Performance audiobooks

Don Juan - Abridged

By: Molière

Narrated by: Jean Vilar & various

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Don Juan, le trompeur de Séville, l'homme aux mille visages, surgit du néant pour mieux abuser ses victimes : sa parole n'est que séduction, illusion, spectacle. À ses côtés, à la fois lâche et fidèle, drôle et pathétique, Sganarelle sera de tous ses voyages. Car Don Juan est un voyageur-né : le maître et son serviteur passent d'une ville à... Read more

Andromaque - Abridged

By: Racine

Narrated by: Jean Pierre Aumont & various

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Au lendemain de la guerre de Troie, Pyrrhus, fils d'Achille, revient victorieux avec pour prisonniers Andromaque, la veuve éplorée d'Hector, et son fils Astyanax. Mais, alors qu'il doit épouser Hermione qui l'aime éperdument, il s'enflamme pour sa captive. Or, le fils d'Agamemnon, Oreste, amoureux transi de sa cousine Hermione, est envoyé par... Read more

La pildora del mal amor

By: Anjanette Delgado

Narrated by: Anjanette Delgado

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Es realmente necesario sufrir por amor? Imagina tu vida si tuvieras en algun lugar de tu cuerpo una pildora, palanca o botoncito que controlara tu corazon. Ya no sufririas por Jacinto, Carlos o Gumersindo. Tendrias tu version personal de "santo que no me quiere con no rezarle tengo". Y cuando el hombre al que amas con toda tu alma te dijera... Read more

History Of The Brain, A (Complete)

By: Geoff Bunn

Narrated by: Jonathan Forbes & Paul Bhattacharjee

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series.Human beings have long been fascinated by the brain and how it fulfils its many functions. This groundbreaking cultural history explores the development of our ideas about... Read more

Perry Mason and the Case of the Curious Bride

By: Erle Stanley Gardner & M. J. Elliott

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Criminal lawyer and all-time #1 mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote close to 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. His most popular books starred the incomparable attorney-sleuth Perry Mason.In The Case Of The Curious Bride, a woman claims to want to consult Mason about her 'friend' whose husband, long thought to have... Read more

Charles Dickens' The Chimes

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Toby Veck is a humble porter who has lost his faith in humanity. Then high up in a church steeple, where spiders spin their castles in the air, the spirit of the bells appear to take Toby on a New Year's Eve journey where he discovers all he has to be grateful for. Read more

NPR American Chronicles: Civil Rights

By: NPR

Narrated by: Michele Norris

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

It wasn’t that long ago that black citizens had to move to the back of the bus. In this stirring collection, NPR tells stories large and small: of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and the March on Washington; of Pullman porters, an invaluable green book, and women who baked pies to support the Montgomery bus boycott. Personal recollections and... Read more

Conclave

By: Hugh Costello

Narrated by: David Calder, Alison Reid & Full Cast

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 drama by Hugh Costello, about some gripping events at the Vatican. After the short reign and mysterious death of Pope John Paul I, the election of a new Pope takes place in an atmosphere of high tension between opposing factions. Including those who want to elect the first non-Italian Pope for over four hundred years! First... Read more

Maigret's Little Joke & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Nicholas Le Prevost

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Four full-cast dramatisations starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret ‘The Yellow Dog’ sees Maigret upsetting the citizens of Concarneau as he begins his murder investigation. But there is poison in the Pernod, a howling yellow dog and, it seems, a madman on the loose... In ‘Maigret and the Burglar’s Wife’, "Sad Freddie" is... Read more

Maigret And The Minister & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Maurice Denham

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Four full-cast dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon. 'Maigret and the Minister', 'Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets', 'Maigret and Monsieur Charles', and 'Maigret and the Madman of Bergerac'. Georges Simenon and his masterful inspector, Jules Maigret, look back together... Read more

Attila The Hen

By: Natalie Haynes

Narrated by: Natalie Haynes

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4 programme all about the fashion for keeping chickens in your back garden, a hobby which shows no sign of waning. Natalie Haynes has heard some dark rumours about the true habits of the hen. Can they be true? However her own knowledge is limited entirely to chicken lives in Ancient Rome. Natalie hears from chicken breeders and... Read more

Prelude, The Complete Series (BBC Radio 4 Classical Serial)

By: William Wordsworth

Narrated by: Ian McKellen

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4 presents William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’, read by Sir Ian McKellen, directed by Susan Roberts and features specially composed music by John Harle.‘The Prelude’ is arguably the most important piece of poetic writing in our language. Accessible, full of emotion and gripping, the poem is recorded in Wordsworth's... Read more

43 Letters

By: Rory Robinson

Narrated by: Barbara Marten & David Calder

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 drama written by Rony Robinson and directed by Pauline Harris. Julia and David work together in the family archives. One day a mysterious envelope arrives for David, with letters from 43 women, all answering a lonely hearts advert he didn't place! Starring David Calder as David, Barbara Marten as Julia, Helen Flanagan as... Read more

Maigret Sets A Trap & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Maurice Denham & Michael Gough

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Four gripping dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon 'Maigret Goes Home', 'Maigret Sets a Trap', Maigret at the Crossroads' and 'Maigret Has Doubts' The world’s best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about four intriguing cases in these... Read more

Maigret Hesitates & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Maurice Denham & Michael Gough

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Four gripping dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon; 'Maigret Goes to School', 'Maigret and the Old Lady', 'Maigret Hesitates' and 'The Patience of Maigret' The world’s best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about four intriguing cases in... Read more

Maigret A Man's Head & Other Stories

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Nicholas Le Prevost

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas Le Prevost stars as the French detective in four new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatizations These new adaptations of classic stories find Maigret recreating four memorable cases for his creator Georges Simenon. In ‘Maigret: A Man’s Head’, a convicted man is allowed to escape, then followed by police investigating a double murder.... Read more

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 3

By: John Finnemore

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast, John Finnemore...

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether hunting for polar bears or a cleverly-hidden lemon, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. And then there are the otters...

Carolyn... Read more

The Truth Teller

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Charles Durning, Arthur Hanket, Gary Kroeger, M...

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Joyce Carol Oates' hilarious take-off on a classic Southern play begins when liberated Hedda arrives home to visit the family estate, ruled by the family’s tyrannical patriarch, “Tiny” Culligan. Tiny doesn’t know what to make of Hedda’s intellectual boyfriend, Saul. But then, Saul doesn’t know what to make of Hedda’s sister, the slinky Maggie,... Read more

Powder River - Season One

By: Jerry Robbins

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins, Derek Aalerud & The Colonial Rad...

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Former lawman turned rancher Britt MacMasters and his son Chad begin a new life in Clearmont, Wyoming until Britt’s past returns to haunt them. One of the toughest outlaw gangs in the west is headed to Clearmont for revenge. Episodes include: "The Preacher," "A Tangled Rope," "A Friend In Need," "Battle At Ricochet Rock," "The Gold Wagon,"... Read more

The Plimoth Adventure - Voyage of Mayflower

By: Jerry Robbins

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the journal of William Bradford, this audio production dramatizes the trials and tribulations of the Pilgrims and the events that lead up to their sailing from Southampton, England in the year 1620. "Jerry Robbins and the Colonial Radio Players bring to life the persecution and betrayals of the Puritans, while still in Europe, that... Read more

A Charles Dickens Holiday Sampler

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Cricket on The Hearth was first published in 1845.A cricket constantly chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the Peerybingle family. The arrival of a mysterious stranger threatens to shatter this harmony. Does the cricket have supernatural powers? Does he restore faith and overcome suspicion? A masterful story of love and... Read more

Torchwood The Men Who Sold The World

By: Guy Adams

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

John Telfer reads this exciting Torchwood adventure - a prequel to Torchwood: Miracle Day.

When Oscar Lupe appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his body is frozen solid and free-falling to earth. It shatters on impact. Soon after, a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked ‘Torchwood’ that they’ve been escorting from... Read more

Poodle Springs

By: Raymond Chandler & Robert B Parker

Narrated by: Full Cast & Toby Stephens

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In Poodle Springs, Marlowe is fresh from... Read more

Turf Wars: The Complete Series

By: Simon Brett, Jeremy Front, Kieran Lynn & Nick W...

Narrated by: James Fleet, Joanna Monro, Full Cast, Nigel Pla...

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Four comic dramas about boundaries that are both territorial and personal

Territory is the theme that unites these four humorous plays - whether that means fighting over an allotment plot, dealing with the sudden partition of a country, guarding the privacy of a garden or battling with the council over school catchment areas.

In 'Losing the Plot',... Read more