Free Online Audio

These are some good free online audio sites which I have stumbled across in my travellings on the net. They offer interesting spoken-word stuff which can be listened to at leisure and for free (except where marked).

RealAudio

• Assistive Media
• ABC Short Stories
• Hitchiking Off The Map

MP3/Ogg

• Audiobooks For Free
• Audio Books
• Internet Archive: Open Source Audio
• Common Content: Catalog: Audio : Speech
• Lawrence Lessig
• KNTU-FM Archives

Multi-Format

• Fray events – audio archive

Radio Stations

• BBC Radio (several stations)
• BBC World Service
• USA National Public Radio
• Australian ABC Main Audio Index
• BBC 7 ListenAgain

Not Free Ones

• Audiobooks.com
• Audible.com
• BooksOnTape

If you know of any sites which could usefully be added to this list, please leave a comment here or contact me and I’ll add them when I get a free spoon.