Art audiobooks

The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story that made Agatha Christie famous, and which was also one of her own favourites. It begins when the wealthy Mrs Farrars is found dead of an apparent overdose, one year after the death of her husband. The villagers of King's Abbot are suspicious, for local rumour has it that she poisoned her husband and was in love with Roger... Read more

Mrs McGinty's Dead

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The gruesome death of Mrs McGinty provokes Superintendent Spence to seek the help of his old ally Hercule Poirot. The victim's young lodger has been found guilty and is due to hang. But Spence is not convinced by the circumstantial evidence which influenced the verdict. So, at considerable personal discomfort, Poirot goes down to the sleepy... Read more

The Way Hollywood Tells It

By: David Bordwell

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today's bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable tradition - one that... Read more

JLS - Abridged

By: JLS

Narrated by: JLS

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With a no.1 album selling over 1.5 million copies, three no. 1 singles, two Brit awards, two MOBO awards, a sell-out UK tour and a no. 1 bestselling book, it has been quite a year for JLS! Download the audiobook and hear their full story so far and discover what life is like as the UK's hottest boy band! In this, the first... Read more

The Unexpected Guest

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & Jeremy Clyde

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A foggy night... a lonely country house... and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look anything but straightforward... First staged at the Duchess Theatre in... Read more

Remembering Kenneth Williams

By: Kenneth Williams

Narrated by: Kenneth Williams

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This compilation brings together wonderful highlights of Kenneth Williams’ career. For more than 30 years, Kenneth Williams kept the nation in stitches with his outrageous gallery of comic creations and an effortlessly brilliant barrage of repartee and innuendo on radio and television. In 'Beyond Our Ken' and 'Round the Horne', Kenneth Williams... Read more

Remembering Kenny Everett

By: Kenny Everett

Narrated by: Kenny Everett & Barry Cryer

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A special compilation of highlights from cuddly Ken’s television and radio shows. Kenny Everett was one of radio’s great innovators, the funniest DJ of our time and a one-off whose madcap comedy burst the boundaries of broadcasting. Introduced and presented by Barry Cryer, this recording features the definitive Kenny Everett: the jokes, the... Read more

The Battle Of Britain

By: BBC

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

First-hand accounts featuring the RAF pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain - one of the chief turning points of World War Two. 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few' - Winston Churchill. The 'Few' were the nearly 3,000 RAF pilots who fought against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, which... Read more

Murder On The Orient Express

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt. One of their glittering number lies dead in his cabin, stabbed a mysterious twelve times. There is no lack of clues for Poirot - but which clue is real and... Read more

The Dressmaker's Doll

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Octavia's triumphant new dress designs are the only thing on her mind - but is it safe to ignore the ominous dressmaker's doll which appears in her workshop? Today's cut-throat fashion industry provides this story's backdrop. Read more

The Case Of Perfect Carer

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Cowley sisters employ a carer to look after the ailing Carmela, Morag appears to suit their needs perfectly. But after a spectacular jewel theft on the night of the Hunt Ball, it appears that the perfect carer might be implicated... Read more

Fresh Air: Just For Laughs

By: Terry Gross

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Terry Gross brings out the best in the greatest minds on the planet—including the funny ones. Drawn from her long-running, award-winning public radio show, this new collection features in-depth interviews with the bright, shining wits of our time. One of the nation’s leading interviewers, Gross is incisive, respectful, and always well-informed.... Read more

The Christmas Companion

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The first new Prairie Home Christmas collection in ten years is a warm and wonderful celebration of storytelling, music, and the holiday spirit. 

It’s Christmas in Lake Wobegon, Christmas at the old radio show, Christmas at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Christmas wherever friends and families gather to rejoice, reminisce, and share the... Read more

NPR Holiday Favorites

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

David Sedaris contributes his now classic “Santaland Diaries,” his account of his experiences playing Santa’s little helper at Macy’s in New York.Susan Stamberg sneaks her mother-in-law’s recipe for cranberry relish onto the air—again. Storyteller Kevin Kling finds an invitation to participate in a production of The Nutcracker too tempting to... Read more

The Pale Horse

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jeremy Clyde, Stephanie Cole, Terenc...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation from the Queen of Crime.

Father Gorman is called to a dingy rooming house to see a woman who, before she dies, confesses a bizarre tale to him. Leaving the house he is followed but, in the fog, a fatal blow is struck. Nine names on a piece of paper found in the dead priest's shoe is recovered. The clue leads... Read more

Good Morning Nantwich - Abridged

By: Phill Jupitus

Narrated by: Phill Jupitus

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ? The opening DJ on the Beeb’s new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio. Disregarding the prescriptive chart-led schedule and showing no fear in the... Read more

Radio 4's History Of Private Life

By: Amanda Vickery

Narrated by: Amanda Vickery & Various

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor Amanda Vickery is one of the most charismatic historians in Britain today. In 'A History of Private Life' she reveals the intimate secrets of life at home, from the Tudor mansion to the modern bedsit. Through letters, diaries and other first-person accounts, we hear the voices of men and women from very different backgrounds telling... Read more

Under Milk Wood

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Full Cast & Richard Burton

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

'To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black...' When Richard Burton breathed the opening words of Under Milk Wood into a microphone, broadcasting history was made. For this 'play for voices' conjures up the intimate dreams and waking lives of the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside village in a... Read more

Under Milk Wood (2003)

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Richard Burton

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Burton's voice has been digitally remastered and seamlessly mixed with an all-Welsh cast to create a magical, fresh visit to the unique but universally recognisable world of Llareggub. Richard Burton's inimitable narration as the Narrator in the BBC's 1963 recording of 'Under Milk Wood' was hugely acclaimed. In this 2003 production,... Read more

Judi Dench & Michael Williams With Great Pleasure

By: Various

Narrated by: Judi Dench & Michael Williams

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose. In this enchanting pair of programmes from 1991 and 1996, Dame Judi Dench and husband Michael Williams shared an eclectic selection of pieces that they loved, admired or simply... Read more

Paul Temple And Steve

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Crawford Logan, Full Cast & Gerda Stevenson

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1938 to 1968, crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular serials. Now the dapper duo return refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves, to investigate the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind in post-war London. Enlisted... Read more

Matt Lucas And The Winner Is...

By: Matt Lucas

Narrated by: Matt Lucas

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Matt Lucas hosts the newest and most prestigious awards ceremony of the year - the perfectly-title 'Lucases'. Including awards for the Lamest Excuse of All-Time, the Lucas for Most Pointless Member of the Royal Family and the Lucas for Greatest Song By A Musical Artist Who Is Otherwise Rubbish. The nominations are provided by the guests, but... Read more

Marching Powder

By: Rusty Young

Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney & Rusty Young

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the twenty-something Australian law graduate travelled to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. What followed took both men by surprise: they formed... Read more

Balanchine Variations

By: Nancy Goldner

Narrated by: Celeste Lawson

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Artistic profile of one of the 20th century's great choreographers. The literature on Balanchine is vast, but it is primarily biographical. Balanchine Variations is the first book to concentrate on the ballets themselves, providing critical analysis and detailed descriptions of what the dancers actually do.Beginning with Apollo (1928),... Read more