Ragnarok

Dream Angus

By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Michael Page
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams—you may spot him skipping across the hills, his bag of dreams by his side. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you fall in love, for he is also the god of love, youth, and beauty. Divine Angus is cherished by all but fated to love only the beautiful Caér, swan maiden from his own... Read more »

The Penelopiad

By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 3 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan war after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of... Read more »

Weight

By: Jeanette Winterson
Narrated by: Dick Hill & Susie Breck
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

In ancient Greek mythology Atlas, a member of the original race of gods called Titans, leads a rebellion against the new deities, the Olympians. For this he incurs divine wrath: the victorious Olympians force Atlas, guardian of the Garden of Hesperides and its golden apples of life, to bear the weight of the earth and the heavens for... Read more »

The Helmet of Horror

By: Victor Pelevin
Narrated by: Various
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

Victor Pelevin, the iconoclastic and wildly interesting contemporary Russian novelist who The New Yorker named one of the Best European Writers Under 35, upends any conventional notions of what mythology must be with his unique take on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.

They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they... Read more »

Lion's Honey

By: David Grossman
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No

“There are few other Bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson: the battle with the lion; the three hundred burning foxes; the women he bedded and the one woman that he loved; his betrayal by all the women in his life, from his mother to Delilah; and, in the end, his... Read more »

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

By: Philip Pullman
Narrated by: Philip Pullman
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

This is a story.

In this ingenious and spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told.

Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ throws fresh light on who Jesus was and asks the listener questions that will continue to reverberate... Read more »

A Short History of Myth

By: Karen Armstrong
Narrated by: Sandra Burr
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No

What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them?

The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, link us to our ancestors and each other. Myths help us make sense of the universe. Armstrong takes us from the Palaeolithic period and the... Read more »

Ragnarok

By: A. S. Byatt
Narrated by: Harriet Walter
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No

Ragnarök retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves. Just as Wagner used this dramatic and catastrophic struggle for the climax of his Ring Cycle, so A.S. Byatt now reinvents it in all its intensity and glory. As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one... Read more »