Art audiobooks

Self Storage

By: Tom Collinson

Narrated by: Reece Shearsmith, Mark Heap, Rosie Cavaliero & ...

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4 Sitcom by Tom Collinson starring Reece Shearsmith, Mark Heap and Rosie Cavaliero.

In the wake of a marital break-up, Dave finds himself living in the storage unit in which he keeps his belongings. Dave is accompanied by his fellow inhabitant, the borderline psychotic Geoff, and cultured security guard Ron.

In this second series... Read more

Christmas Book At Bedtime

By: Various

Narrated by: Joss Ackland, Judi Dench, Miriam Margolyes, Pat...

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone loves a bedtime story. And here are eight of the best, each with a Christmas theme, written by an array of literature's best-known names: Laurie Lee, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen are just some of the storytellers included in this collection. Amongst those giving voice to these stories are Patricia Routledge, Joss... Read more

Marlowe's Edward The Second (BBC Radio 3 Drama On 3)

By: Christopher Marlowe

Narrated by: Toby Jones & Patrick Kennedy

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's notorious portrait of a weak king in thrall to his passions, who pays the ultimate price for choosing his heart over his political responsibilities. Originally broadcast 13 September 2009 in the ‘Drama on 3’ slot. Edward, preoccupied by the banishment of his lover, Gaveston, barely... Read more

The Windsor Jewels

By: Robin Glendinning

Narrated by: Alan Moore, Amy Clifton, Chris Yapp, Christian ...

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Robin Glendinning's BBC Radio 4 full-cast black comedy telling the story of a real mystery. Originally broadcast in the ‘Saturday Play’ slot on 11 July 2009. In 1946, the Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) and his wife (formerly Wallis Simpson) paid a visit to Britain, hoping to secure a government job for the Duke and a title for the... Read more

And Then There Were None

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Geoffrey Whitehead, John Rowe & Lynd...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten guests travel to an island at the invitation of someone named U.N. Owen. All are strangers, but they have two things in common: they have all been responsible for someone's death, and none will leave the island alive. Over the next two days and nights, each of the guests is killed off in a different manner in keeping with the nursery... Read more

Von Ribbentrop's Watch (Bbc Radio 4 Saturday Play)

By: Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran

Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Harriet Walter, Miriam Margolye...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Originally broadcast in the ‘Saturday Play’ slot on 8 November 2008. Wine shop owner Gerald desperately needs money: his business is failing and the landlord has raised the cost of the lease. When he inherits a watch that used to belong to wartime Nazi Joachim Von Ribbentrop he... Read more

Doctor Who: The Essential Companion

By: Steve Tribe

Narrated by: Alex Price & Various

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

If you enjoyed the Eleventh Doctor’s first series of TV adventures, you’ll love this opportunity to hear again the most exciting, scary, funny and moving moments. What is the new Doctor really like? What’s in store for Amy and Rory when they join him on his travels? Confront the Smilers, the Daleks, the Weeping Angels, the Dream Lord and all the... Read more

Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down - Abridged

By: Jo Brand

Narrated by: Jo Brand

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Stand-Up while Sitting Down Years...

Jo Brand tells the story of how she crawled to fame and fortune, managed to persuade someone to marry her and had some children at an age when she should have been in a bath chair on the seafront. In this second volume of her memoirs, Jo recounts wild times on the comedy circuit, the attempts to tart her... Read more

The War for Late Night

By: Bill Carter

Narrated by: Sean Kenin

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC's calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television.

When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated a train wreck for the ages. It took, in fact, only a... Read more

Simple Times

By: Amy Sedaris

Narrated by: Amy Sedaris

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling craft guide that inspired the hit new TV show, At Home With Amy Sedaris

It's often been said that ugly people craft and attractive people have sex. In Simple Times, Amy Sedaris sets the record straight and delivers a book that will forever change the world of crafting. Demonstrating that crafting is one of life's... Read more

Alistair Cooke's America

By: Alistair Cooke

Narrated by: Peter Marinker

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his classic "personal history" of America, guiding us through centuries of changing life in the USA. Beginning with his own arrival in America as a graduate in the 1930s, Alistair Cooke discusses the explorers who... Read more

Night They Tried To Kidnap The Prime Minister, The (BBC R4)

By: Martin Jameson

Narrated by: Tim McInnerny, Benjamin Askew, Michelle Duncan ...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This full-cast dramatisation by Martin Jameson for BBC Radio 4 is a fictionalised account of the incident in 1964 when a group of students attempted to kidnap the then-Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Scotland. Originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 15 July 2009, this dramatisation stars Tim McInnerny as Sir Alec, Chris Starkie... Read more

Kenneth Williams' Stop Messing About (Classic BBC Radio Comedy)

By: Myles Rudge

Narrated by: Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick & Joan Sims

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Stop Messing About - the first all-nude radio show. Nervous listeners are advised to keep their eyes closed... and it’s forbidden to take photographs.’ Taking over the mantle of 'Round the Horne', 'Stop Messing About' carried on the comedy tradition, which reunited Kenneth Williams with his 'Carry On' co-star Joan Sims and Hugh Paddick. These... Read more

Double Science (BBC Radio 4 Comedy)

By: Ben Willbond & Justin Edwards

Narrated by: Ben Willbond, Full Cast, Justin Edwards & Rebec...

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are all six episodes of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom written by and starring Ben Willbond and Justin Edwards about two incompetent science teachers who work at a college that specialises in drama, and whose world is turned upside down by the arrival of a new boss. Forresters Sixth Form College has a highly successful drama department run by the... Read more

Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, The (BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play)

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Linda Marshall’s BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of L. Frank Baum's children's classic, ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’. Originally broadcast as part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. When a tornado strikes her farmhouse in Kansas, young Dorothy and her dog Toto are lifted to the magical world of Oz, the strange land of the Munchkins. There... Read more

Accomplices

By: Simon Passmore

Narrated by: Claudia Harrison, Stephen Hogan, Lizzy Watts & ...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation is a captivating thriller written by Simon Passmore, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 29 June 2009. What would you be prepared to do to escape the grind of a life going relentlessly downhill? For former City lawyer Alice, the price is getting higher by the minute. Stars Claudia Harrison in... Read more

Nine Days Queen, The BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play)

By: Amanda Whittington

Narrated by: Loo Brealey & Emma Stansfield

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation written by Amanda Whittington, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 23 February 2009. The tumultuous tale of the trial of Lady Jane Grey, proclaimed Queen of England in 1553 at the age of 16, nine days later locked in the Tower and, within a year, dead. ‘Loo Brealey puts in a superb performance’... Read more

Road Wife

By: Eoin McNamee

Narrated by: Stuart Graham & Su-Lin Looi

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation written by Eoin McNamee, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 23 March 2009. A truck driver in Ireland gives a lift to a female Asian hitchhiker but gets more than he bargained for, especially when his truck is stopped by immigration officers and he and his illegal occupant are taken in for... Read more

Tinsel Tales

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Ho ho ho! Here’s what to listen to while driving to the mall, wrapping gifts, entertaining friends, or relaxing in front of a crackling holiday fire.

In Scott Simon’s modern version of the Christmas story, Jesus is born in an abandoned factory near Cleveland and the Three Wise Persons bring Chipotle gift cards. Claudia Sanchez gives a Latin... Read more

The Misunderstanding Of Glencoe

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Paul Smith, Kenny Blyth & Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A full-cast BBC Radio Scotland comedy dramatisation written by Alexander McCall Smith. An Edinburgh couple on holiday in the Highlands discover that centuries-old tensions are still very near the surface. Starring John Buick, Kenny Blyth, Monica Gibb and Paul Young. Read more

Johnners' It's Been A Lot Of Fun - Abridged

By: Brian Johnston

Narrated by: Brian Johnston

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Brian Johnston died in 1994 at the age of 81, the Daily Telegraph described him as ‘the greatest natural broadcaster of them all’. In this delightful reading from his autobiography 'It’s Been a Lot of Fun', Brian recalls his schooldays at Eton and Oxford, his early career in the family coffee business in the City, Hamburg and Brazil, and... Read more

Orley Farm (BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial)

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Full Cast, Samantha Bond & Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel, described as a '... brilliantly choreographed legal thriller' (Mail on Sunday), centres on the pathos of the main character, Lady Mason. Youthful marriage choices, middle-aged marital crisis, love and loss revolve around the legal action and the complex portrayal of Lady Mason, who is both sympathetic and wily. The novel proposes a... Read more

Age Of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Full Cast & Susanne Bertish

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A full-cast dramatisation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a passionate love affair which breaks all the rules of the restrictive high society of 1870s New York. In the exclusive world of upper-class New York, in which attendance at balls and dinner passes for occupation, Newland Archer anticipates his marriage to May... Read more

The Good Soldier Svejk

By: Jaroslav Hasek

Narrated by: Sam Kelly & Adrian Lukis

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Christopher Reason of the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hasek. This tale charts the exploits during the First World War of 'European Forrest Gump', Svejk, in his progress through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian army. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech... Read more