Art audiobooks

Bonkers

By: Jennifer Saunders

Narrated by: Jennifer Saunders

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, her characters are household names.

But it's Jennifer herself who has a place in all our hearts. This is her funny, moving and frankly bonkers memoir, filled with laughter,... Read more

Madigan Again

By: Kathleen Madigan

Narrated by: Kathleen Madigan

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Comic Kathleen Madigan delivers new material derived from time spent with her Irish Catholic Midwest family, eating random pills out of her mother's purse, touring Afghanistan, her unparalleled love of John Denver and more. Read more

Standup Comedy

By: Bill Vincent

Narrated by: Vance Elderkin

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

With this Book, Stand-up Comedy (The Secret to Becoming a Successful Comedian!), you will be able to learn the tricks of the trade. Stand-up comedy is a great way to get noticed by others. It is a different kind of comedic adventure. Stand-up comedians get a kick out of performing for a live audience. Read more

In My Shoes

By: Tamara Mellon & William Patrick

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A candid business narrative and memoir from the founder of Jimmy Choo
 
Tamara Mellon made a fortune building Jimmy Choo into a billion-dollar fashion brand. She became the prime minister's trade envoy and was honored by the Queen with the Order of the British Empire—yet it's her personal glamour that keeps her an object of global media... Read more

Strings Attached

By: Joanne Lipman

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney & Eliza Foss

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

THE FINE ART OF TOUGH LOVE.

If you're lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what matters in life. Perhaps it was a coach, or a professor, or a family friend.

For Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, that person was a... Read more

Unlabel

By: Marc Ecko

Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn & Marc Ecko

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“Living proof that you can be a marketing and business whiz and still be a true artist.” —CNBCAs instructive as it is innovative, Unlabel will empower you to channel your creativity, find the courage to defy convention, and summon the confidence to act and compete in any environment.This blueprint will teach you how to grow both creatively and... Read more

Doctor Who

By: Alan Kistler

Narrated by: Alan Kistler

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary, an in-depth look at the world’s longest running and most successful science fiction show“The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.” —Steven SpielbergPremiering the day after the JFK assassination, Doctor Who humbly launched one of the entertainment world’s first super-brands. We begin... Read more

From Scratch

By: Allen Salkin

Narrated by: Julian Fleischer

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Big personalities, high drama—the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of the Food Network, now about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary: the business, media, and cultural juggernaut that changed the way America thinks about food.

In October 1993, a tiny start-up called the Food Network debuted to little notice. Twenty years later, it is in... Read more

Battle For L. A.

By: C. J. Henderson & Lance Roger Axt

Narrated by: Josh Pollock, John Strain & Full Cast

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early morning hours of February 25, 1945, U.S. anti-aircraft artillery opened fire on an unidentified object in the skies above Los Angeles. Over the course of the next three hours, "swarms of planes" were reported as roaming the skies above the city of angels, though in the end the public was told it was a false alarm. Now, Moonstone... Read more

This Is Radio 4 A Celebration

By: BBC

Narrated by: Hugh Dennis

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating celebration of BBC Radio 4 features archive clips from some of the channel's best-loved programmes, including The Archers, Desert Island Discs, Today, Woman's Hour, Weekending, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, The Now Show, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Just a Minute, and many more. Amongst the personalities heard from during... Read more

Cobwebs

By: David Hodgeson

Narrated by: Fiona Clarke, Helen Longworth, Elizabeth Palmer...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychological drama by David Hodgson.
Greg Drake is just getting his life back together after the death of his wife. But then his house is broken into when he is asleep. Nothing is taken, but his peace of mind is destroyed.
Starring Kevin Doyle as Greg, with Fiona Clarke, Helen Longworth, Beth Palmer, Roy Carruthers and Mark Winstanley.
©2013... Read more

Blue Sky Thinking

By: Ben Lewis

Narrated by: Freddy White, Catherine Shepherd, Ben Lewis, Sa...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A psychological thriller about love and identity by Ben Lewis.
Karen's counting down the days to her wedding. But when a scrawny-looking stranger turns up, her happy life begins to fall apart.
Starring Nicola Stapleton as Karen, with Samuel Roukin as Vinnie, Freddy White as Stuart, Catherine Shepherd as Siobhan, Sandra Voe as Jean, and Ben Lewis... Read more

Children's Crusade Memoirs Of A Teenage Radical

By: Philip de Gouveia

Narrated by: Leah Brotherhead, Luke Treadaway, Georgia Groom...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Evie, a phenomenally bright but socially marginalised fifteen year-old, has had it with Western Civilization. Self-educated in the ideas of the Luddites, Mao and T.E. Lawrence, she wants to launch a mission against technology and the damage she believes it has wrought on the human race. She's taken a look at human history and decided it's time... Read more

The Ultimate Foe

By: Pip Baker

Narrated by: Michael Jayston

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Jayston reads this gripping novelisation of a classic Doctor Who adventure, concluding the Trial of a Time Lord story arc.
Snatched out of time and place and brought before the Time Lords of Gallifrey, the Doctor is on trial for his life. While the Doctor asserts that the evidence of the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge,... Read more

Doctor Who At The BBC: Lost Treasures

By: David Darlington

Narrated by: Louise Jameson & Various

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you remember when the Fourth Doctor called in on Pete Murray's Open House? Or when Louise Jameson was menaced by a Dalek on BBC Radio Bristol? Do you remember when June Whitfield auditioned a Dalek? If these things passed you by in the 1970s and 1980s, now's your chance to catch up! Featuring rare recordings from the BBC archives and beyond,... Read more

The Apple Tree

By: Gerda Stevenson

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Maria is an Englishwoman who has fallen in love with her husband Iain's Highland heritage - but there's a shock in store for them when they take a trip home to his mother's island croft. It is Hogmanay, and Iain has just received news of his mother's death. He and Maria set off from Edinburgh to attend the funeral. They drive north in blizzard... Read more

Charity

By: Daniel Jamieson

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When an illegal minicab driver knocks a man off his mobility scooter they begin an unusual and touching relationship that will change both their lives. Read more

The Hobbit - Abridged

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham, Jan Francis &...

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The BBC TV soundtrack of the acclaimed Jackanory multi-voice reading of The Hobbit. Broadcast to mark the 3000th programme of the much-loved children's series Jackanory, The Hobbit was transmitted over two weeks and 10 episodes in 1979. It told the gripping story of Bilbo Baggins and his band of dwarves, who are on a quest for the treasure... Read more

Freaked Out

By: Tom Papa

Narrated by: Tom Papa

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Famously upbeat comedian Tom Papa delivers a stand-up performance that includes his observations on the perils of raising daughters, and more. Executive produced by Rob Zombie. Read more

Becoming Johnny Vegas

By: Johnny Vegas

Narrated by: Johnny Vegas

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

‘My name is Michael Pennington, and I am not a comic character. I’m often mistaken for one though. You might know him by another name. Johnny Vegas.’ From BBC Dickens adaptations to Benidorm and Ideal to the PG Tips ads, Johnny Vegas has become one of Britain's best-loved comic actors. But before he'd ever drunk... Read more

Squeezing the Orange

By: Henry Blofeld

Narrated by: Henry Blofeld

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The quintessentially English cricket commentator, writer, oenophile, bon viveur, collector and national treasure, fondly known as “Blowers”, tells his colourful life story. Born in Norfolk and educated at Eton and Cambridge, Henry Calthorpe Blofeld OBE, nicknamed “Blowers” by the late Brian Johnston, is best known as a... Read more

Lake Wobegon Family Reunion

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Garrison Keillor has been delighting audiences for four decades now with heartfelt, moving, and downright hilarious tales from the shores of Lake Wobegon. Here, for the first time ever, News from Lake Wobegon monologues from the entire history of “the little town on the edge of the prairie” are presented in one collection. From early fan... Read more

Relatively Well

By: Dave Foley

Narrated by: Dave Foley

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Relatively Well follows Dave's journey to survive a world that seems intent on crushing his spirit. Everything's on the table, from the people who don't believe in science, to his misadventures in the romance department. Read more

Slimed!

By: Mathew Klickstein

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An Entertainment Weekly Best Tell-All of 2013!One of Parade Magazine's Best Books About Movies/TV of 2013!The behind the scenes story of the network that shaped a generationSlimed! is the first oral history to chronicle the surprisingly complex, wonderfully nostalgic, and impressively compelling story of Nickelodeon, the first kids’ network.... Read more