Art audiobooks

Dean and Me - Abridged

By: Jerry Lewis & James Kaplan

Narrated by: Gregory Jbara

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got... Read more

Fresh Air: The Best of Stage and Screen

By: Terry Gross

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations, broadcast nationwide on more than 450 National Public Radio (NPR) stations and in Europe on the World Radio... Read more

As You Like It - Abridged

By: E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakes...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This pastoral is one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, due to its delightful heroine, the wise, witty, and virtuous Rosalind, who complicates her love life by disguising herself as a young man.ACT IScene 1. Orlando, the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys, has been kept “rustically at home” by his older brother, Oliver; he has been denied... Read more

Local Man Moves to the City

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"New York is a hard place to visit, but a pretty good place to live," says Garrison Keillor, and on this humorous and insightful audio collection he explains why. This Grammy Award-nominated collection comprises 10 monologues in which Keillor reflects on New York City life through the eyes of a transplanted Minnesotan. These stories are among... Read more

Alan Bennett Three Plays

By: Alan Bennett

Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Alison Steadman, Eleanor Bron, Fu...

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Clever, funny and poignant, Alan Bennett’s masterful plays are rightly regarded as modern classics. Kafka’s Dick is Bennett’s brilliantly clever comedy drama that examines the relationship between life and art, and asks what was Kafka’s embarrassing little problem... Alison Steadman, Richard Griffiths and Nigel Anthony star in this BBC Radio 4... Read more

Victoria Wood Encore

By: Victoria Wood

Narrated by: Victoria Wood

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Walters, Alan Rickman, Dora Bryan, Jim Broadbent and Celia Imrie, Hugh Lloyd, and many more join Victoria Wood in this positively bloated bumper collection oozing with songs, sketches, and monologues. Read more

I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again 3

By: BBC

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Described by Barry Took as "a kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrases, and innuendo, revolving at breakneck speed and with a complete disregard for logic", I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again pre-dated I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue. It showcased the comic talents of Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, and Bill... Read more

The Wheels On The Bus

By: BBC & Various

Narrated by: Michelle Durler & Robin Fritz

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Sing and rhyme along with these 26 much-loved nursery rhyme songs! Includes: 'The Wheels on the Bus' / 'Down at the Station, Early in the Morning' / 'Row Row Row Your Boat' / 'The Big Ship Sails on the Alley Alley Oh' / 'London Bridge is Falling Down' / 'Jack and Jill' / 'Hickory Dickory Dock' / 'I'm a Little Teapot' / 'Polly Put the Kettle On'... Read more

Victoria Wood

By: Victoria Wood

Narrated by: Victoria Wood

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of classic moments from Victoria Wood’s award-winning BBC TV programme. Here it is - the first collection of assembled highlights from Victoria Wood’s award-winning BBC television show 'Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV'. This release spills forth the likes of Julie Walters, Patricia Routledge, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston and Susie... Read more

Only Fools And Horses 2

By: John Sullivan

Narrated by: David Jason, Full Cast & Nicholas Lyndhurst

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The adventures of Del Boy and Rodney have become part of the nation's consciousness, and for many years record-breaking audiences have followed their hilarious wheeling and dealing on BBC1. Read more

Grumpy Old Men The Secret Diary

By: BBC

Narrated by: Arthur Smith

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

To everything there is a season. A time to be born, a time to die, and a time to get a few things off your chest.The sequel to Grumpy Old Men: The Official Handbook covers a year in the sad and sordid life of a Grumpy Old Man, sorting into dates and seasons the many and manifold bloody irritations which multiply in this perpetual torment that we... Read more

Paul Temple Intervenes

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Bernadette Hodgson, Carl Bernard & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham... Read more

Why Bother?

By: Chris Morris & Peter Cook

Narrated by: Chris Morris & Peter Cook

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

1994 saw one of Peter Cook's most acclaimed performances since his 1960s' heyday. Chris Morris' surreal and inventive questions brought out the very best of eccentric aristocrat Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling - a character whom Cook had carried with him through 'Beyond the Fringe' and 'Not Only... But Also...' to his latter years. These five... Read more

Only Fools And Horses 4

By: John Sullivan

Narrated by: Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Full Cast & Nic...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The episodes included are: 'It’s Only Rock and Roll' - 14 March 1985, 'Sleeping Dogs Lie' - 21 March 1985, 'Watching the Girls Go By' - 28 March 1985 and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' - 5 October 1986. Lovely jubbly! Del, Rodney and the boys are back in another pukka selection of shows. 'It’s Only Rock and Roll' sees Rodney’s aspirations to... Read more

Alan Bennett

By: Alan Bennett

Narrated by: Alan Bennett

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The humorous and moving tale of Miss Shepherd, an eccentric old lady who, by a bizarre series of twists and turns, lived in the author’s garden for many years. Alan Bennett reads his own acclaimed work, recently adapted as a West End smash hit starring Maggie Smith as the eccentric old lady. Read more

Warren Beatty

By: Suzanne Finstad

Narrated by: Suzanne Finstad

Length: 24 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“Whatever you have read or heard about me through articles or gossip, forget it. I am nothing like that Warren Beatty. I am nothing like what you have read.” —Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty guarded his privacy even before he became a movie star, when he burst onto the screen in 1961 as the earnestly handsome all-American boy in Splendor in the... Read more

Symptoms of Withdrawal - Abridged

By: Christopher Kennedy Lawford

Narrated by: Christopher Kennedy Lawford

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

At last, the first memoir from a Kennedy family member—an inspirational, candid, and explosive personal story sure to be one of the most sensational bestsellers of the yearChristopher Kennedy Lawson was born to enormous privilege. But with fame, money, and power came tragedy and heartbreak. In this clear-eyed, sensitive, and compulsively... Read more

Warren Beatty - Abridged

By: Suzanne Finstad

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Whatever you have read or heard about me through articles or gossip, forget it. I am nothing like that Warren Beatty. I am nothing like what you have read.” —Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty guarded his privacy even before he became a movie star, when he burst onto the screen in 1961 as the earnestly handsome all-American boy in Splendor in the... Read more

Leonardo da Vinci - Abridged

By: Richard Muther

Narrated by: Various Artists

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Leonardo da Vinci hat die Universalität des Renaissancegeistes ihren Gipfel erreicht. Nie vorher und nachher hat menschliche Begabung in so erstaunlicher Weise sich über alle Gebiete des Denkens erstreckt. Er war ein Genius, der die Malerei gar nicht als Hauptberuf, sondern als etwas Nebensächliches betrieb, der den Pinsel nur zur Hand nahm,... Read more

Francisco de Goya - Abridged

By: Richard Muther

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Goyas Schaffen klingen alle Melodien seines Zeitalters zu einem wilden Potpourri zusammen. Er war in den Kämpfen der Epoche Mittel- und Brennpunkt. Als Harlekin mit der Schellenkappe folgt er dem Leichenzuge der alten aristokratischen Gesellschaft. Als großer Agitator sucht er ein neues Weltalter vorzubereiten, und als Pessimist, an allem... Read more

Diego Velázquez - Abridged

By: Richard Muther

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Velazquez malte nicht das platt auffallende, sondern das allverbreitete, allgegenwärtige Licht, das Ambiente, die Luft, die zwischen den Dingen wogt. So suggerieren seine Bilder den Eindruck einer Weite und räumlichen Tiefe, wie ihn kein früherer erreichte. Doch die Luft schafft nicht nur den Raum, sie harmonisiert auch die Farben. Bei... Read more

Just Say Yes: Improvising Your Life

By: Patricia Ryan Madson

Narrated by: Bec Kageyama

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Patricia Madson draws on the principles of improvisational theater to approach life with a willingness to pay attention to whatever life presents, and to say yes to the unexpected. Read more

New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

What better way to spend an hour than with some audience-tested and certified Not Bad jokes? Join guest Paula Poundstone, Garrison Keillor, and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion as they share more puns, one-liners, and light bulb jokes than you can shake a rubber chicken at. You get bar jokes, political jokes, Ole and Lena jokes, grade school... Read more

Dear Me - Abridged

By: Peter Ustinov

Narrated by: Peter Ustinov

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

Sir Peter Ustinov's beautifully crafted autobiography is told with exquisite wit and insight. From his birth in April 1921, it spans his extraordinary career as actor, playwright, film star and director, confirming his early belief that he is 'irrevocably betrothed to laughter'. Ustinov's renowned gift for mimicry is... Read more