Classics audiobooks

The Lovely Lady

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Lovely Lady' is a fine observation of a life - the lovely lady of the title - which thrives by sucking the life out of others. The two victims escape by a somewhat melodramatic and comical means but in the process destroy the lovely lady and form what will probably be a dull and passionless union. Read more

None of That

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

'None of That' concerns itself with the nature of desire. The man in the story is no more than an animal with base instincts but is attractive to women. The woman looks for something deeper, with imagination but in the end is brought down by the more instinctive man. Lawrence again seems to be saying that a woman cannot exist beyond the... Read more

In Love

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

‘In Love’ handles a serious subject in a light, almost comic way. A couple are engaged but have no sexual feelings for each other. The tensions, as they try to do what is expected of them, explode until a compromise is reached. But will the marriage last? Read more

Mercury

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Lawrence uses the story of a storm and the deaths it causes to revive the feelings for (if not an actual belief in) the old gods, in this case Mercury whose shrine is ignored by the tourists but who takes his revenge. Read more

Persuasion

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Anais Bee

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Le dernier roman de plus connues des autrices anglaises, qui a inspiré la nouvelle série Netflix avec Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding et Cosmo Jarvis.Anne Elliot est la deuxième fille de Sir Walter Elliot et le membre le plus sensée de sa famille. À 19 ans, Anne est convaincue qu'il lui vaut mieux rejeter la demande en mariage du jeune homme... Read more

История семи бедных путников

By: Чарльз Диккенс

Narrated by: Николай Орловский

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Чарльза Диккенса, который в 1843 году опубликовал «Рождественскую песнь в прозе» о старом мрачном скряге Эбинейзере Скрудже, принято считать основателем жанра рождественского рассказа в масштабах всемирной литературы. У традиционного рождественского (или святочного) рассказа светлый и радостный финал, а добро неизменно торжествует. Так и Скрудж,... Read more

Paiute Passage (Stonecroft Saga Book 11)

By: B.N. Rundell

Narrated by: Scott Miller

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

BLOOD WOULD BE SPILT, LIVES CHANGED AND DECISIONS MADE.When the Salish War Leader, Spotted Eagle appeared in the clearing before their cabin, life-long friends Gabe and Ezra weren’t sure what to think. This man had shown himself to be their friend, and now he invited them to join him and the village on a buffalo hunt. With winter just around the... Read more

Things

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

'Things' takes a cutting look at two 'idealistic' young Americans who travel Europe in an attempt to give their spoiled lives some meaning and in the end settle for suburban America, surrounded by their possessions, their 'things'. Read more

The Blue Moccasins

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Blue Moccasins' has the charm of looking at some eternal human problems such as unequal marriage, the waning of sexual desire and a woman who cannot give herself wholly to her husband in a thoroughly English and local setting; the stage of an amateur dramatic society where all the passions and delusions come to a head. Read more

Smile

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Smile’ is one of Lawrence's shorter pieces, a thumbnail sketch of an idea. A man is relieved that his wife is dead and struggles to hide his relief when confronted with his wife's body. The relief breaks out in a smile which he struggles to excuse. How much better it would have been, Lawrence seems to be saying, if he had just laughed out loud! Read more

The Border Line

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Border Line' is unusual in that Lawrence dabbles in the supernatural (as he was to do again in 'The Rocking-Horse Winner' two years later) and that this is less a story in the traditional sense and more an exploration of the mind of a particular woman, based on his own wife, Frieda. Katherine, in the story, realises that her real love was... Read more

The Flying Fish

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Flying Fish' is unfinished but tells the story of an Englishman, Gethin Day, returning home after years in South America. There is a hint of the home-sickness Lawrence may have felt during his long exile. The bulk of the story is the time spent on the ship which is taking Day back to England. It is a ship of fools, a 'plague ship' and the... Read more

Sun

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

'Sun' is a sensual story of a woman rediscovering her sexuality through the power of the sun. But for the unexpected arrival of her businessman husband she was ready to give herself to a local peasant but is finally pulled back to respectability by her husband. But she is free to remain apart from him in the sun. Read more

Die Träume im Hexenhaus (Ungekürzt)

By: H. P. Lovecraft & Saskia Gehrmann

Narrated by: Tim Schmidt

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In der von der Hexe Keziah Mason heimgesuchten Stadt Arkham ist Walter Gilman kurz davor, die Dimension von Raum und Zeit zu durchbrechen. Doch geschieht dies alles nur in seinen Träumen oder ist es Wirklichkeit? Read more

Pamiętnik małżeński

By: Grzegorz Walczak

Narrated by: Maciej Motylski

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Małżeństwo z kilkuletnim stażem, w którym fajerwerki już dawno wygasły. Żona próbuje odzyskać uwagę męża, ten jednak jest emocjonalnie niedostępny, pochłonięty fantazjami o innym życiu pełnym przygód i doznań. Każdy kolejny dzień spędzają obok siebie, prowadząc wewnętrzną wojnę, ale nie potrafią zdobyć się na otwartą rozmowę. - Read more

Glad Ghosts

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Glad Ghosts’ is another of Lawrence's supernatural stories, set in the archetypical country house. He doesn't attempt to explain the supernatural happenings which occur but uses them to extol his own ideas of the power of the sex drive and the triumph of life over death. Read more

Bitterroot Badlands (Stonecroft Saga Book 10)

By: B.N. Rundell

Narrated by: Scott Miller

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

LUST, HATRED, GREED, AND VENGEANCE ALL COMBINE TO MAKE THIS JOURNEY ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS AND DEADLIEST OF THEM ALL.They had rescued a young Nez Percé warrior from the warring Blackfoot and were bound on a journey to take him home to his people. The vast land of the Bitterroot Mountains and the badlands that lay at their feet held more... Read more

Jimmy and the Desperate Woman

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

'Jimmy and the Desperate Woman' tells the improbable story of an intellectual editor persuading a working woman to live with him. We would say now 'on the rebound' from a failed marriage but Lawrence crosses the class divide and poses questions about what makes us attracted to other people. The intellectual twists and turns of the magazine... Read more

The Last Laugh

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The Last Laugh’ is another of Lawrence's supernatural stories, set in a dreamlike snowy London. The question left open is who the three people in the story saw on the snowy evening. Perhaps Pan, returned to destroy the Christian God, as the church is destroyed in the story and to bring love to the frigid young woman in the form of a policeman... Read more

The Princess

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Princess' of the story is a spoiled, sexless woman who is thrown in with a passionate man whom she takes into her bed and then rejects. This rejection leads to his ultimate death. Lawrence again pleads his case for the necessary domination of woman by man and shows the sterility of a life lead without sexual passion. Set against the bleak... Read more

The Overtone

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Overtone' looks at a sterile marriage with no children and no spontaneous sexual feeling between the couple. Lawrence seems to lose interest in the story, although he introduces a younger woman, who walks away baffled at the end. His purpose seems to be to analyse the relationship between men and women in religious terms - Christianity for... Read more

Winter Warpath (Stonecroft Saga Book 9)

By: B.N. Rundell

Narrated by: Scott Miller

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

WHEN FACED WITH THE MONSTER OF VENGEANCE, YOU HAVE TO ASK: WHOSE BLOOD WILL PAINT THE WHITE OF THE WOODS?It was supposed to be a cozy winter in their new cabin, but it started with a cantankerous silvertip grizzly wreaking havoc on everything. That would prove to be the least of their problems in the coming winter…After a trading foray to visit... Read more

Unmade Movies: Harold Pinter's Victory

By: Harold Pinter & Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Full Cast, Bjarne Henriksen, Vanessa Kirby, Mar...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Harold Pinter's unproduced screenplay of Joseph Conrad's last great novel, specially adapted for radio by Sir Richard Eyre

'All radio drama should be at this level' Spectator

The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the... Read more

Unmade Movies: Arthur Miller's The Hook

By: Arthur Miller

Narrated by: Full Cast, Elliot Cowan, Tim Pigott-Smith & Dav...

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Miller's unproduced screenplay about a 1950s Brooklyn dock worker who takes a stand against corruption, directed by Adrian Noble

The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten... Read more