The Story Hive

Welcome to the Story Hive, the home of amazing audio stories, all completely free. Designed for easy streaming, the Story Hive brings you a collection of exclusive audio entertainment that you can listen to anywhere – whether you’re home, walking in the park, in the car, on a train or a plane, by the ocean, alone or with your loved ones. Some stories we believe are not suitable for young chldren, so please see any parental guidance notices on each section. We would not reccommend The Horror Club collection to anyone under sixteen years of age for example. However it is up to you to decide. Happy listening.

How it works

Each collection forms just part of a free audio story collection to help you navigate our catalogue. Some collections are serialised novels and novellas and poetry and radio plays, while others are collections of audio short stories, children’s stories, songs and even lifestyle, mind body and spirit and observational pieces that will grow over time. You can browse all our collections here.

All our stories are labelled with keywords and length indicators to help you choose the right story to suit your mood and the amount of time you have available for listening – although, of course, you can always come back to a a story and finish it later! To find the right story for your mood, take a look at our categories here. To help support our work, please visit our shop and browse our selection of e-books and gifts.

Meet the Story Hive author

London based Phil Ryan is a writer, musician and a storyteller. With an incredible CV including being a co-founder of The Big Issue (as part of the original two man team) as well as being a succesful playwright of plays and musicals, being one time lead singer for seminal band The Animals, the co founder of the iconic Twelve Bar Club, being a BBC London Listed Londoner and featuring in various books on Londoners of note. These are just a few of his many highly succesful achievments. Please go to Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ryan_(entrepreneur) to find his incredible life story. Phil has always thought the best way to experience a story, is to sit and listen to a storyteller and get transported into a world of imagination. So he’s made all of his stories available here in easy instant access audio format and created the Story Hive for you to explore and listen to them. Take a wander through his vast series of story and creative collections and you’ll find hours of entertainment! So buzz around and find a treat.  Plus, why not come and meet him at to one of The Story Hive Live show nights – an evening of stories and story songs in theatres around the UK (hopefully near you) For more information on the performances please go to The Story Hive Live section. Thank you for supporting independent authors. Come join the hive.

 

Special thanks for their help in creating The Story Hive to: Jay Sparks for audio engineering, editing and production; Suzanne Hauner for launch project management, original website maintenance and content editing; Creative Pixel for initial startup website design. See here for a full list of contributors and services used.