Art audiobooks

Mommy IQ

By: Rosie Pope

Narrated by: Rosie Pope, Rick Adamson, Kathleen McInerney & ...

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Rosie Pope, pregnancy expert, maternity fashion designer, and star of Bravo's hit show Pregnant in Heels offers an all-encompassing guide to pregnancy.What's your Mommy IQ?Every mom-to-be wants a perfect, healthy pregnancy. But as the nine months start to fly by, it's easy for new parents to become overwhelmed and intimidated by the mountains of... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Tom Baker

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Tom Baker reads Charles Dickens' timeless seasonal story.

Charles Dickens' story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future, has become one of the timeless classics of English literature. First published in 1843, it introduces us not only to Scrooge... Read more

Playing With Fire (The Saturday Play)

By: David Edgar

Narrated by: David Troughton, Emma Fielding & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally produced at the National Theatre in 2005, David Edgar's play is set against the background of a riot in the fictional northern town of Wyverdale, in the early part of the 21st century. In a revised version for radio, Edgar offers a powerful combination of political and personal drama. Starring Emma Fielding, David Troughton, Geoffrey... Read more

Waiting For The Boatman

By: Stephen Wakelam

Narrated by: Anton Lesser, David Tennant, Harry Livingstone,...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The painter Mario Minniti has travelled to Naples to seek out his old friend and former mentor Caravaggio. But on arrival, the great painter is nowhere to be found. In a bid to find him, Mario retraces Caravaggio's last known movements. His search reveals a life lived dangerously. Starring David Tennant as Mario Minniti, with Anton Lesser, Peter... Read more

My Journey

By: Jim Stynes

Narrated by: Stanley McGeagh

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In July 2009, Jim Stynes was diagnosed with cancer and given less than a year to live. The diagnosis caught him by surprise – he was 42, healthy, fit – and he didn't have time for illness: he was director of the Reach Foundation, president of Melbourne Football Club, father of two primary school-aged kids, husband of Sam. Knowing his odds... Read more

How To Make Gravy

By: Paul Kelly

Narrated by: Paul Kelly

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller, and here, using his lyrics as starting points, he reads stories of his life and his songs, including 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bounds', 'Don't Start Me Talking', 'Dumb Things', 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' and 'How To Make Gravy'. Mirroring the structure of his legendary A... Read more

The Curtain

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose.”In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera... Read more

NPR Driveway Moments Cat Tales

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

These NPR “driveway moment” stories featuring our feline friends will have you curled up in your seat, purring. Mischievous, mysterious, content, curious, and full of attitude, these stories mirror the personality of these creatures that dwell in our homes and our hearts. Read more

A9

By: Helen Cooper

Narrated by: David Warner, Deborah Findlay, Ewart James Walt...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Article 9 of the Tokyo Judgement at the end of WWII withdrew from the Japanese constitution the state's right of belligerency. Traumatised and guilt ridden for having killed enemy soldiers in war, Bernard has to attempt to coerce his children to continue his life's work, and makes their awaiting inheritance dependent on their abandoning their... Read more

The Meaning Of Love

By: Anna Symon

Narrated by: Aurelie Ambland, Jane Wittenshaw, Jonathan Forb...

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ed finds himself sleeping in the spare room he realises he might have to rediscover exactly what love is. But coming up with the correct definition proves harder than he first imagines. Starring Paul Ritter, Tessa Peake-Jones, Aurelie Ambland, Jonathan Forbes, Peter Polycarpou, and Jane Whittenshaw. Directed by Sally Avens. Read more

Angela Carter's Love Affair With Radio

By: Charlotte Crofts

Narrated by: Charlotte Crofts

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Angela Carter's relationship with radio began with an accidental sound effect. She went on to write two docu-dramas, Come Unto These Yellow Sands (about the Victorian painter Richard Dadd) and A Self-Made Man (about Edwardian novelist Ronald Firbank) and re-worked two of her short stories into radio plays. Carter loved radio's technical... Read more

The Archers

By: Joanna Toye

Narrated by: Stella Gonet

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

For over fifty years, Britain's most popular radio drama has captured the imagination of listeners throughout the country. Ambridge and its residents have been constant companions to millions throughout the highs and lows of five successive decades. Covering the years 1968 to 1986, Joanna Toye's novel follows the fortunes of Dan and Doris's... Read more

The Degner Defection

By: Stephen Evans

Narrated by: Stephen Evans

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years ago a dashing, ultra-talented motorbike racer planned to escape from Communist East Germany at the height of the Cold War. Award-winning presenter Stephen Evans tells how Degner, a hero in his homeland, risked everything including the life of his young family to flee to the west, taking with him groundbreaking technology developed... Read more

Miracles R Us

By: Lesley Bruce

Narrated by: Anna Massey & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Caroline is running Household Solutions on her own from the student rooms she is renting - just leaflets through doors, offering a family back-up service. Then she meets Sylvia, who is sure she could be helpful to the business. Caroline is sure she couldn't. But Sylvia persists and gradually, throughout this BBC Radio series, a mutual respect is... Read more

Man & Superman

By: Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: Full Cast, Judi Dench, Juliet Stevenson & Ralph...

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Man and Superman was the first drama to be broadcast on the BBC's Third Programme on October 1st, 1946. To celebrate Radio 3's 50th anniversary, the play was directed by Sir Peter Hall, and preserved for all time in this lush audio dramatisation. 'A comedy and a philosophy', Man and Superman is based on the Don Juan theme and, using all the... Read more

Dress Code

By: Eve Michaels

Narrated by: Eve Michaels

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Your sweats, PJs and flip-flops are losing you money! Chances are your computer and cellphone are more current than your image. Stop making excuses and learn to look your best!"

Move past your excuses of no time and money and become your own American success story. Do you crave more confidence, respect and power? Want to earn more money? Not... Read more

The Wait Album

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Each week, more than three million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the week’s news. In the popular “Not My Job” segment, a celebrity guest must answer three questions on a topic totally outside his or her area of expertise. The topic seems random but is thoughtfully skewed.
 
Because Henry Winkler... Read more

Picasso

By: Arianna Huffington

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 19 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This landmark biography penetrates the barriers of legend to bring to full and intimate life a man whose burning passions—for painting, women, and ideas—were matched by a compulsion to invent reality in his life no less than in his art. Here is the tragic story of a man who, from his teenage passion for a gypsy boy to the chilling bitterness and... Read more

Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

By: Simon Callow

Narrated by: Simon Callow

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A short biography of Charles Dickens by acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow that offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language in a lively, highly readable account. "It has all the gusto that a popular biography of Dickens—a man who “could do nothing by halves”—should possess. . . . The best biography... Read more

Tom Keith

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Keith had a wonderful ear for sound and beautiful sense of comic timing.
 
 As a schoolboy imitator of birds, livestock, and people being punched in the face, he had natural abilities that pointed to a career in the Live Radio Sound Effects Production Industry. But by the time he graduated from the University of Minnesota in the late ’60s,... Read more

Vincent van Gogh

By: Julius Meier-Graefe

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The lives of many famous artists have been shrouded in mystery and conjecture, but none have been more controversial than the life of Vincent van Gogh.Remembered for his swirling brushstrokes and burning colors, Vincent van Gogh is today one of the best-known painters. Though his career as a painter spanned less than ten years, he produced a... Read more

Reason in Art

By: George Santayana

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In Reason in Art, Santayana explores the social and psychological origins of art. He examines its moral and ideal functions, its lapses into tastelessness, and the distinctive character of music, speech, poetry, and prose. The Spanish-born philosopher sees art as part of the broader human context, concluding that art prepares “the world to... Read more

The Renaissance

By: Walter Pater

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to great acclaim in 1873, Walter Pater's compendium of idiosyncratic, impressionistic essays on the Renaissance gained him a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. Oscar Wilde called it the "holy writ of beauty." It was Pater's cry of "art for art's sake" that became the manifesto for the aesthetic movement. He believed that art... Read more

Life after Television

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this remarkably prescient book, Gilder predicts how television will merge with other technologies and evolve into the telecomputer, a personal computer adapted for video processing and connected by fiberoptic threads to other personal computers around the world. This interactive system will change how we do business, educate our children, and... Read more