Art audiobooks

Mark Twain's Niagara (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading)

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Stuart Milligan

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In ‘Niagara’, the McWilliamses plan a day trip to those intrepid Falls to tramp exciting trails and meet some friendly Red Indians. But the best laid plans... Read by Stuart Milligan and produced by Duncan Minshull. Originally broadcast in the ‘Afternoon Reading’ slot on BBC Radio 4 on 9 November 2010, to accompany the 'Autobiography of Mark... Read more

Hay Fever (Classic Radio Theatre)

By: Noël Coward

Narrated by: Full Cast, Peggy Ashcroft & Tony Britton

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Judith Bliss is a famous actress who, after a string of successful roles, has retired to her country retreat. Missing the adulation of her public, she has has invited a fan over for a weekend of uninterrupted adoration - unaware that the rest of her family has company arriving too. Hoping for a delightful weekend, the four unwitting visitors... Read more

The Greengrocer's Apostrophe

By: Anneliese Mackintosh, Diana Hendry & Ronald Frame

Narrated by: James Anthony Pearson

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of three comic tales from BBC Radio 4, ‘The Greengrocer’s Apostrophe’, inspired by those hand-written signs offering ‘Apple's and Banana's’ which can be found in every town in Britain. Originally broadcast in the ‘Afternoon Reading’ slots from 28-30 September 2010. ‘Penny's from Heaven’ by Anneliese Mackintosh: James Anthony... Read more

Theremin

By: Melissa Murray

Narrated by: Tom Hollander, Kate Ashfield & Full Cast

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 fictional dramatisation of Léon Theremin’s espionage work in the lead up to the Cold War, written by Melissa Murray. ‘Theremin’ was originally broadcast as the ‘Saturday Play’ on 3 January 2009 and repeated on 9 October 2010. Léon Theremin, gifted inventor and reluctant spy, is forced to find a way to bug the US Embassy in London.... Read more

Hamlet (Classic Radio Theatre)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Angela Pleasence, Full Cast, Maxine Audley & Ro...

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Written over four hundred years ago, ‘Hamlet’ still remains one of the most powerful, influential and thrilling tragedies in the English language. The story of Prince Hamlet and his quest for vengeance has been interpreted countless times on stage, film and television. With its riveting plot featuring murder and supernatural horror; and... Read more

Can You Tell Me The Name Of The Prime Minister?

By: Martin Jameson

Narrated by: Amita Dhiri, Christine Kavanagh, David Seddon, ...

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 science-fiction mystery by Martin Jameson, originally broadcast as the ‘Afternoon Play’ on 14 May 2010. A week after the election, Liz de Souza, a psychiatrist, examines a patient at a secure government research facility who's convinced that Tony Blair is still Prime Minister. Starring Amita Dhiri as Liz de Souza and Suzanna... Read more

Cinders

By: Ali Taylor

Narrated by: Claudie Blakley, David Seddon, Imran Khan, Lizz...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A pacy BBC Radio 4 comedy drama by Ali Taylor, lifting the lid on the ethics of publishing war-torn misery memoirs. Emma discovers a brilliant new talent in the unsolicited pile... Originally broadcast as the ‘Afternoon Play’ on 20 May 2010. When a heartbreaking memoir about life in war-torn Kabul lands on her desk, Emma thinks she's discovered... Read more

Three Stories By Mark Twain The McWilliamses And The Burglar

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Stuart Milligan

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Three of Mark Twain’s classic short stories, originally broadcast in the ‘Afternoon Reading’ slot on BBC Radio 4 from 9 - 11 November 2010, to accompany the 'Autobiography of Mark Twain' (aired on ‘Book of the Week'). Read by Stuart Milligan. Twain’s classic short stories, with their familiar trademarks of high farce and droll insight, bring us... Read more

Mark Twain's The McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm (BBC Radio)

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Stuart Milligan

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In ‘The McWilliamses and The Burglar Alarm’ it becomes apparent that their home would be better off with a state of the art security device - if it works, that is... Read by Stuart Milligan and produced by Duncan Minshull. Originally broadcast in the ‘Afternoon Reading’ slot on BBC Radio 4 on 9 November 2010, to accompany the 'Autobiography of... Read more

Mark Twain's The Experience Of The McWilliamses With Membranous Croup

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Stuart Milligan

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In ‘The Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup’, a strange fever is afflicting the neighbourhood just as little Penelope begins to cough. Though the reason is hardly clear cut... Read by Stuart Milligan and produced by Duncan Minshull. Originally broadcast in the ‘Afternoon Reading’ slot on BBC Radio 4 on 10 November 2010, to... Read more

Untied

By: Meredith Baxter

Narrated by: Meredith Baxter

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man.  After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it.  ‘Hair,’ I blurted. ‘He has to have hair.’”
 
Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her enormously popular role as hippie mom, Elyse Keaton, on Family... Read more

Caesar Price Our Lord

By: Fin Kennedy

Narrated by: Aidan Parsons, Emma Cunniffe & Lee Ingleby

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 drama by Fin Kennedy, set in London in the near future, about Caesar Price, an illusionist who has reproduced nearly all of the miracles of Jesus and built a massive cult following. Is he prepared for what will happen when he decides to stage the Crucifixion? Originally transmitted on 26 September 2008, and re-broadcast as the... Read more

We Happened to Be Passing

By: David Nobbs

Narrated by: Hugo Chandor, James Nickerson, Kerry Shale, Mag...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A wonderfully perceptive BBC Radio 4 comedy of manners and international relations written by David Nobbs (writer of 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin' and 'A Bit of a Do'). Originally broadcast as the ‘Afternoon Play’ on 24 September 2010. It is a quiet Saturday morning in the Hinchcliffe home. Tony and Sal, tired after a week of work,... Read more

Mr. Funny Pants

By: Michael Showalter

Narrated by: Michael Showalter

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The writer and star of The State, Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, and Michael & Michael Have Issues brings readers his uniquely absurd humor in his hilarious first book.

I was at my wit's end. I'd had enough of this job, this life, and my relationship had broken up. Should I eat chocolate, or go to India, or fall in love? Then I had a... Read more

Apollo's Angels

By: Jennifer Homans

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 23 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings,... Read more

Radio Shangri-La

By: Lisa Napoli

Narrated by: Lisa Napoli

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist. When a chance encounter with a handsome stranger presented her with an opportunity to move halfway around the world, Lisa left behind cosmopolitan Los Angeles for a new adventure in the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan—said to be one of the... Read more

Reframing Spirituality

By: Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer feel there is a tremendous amount of human potential that is untapped, but we have been stunted by various beliefs, limited identities, and rigid worldviews. In particular, they feel spiritual traditions make people feel inadequate and bad about themselves for not being selfless enough and for being self-centered. Read more

Peter Lorre vs. Peter Lorre

By: Michael Butt

Narrated by: Helen Longworth, John Chancer, John Rowe, Kenne...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Towards the end of his unique career, movie star Peter Lorre found himself at the centre of an unusual legal case. Incorporating verbatim extracts from the court transcripts, Michael Butt's play wonders what was going through Lorre's troubled mind as he fought to protect his name and identity. Features a cast including Stephen Greif as Peter... Read more

Tamburlaine Shadow Of God (BBC Radio 3 Drama On 3)

By: John Fletcher

Narrated by: John Rowe, Jeffery Kissoon & Conleth Hill

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

John Fletcher’s BBC Radio 3 full-cast play explores the dramatic clash between three key historical figures: a warlord, a historian and a poet. Originally broadcast in Radio 3’s ‘Drama on 3’ slot on 16 November 2008. As war swirls around them, three of the most important figures in the history of the Middle and Near East are brought together in... Read more

Patricia Hodge Is Mattie, A Liberated Woman

By: Juliet Ace

Narrated by: Patricia Hodge

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Patricia Hodge stars as Mattie in Juliet Ace’s four linked dramas, written especially for Patricia’s voice, in which Mattie reflects on her life as a naval wife, an actress and as a mother and daughter. In these funny and beautifully observed performances we come to meet Mattie as she shares her hard-earned understanding of her life, in all its... Read more

Womble Stories (Vintage Beeb)

By: Elisabeth Beresford

Narrated by: Bernard Cribbins

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Great Uncle Bulgaria, Tobermory, Madame Cholet and all the other Wombles in these six wonderful stories by Elisabeth Beresford. Snow falls on the common, there’s a visit from a Scottish cousin, Wellington finds a balloon, and Madame Cholet goes on extended leave – all with chaotic results! ‘The MacWomble’s Pipe Band’, ‘The Snow Womble’,... Read more

I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again

By: BBC

Narrated by: Bill Oddie, David Hatch, Graeme Garden, Jo Kend...

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Described by Barry Took as 'A kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrase and innuendo revolving at breakneck speed and with a complete disregard for logic', I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again pre-dated I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and showcased the comic talents of Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. ... Read more

Picture Man, The (BBC Radio 3 Drama On 3)

By: David Eldridge

Narrated by: Full Cast & Martin Freeman

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Neil decides he has been pushed too far by the uncaring and often callous behaviour he sees around him. But when he begins to intervene in incidents by taking pictures on his mobile phone, it has disastrous consequences. Starring Martin Freeman as Neil, Heather Craney as Janine, Emil Marwa as Hussein and Peter Marinker as George. Also included... Read more

Al Jaffee's Mad Life

By: Mary-Lou Weisman

Narrated by: Allen Rickman

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the great cartoonists of our time.” –New Yorker cartoonist Arnold Roth

The remarkable story of one of America’s most prolific and beloved cartoonists, Al Jaffee, with dozens of original color illustrations. Jaffe’s career in cartooning stretches back to 1941—with early humor pieces for Timely Comics, a precursor to Marvel Comics—but the... Read more