Performance audiobooks

Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Toby Stephens & Full Cast

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolstoy's story of one woman's fate is brought powerfully to life in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens. Anna Karenina enjoys a privileged and aristrocratic lifestyle as the wife of influential government official Alexy Karenin. Yet their ten-year marriage is devoid of tenderness, and when Anna... Read more

My Generation

By: Alice Nutter

Narrated by: Jo Hartley

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A family saga covering four decades, My Generation offers a window into the drugs and pop-fuelled protest movement inspired by writer Alice Nutter's own experience of the protest movement (she was part of the band Chumbawamba). With original music by Harry Hamer, My Generation stars Jo Hartley (Waterloo Road; This Is England) as Cath, Jason Done... Read more

Zurich (The Wire)

By: Pearse Elliott

Narrated by: Conleth Hill

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Best friends Aidan and Paul make a yearly pilgrimage to catch their rock idols AC/DC on their European tour. This year Paul has chosen Zurich - and Aidan soon discovers why. The cast stars Conleth Hill as Paul and Patrick FitzSymons as Aidan, with music by Brendan Ratliff. First broadcast: BBC Radio 3, February 4, 2012. Read more

Twelve Years

By: Alexandra Wood

Narrated by: Brian Hastert & Megan Ketch

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A love story told across the two New York blackouts of 1965 and 1977. Larry and Nancy meet during the first blackout, while the prosperous city enjoys a spontaneous holiday. Twelve years on, the city is very different: rioting and looting accompany the blackout in a time of economic depression, and the couple must fight for their survival in a... Read more

The Mystery Of The Mystery Of Edwin Drood

By: Frances Fyfield

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' is a tantalising element of the Dickens manuscript archive held by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Along with fellow crime-writer Simon Brett and Dickens scholar Professor Jenny Hartley, Frances Fyfield uses the packed manuscript pages, detailed number plans and early cover designs to try and make sense of... Read more

The London Nobody Knows

By: Dan Cruickshank

Narrated by: Dan Cruickshank

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Geoffrey Fletcher's London was not the big landmarks, but rather 'the tawdry, extravagant and eccentric'. He wrote about parts of the city no-one ever had before. This could be an art nouveau pub, a Victorian music hall, a Hawksmoor church or even a public toilet in Holborn in which the attendant kept goldfish in the cisterns. He was drawn to... Read more

Allan Quatermain

By: Clay and Susan Griffith

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins, J.T. Turner, Tom Berry & The Col...

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the exciting Bluewater Comic by Clay and Susan Griffith, Allan Quatermain journeys deep into the unexplored, mysterious forests of equatorial Africa to repay a debt of honor and avenge a wrong. He encounters the dangerous Lord of Locusts, Bwana Nzige, a slaver from Zanzibar. Nzige is a capricious dictator who is creating an empire built... Read more

Ticonderoga

By: Jerry Robbins

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins, J.T. Turner, Joseph Zamparelli, ...

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

CRT's hit feature TICONDEROGA is now a new series! The series picks up where the feature left off, with Captain Taylor, his son Adam, Mohawk scout Dagadawidah, and Captain Campbell of the 42nd Highlanders, remaining at the fort with a small contingent while the main army has moved on to Crown Point, poised to follow the French into Canada.... Read more

Jarrem Lee - Ghost Hunter - The Disappearance of James Jephcott, The Terror of Crabtree Cottage, The Haunting of Private Wilkinson and The Mystery of Grange Manor

By: Gareth Tilley

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In science one reasons by analogy, so when mankind is confronted by experiences entirely beyond its understanding it takes an individual with intelligence and bravery in equal measure to push back the boundaries of the unknown…. In London, in the 1900s, the solutions to supernatural occurrences were investigated by a man who was famous for his... Read more

Macbeth - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Alan Cumming

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tony Award winner Alan Cumming in his riveting solo interpretation of Shakespeare’s tragedy.

Star of stage, film and television Alan Cumming delivers a virtuoso performance playing every role in the National Theatre of Scotland’s bold presentation of Shakespeare’s chilling tale of desire, ambition, and the supernatural.
     This radical... Read more

Dave Gorman's Pub Olympics

By: Dave Gorman & Dave Scott

Narrated by: Dave Gorman & Guests

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Dave Gorman hosts a one-off, very silly panel show that takes place in a world where the Pub Olympics is far more important than that other Olympics you might have heard about. Contestants Chris Addison, Roisin Conaty, Geoff Lloyd and Seymour Mace compete for gold medals in a series of ridiculous rounds, very loosely based on sports. Usain Bolt... Read more

Blackadder: The Complete Collected Series

By: Ben Elton & Richard Curtis

Narrated by: Full Cast, Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Rik...

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete soundtracks of all four Blackadder series, plus over three hours of specials and extras

Through the ages of Britain, from the 15th century to the 21st, Edmund Blackadder has meddled his way along the bloodlines, aided by his two imbecilic sidekicks, Lord Percy and Baldrick, and hindered by an assortment of dimwitted aristocrats. With... Read more

Vasily Grossman From The Front Line

By: Vasily Grossman

Narrated by: Elliot Levey

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Vasily Grossman, author of Life and Fate, was transformed by his experiences as a war correspondent. Following the shock invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Grossman volunteered for front line duty. Declared unfit for active service he was assigned to Red Star newspaper as a special correspondent. In these BBC Radio programmes, Elliot... Read more

Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance®

By: Robert M. Pirsig & Peter Flannery

Narrated by: James Purefoy & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An odyssey into life’s challenging questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip

Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance became an instant bestseller upon its publication in 1974. A powerful examination of how we live, as well as a... Read more

A Monstrous Vitality

By: Andy Merriman

Narrated by: Full Cast & June Whitfield

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

June Whitfield stars as the indomitable actress Margaret Rutherford in a tale of chimpanzees, Jordanian Princes, an adoring husband and falling in love with a musician 30 years her junior. First broadcast in BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Drama slot. With June Whitfield as Margaret, Ryan McCluskey as Malcolm, Sean Baker as Stringer, Gabrielle Lloyd as... Read more

People Like Us

By: John Morton

Narrated by: Chris Langham & Full Cast

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Intrepid broadcaster Roy Mallard sets out to give us an insight into the lives of ordinary people in these two episodes form the original BBC Radio 4 series: 'The Headmaster' and 'The Solicitor'. Roy tackles the burning educational issues of the day with comprehensive school headmaster Nigel Peacock, and Nicola and Graham Broadbent are... Read more

The Taking Part

By: Tim Franks

Narrated by: Tim Franks

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4 tackles the impending 2012 Olympics by going to the heart of the entire festival and celebrating not just the winning, but the taking part in one of the great contests from Olympic history. Presented by Tim Franks. Read more

Quote... Unquote

By: Nigel Rees

Narrated by: Nigel Rees, Various, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, ...

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This exclusive compilation was first published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 'Quote, Unquote'. It takes a fond look a the show in which celebrity guests are quizzed about quotations, famous and obscure, and invited to contribute their own quotes and anecdotes. From identifying Shakespearean dialogue, attributing witty last words and... Read more

Romeo and Juliet

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: André Sogliuzzo, Mark Jude Sullivan, Janine Bar...

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The most iconic love story of all time, Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is an epic-scale tragedy of desire and revenge. Despite the bitter rivalry that exists between their families, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet have fallen madly in love. But when the long-running rivalry boils over into murder, the young couple must embark on a dangerous... Read more

Next Fall

By: Geoffrey Nauffts

Narrated by: Patrick Breen, Maddie Corman, Patrick Heusinger...

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Tony-nominated play, Adam and Luke are long-term partners with very different views on salvation. But when Luke is hospitalized in a tragic accident, Adam must come face-to-face with Luke’s faith … and his family. Starring members of the original Broadway cast.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Patrick Breen as... Read more

Porch Lights

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“The queen of sassy Southern fiction.”
—Charlotte Observer
 
“Dottie Frank’s books are sexy and hilarious. She has staked out the lowcountry of South Carolina as her personal literary property.”
—Pat Conroy, Author of The Prince of Tides and South of Broad
 
New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank is back home in the Carolina... Read more

Beautiful Ruins

By: Jess Walter

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his  funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.  

“Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an... Read more

Return to Treasure Island

By: Gareth Tilley

Narrated by: Anastas Varinos, Joseph Zamparelli & The Coloni...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this original sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Jim Hawkins stumbles upon a large smuggling ring being run by the notorious pirate Captain Black. He is taken aboard their ship, Devils Servant, and with Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney in pursuit, he soon finds himself once again on Treasure Island where he encounters the... Read more

Little Big Horn

By: Jerry Robbins

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a signature title in The Colonial Radio Theatre's meticulously researched series of accurate historical programs. Lt. Col. George A. Custer leads his 7th Cavalry in the Valley of the Little Big Horn and into eternity in this truly spectacular audio dramatization. It is our heartfelt hope that we have done justice to the events of June... Read more