Art audiobooks

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Buster Merryfield, Full Cast, Iain Cuthbertson ...

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Shepherd and Iain Cuthbertson star in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic swashbuckling tale. Having outwitted a band of pirates to obtain a map disclosing the whereabouts of Captain Flint's treasure, Young Jim sets sail for Treasure Island. But the crew of the Hispaniola are not what they seem. Revealing themselves as... Read more

The Wizard Of Oz

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Full Cast, Maureen Lipman & Patrick Barlow

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Maureen Lipman and Patrick Barlow star in a full-cast dramatisation of the classic children's tale. When Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are whisked away from Kansas by a cyclone, they arrive in the strange land of the Munchkins. Setting off on a magical journey, they are befriended by the Tinman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion, all of whom join... Read more

Jeff Cesario: You Can Get A Hooker Tomorrow Night

By: Jeff Cesario

Narrated by: Jeff Cesario

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian Jeff Cesario is known for hilarious standup routines that feature everyman-style observations about a variety of subjects ranging from sports to marriage to his Wisconsin upbringing. Read more

Gary Gulman: Boyish Man

By: Gary Gulman

Narrated by: Gary Gulman

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Last Comic Standing alum, Gary Gulman, delivers with his clever wit and handsome boyish charm. Boyish Man features Hanukkah vs. Christmas, all kinds of cookies (and crackers) dating, sex… and everything in between. Read more

Alonzo Bodden: Tall, Dark and Funny

By: Alonzo Bodden

Narrated by: Alonzo Bodden

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Alonzo touches upon every subject from tsuamis to terrorists, Democrats to desperate housewives, marriage to midgets, and more. Shot at the historic El Portal Theater in Los Angeles, Alonzo brings down the house with hilarious comedy. Read more

Maybe You Never Cry Again - Abridged

By: Bernie Mac

Narrated by: Bernie Mac

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The film, television, and comedy legend tells the hilarious and moving story of how tough love, and a sense of humor made him the man he is todayBy the tender age of five, Bernie Mac had found his calling: making others laugh. He has since become the star and cocreator of Fox’s hit sitcom The Bernie Mac Show; a stand-up legend; and a hit movie... Read more

Aliens In The Mind (Classic Radio Sci-Fi)

By: Robert Holmes

Narrated by: Full Cast, Peter Cushing & Vincent Price

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

On a remote Scottish island, Doctors Curtis Lark and John Cornelius are convinced that the violent death of their friend Dr Hugh Dexter was no accident... Dexter's research notes reveal that he was investigating an island sickness affecting many of the inhabitants, turning them into zombies blindly obeying orders from an unknown source. The... Read more

Quatermass Memoirs, The (Classic Radio Sci-Fi)

By: Nigel Kneale

Narrated by: Andrew Keir, Emma Gregory & Zulema Dene

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1950s, the British public was gripped by three adult-oriented BBC science-fiction serials which became the keystone and benchmark for the genre on television. In many ways Professor Bernard Quatermass symbolised an era in which pioneering scientific discoveries encouraged both the hopes and the fears of a nation. Mixing extracts from... Read more

Murder Must Advertise

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

When copywriter Victor Dean falls to his death on the stairs of Pym's Advertising Agency, no one seems to mind. That is, until Lord Peter joins the firm incognito as Dean's replacement and starts asking questions which lead him into a network of blackmailers, drug pushers and one of the most deadly plots of crime fiction. However, before the... Read more

The Comedy of Errors - Abridged

By: Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Copen, William Shakespear...

Narrated by: a full cast, David Tennant & Brendan Coyle

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chaos and confusion mount to a crescendo in a wild and fast-paced comedy of mistaken identity, one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.Young Antipholus of Syracuse is searching the world for his identical twin brother, separated from him at birth. With him is his servant Dromio, who lost his twin brother at the same time. The pair arrive in Ephesus... Read more

Love’s Labor’s Lost - Abridged

By: E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakes...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A play replete with puns and double-entendres, this is one of Shakespeare’s earliest and most lighthearted.The young king of Navarre and three of his courtiers have vowed to lock themselves away for three years of study and fasting, and to forswear the company of women for this period. No sooner is their vow made than it is tested, however, as... Read more

Jeeves Joy In The Morning

By: P.G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Full Cast, Michael Hordern & Richard Briers

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Wooster. Steeple Bumphleigh is the sort of picturesque place where you can't throw a brick without hitting a honeysuckled cottage or beaning an apple-cheeked villager. But for Bertie Wooster, it is a place to be avoided, containing not only the... Read more

Life Interrupted

By: Spalding Gray

Narrated by: Sam Shepard

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Life Interrupted was the monologue that Spalding Gray was working on when he died in the early winter of 2004.
Famous for his often manic and always humorous monologues, Gray was, by the late 1990's, in a happy marriage living in Long Island, doing yoga every day. But his life became unhinged after a devastating car accident in Ireland in 2001,... Read more

Chasing Down the Dawn - Abridged

By: Jewel

Narrated by: Jewel

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

Welcome to a world set to the ever-changing rhythms of an artist's lifeIn Chasing Down the Dawn, recording artist, actress, and bestselling author jewel opens her intimate journals to create a vivid montage of the people, places, and relationships that colored the life she came from and have marked this past magical, turbulent, and ultimately... Read more

Desperate Networks - Abridged

By: Bill Carter

Narrated by: Dean Olsher

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life moguls and stars who make it such... Read more

War And Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Leo McKern, Nicola Pagett ...

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A thirty-five strong cast including Leo McKern as Kutuzov, Simon Russell Beale as Pierre Bezuhov, Emily Mortimer as Natasha Rostov and Gerard Murphy as Andrei Bolkonsky, brings all the passion and turbulence of Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece to the airwaves in this unique BBC Radio 4 dramatisation. 'Nine hours of blood-and-thunder period drama on... Read more

Titus Andronicus - Abridged

By: Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laur...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The noble Titus returns victorious to Rome, bringing Tamora, queen of the Goths, as his captive. When one of Tamora's sons is condemned to die, she vows revenge, and, aided by the villainous Aaron, she exacts a terrible retribution, inaugurating a grim cycle of rape, murder, and cannibalism. This macabre, often brilliant tragedy comes from the... Read more

Pericles - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare, Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Cope...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pericles, Prince of Tyre, undergoes a tyrant's fury, storm, and shipwreck. He wins love and suffers loss, but what is lost may also be found. With the ancient poet Gower acting as narrator, we follow the adventures of Pericles from young manhood to maturity. This strange and powerful tale of loss and recovery is the first in the group of romance... Read more

Grumpy Old Women The Official Handbook

By: Judith Holder

Narrated by: Alison Steadman

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Move over Grumpy Old Men - it's time for the Grumpy Old Women to have their say in this hilarious guide, read by the narrator of the BBC TV series Alison Steadman. OK, enough is enough. Grumpy Old Men have had their turn at complaining and now the Grumpy Old Women are taking over. It's about time the world knew what struggles and trials they... Read more

The Lee Mack Show

By: Lee Mack

Narrated by: Lee Mack

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Lee Mack, Bafta award-winner and host of BBC One’s ‘They Think It’s All Over’, star of ITV’s ‘The Sketch Show’ and BAFTA Award winner, stars in this hilarious six-part comedy show as heard on BBC Radio 2. Participating in the manic mix of sketches and stand-up are special musical guests Toyah Willcox, Midge Ure, Suggs, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Tom... Read more

Be Creative

By: BBC, Bill Lucas & Guy Claxton

Narrated by: Bill Lucas & Guy Claxton

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Being creative is a state of mind. Techniques may help, though some, like brainstorming, can, surprisingly, do more harm than good. And the climate at work and play matters too. But essentially, creativity is an attitude. We either meet life's challenges with a spirit of adventure, or we keep trying to make it fit old habits that don't work any... Read more

Pam Ayres Live On Stage

By: Pam Ayres

Narrated by: Pam Ayres

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Pam Ayres' stage show has been a sell-out success throughout the world. With her natural warmth and wit she builds up a rapport with the audience that guarantees an evening of fun and laughter. Pam's reflections on daily life bring a chuckle of recognition from people of all ages. Whether she's reminiscing about the spartan conditions on a... Read more

Porridge Another Helping

By: BBC Audio & Dick Clement

Narrated by: Fulton Mackay, Richard Beckinsale & Ronnie Barker

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Four more episodes from the classic prison sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker as Fletcher, with Richard Beckinsale and Fulton Mackay in support. Those included here are: 'No Peace For The Wicked' - 14 November 1975 'Poetic Justic' - 25 February 1977 'Rough Justice' - 4 March 1977 'A Test of Character' - 18 March 1977 Read more

Measure for Measure - Abridged

By: E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakes...

Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, a full cast, Roger Allam &...

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Telling his followers he is leaving the city on affairs of state, the Duke of Vienna appoints the puritanical Angelo to govern in his absence. Will Angelo prove as virtuous as he seems once power is in his hands? Roaming the city disguised as a friar, the duke looks on as Angelo’s lust for the virtuous Isabella sweeps him into the corruption he... Read more