Art audiobooks

Being Human

By: Simon Guerrier

Narrated by: Full Cast & Lenora Crichlow

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Annie has learned quite a bit about her new friend Gemma: she's from Bristol, she used to work in a pharmacy, and she's never forgiven herself for the suicide of her teenage son. She also died ten years ago and doesn't know why she's come back through that door. Perhaps it has something to do with the new road they're building through the... Read more

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

By: Stephen Rebello

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a gripping, behind-the-scenes look inside the classic suspense shocker Psycho—and the creative genius who revolutionized filmmaking.First released in June 1960, Psycho altered the landscape of horror films forever. But just as compelling as the movie itself is the story behind it.Stephen Rebello brings to life the creation of one of... Read more

The Vicar of Dibley

By: Richard Curtis

Narrated by: Dawn French & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Four classic episodes from the original TV series: Arrival, Songs of Praise, Easter Special and The Christmas Lunch Incident. Welcome to Dibley, a perfect village full of some perfectly peculiar people - including Alice Tinker and her underactive brain, Owen Newitt and his overactive bowels, and Letitia Cropley and her orange cake with Branston... Read more

Archers, The Family Ties 1951-1967

By: Joanna Toye

Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The first fascinating part of Joanna Toye's delightful trilogy about life in Ambridge. Covering the years 1951-1967, Family Ties introduces the main characters: Dan, Doris, Phil, Christine, Jack and Peggy and their children, Walter Gabriel, the Fairbrothers and Tom Forrest. The early years are action-packed: Phil's courtship and marriage to... Read more

Whisky Galore

By: Compton MacKenzie

Narrated by: Stanley Baxter

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Stanley Baxter reads the witty Compton Mackenzie story set in the Scottish Islands. The inhabitants of Great and Little Toddy think they can cope with World War II - but then the whisky runs out. Life becomes intolerable, until fate delivers them a shipwreck with a cargo of whisky. Read more

The Western Front

By: Richard Holmes

Narrated by: Richard Holmes

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Military historian Richard Holmes turns his attention to the infamous First World War trench line, the Western Front. Of the nine million British and Dominion soldiers who were killed in action in the Great War, most died here. In this thorough examination of the role the Front played in the war, the eminent historian Richard Holmes considers... Read more

Sons And Lovers

By: D.H. Lawrence & Michael Butt

Narrated by: Fiona Clarke & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of D. H. Lawrence's classic story about working class love, loss and hardship. Sensitive, intellectual Gertrude Coppard married miner Walter Morel for his rich, ringing laugh and colourful character. But now, years later, she finds there is little behind the bluster and their marriage has become riddled with... Read more

Mark Radcliffe Show

By: Mark Radcliffe

Narrated by: Full Cast & Mark Radcliffe

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

When Radio One chief Matthew Bannister popped into 'A Lite Bite' in Altrincham for his favourite gherkin roll, little did he expect to find the two northern chancers who would bring so much sophistication to his beloved station. For there in the corner, playing a DLT Give Us A Break trivia game, stood Mark Radcliffe and his mate, known not... Read more

June Whitfield At The Beeb

By: June Whitfield

Narrated by: June Whitfield, Various & Chris Emmett

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A compilation covering June Whitfield's radio career of over half a century, incorporating comedy series such as Take It From Here, The Navy Lark, Round the Horne, Hancock's Half Hour, The Frankie Howerd Show and The News Huddlines, and appearances as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Read more

Europe - The Art Of Austerity

By: Michael Goldfarb

Narrated by: Full Cast & Michael Goldfarb

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Goldfarb looks back to the Europe of the 1930s and asks how artists, writers and film-makers responded to the poverty, mass unemployment and poltical instability of the Great Depression. Through the work of Bertolt Brecht, George Orwell, Jean Renoir and others, Michael charts the devastating impact of the slump as economic crisis... Read more

Kitchen Round Table - Abridged

By: Marja Samsom

Narrated by: Marja Samsom, Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey ...

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Join us in this exclusive audio program for candid conversations with luminaries in the food world. Kitchen Round Table brings you inside the homes and hearts of Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey, Judith Jones, Betty Fussell, and Deb Perelman. We hear about their earliest food memories and how each slowly made their way into the kitchen and... Read more

Der Bro Code für Eltern - Abridged

By: Matt Kuhn & Barney Stinson

Narrated by: Philipp Moog

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Barney liest den Bro Code für Eltern. Ihr wünscht euch ein Baby oder habt sogar schon eins bekommen? Dann wird euer Dasein von nun an ein Fliegenschiss auf der Leinwand des Lebens sein. Das heißt aber nicht, dass euer Kind genau so ein Lahmarsch werden muss wie ihr selbst. In Der Bro Code für Eltern hilft euch Barney Stinson, einen Namen... Read more

The Guy Under the Sheets

By: Chris Elliott

Narrated by: Chris Elliott

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Because no one will write an unauthorized biography about Emmy-winning actor and comedian Chris Elliott, he has done it himself. Listener, you’re hereby warned that much of this book will be disturbing. The Guy Under the Sheets is a behind-the-scenes memoir so personal, so provocative, that Elliott nearly sued himself to halt publication: the... Read more

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher

By: Timothy Egan

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Edward Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of... Read more

Touchline Tales

By: Des Lynam

Narrated by: Des Lynam

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Four selected episodes from the two BBC Radio 4 series of Touchline Tales. In these programmes, old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew visit some famous sporting venues to enjoy, observe, reminisce, and trade tales. Read more

Celebrating The Royal Albert Hall

By: Charles Hazlewood

Narrated by: Charles Hazlewood

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The Royal Albert Hall has attracted some of the biggest names in showbiz throughout its 140-year history. From rock events to The Proms, Cirque du Soleil to the Chelsea Arts Ball, it has played host to an huge variety of performers. In these two programmes, Charles Hazlewood introduces a montage of artists who have graced the stage of the Hall,... Read more

Mommy IQ

By: Rosie Pope

Narrated by: Rosie Pope, Rick Adamson, Kathleen McInerney & ...

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Rosie Pope, pregnancy expert, maternity fashion designer, and star of Bravo's hit show Pregnant in Heels offers an all-encompassing guide to pregnancy.What's your Mommy IQ?Every mom-to-be wants a perfect, healthy pregnancy. But as the nine months start to fly by, it's easy for new parents to become overwhelmed and intimidated by the mountains of... Read more

Waiting For The Boatman

By: Stephen Wakelam

Narrated by: Anton Lesser, David Tennant, Harry Livingstone,...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The painter Mario Minniti has travelled to Naples to seek out his old friend and former mentor Caravaggio. But on arrival, the great painter is nowhere to be found. In a bid to find him, Mario retraces Caravaggio's last known movements. His search reveals a life lived dangerously. Starring David Tennant as Mario Minniti, with Anton Lesser, Peter... Read more

Playing With Fire (The Saturday Play)

By: David Edgar

Narrated by: David Troughton, Emma Fielding & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally produced at the National Theatre in 2005, David Edgar's play is set against the background of a riot in the fictional northern town of Wyverdale, in the early part of the 21st century. In a revised version for radio, Edgar offers a powerful combination of political and personal drama. Starring Emma Fielding, David Troughton, Geoffrey... Read more

Tom Baker Reads A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Tom Baker

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Tom Baker reads Charles Dickens' timeless seasonal story.

Charles Dickens' story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future, has become one of the timeless classics of English literature. First published in 1843, it introduces us not only to Scrooge... Read more

The Curtain

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose.”In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera... Read more

NPR Driveway Moments Cat Tales

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

These NPR “driveway moment” stories featuring our feline friends will have you curled up in your seat, purring. Mischievous, mysterious, content, curious, and full of attitude, these stories mirror the personality of these creatures that dwell in our homes and our hearts. Read more

A9

By: Helen Cooper

Narrated by: David Warner, Deborah Findlay, Ewart James Walt...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Article 9 of the Tokyo Judgement at the end of WWII withdrew from the Japanese constitution the state's right of belligerency. Traumatised and guilt ridden for having killed enemy soldiers in war, Bernard has to attempt to coerce his children to continue his life's work, and makes their awaiting inheritance dependent on their abandoning their... Read more

The Meaning Of Love

By: Anna Symon

Narrated by: Aurelie Ambland, Jane Wittenshaw, Jonathan Forb...

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ed finds himself sleeping in the spare room he realises he might have to rediscover exactly what love is. But coming up with the correct definition proves harder than he first imagines. Starring Paul Ritter, Tessa Peake-Jones, Aurelie Ambland, Jonathan Forbes, Peter Polycarpou, and Jane Whittenshaw. Directed by Sally Avens. Read more