Art audiobooks

Pollyanna

By: Eleanor H. Porter

Narrated by: Full Cast & Gayle Hunnicutt

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic American tale, starring Gayle Hunnicutt. When Pollyanna's father dies, she is sent to live with her only surviving relative, the rich but stern Aunt Polly. Pollyanna's joy soon turns to disappointment when her spinster aunt gives her a cold greeting and tells her she is to stay in the attic.... Read more

Paul Temple And The Madison Mystery

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Crawford Logan, Full Cast & Gerda Stevenson

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1938 to 1969 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. They inhabit a sophisticated, well-dressed world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women are chic and the men wear cravats - and where Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland... Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Full Cast & Roy Marsden

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parents’ warnings he runs away to sea to embark on a series of thrilling adventures: struggles with Barbary pirates, a shipwreck and the extraordinary meeting with Man Friday... Roy Marsden plays the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of... Read more

15 Minute Musical

By: David Quantick, Richie Webb & Dave Cohen

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete fourth series of brief musical comedies – as heard on BBC Radio 4. These musical comedies contain some of the most foot-tapping satire you’ll ever hear... * ‘Westminster Side Story’ – Gordon Brown and David Cameron are two gang leaders with nothing to fight about. * ‘Life on Noel’ – Noel Edmonds wakes up in 2007 and is desperate to... Read more

We Are Klang

By: Marek Larwood, Steve Hall & Greg Davies

Narrated by: Greg Davies, Steve Hall & Marek Larwood

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The specially commissioned BBC radio series from the trio who were nominated for an if.comedy award. 'We Are Klang' are three stand-up comedians: Greg Davies - ‘a very fat Rik Mayall’ - Steve Hall - ‘a poor man’s David Baddiel’ - and the hairless Marek Larwood - ‘a homeless Matt Lucas’. Their sell out Edinburgh show was nominated for an... Read more

Betjeman's Britain Poems From The BBC Archive

By: BBC & John Betjeman

Narrated by: John Betjeman

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir John Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates. Even after his death, his popularity continues to garner acclaim and new admirers. Fortunately, he left behind a legacy of poetry readings and performances in the BBC archives that can be enjoyed in this comprehensive collection. Selected from over thirty years of radio and... Read more

Achebe Discusses Africa 50 Years After 'Things Fall Apart'

By: Chinua Achebe

Narrated by: Chinua Achebe & Jeffrey Brown

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A half century after Chinua Achebe penned Things Fall Apart, Jeffrey Brown discusses Africa's ongoing story with the famed author. Read more

Up Till Now

By: William Shatner & David Fisher

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

After almost sixty years as an actor, William Shatner has become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world. And it seems as if Shatner is everywhere. In Up Till Now, Shatner sits down with readers and offers the remarkable, full story of his life and explains how he got to be, well, everywhere.

It was the original Star Trek series, and... Read more

The Billionaire's Vinegar - Abridged

By: Benjamin Wallace

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.

In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbes family. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band... Read more

Up Till Now - Abridged

By: William Shatner & David Fisher

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of William Shatner's half-century career and private life. The audio will take readers from the streets of Montreal to regional theatre, where Shatner was once called upon to replace Christopher Plummer as Henry V— in a role he had never rehearsed, with actors he had never met. It will describe his early TV work and movies,... Read more

Audition

By: Barbara Walters

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 26 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”

And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion Anniversary Album

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This festive collection is a nostalgic trip through five years of America's favorite radio show. "Commercials" for Powdermilk Biscuits, Jack's Deep Valley Bed and more introduce songs and sketches like "The Finn Who Would Not Take a Sauna," and "The Cat Came Back." Selected from the original live radio broadcasts.



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A Prairie Home Companion: Tourists

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1981-82, A Prairie Home Companion went on tour, visiting and performing in friendly places like Lansing, Michigan and Ashland, Oregon. This scrapbook of musical highlights features performances by The Butch Thompson Trio, Robin and Linda Williams, The Odessa Balalaikas, The Klezmer Conservatory Band, and Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco... Read more

Audition - Abridged

By: Barbara Walters

Narrated by: Barbara Walters

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me:
“I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”

And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing... Read more

NPR Funniest Driveway Moments

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected from the National Public Radio archives, these stories by some of NPR's favorite commentators will keep listeners laughing.



A "driveway moment" is when you're so captivated by a story on NPR that you stay in your car to hear it to the end—even if you're sitting in your own driveway. Some are serious, some are touching, and some, like the... Read more

Pam Ayres In Potting On

By: Christoper Thompson, Pam Ayres & Peter Reynolds

Narrated by: Full Cast, Geoffrey Whitehead & Pam Ayres

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Pam and Gordon Grant are a couple at odds running a rural garden centre. While Pam still feels young and is determined to avoid the slippery slope into middle-age, Gordon seems keen to dive in - slippers first. Pam’s ally at the garden centre is teenager Carol, a girl more than happy to speak her mind. If only, Gordon complains, there was... Read more

The Animal Fair & Other Stories

By: Philip Hawthorn & Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen and Play encourages the pre-school child to observe the world with theirs ears! Each audiobook contains an exciting mix of songs, nursery rhymes, sound puzzles and tongue twisters and finishes with a short story. Listen and Play offers more than just songs, more than just stories, more than just rhymes. It takes a journey through sound... Read more

The Complete Barchester Chronicles

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Amanda Root, Anna Massey, Brenda...

Length: 18 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial life

One of the most respected, successful chroniclers of nineteenth-century life, Anthony Trollope is still widely read and much-loved today. The Barchester Chronicles - witty moral comedies with a wonderful range of characters - are among his most... Read more

Cultural Amnesia - Abridged

By: Clive James

Narrated by: Clive James

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James.

With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic.

'One stupendous starburst of wild brilliance' –... Read more

More News from Lake Wobegon: Hope

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Hope contains “Truckstop”; “Smokes”; “The Perils of Spring”; “Let Us Pray.”. Read more

More News from Lake Wobegon: Faith

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Faith contains “Rotten Apples”; “O Death”; “The Wise Men”; “A Trip to Grand Rapids”. Read more

Singing For Your Life

By: Judy Fjell

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Judy Fjell feels that music should be more than a commodity left only to the professional. She is a strong advocate of musical literacy being an integral part of our education. Read more

Working For Your Soul

By: Thomas Moore, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

If your life is going along in a straight line there is little room for a creative change of direction. If you have a gnawing question about something better that might be waiting around the bend, Moore points to unexpected signs that it might help you make space to find fulfillment in a more creative direction in your life. Read more

English Majors

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes the Six-Minute Hamlet, tributes to Hawthorne and Kerouac and Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an M.F.A. scam, Garrison Keillor’s recollection of growing up bookish in a football-loving town, and the Ballad of John Henry ('John Henry was an English major and poetry was his line. He sat by the window with his yellow... Read more