20,000 Leagues Under the Sea & The Mysterious Island: Two BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations Audiobook (Free)

Jules Verne’s two novels featuring Captain Nemo (20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea and The Mysterious Island), condensed down to two thrilling hours.

In 20,000 Leagues Under the Ocean, Marine scientist Professor Aronnax and his stowaway little girl Connie join whaler Ned Property aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln to hunt an aggressive sea monster, thought to be a huge narwhale. When they engage the monster, they find to their astonish­ment it’s an electrically-powered submarine, the Nautilus, techno­ about 20,000 Leagues Under the Ocean & The Mysterious Isle: Two BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations logically much superior to any vessel known. They are rescued with the ship’s enigmatic captain, Nemo…

In The Mysterious Isle, armed forces engineer Cyrus Smith, his freed slave Neb, and reporter Elegance Spilett – flee the besieged city of Richmond within a balloon. Their vessel is certainly caught within a huge storm and blown thousands of miles until it crashes on a remote Pacific island. But they soon realise that they are not alone for the island…

Cast of 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea

Captain Nemo – Sagar Arya

Teacher Pierre Aronnax – Neil McCaul

Miss Connie Aronnax – Madeline Hatt

Ned Land – David Seddon

Captain Farragut – Philip Bretherton

Cast from the Mysterious Island

Cyrus Harding – Nathan Osgood

Sophistication Spilett – Kerry Gooderson

Neb – Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong

Tom Ayrton – Rupert Holliday Evans

Captain Nemo – Sagar Arya