Coriolanus
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Adrian Dunbar, Full Cast, Kenneth Cranham, Samu...
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
In this BBC full-cast production of Coriolanus, allies and enemies become blurred just as Rome is in sight...
Coriolanus tells of a proud Roman general who captures the town Corioli but subsequently falls from favour with the Roman people. He allies himself with the Volscians and leads an attack on Rome, but allegiances are won and lost before... Read more
Henry IV Part Two
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Full Cast, Timothy West, Jamie Glover, Julian G...
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In this BBC full-cast production of Henry IV Part 2, civil war is ravaging England. Rebels are rallying together, unified against Henry. Will Henry and his son, Hal, emerge victorious - or alive?
Father and son Julian Glover and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son Hal in the powerful production which also stars Timothy West and Prunella... Read more
Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Stella Gonet, Nicholas Farrell, Full Cast, Gera...
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In this BBC full-cast production, Julius Caesar is triumphant after his victory over the sons of Pompey. But as bad omens and weather plague Rome, even his most loyal friends are starting to see the signs...
Political intrigue and fierce battle rage in this tense and dynamic production in which a country is torn apart under the legacy of Julius... Read more
King Lear
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Corin Redgrave, David Troughton, Full Cast, Ger...
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In this BBC full-cast production, King Lear tests his three daughters' love, with disastrous consequences.
Some of the most stirring scenes Shakespeare ever wrote resonate powerfully in this dramatic radio production. Tortured madness, pure evil, and the fatal struggle for power grip the listener until the final, shockingly tragic... Read more
Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Full Cast, Ken Stott, Liam Brennan, Phyllis Log...
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this BBC full-cast production, a trio of witches predicts Macbeth's early demise.
In a tale of fate, fulfilment and ego, Macbeth and his wife desire the Scottish kingship. Macbeth's temptation and descent into evil, his wife's ruthlessness and subsequent madness and the overarching presence of the supernatural charge this gripping production.... Read more
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Samantha Spiro, Emilia Fox, Maxine Peake, Chiwe...
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this BBC full-cast production of Much Ado About Nothing, some handsome soldiers return from battle. Yet one soldier finds himself locked in a merry war of his own...
In Shakespeare's comedy of wit, love and miscommunication, Beatrice and Benedick and Hero and Claudio are pushed into and pulled out of love, their friends playing cupid with... Read more
Richard II
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Full Cast, Joss Ackland, Samuel West, Damian Le...
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this BBC full-cast production of Richard II, the male ego and narcissism of monarchs are hung out to dry...
Written entirely in verse, the rhythms of the language in this epic tragedy encompass its themes of dignity and kingship with fitting grandeur and pathos, as the capricious and narcissistic Richard is brought to his own... Read more
Life Laundry, The How To De-Junk Your Life
By: Dawna Walters
Narrated by: Dawna Walter & Full Cast
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspirational guide to fighting clutter and sorting out your space, based on the bestselling BBC book and TV series. Clutter can be a huge problem for many of us. We yearn to live in a perfectly-ordered home, but more often than not we find ourselves drowning in a sea of 'stuff'. Not only is it depressing to live in a mess, but accumulating... Read more
View audiobookGrumpy Old Men The Official Handbook
By: Stuart Prebble
Narrated by: Arthur Smith
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Do you know someone who is incensed by compulsory tipping? Who is infuriated if kept on hold for more than a minute? Who is positively apoplectic if someone answers their phone during dinner? If so, you've probably encountered the phenomenon of the grumpy old man. Following their first massively successful BBC1 series, this autumn will see the... Read more
View audiobookThe Mel And Sue Thing
By: BBC
Narrated by: Sue Perkins & Mel Giedroyc
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins offer you more than your fair share of laughs, songs, and silliness in their imaginatively titled BBC Radio 4 series. Mel and Sue are extremely well established performers on the comedy circuit. They are also familiar as the hosts of Channel 4's Late Lunch and as the stars of a number of TV commercials. Sue Perkins... Read more
View audiobookRoss Noble Goes Global
By: Ross Noble
Narrated by: Ross Noble
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant new BBC Radio 4 series of comedy travelogues presented by award-winning stand-up and โJust a Minuteโ regular, Ross Noble. Perrier Award nominee Ross Noble has received huge critical acclaim and become known as an exciting and original talent in the UK. Now he takes his show worldwide, to destinations as diverse as Shanghai, South... Read more
View audiobookThe Smoking Room
By: BBC
Narrated by: Debbie Chazen & Jeremy Swift
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In the world of work, there is one place where seniority means nothing, where shoptalk is banned, and where the persecuted minority gather regularly to discuss every subject under the sun: the smoking room.Set entirely in the smoking room of a large company, this eight-part comedy series explores the personal foibles and suppressed longings of... Read more
View audiobookUstinov At Eighty
By: Peter Ustinov
Narrated by: John Bird
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
In this much-praised interview, octogenarian Peter Ustinov talks to John Bird. The man of many talents has an astonishing range of accomplishments behind him as an Oscar-winning film and theatre actor, author of novels, plays and screenplays. He is also a raconteur, graphic artist, photographer, stage director and designer and the recipient of... Read more
View audiobookDouglas Adams At The BBC Part 1
By: Chris Emmett
Narrated by: Simon Jones & Various
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Simon Jones, who played Arthur Dent in โThe Hitchhikerโs Guide to the Galaxyโ, presents a look back at the life and work of a writer who has captivated the imagination of millions. When Douglas Adams created โThe Hitchhikerโs Guide to the Galaxyโ for BBC Radio 4, it was the genesis of a science fiction comedy legend. Yet his career at the BBC... Read more
View audiobookPaul Temple And The Jonathan Mystery
By: Francis Durbridge
Narrated by: Full Cast, Marjorie Westbury & Peter Coke
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radioโs most popular serials. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats โ a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of... Read more
View audiobookBlake's 7 The Radio Adventures
By: Barry Letts
Narrated by: Full Cast, Michael Keating & Paul Darrow
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Avon and the crew of Scorpio again face the ruthless machinations of Servalan in two thrilling full-cast BBC Radio 4 adventures. Together on audio for the first time, these two radio adventures reunite many of the cast of the classic BBC TV space adventure series. The Sevenfold Crown: Raiding Servalanโs HQ, the crew discover that she possesses... Read more
View audiobookBrideshead Revisited
By: Evelyn Waugh
Narrated by: Ben Miles, Full Cast & Jamie Bamber
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1944 Captain Charles Ryder travels with a company of soldiers to Brideshead. He has been there before, and the great house serves as a potent reminder of the decadent, stylish lifestyle now destroyed by the austerity of the Second World War. Charles' mind travels back twenty years to when he was a student at Oxford, in thrall to the... Read more
View audiobookPaul Temple And The Spencer Affair
By: Francis Durbridge
Narrated by: Full Cast, Marjorie Westbury & Peter Coke
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radioโs most popular series. When young drama student Mary Dreisler is found murdered in her flat, her father instantly sends for Paul Temple. There appears to have been no... Read more
View audiobookWoman's Hour A Celebration Of Mothers
By: BBC
Narrated by: Jenni Murray
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Woman's Hour: A Celebration of Mothers is an audiobook that looks at the changing role of mothers over the last fifty years; the relationships that they have enjoyed with their children, how they have juggled the work life balance and how they have challenged the stereotypes and tested the boundaries of what being a mother means. For example the... Read more
View audiobookEdward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism
By: Bob Edwards
Narrated by: Bob Edwards
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
"Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them. I want them to know that broadcast journalism was established by someone with the highest standards. Tabloid crime stories, so much a part of the lust for ratings by today's news broadcasters, held no interest for Murrow. He did like Hollywood... Read more
View audiobookFresh Air: Laughs
By: Terry Gross
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of interviews with top comedians from the award-winning NPR interviewer Terry Gross. Includes excerpts from a wide range of personalities spanning the last two decades: Al Franken, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman, Martin Short, Chris Rock, Jay Leno, Jackie Mason, Larry David, Phyllis Diller, and more. Read more
View audiobookPlenty of Pretty Good Jokes
By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Includes the complete Pretty Good Jokes, Few More Pretty Good Jokes, and New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes. Read more
View audiobookChavez Ravine
By: Culture Clash
Narrated by: Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, Herbert Siguenza ...
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The controversial history of Chavez Ravine, the immigrant community that once existed on the site that is now Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, is explored with humor, brutal honesty, and pulse-racing music by the nation's premier Chicano/Latino theatre troupe, Culture Clash.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Culture Clash: ... Read more
Car Talk: The Hatchback of Notre Dame
By: Ray Magliozzi & Tom Magliozzi
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The Hatchback of Notre Dame includes many memorable Car Talk classics, including Morley Safer of CBS's Sixty Minutes, displaying a downright embarrassing obsession with his Peugeot, and space shuttle astronaut John Grunsfeld, who calls from Hawaii. (Well, 700 miles over Hawaii, actually). And, there's one of Click and Clack's all-time favorite... Read more
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