Art audiobooks
Hopper
By: Tom Folsom
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
James Dean to Hopper
"I saw what you did today. Today you were great."Jack Nicholson to Hopper
"We're geniuses, you know that?
Isn't it great to be a genius?"The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The... Read more
Jigsaw Series 1
By: BBC
Narrated by: Dan Antopolski, Nat Luurtsema & Tom Craine
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning stand-up comedians Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat Luurtsema combine their talents to piece together six rapid-fire and surreal sketch shows, full of silly, clever, dark sketches. Produced by Colin Anderson. Read more
View audiobookBaseball Forever!
By: Jason Turbow & John Miley
Narrated by: Bob Costas
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
John Miley has compiled the most comprehensive audio account of baseball history in existence—a vast and wildly entertaining assemblage of game tapes from throughout the sport's history. His archive contains classic moments, like the Shot Heard 'round the World, and amazing feats, like Carl Hubbell striking out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie... Read more
View audiobookThe Grapes Of Wrath
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Robert Sheehan, Michelle Fairley & Zubin Varla
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move. Following a violent altercation with some locals, they head back on the road with their dream of a promised land in tatters. And life is set to get much... Read more
View audiobookSue Scott
By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Abridged: No
“She speaks fluent prairie.”—New York Times
Sue Scott has taken her talents from the stage to the airwaves doing “funny voices on the radio” with A Prairie Home Companion since 1992. A vocal talent without compare, at any moment she can be garrulous, gracious, sassy, sinful, prim and proper, worldly and wise.
Sue Scott: Seriously Silly collects... Read more
Nineteen Eighty-Four
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster and the Thought Police uncover each act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that... Read more
View audiobookCabin Pressure: The Complete Series 4
By: John Finnemore
Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast, John Finnemore...
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether it's dealing with a stuffed sheep, an angry princess or a rogue fruit tray, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.
Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN... Read more
The Road Back Home
By: Sid Waddell
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
'I had not lived in the former pit village of Lynemouth since 1961 but the winding road north from Newcastle will always be the same nostalgic highway, each twist charged with vivid memories and powerful emotions...'
So begins a story full of wonderful humour, emotional candour and hardy tales of tough times - a quietly epic family saga set amid... Read more
Crisis
By: Tina Pepler
Narrated by: Clare Corbett & Dan Winter
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Martha's posting to Agok, in South Sudan, gives her the chance to make amends for the mistake that caused her to be sent home from her last posting. As Project Manager, she's in charge of a small team facing an escalating crisis, with more and more refugees arriving across the border from the North, and violence never far under the surface.... Read more
View audiobookMixed Blood
By: Nazrin Choudhury
Narrated by: Shelley Islam
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Nazrin Choudhury's play, which won the Richard Imison Award for the best play by a writer new to radio, tells the story of a young British Asian woman whose life begins to unravel when she's faced with the possibility that her real father may actually be white. When Sharmila finds some letters in her late mother's belongings, she uncovers her... Read more
View audiobookThe Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
By: Washington Irving
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (based on Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old... Read more
View audiobookMEA CULPA
By: Konstantinos Rodis
Narrated by: Konstantinos Rodis, Ioannis Kifonidis, Elena Ag...
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No
What may be hiding behind the closed doors of a house?
What is the true relationship of family members?
How do people face their fellow human beings who have disabilities? What is right and what is wrong?
In the early ' 70, Zoe, looks after her son Stavros who was born with mental retardation in an era without social support and possibilities... Read more
Just a Mo
By: Laila Morse
Narrated by: Annie Aldington
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The reigning queen of Albert Square, Laila Morse shares her incredible story for the first time. This is a book that will shock, humble and inspire. Read more
View audiobookNPR American Chronicles: The Vietnam War
By: NPR
Narrated by: Audie Cornish
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NPR reports on the Vietnam War, from its origins to the major battles, through the Fall of Saigon, to repercussions of the conflict still felt today. Read more
View audiobookThe Inventor and the Tycoon
By: Edward Ball
Narrated by: John H. Mayer
Length: 15 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible... Read more
Charles Paris: An Amateur Corpse
By: Simon Brett & Jeremy Front
Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Full Cast, Geraldine McEwan & Suzan...
Length: 1 hour 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Charles is out of work again, and to make matters worse his mother has come to stay and he's no way of escaping her. So when he's offered some voiceover work by old friend, Hugo, he's delighted to get out of the house. But Hugo's marriage is in trouble: his much younger wife, Ellie, spends all her time at her Amateur Dramatic Group, and Hugo... Read more
View audiobookCar Talk: 25 Years of Lousy Car Advice
By: Ray Magliozzi & Tom Magliozzi
Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1987, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, also known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, made the leap from nursing the motley car population of New England to creating the nationally beloved public radio phenomenon that we all know as Car Talk. The advice may be a little suspect, and the memories in desperate need of a tune-up, but the laughs are... Read more
View audiobookNever Goin' Back
By: Al Roker
Narrated by: Al Roker
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Al Roker’s aha! moment came a decade ago. He was closing in on 350 pounds when he promised his dying father that he wasn’t going to keep living as he was. That led to his decision for a stomach bypass—and his life-changing drop to 190. But fifty of those pounds gradually crept back until he finally devised a plan, stuck to it, and got his life... Read more
View audiobookThe Lady in Gold
By: Anne-Marie O'Connor
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The Lady in Gold, considered an unforgettable masterpiece, one of the twentieth century's most recognizable paintings, made headlines all over the world when Ronald Lauder bought it for $135 million a century after Klimt, the most famous Austrian painter of his time, completed the society portrait.
Anne-Marie O'Connor, writer for the Washington... Read more
Tracey Emin In Her Own Words
By: Tracey Emin
Narrated by: Tracey Emin
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Tracey Emin is an internationally renowned artist. Here she discusses her life and achievements in a series of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archives: Breakfast With Frost, BBC One (first broadcast 7 November 1999); Front Row, BBC Radio 4 (first broadcast 6 Sept 2000, featuring Francine Stock); Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4 (first broadcast 9... Read more
View audiobookDie Ausbilder Schmidt Box - 20 Jahre Ausbilder Schmidt
By: Ausbilder Schmidt
Narrated by: Ausbilder Schmidt
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Hätten doch bloß alle Soldaten dieser Welt so viel Humor wie der Ausbilder Schmidt. Sein Schlachtfeld ist die Bühne, seine Munition treffsichere Pointen und statt Panzer rollen die Lachtränen. Getreu seinem Motto: Der tut nix, der will nur spielen, personifiziert Ausbilder Schmidt die erfolgreichste Ein-Mann-Friedensmission an der sich selbst... Read more
View audiobook55 And Over
By: Peter Souter
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson & Philip Jackson
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Juliet Stevenson and Philip Jackson star in Peter Souter's comedy about love, sex and other foolhardy mistakes made by the modern 50pluser. Peter Souter is multi-award winning writer. His Radio 4 Afternoon Play, Goldfish girl, received both a Sony and a Tinniswood award for Best Drama. He also wrote THAT'S Mine, This is Yours (picked as Play of... Read more
View audiobookDerailed (Complete)
By: Various
Narrated by: Sara Poyzer & Tom Watt
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
George is romantic and great fun but how much does Marie really know about her new partner? After a whirlwind romance and Mediterranean marriage to chirpy cockney George Marie's plans for a cosy Christmas a deux are derailed when he says the band's schedule has changed. Georgeis hurt in the Taunton rail crash when Marie thought he was playing... Read more
View audiobookAs Time Goes By
By: Bob Larbey
Narrated by: Full Cast, Geoffrey Palmer & Judi Dench
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Dame Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer star as old flames Jean Pargetter and Lionel Hardcastle. Their love story was all set for a happy ending in the 1950s when Jean was a student nurse and Lionel, a young army officer. But he was posted abroad and they lost touch. Thirty-eight years later, Lionel has returned to London to publish his... Read more
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