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The Witches

By: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Narrated by: Lolly Adefope
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Presenting a giganticus new reading of Roald Dahl's The Witches, read by the hugely talented comedian Lolly Adefope. This immersive audiobook is bursting with ree-volting sound effects, dynamic sound design, and original music composed by Rusty Bradshaw.


This is a story about REAL WITCHES.

Real witches dress in ordinary clothes, have ordinary jobs and look very much like ordinary people.

But they are far from ORDINARY . . .

The Grand High Witch, leader of all the witches, has a plan to make each and every child disappear.

That is, unless one boy and his grandmother can stop her . . .


Listen to The Witches and other fantastical Roald Dahl audiobooks including:

George's Marvellous Medicine, read by Romesh Ranganathan.
James and the Giant Peach, read by James Acaster.
Matilda, read by Kate Winslet.
The BFG, read by David Walliams.
The Twits, read by Richard Ayoade.


©1983 The Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd (P)2022 Penguin Audio
Classics Humourous Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Funny

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Great story!

My 10 year old son really loved the story. Another fantastic Roald Dahl book. Highly recommend.

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Very good book

I love the story line and it’s amazing how Roald dahl creates his stories so good.🙂

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Even though I'm an adult - I was entertained!

I listened to an audiobook by the American poet, Robert Bly, called The Human Shadow, which is on Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's Shadow Self. In this reading, he referred also to Jung's archetypes, and said that one of the useful archetypes that men tend to repress is the Witch.

He suggested that reading about witches was a good starting point for integrating that part of your shadow.

So here I am, listening to my first book about witches. I shall progress to more adult readings following this audiobook, but nevertheless, this reading on Roald Dahl's Witches was a fun starting point for my shadow integration process!

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An absolute delight

Lolly Adefobe had done an amazing job! I had purchased and returned the previous version that was narrated by Miranda Richardson. That version was unbearable. The way Miranda did the voice for the Grand High Witch made my ears bleed. It was awful.
Lolly’s version is an absolute delight to listen to and I hope she narrates more books!

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Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaantastic best show ever!!!!!!!!

I loved this I love Roal Dahl he is the best.it was so good I can’t even begin to describe how amazing it was

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More witches story’s

This is a good story but Bruno is so annoying can you make the witches 2 where the mice kill other witches from other countries please 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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Hello

I want to eat Cainer! Aaaahhh! I’m hungry ah ha ha he ha ha ha ha

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Amazing!

Loved it great story 👍
defentintly recommended reading 😁
PLEASE MAKE THE WITCHES 2 AND THEY GO ALL AROUND THE COUNTRIES AND GET RID OF ALL THE WITCHES

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the grand high witch

I didn’t like when the grandson was in the treehouse and a wicked woman came and tried to kill the grandson

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Scary

This book is good for people who are in to horror. Like children died in this book and it’s a happy ending but start and middle it’s horror if you were to watch the movie it will be more scary then the book💀

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