Art audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alonzo Bodden: Tall, Dark and Funny

By: Alonzo Bodden

Narrated by: Alonzo Bodden

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Alonzo touches upon every subject from tsuamis to terrorists, Democrats to desperate housewives, marriage to midgets, and more. Shot at the historic El Portal Theater in Los Angeles, Alonzo brings down the house with hilarious comedy. Read more

Gary Gulman: Boyish Man

By: Gary Gulman

Narrated by: Gary Gulman

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Last Comic Standing alum, Gary Gulman, delivers with his clever wit and handsome boyish charm. Boyish Man features Hanukkah vs. Christmas, all kinds of cookies (and crackers) dating, sex… and everything in between. Read more

Jeff Cesario: You Can Get A Hooker Tomorrow Night

By: Jeff Cesario

Narrated by: Jeff Cesario

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian Jeff Cesario is known for hilarious standup routines that feature everyman-style observations about a variety of subjects ranging from sports to marriage to his Wisconsin upbringing. Read more

Maybe You Never Cry Again - Abridged

By: Bernie Mac

Narrated by: Bernie Mac

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The film, television, and comedy legend tells the hilarious and moving story of how tough love, and a sense of humor made him the man he is todayBy the tender age of five, Bernie Mac had found his calling: making others laugh. He has since become the star and cocreator of Fox’s hit sitcom The Bernie Mac Show; a stand-up legend; and a hit movie... Read more

Aliens In The Mind

By: Robert Holmes

Narrated by: Full Cast, Peter Cushing & Vincent Price

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

On a remote Scottish island, Doctors Curtis Lark and John Cornelius are convinced that the violent death of their friend Dr Hugh Dexter was no accident... Dexter's research notes reveal that he was investigating an island sickness affecting many of the inhabitants, turning them into zombies blindly obeying orders from an unknown source. The... Read more

Murder Must Advertise

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

When copywriter Victor Dean falls to his death on the stairs of Pym's Advertising Agency, no one seems to mind. That is, until Lord Peter joins the firm incognito as Dean's replacement and starts asking questions which lead him into a network of blackmailers, drug pushers and one of the most deadly plots of crime fiction. However, before the... Read more

The Quatermass Memoirs

By: Nigel Kneale

Narrated by: Andrew Keir, Emma Gregory & Zulema Dene

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1950s, the British public was gripped by three adult-oriented BBC science-fiction serials which became the keystone and benchmark for the genre on television. In many ways Professor Bernard Quatermass symbolised an era in which pioneering scientific discoveries encouraged both the hopes and the fears of a nation. Mixing extracts from... Read more

The Comedy of Errors - Abridged

By: Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Copen, William Shakespear...

Narrated by: a full cast, David Tennant & Brendan Coyle

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chaos and confusion mount to a crescendo in a wild and fast-paced comedy of mistaken identity, one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.Young Antipholus of Syracuse is searching the world for his identical twin brother, separated from him at birth. With him is his servant Dromio, who lost his twin brother at the same time. The pair arrive in Ephesus... Read more

Love’s Labor’s Lost - Abridged

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

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A play replete with puns and double-entendres, this is one of Shakespeare’s earliest and most lighthearted.The young king of Navarre and three of his courtiers have vowed to lock themselves away for three years of study and fasting, and to forswear the company of women for this period. No sooner is their vow made than it is tested, however, as... Read more

Jeeves Joy In The Morning

By: P.G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Full Cast, Michael Hordern & Richard Briers

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Wooster. Steeple Bumphleigh is the sort of picturesque place where you can't throw a brick without hitting a honeysuckled cottage or beaning an apple-cheeked villager. But for Bertie Wooster, it is a place to be avoided, containing not only the... Read more

Life Interrupted

By: Spalding Gray

Narrated by: Sam Shepard

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Life Interrupted was the monologue that Spalding Gray was working on when he died in the early winter of 2004.
Famous for his often manic and always humorous monologues, Gray was, by the late 1990's, in a happy marriage living in Long Island, doing yoga every day. But his life became unhinged after a devastating car accident in Ireland in 2001,... Read more

Chasing Down the Dawn - Abridged

By: Jewel

Narrated by: Jewel

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

Welcome to a world set to the ever-changing rhythms of an artist's lifeIn Chasing Down the Dawn, recording artist, actress, and bestselling author jewel opens her intimate journals to create a vivid montage of the people, places, and relationships that colored the life she came from and have marked this past magical, turbulent, and ultimately... Read more

Desperate Networks - Abridged

By: Bill Carter

Narrated by: Dean Olsher

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life moguls and stars who make it such... Read more

War And Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Leo McKern, Nicola Pagett ...

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A thirty-five strong cast including Leo McKern as Kutuzov, Simon Russell Beale as Pierre Bezuhov, Emily Mortimer as Natasha Rostov and Gerard Murphy as Andrei Bolkonsky, brings all the passion and turbulence of Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece to the airwaves in this unique BBC Radio 4 dramatisation. 'Nine hours of blood-and-thunder period drama on... Read more

Mao's Last Dancer: Young Readers' Edition

By: Li Cunxin

Narrated by: Paul English

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

One day, not so very many years ago, a small peasant boy was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. His mother urged him to take this chance of a lifetime. But Li was only eleven years old and he was scared and lonely, pushed away from all that he had ever known and loved. He hated the strict training routines and the strange place... Read more

Pericles - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare, Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Cope...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pericles, Prince of Tyre, undergoes a tyrant's fury, storm, and shipwreck. He wins love and suffers loss, but what is lost may also be found. With the ancient poet Gower acting as narrator, we follow the adventures of Pericles from young manhood to maturity. This strange and powerful tale of loss and recovery is the first in the group of romance... Read more