Art audiobooks

Maigret Hesitates & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Maurice Denham & Michael Gough

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Four gripping dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon; 'Maigret Goes to School', 'Maigret and the Old Lady', 'Maigret Hesitates' and 'The Patience of Maigret' The world’s best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about four intriguing cases in... Read more

Attila The Hen

By: Natalie Haynes

Narrated by: Natalie Haynes

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4 programme all about the fashion for keeping chickens in your back garden, a hobby which shows no sign of waning. Natalie Haynes has heard some dark rumours about the true habits of the hen. Can they be true? However her own knowledge is limited entirely to chicken lives in Ancient Rome. Natalie hears from chicken breeders and... Read more

Conclave

By: Hugh Costello

Narrated by: David Calder, Alison Reid & Full Cast

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 drama by Hugh Costello, about some gripping events at the Vatican. After the short reign and mysterious death of Pope John Paul I, the election of a new Pope takes place in an atmosphere of high tension between opposing factions. Including those who want to elect the first non-Italian Pope for over four hundred years! First... Read more

Maigret's Little Joke & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Nicholas Le Prevost

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Four full-cast dramatisations starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret ‘The Yellow Dog’ sees Maigret upsetting the citizens of Concarneau as he begins his murder investigation. But there is poison in the Pernod, a howling yellow dog and, it seems, a madman on the loose... In ‘Maigret and the Burglar’s Wife’, "Sad Freddie" is... Read more

Maigret And The Minister & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Maurice Denham

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Four full-cast dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon. 'Maigret and the Minister', 'Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets', 'Maigret and Monsieur Charles', and 'Maigret and the Madman of Bergerac'. Georges Simenon and his masterful inspector, Jules Maigret, look back together... Read more

Maigret Sets A Trap & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Maurice Denham & Michael Gough

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Four gripping dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon 'Maigret Goes Home', 'Maigret Sets a Trap', Maigret at the Crossroads' and 'Maigret Has Doubts' The world’s best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about four intriguing cases in these... Read more

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 3

By: John Finnemore

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast, John Finnemore...

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether hunting for polar bears or a cleverly-hidden lemon, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. And then there are the otters...

Carolyn... Read more

Maigret A Man's Head & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Nicholas Le Prevost

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas Le Prevost stars as the French detective in four new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatizations These new adaptations of classic stories find Maigret recreating four memorable cases for his creator Georges Simenon. In ‘Maigret: A Man’s Head’, a convicted man is allowed to escape, then followed by police investigating a double murder.... Read more

Prelude, The Complete Series (BBC Radio 4 Classical Serial)

By: William Wordsworth

Narrated by: Ian McKellen

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4 presents William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’, read by Sir Ian McKellen, directed by Susan Roberts and features specially composed music by John Harle.‘The Prelude’ is arguably the most important piece of poetic writing in our language. Accessible, full of emotion and gripping, the poem is recorded in Wordsworth's... Read more

43 Letters

By: Rory Robinson

Narrated by: Barbara Marten & David Calder

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 drama written by Rony Robinson and directed by Pauline Harris. Julia and David work together in the family archives. One day a mysterious envelope arrives for David, with letters from 43 women, all answering a lonely hearts advert he didn't place! Starring David Calder as David, Barbara Marten as Julia, Helen Flanagan as... Read more

How I Got This Way

By: Regis Philbin

Narrated by: Regis Philbin

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most popular television and cultural icons ever, Regis Philbin has been entertaining television audiences for more than fifty years—as a beloved morning-show host (Live with Regis and Kelly), a nighttime game-show host (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) and also as a fixture on national and local late-night talk shows. The irrepressible... Read more

From Monastery to Marketplace

By: Jan Phillips

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A friend put Phillips in pursuit of her spiritual practice which involves deep listening and resulted in a flood of creative outpouring that fueled her imagination. This deep dialogue covers such topics as quantum physics to fear, from "erosphere" to "infosynthesis." Read more

Torchwood The Men Who Sold The World

By: Guy Adams

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

John Telfer reads this exciting Torchwood adventure - a prequel to Torchwood: Miracle Day.

When Oscar Lupe appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his body is frozen solid and free-falling to earth. It shatters on impact. Soon after, a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked ‘Torchwood’ that they’ve been escorting from... Read more

Van Gogh

By: Fred Leeman

Narrated by: Oranje van Oranje, Jochum ten Haaf & Hugo Kools...

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Uniek hoorspel over het leven van Van Gogh   Dit hoorspel (110 minuten) vertelt het verhaal over Vincent van Goghs strijd voor erkenning en succes, over zijn tegenslagen en angsten, over zijn ambitie en doorzettingsvermogen. Zijn unieke talenten maar ook zijn menselijke kanten worden blootgelegd. Met Prinses Anita van Oranje als verteller en... Read more

Poodle Springs

By: Raymond Chandler & Robert B Parker

Narrated by: Full Cast & Toby Stephens

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In Poodle Springs, Marlowe is fresh from... Read more

Notes To Self (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play)

By: Deborah Wain

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The BBC Radio 4 play, ‘Notes to Self’ by Deborah Wain is a drama about Alzheimer’s disease based on real experiences, and is interwoven with recordings of music sessions carried out in care homes and day centres in the UK.Doreen has been in a care home for two years. Her son Robert visits but finds it hard to have a meaningful relationship with... Read more

The Continuity Man

By: Stephen Keyworth

Narrated by: Ben Lewis, Sally Orrock, Nitin Ganatra, Julia I...

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A new BBC Radio 4 comedy by Stephen Keyworth all about the pitfalls of starring in a major British soap, getting yourself into deep water and trying to find your way out again.With the interesting and unique twist of' EastEnders’' star Nitin Ganatra, starring as himself. ‘The Continuity Man’ was originally broadcast as the ‘Afternoon Play’ on 9... Read more

The Old Spies (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play)

By: Jonathan Holloway

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A new BBC Radio 4 drama by Jonathan Holloway about three former spies in an old peoples' home. First broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 3 March 2011. They talk and remember their old missions and rage against the dying of their lights. And now with nowhere else to go, they hold on to the stories of their adventurous lives, as they feel their... Read more

Diva In Me, The (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play)

By: Charlotte Jones

Narrated by: Stuart McLoughlin, Sally Orrock, Daniel Rabin, ...

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 comedy musical drama, ‘The Diva in Me’, was specially written by multi award-winning playwright Charlotte Jones, for the actress and extraordinary mimic Phillippa Stanton. The music, woven into the narrative is an essential part of the story.Phillipa spends Saturday night eating toast and fantasizing about a boy-man from Southern... Read more

Landfall (BBC Radio 4 The Saturday Play)

By: Mike Walker

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 science fiction adventure by Mike Walker, originally broadcast on 19 March 2011. When five lost souls, recruited by a company to travel to an abandoned planet, all they know is that they are there to retrieve the only known sample of an ore left over from an old mining operation. However, their task becomes considerably more... Read more

Turf Wars: The Complete Series

By: Simon Brett, Jeremy Front, Kieran Lynn & Nick W...

Narrated by: James Fleet, Joanna Monro, Full Cast, Nigel Pla...

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Four comic dramas about boundaries that are both territorial and personal

Territory is the theme that unites these four humorous plays - whether that means fighting over an allotment plot, dealing with the sudden partition of a country, guarding the privacy of a garden or battling with the council over school catchment areas.

In 'Losing the Plot',... Read more

Terence Rattigan In His Own Words

By: Terrence Rattigan

Narrated by: Terrence Rattigan

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating collection of archive interviews with the acclaimed playwright, whose centenary was celebrated in 2011, begins in 1969 with a radio appearance on Out This Week. It culminates with an interview for Kaleidoscope in 1977, recorded a few months before his death. In between are several major radio features on Rattigan's life and... Read more

Mr Luby's Fear Of Heaven

By: John Mortimer

Narrated by: Chris Pavlo, Dan Starkey, Donnla Hughes, Flamin...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lewis Luby (Jeremy Irons) comes to, late at night in an Italian hospital, he finds himself lying under the monstrous big toe of God. Surely there has been some mistake: Luby, who has never for one moment believed in the immortality of the soul, cannot possibly be in heaven! John Mortimer had the idea for 'Mr Luby's Fear of Heaven' when he... Read more

The High Window

By: Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast & Toby Stephens

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on... Read more