Art audiobooks

It Ain't Half Hot Mum

By: Jimmy Perry & David Croft

Narrated by: Windsor Davies & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the gang in these four classic BBC TV episodes! Enjoy the exploits of the Royal Artillery Concert Party, a motley troupe of military thespians seconded to India during the Second World War. In 'My Lovely Boy', When RSM Williams realises the love of his life is Parky's mum, he sets about recruiting him for the concert party. In 'The Supremo... Read more

The Kneebone Cadillac

By: Carl Grose

Narrated by: Alex Tregear, Amanda Lawrence, Carl Grose, Char...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Kneebones of United Downs have hard lives, weird vehicles and a love of Country and Western music. When scrap dealer Jed Kneebone dies, his three children are left in serious trouble. But they have inherited Jed's prized 1956 Cadillac Eldorado - could the legendary Boneshaker Stock Car Races be the answer? A wry Cornish comedy about family,... Read more

The Last Free Hours of Charlie Radcliffe

By: Drew Pautz

Narrated by: Ashley Kumar, Chris Jack, Conrad Nelson, Graeme...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

To the outside world Charlie Radcliffe was an esteemed businessman and philanthropist. But Charlie knew that he had swindled billions over decades from his wealthy clients and he knew that one day the game would be up. Now in prison, Charlie tells the story of his last hours of freedom to new inmate Sam. Drew Pautz's drama inspired by the crisis... Read more

Pandemic

By: John Dryden

Narrated by: Ben Daniels, Emily Beecham, Full Cast & Michael...

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A three-part thriller by John Dryden. In Part 1, 'The Present', Dr Jan Roldano, microbiologist and WHO advisor on infectious diseases, arrives in Bangkok to give a keynote lecture at a medical conference. But when a virulent strain of bird flu emerges, he finds himself trapped in Thailand. In Part 2, 'The Future', it is five years after a... Read more

Last Of The Summer Wine Volume 1

By: Roy Clarke

Narrated by: Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Compo, Foggy and Clegg wreak havoc in four vintage episodes from the world's longest-running comedy series. Only a man with a ferret down his trousers could love Nora Batty. So lock up your ferrets (and Nora Batty!), here come Yorkshire's hilarious adventurers - three pensioners in four classic capers from the BBC television series which kept... Read more

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Jamie Glover, Ian McDiarmid & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of Wilde's gothic masterpiece. When Dorian Gray gazes upon his portrait, he is struck by his own youth and beauty and makes a wish that they will last forever. Gradually, his simple good nature is corrupted with the help of his hedonistic friend Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian sinks into a life of debauchery and... Read more

The Falcon And The Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

Narrated by: David Birrell, Gemma Lawrence & Helen Macdonald

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen Macdonald is a falconer and poet. She keeps a goshawk called Mabel. As a child she fell in love with a rare book of intense nature writing, J.A. Baker's The Peregrine, which records a winter watching wild peregrines on the Essex coast. Her new play brings her birds and his together. Baker tramps the bleak coastal marshes scanning the skies... Read more

Hinterland

By: Francis Turnly

Narrated by: Catherine Cusack & Frank O'Sullivan

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When Garda officer Detective Sergeant Roisin MacKenna is called to the scene of a murder not far from the border between the North and South of Ireland she soon finds that boundaries, both geographical and moral, become blurred. A body has been found buried in an Irish peat bog, identified as a farmer from Northern Ireland. Roisin is thrust into... Read more

Bad Faith: The Complete Series

By: Peter Jukes

Narrated by: Danny Sapani, Full Cast, Jenny Jules & Lenny Henry

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A series of four plays by about Jake Thorne, a Methodist minister and police chaplain who is battling with his own demons at the same time as trying to resolve the problems of his parishioners.

In the first of the plays, 'Bad Faith', we are introduced to Jake Thorne, a police chaplain. His job is to offer counselling and comfort to officers in... Read more

Goldfish Girl

By: Peter Souter

Narrated by: Alex Jennings & Juliet Stevenson

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you couldn't remember a single minute of the ten years you'd spent with the love of your life? Joe can remember everything about Ally; Ally remembers nothing about Joe A romantic, sad drama starring Alex Jennings as Joe and Juliet Stevenson as Ally. Directed by Gordon House. Read more

Charles Paris: A Reconstructed Corpse

By: Simon Brett & Jeremy Front

Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Full Cast & Suzanne Burden

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Nighy returns as Charles Paris: unsuccessful actor, bad husband and dipsomaniac. Desperately in need of work, having been kicked out of the marital home, Charles jumps at playing a missing property developer in a crime reconstruction programme. But the missing person case soon turns to murder when severed body parts begin to appear. ... Read more

Jailbird Lover (BBC Radio Drama)

By: Various

Narrated by: Charles Dale, Claire Louise Cordwell, Lestyn Jo...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Mid-Wales: and a lonely bachelor avoids personal contact as much as humanly possible, despite the best efforts of his well-meaning but nosey next door neighbours. Gwilym Lloyd whiles away his time, pottering in the garden, learning the harmonica and writing letters to women serving long-term prison sentences in various jails around the world.... Read more

Cary Grant

By: Graham McCann

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For two moviegoing generations, Cary Grant was class—an effortless embodiment of gentlemanly grace and humor. But Cary Grant’s greatest achievement was in creating himself and the irresistible character he became. In this savvy, fascinating portrait, McCann tracks the transformation of a life and looks closely at the sources of Cary Grant’s... Read more

Dropped Names

By: Frank Langella

Narrated by: Frank Langella

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight in a small Mexican village; Elizabeth Taylor devouring homemade pasta and tenderly wrapping him in her pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York City street.Captured... Read more

Modern Dance

By: Janet Anderson

Narrated by: Beth Richmond

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Modern dance was a movement that began at the turn of the 20th century, when American dancers Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, and Ruth St. Denis broke from formal dance traditions with their own personal vision of movement. Soon, their visions evolved through Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman, who would all go on to teach their... Read more

An American Rose

By: Charlotte Jones

Narrated by: Carl Prekopp, Fenella Woolgar, Lisa Eichhorn, L...

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Kennedys were the most famous family in England when Joseph became American Ambassador in London. But daughter Rosemary's behaviour began to cause the family increasing concern. Award winning writer Charlotte Jones' play is inspired by the lives of two of JFK's sisters, 'Rosemary' Kennedy, who died in 2005, but underwent a prefrontal... Read more

More Kenneth Williams' Stop Messing About

By: Myles Rudge

Narrated by: Hugh Paddick, Joan Sims & Kenneth Williams

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims as they go beyond Round the Horne. Taking over the mantle of Round the Horne, Stop Messing About carried on the comedy tradition, which reunited Kenneth Williams with both Hugh Paddick and Kenneth's Carry On co-star, Joan Sims. These four episodes include such favourites as crusty old judge Sir... Read more

Keynes V Hayek

By: Paul Mason

Narrated by: Paul Mason & Various

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views. John Maynard Keynes believed that government spending could create employment and longer term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich Hayek believed that investments have to be based on... Read more

The Ration Book Olympics

By: Clare Balding

Narrated by: Clare Balding & Various

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1948 Olympics were very different from the impressive spectacle that London put on in 2012. Three years after the end of the Second World War, Britain was still gripped by austerity. Rationing was still in force, severe bomb damage was still much in evidence and no new sports facilities could be built. Visiting athletes were put up in... Read more

The Bob Servant Emails: A BBC Radio Dramatisation starring Brian Cox

By: Neil Forsyth

Narrated by: Brian Cox, Felix Dexter, Full Cast, Laura Solon...

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Cox stars as the 63-year-old Servant in these wickedly funny full-cast email exchangesBorn and bred in Dundee, Bob Servant sees himself as the people's champion. Once a cheeseburger magnate and part of what he claims to be 'the largest window cleaning round in Western Europe', he's now retired and feeling a little bored. After winning a... Read more

Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Anna Massey, Full Cast, Steve Hodson & Tom Baker

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the polluted and poverty-ridden Coketown, Louisa and Tom Gradgrind endure a cold and loveless childhood at the hands of their self-satisfied and unimaginative father Thomas. Starved of affection, Louisa is forced into a miserable marriage with the self-made industrialist Josiah Bounderby, thirty years her senior, whilst Tom descends into a... Read more

The Bid

By: Matthew Solon

Narrated by: John Sessions

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After five years of planning and an 18-month campaign costing more than £15m, England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup ended in humiliation in front of millions of TV viewers around the world. This thrilling drama tells the behind-the-scenes story of what happened in Zurich in the days leading up to the momentous announcement on 2nd December... Read more

The American Senator

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Anna Maxwell-Martin, Full Cast, Joanna David & ...

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The American Senator By Anthony Trollope. Dramatised by Martyn Wade.
Part One:
Arabella is determined to keep her engagement to John Morton a secret. Perhaps, there is a more exciting and wealthy husband she might be able to catch.
Part Two:
Lord Rufford has kissed Arabella twice but she realises that much more needs to be done to win him and his... Read more

Occupation

By: Andy Macdonald

Narrated by: Alexander Morton, Brian Ferguson, Sally Reid & ...

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A tense and powerful drama exploring the timely issues of unemployment, ethics and international conflict. A fifty year old factory employee finds his own way to make a stand. With orders still on the books, Kenny Gall refuses to leave the factory he has worked in for more than thirty years. This will have serious implications for the company,... Read more