Art audiobooks

Making Masterpiece

By: Rebecca Eaton

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Emmy Award–winning producer of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! reveals the secrets to Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and its other hit programs.For more than twenty-five years and counting, Rebecca Eaton has presided over PBS's Masterpiece Theatre, the longest-running weekly prime-time drama series in American history. From the runaway hits... Read more

All the Time in the World

By: Jessica Kerwin Jenkins

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Entertaining, unexpected, and full of charm, the follow-up to Jessica Kerwin Jenkins' Encyclopedia of the Exquisite presents a miscellany of engaging stories, detailing the intriguing customs, traditions, and guilty pleasures pursued throughout the ages.All the Time in the World takes its cue from an iconic component of medieval life, the book... Read more

Crash and Burn

By: Anthony Bozza & Artie Lange

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

At a high point in his career, Artie Lange performed a sold-out show in Carnegie Hall—and he did it with a pocketful of heroin. In the midst of a deep, self-destructive depression, addicted to heroin, cocaine, and prescription drugs, he lashed out at everyone around him—from his cohosts on The Howard Stern Show to celebrity guests and even his... Read more

Heretics and Heroes

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Thomas Cahill

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history—this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary book.
 
In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and... Read more

Melissa Explains It All

By: Melissa Joan Hart

Narrated by: Melissa Joan Hart

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Melissa Joan Hart explained it all—from dating to bullies—in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on millions more television viewers as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Now, in Melissa Explains It All, Melissa tells the frank and funny behind-the-scenes stories from her extraordinary past and her... Read more

Scotland’s Jesus

By: Frankie Boyle

Narrated by: Angus King

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her exploding brain. It's a funny book about the news, partly because it was decided that... Read more

In This Economy?

By: Gary Gulman

Narrated by: Gary Gulman

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

In this stand-up special, money is a wellspring for the comedy of funnyman Gary Gulman, who aims darts at the überwealthy — including Donald Trump. Read more

A Man and His Mountain

By: Edward Humes

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the story of the self-made billionaire who built the Kendall-Jackson empire from nothing into the biggest selling brand of premium wines in the U.S.Jess Stonestreet Jackson was one of a small band of pioneering entrepreneurs who put California's wine country on the map. His life story is a compelling... Read more

More Tinsel Tales

By: NPR

Narrated by: David Greene

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Each year, listener’s tune in to NPR for holiday offerings of all kinds: funny, touching, insightful, and surprising. Now anyone can listen to these evergreen delights while driving to the mall, wrapping gifts, entertaining friends, or relaxing in front of a crackling fire.

More Tinsel Tales includes many of the outstanding storytellers featured... Read more

Last Night at the Viper Room

By: Gavin Edwards

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Hollywood was built on beautiful and complicated matinee idols: James Dean and Marlon Brando are classic examples, but in the 1990s, the actor who embodied that archetype was River Phoenix. As the brightly colored 1980s wound down, a new crew of leading men began to appear on movie screens. Hailed for their acting prowess and admired for... Read more

Gamadin

By: Tom Kirkbride & Elaine Lee

Narrated by: Ian Alan Carlson, Philip Hobby, Aaron Lockman, ...

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Word of Honor introduces us to Southern California surfers Harlowe Pylott and Matt Riverstone, whose act of heroism leads them on the adventure of a lifetime. Joined by their friend "Wiz," socialite Leucadia Mars, and movie star/reluctant traveler Simon Bolt, our surfer heroes set out to retrieve Millawanda, an ancient spaceship that once... Read more

Mickey Cucchiella: Short Stories

By: Mickey Cucchiella

Narrated by: Mickey Cucchiella

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Short in stature, big on laughs comedian Mickey Cucchiella hits the stage with his raucous and raunchy special, Short Stories. He's got a lot to rant about and Mickey ain't afraid to spout his controversial views on race, sex, and terrorist line-dancers! Read more

BBC National Short Story Award 2013

By: Various

Narrated by: Andrea Riseborough, Claire Skinner, Hattie Mora...

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The five shortlisted titles for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013 administered in partnership with Booktrust, containing: 'Mrs Fox' by Sarah Hall (read by Andrea Riseborough), 'Barmouth' by Lisa Blower (read by Rebekah Staton), 'Prepositions' by Lionel Shriver (read by Nancy Crane), 'Notes from the House of Spirits' by Lucy Wood (read by... Read more

Bonkers

By: Jennifer Saunders

Narrated by: Jennifer Saunders

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, her characters are household names.

But it's Jennifer herself who has a place in all our hearts. This is her funny, moving and frankly bonkers memoir, filled with laughter,... Read more

David Jason: My Life

By: David Jason

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

David Jason: My Life, now available as an unabridged audiobook.

National Book Awards Autobiography of the Year 2013.

Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging bombs and bullies, both with impish good timing. Giving up on an unloved career as an electrician, he... Read more

How Did All This Happen?

By: John Bishop

Narrated by: John Bishop

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’re a man of a certain age you’ll know there comes a point in life when getting a sports car and over-analysing your contribution to society sounds like a really good idea. With a good job in sales and marketing and a nice house in Manchester that he shared with his wife and kids, John Bishop was no different when he... Read more

Madigan Again

By: Kathleen Madigan

Narrated by: Kathleen Madigan

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Comic Kathleen Madigan delivers new material derived from time spent with her Irish Catholic Midwest family, eating random pills out of her mother's purse, touring Afghanistan, her unparalleled love of John Denver and more. Read more

Standup Comedy

By: Bill Vincent

Narrated by: Vance Elderkin

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

With this Book, Stand-up Comedy (The Secret to Becoming a Successful Comedian!), you will be able to learn the tricks of the trade. Stand-up comedy is a great way to get noticed by others. It is a different kind of comedic adventure. Stand-up comedians get a kick out of performing for a live audience. Read more

Strings Attached

By: Joanne Lipman

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney & Eliza Foss

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

THE FINE ART OF TOUGH LOVE.

If you're lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what matters in life. Perhaps it was a coach, or a professor, or a family friend.

For Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, that person was a... Read more

From Scratch

By: Allen Salkin

Narrated by: Julian Fleischer

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Big personalities, high drama—the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of the Food Network, now about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary: the business, media, and cultural juggernaut that changed the way America thinks about food.

In October 1993, a tiny start-up called the Food Network debuted to little notice. Twenty years later, it is in... Read more

In My Shoes

By: Tamara Mellon & William Patrick

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A candid business narrative and memoir from the founder of Jimmy Choo
 
Tamara Mellon made a fortune building Jimmy Choo into a billion-dollar fashion brand. She became the prime minister's trade envoy and was honored by the Queen with the Order of the British Empire—yet it's her personal glamour that keeps her an object of global media... Read more

Battle For L. A.

By: C. J. Henderson & Lance Roger Axt

Narrated by: Josh Pollock, John Strain & Full Cast

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early morning hours of February 25, 1945, U.S. anti-aircraft artillery opened fire on an unidentified object in the skies above Los Angeles. Over the course of the next three hours, "swarms of planes" were reported as roaming the skies above the city of angels, though in the end the public was told it was a false alarm. Now, Moonstone... Read more

Unlabel

By: Marc Ecko

Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn & Marc Ecko

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“Living proof that you can be a marketing and business whiz and still be a true artist.” —CNBCAs instructive as it is innovative, Unlabel will empower you to channel your creativity, find the courage to defy convention, and summon the confidence to act and compete in any environment.This blueprint will teach you how to grow both creatively and... Read more

This Is Radio 4 A Celebration

By: BBC

Narrated by: Hugh Dennis

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating celebration of BBC Radio 4 features archive clips from some of the channel's best-loved programmes, including The Archers, Desert Island Discs, Today, Woman's Hour, Weekending, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, The Now Show, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Just a Minute, and many more. Amongst the personalities heard from during... Read more