Art audiobooks

The Museum of Curiosity: Series 1-4

By: John Lloyd, Dan Schreiber & Richard Turner

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Lloyd

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing inside that doesn’t make you scratch your head, stroke your chin or, at the very least, go 'Hmm'. Fortunately, helping to fill its vacant plinths is a gathering of the world's most original minds.

Among the guests... Read more

Hancock's Half Hour Collectibles: Volume 2

By: Ray Galton & Alan Simpson

Narrated by: Sid James, Tony Hancock & Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating collection of rare and remastered radio & TV material starring Tony Hancock

This second treasury of rare archive material is spearheaded by four newly-restored radio episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour, all from 1956: ‘The New Secretary’, ‘Anna and the King of Siam’, ‘The Stolen Petrol’ and ‘The Expresso Bar’. Starring alongside... Read more

The Goon Show Compendium Volume 13: Early Show, Series 4, Part 1 & More

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers & Harry Secombe

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers star in 7 early episodes of The Goon Show, plus a plethora of bonus features.

Immensely popular and hugely influential, the groundbreaking series The Goon Show changed the face of British comedy.

This 13th collection turns the clock back to the 1950s and the series' earliest surviving recordings. The... Read more

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

By: Dick Clement & BBC Audio

Narrated by: Rodney Bewes, Full Cast & James Bolam

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen classic BBC radio episodes, starring James Bolam and Rodney Bewes

One of the most popular TV comedies of the Seventies, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? won a best sitcom BAFTA and attracted an audience of millions before being adapted for radio.

In these 13 episodes, we catch up with Newcastle lads Bob and Terry as they meet by... Read more

Shardlake: Revelation

By: CJ Sansom

Narrated by: Jason Watkins, Mark Bonnar & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Shardlake returns in this atmospheric BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of the fourth novel in C. J. Sansom’s bestselling Tudor crime series.

Spring, 1543. London’s streets are filled with preachers; strange signs and portents are seen everywhere; and young men, maddened by differing interpretations of the Bible, are drawn into dangerous... Read more

The Deathwatch Journal

By: Ian Rankin

Narrated by: Jimmy Chisholm

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping original story for BBC Radio 4 by award-winning crime writer Ian Rankin, written for the landmark Radio 4 Book at Bedtime slot

Saughton Prison, Edinburgh. 1962.

Prison guard Thomas Scott watches over a condemned man sentenced to hang for the murder of his wife.

His prisoner is a guilty man, that’s for sure. William Telfer has done... Read more

Bleak Expectations

By: Mark Evans

Narrated by: Anthony Head, Celia Imrie, David Mitchell, Geof...

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete collected series 1-5 of the gloriously daft Victorian Romp, Bleak Expectations.

Gasp at the evil Mr Gently Benevolent, played by Mr Anthony Head! Weep at the trials of our young hero Pip Bin, played by Master Tom Allen! Be moved to joy and sorrow by the remarkable narration of Mr Richard Johnson! Swoon at the fragile beauty of Pip’s... Read more

Sarah Millican's Support Group

By: Sarah Millican

Narrated by: Full Cast & Sarah Millican

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning comedian Sarah Millican plays Sarah, life counsellor and modern day agony aunt in the collected series 1 and 2 of this BBC Radio 4 comedy.
Solving the nation's problems with her Support Group, she wants you to live life to the utmost, and she's got tons of ideas of how to help. In the same way as the busybody at the end of your... Read more

Fags, Mags and Bags: Series 1-4

By: Sanjeev Kohli & Donald McLeary

Narrated by: Donald McLeary, Full Cast & Sanjeev Kohli

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

First broadcast in 2007, Fags, Mags and Bags delivers shop-based shenanigans and over-the-counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. Ramesh has built his shop up over the course of 30 years, and it is a firmly entrenched feature of the local area. He is ably assisted by Dave, a forty-something underachiever who... Read more

The Forsytes: The Complete Series

By: John Galsworthy

Narrated by: Ben Lambert, Full Cast, Jessica Raine, Jonathan...

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

Jessica Raine stars in all four BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of John Galsworthy's Forsyte novels.

An irresistible family saga of love, money and betrayal, The Forsytes: The Complete Series encompasses four acclaimed BBC Radio 4 productions of Galsworthy’s perennially popular epic, spanning 50 years from 1886 to 1936.

The Forsytes sees... Read more

Only Fools and Horses

By: John Sullivan

Narrated by: David Jason, Full Cast & Nicholas Lyndhurst

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen TV soundtracks of the award-winning TV show collected together for the first time, starring David Jason as ambitious market trader Del Boy Trotter, and Nicholas Lyndhurst as his younger brother Rodney Trotter.

For 15 years, the brothers of 'Trotters Independent Traders PLC' have entertained us both with Del's extreme optimism and scams... Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Clive Merrison, Full Cast & Michael Williams

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon, based on Arthur Conan Doyle's original short stories.

The twelve dramatisations are A Scandal in Bohemia; The Red-Headed League; A Case of Identity; The Boscombe Valley Mystery; The Five Orange Pips; The... Read more

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 16

By: BBC

Narrated by: Barry Cryer, David Mitchell, Graeme Garden, Jac...

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Four more extended episodes from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, specially compiled by producer Jon Naismith

'ISIHAC is still unmissable. It remains the most thrillingly anarchic panel show in any media you care to name' Simon Mayo, Mail on Sunday

‘The funniest comedy quiz show of them all’ Sue Arnold, The Observer

The antidote to panel games... Read more

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 17

By: BBC

Narrated by: Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Harry Hill, Jack De...

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Four more extended episodes from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, specially compiled by producer Jon Naismith

'ISIHAC is still unmissable. It remains the most thrillingly anarchic panel show in any media you care to name' Simon Mayo, Mail on Sunday

‘The funniest comedy quiz show of them all’ Sue Arnold, The Observer

Welcome to the seventeenth... Read more

Mayday

By: Lucy Caldwell

Narrated by: Anthony Boyle, Eileen O'Higgins, Full Cast, Imo...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Nineteen and pregnant in Northern Ireland. What would you do?

Coralie is a nineteen year old student. It's the morning of the 30th April and she has just taken a Mifepristone pill, the first stage of a medical abortion. She has ordered the drugs online - illegally. She, and anyone she might confide in, could face prosecution and jail if her... Read more

The Inspector Chen Mysteries

By: Qiu Xiaolong

Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Dan Li, Daniel York, Full Ca...

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of the crime novels of Qiu Xiaolong, set in Shanghai. Starring Jamie Zubairi as Chief Inspector Chen Cao, an astute young policeman with twin passions for food and poetry.

Through thrilling crime drama, these nine mysteries paint a portrait of modern life in communist China, depicting traditional Shanghai... Read more

The Magus

By: John Fowles

Narrated by: Charles Dance, Full Cast, Hayley Atwell & Tom B...

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate, runs away from his monotonous life to take up a teaching post on the small Greek island of Phraxos. There he meets the enigmatic figure of Maurice Conchis, and slowly gets drawn into a world full of strange encounters and psychological tricks on Conchis's estate at Bourani.

When Conchis introduces... Read more

The Infinite Monkey Cage: The Complete Series 14-17

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Brian Cox & Robin Ince

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Cox and Robin Ince present a witty, irreverent look at the world according to science.

The Infinite Monkey Cage has become one of BBC Radio 4’s most popular science-based programmes. In each episode physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince delve into a particular field of science, with the help of guests from the worlds of science,... Read more

Hut 33: The Complete Series 1-3

By: James Cary

Narrated by: Alex Macqueen, Fergus Craig, Lill Roughley, Oli...

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Set during World War Two, Hut 33 follows the adventures of a team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park as they work tirelessly to break German codes, matching wits with the fabled Enigma Machine. Unfortunately, they hate each other.

Archie is a stroppy Geordie socialist revolutionary, while Professor Charles Gardner is a toffee-nosed snob. In... Read more

Thinking Sideways

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Spike Milligan

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A centenary collection of the best BBC Radio programmes about the legendary Spike Milligan – including brand new documentary Spike Milligan: Inside Out

Named for Spike’s explanation of his sense of humour – ‘I’m Irish – we think sideways’ – this BBC radio anthology, published to celebrate the centenary of his birth, provides unique insight into... Read more

Tales of the City: Series 1 and 2

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Full Cast, Kate Harper & Lydia Wilson

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Lydia Wilson and Kate Harper star in these BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of the first and second novels in Armistead Maupin's acclaimed 'Tales of the City' series.

Set against the 1970s San Fransisco skyline, Maupin's Tales of the City introduces the unconventional tenants of 28 Barbary Lane, the domain of the eccentric, marijuana-growing... Read more

Dinner

By: Moira Buffini

Narrated by: David Hounslow, Harriet Walter, Nicholas Farrel...

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously black satirical comedy about the dinner party from hell.

The fastidious host, Paige, decides to throw a dinner party in honour of her husband Lars, who is celebrating the success of his pop psychology book, Beyond Belief. She carefully plans a surprise menu that will mark the occasion, and anxiously checks with the waiter she has... Read more

Fear of Flying

By: Erica Jong

Narrated by: Full Cast, Julianna Jennings, Kevin Shen & Max ...

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The radio premiere of Erica Jong's uninhibited feminist classic about female sexuality.

Isadora Wing has been married to psycho-analyst Bennett for five years. But she has become restless and yearns for men, for solitude, and for the perfect, guiltless, ‘zipless f**k’.

Having overcome her fear of flying to travel to a conference in Vienna with... Read more

The Pallisers

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Ben Miles, David Troughton, Full Cast & Sophie ...

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping radio saga of political intrigue, love affairs, financial wrangles and murder, based on the books by Anthony Trollope, creator of The Barchester Chronicles

This epic drama follows several generations of the Palliser dynasty, as they navigate the twists and turns of political and high society in Victorian England.

Wealthy aristocrat and... Read more