Art audiobooks

The Christmas Companion

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The first new Prairie Home Christmas collection in ten years is a warm and wonderful celebration of storytelling, music, and the holiday spirit. 

It’s Christmas in Lake Wobegon, Christmas at the old radio show, Christmas at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Christmas wherever friends and families gather to rejoice, reminisce, and share the... Read more

Murder On The Orient Express

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt. One of their glittering number lies dead in his cabin, stabbed a mysterious twelve times. There is no lack of clues for Poirot - but which clue is real and... Read more

Remembering Kenny Everett

By: Kenny Everett

Narrated by: Kenny Everett & Barry Cryer

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A special compilation of highlights from cuddly Ken’s television and radio shows. Kenny Everett was one of radio’s great innovators, the funniest DJ of our time and a one-off whose madcap comedy burst the boundaries of broadcasting. Introduced and presented by Barry Cryer, this recording features the definitive Kenny Everett: the jokes, the... Read more

The Battle Of Britain

By: BBC

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

First-hand accounts featuring the RAF pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain - one of the chief turning points of World War Two. 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few' - Winston Churchill. The 'Few' were the nearly 3,000 RAF pilots who fought against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, which... Read more

The Unexpected Guest

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & Jeremy Clyde

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A foggy night... a lonely country house... and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look anything but straightforward... First staged at the Duchess Theatre in... Read more

The Case Of Perfect Carer

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Cowley sisters employ a carer to look after the ailing Carmela, Morag appears to suit their needs perfectly. But after a spectacular jewel theft on the night of the Hunt Ball, it appears that the perfect carer might be implicated... Read more

The Pale Horse

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jeremy Clyde, Stephanie Cole, Terenc...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation from the Queen of Crime.

Father Gorman is called to a dingy rooming house to see a woman who, before she dies, confesses a bizarre tale to him. Leaving the house he is followed but, in the fog, a fatal blow is struck. Nine names on a piece of paper found in the dead priest's shoe is recovered. The clue leads... Read more

Good Morning Nantwich - Abridged

By: Phill Jupitus

Narrated by: Phill Jupitus

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ? The opening DJ on the Beeb’s new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio. Disregarding the prescriptive chart-led schedule and showing no fear in the... Read more

Paul Temple And Steve

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Crawford Logan, Full Cast & Gerda Stevenson

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1938 to 1968, crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular serials. Now the dapper duo return refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves, to investigate the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind in post-war London. Enlisted... Read more

Judi Dench & Michael Williams With Great Pleasure

By: Various

Narrated by: Judi Dench & Michael Williams

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose. In this enchanting pair of programmes from 1991 and 1996, Dame Judi Dench and husband Michael Williams shared an eclectic selection of pieces that they loved, admired or simply... Read more

Under Milk Wood (2003)

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Richard Burton

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Burton's voice has been digitally remastered and seamlessly mixed with an all-Welsh cast to create a magical, fresh visit to the unique but universally recognisable world of Llareggub. Richard Burton's inimitable narration as the Narrator in the BBC's 1963 recording of 'Under Milk Wood' was hugely acclaimed. In this 2003 production,... Read more

Radio 4's History Of Private Life

By: Amanda Vickery

Narrated by: Amanda Vickery & Various

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor Amanda Vickery is one of the most charismatic historians in Britain today. In 'A History of Private Life' she reveals the intimate secrets of life at home, from the Tudor mansion to the modern bedsit. Through letters, diaries and other first-person accounts, we hear the voices of men and women from very different backgrounds telling... Read more

Under Milk Wood

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Full Cast & Richard Burton

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

'To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black...' When Richard Burton breathed the opening words of Under Milk Wood into a microphone, broadcasting history was made. For this 'play for voices' conjures up the intimate dreams and waking lives of the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside village in a... Read more

Matt Lucas And The Winner Is...

By: Matt Lucas

Narrated by: Matt Lucas

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Matt Lucas hosts the newest and most prestigious awards ceremony of the year - the perfectly-title 'Lucases'. Including awards for the Lamest Excuse of All-Time, the Lucas for Most Pointless Member of the Royal Family and the Lucas for Greatest Song By A Musical Artist Who Is Otherwise Rubbish. The nominations are provided by the guests, but... Read more

Balanchine Variations

By: Nancy Goldner

Narrated by: Celeste Lawson

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Artistic profile of one of the 20th century's great choreographers. The literature on Balanchine is vast, but it is primarily biographical. Balanchine Variations is the first book to concentrate on the ballets themselves, providing critical analysis and detailed descriptions of what the dancers actually do.Beginning with Apollo (1928),... Read more

My Life in Three Acts

By: Helen Hayes

Narrated by: James MacArthur

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen Hayes, acclaimed “First Lady of the American Theatre,” has been on stage, screen, and television for more than fifty years. In that time she moved among the world’s most famous and talented, including Joan Crawford, William Randolph Hearst, Charlie Chaplin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Burton, Lillian Gish, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Gloria... Read more

Red Star over Hollywood

By: Ronald Radosh & Allis Radosh

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Until now, Hollywood’s political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the nightmare of the Red Scare and how it victimized political innocents. But Ronald and Allis Radosh tell for the first time the “backstory” behind this myth. They show how the Soviet Comintern targeted the film capital in the late... Read more

Role Models

By: John Waters

Narrated by: John Waters

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Role Models is filmmaker John Waters's self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the American playwright Tennessee Williams; from the atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair to... Read more

The Art Detective

By: Philip Mould

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

What separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off, everyone is searching garage sales and hunting online for hidden gems, wondering whether their attics contain trash or treasures. In The Art Detective, Philip Mould, one of the world's foremost authorities on British portraiture... Read more

Seven Dirty Words

By: James Sullivan

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In Seven Dirty Words, journalist and cultural critic James Sullivan tells the story of Alternative America from the 1950s to the present, from the singular vantage point of George Carlin, the Catholic boy for whom nothing was sacred. A critical biography, Seven Dirty Words is an insightful (and, of course, hilarious) examination of Carlin's body... Read more

Made by Hand

By: Mark Frauenfelder

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From his unique vantage point as editor in chief of Make magazine, the hub of the newly invigorated do-it-yourself (DIY) movement, Mark Frauenfelder takes listeners on an inspiring and surprising tour of the vibrant world of DIY. The Internet has brought together large communities of people who share ideas, tips, and blueprints for making... Read more

Armstrong And Miller Children's Hour

By: Alexander Armstrong & Ben Miller

Narrated by: Alexander Armstrong, Ben Miller & Guests

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Pompous critics and culture journalists Martin Bain-Jones (Armstrong) and Craig Children (Miller), present a frightfully clever culture show, a wry look at the fringes of popular music. They’re hip, they’re happening – so they say – and in these four episodes they discuss Boy Bands (Peter Andre would be in a band if he had any mates), Middle... Read more

NPR Sound Treks: Birds

By: NPR

Narrated by: Jon Hamilton

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Are birds monogamous? Why do kookaburras laugh? Is the ivory-billed woodpecker really extinct? These fascinating stories feature the delightful and exotic sounds of birds, plus astute and informative commentary from bird lovers, bird experts, and sometimes birds themselves.

Learn how naturalist F. Schuyler Matthews translated bird song into... Read more

NPR Sound Treks: Animals

By: NPR

Narrated by: Jon Hamilton

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From rainforests to deserts, mountains to plains, the sea to the sky, animals raise their voices in an eclectic and thrilling chorus. This collection celebrates the unique calls of the keel-billed toucan, Guatemalan coatimundi, hammerhead bat, Central African elephant, urban katydid, and many more intriguing creatures whose sounds we seldom... Read more