Well Told Tales

A friend passed this link onto me
http://welltoldtales.com/

It's a twice monthly Podcast of short horror, sci-fi or hardboiled detective stories

go and have fun

Simply Audio Books.com

Simply Audiobooks is a subscription website that allows you to rent CDs and dowload audio books if you are in The UK, Canada or the US.
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More importantly they have some audiobooks for free download including Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' and Jack London's Call of the Wild.

http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com/Free_Audiobooks/dp/202/

The books are downloaded as a zip file (if you have a Mac then stuffit should be able to cope) and are .wma files.

ETA: They also have a potluck monthly free download
http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com/freedownload/dp/109/

it should appears as CD1 and CD2 wma files whereever your down loads appear. This month seems to be 'The Wasteland' by TS Elliott

Librivox- acoustical liberation of books in the Public Domain

http://librivox.org/
Librivox is a volunteer run audiobook site which encourages people from all over the world to read section of public domain books which then get put up on the website. You can access the files either as a podcast, through bitorrent, a .zip file or downloaded as either an mp3 or Ogg Vorbis file in approx 15 min chapters. You may find that each segment is read by a different voice, and the narrator can vary sex within the same book.
http://librivox.org/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen/ the page for downloading Pride and Prejudice.


http://librivox.org/about-librivox/ lots of information here

This site also has a forum that allows you you get involved http://librivox.org/forum/

Free Classic Audio Books

http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/
This site has Librivox human narrated books and computer narrated books.
The books are available in MP3 or m4b (for iPod and iTunes) format, again the books are divided into segments of aprox 15 minutes, but you can also choose to download the book as a zip file.
As the human narrated books are done by Librivox there is more than one narrator.

Audio Books for Free

http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp
This website offers free downloads of audio books and you have to register, the books are free to dowload if you choose 8 kb/s MP3s or 16 kb's MP3s. the 16 Kilobyte version seems fine to me, the only possible inconvienience is that the books are split as an example the 13 hour long version of 20, 000 Leagues Beneath the Sea is split into 45 aprox. 15 minute long MP3s
It also has some handy symbols that tell you the sex of the narrator and the author as well as warning against racist language, murders and 'adults only' Once you have picked your book you can see who the book is read by, whether they are using British or American English and how many parts the book has. There is a filter on the site, which allows you to search by time, sex of narrator and whether the book is abridged or not, among other things. Once you have applied the filter you can sort the books by duration, or alphabetically by Author or Title.

Brought to You by the BBC

The 'Cult' part of the BBC website has some small treasures"five full-cast 2000AD adventures from the Big Finish audio range" Featuring Simon Pegg as Johnny Alpha.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/comics/audio/index.shtml

Unfortunately the Vampire Audio Stories on another part of same site are not working but you can download the stories as ebooks for your PDA
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/vampires/newstory/

And also some new Sherlock Holmes stories to read on your PDA
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/sherlock/

Dr Who Webcast Animated Comics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/index.shtml

Old Time Radio Fans

Here is an American website with genre radio plays from the 30's to the 60s
Their Sherlock Holmes collection, although largely not the original canon, has a three part recording of Hound of the Baskervilles

http://www.oldtimeradiofans.com/

http://www.oldtimeradiofans.com/template.php?show_name=Sherlock%20Holmes