Art audiobooks

Titus Andronicus - Abridged

By: Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laur...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The noble Titus returns victorious to Rome, bringing Tamora, queen of the Goths, as his captive. When one of Tamora's sons is condemned to die, she vows revenge, and, aided by the villainous Aaron, she exacts a terrible retribution, inaugurating a grim cycle of rape, murder, and cannibalism. This macabre, often brilliant tragedy comes from the... Read more

Outback Heart

By: Joanne van Os

Narrated by: Joanne van Os

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Joanne van Os was just 22 when she met Rod Ansell. At 23 Rod was already a legend in Australia and around the world, having survived alone for two months without supplies in one of the harshest and most remote parts of northern Australia. To Joanne, Rod was a genuine hero who could do anything, could make anything out of nothing, told the... Read more

Grumpy Old Women The Official Handbook

By: Judith Holder

Narrated by: Alison Steadman

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Move over Grumpy Old Men - it's time for the Grumpy Old Women to have their say in this hilarious guide, read by the narrator of the BBC TV series Alison Steadman. OK, enough is enough. Grumpy Old Men have had their turn at complaining and now the Grumpy Old Women are taking over. It's about time the world knew what struggles and trials they... Read more

The Lee Mack Show

By: Lee Mack

Narrated by: Lee Mack

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Lee Mack, Bafta award-winner and host of BBC One’s ‘They Think It’s All Over’, star of ITV’s ‘The Sketch Show’ and BAFTA Award winner, stars in this hilarious six-part comedy show as heard on BBC Radio 2. Participating in the manic mix of sketches and stand-up are special musical guests Toyah Willcox, Midge Ure, Suggs, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Tom... Read more

Porridge Another Helping

By: BBC Audio & Dick Clement

Narrated by: Fulton Mackay, Richard Beckinsale & Ronnie Barker

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Four more episodes from the classic prison sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker as Fletcher, with Richard Beckinsale and Fulton Mackay in support. Those included here are: 'No Peace For The Wicked' - 14 November 1975 'Poetic Justic' - 25 February 1977 'Rough Justice' - 4 March 1977 'A Test of Character' - 18 March 1977 Read more

Be Creative

By: BBC, Bill Lucas & Guy Claxton

Narrated by: Bill Lucas & Guy Claxton

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Being creative is a state of mind. Techniques may help, though some, like brainstorming, can, surprisingly, do more harm than good. And the climate at work and play matters too. But essentially, creativity is an attitude. We either meet life's challenges with a spirit of adventure, or we keep trying to make it fit old habits that don't work any... Read more

Pam Ayres Live On Stage

By: Pam Ayres

Narrated by: Pam Ayres

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Pam Ayres' stage show has been a sell-out success throughout the world. With her natural warmth and wit she builds up a rapport with the audience that guarantees an evening of fun and laughter. Pam's reflections on daily life bring a chuckle of recognition from people of all ages. Whether she's reminiscing about the spartan conditions on a... Read more

Measure for Measure - Abridged

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

Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, a full cast, Roger Allam &...

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Telling his followers he is leaving the city on affairs of state, the Duke of Vienna appoints the puritanical Angelo to govern in his absence. Will Angelo prove as virtuous as he seems once power is in his hands? Roaming the city disguised as a friar, the duke looks on as Angelo’s lust for the virtuous Isabella sweeps him into the corruption he... Read more

Dusty and Lefty

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Lefty: Haven't you read about the dangers of drinking?



Dusty: I have. And it led me to give up reading.



Like the News from Lake Wobegon and Guy Noir, Private Eye, The Lives of the Cowboys sketch has become a signature part of A Prairie Home Companion. Each week, radio listeners can't wait to hear Lefty's latest poem and Dusty's latest rant.



In six... Read more

It's Only a Show

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It's Only a Show offers the best of the best of Guy Noir, Dusty and Lefty, ads from the show's commercial sponsors, and—of course—the News from Lake Wobegon.



With laughter, stories, songs, and special guests, It's Only a Show has everything fans know and love about A Prairie Home Companion. Read more

Portrait: Joseph Beuys, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Heiner Stachelhaus

Narrated by: Friedrich Küppersbusch

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die neue PORTRAIT-Reihe startet mit "Joseph Beuys". Wer war er? Scharlatan, Guru, Magier, Schamane? Oder ein Künstler, der die Dimensionen herkömmlicher Kunst und Kunstauffassung sprengte? Basierend auf jahrzehntelangen persönlichen Kontakten und Gesprächen mit Angehörigen und Freunden, Anhängern und Gegnern, entwirft Heiner Stachelhaus ein... Read more

The Winter’s Tale - Abridged

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

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

King Leontes of Sicilia is seized by sudden and terrible jealousy of his wife Hermione, whom he accuses of adultery. He believes the child Hermione is bearing was fathered by his friend Polixenes, and when the baby girl is born he orders her to be taken to some wild place and left to die. Though Hermione's child escapes death, Leontes' cruelty... Read more

The Judgment of Paris

By: Ross King

Narrated by: Tristan Layton

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic... Read more

The Judgment of Paris - Abridged

By: Ross King

Narrated by: Tristan Layton

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic... Read more

Broken Bones

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Broken Bones is a double set of double stories. The first set is made up of a story Davis's grandmother told about the time his mother broke her arm - twice! The second story in the first set is about how his little brother's collarbone was broken - twice! It is about how trouble is genetic in families. The second set of stories concerns Davis'... Read more

Irrational Fear

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

We all have our personal phobias and white-knuckle moments. The title story of Irrational Fear tells of Davis's mother's fear of snakes and the way she eventually got even with him for making fun of her. (She always came out on top.) The second story, "The Red Coat", tells why his father and his father's brother-in-law finally stopped playing... Read more

It's All About Cats

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

We all know someone like them: women whose lives revolve around their cats. Here Donald Davis paints verbal portraits of two very different women in his life who shared a fiercely unshakable sense of priorities. It was simply understood that the cats came first, and once you accepted that, everything else made perfect sense. Employing his... Read more

The Bona World Of Julian & Sandy

By: Barry Took

Narrated by: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne & Kenneth Williams

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of 1960s sketches from "Round the Horne" featuring the outrageously camp couple, Julian and Sandy. Oozing with innuendo and double-entendre, they engage on a variety of entrepreneurial endeavours, from Guided Tripettes to the Bona Guest House, Bogmouth. Read more

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

By: Dito Montiel

Narrated by: Jason Collins

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Orlandito “Dito” Montiel grew up wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times Square whore houses, and at times getting near much graver trouble. Entering adulthood in the... Read more

Mahalia Jackson

By: Montrew Dunham

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Halie” Jackson grew up in poverty on the levees of New Orleans, hunting for alligators for food along the Mississippi River with her brother, Peter. But every Sunday young Mahalia sang proudly in the church choir, the youngest member at age five. She left school after eighth grade and worked as a maid to help support her family. However, her... Read more

De Kooning’s Bicycle

By: Robert Long

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Some of the twentieth century’s most important artists and writers—from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Fairfield Porter to Jean Stafford—lived and worked on the East End of Long Island. The home they made there would affect their creative work for years to come. Pollock found there a connection to nature that inspired some of the most... Read more

All Shook Up

By: Carson Holloway

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The national debate over popular music’s effect on character is both furious and confused. Conservatives complain primarily about lyrics, appealing to public decency and safety. Liberals, swift to the defense of any self-expression, simultaneously celebrate rock’s liberating ethos and deny its cultural influence. Carson Holloway is out to... Read more

From Black and White to Living in Color

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

There was a time during Donald Davis's college freshman year when he wasn't really sure if he wanted to claim his hometown of Sulpher Springs, North Carolina. But a boy by the name of Stanley Easter changed his mind. "The year after that," he recalls, "I did go home from college for Thanksgiving. In fact, I had now become so proud of where I was... Read more

Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

Narrated by: Amy Brenneman, Megan Austin Oberle, Kirsten Pot...

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a... Read more