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The Comedy of Errors - Abridged
By: Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Copen, William Shakespear...
Narrated by: a full cast, David Tennant & Brendan Coyle
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Chaos and confusion mount to a crescendo in a wild and fast-paced comedy of mistaken identity, one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.Young Antipholus of Syracuse is searching the world for his identical twin brother, separated from him at birth. With him is his servant Dromio, who lost his twin brother at the same time. The pair arrive in Ephesus... Read more
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Jeeves Joy In The Morning
By: P.G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Full Cast, Michael Hordern & Richard Briers
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Wooster. Steeple Bumphleigh is the sort of picturesque place where you can't throw a brick without hitting a honeysuckled cottage or beaning an apple-cheeked villager. But for Bertie Wooster, it is a place to be avoided, containing not only the... Read more
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Life Interrupted
By: Spalding Gray
Narrated by: Sam Shepard
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Life Interrupted was the monologue that Spalding Gray was working on when he died in the early winter of 2004.
Famous for his often manic and always humorous monologues, Gray was, by the late 1990's, in a happy marriage living in Long Island, doing yoga every day. But his life became unhinged after a devastating car accident in Ireland in 2001,... Read more
Chasing Down the Dawn - Abridged
By: Jewel
Narrated by: Jewel
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: Yes
Welcome to a world set to the ever-changing rhythms of an artist's lifeIn Chasing Down the Dawn, recording artist, actress, and bestselling author jewel opens her intimate journals to create a vivid montage of the people, places, and relationships that colored the life she came from and have marked this past magical, turbulent, and ultimately... Read more
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Desperate Networks - Abridged
By: Bill Carter
Narrated by: Dean Olsher
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life moguls and stars who make it such... Read more
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War And Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Leo McKern, Nicola Pagett ...
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A thirty-five strong cast including Leo McKern as Kutuzov, Simon Russell Beale as Pierre Bezuhov, Emily Mortimer as Natasha Rostov and Gerard Murphy as Andrei Bolkonsky, brings all the passion and turbulence of Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece to the airwaves in this unique BBC Radio 4 dramatisation. 'Nine hours of blood-and-thunder period drama on... Read more
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Titus Andronicus - Abridged
By: Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laur...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The noble Titus returns victorious to Rome, bringing Tamora, queen of the Goths, as his captive. When one of Tamora's sons is condemned to die, she vows revenge, and, aided by the villainous Aaron, she exacts a terrible retribution, inaugurating a grim cycle of rape, murder, and cannibalism. This macabre, often brilliant tragedy comes from the... Read more
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Pericles - Abridged
By: William Shakespeare, Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Cope...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, undergoes a tyrant's fury, storm, and shipwreck. He wins love and suffers loss, but what is lost may also be found. With the ancient poet Gower acting as narrator, we follow the adventures of Pericles from young manhood to maturity. This strange and powerful tale of loss and recovery is the first in the group of romance... Read more
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Car Talk: Doesn't Anyone Screen These Calls?
By: Ray Magliozzi & Tom Magliozzi
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The guys share some of their favorite calls about the world where cars and animals meet. Luckily, it’s not dog-eat-dog, but sometimes it’s horse-eat-steering-wheel.
Tom and Ray Magliozzi are America's foremost auto mechanics. So usually people phone in to their radio show with questions about cars—buying them, driving them, keeping them... Read more
Grumpy Old Women The Official Handbook
By: Judith Holder
Narrated by: Alison Steadman
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Move over Grumpy Old Men - it's time for the Grumpy Old Women to have their say in this hilarious guide, read by the narrator of the BBC TV series Alison Steadman. OK, enough is enough. Grumpy Old Men have had their turn at complaining and now the Grumpy Old Women are taking over. It's about time the world knew what struggles and trials they... Read more
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The Lee Mack Show
By: Lee Mack
Narrated by: Lee Mack
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Lee Mack, Bafta award-winner and host of BBC One’s ‘They Think It’s All Over’, star of ITV’s ‘The Sketch Show’ and BAFTA Award winner, stars in this hilarious six-part comedy show as heard on BBC Radio 2. Participating in the manic mix of sketches and stand-up are special musical guests Toyah Willcox, Midge Ure, Suggs, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Tom... Read more
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Porridge Another Helping
By: Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
Narrated by: Fulton Mackay, Richard Beckinsale & Ronnie Barker
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Four more episodes from the classic prison sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker as Fletcher, with Richard Beckinsale and Fulton Mackay in support. Those included here are: 'No Peace For The Wicked' - 14 November 1975 'Poetic Justic' - 25 February 1977 'Rough Justice' - 4 March 1977 'A Test of Character' - 18 March 1977 Read more
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Pam Ayres Live On Stage
By: Pam Ayres
Narrated by: Pam Ayres
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Pam Ayres' stage show has been a sell-out success throughout the world. With her natural warmth and wit she builds up a rapport with the audience that guarantees an evening of fun and laughter. Pam's reflections on daily life bring a chuckle of recognition from people of all ages. Whether she's reminiscing about the spartan conditions on a... Read more
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Be Creative
By: BBC, Bill Lucas & Guy Claxton
Narrated by: Bill Lucas & Guy Claxton
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Being creative is a state of mind. Techniques may help, though some, like brainstorming, can, surprisingly, do more harm than good. And the climate at work and play matters too. But essentially, creativity is an attitude. We either meet life's challenges with a spirit of adventure, or we keep trying to make it fit old habits that don't work any... Read more
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Measure for Measure - Abridged
By: E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakes...
Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, a full cast, Roger Allam &...
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Telling his followers he is leaving the city on affairs of state, the Duke of Vienna appoints the puritanical Angelo to govern in his absence. Will Angelo prove as virtuous as he seems once power is in his hands? Roaming the city disguised as a friar, the duke looks on as Angelo’s lust for the virtuous Isabella sweeps him into the corruption he... Read more
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Dusty and Lefty
By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Lefty: Haven't you read about the dangers of drinking?
Dusty: I have. And it led me to give up reading.
Like the News from Lake Wobegon and Guy Noir, Private Eye, The Lives of the Cowboys sketch has become a signature part of A Prairie Home Companion. Each week, radio listeners can't wait to hear Lefty's latest poem and Dusty's latest... Read more
It's Only a Show
By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
It's Only a Show offers the best of the best of Guy Noir, Dusty and Lefty, ads from the show's commercial sponsors, and—of course—the News from Lake Wobegon.
With laughter, stories, songs, and special guests, It's Only a Show has everything fans know and love about A Prairie Home Companion. Read more
Portrait: Joseph Beuys, Vol. 1 - Abridged
By: Heiner Stachelhaus
Narrated by: Friedrich Küppersbusch
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Wer war er? Scharlatan, Guru, Magier, Schamane? Oder ein Künstler, der die Dimensionen herkömmlicher Kunst und Kunstauffassung sprengte? Basierend auf jahrzehntelangen persönlichen Kontakten und Gesprächen mit Angehörigen und Freunden, Anhängern und Gegnern, entwirft Heiner Stachelhaus ein einfühlsames und differenziertes Portrait eines... Read more
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The Winter’s Tale - Abridged
By: E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakes...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
King Leontes of Sicilia is seized by sudden and terrible jealousy of his wife Hermione, whom he accuses of adultery. He believes the child Hermione is bearing was fathered by his friend Polixenes, and when the baby girl is born he orders her to be taken to some wild place and left to die. Though Hermione's child escapes death, Leontes' cruelty... Read more
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The Judgment of Paris
By: Ross King
Narrated by: Tristan Layton
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic... Read more
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The Judgment of Paris - Abridged
By: Ross King
Narrated by: Tristan Layton
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic... Read more
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Story - Abridged
By: Robert McKee
Narrated by: Robert McKee
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For more than 15 years, Robert McKee's students have been taking Hollywood's top honors. His “Story Seminar” is the world's ultimate seminar for screenwriters, filmmakers, and novelists. Now, Robert McKee's Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting reveals the award-winning methods of the man universally regarded as... Read more
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It's All About Cats
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
We all know someone like them: women whose lives revolve around their cats. Here Donald Davis paints verbal portraits of two very different women in his life who shared a fiercely unshakable sense of priorities. It was simply understood that the cats came first, and once you accepted that, everything else made perfect sense. Employing his... Read more
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Paul Temple And The Alex Affair
By: Francis Durbridge
Narrated by: Full Cast, Marjorie Westbury & Peter Coke
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
For thirty years the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help... Read more
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