Thomas and the Best-Kept Station Competition (also titled Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends) is an audio book released on cassette in 1993 by EMI in the UK and later rereleased on CD and cassette in 1996 by ABC Music and EMI in Australia. In 1994 the Japanese version was released by NHK ENTERPRISES. It features nine songs, with narration by Michael Angelis. It was written by Helen Knowles.