Art audiobooks

Crisis

By: Tina Pepler

Narrated by: Clare Corbett & Dan Winter

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Martha's posting to Agok, in South Sudan, gives her the chance to make amends for the mistake that caused her to be sent home from her last posting. As Project Manager, she's in charge of a small team facing an escalating crisis, with more and more refugees arriving across the border from the North, and violence never far under the surface.... Read more

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (based on Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old... Read more

Mixed Blood

By: Nazrin Choudhury

Narrated by: Shelley Islam

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Nazrin Choudhury's play, which won the Richard Imison Award for the best play by a writer new to radio, tells the story of a young British Asian woman whose life begins to unravel when she's faced with the possibility that her real father may actually be white. When Sharmila finds some letters in her late mother's belongings, she uncovers her... Read more

MEA CULPA

By: Konstantinos Rodis

Narrated by: Konstantinos Rodis, Ioannis Kifonidis, Elena Ag...

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

What may be hiding behind the closed doors of a house?


What is the true relationship of family members?


How do people face their fellow human beings who have disabilities? What is right and what is wrong?


In the early ' 70, Zoe, looks after her son Stavros who was born with mental retardation in an era without social support and possibilities... Read more

Just a Mo

By: Laila Morse

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The reigning queen of Albert Square, Laila Morse shares her incredible story for the first time. This is a book that will shock, humble and inspire. Read more

NPR American Chronicles: The Vietnam War

By: NPR

Narrated by: Audie Cornish

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NPR reports on the Vietnam War, from its origins to the major battles, through the Fall of Saigon, to repercussions of the conflict still felt today. Read more

The Inventor and the Tycoon

By: Edward Ball

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
 
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible... Read more

Charles Paris: An Amateur Corpse

By: Simon Brett & Jeremy Front

Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Full Cast, Geraldine McEwan & Suzan...

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles is out of work again, and to make matters worse his mother has come to stay and he's no way of escaping her. So when he's offered some voiceover work by old friend, Hugo, he's delighted to get out of the house. But Hugo's marriage is in trouble: his much younger wife, Ellie, spends all her time at her Amateur Dramatic Group, and Hugo... Read more

Car Talk: 25 Years of Lousy Car Advice

By: Tom Magliozzi & Ray Magliozzi

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1987, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, also known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, made the leap from nursing the motley car population of New England to creating the nationally beloved public radio phenomenon that we all know as Car Talk. The advice may be a little suspect, and the memories in desperate need of a tune-up, but the laughs are... Read more

Never Goin' Back

By: Al Roker

Narrated by: Al Roker

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Al Roker’s aha! moment came a decade ago. He was closing in on 350 pounds when he promised his dying father that he wasn’t going to keep living as he was. That led to his decision for a stomach bypass—and his life-changing drop to 190. But fifty of those pounds gradually crept back until he finally devised a plan, stuck to it, and got his life... Read more

The Lady in Gold

By: Anne-Marie O'Connor

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lady in Gold, considered an unforgettable masterpiece, one of the twentieth century's most recognizable paintings, made headlines all over the world when Ronald Lauder bought it for $135 million a century after Klimt, the most famous Austrian painter of his time, completed the society portrait.
 
Anne-Marie O'Connor, writer for the Washington... Read more

Tracey Emin In Her Own Words

By: Tracey Emin

Narrated by: Tracey Emin

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Tracey Emin is an internationally renowned artist. Here she discusses her life and achievements in a series of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archives: Breakfast With Frost, BBC One (first broadcast 7 November 1999); Front Row, BBC Radio 4 (first broadcast 6 Sept 2000, featuring Francine Stock); Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4 (first broadcast 9... Read more

Die Ausbilder Schmidt Box - 20 Jahre Ausbilder Schmidt

By: Ausbilder Schmidt

Narrated by: Ausbilder Schmidt

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Hätten doch bloß alle Soldaten dieser Welt so viel Humor wie der Ausbilder Schmidt. Sein Schlachtfeld ist die Bühne, seine Munition treffsichere Pointen und statt Panzer rollen die Lachtränen. Getreu seinem Motto: Der tut nix, der will nur spielen, personifiziert Ausbilder Schmidt die erfolgreichste Ein-Mann-Friedensmission an der sich selbst... Read more

55 And Over

By: Peter Souter

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson & Philip Jackson

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Juliet Stevenson and Philip Jackson star in Peter Souter's comedy about love, sex and other foolhardy mistakes made by the modern 50pluser. Peter Souter is multi-award winning writer. His Radio 4 Afternoon Play, Goldfish girl, received both a Sony and a Tinniswood award for Best Drama. He also wrote THAT'S Mine, This is Yours (picked as Play of... Read more

Derailed (Complete)

By: Various

Narrated by: Sara Poyzer & Tom Watt

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

George is romantic and great fun but how much does Marie really know about her new partner? After a whirlwind romance and Mediterranean marriage to chirpy cockney George Marie's plans for a cosy Christmas a deux are derailed when he says the band's schedule has changed. Georgeis hurt in the Taunton rail crash when Marie thought he was playing... Read more

As Time Goes By

By: Bob Larbey

Narrated by: Full Cast, Geoffrey Palmer & Judi Dench

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Dame Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer star as old flames Jean Pargetter and Lionel Hardcastle. Their love story was all set for a happy ending in the 1950s when Jean was a student nurse and Lionel, a young army officer. But he was posted abroad and they lost touch. Thirty-eight years later, Lionel has returned to London to publish his... Read more

Mad Girl

By: Phil Gladwin

Narrated by: Emma Noakes & Shannon Flynn

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen year old Rose hears voices. Mostly she gets along with them ok, but when her real Dad turns up out of the blue to take her away for the weekend, things get completely out of control. This drama has sprung out of a project that listened to people with mental health issues, and in this case people who hear voices. The project was run by... Read more

Edward Curtis: Portrait of Prolific Photographer

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Backed by Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Curtis set out in 1900 to document the lives of Native Americans. Over the next 30 years, he took more than 40,000 pictures and 10,000 audio recordings. Jeffrey Brown talks to Pulitzer Prize winner Timothy Egan about his new biography about Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher. Read more

Still Lolo

By: Lauren Scruggs & Scruggs Family

Narrated by: Eleni Pappageorge

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning and unexpected tale of tragedy, survival, and true beauty. For fashion journalist Lauren (“LoLo”) Scruggs, a short flight to look at Christmas lights turned into a nightmare when she was struck by the plane’s spinning propeller blades. As Lauren was rushed to the hospital, fighting for her life, the world watched in shock and horror.... Read more

Grace

By: Grace Coddington

Narrated by: Grace Coddington

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret were it not for The September Issue, the ... Read more

Une Vie (Complete Series)

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Full Cast, Aimee Ffion Edwards & Robert Blythe

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. Jeanne de Lamare - a sheltered and naive country aristocrat - leaves her convent education filled with thoughts of love and romance. Lamare marries a smallminded local landowner, and begins to discover how rotten and treacherous adult life is all around her. Jeanne believes that... Read more

Hello Again

By: Simon Elmes

Narrated by: Simon Elmes

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

14 November 2012 marks the ninetieth anniversary of the BBC's first ever broadcast and the beginning of the British love affair with radio. This fascinating book takes as its starting point those early, tentative programmes broadcast from Marconi House on the Strand, and follows the story of those magical radio voices through the years of... Read more

Superman Is Jewish?

By: Harry Brod

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Zeddy Lawrence once said, "It may not be true in all cases, but it's a pretty good rule of thumb. If the word 'man' appears at the end of someone's name you can draw one of two conclusions: a) they're Jewish, as in Goldman, Feldman, or Lipman; or b) they're a superhero, as in Superman, Batman, or Spider-Man."

In Superman Is Jewish? Harry Brod... Read more

Going to Sea in a Sieve

By: Danny Baker

Narrated by: Danny Baker

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The first hilarious volume of comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker's memoir, and now the inspiration for the major BBC series CRADLE TO GRAVE, starring Peter Kay.

'And what was our life like in this noisy, dangerous and polluted industrial pock-mark wedged into one of the capital's toughest neighbourhoods? It was, of... Read more