Art audiobooks

The Forgetting Curve

By: Hugh Costello

Narrated by: Andrea Irvine, Annie McCartney, Chris McHallem,...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A tense, white-knuckle ride of a play from BBC Radio 4 in which a rather self-satisfied hero embarks, reluctantly, on a voyage of self-discovery. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 7 January 2009, and repeated on 31 March 2011. As an expert on memory loss, Greg Cooke is asked to invalidate the testimony of an eyewitness in a... Read more

A City Killing

By: Mike Walker

Narrated by: David Tse, Full Cast, Janice Acquah, Nathan Osg...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 drama about three City traders who launch an aggressive new hedge fund, which they then struggle to prevent from complete failure. Tim, Meredith and Harry are three sassy, thirty something traders who, tired of making money for someone else, combine to launch a new hedge fund. But it doesn't take long before they get seriously... Read more

The History Of Titus Groan

By: Mervyn Peake

Narrated by: Carl Prekopp, Full Cast, James Fleet, Miranda R...

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Rhys, Miranda Richardson and Carl Prekopp star in this major six-part BBC Radio Classic Serial based on the writings of Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore.

The life and times of Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Gormenghast - a vast stronghold of crumbling masonry steeped in immemorial ritual and inhabited by an extraordinary cavalcade of characters... Read more

My Name Is Iqbal Masih

By: Bettina Gracias

Narrated by: Bhasker Patel, Chris Pavlo, Gagan Sharma, Inam ...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama about a young Pakistani boy forced into bonded labour in a carpet factory at the age of four, and who became a figurehead for the Bonded Liberation Movement aged eleven. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 25 February 2009, and repeated on 18 January 2011. Despite the valiant efforts of many, there are... Read more

Like An Angel Passing Through My Room

By: Christopher Green

Narrated by: Anna-Frid Lyngstad, Christopher Green & Full Cast

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Summer 2006: Christopher Green meets Frida. He is the after-dinner entertainment. She is a dinner party guest. What starts as a 'I'm your biggest fan' conversation turns into a long chat about the nature of loving someone you've never met. 'Like an Angel Passing Through My Room' is about being a fan. About a real and an imagined intimacy. A... Read more

Jelly Babes

By: Judy Upton

Narrated by: David Seddon, Full Cast, Jane Whittenshaw, Nadi...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Resourceful mum Shanice is persuaded by her next-door neighbour, Evie, to take up the bizarre sport of jelly wrestling to make ends meet in this BBC Radio 4 'Afternon Play'. Becky, AKA 'Azaria The Amazon', shows Shanice the ropes, and she is soon wowing the rowdy stag night audiences with her slams and smackdowns. By night she's bikini clad... Read more

Pouring Poison

By: Lou Ramsden

Narrated by: Alison Pettitt, Dan Hagley, Jonathan Keeble, Ka...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Hazel (Kathryn Hunt) spends her life describing plays for visually impaired people. But when she starts to describe the real world to her new friend Davy (Nicholas Boulton), is she giving an accurate picture of the world around her? She's looking for an escape from the pressures of looking after her disabled mother, but is she looking in the... Read more

The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex

By: Mark Kermode

Narrated by: Mark Kermode

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode showed us the weird world of a film critic's life lived in widescreen. Now, in The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex, he takes us into the belly of the beast to ask: 'What's wrong with modern movies?'

If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a... Read more

The Lottery Ticket

By: Donna Franceschild

Narrated by: John Kazek, Meg Fraser & Nitzan Sharron

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 black comedy about the unlikely friendship between an asylum seeker and a migrant worker, who find a stray lottery ticket and think it may be the answer to all their problems. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 18 February 2009, and repeated on 1 April 2011, 'The Lottery Ticket' was written by BAFTA winner Donna... Read more

The Missing of the Somme

By: Geoff Dyer

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Geoff Dyer has won fans writing about everything from jazz to D. H. Lawrence, from photography to neurotic enlightenment, from Cambodia to Rome. The Missing of the Somme, his remarkable book on the significance of the First World War, is a gem for Dyer fans and history buffs alike. With his characteristic wit and insight, here Dyer weaves a... Read more

The Magnificent Andrea

By: Nigel Planer

Narrated by: Brian Bowles, Jane Wittenshaw, Nigel Planer, Ro...

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

At the heart of this explosive BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama are two morally opposed characters, both in love with the same woman, who has just - tragically - died. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 22 March 2011, The Magnificent Andrea is the first original radio play by Nigel Planer ('The Young Ones', 'Hairspray'), in which two... Read more

Cavity

By: Sean Grundy

Narrated by: Deirdre Mullins, Full Cast, Hayley Doherty, Ing...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A strange but funny BBC Radio 4 'Afternoon Play' about sex, betrayal, the housing market and a love triangle that follows its own surreal logic. Kirsty is having an affair with a married man, Adrian. When his wife, Lucy, returns unexpectedly from a business conference, Kirsty hides in the attic. In a panic, she falls down the back of the attic... Read more

Leverage (BBC Radio 4 The Saturday Play)

By: Simon Passmore

Narrated by: Blake Ritson, Charlie Cox, Claire Foy & Full Cast

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A fast-paced psychological thriller from BBC Radio 4's 'Saturday Play' slot, originally broadcast 26 March 2011. A city banker is found dead in an opulent apartment. At the funeral, his former girlfriend Helen is unexpectedly questioned about when she last saw him. Did he mention computer files, or give her anything as a keepsake? Helen's... Read more

Das Playbook - Abridged

By: Matt Kuhn & Barney Stinson

Narrated by: Philipp Moog

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seit Anbeginn der Menschheit suchen Männer fieberhaft nach einer Antwort auf die drängende Frage "Warum bin ich hier … und nicht im Bett einer heißen Braut?". Die Suche hat endlich ein Ende! Mithilfe des Playbook wird es jedem Kerl gelingen, auf schöne Frauen zuzugehen, ihre wahren Wünsche zu entdecken und diese zu nutzen, um die Mädels... Read more

The Top Gear Story

By: Martin Roach

Narrated by: Jerome Pride

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Reaching a peak in the 1990s thanks to presenter Jeremy Clarkson, the original series then faced the axe in 2001 - but Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman successfully pitched a new format to BBC bosses and Top Gear returned to become the irreverent, funny and often controversial show we now know and love. The addition of co-presenters Richard... Read more

Sleeping with the Enemy

By: Hal Vaughan

Narrated by: Susan Denaker & Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“From this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Chanel.” –André Malraux

Coco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture.

She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets and cut their hair.... Read more

Cate Blanchett: Uncle Vanya

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Australian actors Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh have brought the Anton Chekhov classic Uncle Vanya back to the stage, playing now at Washington's Kennedy Center. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the actors about the challenges of staging the play for a modern audience and why so many Australians seem to be acting these days. Read more

Der Bro Code für unterwegs - Abridged

By: Matt Kuhn & Barney Stinson

Narrated by: Philipp Moog

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Bro Code zum Mitnehmen – für den Bro on the go. Für alle modernen Bros hat Barney Stinson – der beste Bro aller Zeiten und Autor der Bestseller Der Bro Code und Das Playbook – dieses praktische und handliche Nachschlagwerk für unterwegs entwickelt. Mit seinen neuen Regeln und Weisheiten hilft der Bro Code für unterwegs allen Bros, sich in... Read more

Brian Johnston Down Your Way: Favourite People And Places Vol. 2

By: Brian Johnston

Narrated by: Brian Johnston & Guests

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Down Your Way was one of the most popular programmes on BBC Radio from 1946 until 1992. Every week the presenter would visit a different city, town or village in the UK and interview six local people about its history, traditions and customs. Brian Johnston presented the series for fifteen years and for this recording, his son Barry has selected... Read more

Car Talk Classics: The Pinkwater Files

By: Tom Magliozzi & Ray Magliozzi

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The hands-down highlight of many a Car Talk episode, Daniel Pinkwater is responsible for some of the all-time greatest moments of the program’s storied history on public radio. Whether discussing man’s best friend (but worst passenger) or searching for the perfect vehicle for those who are “horizontally challenged,” Pinkwater keeps Tom and Ray... Read more

Haunted

By: Sally Griffiths

Narrated by: Henry Devas, Joanna Monro, Lloyd Thomas, Steffa...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 drama in which professional illusionist, Will Morgan, fronts a TV show in which he exposes spiritualist mediums as frauds. 'Haunted' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 19 January 2011. Hayley Taylor is the spiritualist medium who refuses to back down under illusionist Will's scrutiny - a challenge Will can't walk... Read more

Nick Mohammed In Bits

By: Nick Mohammed

Narrated by: Nick Mohammed

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 series of character pieces showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters in a collection of four one-off comic plays. Originally broadcast 31 August 2010 - 21 September 2010. In 'Witness Statement', there's been a robbery and character comedian Nick Mohammed ('Reggie Perrin', 'Sorry I've Got No Head') dons a... Read more

A Coat, A Hat And A Gun

By: Harriett Gilbert

Narrated by: Harriett Gilbert

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

To tie-in with Radio 4's new versions of the Raymond Chandler classic thrillers aired in February 2011, Harriett Gilbert presents a reappraisal of the life and legacy of the man from Upper Norwood who invented the PI as we know him. 'I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I... Read more

Prenup

By: Peter Jukes

Narrated by: Adeel Akhtar, Christine Kavanagh, Claire Harry,...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 drama looking at the impact on a divorcing couple of recent changes to British prenuptial law. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 21 January 2011. Two academics, British Paul (Sam Dale) and American Amy (Sally Orrock), have married in the US with a prenuptial agreement. They did so because Paul's previous marriage... Read more