Art audiobooks

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

Journey into Space: Frozen in Time

By: Charles Chilton

Narrated by: Alan Marriott, Chris Moran, David Jacobs, Full ...

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 sequel to Charles Chilton's iconic radio sci-fi series.

Between 1953 and 1958, Journey into Space attracted millions of listeners, gripped by the mystery and promise of space exploration in weekly cliffhanging instalments.

In this thrilling episode, the spaceship Ares has been heading back to Earth for 30 years, with the crew in... Read more

Laura Solon Talking And Not Talking - Series 2

By: Laura Solon

Narrated by: Laura Solon

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete second BBC Radio 4 series by Perrier Award winner Laura Solon. Laura Solon won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005 with her sensational debut show. She now returns to Radio 4 with a new series of her bittersweet comedy show packed with characters, monologues and sketches from this extraordinary writer and performer.... Read more

15 Minute Musical

By: David Quantick, Dave Cohen, Richie Webb & BBC R...

Narrated by: Richie Webb

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete third series of musical comedies – as heard on BBC Radio 4. These musical comedies contain some of the most foot-tapping satire you’ll ever hear... * ‘Manager Mia’ – We follow the escapades of England football manager Sven-Göran Eriksson on and off the pitch, with a tribute to ABBA. * ‘SS Metaphor’ – An unbreakable love affair set... Read more

John Arlott's Cricketing Wides, Byes And Slips!

By: Various

Narrated by: John Arlott & Peter Baxter

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The imagery and wit of an incomparable broadcaster is captured here in a unique collection of historic, and humorous, moments from the twentieth century. From the 1940s we hear about Bradman’s last test, from the 50s Compton’s highest Test Score, from the 60s Trueman’s 300th Test wicket and Boycott’s first ton, and then the 70s with Arlott’s... Read more

Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Full Cast, Ian McKellen, Kenneth Cranham, Marga...

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The youngest child of debtor William Dorrit, Amy is born in Marshalsea prison. She and her father are befriended by Arthur Clennam, whose mother employs 'little Dorrit' as a seamstress. The fortunes of the Dorrits undergo an extreme change when Williams inherits a fortune, and the family move to Italy. Back in England, Arthur Clennam finds... Read more

3rd & Bird

By: Josh Selig

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Five episodes from the hugely popular animated series featuring Samuel, Rudy and Muffin – as seen on BBC TV. ‘A Chorus for Us’, ‘Rolling Along’, ‘To Play or Not to Play’, ‘The Muffin Express’ and ‘Samuel’s Dance’. Read more

Willo The Wisp (Vintage Beeb)

By: Various

Narrated by: Kenneth Williams

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

12 stories from the BBC TV series, narrated by Kenneth Williams. Featuring Mavis Cruet, the Fat Fairy; Arthur, the Cockney Caterpillar; Evil Edna, the Wicked Witch; Carwash, the Prissy Pussy; and The Moog, the Droopy Dog. Of course, we mustn’t forget ‘the Beast’, who is really Prince Humbert the Handsome, changed into various shapes and sizes... Read more

Witness

By: Nick Warburton

Narrated by: Tom Goodman-Hill, Paul Hilton, Peter Firth & Pe...

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Five new plays from the gospel of Luke, by award-winning writer Nick Warburton.

This work presents the Gospel story as you've never heard it before.

Everyone knows the story of Jesus' life, as told in the Gospels – and, perhaps because it is so familiar, we have forgotten what an extraordinary life it was. Through these five plays, the story is... Read more

Towards Zero

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Hugh Bonneville, Marcia Warren & Phi...

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gull’s Point. Against her better judgment she has allowed her late husband’s ward, handsome tennis ace Neville Strange, and his wife Kay to come at the same time as Neville’s ex-wife Audrey. Other guests include Mary, Lady Tresselian’s companion; Ted, Kay’s ever-present... Read more

The Maltese Falcon (BBC Radio Crimes)

By: BBC Audio

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jane Lapotaire, Nickolas Grace, Pete...

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising Private Investigator. Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from. Miss Wonderley asks Sam’s partner, Miles Archer, to... Read more

Dick Barton - Special Agent! (BBC Radio Crimes)

By: Edward J. Mason

Narrated by: Full Cast & Noël Johnson

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Richard Barton, late of the Commandos, made his radio debut on the Light Programme in 1946 and quickly went on to become Britain's most popular hero. For years the nation tuned in to hear the famous signature tune, Devil's Gallop, herald another cliff-hanging adventure for the smooth, crime-busting Barton and his friends Snowey and Jock.... Read more

Weekending With Maggie

By: BBC

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A loyal tribute to 10 glorious years from BBC Radio 4's Week Ending team. From the archives of the legendary satirical radio comedy series Week Ending comes this compilation of satirical and sardonic sketches based on Margaret Thatcher's first 10 years as prime minister.First released on cassette as Ten Years With Maggie, this has now been... Read more

Torchwood The Sin Eaters

By: Brian Minchin

Narrated by: Gareth David-Lloyd

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Searching for the source of a bizarre Rift reading, Gwen, Jack and Ianto find a corpse on the beach, his face covered in hundreds of tiny cuts. Watching from the shadows is a man in black... The Reverend Hayward thinks he has found a way to take away people’s sins. The trouble is his special baptisms tend to take away their lives, too, for the... Read more

Brian Johnston Down Your Way: Favourite People And Places Vol. 1

By: Brian Johnston

Narrated by: Brian Johnston & Guests

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Down Your Way was one of the most popular programmes on radio and spanned six decades. Every week the presenter would visit towns and villages throughout the UK, discovering fascinating people and places. Brian Johnston presented the series for fifteen years and 733 programmes. For this recording, his son Barry has selected the most eccentric,... Read more

Doctor Who At The BBC: A Legend Reborn

By: BBC

Narrated by: Elisabeth Sladen & Various

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2005, after sixteen years off-air, Doctor Who returned to BBC Television – and soon became more popular than ever before. In this special anthology of clips and interviews, featuring newly-released material, Elisabeth Sladen journeys back to the recent past to delve into the show’s dazzling success. With the help of extracts from radio... Read more

Time And The Conways (Classic Radio Theatre)

By: J.B. Priestley

Narrated by: Full Cast, Marcia Warren & Stella Gonet

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Time and the Conways follows the fortunes of one family over a period of years, and offers a moving perspective on the abstract nature of the past, present and future. It is 1919, the War is over and the Conway family are celebrating their daughter Kay's 21st birthday. But her sudden premonition of their lives in 1937 casts a shadow over their... Read more

Journey into Space: The Host

By: Charles Chilton

Narrated by: Alan Marriott, Chris Pavlo, David Jacobs, Full ...

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A further BBC Radio episode of the classic science fiction series created by Charles Chilton.

In this exciting adventure, Jet Morgan and his crew receive a distress call from an abandoned space freighter. But when they board the ship, Jet and Doc discover a digitised personality locked inside the ship's computer - one with a deadly intent. The... Read more

This Is Radio 4 A Celebration

By: BBC

Narrated by: Hugh Dennis

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating celebration of BBC Radio 4 features archive clips from some of the channel's best-loved programmes, including The Archers, Desert Island Discs, Today, Woman's Hour, Weekending, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, The Now Show, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Just a Minute, and many more. Amongst the personalities heard from during... Read more

Two Ronnies

By: Various

Narrated by: Ronnie Barker & Ronnie Corbett

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Two Ronnies was one of Britain's most successful comedy sketch shows, and dominated the TV schedules for sixteen years between 1971 and 1987. This compilation of classics from the much-loved show includes the sketches 'The Strange Case of Mrs. Mace', 'Plain Speaking', 'Grublian', 'Dr. Spooner Re-Visited', 'A Doctor’s Life' and 'About a... Read more

Magic Roundabout, The (Vintage Beeb)

By: BBC

Narrated by: Eric Thompson

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

First published by BBC Records and Cassettes in 1971, The Magic Roundabout includes 10 stories written and read by Eric Thompson, featuring the popular characters of Dougal, Florence, Zebedee, Dylan, Brian and Ermintrude. The stories include 'Dougal's Experiment' (in which he does some very complicated arithmetic); 'A Starry Night' (in which... Read more

The Battle Of Britain

By: BBC

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

First-hand accounts featuring the RAF pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain - one of the chief turning points of World War Two. 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few' - Winston Churchill. The 'Few' were the nearly 3,000 RAF pilots who fought against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, which... Read more

The High Window

By: Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast & Toby Stephens

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on... Read more

The Long Goodbye

By: Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast & Toby Stephens

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In The Long Goodbye, Marlowe forms an... Read more