Art audiobooks

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: David Bamber, Full Cast, Roy Hudd & Sarah-Jane ...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Roy Hudd, Sarah-Jane Holm and David Bamber. When Alice sees the White Rabbit run by, it occurs to her that she’s never seen a rabbit with a watch before. Burning with curiosity, she jumps up and follows him into a rabbit-hole. Then she falls down a long way. Down into the world of the Mad Hatter... Read more

Paul Temple And The Lawrence Affair

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Full Cast, Marjorie Westbury & Peter Coke

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For thirty years the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help... Read more

All's Well That Ends Well

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Carl Prekopp, Siân Phillips, Miriam Margolyes, ...

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BBC full-cast production of All's Well That Ends Well, the trials of marriage are hilariously explored. Will Helena complete the Herculean tasks to win Bertram's love?

All's Well That Ends Well finds Helena rewarded for her ministries to the sick with the choice of any husband she wishes. Her choice, Bertram, is unwilling to have her as... Read more

Antony And Cleopatra

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Colin Tierney, David Harewood, Frances Barber, ...

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BBC full-cast production of Antony and Cleopatra, the soldier and noble prince Mark Antony's enthralment with the Egyptian queen Cleopatra is proving controversial. Will the tumultuous relationship ultimately end in tragedy?

Antony and Cleopatra is an intense love story, exploring the constant conflict between duty and emotion with... Read more

As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: David Morrissey, Full Cast, Helena Bonham Carte...

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BBC full-cast production of As You Like It, Rosalind is banished from the Royal court, heartbroken over Orlando. Will the two find a way to reunite?

A comedy of wit, disguise and love, Shakespeare's tale about the enchanted world of the Forest of Arden remains as moving as it is funny.

Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind, with David... Read more

Coriolanus

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Adrian Dunbar, Full Cast, Kenneth Cranham, Samu...

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BBC full-cast production of Coriolanus, allies and enemies become blurred just as Rome is in sight...

Coriolanus tells of a proud Roman general who captures the town Corioli but subsequently falls from favour with the Roman people. He allies himself with the Volscians and leads an attack on Rome, but allegiances are won and lost before... Read more

Henry IV Part Two

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast, Timothy West, Jamie Glover, Julian G...

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BBC full-cast production of Henry IV Part 2, civil war is ravaging England. Rebels are rallying together, unified against Henry. Will Henry and his son, Hal, emerge victorious - or alive?

Father and son Julian Glover and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son Hal in the powerful production which also stars Timothy West and Prunella... Read more

King Lear

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Corin Redgrave, David Troughton, Full Cast, Ger...

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BBC full-cast production, King Lear tests his three daughters' love, with disastrous consequences.

Some of the most stirring scenes Shakespeare ever wrote resonate powerfully in this dramatic radio production. Tortured madness, pure evil, and the fatal struggle for power grip the listener until the final, shockingly tragic... Read more

Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast, Ken Stott, Liam Brennan, Phyllis Log...

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BBC full-cast production, a trio of witches predicts Macbeth's early demise.

In a tale of fate, fulfilment and ego, Macbeth and his wife desire the Scottish kingship. Macbeth's temptation and descent into evil, his wife's ruthlessness and subsequent madness and the overarching presence of the supernatural charge this gripping production.... Read more

Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Samantha Spiro, Emilia Fox, Maxine Peake, Chiwe...

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BBC full-cast production of Much Ado About Nothing, some handsome soldiers return from battle. Yet one soldier finds himself locked in a merry war of his own...

In Shakespeare's comedy of wit, love and miscommunication, Beatrice and Benedick and Hero and Claudio are pushed into and pulled out of love, their friends playing cupid with... Read more

Life Laundry, The How To De-Junk Your Life

By: Dawna Walters

Narrated by: Dawna Walter & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspirational guide to fighting clutter and sorting out your space, based on the bestselling BBC book and TV series. Clutter can be a huge problem for many of us. We yearn to live in a perfectly-ordered home, but more often than not we find ourselves drowning in a sea of 'stuff'. Not only is it depressing to live in a mess, but accumulating... Read more

Grumpy Old Men The Official Handbook

By: Stuart Prebble

Narrated by: Arthur Smith

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know someone who is incensed by compulsory tipping? Who is infuriated if kept on hold for more than a minute? Who is positively apoplectic if someone answers their phone during dinner? If so, you've probably encountered the phenomenon of the grumpy old man. Following their first massively successful BBC1 series, this autumn will see the... Read more

The Mel And Sue Thing

By: BBC

Narrated by: Sue Perkins & Mel Giedroyc

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins offer you more than your fair share of laughs, songs, and silliness in their imaginatively titled BBC Radio 4 series. Mel and Sue are extremely well established performers on the comedy circuit. They are also familiar as the hosts of Channel 4's Late Lunch and as the stars of a number of TV commercials. Sue Perkins... Read more

Ross Noble Goes Global

By: Ross Noble

Narrated by: Ross Noble

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant new BBC Radio 4 series of comedy travelogues presented by award-winning stand-up and ‘Just a Minute’ regular, Ross Noble. Perrier Award nominee Ross Noble has received huge critical acclaim and become known as an exciting and original talent in the UK. Now he takes his show worldwide, to destinations as diverse as Shanghai, South... Read more

The Smoking Room

By: BBC

Narrated by: Debbie Chazen & Jeremy Swift

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the world of work, there is one place where seniority means nothing, where shoptalk is banned, and where the persecuted minority gather regularly to discuss every subject under the sun: the smoking room.Set entirely in the smoking room of a large company, this eight-part comedy series explores the personal foibles and suppressed longings of... Read more

Ustinov At Eighty

By: Peter Ustinov

Narrated by: John Bird

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this much-praised interview, octogenarian Peter Ustinov talks to John Bird. The man of many talents has an astonishing range of accomplishments behind him as an Oscar-winning film and theatre actor, author of novels, plays and screenplays. He is also a raconteur, graphic artist, photographer, stage director and designer and the recipient of... Read more

Why Bother?

By: Chris Morris & Peter Cook

Narrated by: Chris Morris & Peter Cook

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

1994 saw one of Peter Cook's most acclaimed performances since his 1960s' heyday. Chris Morris' surreal and inventive questions brought out the very best of eccentric aristocrat Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling - a character whom Cook had carried with him through 'Beyond the Fringe' and 'Not Only... But Also...' to his latter years. These five... Read more

Woman's Hour A Celebration Of Mothers

By: BBC

Narrated by: Jenni Murray

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Woman's Hour: A Celebration of Mothers is an audiobook that looks at the changing role of mothers over the last fifty years; the relationships that they have enjoyed with their children, how they have juggled the work life balance and how they have challenged the stereotypes and tested the boundaries of what being a mother means. For example the... Read more

We Need to Talk About . . . Kevin Bridges

By: Kevin Bridges

Narrated by: Kevin Bridges

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of We Need to Talk About... Kevin Bridges.

Aged 17, Kevin Bridges walked on stage for the first time and brought the house down. He only had a five-minute set but he discovered he really could earn a living from making people laugh.

Kevin began life as a shy, nerve-ridden school-boy.... Read more

Alanatomy

By: Alan Carr

Narrated by: Alan Carr

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Alanatomy. Written and read by Alan Carr.

It must seem strange to you that I've called a book Alanatomy.

For anyone who has taken the time to see my stand-up performances or watched my chat show, 'Chattyman', knows that my body has hardly been kind to me - in fact there've been... Read more

John Mortimer Presents The Trials Of Marshall Hall

By: John Mortimer

Narrated by: Michael Butt

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Marshall-Hall, who was born in Brighton in 1858, became perhaps the country's most successful advocate of all time, building his reputation on a phenomenal talent for acquitting defendants in murder trials where a guilty verdict had seemed a foregone conclusion. Given that murder during this period carried a sentence of execution by... Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Full Cast & Roy Marsden

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parents’ warnings he runs away to sea to embark on a series of thrilling adventures: struggles with Barbary pirates, a shipwreck and the extraordinary meeting with Man Friday... Roy Marsden plays the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of... Read more

The Complete Barchester Chronicles

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Amanda Root, Anna Massey, Brenda...

Length: 18 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial life

One of the most respected, successful chroniclers of nineteenth-century life, Anthony Trollope is still widely read and much-loved today. The Barchester Chronicles - witty moral comedies with a wonderful range of characters - are among his most... Read more

The Madness Of George III

By: Alan Bennett

Narrated by: Alun Armstrong, Cheryl Campbell, Full Cast & Ji...

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent stars as ‘mad’ King George III in the title role of this adaptation of Alan Bennett’s award-winning play, which co-stars Cheryl Campbell, Nicholas Farrell and Alun Armstrong. The King is losing his mind. Doctors are brought in as his eccentric behaviour becomes more bizarre and erratic, while his son, the... Read more