mangan, a wizened old woman promises a soldier riches beyond his wildest dreams. All she wants in return is a small tinderbox - but is there more to the tinderbox than meets the eye?

Cinderella

• UNABRIDGED (18 mins)
• By Audible Studios
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig

Poor orphan girl Cinderella longs to go to the grand royal ball, but her cruel stepmother and stepsisters won't allow it. Can her fairy godmother help make her dreams come true? A magical retelling of the classic tale, read by Tamsin Greig.

Madness

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs)
• By Roald Dahl
• Narrated By Adrian Scarborough, Andrew Scott, Cillian Murphy, and others

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 of all, of ourselves. In these 10 unsettling tales of unexpected madness master storyteller Roald Dahl explores what happens when we let go our sanity.

Thumbelina

• UNABRIDGED (19 mins)
• By Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig

A poor peasant woman wishes for a child: but when a sorceress gives her a brown bulb, it grows a flower - and inside is tiny, perfect Thumbelina! A magical retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, read by Tamsin Greig.

Dirty Beasts

• UNABRIDGED (34 mins)
• By Roald Dahl
• Narrated By Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig

Penguin presents Dirty Beasts by Roald Dahl, complete and unabridged and raucously read by Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Mangan, and Tamsin Greig. The audiobook contains original music. In Dirty Beasts we meet a ghastly menagerie of wonderfully comic animals that can only have been invented by Roald Dahl.

Rapunzel

• UNABRIDGED (13 mins)
• By The Brothers Grimm
• Narrated By Tamsin Greig

Beautiful Rapunzel has been imprisoned by an evil enchantress. Every day, she sits at the window of her high tower, and sings as she lets down her long hair. Then one day, a prince comes riding by... A magical retelling of the classic fairy tale, read by Tamsin Greig.