Art audiobooks

Philomel Cottage

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Lizzie McInnerny & Tom Hollander

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When Alex and Terry set up their own e-commerce company in Philomel Cottage, everything looks rosy until money goes missing from Alex's account. Soon she is questioning her partner - and, indeed, the cottage itself. Read more

A Murder Is Announced

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Ian Lavender, Jamie Glover & June Wh...

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30pm. Friends please accept this, the only intimation.' Nestled among the usual notices about dogs for sale and appeals for domestic help, the startling entry in the personal column of the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette has the entire village agog with... Read more

Peril At End House

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot and his good friend Captain Hastings are enjoying a well-deserved break on the Cornish Riviera. Wandering along the terrace of the Hotel Majestic on the first morning of their stay, Poirot literally falls at the feet of a pretty, dark-haired girl and, much to Hastings' delight, insists that she join them for a cocktail. The girl... Read more

Taken At The Flood

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1940s London, Hercule Poirot is cornered by the club bore and learns of a mysterious death - one which sets him off on one of his most intriguing cases. When Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen. Cloade's relatives are desperate to get their hands on his money, and Rosaleen begins... Read more

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & Peter Sallis

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Tyrannical millionaire Simeon Lee has been estranged from most of his family for years. But now, on Christmas Eve, the old man calls them all together once more. Unable to disobey, the children gather uneasily and wonder what their father's intentions are. Does he want to clear up past misunderstandings or cause fresh mischief? Before they can... Read more

A Pocket Full Of Rye

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & June Whitfield

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye grain in his pocket. His death is followed in quick succession by a woman dying while eating bread and honey, and a maid in her garden. Inspector Neele, in charge of investigating the spate of murders, consults with Miss Marple, who has an interesting and surprising theory to offer. She... Read more

One, Two Buckle My Shoe

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, John Moffatt & Philip Jackson

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Poirot has always hated visiting the dentist, but this time his check-up is painless and soon over. As he leaves Mr Morley's surgery, he observes a woman wearing patent leather shoes with large buckles. She catches one of the buckles on the taxi door and wrenches it off, and as Poirot hands it back, he is reminded of the children's rhyme 'One,... Read more

The Witness For Prosecution

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Hywell Bennett, Miriam Margolyes & S...

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major new London theatre show, The Witness for the Prosecution follows the hapless Leonard Vole as he learns he has been accused of murdering a wealthy widow in order to get his hands on the inheritance. His predicament is made even worse when he discovers his wife to be the chief witness against him.The trial proceeds with a number... Read more

The Way Hollywood Tells It

By: David Bordwell

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today's bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable tradition - one that... Read more

JLS - Abridged

By: JLS

Narrated by: JLS

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With a no.1 album selling over 1.5 million copies, three no. 1 singles, two Brit awards, two MOBO awards, a sell-out UK tour and a no. 1 bestselling book, it has been quite a year for JLS! Download the audiobook and hear their full story so far and discover what life is like as the UK's hottest boy band! In this, the first... Read more

The Case Of Perfect Carer

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Cowley sisters employ a carer to look after the ailing Carmela, Morag appears to suit their needs perfectly. But after a spectacular jewel theft on the night of the Hunt Ball, it appears that the perfect carer might be implicated... Read more

The Pale Horse

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jeremy Clyde, Stephanie Cole, Terenc...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation from the Queen of Crime.

Father Gorman is called to a dingy rooming house to see a woman who, before she dies, confesses a bizarre tale to him. Leaving the house he is followed but, in the fog, a fatal blow is struck. Nine names on a piece of paper found in the dead priest's shoe is recovered. The clue leads... Read more

Remembering Kenny Everett

By: Kenny Everett

Narrated by: Kenny Everett & Barry Cryer

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A special compilation of highlights from cuddly Ken’s television and radio shows. Kenny Everett was one of radio’s great innovators, the funniest DJ of our time and a one-off whose madcap comedy burst the boundaries of broadcasting. Introduced and presented by Barry Cryer, this recording features the definitive Kenny Everett: the jokes, the... Read more

Fresh Air: Just For Laughs

By: Terry Gross

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Terry Gross brings out the best in the greatest minds on the planet—including the funny ones. Drawn from her long-running, award-winning public radio show, this new collection features in-depth interviews with the bright, shining wits of our time. One of the nation’s leading interviewers, Gross is incisive, respectful, and always well-informed.... Read more

The Dressmaker's Doll

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Octavia's triumphant new dress designs are the only thing on her mind - but is it safe to ignore the ominous dressmaker's doll which appears in her workshop? Today's cut-throat fashion industry provides this story's backdrop. Read more

Murder On The Orient Express

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt. One of their glittering number lies dead in his cabin, stabbed a mysterious twelve times. There is no lack of clues for Poirot - but which clue is real and... Read more

The Unexpected Guest

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & Jeremy Clyde

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A foggy night... a lonely country house... and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look anything but straightforward... First staged at the Duchess Theatre in... Read more

NPR Holiday Favorites

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

David Sedaris contributes his now classic “Santaland Diaries,” his account of his experiences playing Santa’s little helper at Macy’s in New York.Susan Stamberg sneaks her mother-in-law’s recipe for cranberry relish onto the air—again. Storyteller Kevin Kling finds an invitation to participate in a production of The Nutcracker too tempting to... Read more

The Christmas Companion

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The first new Prairie Home Christmas collection in ten years is a warm and wonderful celebration of storytelling, music, and the holiday spirit. 

It’s Christmas in Lake Wobegon, Christmas at the old radio show, Christmas at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Christmas wherever friends and families gather to rejoice, reminisce, and share the... Read more

The Battle Of Britain

By: BBC

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

First-hand accounts featuring the RAF pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain - one of the chief turning points of World War Two. 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few' - Winston Churchill. The 'Few' were the nearly 3,000 RAF pilots who fought against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, which... Read more

Remembering Kenneth Williams

By: Kenneth Williams

Narrated by: Kenneth Williams

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This compilation brings together wonderful highlights of Kenneth Williams’ career. For more than 30 years, Kenneth Williams kept the nation in stitches with his outrageous gallery of comic creations and an effortlessly brilliant barrage of repartee and innuendo on radio and television. In 'Beyond Our Ken' and 'Round the Horne', Kenneth Williams... Read more

Good Morning Nantwich - Abridged

By: Phill Jupitus

Narrated by: Phill Jupitus

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ? The opening DJ on the Beeb’s new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio. Disregarding the prescriptive chart-led schedule and showing no fear in the... Read more

Under Milk Wood

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Full Cast & Richard Burton

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

'To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black...' When Richard Burton breathed the opening words of Under Milk Wood into a microphone, broadcasting history was made. For this 'play for voices' conjures up the intimate dreams and waking lives of the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside village in a... Read more

Under Milk Wood (2003)

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Richard Burton

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Burton's voice has been digitally remastered and seamlessly mixed with an all-Welsh cast to create a magical, fresh visit to the unique but universally recognisable world of Llareggub. Richard Burton's inimitable narration as the Narrator in the BBC's 1963 recording of 'Under Milk Wood' was hugely acclaimed. In this 2003 production,... Read more