Art audiobooks

Name Dropping

By: Barnaby Conrad

Narrated by: Barnaby Conrad

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When El Matador opened in 1958, Bennett Cerf called it "the most attractive room in America." Part saloon, part salon, Barnaby Conrad's nightclub was nestled in the heart of San Francisco's cabaret and nightlife district. On any given night, one might find Noël Coward, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, or Tyrone Power... Read more

Lives of the Artists, Vol. 1

By: Giorgio Vasari

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgio Vasari’s original vision of the arts was to see the artist as divinely inspired. This historical work describes the lives of forty-five artists, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, with striking immediacy conveyed through character sketches, anecdotes, and detailed... Read more

Catching the Big Fish

By: David Lynch

Narrated by: David Lynch

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.

Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed... Read more

Digging for the Truth

By: Josh Bernstein

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Digging For the Truth: A Real-Life Adventurer Explores the World's Greatest Ancient Mysteries
Josh Bernstein, host of The History Channel's hit series Digging for The Truth, takes readers beyond the cameras for an even closer look at his adventures through some of the most intriguing, remote, and physically challenging locations on the planet as... Read more

King Richard the Second - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Richard the Second is a poet’s play, full of great speeches and fine writing rather than subtle character drawing and keen insight. Performed by Sir John Gielgud, Jeremy Brett, and a Full Cast. Read more

Essential Vonnegut Interviews

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Kurt Vonnegut

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to... Read more

Walt Disney

By: Neal Gabler

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 33 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney.

Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with... Read more

Walt Disney - Abridged

By: Neal Gabler

Narrated by: Leonardo Leoncavallo

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seven years in the making and meticulously researched, here is the definitive portrait of one of the most important figures in American entertainment and cultural history.
From the young Walt Disney breaking free of a heartland childhood to the visionary whose desire for escape honed an innate sense of what people wanted to see on the screen,... Read more

The Men From Ministry

By: BBC

Narrated by: Deryck Guyler, Richard Murdoch & Wilfrid Hyde-W...

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Here are four episodes of classic comedy from the days when the Civil Service had a sense of humour. The Men from the Ministry were the hilarious radio forerunners of TV's Yes Minister — bungling bureaucrats who bungled for 15 glorious years from 1962 to 1977. Read more

Monty Python's Flying Circus

By: Eric Idle & Michael Palin

Narrated by: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael...

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones star in this innovative and groundbreaking series which includes 19 of their best sketches. From the memorable 'Nudge Nudge Wink Wink' to the celebrated 'Dead Parrot Sketch', there’s also the hairdresser with a fear of hair who really wanted to be a lumberjack... Read more

Lessons in Becoming Myself - Abridged

By: Ellen Burstyn

Narrated by: Ellen Burstyn

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A deeply personal and electrifying memoir by Ellen Burstyn, renowned actress and six-time Academy Award nominee.

By the time Ellen Burstyn arrived in New York to study acting, she'd already worked as a Texas fashion model, a Montreal chorus girl, suffered numerous toxic relationships, and just as many name changes and spiritual paths. Theater... Read more

A Visit to Mark Twain's House

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic performance of Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company was broadcast live from the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford Connecticut.

The Hartford house is where Twain wrote many of his works. The show pays homage to Twain's genius and personality with humor, period music, and a classic Keillor monologue. Guests included Roy Blount,... Read more

John Peel Remembered Margrave Of The Marshes

By: John Peel & Sheila Ravenscroft

Narrated by: Carolyn Pickles & Michael Angelis

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Includes the BBC Radio 4 serialisation of ‘Margrave of the Marshes’, John Peel’s part-written autobiography completed by his wife, Sheila Ravenscroft and read by Michael Angelis and Carolyn Pickles. John Peel was one such, whose contribution to British culture is undeniable. His 40-year career on Radio 1 and Radio 4 reached a huge and diverse... Read more

Paul Temple And The Sullivan Mystery

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Crawford Logan, Full Cast & Gerda Stevenson

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In a thrilling case that takes Paul and Steve to exotic Egypt, Paul Temple is called in to investigate a mysterious murder. The twisting trail takes them from London to the back streets and nightclubs of Cairo... From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one... Read more

Portrait: Marlene Dietrich, Vol. 04 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Helga Bemmann

Narrated by: Lo Malinke

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wie nur wenige andere hat Marlene Dietrich das Gesicht des 20. Jahrhunderts mitgeprägt: als Lola in Sternbergs "Der blaue Engel", als Frenchy in "Der große Bluff" und als "Zeugin der Anklage". Mit Anfang 50 startete sie eine zweite internationale Karriere - als Diseuse. Einfühlsam folgt Helga Bemmann dem Lebensweg der großen Schauspielerin und... Read more

Car Talk: The Greatest Stories Ever Told

By: Ray Magliozzi & Tom Magliozzi

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

You decide to waste another perfectly good hour getting bogus car advice from the Car Talk guys when what should happen but some remark from the caller launches either Tom or Ray off topic and onto a story about The Sleek Black Beauty, their most recent wife, or their days at MIT. Read more

Enchantment

By: Donald Spoto

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

While her name is synonymous with elegance, style and grace, this poignant, funny and deeply moving biography, reveals the private Audrey Hepburn and invites readers to fall in love with her all over again.  

Over the course of her extraordinary life and career, Audrey captured hearts around the world and created a public image that stands as... Read more

Chelsea Dreaming

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A quizzical look at the life and legend of celebrated poet Dylan Thomas, through the critical eyes of the infamous Chelsea Hotel. In Room 206 of the Chelsea Hotel in New York, Dylan Thomas went into the coma that led to his death. On this particular night, listening to its own ghosts and memories, the Chelsea hotel encounters Dylan Thomas.... Read more

Dylan Thomas At The BBC

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Dylan Thomas

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Dylan Thomas is one of the 20th century's most celebrated poets. His rich rhetoric created poems of magical imagery, and nowhere is language more rich and fantastic than in his best-known work, 'Under Milk Wood'. He was also a popular radio entertainer and the BBC Archives contain a wealth of material featuring Dylan Thomas - not only readings... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion 10th Anniversary

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This tenth anniversary show—recorded July sixth-seventh, 1984—is considered a must-have by long time fans of A Prairie Home Companion.

Guests include Greg Brown; the Butch Thompson Trio; the Dale Warland Singers; Lieberman, Fogel and Bey; Sue Shepard; Stoney Lonesome; and Vern Sutton. Read more

John Betjeman A First Class Collection

By: John Betjeman

Narrated by: Andrew Motion, Derek Jacobi, John Betjeman, Mir...

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir John Betjeman’s unique relationship with the BBC left a lasting legacy of poetry, readings and performances. A First Class Collection features a selection of some of his most memorable and best-loved poetry. Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates and over a hundred years after his birth he continues to attract acclaim... Read more

The Wizard Of Oz

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Full Cast, Maureen Lipman & Patrick Barlow

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Maureen Lipman and Patrick Barlow star in a full-cast dramatisation of the classic children's tale. When Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are whisked away from Kansas by a cyclone, they arrive in the strange land of the Munchkins. Setting off on a magical journey, they are befriended by the Tinman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion, all of whom join... Read more

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: David Bamber, Full Cast, Roy Hudd & Sarah-Jane ...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Roy Hudd, Sarah-Jane Holm and David Bamber. When Alice sees the White Rabbit run by, it occurs to her that she’s never seen a rabbit with a watch before. Burning with curiosity, she jumps up and follows him into a rabbit-hole. Then she falls down a long way. Down into the world of the Mad Hatter... Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Buster Merryfield, Full Cast, Iain Cuthbertson ...

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Shepherd and Iain Cuthbertson star in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic swashbuckling tale. Having outwitted a band of pirates to obtain a map disclosing the whereabouts of Captain Flint's treasure, Young Jim sets sail for Treasure Island. But the crew of the Hispaniola are not what they seem. Revealing themselves as... Read more