Art audiobooks

Laura Solon Talking And Not Talking

By: Laura Solon

Narrated by: Laura Solon

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete BBC Radio 4 series by Perrier Award-winner Laura Solon. Laura Solon won the Perrier at Edinburgh Festival in 2005 with her sensational debut show. In this, her complete Radio 4 series, all six episodes feature a mix of monologues and sketches from this extraordinary writer and performer. There will be talking, not talking, some... Read more

Chocky

By: John Wyndham

Narrated by: Cathy Tyson, Full Cast, Owen Teale & Sacha Dhawan

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids, comes this chilling tale of a normal boy confronted with abnormal circumstances. Matthew had always been an ordinary boy. Even when he started talking to himself and introduced his invisible friend, Chocky, to the family, it was obviously just a phase he was going through. And all children... Read more

15 Minute Musical

By: David Quantick, Richie Webb & Dave Cohen

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete fourth series of brief musical comedies – as heard on BBC Radio 4. These musical comedies contain some of the most foot-tapping satire you’ll ever hear... * ‘Westminster Side Story’ – Gordon Brown and David Cameron are two gang leaders with nothing to fight about. * ‘Life on Noel’ – Noel Edmonds wakes up in 2007 and is desperate to... Read more

Daniel Deronda (Classic Drama)

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Anna Chancellor & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of George Eliot's powerful novel starring Anna Chancellor as Gwendolen. From the moment he sees her at the roulette table, the young idealistic Daniel Deronda is drawn to Gwendolen Harleth, as she is to him. But Gwendolen - outwardly alluring and vivacious - is forced by circumstances into an oppressive... Read more

Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf

By: Toby Hadoke

Narrated by: Colin Baker, Full Cast, Louise Jameson & Toby H...

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Actor and comedian Toby Hadoke’s hilarious and touching one-man show was a huge hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, and his nationwide tour was just as successful. This two-part adaptation, based on the stage show and starring Toby Hadoke, Louise Jameson and with a cameo by Colin Baker, is a celebration of Doctor Who for fans and novices alike. Toby... Read more

The Al Read Show

By: Ronnie Taylor

Narrated by: Al Read

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Described by Radio Times as "a brilliant observer of the domestic scene, a master reporter of life as we know it", Al Read's weekly show drew audiences of 35 million during the 1950s and 60s.Born in Salford in 1909, Al started life as a sausage manufacturer, having inherited the family's meat-processing factory. His comedy developed from his... Read more

Pam Ayres In Potting On

By: Christoper Thompson, Pam Ayres & Peter Reynolds

Narrated by: Full Cast, Geoffrey Whitehead & Pam Ayres

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Pam and Gordon Grant are a couple at odds running a rural garden centre. While Pam still feels young and is determined to avoid the slippery slope into middle-age, Gordon seems keen to dive in - slippers first. Pam’s ally at the garden centre is teenager Carol, a girl more than happy to speak her mind. If only, Gordon complains, there was... Read more

Chelsea Dreaming

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A quizzical look at the life and legend of celebrated poet Dylan Thomas, through the critical eyes of the infamous Chelsea Hotel. In Room 206 of the Chelsea Hotel in New York, Dylan Thomas went into the coma that led to his death. On this particular night, listening to its own ghosts and memories, the Chelsea hotel encounters Dylan Thomas.... Read more

Dylan Thomas At The BBC

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Dylan Thomas

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Dylan Thomas is one of the 20th century's most celebrated poets. His rich rhetoric created poems of magical imagery, and nowhere is language more rich and fantastic than in his best-known work, 'Under Milk Wood'. He was also a popular radio entertainer and the BBC Archives contain a wealth of material featuring Dylan Thomas - not only readings... Read more

The Birds

By: Daphne du Maurier & BBC

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of horror. The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to a farm from her house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field while above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed an idea about the birds... Read more

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

By: Douglas Adams

Narrated by: Full Cast & Harry Enfield

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and is drawn into a four-billion year old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate... Read more

It's That Man Again Volume 1

By: BBC

Narrated by: Tommy Handley

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It's That Man Again is a giant in the history of radio comedy. As Mat Coward's book Classic Radio Comedy says, "Surely the most written-about radio series in history, it was successful to an extent which is hard to imagine today. Its international audience was measured in the tens of millions. Its star, Tommy Handley, was undoubtedly the most... Read more

The Tao Of Bergerac

By: Will Smith & Roger Dew

Narrated by: John Nettles

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

The complete BBC Radio 4 series starring comedian Will Smith and John Nettles. Will Smith is obsessed with Bergerac, the classic TV show set in Jersey, and has one guiding force: an audio book of John Nettles reading the ancient Chinese text of the Tao. This helps Will find a way through when the road seems blocked. Now Will brings the Tao of... Read more

Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Anna Massey, Full Cast, Steve Hodson & Tom Baker

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the polluted and poverty-ridden Coketown, Louisa and Tom Gradgrind endure a cold and loveless childhood at the hands of their self-satisfied and unimaginative father Thomas. Starved of affection, Louisa is forced into a miserable marriage with the self-made industrialist Josiah Bounderby, thirty years her senior, whilst Tom descends into a... Read more

Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Anna Massey, Full Cast, Ken Camp...

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Left penniless by the death of his father, nineteen-year-old Nicholas Nickleby seeks help, along with his mother and sister, from Uncle Ralph Nickleby. The hard-hearted money lender takes an instant dislike to his nephew and gets rid of the boy by securing him a teaching position at Dotheboys Hall, where the evil Wackford Squeers presides.... Read more

Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Edward Long, Full Cast, Pam Ferris...

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Born and brought up in the appalling deprivation of the workhouse, the orphaned Oliver escapes and heads for London, only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart, and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful Dodger to teach him the tricks of the pick-pocket's... Read more

Monty Python's Flying Circus

By: Eric Idle & Michael Palin

Narrated by: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael...

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones star in this innovative and groundbreaking series which includes 19 of their best sketches. From the memorable 'Nudge Nudge Wink Wink' to the celebrated 'Dead Parrot Sketch', there’s also the hairdresser with a fear of hair who really wanted to be a lumberjack... Read more

The Clitheroe Kid

By: James Casey & Frank Roscoe

Narrated by: Jimmy Clitheroe

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Four vintage instalments of the classic radio comedy starring Jimmy Clitheroe in 'The Clitheroe Kid'. James Robinson Clitheroe was enormously popular with the public as Jimmy in 'The Clitheroe Kid'. At the height of his popularity, the diminutive Lancastrian comic had regular audiences of over 10 million people and was a radio institution from... Read more

The Making Of Modern Medicine

By: Andrew Cunningham

Narrated by: Andrew Cunningham

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond. ‘The Making of Modern Medicine’ covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and... Read more

John Betjeman A First Class Collection

By: John Betjeman

Narrated by: Andrew Motion, Derek Jacobi, John Betjeman, Mir...

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir John Betjeman’s unique relationship with the BBC left a lasting legacy of poetry, readings and performances. A First Class Collection features a selection of some of his most memorable and best-loved poetry. Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates and over a hundred years after his birth he continues to attract acclaim... Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Buster Merryfield, Full Cast, Iain Cuthbertson ...

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Shepherd and Iain Cuthbertson star in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic swashbuckling tale. Having outwitted a band of pirates to obtain a map disclosing the whereabouts of Captain Flint's treasure, Young Jim sets sail for Treasure Island. But the crew of the Hispaniola are not what they seem. Revealing themselves as... Read more

Alistair Cooke

By: Alistair Cooke

Narrated by: Alistair Cooke

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Alistair Cooke looks back on a rich and varied life, one which has taken him across the ocean but never far away from the BBC.

Drawing on archive recordings, this selection includes interviews from radio and television, Cooke's Letter From America, and a speech made to the Royal Television Society at New York's Cosmopolitan Club.

It charts the... Read more

Just William's Luck

By: Richmal Crompton

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this full-length Just William novel, William and the Outlaws decide to form the Knights of the Square Table, 'rightin' wrongs' for a minor fee ('Small wrongs: sixpence. Big wrongs: one shillin'.) In their quest to earn enough money to become tramps, they stop at no amount of do-gooding, embarking on a plan to marry off their older brothers.... Read more

On The Town With The League Of Gentlemen

By: Jeremy Dyson & Mark Gatiss

Narrated by: Full Cast, Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith & Stev...

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The winners of the 1997 Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in their first Sony Award-winning radio series. 'Cruelly intelligent, deeply hilarious, unmissably good' - Glasgow Herald. Welcome to Spent - an isolated and rather odd town somewhere in the North. Its singular inhabitants lead blackly comic lives, from Dr Chinnery, the... Read more