Art audiobooks
Energize
By: Simon Alexander Ong
Narrated by: Simon Alexander Ong
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
Your energy is the fuel that makes everything in your life possible. So how can you reach your full potential if you're always tired, stressed and struggling through your to-do list, running from one task to the next?
In Energize, Life Coach Simon Alexander Ong introduces you to the art and science of energy management.... Read more
The Lost World
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: David Robb & Full Cast
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
When the hot-headed Professor Challenger claims that extinct species of animals are still to be found living on an isolated Amazonian plateau, Dr Summerlee, Lord John Roxton and intrepid reporter Edward Malone find themselves committed to a journey of a lifetime. Arriving in the Amazon, they find themselves marooned and at the mercy of... Read more
View audiobookAdolf Hitler
By: Spike Milligan
Narrated by: Spike Milligan
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies.
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook... Read more
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'
By: Spike Milligan
Narrated by: Spike Milligan
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Penguin Presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Rommel? 'Gunner Who?' written and read by Spike Milligan.
'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.''That's how I got in, sir.''Didn't we all.'
The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our... Read more
Peace Work
By: Spike Milligan
Narrated by: Spike Milligan
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Peace work, written and read by Spike Milligan.
'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'
The seventh and last volume of Spike Milligan's memoirs sees our hero returning from war and Italy ... but to what?... Read more
Only Here For A Visit
By: Alan Brazil
Narrated by: Alan Brazil
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
The hilarious, no holds barred autobiography from sporting legend and broadcaster Alan Brazil.
As Alan recounts tales from his extraordinary life, he relives the sporting occasions, radio broadcasts and famously long drinking sessions that have defined his career. He takes readers inside the talkSPORT studio for a... Read more
Under Milk Wood
By: Dylan Thomas
Narrated by: Full Cast & Richard Burton
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
'To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black...' When Richard Burton breathed the opening words of Under Milk Wood into a microphone, broadcasting history was made. For this 'play for voices' conjures up the intimate dreams and waking lives of the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside village in a... Read more
View audiobookAlan And Thora
By: Alan Bennett
Narrated by: Alan Bennett & Thora Hird
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Until the time of her death in 2003, much-loved actress Thora Hird worked regularly with the playwright Alan Bennett. Now, in a specially written introduction and postscript, Bennett recalls his work and friendship with Thora, and introduces three examples of their collaboration. In The Last of the Sun, Dolly's remaining days in an old... Read more
View audiobookThe Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Clive Merrison & Michael Williams
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these twelve adventures from the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels.
The twelve dramatisations are The Illustrious Client; The Blanched Soldier; The Mazarin Stone; The Three Gables; The Sussex Vampire; The Three Garridebs; The Problem of... Read more
Living with the Gods
By: Neil MacGregor
Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In this major new BBC radio series, Neil MacGregor investigates the role and expression of shared beliefs through time and around the world.
One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a set of beliefs and assumptions - a faith, an ideology, a religion - that goes far beyond the life of the individual. These beliefs... Read more
The Reith Lectures
By: Various
Narrated by: Grayson Perry, Hilary Mantel, Kwame Anthony App...
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Ten emblematic lectures by world-leading thinkers, specially selected by the series producer.
Since 1948, the BBC's iconic annual lecture series has provided a platform for brilliant, entertaining individuals to discuss and develop their ideas on radio. The topics range from art and science to history, culture, politics and more, and each Reith... Read more
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: Series 5-8
By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Four more series of Natalie Haynes' BBC Radio 4 show taking a comic look at the ancient world
Author, broadcaster and 'rock star classicist' Natalie Haynes is a little bit obsessive about Ancient Greece and Rome. In these four series, she explores some of the most prominent historical and mythological figures from the classical world, telling... Read more
Just a Minute 2022: The Complete Series 88 & 89
By: BBC Radio Comedy
Narrated by: Sue Perkins
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
All fourteen fantastic episodes of Just a Minute from 2022
Celebrating its 55th year on the air, the panel game that rewards those who can talk the hind leg off a donkey returns for two more sparkling series. Sue Perkins, now firmly established as host, is back in the chair, inviting the celebrity panellists to speak for 60 seconds without... Read more
The Museum of Curiosity: Series 9-12
By: John Lloyd
Narrated by: Jo Brand, John Lloyd, Noel Fielding & Romesh Ra...
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Join Professor John Lloyd and Curators Noel Fielding, Jo Brand, Romesh Ranganathan and Sally Phillips as they plunge down the badger hole of ignorance in a search for the universe's most mind-boggling oddnesses.
The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing... Read more
Unmade Movies: Hammer Horror's The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula
By: Anthony Hinds
Narrated by: Full Cast, Michael Sheen, Meera Syal, Anna Made...
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Dracula travels to 1930s India in this celebrated unproduced Hammer Horror script, directed by Mark Gatiss
The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life,... Read more
Unmade Movies: Hitchcock's The Blind Man
By: Alfred Hitchcock, Ernest Lehman & Mark Gatiss
Narrated by: Full Cast, Hugh Laurie, Rebecca Front & Peter S...
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman's unfinished screenplay, completed by Mark Gatiss
'Achingly tense scenes... and a masterpiece of a climax' Radio Times
The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of... Read more
Unmade Movies: Harold Pinter's The Dreaming Child
By: Harold Pinter & Karen Blixen
Narrated by: Full Cast, Lydia Leonard, Bertie Carvel, Rose L...
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Harold Pinter's unproduced screenplay of Karen Blixen's intriguing short story of love and loss
'An important addition to the Pinter canon' The Stage
The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these... Read more
Unmade Movies: Harold Pinter's Victory
By: Harold Pinter & Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Full Cast, Bjarne Henriksen, Vanessa Kirby, Mar...
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Harold Pinter's unproduced screenplay of Joseph Conrad's last great novel, specially adapted for radio by Sir Richard Eyre
'All radio drama should be at this level' Spectator
The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the... Read more
Unmade Movies: Arthur Miller's The Hook
By: Arthur Miller
Narrated by: Full Cast, Elliot Cowan, Tim Pigott-Smith & Dav...
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Arthur Miller's unproduced screenplay about a 1950s Brooklyn dock worker who takes a stand against corruption, directed by Adrian Noble
The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten... Read more
Act Your Age
By: BBC Radio Comedy
Narrated by: Simon Mayo, Sarah Millican, Russell Kane, Jack ...
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show that pits three comic generations against each other, presented by Simon Mayo
Simon Mayo hosts a comedic battle between three teams to find out which is the funniest generation. Will the Up and Comers, the Current Crop or the Old Guard be crowned as the Golden Age of Comedy?
In these eighteen episodes, the... Read more
Life and Laughing
By: Michael McIntyre
Narrated by: Michael McIntyre
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting, poignant and remarkably honest biography from Britain's biggest comedy star, Michael McIntyre, brought to you by Penguin.
His debut stand-up DVD, Live & Laughing, was the fastest selling of all time.
Now he hosts his own BAFTA nominated BBC1 series, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, and has won the British Comedy Award for Best... Read more
The War Against the BBC
By: Patrick Barwise & Peter York
Narrated by: Neil Gardner
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
The BBC is a central part of British life, shared culture and international standing. It is the British public's most important and trusted news provider in a world of global fake news; a hugely popular, low-cost source of universally available information, education and entertainment - watched and listened to by most... Read more
The Glossy Years
By: Nicholas Coleridge
Narrated by: Nicholas Coleridge
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
Over his thirty-year career at Condรฉ Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to the blazing fury of Mohamed Al-Fayed, his story is also the story of the people who populate the glamorous world of glossy magazines. With relish and astonishing candour, he offers the... Read more
Studying The Great Gatsby: The Complete Text and Revision Guide
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Roy McMillan & Adam Sims
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Plug in and prepare for your A-Level English Literature examination with this comprehensive audio study guide to The Great Gatsby.
Includes the entire, unabridged audio narration of The Great Gatsby, as well as in-depth analysis on the text, covering the key areas of: Characters, Themes, Structure and Form, Genre and Historical Context - as well... Read more