Art audiobooks

Do You Like Banana, Comrades?

By: Csaba Szekely

Narrated by: Brian Bowles, Daniel Rabin, Freddy White, Jane ...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

It's difficult being young and in love when your Dad is a high ranking official in Ceausescu's communist machine, your mother weeps all the time and your brother is trying to kill you. This wild and sideways look at life behind the Iron Curtain during Ceausescu's regime is a first play by a young Hungarian writer living in Romania and was... Read more

Akiane - Abridged

By: Akiane Kramarick & Foreli Kramarik

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent.Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic father did not stop four-year-old Akiane Kramarik from finding God. This girl's dreams began a conversation in the home that has eventually brought them all to... Read more

The World of Downton Abbey

By: Jessica Fellowes

Narrated by: Elizabeth McGovern

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A perfect gift for Downton Abbey fans, a lavish look at the real world--both the secret history and the behind-the-scenes drama--of the spellbinding Emmy Award-winning Masterpiece TV series that's now a feature film.

April 1912. The sun is rising behind Downton Abbey, a great and splendid house in a great and splendid park. So secure does it... Read more

Classical Composers

By: Thomas Tapper

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Smith Show Media presents Classical Composers written by Thomas Tapper. These are stories about classical music creators. Read more

Da Vinci's Ghost

By: Toby Lester

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da
Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a
square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeur
of art, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human
spirit, the drawing turns up just about everywhere: in books, on... Read more

6 Minute English Science And Technology

By: BBC Learning English

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn and improve your English with the BBC. Collected here for the first time are 12 episodes from BBC Learning English's popular 6 Minute English series. Aimed at intermediate-level learners of English, each programme examines a different topic which is discussed and explained to help learners increase their knowledge of the English language.... Read more

Positive

By: Tina Pepler

Narrated by: Chris Yapp, Deirdre Mullins, Gerard Cooke, Jack...

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A pregnant fourteen year-old and her angry mother present the ante-natal team with some difficult decisions in a gripping medical ethics drama written by Tina Pepler. When Rosie is admitted to A&E with stomach pains, she's shocked to find out that she's pregnant. Her mother is even more horrified, and the ante-natal team must decide if... Read more

Stream, River, Sea

By: Peter Souter

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Juliet Stevenson & Lizzy Watts

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

By Peter Souter. Hugh and Bella, are running to the same timetable, the timetable you're on if someone you love has just died, and they keep running into each other. They visit the same undertakers at the same time; Hugh's Mum is cremated immediately after Bella's husband; and they even end up in the same bereavement-counselling group. But... Read more

The Last Project: El Utimo Proyecto

By: Michael Butt

Narrated by: Bryan Dick, William Marquez & Yolanda Vasquez

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

El Ultimo Proyecto - The Last Project by Michael Butt, a play in two languages- Spanish and English. A romantic thriller set in the hills of Andalucia. A British former soldier, Travis, has a love affair with the wife of a famous Spanish film director. Story telling and reality collide when the director insists Travis helps with his latest... Read more

Delorean

By: Glenn Patterson

Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Michelle Fairley, Patrick Fitzsym...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Northern Ireland was a very dark place in the 1980s. A hunger strike was looming, street violence and tit for tat murders were an everyday occurrence, but in a small corner of West Belfast something extraordinary was happening. In a factory in Dunmurry a unique new sports car was being built, a DMC 12, a style icon for the late 20th century. For... Read more

Welcome To The Wasteland

By: DJ Britton

Narrated by: Anamaria Marinca, Benjamin Askew, Lesley Sharp,...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

As Chief Executive of her local council, Robyn has just days to stop recycling being wiped from her ambitious environmental plans. But the credit crunch continues to put pressure on other priorities. Meanwhile, her daughter Afrah provides a safe house for a fiercely committed environmentalist from Eastern Europe. Written by D. J. Britton and... Read more

Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?

By: Micky Flanagan

Narrated by: Micky Flanagan

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete BBC radio series of Micky Flanagan's autobiographical comedy show - plus pilot episode

'Excellent, funny and poignant' Miranda Sawyer, The Observer

Based on his Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated show What Chance Change?, Micky Flanagan's debut radio series combines brilliant stand-up with insightful behind-the-scenes interviews to tell... Read more

Two Ronnies, The Volume 2 (Vintage Beeb)

By: Ronnie Barker & Ronnie Corbett

Narrated by: Ronnie Barker & Ronnie Corbett

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Two Ronnies was one of Britain's most successful comedy sketch shows, and dominated the TV schedules for sixteen years between 1971 and 1987. This second compilation of classics from the much-loved show includes such sketches as 'Mispronounciation'; 'Night, Night; Cheers'; 'Cricket Commentators'; 'Train of Events'; and not forgetting 'The... Read more

How Dolly Got Rotherham Reading

By: Sarfraz Manzoor

Narrated by: Sarfraz Manzoor

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Dolly Parton grew up in poverty in rural East Tennessee, where children only attended school if there was no work to be done on the farm. She came to regard literacy skills as a passport to a better life and in 1995 she launched the 'Imagination Library'. All local children were sent a book a month, from birth to age 5. In 2007, she brought the... Read more

Our Mutual Friend (Woman's Hour Drama)

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Full Cast & Pauline Quirke

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Following his father's death, John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance. But he finds he is only eligible if he marries Bella Wilfer. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boffin, who is also Bella's guardian. 'Our Mutual Friend' was Charles Dickens' last complete... Read more

Best Interests

By: Sasha Hails

Narrated by: Alex Tregear, Elaine Caxton, Gerard McDermott, ...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Two new dramas which get inside the emotional realities of dealing with ethical dilemmas. When a confused young man with no I.D. and a Doctor Who fixation is brought into hospital, the staff have clear rules about how decisions can be made on his behalf. But when he starts to make his own wishes clear, are they right to listen? Starring... Read more

Sexton Blake The Vampire Moon & Other Stories

By: Donald Stewart

Narrated by: William Franklyn

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The history of crime detection has produced no more famous name than that of Sexton Blake’William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant Tinker, in four original BBC Radio dramatisations from 1967. Lost from the BBC archives for over 40 years, these rediscovered episodes are presented for the very... Read more

Charles Paris: Murder in the Title

By: Simon Brett, BBC & Jeremy Front

Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Full Cast & Suzanne Burden

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Paris is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation – especially in the form of women and alcohol.

He’s been out of work so long now he feels he may never get a job and he’s driving Frances, his semi-ex-wife, mad. So when he’s offered a small role in a play, she nearly pushes him out of the door. But it... Read more

The Inspector McLevy Mysteries

By: David Ashton

Narrated by: Brian Cox

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

McLevy is hardly a natural Yuletide reveller. So as the good citizens prepare to make merry, it comes as a relief to the Inspector to find that a supernatural thief is haunting the city. Brian Cox stars as McLevy with Siobhán Redmond as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Mulholland in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Read more

Sexton Blake Lilies For The Ladies & Other Stories

By: Donald Stewart

Narrated by: William Franklyn & Arthur Wontner

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The history of crime detection has produced no more famous name than that of Sexton Blake’William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant Tinker, in four original BBC Radio dramatisations from 1967. Lost from the BBC archives for over 40 years, these rediscovered episodes are presented for the very... Read more

Dombey And Son

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Full Cast & Robert Glenister

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships tells the story of Paul Dombey, head of the House of Dombey, who lacks a son and cannot reconcile himself to his only daughter. First published in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848. Narrated by Alex Jennings. Starring Robert Glenister, Helen... Read more

Nick Di Paolo: Raw Nerve

By: Nick Di Paolo

Narrated by: Nick Di Paolo

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Stand-up comedian Nick Di Paolo unleashes his caustic wit on a willing crowd at Connecticut's Foxwoods Resort Casino, putting to work the same razor-sharp sense of humor that kills 'em on Comedy Central's celebrity roasts. Read more

History Of The Brain, A (Complete)

By: Geoff Bunn

Narrated by: Jonathan Forbes & Paul Bhattacharjee

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series.Human beings have long been fascinated by the brain and how it fulfils its many functions. This groundbreaking cultural history explores the development of our ideas about... Read more

NPR American Chronicles: Civil Rights

By: NPR

Narrated by: Michele Norris

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

It wasn’t that long ago that black citizens had to move to the back of the bus. In this stirring collection, NPR tells stories large and small: of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and the March on Washington; of Pullman porters, an invaluable green book, and women who baked pies to support the Montgomery bus boycott. Personal recollections and... Read more