Performance audiobooks

The Emerald City of Oz

By: L. Frank Baum & Jerry Robbins

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em are coming to live in Oz permanently. Dorothy then takes them on a tour of Oz, and during their journey they encounter King Kleaver with his Spoon Brigade and Miss Cuttenclip of the land of paper dolls. Meanwhile, the wicked Nome King has joined forces with the horrible Growleywogs, the terrifying... Read more

Powder River - Season Five

By: Jerry Robbins

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins, Derek Aalerud, Lincoln Clark, Jo...

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Five years have gone by since the devastation of the buffalo stampede hit Clearmont, and the three-part season opener titled The Twisted Badge puts Marshal Britt MacMasters in the most dangerous place he has ever been – the other side of the Law. In Those We Leave Behind, Britt finds 15-year-old Matt Andersen alone on the prairie - the son of an... Read more

As Time Goes By

By: Bob Larbey

Narrated by: Full Cast, Geoffrey Palmer & Judi Dench

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Dame Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer star as old flames Jean Pargetter and Lionel Hardcastle. Their love story was all set for a happy ending in the 1950s when Jean was a student nurse and Lionel, a young army officer. But he was posted abroad and they lost touch. Thirty-eight years later, Lionel has returned to London to publish his... Read more

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

By: William Shakespeare & Charles Lamb

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Taken from Charles Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare, this adaptation tells the vengeful story of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark. Read more

Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare & Charles Lamb

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Taken from Charles Lamb's children's book 'Tales From Shakespeare', this adaptation tells the story of Macbeth. Read more

Love's Labour's Lost

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Derek Godfrey, Prunella Scales & Diana Rigg

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A vintage performance of Shakespeare's comedy. Read more

Principal for the Day

By: AJ Stern

Narrated by: Michele Medlin

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

AJ Stern's beloved Frankly, Frannie series obtains more fans with every new addition. Here pint-sized career gal Frannie B. Miller is super-excited when she wins an essay contest - and the grand prize of being Principal for the Day at her school! Frannie can see herself now - her own office, an assistant, and some of her best rEsumE bullet... Read more

Mad Girl

By: Phil Gladwin

Narrated by: Emma Noakes & Shannon Flynn

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen year old Rose hears voices. Mostly she gets along with them ok, but when her real Dad turns up out of the blue to take her away for the weekend, things get completely out of control. This drama has sprung out of a project that listened to people with mental health issues, and in this case people who hear voices. The project was run by... Read more

Une Vie (Complete Series)

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Full Cast, Aimee Ffion Edwards & Robert Blythe

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. Jeanne de Lamare - a sheltered and naive country aristocrat - leaves her convent education filled with thoughts of love and romance. Lamare marries a smallminded local landowner, and begins to discover how rotten and treacherous adult life is all around her. Jeanne believes that... Read more

Hello Again

By: Simon Elmes

Narrated by: Simon Elmes

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

14 November 2012 marks the ninetieth anniversary of the BBC's first ever broadcast and the beginning of the British love affair with radio. This fascinating book takes as its starting point those early, tentative programmes broadcast from Marconi House on the Strand, and follows the story of those magical radio voices through the years of... Read more

Going to Sea in a Sieve

By: Danny Baker

Narrated by: Danny Baker

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The first hilarious volume of comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker's memoir, and now the inspiration for the major BBC series CRADLE TO GRAVE, starring Peter Kay.

'And what was our life like in this noisy, dangerous and polluted industrial pock-mark wedged into one of the capital's toughest neighbourhoods? It was, of... Read more

The Star Angel

By: Jerry Robbins

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On Christmas Eve, after Sean breaks one of the tree ornaments, a strange force shrinks both he and his sister Samantha down to ornament size. They meet an Old St. Nicholas ornament who tells them that in order to return to their normal height, they must talk to the magical Star Angel who resides at the very top of the Christmas Tree – and they... Read more

Being Human

By: Simon Guerrier

Narrated by: Full Cast & Lenora Crichlow

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Annie has learned quite a bit about her new friend Gemma: she's from Bristol, she used to work in a pharmacy, and she's never forgiven herself for the suicide of her teenage son. She also died ten years ago and doesn't know why she's come back through that door. Perhaps it has something to do with the new road they're building through the... Read more

Mark Radcliffe Show

By: Mark Radcliffe

Narrated by: Full Cast & Mark Radcliffe

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

When Radio One chief Matthew Bannister popped into 'A Lite Bite' in Altrincham for his favourite gherkin roll, little did he expect to find the two northern chancers who would bring so much sophistication to his beloved station. For there in the corner, playing a DLT Give Us A Break trivia game, stood Mark Radcliffe and his mate, known not... Read more

The Vicar of Dibley

By: Richard Curtis

Narrated by: Dawn French & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Four classic episodes from the original TV series: Arrival, Songs of Praise, Easter Special and The Christmas Lunch Incident. Welcome to Dibley, a perfect village full of some perfectly peculiar people - including Alice Tinker and her underactive brain, Owen Newitt and his overactive bowels, and Letitia Cropley and her orange cake with Branston... Read more

Sons And Lovers

By: D.H. Lawrence & Michael Butt

Narrated by: Fiona Clarke & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of D. H. Lawrence's classic story about working class love, loss and hardship. Sensitive, intellectual Gertrude Coppard married miner Walter Morel for his rich, ringing laugh and colourful character. But now, years later, she finds there is little behind the bluster and their marriage has become riddled with... Read more

June Whitfield At The Beeb

By: June Whitfield

Narrated by: June Whitfield, Various & Chris Emmett

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A compilation covering June Whitfield's radio career of over half a century, incorporating comedy series such as Take It From Here, The Navy Lark, Round the Horne, Hancock's Half Hour, The Frankie Howerd Show and The News Huddlines, and appearances as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Read more

Archers, The Family Ties 1951-1967

By: Joanna Toye

Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The first fascinating part of Joanna Toye's delightful trilogy about life in Ambridge. Covering the years 1951-1967, Family Ties introduces the main characters: Dan, Doris, Phil, Christine, Jack and Peggy and their children, Walter Gabriel, the Fairbrothers and Tom Forrest. The early years are action-packed: Phil's courtship and marriage to... Read more

Whisky Galore

By: Compton MacKenzie

Narrated by: Stanley Baxter

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Stanley Baxter reads the witty Compton Mackenzie story set in the Scottish Islands. The inhabitants of Great and Little Toddy think they can cope with World War II - but then the whisky runs out. Life becomes intolerable, until fate delivers them a shipwreck with a cargo of whisky. Read more

The Western Front

By: Richard Holmes

Narrated by: Richard Holmes

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Military historian Richard Holmes turns his attention to the infamous First World War trench line, the Western Front. Of the nine million British and Dominion soldiers who were killed in action in the Great War, most died here. In this thorough examination of the role the Front played in the war, the eminent historian Richard Holmes considers... Read more

Kitchen Round Table - Abridged

By: Marja Samsom

Narrated by: Marja Samsom, Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey ...

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Join us in this exclusive audio program for candid conversations with luminaries in the food world. Kitchen Round Table brings you inside the homes and hearts of Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey, Judith Jones, Betty Fussell, and Deb Perelman. We hear about their earliest food memories and how each slowly made their way into the kitchen and... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens's classic tale of the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge. In this all-new full-cast dramatization, we re-live the iconic story where the mean old businessman is visited by the spirits of Christmases past, present and future. With a cast of eleven actors performing the well-known roles of everyone from Jacob... Read more

Touchline Tales

By: Des Lynam

Narrated by: Des Lynam

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Four selected episodes from the two BBC Radio 4 series of Touchline Tales. In these programmes, old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew visit some famous sporting venues to enjoy, observe, reminisce, and trade tales. Read more

Playing With Fire (The Saturday Play)

By: David Edgar

Narrated by: David Troughton, Emma Fielding & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally produced at the National Theatre in 2005, David Edgar's play is set against the background of a riot in the fictional northern town of Wyverdale, in the early part of the 21st century. In a revised version for radio, Edgar offers a powerful combination of political and personal drama. Starring Emma Fielding, David Troughton, Geoffrey... Read more