Art audiobooks

The Alterer

By: Finlay Welsh

Narrated by: Cal MacAninsh, Finn de Hertog, Liam Brennan & P...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An atmospheric drama set on the east coast of Scotland in 1791. A watchmaker pours all of his skill and knowledge into making a machine that will alter time and create a different universe; one in which he hopes his desperately ill daughter will be returned to him, fully recovered. Starring Cal MacAninch, Liam Brennan, Pauline Knowles and Finn... Read more

In The Family

By: Sean Grundy

Narrated by: Christine Hall, Colin Hoult, Diane Morgan, Jane...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

After ten years, Peter leaves Gillian for Laura. Distraught, Gillian goes round to Peter's parents to be consoled. They take her in - then things go a little weird. Starring Diane Morgan, Colin Hoult, Janine Duvitski, John Henshaw, Zoe Gardner, Zahra Barri, John Biddle, Tony Marshall, Christine Hall and Sean Grundy. Written by Sean Grundy.... Read more

Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Anna Massey, Full Cast, Ken Camp...

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Left penniless by the death of his father, nineteen-year-old Nicholas Nickleby seeks help, along with his mother and sister, from Uncle Ralph Nickleby. The hard-hearted money lender takes an instant dislike to his nephew and gets rid of the boy by securing him a teaching position at Dotheboys Hall, where the evil Wackford Squeers presides.... Read more

Silas Marner (Classic Serial)

By: George Eliot & Richard Cameron

Narrated by: George Costigan & Rebecca Callard

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Outcast from the church, community, and close friends for a crime he did not commit, Silas Marner's trust and faith falls away. A broken, disillusioned man, he builds a new faith, that will never let him down: gold. He weaves his cloths, counts his money, baptises himself with the coins of his new religion. When tragedy strikes again and all his... Read more

Magic

By: Robert Ralley

Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The mysterious art of magic has been a source of wonderment since before the time of Christ. Ranging from the supernatural practices of ‘black’ magic to demonstrations of dazzling illusion, magic has been called on to conjure the evil eye, burn villages to the ground, and slice women in half. From the astrology of the three wise men to David... Read more

The Sound Of Fear

By: Sean Street

Narrated by: Sean Street

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A door creaks, footsteps echo, someone's breathing - and we are terrified. But why? Sean Street investigates the psychology of fear, so potently sensitive to sound. Talking to musicians, writers, film-makers, neuro-scientists and sound researchers, he investigates how sounds trigger fear. He discovers the importance of context, asks whether... Read more

Top of the Rock

By: Warren Littlefield & T. R. Pearson

Narrated by: Bob Balaban

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, ER, Cheers, Law & Order, Will & Grace…Here is the funny, splashy, irresistible insiders’ account of the greatest era in television history -- told by the actors, writers, directors, producers, and the network executives who made it happen…and watched it all fall apart.

Warren Littlefield was the NBC President... Read more

Art of War: Veterans Shred Uniforms

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2007, a returning Iraq war veteran, trying to make sense of his experience, cut up his uniform to make paper from its fibers. Five years later, the Combat Paper Project has found a home in New Jersey. Hoping to reconcile the good and the bad of lives spent at war, four veterans reflect on this therapeutic and artistic outlet. Read more

Girl Walks into a Bar . . .

By: Rachel Dratch

Narrated by: Rachel Dratch

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it-at the age of forty-four. Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After... Read more

My Happy Days in Hollywood

By: Garry Marshall

Narrated by: Garry Marshall

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

With the television hits The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy, and movies like The Flamingo Kid, Beaches, Pretty Woman, and The Princess Diaries under his belt, Garry Marshall was among the most successful writers, directors, and producers in America for more than five decades. His work on the small and big... Read more

Art & Fear

By: David Bayles & Ted Orland

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

What is your art really about? Where is it going? What stands in the way of getting it there?

These are questions that matter, questions that recur at each stage of artistic development—and they are the source for this volume of wonderfully incisive commentary. Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made,... Read more

You Have No Idea

By: Vanessa Williams & Helen Williams

Narrated by: Vanessa Williams & Helen Williams

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly anticipated first book by a widely respected entertainer whose career highlights include The Right Stuff, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, and former Miss AmericaWhen Vanessa Williams was growing up, she had a plan: She’d go to college and major in musical theater; afterward she’d get her MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and then... Read more

Dear Theo

By: Vincent van Gogh

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 21 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Each night, when the hours of painting and drawing were over, Vincent van Gogh put pen to paper and poured out his heart through letters to his beloved brother Theo, his confidant and companion. No thought was too small, no element of his craft too insignificant, no happening too trivial. It was all scrupulously recorded and shared. In these... Read more

Starke Stücke. Johann Sebastian Bach. Brandenburgische Konzerte - Abridged

By: Markus Vanhoefer

Narrated by: Stefan Wilkening, Nico Holonics, Brigitte Hobme...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sommer 1720. Nach einem Kur-Aufenthalt in Karlsbad kehrt der 35-jährige Hofkapellmeister Johann Sebastian Bach mit seinem Dienstherrn, Fürst Leopold, nach Köthen zurück. Groß ist die Vorfreude, seine Familie endlich wieder in die Arme schließen zu können. Doch dann kommt alles anders. Fassungslos steht er am Grab seiner Frau Maria Barbara. Wird... Read more

Torchwood Fallout

By: David Llewellyn

Narrated by: Tom Price

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

When Yasmin finds a jewelled egg in her grandfather's shed, her first thought is to sell it. Unfortunately, the object is no valuable Faberge antique, but a dangerous weapon from another planet. Worse still, the buyer she finds online is a Russian secret agent working for the Committee for Extraterrestrial Research, who promptly swipes it, kills... Read more

What To Do If You're Not Like Everbody Else

By: Andrew Lawrence

Narrated by: Andrew Lawrence

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The second four-part mini-series of short comedic monologues on BBC Radio 4. Written and performed by stand-up comedian Andrew Lawrence, it takes a light-hearted look at various aspects of conventional living and the pressure we feel to conform to social norms and ideals. In these four episodes, all recorded in front of a live audience, Andrew... Read more

Last Of The Summer Wine Volume 1

By: Roy Clarke

Narrated by: Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Compo, Foggy and Clegg wreak havoc in four vintage episodes from the world's longest-running comedy series. Only a man with a ferret down his trousers could love Nora Batty. So lock up your ferrets (and Nora Batty!), here come Yorkshire's hilarious adventurers - three pensioners in four classic capers from the BBC television series which kept... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Douglas Hodge, Full Cast & Geraldine McEwan

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

When orphan Pip meets the escaped convict Magwitch in an overgrown churchyard on the Kent marshes, little does he know that the incident will change his life forever. Some years later, now apprenticed to his blacksmith brother-in-law, Pip falls in love with the beautiful Estella. Her half-crazed and bitter guardian Miss Havisham, however, exerts... Read more

It Ain't Half Hot Mum

By: Jimmy Perry & David Croft

Narrated by: Windsor Davies & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the gang in these four classic BBC TV episodes! Enjoy the exploits of the Royal Artillery Concert Party, a motley troupe of military thespians seconded to India during the Second World War. In 'My Lovely Boy', When RSM Williams realises the love of his life is Parky's mum, he sets about recruiting him for the concert party. In 'The Supremo... Read more

Hinterland

By: Francis Turnly

Narrated by: Catherine Cusack & Frank O'Sullivan

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When Garda officer Detective Sergeant Roisin MacKenna is called to the scene of a murder not far from the border between the North and South of Ireland she soon finds that boundaries, both geographical and moral, become blurred. A body has been found buried in an Irish peat bog, identified as a farmer from Northern Ireland. Roisin is thrust into... Read more

Bad Faith: The Complete Series

By: Peter Jukes

Narrated by: Danny Sapani, Full Cast, Jenny Jules & Lenny Henry

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A series of four plays by about Jake Thorne, a Methodist minister and police chaplain who is battling with his own demons at the same time as trying to resolve the problems of his parishioners.

In the first of the plays, 'Bad Faith', we are introduced to Jake Thorne, a police chaplain. His job is to offer counselling and comfort to officers in... Read more

The Last Free Hours of Charlie Radcliffe

By: Drew Pautz

Narrated by: Ashley Kumar, Chris Jack, Conrad Nelson, Graeme...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

To the outside world Charlie Radcliffe was an esteemed businessman and philanthropist. But Charlie knew that he had swindled billions over decades from his wealthy clients and he knew that one day the game would be up. Now in prison, Charlie tells the story of his last hours of freedom to new inmate Sam. Drew Pautz's drama inspired by the crisis... Read more

Goldfish Girl

By: Peter Souter

Narrated by: Alex Jennings & Juliet Stevenson

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you couldn't remember a single minute of the ten years you'd spent with the love of your life? Joe can remember everything about Ally; Ally remembers nothing about Joe A romantic, sad drama starring Alex Jennings as Joe and Juliet Stevenson as Ally. Directed by Gordon House. Read more

The Falcon And The Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

Narrated by: David Birrell, Gemma Lawrence & Helen Macdonald

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen Macdonald is a falconer and poet. She keeps a goshawk called Mabel. As a child she fell in love with a rare book of intense nature writing, J.A. Baker's The Peregrine, which records a winter watching wild peregrines on the Essex coast. Her new play brings her birds and his together. Baker tramps the bleak coastal marshes scanning the skies... Read more