Art audiobooks

The 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

Baseball 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

Sue 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

Cabin 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

Homage To Catalonia

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Joseph Millton

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

George Orwell's classic account of his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, dramatised for radio by Mike Walker. Produced by Kate McAll.In 1936 Eric and Eileen Blair were making ends meet by running a small village shop in Wallington and growing vegetables. Eric had recently sent 'The Road to Wigan Pier' to Victor Gollancz, hoping it would... 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

Oasis the Truth

By: Tony McCarroll

Narrated by: Stephen Ballantyne

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991, five wannabe Mancunian musicians came together and cracked a spark that was to ignite the explosion which became Oasis. The band went from obscurity to become a global phenomenon in the space of a year, achieving world-wide recognition and selling over 70 million records. What started out as five young lads with a common dream of... Read more

MEA 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

Not Your Ordinary Housewife

By: Nikki Stern

Narrated by: Kate Hood

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

When Nikki Stern left suburban Melbourne for Europe in the early 1980s, little did she know that her life was about to change dramatically. Adopted into a well-connected family and educated at an exclusive school, she fell instantly and hopelessly in love with a charming and charismatic cartoonist in Amsterdam. Paul and Nikki embarked on a... Read more

The 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

Mixed 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

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

NPR 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

Starke Stücke. Bedrich Smetana. Die Moldau - Abridged

By: Leonhard Huber

Narrated by: Stefan Wilkening, Harry Taeschner, Hans-Jürgen ...

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Fluss ist immer da und verändert sich doch ständig. Welche Erinnerungen führen seine Fluten mit sich? Dieses Hörspiel erzählt, wie der Komponist Bedrich Smetana Märchen seiner Heimat in einem berühmten Orchesterwerk zum Klingen bringt. Mit dabei: der Barde Lumir, der verfressene Tanzbär Tanec, gefährliche Rabenmänner, verliebte Nymphen und... Read more

The 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

Car Talk: 25 Years of Lousy Car Advice

By: Tom Magliozzi & Ray 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

Never 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

The 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

Die 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

Derailed (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