Audio Dramas

Terry Pratchett: The BBC Radio Drama Collection

Seven full-cast dramatisations

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Anton Lesser, Full Cast, Mark Heap, Martin Jarvis, Philip Jackson & Sheila Hancock
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

A collection of the full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of novels by Terry Pratchett

Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different...

Published for the very first time are seven full-cast BBC Radio... Read more

Midnight’s Children - Abridged

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

By: Salman Rushdie
Narrated by: Meera Syal, Full Cast, Anneika Rose, Preeya Kalidas, Aysha Kala & Nikesh Patel
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

'Radio drama of the year' - Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph

Nikesh Patel stars as Saleem in BBC Radio 4’s epic dramatisation of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning novel of love, history and magic

Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent... Read more

The Virginia Woolf BBC Radio Drama Collection

Seven full-cast dramatisations

By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Glenister, Laura Fraser, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Fenella Woolgar & Full Cast
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

The collected BBC radio adaptations of Virginia Woolf’s pioneering modernist novels, with star casts including Kristin Scott-Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Juliet Stevenson, Laura Fraser, Robert Glenister and Fenella Woolgar.

The Voyage Out
A sea voyage to South America turns into a journey of self-discovery for naïve Rachel Vinrace. Starring Laura... Read more

Vampire Hunter D: Volume 1 [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

Vampire Hunter D 1

Vampire Hunter D: Book #1

By: Hideyuki Kikuchi & Yoshitaka Amano
Narrated by: Scott McCormick, David Cui Cui, Laura C. Harris, Ryan Carlo Dalusung, Eric Singdahlsen, Rob McFadyen, Amanda Forstrom, Jenna Sharpe, Peter Holdway, Terence Aselford & Eric Messner
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the... Read more

Crown House

A BBC Radio 4 Regal Drama

Crown

By: Peter Ling & Juliet Ace
Narrated by: Jane Asher, Gayle Hunnicutt, Margaret Rawlings, Martin Jarvis, Richard Pasco, Dinah Sheridan, Dominic Rickhards, Barbara Atkinson, Margaret Ward, Cara Kelly, Barbara Hunt & Full Cast
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

A very royal saga about The Crown and a very historic house


In this story of Crown House, the grand home of the Ministers, the bond is built between the Minister family and the House of Windsor in this tale of changing times and unvarying traditions. This is a tale of two families and a fresh era for the Minsters of Crown House, and the Royal... Read more

Faith, Hope and Glory: Series 1 and 2

An epic BBC Radio 4 drama

Faith, Hope and Glory: Book #1

By: Winsome Pinnock, Roy Williams & Rex Obano
Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner, Danielle Vitalis, Shiloh Coke & Full Cast
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

A major BBC Radio series charting the history of post-war Britain through the lives of Hope Kiffin, Eunice Lamming and Gloria de Soto, bound forever by one moment in 1946.

London, 1946. Struggling to cope with the idea of raising her daughter in a hostile environment, African-Caribbean nurse Hope makes the difficult decision to entrust her... Read more

Red Rising (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

Red Rising 1

Red Rising: Book #1

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Stewart Crank, John Kielty, Richard Rohan, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Jenna Sharpe, Kay Eluvian, Jon Vertullo, Ian Russell, Alejandro Ruiz, Andrew Colford & Bradley Foster Smith
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.
“Red Rising ascends above a crowded dys­topian field.”—USA Today
Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic... Read more

Undercover Mumbai

A BBC Radio full-cast drama

By: Ayeesha Menon
Narrated by: Full Cast, Prerna Chawal, Anand Tiwari & Rajit Kapur
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

All eleven episodes of the detective serial set & recorded in Mumbai

Inspector Alia Khan is a tough, determined female cop struggling to make her mark in a male-dominated world. As she fights to uncover crime and corruption, she must also battle the endemic sexism of the police force, and the patronising, chauvinist attitudes of her boss and... Read more

Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Tara Lynne Barr, Chris Butler, JD Cullum, Sarah Drew, Martin Jarvis, Adhir Kalyan, Stacy Keach, André Sogliuzzo, Josh Stamberg & Mark Jude Sullivan
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria, Viola assumes the role of a male page to Duke Orsino. The Duke sends Viola, now disguised as ‘Cesario’ to press his suit with the beautiful Olivia – who promptly falls in love with Cesario. Confusion reigns until the truth is untangled and true love triumphs. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West... Read more

Mrs Sidhu Investigates

Two BBC Radio 4 comedy crime dramas

By: Suk Pannu
Narrated by: Meera Syal, Justin Edwards, Amy Morgan & Full Cast
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Meera Syal stars as Slough's answer to Miss Marple: a curious Indian chef who finds herself mixed up with murder

Meera Syal is Mrs Sidhu, an Indian caterer with a highly active imagination and her own brand of crime solving - enough of a brand, in fact, that the local police have a file on her 'observations'.

The first series, Murder with Masala,... Read more

Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black and more

A BBC Radio Drama Collection

By: Hilary Mantel
Narrated by: Hilary Mantel, Alison Steadman, Rosie Cavaliero, Bill Wallis, Miriam Margoyles & Full Cast
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Two of Hilary Mantel's finest novels, adapted for BBC Radio 4 - plus an exclusive short story

One of the 21st century's most celebrated authors, Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in her phenomenally successful Thomas Cromwell trilogy, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third novel in the series,... Read more

The Wind In The Willows

BBC Children's Classics

By: Kenneth Grahame
Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Richard Briers, Adrian Scarborough, Leslie Phillips & Full Cast
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Richard Briers, Adrian Scarborough and Terence Rigby star in this full-cast dramatisation, narrated by Alan Bennett.When Mole abandons his spring cleaning one morning, he surfaces into the sunlight and encounters the Water Rat. Mole stays with Ratty in his snug waterside home, and soon he meets Ratty’s friends: Badger, who lives in the Wild... Read more

Clean Sweep [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

Innkeeper Chronicles 1

Innkeeper Chronicles: Book #1

By: Ilona Andrews
Narrated by: Nora Achrati, Ryan H. Reid, Alex Hill-Knight, Karen Novack, James Lewis, Elias Khalil, Christopher Walker, Alejandro Ruiz, Peter Holdway, Holly Adams & Ken Jackson
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

“A fun balance of fantasy and romance that I couldn't put down. Read more

Rubbish: The Complete Series 1 and 2

A Full-Cast BBC Radio Comedy

By: Tony Bagley
Narrated by: Reece Dinsdale, Kevin Eldon, Nicola Walker, James Lance, Neil Dudgeon, Paul Copley, Martin Trenaman, Pippa Haywood, Oriane Messina, Katy Brand, Russell Tovey, Matthew Cottle, Mark Maier & Full Cast
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Quirky comedy from the writer of Married, following the highs and lows of a local government officer
Martin Christmas is a local government worker in the Sanitation department, whose days are shaped by endless recycling initiatives and green league tables, and whose nights are shadowed by his failed relationships and curmudgeonly interior... Read more

The Jungle Book

BBC Children's Classics

By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: Eartha Kitt, Freddie Jones, Full Cast, Jonathan Hyde & Nisha Nayar
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Rudyard Kipling's famous tale tells the story of Mowgli, the 'man-cub' rescued from the tiger, Shere Khan, and adopted by a wolf pack. As he grows up, Mowgli learns the ways of the jungle from Baloo the bear, Bagheera the black panther and Kaa the rock python. His life is full of adventure with the jungle creatures, but soon the time comes when... Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations

By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Clive Merrison, Full Cast & Michael Williams
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon, based on Arthur Conan Doyle's original short stories.

The twelve dramatisations are A Scandal in Bohemia; The Red-Headed League; A Case of Identity; The Boscombe Valley Mystery; The Five Orange Pips; The... Read more

Doctor Who at the BBC Volume 9: Happy Anniversary

Doctor Who at the BBC

By: BBC
Narrated by: Graham Norton, Russell Tovey, Matt Smith & Tom Baker
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Two joyous archive celebrations of Doctor Who's 50th anniversary presented by Russell Tovey and Graham Norton.
November 2013 marked 50 years since Doctor Who first arrived on BBC television, and Radio 2 marked the occasion with two very special programmes.

Who Is The Doctor? Russell Tovey takes an epic journey through five decades of Doctor Who... Read more

The Party Party

BBC Radio 4 political comedy

By: Moray Hunter
Narrated by: Morwenna Banks, Robert Glenister, Hugh Laurie, Clive Mantle, Rory Bremner, Robin Driscoll & Full Cast
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Hugh Laurie, Rory Bremner and Morwenna Banks star in this six-part comedy series that sends up both politics and traditional sitcom conventions

1993, and the party of the loony right and centre sweeps to power, changing the face of politics forever and drastically disrupting the very normal, very predictable, very sitcom lives of the... Read more

BBC Radio Shakespeare: A Collection of Eight Comedies

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Anne-Marie Duff, David Tennant, Full Cast, Helena Bonham-Carter, Martin Jarvis, Miriam Margolyes & Siân Phillips
Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Eight full-cast BBC Radio productions of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies

Full of merriment, mayhem, mischief and mistaken identity, here are eight iconic radio productions of Shakespeare's most magical comedies, featuring star casts and introduced by Sir Richard Eyre.

Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's delightful comedy sparkles with the verbal... Read more

The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

The Complete BBC Radio Series

By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Full Cast, Janice Acquah, Nadine Marshall, Claire Benedict, Joseph Marcell & Ben Onwukwe
Length: 26 hours 12 minutes

The collected radio adaptations of Alexander McCall Smith's hugely popular novels, dramatised by the author himself

'Must-listen... simply wonderful' The Telegraph

When Precious Ramotswe receives an inheritance from her father, she decides to set up Botswana's very first private detective agency - 'for the problems of ladies,... Read more