Tom Baker reads Charles Dickens' timeless seasonal story. Charles Dickens' story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas...

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? A magical...

Four classic fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen, read by David Tennant, Anne-Marie Duff, Sir Derek Jacobi and Penelope Wilton.Here are four of Hans Christian Andersen's best-loved short...

The Emperor loves to wear the most fashionable and finest clothes in the land. However, when two strangers suggest that they can weave him a special suit which is invisible to anyone who's not...

Jan Francis reads Johanna Spyri's classic tale of the adventures of a little Swiss girl. Ever since her mother died, Heidi has been looked after by her aunt Dete. But now Dete is moving to...

Robert, Anthea, Jane, Cyril and the Lamb are on holiday at the White House, a beautiful place on the edge of a hill with a chalk quarry one side and a gravel-pit on the other. Before they have...

Well-known actress Penelope Wilton reads this classic fairy tale from Hans Christian Andersen, specially adapted for young children.

In this much-loved story, a little bird is called...

Simon Russell Beale and Clare Higgins read some of Shakespeare's best-loved stories, skilfully abridged and adapted by Leon Garfield. The plays featured include: As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius...

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...

Set in the fictional country of Illyria, Twelfth Night is Shakespeare's comic tale of identical twins, girls disguised as boys, practical joking and love at first sight. Retold by distinguished...

The shoemaker can only afford the leather to make one more pair. He cuts it and lays it on his workbench - and the next morning, there are two perfectly-finished shoes! But who can have made them?...

Cate, an exile from New York, is sent to help value the contents of Endsleigh House - a once-grand Georgian house. Cataloguing its contents with Jack, a man with his own unsettling past, she comes...

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel is read by James MacPherson.When David Balfour sets off in search of his uncle and his inheritance, he little realises what lies ahead. Kidnapped...

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...

A woodcutter and his wife are desperate for a child - even one as small as his fathers thumb. So Merlin and the Faerie Queen grant their wish, and Tom Thumb is born! A magical retelling of the...