A playlist of VERY easy stories on YouTube. Read and listen at the same time - a great way to learn English!

Magical stories by 19th century rebel and gay icon, Oscar Wilde

Two boys are born on the same day, one a prince, one a beggar. By chance they meet, and decide to change places. Does it make them happier?

Mark Sway is eleven and knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. With that body, the FBI can prove a Mafia murder. Mark needs help and he needs it now.

This playlist from English Online TV includes classic stories, non fiction and a cold war thriller

Sugeng's family are hard-working rice farmers in Indonesia. They live next to a volcano that never quite comes to life. Until one night there's a strange sound, and a river of fire rushing down the mountain...

Build your vocabulary and understanding while enjoying a story.

A mix of classic tales, mysteries and thrillers (including a Batman story)

Factual: With this book you can take a trip to London, see tennis at Wimbledon, a play at Shakespeare's Globe and even run in the marathon.

Writers from Africa (Botswana, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa), New Zealand, Malaysia, India and Jamaica tell stories of suffering and happiness.

A soon-to-be bride heard strange sounds at night, and was then found dead, but how did she die? Now her sister hears the same sound. Can Holmes help?

Mostly classics

Bridget Jones’s Diary tells the story of a year in the life of a thirty-something woman living in London. Bridget plans to stop smoking, meet the right man, and more. How does it go?

Relax with a story and build your English

People laugh at him, and call him ‘The Elephant Man’. Then someone speaks to him – and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life.

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What is the crown, and why is it important for England? In this mystery, the answers are all in Seaburgh, a small town near the sea.

A dark, handsome stranger opens a shop in a quiet village. Anna starts to wonder about his mysterious customers - why are they they here?

Where do we come from? Where do we belong? Questions that come into focus when Asian Yasmine and African Daniel meet.

Factual: Malala talks about her experiences and vision, with subtitles.

Factual: Harriet Tubman was born into slavery but managed to escape. With great courage, she then returned to rescue her family and later other slaves, building a secret support network, the underground railway.

It is 1942 in Holland and the Germans have invaded. All Jewish people are frightened for their lives, so the Frank family hide. Life is dangerous but they hope for the best – until they are finally discovered.

Factual: Marquez was a Colombian novelist and leftist journalist, the winner of the Nobel and other prizes. Discover how the stories and atmosphere of his childhood inspired his work.

Factual: The Nigerian novelist reflects on the politics of fiction, the truths it tells (and hides), the people it celebrates and those it ignores.

Mitch McDeere is a brilliant lawyer. He's thrilled when gets a job with a top law firm, but soon learns the dangerous truth. A thrilling drama adapted into a movie starring Tom Cruise.

Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bulls’ number 23, may be the best basketball player of all time. But where did he come from? Meet the man inside the sports star.

Jane is a poor and unwanted little girl, who becomes a teacher for the daughter of a rich man. A man with a dark secret...

When you come to the end of the earth, what lies beyond? Is it safe to go there? Can you get back home? And as it’s dark (totally, absolutely dark) what can you know, or say, about where you’ve been?

Phileas Fogg lives a quiet life in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. What comes next is a crazy race across continents and oceans.

A playlist of easy stories on YouTube. Read and listen at the same time - a great way to learn English!

Factual: Muhammad Ali was a world champion boxer. When his sports career ended, he was still an inspiration - as a a fighter for peace.

Harry Chen is an archaeology teacher at Singapore University, and an expert on ceramics. But Harry has a secret: he is a thief...

In Uganda, Dora and her friend are soldiers forced to fight in the war. They are only twelve. Their commander is called Mad Tiger. He is fourteen. He is screaming at them now....

Paul realises that he will never be able to marry Maria if he remains poor. When he wins first prize in a story competition, he is sure he will soon have everything he wants.

Kathy Paige was blind from her birth. The doctor's mistake cost her sight for the rest of the life. But now Kathy is a leading journalist, intelligent, tough and with an insight into her interviewees that makes politicians afraid.

Classics, crime stories, mysteries - and the tale of a super heroine.

A Los Angeles detective is hired by a beautiful woman to find her sister. A story of guns, bodies, seen-it-all police and speeding cars.