Art audiobooks

Remembering Kenneth Williams

By: Kenneth Williams

Narrated by: Kenneth Williams

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This compilation brings together wonderful highlights of Kenneth Williams’ career. For more than 30 years, Kenneth Williams kept the nation in stitches with his outrageous gallery of comic creations and an effortlessly brilliant barrage of repartee and innuendo on radio and television. In 'Beyond Our Ken' and 'Round the Horne', Kenneth Williams... Read more

Torchwood Department X

By: James Goss

Narrated by: Kai Owen

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

G.R. Owen is the last of Cardiff’s old department stores. Times are hard and the ancient firm has gone into administration. But who are the Administrators? What goes on behind the shutters at night? And why are customers disappearing? Torchwood are already investigating; G.R. Owen is the site of their oldest unsolved cases, and Jack is... Read more

Torchwood Ghost Train

By: James Goss

Narrated by: Kai Owen

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s not easy being Rhys Williams. You’re married to the sexiest woman in Torchwood. She saves the world for a living, you move lorries round in a timely fashion. Suddenly, you’ve got a mystery of your own. Oh, it starts off being about missing fridges. But it leads to a midnight train pulling into an abandoned platform at Cardiff Station.... Read more

King James Bible, The Readings And Documentaries From BBC Radio

By: James Naughtie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox, Hugh Bonneville, Rowan Williams, Sa...

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, a seminal text that remains the most widely published and influential book in the English language. Once described as 'the noblest monument of English prose', it has been recognised for centuries as both a religious and a literary classic. This compilation features James Naughtie's... Read more

Age Of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Full Cast & Susanne Bertish

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A full-cast dramatisation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a passionate love affair which breaks all the rules of the restrictive high society of 1870s New York. In the exclusive world of upper-class New York, in which attendance at balls and dinner passes for occupation, Newland Archer anticipates his marriage to May... Read more

Dombey And Son

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Full Cast & Robert Glenister

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships tells the story of Paul Dombey, head of the House of Dombey, who lacks a son and cannot reconcile himself to his only daughter. First published in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848. Narrated by Alex Jennings. Starring Robert Glenister, Helen... Read more

Double Science (BBC Radio 4 Comedy)

By: Ben Willbond & Justin Edwards

Narrated by: Ben Willbond, Full Cast, Justin Edwards & Rebec...

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are all six episodes of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom written by and starring Ben Willbond and Justin Edwards about two incompetent science teachers who work at a college that specialises in drama, and whose world is turned upside down by the arrival of a new boss. Forresters Sixth Form College has a highly successful drama department run by the... Read more

The Misunderstanding Of Glencoe

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Paul Smith, Kenny Blyth & Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A full-cast BBC Radio Scotland comedy dramatisation written by Alexander McCall Smith. An Edinburgh couple on holiday in the Highlands discover that centuries-old tensions are still very near the surface. Starring John Buick, Kenny Blyth, Monica Gibb and Paul Young. Read more

Mr Larkin's Awkward Day

By: Chris Harrald

Narrated by: Adrian Scarborough, Anne Reid & Lynne Verrall

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Harrald's Sony Radio Academy Award-winning play takes a light-hearted look at a chaotic day in the life of an emerging poet. One morning in September 1957, Philip Larkin receives a very official looking letter which sends him into a spin. The events that unfold provide a delicious insight into Philip's character, with a tremendous sense of... Read more

Orley Farm (BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial)

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Full Cast, Samantha Bond & Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel, described as a '... brilliantly choreographed legal thriller' (Mail on Sunday), centres on the pathos of the main character, Lady Mason. Youthful marriage choices, middle-aged marital crisis, love and loss revolve around the legal action and the complex portrayal of Lady Mason, who is both sympathetic and wily. The novel proposes a... Read more

Road Wife

By: Eoin McNamee

Narrated by: Stuart Graham & Su-Lin Looi

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation written by Eoin McNamee, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 23 March 2009. A truck driver in Ireland gives a lift to a female Asian hitchhiker but gets more than he bargained for, especially when his truck is stopped by immigration officers and he and his illegal occupant are taken in for... Read more

Self Storage

By: Tom Collinson

Narrated by: Reece Shearsmith, Mark Heap, Rosie Cavaliero & ...

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4 Sitcom by Tom Collinson starring Reece Shearsmith, Mark Heap and Rosie Cavaliero.

In the wake of a marital break-up, Dave finds himself living in the storage unit in which he keeps his belongings. Dave is accompanied by his fellow inhabitant, the borderline psychotic Geoff, and cultured security guard Ron.

In this second series... Read more

The Good Soldier Svejk

By: Jaroslav Hasek

Narrated by: Sam Kelly & Adrian Lukis

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Christopher Reason of the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hasek. This tale charts the exploits during the First World War of 'European Forrest Gump', Svejk, in his progress through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian army. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech... Read more

Nine Days Queen, The BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play)

By: Amanda Whittington

Narrated by: Loo Brealey & Emma Stansfield

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation written by Amanda Whittington, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 23 February 2009. The tumultuous tale of the trial of Lady Jane Grey, proclaimed Queen of England in 1553 at the age of 16, nine days later locked in the Tower and, within a year, dead. ‘Loo Brealey puts in a superb performance’... Read more

Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: Tom Ferguson & Maxine Peake

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw. One of the great works of English literature, this powerful, compelling story explores love from its first tentative beginnings through to passionate sensuality and eventual tragic disillusionment. Lavinia Greenlaw's new version for... Read more

Von Ribbentrop's Watch (Bbc Radio 4 Saturday Play)

By: Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran

Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Harriet Walter, Miriam Margolye...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Originally broadcast in the ‘Saturday Play’ slot on 8 November 2008. Wine shop owner Gerald desperately needs money: his business is failing and the landlord has raised the cost of the lease. When he inherits a watch that used to belong to wartime Nazi Joachim Von Ribbentrop he... Read more

Charles Paris: The Dead Side of the Mic

By: Simon Brett & Jeremy Front

Narrated by: Suzanne Burden, Full Cast, Charlotte Green & Bi...

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Actor and reluctant sleuth Charles Paris is facing chaos on the domestic front. He's lodging with his ex-wife Frances, and now their pregnant daughter has moved in as well. It's all a bit much....

So he is over the moon when he lands a job on the BBC Radio Rep - but the ink is barely dry on his contract when a murder takes place in Broadcasting... Read more

Appointment With Fear

By: Valentine Dyall & Various

Narrated by: Full Cast, Marius Goring, Marjorie Westbury & V...

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Four gripping episodes from the famous 1940s BBC Radio horror series. Includes: 'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allen Poe (18 September 1943); 'The Speaking Clock' by John Dickson Carr (13 April 1944); 'The Clock Strikes Eight' by John Dickson Carr (18 May 1944); 'And the Deep Shuddered' by Monckton Hoffe (20 November 1945). ... Read more

Christmas Book At Bedtime

By: Various

Narrated by: Joss Ackland, Judi Dench, Miriam Margolyes, Pat...

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone loves a bedtime story. And here are eight of the best, each with a Christmas theme, written by an array of literature's best-known names: Laurie Lee, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen are just some of the storytellers included in this collection. Amongst those giving voice to these stories are Patricia Routledge, Joss... Read more

The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling epic, starring Jamie Glover, Robert Glenister and Timothy Spall. ‘All for one and one for all’ ... 17th Century France. Dashing young swordsman D’Artagnan heads for Paris, dreaming of serving the King as a member of his elite guard. On arrival, he meets the three musketeers –... Read more

The Guns Of Navarone

By: Alistair MacLean

Narrated by: Toby Stephens

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1943. Two huge German guns in the grim, impregnable fortress on a huge beautiful island off the coast of Turkey are having a devastating impact on Allied shipping and preventing the evacuation of hard-pressed British troops from the nearby island of Kheros. The Germans are poised to overrun and unless the guns can be put out of action... Read more

4.50 From Paddington

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Ian Lavender, Joan Sims & June Whitf...

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Elspeth McGillicuddy is down from Scotland for a holiday and boards the 4:50 train from Paddington station to visit her friend, Miss Marple. During the journey, another train pulls alongside, and through the window Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a tall, dark man strangling a blonde woman. She reports what she has seen, yet no one takes any notice.... Read more

The ABC Murders

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, John Moffatt, Philip Jackson & Simon...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice Ascher, a poor, elderly shopkeeper, is murdered in Andover. Betty Barnard, a young waitress, is strangled with her own belt at Bexhill-on-Sea. Next comes Carmichael Clarke, collector of Chinese art, clubbed to death in Churston. Only in Doncaster does the pattern vary: the man found stabbed in the Regal Cinema is called George Earsfield. ... Read more

Appointment With Death

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

'You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed? It's the only solution.' Even when on holiday in Jerusalem - the so-called City of Peace - Hercule Poirot can't seem to escape the strains of death and murder. His first evening at the King Solomon Hotel finds the above phrase floating into his room from outside. What does it mean? Who is... Read more