Art audiobooks

John Arlott's Cricketing Wides, Byes And Slips!

By: Various

Narrated by: John Arlott & Peter Baxter

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The imagery and wit of an incomparable broadcaster is captured here in a unique collection of historic, and humorous, moments from the twentieth century. From the 1940s we hear about Bradman’s last test, from the 50s Compton’s highest Test Score, from the 60s Trueman’s 300th Test wicket and Boycott’s first ton, and then the 70s with Arlott’s... Read more

The Maltese Falcon (BBC Radio Crimes)

By: BBC Audio

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jane Lapotaire, Nickolas Grace, Pete...

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising Private Investigator. Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from. Miss Wonderley asks Sam’s partner, Miles Archer, to... Read more

Dick Barton - Special Agent! (BBC Radio Crimes)

By: Edward J. Mason

Narrated by: Full Cast & Noël Johnson

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Richard Barton, late of the Commandos, made his radio debut on the Light Programme in 1946 and quickly went on to become Britain's most popular hero. For years the nation tuned in to hear the famous signature tune, Devil's Gallop, herald another cliff-hanging adventure for the smooth, crime-busting Barton and his friends Snowey and Jock.... Read more

Business Stripped Bare

By: Sir Richard Branson

Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In his trademark charismatic and honest style, Richard Branson shares the inside track on some of his greatest achievements over forty years in business as well as the lessons he has learned from his setbacks. In Business Stripped Bare he discusses why he took on one of the world's biggest superbrands, how he built Virgin Mobile USA into the... Read more

Even More Pretty Good Jokes

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Even more of a good thing: the latest collection of knee-slappers, toe-tappers, and groaners from A Prairie Home Companion Joke Shows.

Did you hear the one about the paranoid dyslexic? He always thought he was following someone. . . . Why did ancient Romans close down the Coliseum? The lions were eating up the prophets. . . .

Jokes are made for... Read more

NPR Road Trips: National Park Adventures

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Grand Canyon National Park is one of the planet’s Seven Natural Wonders, with 4.4 million visitors each year. Who keeps them safe, fed, and happy? When the wind blows at White Sands National Monument, legend says the centuries-old ghost of a Mexican maiden appears in the shifting sands. In Yosemite National Park, there’s a guy who tracks road... Read more

NPR Road Trips: Roadside Attractions

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Prairie Dog Town in western Kansas. The Elvis Is Alive Museum in Wright City, Missouri. The Velvet Museum (“Velveteria”) in Portland, Oregon. A 13-foot Styrofoam scale model of Stonehenge. The Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, Kansas . . . or is it in Darwin, Minnesota?

Roadside attractions are the staples of the American road trip. Many are... Read more

NPR Road Trips: Postcards from Around the Globe

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Colin Angus and Julie Wafael, who spent two years circumnavigating the globe using their hands and feet. Turn on the radio in Katmandu and hear music from the 70s. Learn how robot jockeys are solving a human rights problem in Dubai. (It has to do with camel races.) Get ready for carnival in Rio. And walk through old Beijing before it’s... Read more

You’re Only as Good as Your Next One

By: Mike Medavoy

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Medavoy is a Hollywood rarity: a studio executive who, though never far from controversy, remained loved and respected through four decades of moviemaking. He helped bring to the screen some of the most acclaimed Oscar-winning films of our time, including Apocalypse Now, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, The Silence of the Lambs,... Read more

I'm Hosting as Fast as I Can!

By: Tom Bergeron

Narrated by: Tom Bergeron

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of John O’Hurley’s It’s Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump and Chelsea Handler’s Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, Daytime Emmy-winner Tom Bergeron—host of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and America’s Funniest Home Videos—offers a series of humorous and inspirational stories on surviving Hollywood, including behind-the-camera... Read more

Vanished Smile

By: R.A. Scotti

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using the latest... Read more

The Speed of Sound

By: Scott Eyman

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the end of an era—it was a turbulent, colorful, and altogether remarkable period, four short years in which America’s most popular industry reinvented itself.Here is the epic story of the transition from silent films to talkies, that moment when movies were totally transformed and the American public cemented its love affair with... Read more

Witness

By: Nick Warburton

Narrated by: Tom Goodman-Hill, Paul Hilton, Peter Firth & Pe...

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Five new plays from the gospel of Luke, by award-winning writer Nick Warburton.

This work presents the Gospel story as you've never heard it before.

Everyone knows the story of Jesus' life, as told in the Gospels – and, perhaps because it is so familiar, we have forgotten what an extraordinary life it was. Through these five plays, the story is... Read more

Weekending With Maggie

By: BBC

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A loyal tribute to 10 glorious years from BBC Radio 4's Week Ending team. From the archives of the legendary satirical radio comedy series Week Ending comes this compilation of satirical and sardonic sketches based on Margaret Thatcher's first 10 years as prime minister.First released on cassette as Ten Years With Maggie, this has now been... Read more

Willo The Wisp (Vintage Beeb)

By: Various

Narrated by: Kenneth Williams

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

12 stories from the BBC TV series, narrated by Kenneth Williams. Featuring Mavis Cruet, the Fat Fairy; Arthur, the Cockney Caterpillar; Evil Edna, the Wicked Witch; Carwash, the Prissy Pussy; and The Moog, the Droopy Dog. Of course, we mustn’t forget ‘the Beast’, who is really Prince Humbert the Handsome, changed into various shapes and sizes... Read more

Thriving as an Artist in the Church

By: Rory Noland

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

• Great for individual or group use• Includes provocative discussion questions and practical action steps• Features four-color art plates and literary quotesIt’s not easy being an Artist in the church.But whatever your passion—music, visual art, drama, dance, writing, technical arts—you can not only survive, but thrive. And the rewards far... Read more

Greek Drama

By: Peter Meineck

Narrated by: Peter Meineck

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The plays of one ancient city 2,500 years ago by just four playwrights have had a profound effect on the development of all subsequent Western drama, not only on the theatrical stage, but on opera, film, television, stand-up comedy, and dance-in fact, most, if not all, of the live arts owe a debt to the theatre of ancient Greece and the city of... Read more

The Clitheroe Kid

By: James Casey & Frank Roscoe

Narrated by: Jimmy Clitheroe

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Four vintage instalments of the classic radio comedy starring Jimmy Clitheroe in 'The Clitheroe Kid'. James Robinson Clitheroe was enormously popular with the public as Jimmy in 'The Clitheroe Kid'. At the height of his popularity, the diminutive Lancastrian comic had regular audiences of over 10 million people and was a radio institution from... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Here's Dicken's Christmas classic of Ebenezer Scrooge and his encounter with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Originally published in 1843,A Christmas Carol has continued to be one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time.
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Laura Solon Talking And Not Talking - Series 2

By: Laura Solon

Narrated by: Laura Solon

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete second BBC Radio 4 series by Perrier Award winner Laura Solon. Laura Solon won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005 with her sensational debut show. She now returns to Radio 4 with a new series of her bittersweet comedy show packed with characters, monologues and sketches from this extraordinary writer and performer.... Read more

Ein zweigleisiges Pferd

By: Käthe Lachmann

Narrated by: Käthe Lachmann

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Käthe Lachmann - ihr Name ist Programm. Und was das bedeutet, zeigt die quirlige Wahlhamburgerin in ihrem furiosen Spaßmarathon "Ein zweigleisiges Pferd". Dabei geht es um alles, was die moderne Frau im 21. Jahrhundert so umtreibt: Politik, Gesellschaft und hintersinnige Albernheiten. Natürlich geht es auch um das Dasein als Single und die... Read more

Reading Magic

By: Mem Fox

Narrated by: Mem Fox

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

We all hope and expect our children will learn to read, but how many of us realize we can get our kids on the road to reading simply by reading aloud to them every day? With passion and humor, Mem Fox explains why reading aloud to young children has such an impact on their ability to read—and on their entire lives. Writing as an ordinary mother... Read more

Quantum Change

By: F. David Peat, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes acting with the very best intentions can lead to disaster. How can you be sure that the good works you do actually have the positive outcome you hope for? F. David Peat has applied the principles of quantum physics to explain why some efforts to implement social change have failed miserably, while others have succeeded beyond anyone’s... Read more

Rethinking Our Past

By: James Loewen

Narrated by: James Loewen

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An esteemed academic for over 20 years, Dr. James W. Loewen also penned the New York Times best-seller Lies My Teacher Told Me. Through this enlightening lecture series, Dr. Loewen roots out many historical inaccuracies that are still taught to children today. Read more