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Listen to a selection of extracts from our Roald Dahl audiobooks - from Kate Winslet's brilliant rendition of Hortensia to Peter Serafinowicz's Sergeant Samways, there's a little something for everyone. 

While you're here, why not check out our Roald Dahl audiobooks app for iOS. More information over on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/roald-dahl-audiobooks/id732002985?mt=8

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What a treat - more amazing Roald Dahl audiobooks are publishing this July! 

To celebrate, we have another teaser extract for you. So bend your ears and have a listen to this clip - can you guess who the readers are and what stories they are reading? Post a comment on the sound and let us know your guesses.

We'll post the answers at the end of the week, or you can find out on Twitter #DahlAudio

You might remember the one we launched last month which included extracts from Matilda (read by Kate Winslet), The Enormous Crocodile (read by Stephen Fry), The BFG (read by David Walliams), Danny the Champion of the World (read by Peter Serafinowicz) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (read by Douglas Hodge). 

You can listen to that extract over here: https://soundcloud.com/penguin-books/dahl-guess-the-book-guess-the-reader

Could it be? More Roald Dahl audiobooks! Can you guess which books & who's reading them?

Colin Greenwood is the Global Ambassador of Children's Radio Foundation. He presented 2 hours on BBC 6 Music on July 28th 2013 all about South African music and culture. The programme included some content produced by Children's Radio Foundation!

BBC 6 Music: Sounds Of South Africa by Colin Greenwood (pt 1)

An extract from the new audiobook edition of Roald Dahl's The Twits, read by IT Crowd star Richard Ayoade. 

About the book:
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, and now the monkeys want to take their revenge . . .

Roald Dahl: The Twits (Audiobook Extract) read by Richard Ayoade

Douglas Hodge, aka Willy Wonka in the new musical of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, narrates this special podcast all about the making of the new Roald Dahl audiobooks, to celebrate the launch of our new Roald Dahl Audiobooks app.

And now you can hear all your favourite Roald Dahl stories in one phizz-whizzing FREE app, with such whipplescrumptious celebrity readers as Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Stephen Fry. With specially composed music and sound-effects recorded at Pinewood Film Studios, this is audio storytelling as you have never heard it before.

Download your best-loved Roald Dahl story and enjoy some foulsome fiends, tricksy inventors and magical mischief with your morning brew.

With fantastic features including free access to the first chapter of every title, in–app purchase to continue the story and the ability to stream the audiobooks, the Roald Dahl audiobooks app is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore.

The Penguin Podcast: The Making of the Roald Dahl Audiobooks feat. Douglas Hodge & Chris O'Dowd

This episode looks at how some of our authors have been inspired to retell or reimagine their favourite stories or characters.  First up, Julia Donaldson and Emma Thompson bring infamous children's book characters back to life in their books The Further Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat and The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit.  Next, Tom Holland explains how he has retold The Histories of Herodotus through translation.  Our resident Audiobooks Producer then shares his thoughts on the audiobooks craft before one of Penguin Children's Publishing Director's tells us about the new Doctor Who series of eleven short stories (one for every doctor!)

The Penguin Podcast: Retelling Stories feat. Julia Donaldson, Emma Thompson and Tom Holland

Swizzle your ears for some of the finest, most fantastic first words every written, spoken and dreamt. Stay tuned for more extracts from Roald Dahl’s best loved children’s stories and if you like what you hear then visit the Apple App. Store to download the Audiobooks App for free!

Have a listen to Matilda, read by Kate Winslet, which was recognized by the American Library Association as an Odyssey Honour Book. 

With fantastic features including free access to the first chapter of every title, in–app purchase to continue the story and the ability to stream the audiobooks, the Roald Dahl Audiobooks App is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore.


Roald Dahl: Matilda read by Kate Winslet

Swiggle your ears for some of the finest, most fantastic first words every written, spoken and dreamt. Stay tuned for more extracts from Roald Dahl’s best loved children’s stories and if you like what you hear then visit the Apple App. Store to download the Audiobooks App and listen to 19 first chapters for FREE!

With fantastic features including free access to the first chapter of every title, in–app purchase to continue the story and the ability to stream the audiobooks, the Roald Dahl Audiobooks App is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore.

Roald Dahl: BFG read by David Walliams

Swizzle your ears for some of the finest, most fantastic first words every written, spoken and dreamt. Stay tuned for more extracts from Roald Dahl’s best loved children’s stories and if you like what you hear then visit the Apple App. Store to download the Audiobooks App for free!

With fantastic features including free access to the first chapter of every title, in–app purchase to continue the story and the ability to stream the audiobooks, the Roald Dahl Audiobooks App is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore.



Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach read by Julian Rhind-Tutt

Swizzle your ears for some of the finest, most fantastic first words every written, spoken and dreamt. Stay tuned for more extracts from Roald Dahl’s best loved children’s stories and if you like what you hear then visit the Apple App. Store to download the Audiobooks App for free!

With fantastic features including free access to the first chapter of every title, in–app purchase to continue the story and the ability to stream the audiobooks, the Roald Dahl audiobooks app is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore. 

Have a listen to Matilda, read by Kate Winslet, which was recognized by the American Library Association as an Odyssey Honour Book.

Roald Dahl: The Enormous Crocodile read by Stephen Fry

Jack Johnson - We're Gonna Be Friends (Curious George)

Naughty Mummy Pig has given Daddy Pig's favourite old chair to the jumble sale! How is he ever going to get it back?

Daddy Pig's Old Chair (Audiobook)

Penguin Audiobooks Roald Dahl's classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, read by Douglas Hodge, who plays Willy Wonka in the West End musical. This audiobook features original music and sound design by Pinewood film studios.

Charlie Bucket desperately wants to eat more than cabbage soup every day. But even more than that, he longs to see Wonka's enormous chocolate factory!

Now Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, has hidden golden tickets inside his delicious creamy chocolate bars. Only five winners can go through those great iron gates; will one of them be Charlie?

Douglas Hodge is a multi-award-winning English actor, with Olivier and Tony awards for his performance in La Cage aux Folles, and nominations for his leading roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Guys and Dolls and Inadmissible Evidence. In 2013 he is playing the role of Willy Wonka in Sam Mendes' musical of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

This audiobook CD is available to buy from penguin.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk and all good bookshops.


Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Audiobook Extract) read by Douglas Hodge

Penguin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's Matilda, read by multi-award-winning actress Kate Winslet.

Matilda Wormwood is an extraordinary genius with really stupid parents.
Miss Trunchbull is her terrifying headmistress who thinks all her pupils are rotten little stinkers.

But Matilda will show these horrible grown-ups that even though she's only small, she's got some very powerful tricks up her sleeve . . .

Kate Winslet's award-winning and varied career has included standout roles in Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, Revolutionary Road and The Reader, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Also a highly acclaimed voice artist, she received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Listen to the Storyteller.

This audiobook CD is available to buy from penguin.co.uk, Waterstones.co.uk, Foyles.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk and all good bookshops.

Roald Dahl: Matilda (Audiobook Extract) read by Kate Winslet

Penguin Audiobooks 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 BFG and his friend Sophie must stop them guzzling up little human beans - with some help from Her Majester, the Queen.

David Walliams is a multi-award winning British comedian, actor and writer, best known for the comedy series Little Britain; but his acting work includes plays, dramas and films. He is also the author of five hugely successful children's books, including two illustrated by Quentin Blake - Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator.

Roald Dahl: The BFG (Audiobook Extract) read by David Walliams

Penguin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's classic Danny the Champion of the World, read with 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 plot that makes Danny the champion of the world.

Peter Serafinowicz is an award-winning English actor, writer, voice-artist, comedian and director. He has appeared in films such as Shaun of the Dead and Couples Retreat. As a voice artist his roles have ranged from Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace to Driver Dan in the CBeebies programme StoryTrain.

This audiobook CD is available to buy from penguin.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk and all good bookshops.

Roald Dahl: Danny the Champion of the World (Audiobook Extract) read by Peter Serafinowicz

Stephen Fry reads this enhanced audiobook edition of Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile.  The audiobook features original music and 3D sound design by Pinewood film studios.

The Enormous Crocodile is a greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little girls and boys.

But the other animals have a scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all!

Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter, director and writer. Television work includes A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder and the host of QI. On film, he played Oscar Wilde, and appeared in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
and The Hobbit. His voice work includes narrating the Harry Potter books.

Roald Dahl:The Enormous Crocodile (Audiobook Extract) read by Stephen Fry. SFX by Pinewood Studios

Penguin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's classic Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, read by the actor Douglas Hodge, who plays Willy Wonka in the hit musical adaptation of the book.  This audiobook features original music.

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 the adventure becomes even greater upon discovering they're not the only ones orbiting the Earth at that particular time . . .

Douglas Hodge is a multi-award-winning English actor, with Olivier and Tony awards for his performance in La Cage aux Folles, and nominations for his leading roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Guys and Dolls and Inadmissible Evidence. In 2013 he is playing the role of Willy Wonka in Sam Mendes' musical of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Audiobook Extract) read by Douglas Hodge

“The Trunchbull” is no match for Matilda!

Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it!

On sale July 3, 2013

Available for purchase at:
<a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781611761849,00.html?Matilda_Roald_Dahl">Penguin.com - Audiobook (CD format)</a>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Matilda-Roald-Dahl/dp/1611761840/ref=tmm_abk_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1372085784&sr=8-1">Amazon - Audiobook (CD format)</a>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Matilda/dp/B00DD4LVCG/ref=tmm_aud_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1372085784&sr=8-1">Amazon - Audiobook (downloadable format)</a>
<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/matilda-roald-dahl/1100017610?ean=9781611761849">Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)</a>
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/matilda-unabridged/id659767923?uo=4">iTunes - Audiobook (downloadable format)</a>
<a href="http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B00D8J55SW&qid=1372086147&sr=1-1">Audible - Audiobook (downloadable format)</a>
<a href="http://www.emusic.com/book/roald-dahl/matilda/10131750/">emusic.com - Audiobook (downloadable format)</a>



Matilda by Roald Dahl, read by Kate Winslet

Captured by a giant!

The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!

On sale July 3, 2013

Available for purchase at:
<a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781611761887,00.html?The_BFG_Roald_Dahl">Penguin.com - Audiobook (CD format)</a>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611761883/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1611761883&linkCode=am2&tag=pgus-20">Amazon - Audiobook (CD format)</a>
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<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bfg-roald-dahl/1100472355?ean=9781611761887">Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)</a>
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-bfg-unabridged/id666128426?uo=4">iTunes - Audiobook (downloadable format)</a>
<a href="http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B00DJAKXQO&qid=1372170056&sr=1-1">Audible - Audiobook (downloadable format)</a>
<a href="http://www.emusic.com/book/roald-dahl/the-bfg/10131685/">emusic.com - Audiobook (downloadable format)</a>


The BFG by Roald Dahl, read by David Walliams

A little magic can take you a long way.

After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Life there is no fun, until James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Inside, James meets a bunch of oversized friends—Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, and more. With a snip of the stem, the peach starts rolling away, and the great adventure begins!

On sale July 25, 2013.

Available for purchase at:
<a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781611761856,00.html?James_and_the_Giant_Peach_Roald_Dahl">Penguin.com - Audiobook (CD format)</a>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611761859/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1611761859&linkCode=am2&tag=pgus-20">Amazon - Audiobook (CD format)</a>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/James-and-the-Giant-Peach/dp/B00DTW62X0/">Amazon - Audiobook (downloadable format)</a>
<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/james-and-the-giant-peach-roald-dahl/1100041854?ean=9781611761856">Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)</a>
<a href="http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_2?asin=B00DTW8M4C&qid=1373392380&sr=1-2">Audible - Audiobook (downloadable format)</a>


James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt

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Roald Dahl: Danny the Champion of the World (Audiobook Extract) read by Peter Serafinowicz

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