Performance audiobooks

Mr Luby's Fear Of Heaven

By: John Mortimer

Narrated by: Chris Pavlo, Dan Starkey, Donnla Hughes, Flamin...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lewis Luby (Jeremy Irons) comes to, late at night in an Italian hospital, he finds himself lying under the monstrous big toe of God. Surely there has been some mistake: Luby, who has never for one moment believed in the immortality of the soul, cannot possibly be in heaven! John Mortimer had the idea for 'Mr Luby's Fear of Heaven' when he... Read more

Terence Rattigan In His Own Words

By: Terrence Rattigan

Narrated by: Terrence Rattigan

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating collection of archive interviews with the acclaimed playwright, whose centenary was celebrated in 2011, begins in 1969 with a radio appearance on Out This Week. It culminates with an interview for Kaleidoscope in 1977, recorded a few months before his death. In between are several major radio features on Rattigan's life and... Read more

The Continuity Man

By: Stephen Keyworth

Narrated by: Ben Lewis, Sally Orrock, Nitin Ganatra, Julia I...

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A new BBC Radio 4 comedy by Stephen Keyworth all about the pitfalls of starring in a major British soap, getting yourself into deep water and trying to find your way out again.With the interesting and unique twist of' EastEnders’' star Nitin Ganatra, starring as himself. ‘The Continuity Man’ was originally broadcast as the ‘Afternoon Play’ on 9... Read more

The Old Spies (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play)

By: Jonathan Holloway

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A new BBC Radio 4 drama by Jonathan Holloway about three former spies in an old peoples' home. First broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 3 March 2011. They talk and remember their old missions and rage against the dying of their lights. And now with nowhere else to go, they hold on to the stories of their adventurous lives, as they feel their... Read more

Diva In Me, The (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play)

By: Charlotte Jones

Narrated by: Stuart McLoughlin, Sally Orrock, Daniel Rabin, ...

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 comedy musical drama, ‘The Diva in Me’, was specially written by multi award-winning playwright Charlotte Jones, for the actress and extraordinary mimic Phillippa Stanton. The music, woven into the narrative is an essential part of the story.Phillipa spends Saturday night eating toast and fantasizing about a boy-man from Southern... Read more

Notes To Self (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play)

By: Deborah Wain

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The BBC Radio 4 play, ‘Notes to Self’ by Deborah Wain is a drama about Alzheimer’s disease based on real experiences, and is interwoven with recordings of music sessions carried out in care homes and day centres in the UK.Doreen has been in a care home for two years. Her son Robert visits but finds it hard to have a meaningful relationship with... Read more

Landfall (BBC Radio 4 The Saturday Play)

By: Mike Walker

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 science fiction adventure by Mike Walker, originally broadcast on 19 March 2011. When five lost souls, recruited by a company to travel to an abandoned planet, all they know is that they are there to retrieve the only known sample of an ore left over from an old mining operation. However, their task becomes considerably more... Read more

Doggy Day Care

By: AJ Stern

Narrated by: Michele Medlin

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This second installment in AJ Stern's Frankly, Frannie series is sure to stir up a barrel of belly-laughs. When the career-minded Frannie notices her aunt's dog limping, she sees it as her big chance to be a vet. So it's off to the veterinarian's office, where she can showcase her doggy-diagnostic skills. But in true Frannie form, she soon finds... Read more

The High Window

By: Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast & Toby Stephens

Length: 1 hour 26 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 The High Window, Marlowe starts out on... Read more

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Denise Carole, Sheelagh Cullen, John Glover, Ka...

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Twilight and True Blood, only one vampire commanded “the children of the night.” In this blood-thirsty tale of unholy terror, Count Dracula slips into Victorian London with a cargo of his native Transylvanian soil - so he can rest between victims. The city seems helpless against his frightful power, and only one man, Dr. Van Helsing, can... Read more

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Ichabod Crane, a lanky, lean, superstitious school master, arrives to teach the children of Sleepy Hollow. As he vies for the attention of the lovely Katrina Van Tassel, his rival for her attention is the town rowdy, Brom Bones. Brom tries to scare Ichabod away with local superstitions and ghost tales. Soon enough the ill-fated schoolmaster... Read more

Yankee Clipper and the Adventure of the Golden Sphinx

By: Jerry Robbins

Narrated by: J.T. Turner, Joseph Zamparelli & The Colonial R...

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Martin Hawk and his crew arrive in Alexandria, Egypt on the clipper ship Yankee Spirit. With their mysterious guide, Ini-Herit, they embark on a journey to the famed Valley of the Kings. There, Hawk encounters Professor Donald Curtis who has made an incredible discovery — the tomb of Prince Erihppas. Up until now he was believed to be... Read more

Vincent Price Presents - Volume Two

By: M. J. Elliott, Jack J. Ward & Patrick Hume

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES – The Deadly Comedy Based on a story by Adriano The disfigured criminal genius Dr. Phibes rises from the dead once again to torment his arch-enemy, Scotland Yard Inspector Harry Trout, with another macabre murder. Phibes has murdered a famous stage actor in a bizarre and grisly fashion, but this is only the first stage... Read more

The Janitor

By: Ed Jones

Narrated by: Catherine Kinsella, Chris Jack, Gerard Fletcher...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A morality tale from BBC Radio 4's 'Afternoon Play' slot, about a struggling chef in Salford. 'The Janitor' was originally broadcast on 6 May 2011. Kevin is struggling to keep his new restaurant afloat in posh Salford Quays. But then Jonno turns up. The boy he was a dad to for a couple of years when he was shacked up with his mother. He... Read more

The Bat Man

By: Amelia Bullmore

Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Georgia Groome, Jenny Agutter, Kath...

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 'Afternoon Play' starring Bill Nighy as widower Christopher, originally broadcast on 20 April 2011.When his wife died three years ago, Christopher fled London for a simpler existence in Cornwall, where he has settled on bat protection as his mission. Colette and her noisy daughters rent the holiday cottage next door and disturb the... Read more

Lost Property: The Complete Series

By: Katie Hims

Narrated by: Alex Tregear, Edna Dore, Full Cast, Gary Beadle...

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This history of relatives lost and found was originally broadcast on 3, 10 and 17 May 2011 in the 'Afternoon Play' slot. The first play, 'The Wrong Label', is set in London in 1941. Alice knows that to stop your children from being evacuated is tantamount to siding with Hitler. In 'The Year My Mother Went Missing', it's 1979, and not the first... Read more

The Long Goodbye

By: Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast & Toby Stephens

Length: 1 hour 27 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 The Long Goodbye, Marlowe forms an... Read more

Ten Lessons In Love

By: Various

Narrated by: Alex Tregear, Daniel Rabin, Femi Oyeniran, Jane...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten short BBC Radio 4 plays from an eclectic mix of writers, including Josie Long, Nick Warburton and Tim Key, exploring one of the most important human emotions. 'Ten Lessons in Love' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 25 April 2011.This accumulation of mini-plays encompasses romance, heartbreak and some adult themes; each play... Read more

Anna Of The Five Towns

By: Arnold Bennett

Narrated by: Charlotte Riley, David Schofield & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Arnold Bennett's tale of love, tyranny and rebellion, 'Anna of the Five Towns'. Brought up in the repressive tradition of Methodism by her miserly father, Anna Tellwright dreams of independence and freedom. On coming of age she learns that she is to inherit a fortune and realises that she is loved by the... Read more

Care

By: Clara Glynn

Narrated by: Anne Downie, Carol Ann Crawford, Colin McCredie...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 drama in which a Children's Hearing has to decide if Nicole (13) and Scott (4) should be taken into care or be allowed to return to live with their mother. But is she fit to look after them now? 'Care' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 8 March 2011. Michelle has been in drug rehab for the last few months, Dad... Read more

The Year They Invented Sex

By: Caroline Stafford & David Stafford

Narrated by: Clare Corbett

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 drama focusing on three very different women who find their lives transformed by taking part in the 1960 trials of the contraceptive pill. Originally broadcast as the 'Woman's Hour Drama' from 17 – 21 January 2011. It's 1960 in Birmingham and Lella Florence is looking for women to help with trials of the contraceptive pill.... Read more

Noche de verano, luna de invierno

By: Jane Huxley

Narrated by: Walter Krochmal

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Antonia, una hermosa mujer de fuerte caracter, fue vista por ultima vez paseando por el parque con su perro. Su esposo y su mejor amigo son considerados sospechosos de lo que, evidentemente parece ser un crimen. La autora mantiene un ritmo dinamico e intenso, tanto en la prosa elegante como en la intriga que esta presente desde las primeras... Read more

The Joyce Carol Oates Collection

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Lisa Akey, Alastair Duncan, Anna Gunn, Annabeth...

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight highly diverse works from one of America’s most prolific and versatile authors, this collection includes an exclusive dramatization of Oates’ bestselling novel American Appetites, two comedic plays The Perfectionist and The Truth Teller, four short stories Gulf War, Black, The Key and Tone Clusters, as well as her libretto for Black Water:... Read more

The Graduate

By: Calder Willingham & Buck Henry

Narrated by: Bruce Davison, John Getz, Jamison Jones, Devon ...

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An American classic adapted for the stage, starring Kathleen Turner as Mrs. Robinson and Matthew Rhys as Benjamin Braddock. A fresh-faced college grad returns home, diploma in hand, to seek an answer to that age old question: “Now what?” Lacking any clear career path, he falls prey to the original “cougar”, the predatory Mrs. Robinson, wife of... Read more