Art audiobooks

The Whitney I Knew

By: BeBe Winans & Tim Willard

Narrated by: BeBe Winans

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the Whitney only family would know... Somewhere outside the glare of the concert spotlights... behind the tawdry entertainment news headlines... beyond the crush of the scandal-seeking paparazzi... lies the truth about Whitney Houston. And few individuals are better qualified to show us that complicated, funny, generous, troubled,... Read more

The Mystery Of The Mystery Of Edwin Drood

By: Frances Fyfield

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' is a tantalising element of the Dickens manuscript archive held by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Along with fellow crime-writer Simon Brett and Dickens scholar Professor Jenny Hartley, Frances Fyfield uses the packed manuscript pages, detailed number plans and early cover designs to try and make sense of... Read more

Twelve Years

By: Alexandra Wood

Narrated by: Brian Hastert & Megan Ketch

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A love story told across the two New York blackouts of 1965 and 1977. Larry and Nancy meet during the first blackout, while the prosperous city enjoys a spontaneous holiday. Twelve years on, the city is very different: rioting and looting accompany the blackout in a time of economic depression, and the couple must fight for their survival in a... Read more

Zurich (The Wire)

By: Pearse Elliott

Narrated by: Conleth Hill

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Best friends Aidan and Paul make a yearly pilgrimage to catch their rock idols AC/DC on their European tour. This year Paul has chosen Zurich - and Aidan soon discovers why. The cast stars Conleth Hill as Paul and Patrick FitzSymons as Aidan, with music by Brendan Ratliff. First broadcast: BBC Radio 3, February 4, 2012. Read more

Caveat Emptor

By: Ken Perenyi

Narrated by: Dan Butler

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of America's greatest art forger! Ten years ago, an FBI investigation was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, renowned experts, and the major auction houses, the... Read more

My Generation

By: Alice Nutter

Narrated by: Jo Hartley

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A family saga covering four decades, My Generation offers a window into the drugs and pop-fuelled protest movement inspired by writer Alice Nutter's own experience of the protest movement (she was part of the band Chumbawamba). With original music by Harry Hamer, My Generation stars Jo Hartley (Waterloo Road; This Is England) as Cath, Jason Done... Read more

A Series Of Psychotic Episodes (Bbc Radio 4 Comedy) Series 2

By: Miriam Elia

Narrated by: Dan Tetsell & Full Cast

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Following a successful run on Radio 7, Miriam Elia's fantastical Sony Radio Academy Award nominated comedy sketch series transfers to Radio 4 for a second series, with new characters and a few familiar faces. Originally broadcast from 29 September 2010 - 20 October 2010, this download offers another chance to step inside the deranged mind of... Read more

Bertrand Russell The First Media Academic? (Archive On 4)

By: Robin Ince

Narrated by: Robin Ince

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest thinkers of the last century. His contributions to the fields of mathematics and philosophy are widely acknowledged as some of the most important of their kind. But he also brought his brand of rationalism and intellect to an audience far beyond the academic and political circles he routinely mixed with.... Read more

Lighthouse

By: Alan Harris

Narrated by: Full Cast, Ifan Huw Dafydd & Paul Rhys

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Lighthouse keepers Howell and Griffith are posted to 6 weeks on the Smalls - a desolate rock 20 miles off the Pembrokeshire coast. But the two men share a past, and because of what happens next, lighthouses would never again have only a crew of two. Based on a true story. Written by Alan Harris, and starring Paul Rhys as Howell and Ifan Huw... Read more

The London Nobody Knows

By: Dan Cruickshank

Narrated by: Dan Cruickshank

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Geoffrey Fletcher's London was not the big landmarks, but rather 'the tawdry, extravagant and eccentric'. He wrote about parts of the city no-one ever had before. This could be an art nouveau pub, a Victorian music hall, a Hawksmoor church or even a public toilet in Holborn in which the attendant kept goldfish in the cisterns. He was drawn to... Read more

Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Sapper's Bulldog Drummond

By: Sapper & Cyril McNeile

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Sapper's thrilling adventures of private detective Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond, as heard on BBC Radio. In these six episodes, the demobbed officer offers his services to any client offering adventure. This leads him into danger and dashing escapades, as he finds himself grappling a gorilla; trying to save the realm... Read more

My Name Is Stephen Luckwell

By: Nick Wood

Narrated by: Full Cast & James Rastall

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen Luckwell is an autistic teenager with an enquiring mind. His teacher, Claire, helps him through the daily activities which present him with enormous challenges, from deciphering phrases such as 'I was miles away' or 'I wouldn't want to be in your shoes', to understanding private jokes and other people's expressions. It's the day of the... Read more

Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Toby Stephens & Full Cast

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolstoy's story of one woman's fate is brought powerfully to life in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens. Anna Karenina enjoys a privileged and aristrocratic lifestyle as the wife of influential government official Alexy Karenin. Yet their ten-year marriage is devoid of tenderness, and when Anna... Read more

The Goon Show Compendium Volume Three: Series 6, Part 1

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers & Spike Milligan

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Immensely popular and hugely influential, the groundbreaking series The Goon Show changed the face of British comedy. Now, for the first time, this box set collection presents the episodes in chronological order as they were scheduled to be broadcast.

This third volume includes: 'The Man Who Won the War', 'The Secret Escritoire', 'The Lost... Read more

Design Like Apple

By: John Edson

Narrated by: John Edson & Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From his earliest days at Apple, Steve Jobs set the standard that all products should be "insanely great." Apple sees design as a tool for creating beautiful experiences that surprise and delight, but also convey a point of view down to the smallest detail—from the tactile feedback of a keyboard to the out-of-the-box experience of an iPhone... Read more

The Natural

By: Joe Klein

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The Natural is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened-to the military, to the economy, to the American people, to the... Read more

Blackadder: The Complete Collected Series

By: Ben Elton & Richard Curtis

Narrated by: Full Cast, Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Rik...

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete soundtracks of all four Blackadder series, plus over three hours of specials and extras

Through the ages of Britain, from the 15th century to the 21st, Edmund Blackadder has meddled his way along the bloodlines, aided by his two imbecilic sidekicks, Lord Percy and Baldrick, and hindered by an assortment of dimwitted aristocrats. With... Read more

Dave Gorman's Pub Olympics

By: Dave Gorman & Dave Scott

Narrated by: Dave Gorman & Guests

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Dave Gorman hosts a one-off, very silly panel show that takes place in a world where the Pub Olympics is far more important than that other Olympics you might have heard about. Contestants Chris Addison, Roisin Conaty, Geoff Lloyd and Seymour Mace compete for gold medals in a series of ridiculous rounds, very loosely based on sports. Usain Bolt... Read more

Quote... Unquote

By: Nigel Rees

Narrated by: Nigel Rees, Various, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, ...

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This exclusive compilation was first published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 'Quote, Unquote'. It takes a fond look a the show in which celebrity guests are quizzed about quotations, famous and obscure, and invited to contribute their own quotes and anecdotes. From identifying Shakespearean dialogue, attributing witty last words and... Read more

People Like Us

By: John Morton

Narrated by: Chris Langham & Full Cast

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Intrepid broadcaster Roy Mallard sets out to give us an insight into the lives of ordinary people in these two episodes form the original BBC Radio 4 series: 'The Headmaster' and 'The Solicitor'. Roy tackles the burning educational issues of the day with comprehensive school headmaster Nigel Peacock, and Nicola and Graham Broadbent are... Read more

Vasily Grossman From The Front Line

By: Vasily Grossman

Narrated by: Elliot Levey

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Vasily Grossman, author of Life and Fate, was transformed by his experiences as a war correspondent. Following the shock invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Grossman volunteered for front line duty. Declared unfit for active service he was assigned to Red Star newspaper as a special correspondent. In these BBC Radio programmes, Elliot... Read more

A Monstrous Vitality

By: Andy Merriman

Narrated by: Full Cast & June Whitfield

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

June Whitfield stars as the indomitable actress Margaret Rutherford in a tale of chimpanzees, Jordanian Princes, an adoring husband and falling in love with a musician 30 years her junior. First broadcast in BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Drama slot. With June Whitfield as Margaret, Ryan McCluskey as Malcolm, Sean Baker as Stringer, Gabrielle Lloyd as... Read more

The Taking Part

By: Tim Franks

Narrated by: Tim Franks

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4 tackles the impending 2012 Olympics by going to the heart of the entire festival and celebrating not just the winning, but the taking part in one of the great contests from Olympic history. Presented by Tim Franks. Read more

David Hockney In His Own Words

By: David Hockney

Narrated by: David Hockney

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

David Hockney has been described as Britain's 'greatest living artist'. In this fascinating collection of archive interviews we hear - in his own words - about his paintings, his schooldays and the attitudes he had while growing up. Hockney discusses the influence that his family had on him, as well as his passion for drawing and his work rate.... Read more