Art audiobooks

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

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

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

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Jamie Glover, Ian McDiarmid & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of Wilde's gothic masterpiece. When Dorian Gray gazes upon his portrait, he is struck by his own youth and beauty and makes a wish that they will last forever. Gradually, his simple good nature is corrupted with the help of his hedonistic friend Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian sinks into a life of debauchery and... Read more

Charles Paris: A Reconstructed Corpse

By: Simon Brett & Jeremy Front

Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Full Cast & Suzanne Burden

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Nighy returns as Charles Paris: unsuccessful actor, bad husband and dipsomaniac. Desperately in need of work, having been kicked out of the marital home, Charles jumps at playing a missing property developer in a crime reconstruction programme. But the missing person case soon turns to murder when severed body parts begin to appear. ... Read more

Jailbird Lover (BBC Radio Drama)

By: Various

Narrated by: Charles Dale, Claire Louise Cordwell, Lestyn Jo...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Mid-Wales: and a lonely bachelor avoids personal contact as much as humanly possible, despite the best efforts of his well-meaning but nosey next door neighbours. Gwilym Lloyd whiles away his time, pottering in the garden, learning the harmonica and writing letters to women serving long-term prison sentences in various jails around the world.... Read more

Cary Grant

By: Graham McCann

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For two moviegoing generations, Cary Grant was class—an effortless embodiment of gentlemanly grace and humor. But Cary Grant’s greatest achievement was in creating himself and the irresistible character he became. In this savvy, fascinating portrait, McCann tracks the transformation of a life and looks closely at the sources of Cary Grant’s... Read more

Dropped Names

By: Frank Langella

Narrated by: Frank Langella

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight in a small Mexican village; Elizabeth Taylor devouring homemade pasta and tenderly wrapping him in her pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York City street.Captured... Read more

Modern Dance

By: Janet Anderson

Narrated by: Beth Richmond

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Modern dance was a movement that began at the turn of the 20th century, when American dancers Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, and Ruth St. Denis broke from formal dance traditions with their own personal vision of movement. Soon, their visions evolved through Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman, who would all go on to teach their... Read more

An American Rose

By: Charlotte Jones

Narrated by: Carl Prekopp, Fenella Woolgar, Lisa Eichhorn, L...

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Kennedys were the most famous family in England when Joseph became American Ambassador in London. But daughter Rosemary's behaviour began to cause the family increasing concern. Award winning writer Charlotte Jones' play is inspired by the lives of two of JFK's sisters, 'Rosemary' Kennedy, who died in 2005, but underwent a prefrontal... Read more

Keynes V Hayek

By: Paul Mason

Narrated by: Paul Mason & Various

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views. John Maynard Keynes believed that government spending could create employment and longer term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich Hayek believed that investments have to be based on... Read more

The Bid

By: Matthew Solon

Narrated by: John Sessions

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After five years of planning and an 18-month campaign costing more than £15m, England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup ended in humiliation in front of millions of TV viewers around the world. This thrilling drama tells the behind-the-scenes story of what happened in Zurich in the days leading up to the momentous announcement on 2nd December... Read more

More Kenneth Williams' Stop Messing About

By: Myles Rudge

Narrated by: Hugh Paddick, Joan Sims & Kenneth Williams

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims as they go beyond Round the Horne. Taking over the mantle of Round the Horne, Stop Messing About carried on the comedy tradition, which reunited Kenneth Williams with both Hugh Paddick and Kenneth's Carry On co-star, Joan Sims. These four episodes include such favourites as crusty old judge Sir... Read more

The American Senator

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Anna Maxwell-Martin, Full Cast, Joanna David & ...

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The American Senator By Anthony Trollope. Dramatised by Martyn Wade.
Part One:
Arabella is determined to keep her engagement to John Morton a secret. Perhaps, there is a more exciting and wealthy husband she might be able to catch.
Part Two:
Lord Rufford has kissed Arabella twice but she realises that much more needs to be done to win him and his... Read more

The Ration Book Olympics

By: Clare Balding

Narrated by: Clare Balding & Various

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1948 Olympics were very different from the impressive spectacle that London put on in 2012. Three years after the end of the Second World War, Britain was still gripped by austerity. Rationing was still in force, severe bomb damage was still much in evidence and no new sports facilities could be built. Visiting athletes were put up in... Read more

Occupation

By: Andy Macdonald

Narrated by: Alexander Morton, Brian Ferguson, Sally Reid & ...

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A tense and powerful drama exploring the timely issues of unemployment, ethics and international conflict. A fifty year old factory employee finds his own way to make a stand. With orders still on the books, Kenny Gall refuses to leave the factory he has worked in for more than thirty years. This will have serious implications for the company,... Read more

Do You Like Banana, Comrades?

By: Csaba Szekely

Narrated by: Brian Bowles, Daniel Rabin, Freddy White, Jane ...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

It's difficult being young and in love when your Dad is a high ranking official in Ceausescu's communist machine, your mother weeps all the time and your brother is trying to kill you. This wild and sideways look at life behind the Iron Curtain during Ceausescu's regime is a first play by a young Hungarian writer living in Romania and was... Read more

Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Anna Massey, Full Cast, Steve Hodson & Tom Baker

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the polluted and poverty-ridden Coketown, Louisa and Tom Gradgrind endure a cold and loveless childhood at the hands of their self-satisfied and unimaginative father Thomas. Starved of affection, Louisa is forced into a miserable marriage with the self-made industrialist Josiah Bounderby, thirty years her senior, whilst Tom descends into a... Read more

The Bob Servant Emails: A BBC Radio Dramatisation starring Brian Cox

By: Neil Forsyth

Narrated by: Brian Cox, Felix Dexter, Full Cast, Laura Solon...

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Cox stars as the 63-year-old Servant in these wickedly funny full-cast email exchangesBorn and bred in Dundee, Bob Servant sees himself as the people's champion. Once a cheeseburger magnate and part of what he claims to be 'the largest window cleaning round in Western Europe', he's now retired and feeling a little bored. After winning a... Read more

Akiane - Abridged

By: Akiane Kramarick & Foreli Kramarik

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent.Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic father did not stop four-year-old Akiane Kramarik from finding God. This girl's dreams began a conversation in the home that has eventually brought them all to... Read more

The World of Downton Abbey

By: Jessica Fellowes

Narrated by: Elizabeth McGovern

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A perfect gift for Downton Abbey fans, a lavish look at the real world--both the secret history and the behind-the-scenes drama--of the spellbinding Emmy Award-winning Masterpiece TV series that's now a feature film.

April 1912. The sun is rising behind Downton Abbey, a great and splendid house in a great and splendid park. So secure does it... Read more

Classical Composers

By: Thomas Tapper

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Smith Show Media presents Classical Composers written by Thomas Tapper. These are stories about classical music creators. Read more

Da Vinci's Ghost

By: Toby Lester

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da
Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a
square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeur
of art, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human
spirit, the drawing turns up just about everywhere: in books, on... Read more

Two Ronnies, The Volume 2 (Vintage Beeb)

By: Ronnie Barker & Ronnie Corbett

Narrated by: Ronnie Barker & Ronnie Corbett

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Two Ronnies was one of Britain's most successful comedy sketch shows, and dominated the TV schedules for sixteen years between 1971 and 1987. This second compilation of classics from the much-loved show includes such sketches as 'Mispronounciation'; 'Night, Night; Cheers'; 'Cricket Commentators'; 'Train of Events'; and not forgetting 'The... Read more