Art audiobooks

The Joke’s Over

By: Ralph Steadman

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In early 1970, artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for. At the Kentucky Derby he met a former Hell’s Angel, one Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson wrote later that “The rest of that day blurs into madness. The rest of that night, too. Steadman was lucky to get out of Louisville without serious... Read more

The Emergence of Integral Consciousness

By: Allan Combs, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We all sense intuitively that reality is not a jumbled assortment of unrelated parts, but a dynamic, unified whole. Yet, as fields of knowledge become increasingly complex and specialized, it's often difficult to see how all the parts of this whole truly fit together. In this dialogue with consciousness researcher Allan Combs, we explore the... Read more

Liebe zwei

By: Hagen Rether

Narrated by: Hagen Rether

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In seinem Soloprogramm "Liebe" zeigt Pianist und Kabarettist Hagen Rether was gut und weh tut. Vielleicht ist er fürs Fernsehen zu intelligent, grübelte kürzlich ein Journalist über die Frage, warum sich der Kabarettist Hagen Rether nicht längst eingereiht hat in die Riege der Humor-Gestalten, die allabendlich dem TV-Publikum präsentiert werden.... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens' masterfully crafted Christmas fable tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a man with wealth to match the coldness of his heart. On a mystical Christmas Eve, a visitation with spirits forces Scrooge to make a choice: change, or perish. Read more

Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years - Abridged

By: Michael Palin

Narrated by: Michael Palin

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Michael Palin's diaries begin in the late 1960s when he began writing for hugely popular programs. He recounts how Monty Python emerged and triumphed. From the success and cult status brought by Monty Python, Palin shares stories from their world tours, their stay at hotels recently trashed by Led Zeppelin, their battles over censorship, and how... Read more

Kraken Wakes, The (Classic Radio Sci-Fi)

By: John Wyndham

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jonathan Cake & Saira Todd

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

At first the fireballs seemed to be nothing more than a dazzling display of lights in the sky, plunging into the deepest oceans and disappearing without trace. But, when ships started sinking inexplicably and the sea-lanes became impassable, it seemed that the world was facing a threat of unprecedented proportions. Mike and Phyllis Watson,... Read more

Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf

By: Toby Hadoke

Narrated by: Colin Baker, Full Cast, Louise Jameson & Toby H...

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Actor and comedian Toby Hadoke’s hilarious and touching one-man show was a huge hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, and his nationwide tour was just as successful. This two-part adaptation, based on the stage show and starring Toby Hadoke, Louise Jameson and with a cameo by Colin Baker, is a celebration of Doctor Who for fans and novices alike. Toby... Read more

Mark Tully's India

By: Mark Tully

Narrated by: Mark Tully

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Mark Tully was the BBC’s Foreign Correspondent in India from 1972 to 1994. He has become familiar to listeners around the world for his incisive and thought-provoking reports. On this special recording, he looks back at a career that coincided with a remarkable period in Indian history. As well as the assassination of two Indian Prime... Read more

Legendary Dancer Baryshnikov

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of 59, ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov is still dancing. He recently opened the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City, which provides space and support for creating art. Read more

The Ken Dodd Show

By: Ken Dodd

Narrated by: Ken Dodd, Jo Manning Wilson & Gretchen Franklin

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Squire of Knotty Ash waves his tickling stick in these four inimitable BBC Radio episodes. Welcome to Doddy's world of whimsy, where the puns fly thick and fast, and the quips are as surreal as they are saucy. With mirth-quaking jokes and a juggernaut of japes, Ken Dodd gives us his own unique take on topics as diverse as the European... Read more

The Birds

By: Daphne du Maurier & BBC

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of horror. The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to a farm from her house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field while above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed an idea about the birds... Read more

A Suitable Boy

By: Vikram Seth

Narrated by: Ayesha Dharker, Full Cast & Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A Suitable Boy is now a major 2020 BBC TV series, and one of the BBC's 100 novels that shaped our world.

The award-winning BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Vikram Seth's masterpiece

'The drama highlight of the year...this sumptuous production, wonderfully atmospheric, written with pace and performed, by an all-Indian cast, quite superbly. The novel may... Read more

Car Talk Classics

By: Tom Magliozzi & Ray Magliozzi

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Four all-time favorite episodes from the popular radio show—complete, unexpurgated, and hilarious.



Click and Clack may be America's most trusted car repair experts. They are certainly the funniest, as millions of listeners who tune in each week to Car Talk can attest. As each show unfolds, it develops its own zany feeling and rhythm, sometimes... Read more

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

By: Eric Bentley

Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson, Michael Canavan, Jake Gr...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the mid-1950’s, the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating the communist influence in the entertainment industry. This searing docudrama from actual transcripts of the hearings reveals how decent people were persuaded to “name names,” and the steep price paid by those who refused.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance... Read more

It's That Man Again Volume 1

By: BBC

Narrated by: Tommy Handley

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It's That Man Again is a giant in the history of radio comedy. As Mat Coward's book Classic Radio Comedy says, "Surely the most written-about radio series in history, it was successful to an extent which is hard to imagine today. Its international audience was measured in the tens of millions. Its star, Tommy Handley, was undoubtedly the most... Read more

The Call of the Weird - Abridged

By: Louis Theroux

Narrated by: Louis Theroux

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America.

For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the... Read more

Never Better

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town…." Each week, more than four million radio listeners hear these words, and settle in for some old-fashioned, up-to-the-minute storytelling.

During live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor takes us to "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve,"... Read more

The Making Of Modern Medicine

By: Andrew Cunningham

Narrated by: Andrew Cunningham

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond. ‘The Making of Modern Medicine’ covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and... Read more

The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 16 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-three great Sherlock Holmes mysteries as published in Strand Magazine. These stories have won over readers in the thousands and have helped make Sherlock Holmes the most popular and most famous detective of all times.Arthur Conan Doyle, was born in Scotland in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools in England and Austria. In 1881 he... Read more

A Needle in the Right Hand of God

By: R. Howard Bloch

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bayeux Tapestry is the world's most famous textile—an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history's most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew the map of medieval Europe has inspired dreams of... Read more

Paul Taylor - Extended Interview

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this 2007 interview, dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor talks to Jeffrey Brown about his career. Read more

The Chrysalids & Survival

By: John Wyndham

Narrated by: Full Cast, John Moffatt, Nicholas Courtney, Ste...

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Two classic tales from acclaimed British science fiction writer John Wyndham. In The Chrysalids, ten-year-old David is a happy, ordinary boy, untroubled except for occasional strange dreams about a mysterious city – until he befriends Sophie, who is unlike anybody he has met before: she has six toes. But, in the ultra-religious village of... Read more

The Al Read Show

By: Ronnie Taylor

Narrated by: Al Read

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Described by Radio Times as "a brilliant observer of the domestic scene, a master reporter of life as we know it", Al Read's weekly show drew audiences of 35 million during the 1950s and 60s.Born in Salford in 1909, Al started life as a sausage manufacturer, having inherited the family's meat-processing factory. His comedy developed from his... Read more

The Midwich Cuckoos

By: John Wyndham

Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Full Cast & Sarah Parish

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Driving back from a weekend in London, Richard and Janet Gayford are surprised to find the village of Midwich sealed off because of ‘army manoeuvres’. There are no birds singing, the air seems thick and there is a strange sort of music in the air. It soon becomes clear that there is an invisible wall around the village, and everyone within the... Read more