Art audiobooks

The Case Of Perfect Carer

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Cowley sisters employ a carer to look after the ailing Carmela, Morag appears to suit their needs perfectly. But after a spectacular jewel theft on the night of the Hunt Ball, it appears that the perfect carer might be implicated... Read more

The Gypsy

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

War-wounded sailor Dickie Carpenter is haunted by strange visitations from a ghostly woman. When his friend Robert tries to solve the mystery, though, he ultimately has to fight his own terrifying battle between love and death. Read more

The Last Séance

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs & Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Having lost her husband and only child to the war in Afghanistan, a young woman turns to an Irish couple for hope in the form of a miracle. But dark forces are at work, and the price to pay for salvation may be too much to bear. Read more

Judi Dench & Michael Williams With Great Pleasure

By: Various

Narrated by: Judi Dench & Michael Williams

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose. In this enchanting pair of programmes from 1991 and 1996, Dame Judi Dench and husband Michael Williams shared an eclectic selection of pieces that they loved, admired or simply... Read more

Kenneth Williams' Stop Messing About (Classic BBC Radio Comedy)

By: Myles Rudge

Narrated by: Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick & Joan Sims

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Stop Messing About - the first all-nude radio show. Nervous listeners are advised to keep their eyes closed... and it’s forbidden to take photographs.’ Taking over the mantle of 'Round the Horne', 'Stop Messing About' carried on the comedy tradition, which reunited Kenneth Williams with his 'Carry On' co-star Joan Sims and Hugh Paddick. These... Read more

Hamlet (Classic Radio Theatre)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Angela Pleasence, Full Cast, Maxine Audley & Ro...

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Written over four hundred years ago, ‘Hamlet’ still remains one of the most powerful, influential and thrilling tragedies in the English language. The story of Prince Hamlet and his quest for vengeance has been interpreted countless times on stage, film and television. With its riveting plot featuring murder and supernatural horror; and... Read more

Hay Fever (Classic Radio Theatre)

By: Noël Coward

Narrated by: Full Cast, Peggy Ashcroft & Tony Britton

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Judith Bliss is a famous actress who, after a string of successful roles, has retired to her country retreat. Missing the adulation of her public, she has has invited a fan over for a weekend of uninterrupted adoration - unaware that the rest of her family has company arriving too. Hoping for a delightful weekend, the four unwitting visitors... Read more

Johnners' Trivia Test Match

By: Brian Johnston

Narrated by: Brian Johnston, Tim Rice, Various & Willie Rushton

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Johnston, aka ‘Johnners’, the BBC’s long-time cricket commentator, is the umpire in this test of wit and general knowledge, as two teams try to score the highest number of runs under his watchful eye. In these four episodes, team captains Tim Rice and Willie Rushton are joined by Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer,... Read more

Johnners' A View From The Boundary Test Match Special

By: Barry Johnston

Narrated by: Barry Johnston & Guests

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

During the lunch interval on the Saturday of every Test in England, BBC Radio’s ‘Test Match Special’ used to invite a well-known guest into the commentary box for a chat with Brian Johnston about themselves and their passion for cricket. Some turned out to be able cricketers, but they all had stories to tell about matches they had seen and... Read more

Brian Johnston Down Your Way: Favourite People And Places Vol. 2

By: Brian Johnston

Narrated by: Brian Johnston & Guests

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Down Your Way was one of the most popular programmes on BBC Radio from 1946 until 1992. Every week the presenter would visit a different city, town or village in the UK and interview six local people about its history, traditions and customs. Brian Johnston presented the series for fifteen years and for this recording, his son Barry has selected... Read more

Matt Lucas And The Winner Is...

By: Matt Lucas

Narrated by: Matt Lucas

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Matt Lucas hosts the newest and most prestigious awards ceremony of the year - the perfectly-title 'Lucases'. Including awards for the Lamest Excuse of All-Time, the Lucas for Most Pointless Member of the Royal Family and the Lucas for Greatest Song By A Musical Artist Who Is Otherwise Rubbish. The nominations are provided by the guests, but... Read more

Maigret's Little Joke & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Nicholas Le Prevost

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Four full-cast dramatisations starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret ‘The Yellow Dog’ sees Maigret upsetting the citizens of Concarneau as he begins his murder investigation. But there is poison in the Pernod, a howling yellow dog and, it seems, a madman on the loose... In ‘Maigret and the Burglar’s Wife’, "Sad Freddie" is... Read more

And Then There Were None

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Geoffrey Whitehead, John Rowe & Lynd...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten guests travel to an island at the invitation of someone named U.N. Owen. All are strangers, but they have two things in common: they have all been responsible for someone's death, and none will leave the island alive. Over the next two days and nights, each of the guests is killed off in a different manner in keeping with the nursery... Read more

The Far Pavilions

By: M.M. Kaye

Narrated by: Blake Ritson & Full Cast

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of M.M. Kaye’s epic novel of love and war. M.M. Kaye’s masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that spans over twenty years, moving from the foothills of the Himalayas, to the burning plains, to the besieged British Mission in Kabul. It begins in 1857 when, following the Indian... Read more

Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up Series 1

By: Kevin Anderson & Jo Caulfield

Narrated by: Jo Caulfield

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

She came, she saw, she criticised. Yes, this is the complete 4-part series where Jo Caulfield, 'the funniest female stand-up on Radio 4' presents her glorious mixture of bitchy friendliness, waspish likeability and foot-in-mouth populism - but always with charm. In the series, Jo is, as ever, failing to Shut Up about - love, marriage, dating,... Read more

Doctor Who: The Essential Companion

By: Steve Tribe

Narrated by: Alex Price & Various

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

If you enjoyed the Eleventh Doctor’s first series of TV adventures, you’ll love this opportunity to hear again the most exciting, scary, funny and moving moments. What is the new Doctor really like? What’s in store for Amy and Rory when they join him on his travels? Confront the Smilers, the Daleks, the Weeping Angels, the Dream Lord and all the... Read more

Voices Of The Powerless The Complete Series

By: Melvyn Bragg

Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000 years.

The Norman Conquest is his starting point, a time when William the Conqueror's... Read more

Maigret And The Minister & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Maurice Denham

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Four full-cast dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon. 'Maigret and the Minister', 'Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets', 'Maigret and Monsieur Charles', and 'Maigret and the Madman of Bergerac'. Georges Simenon and his masterful inspector, Jules Maigret, look back together... Read more

Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, The (BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play)

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Linda Marshall’s BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of L. Frank Baum's children's classic, ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’. Originally broadcast as part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. When a tornado strikes her farmhouse in Kansas, young Dorothy and her dog Toto are lifted to the magical world of Oz, the strange land of the Munchkins. There... Read more

Two On A Tower (Bbc Radio 4 Classic Serial)

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Blake Ritson & Maggie O'Neill

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of star-crossed lovers in the West Country.

'Two on a Tower' is Hardy's ninth novel and contains perhaps his most complete treatment of the theme of love across the class and age divide, and also the fullest expression of his fascination with astronomy and science. ... Read more

Night They Tried To Kidnap The Prime Minister, The (BBC R4)

By: Martin Jameson

Narrated by: Tim McInnerny, Benjamin Askew, Michelle Duncan ...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This full-cast dramatisation by Martin Jameson for BBC Radio 4 is a fictionalised account of the incident in 1964 when a group of students attempted to kidnap the then-Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Scotland. Originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 15 July 2009, this dramatisation stars Tim McInnerny as Sir Alec, Chris Starkie... Read more

Maigret Hesitates & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Maurice Denham & Michael Gough

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Four gripping dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon; 'Maigret Goes to School', 'Maigret and the Old Lady', 'Maigret Hesitates' and 'The Patience of Maigret' The world’s best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about four intriguing cases in... Read more

Maigret Sets A Trap & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Maurice Denham & Michael Gough

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Four gripping dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon 'Maigret Goes Home', 'Maigret Sets a Trap', Maigret at the Crossroads' and 'Maigret Has Doubts' The world’s best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about four intriguing cases in these... Read more

Maigret A Man's Head & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Nicholas Le Prevost

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas Le Prevost stars as the French detective in four new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatizations These new adaptations of classic stories find Maigret recreating four memorable cases for his creator Georges Simenon. In ‘Maigret: A Man’s Head’, a convicted man is allowed to escape, then followed by police investigating a double murder.... Read more