Art audiobooks

Mad Girl

By: Phil Gladwin

Narrated by: Emma Noakes & Shannon Flynn

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen year old Rose hears voices. Mostly she gets along with them ok, but when her real Dad turns up out of the blue to take her away for the weekend, things get completely out of control. This drama has sprung out of a project that listened to people with mental health issues, and in this case people who hear voices. The project was run by... Read more

Edward Curtis: Portrait of Prolific Photographer

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Backed by Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Curtis set out in 1900 to document the lives of Native Americans. Over the next 30 years, he took more than 40,000 pictures and 10,000 audio recordings. Jeffrey Brown talks to Pulitzer Prize winner Timothy Egan about his new biography about Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher. Read more

Grace

By: Grace Coddington

Narrated by: Grace Coddington

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret were it not for The September Issue, the ... Read more

Still Lolo

By: Lauren Scruggs & Scruggs Family

Narrated by: Eleni Pappageorge

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning and unexpected tale of tragedy, survival, and true beauty. For fashion journalist Lauren (“LoLo”) Scruggs, a short flight to look at Christmas lights turned into a nightmare when she was struck by the plane’s spinning propeller blades. As Lauren was rushed to the hospital, fighting for her life, the world watched in shock and horror.... Read more

Une Vie (Complete Series)

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Full Cast, Aimee Ffion Edwards & Robert Blythe

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. Jeanne de Lamare - a sheltered and naive country aristocrat - leaves her convent education filled with thoughts of love and romance. Lamare marries a smallminded local landowner, and begins to discover how rotten and treacherous adult life is all around her. Jeanne believes that... Read more

Hello Again

By: Simon Elmes

Narrated by: Simon Elmes

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

14 November 2012 marks the ninetieth anniversary of the BBC's first ever broadcast and the beginning of the British love affair with radio. This fascinating book takes as its starting point those early, tentative programmes broadcast from Marconi House on the Strand, and follows the story of those magical radio voices through the years of... Read more

Superman Is Jewish?

By: Harry Brod

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Zeddy Lawrence once said, "It may not be true in all cases, but it's a pretty good rule of thumb. If the word 'man' appears at the end of someone's name you can draw one of two conclusions: a) they're Jewish, as in Goldman, Feldman, or Lipman; or b) they're a superhero, as in Superman, Batman, or Spider-Man."

In Superman Is Jewish? Harry Brod... Read more

Going to Sea in a Sieve

By: Danny Baker

Narrated by: Danny Baker

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The first hilarious volume of comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker's memoir, and now the inspiration for the major BBC series CRADLE TO GRAVE, starring Peter Kay.

'And what was our life like in this noisy, dangerous and polluted industrial pock-mark wedged into one of the capital's toughest neighbourhoods? It was, of... Read more

Archers, The Family Ties 1951-1967

By: Joanna Toye

Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The first fascinating part of Joanna Toye's delightful trilogy about life in Ambridge. Covering the years 1951-1967, Family Ties introduces the main characters: Dan, Doris, Phil, Christine, Jack and Peggy and their children, Walter Gabriel, the Fairbrothers and Tom Forrest. The early years are action-packed: Phil's courtship and marriage to... Read more

Being Human

By: Simon Guerrier

Narrated by: Full Cast & Lenora Crichlow

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Annie has learned quite a bit about her new friend Gemma: she's from Bristol, she used to work in a pharmacy, and she's never forgiven herself for the suicide of her teenage son. She also died ten years ago and doesn't know why she's come back through that door. Perhaps it has something to do with the new road they're building through the... Read more

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

By: Stephen Rebello

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a gripping, behind-the-scenes look inside the classic suspense shocker Psycho—and the creative genius who revolutionized filmmaking.First released in June 1960, Psycho altered the landscape of horror films forever. But just as compelling as the movie itself is the story behind it.Stephen Rebello brings to life the creation of one of... Read more

Sons And Lovers

By: D.H. Lawrence & Michael Butt

Narrated by: Fiona Clarke & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of D. H. Lawrence's classic story about working class love, loss and hardship. Sensitive, intellectual Gertrude Coppard married miner Walter Morel for his rich, ringing laugh and colourful character. But now, years later, she finds there is little behind the bluster and their marriage has become riddled with... Read more

Mark Radcliffe Show

By: Mark Radcliffe

Narrated by: Full Cast & Mark Radcliffe

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

When Radio One chief Matthew Bannister popped into 'A Lite Bite' in Altrincham for his favourite gherkin roll, little did he expect to find the two northern chancers who would bring so much sophistication to his beloved station. For there in the corner, playing a DLT Give Us A Break trivia game, stood Mark Radcliffe and his mate, known not... Read more

The Vicar of Dibley

By: Richard Curtis

Narrated by: Dawn French & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Four classic episodes from the original TV series: Arrival, Songs of Praise, Easter Special and The Christmas Lunch Incident. Welcome to Dibley, a perfect village full of some perfectly peculiar people - including Alice Tinker and her underactive brain, Owen Newitt and his overactive bowels, and Letitia Cropley and her orange cake with Branston... Read more

Europe - The Art Of Austerity

By: Michael Goldfarb

Narrated by: Full Cast & Michael Goldfarb

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Goldfarb looks back to the Europe of the 1930s and asks how artists, writers and film-makers responded to the poverty, mass unemployment and poltical instability of the Great Depression.

Through the work of Bertolt Brecht, George Orwell, Jean Renoir and others, Michael charts the devastating impact of the slump as economic crisis... Read more

The Western Front

By: Richard Holmes

Narrated by: Richard Holmes

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Military historian Richard Holmes turns his attention to the infamous First World War trench line, the Western Front. Of the nine million British and Dominion soldiers who were killed in action in the Great War, most died here. In this thorough examination of the role the Front played in the war, the eminent historian Richard Holmes considers... Read more

Whisky Galore

By: Compton MacKenzie

Narrated by: Stanley Baxter

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Stanley Baxter reads the witty Compton Mackenzie story set in the Scottish Islands. The inhabitants of Great and Little Toddy think they can cope with World War II - but then the whisky runs out. Life becomes intolerable, until fate delivers them a shipwreck with a cargo of whisky. Read more

June Whitfield At The Beeb

By: June Whitfield

Narrated by: June Whitfield, Various & Chris Emmett

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A compilation covering June Whitfield's radio career of over half a century, incorporating comedy series such as Take It From Here, The Navy Lark, Round the Horne, Hancock's Half Hour, The Frankie Howerd Show and The News Huddlines, and appearances as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Read more

Kitchen Round Table - Abridged

By: Marja Samsom

Narrated by: Marja Samsom, Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey ...

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Join us in this exclusive audio program for candid conversations with luminaries in the food world. Kitchen Round Table brings you inside the homes and hearts of Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey, Judith Jones, Betty Fussell, and Deb Perelman. We hear about their earliest food memories and how each slowly made their way into the kitchen and... Read more

Der Bro Code für Eltern - Abridged

By: Matt Kuhn & Barney Stinson

Narrated by: Philipp Moog

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Barney liest den Bro Code für Eltern. Ihr wünscht euch ein Baby oder habt sogar schon eins bekommen? Dann wird euer Dasein von nun an ein Fliegenschiss auf der Leinwand des Lebens sein. Das heißt aber nicht, dass euer Kind genau so ein Lahmarsch werden muss wie ihr selbst. In Der Bro Code für Eltern hilft euch Barney Stinson, einen Namen... Read more

The Guy Under the Sheets

By: Chris Elliott

Narrated by: Chris Elliott

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Because no one will write an unauthorized biography about Emmy-winning actor and comedian Chris Elliott, he has done it himself. Listener, you’re hereby warned that much of this book will be disturbing. The Guy Under the Sheets is a behind-the-scenes memoir so personal, so provocative, that Elliott nearly sued himself to halt publication: the... Read more

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher

By: Timothy Egan

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Edward Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of... Read more

Touchline Tales

By: Des Lynam

Narrated by: Des Lynam

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Four selected episodes from the two BBC Radio 4 series of Touchline Tales. In these programmes, old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew visit some famous sporting venues to enjoy, observe, reminisce, and trade tales. Read more

Celebrating The Royal Albert Hall

By: Charles Hazlewood

Narrated by: Charles Hazlewood

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The Royal Albert Hall has attracted some of the biggest names in showbiz throughout its 140-year history. From rock events to The Proms, Cirque du Soleil to the Chelsea Arts Ball, it has played host to an huge variety of performers. In these two programmes, Charles Hazlewood introduces a montage of artists who have graced the stage of the Hall,... Read more