Audiobooks On Arts, Drama & Literature

Here are some of our best-selling and most popular audio books on arts, drama and classic literature ...

Don't have time to sit down and read a good book or a fine novel anymore? Are you a student or a lover of literature and drama, or maybe even a professional or amateur actor learning lines for your next play?

Audiobooks let you enjoy poetry readings, dramatizations and classic works of literature on a whole new level ... all while driving or commuting to work, standing in line at the bank or supermarket, or any of a dozen situations where you could be making better use of your time.

Browse through our great selection of popular audio book titles on arts, drama and literature below, click on a few audio samples and "try before you buy", then download them to your computer, iPod, MP3 player, or burn them to a CD and ... enjoy!

Here are a few of our most popular and best-selling drama audiobooks to help you get started:

The Essential Dylan Thomas (Classic Literature)

This unique combination of historical and new recordings celebrates Dylan Thomas as poet, writer and performer. Here are some of his greatest poems, stories and broadcasts: readings given by Thomas...

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The Persian War - (Classic Literature)

In this, the first prose history in European civilization. Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia. Here are not only the great battles - Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis - but also penetrating human insight and a powerful sense of epic destiny at work.

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Shakespeare's Sonnets (Shakespeare)

All 154 of the Shakespeare's sonnets are beautifully read.

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A+ Audio Guide: The Poetry of Walt Whitman

By Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Ph.D. A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature. Audio content includes an introduction to Whitman's life and work, detailed discussions of his major works, and
dramatic readings from Song of Myself, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, and Passage to India.

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Here are some other audiobooks on drama, arts & literature you might enjoy listening to:

• Merchant of Venice, The
  
  Shakespeare's dramatic and complex comedy.
• Michael Palin Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
  
  MICHAEL PALIN's diaries begin in the late 1960s and tell how Python emerged and triumphed. Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the group then proceeded to tour in the United States and Canada..
• Mary Barton
  
  Gaskell's powerful drama, adapted here for Woman's Hour, is regarded as one of the most important novels of its time...
• Masque Of The Red Death, The
  
  When a prince deserts his subjects, death comes looking for him.
• Michelangelo
  
  Michelangelo Buonarroti was a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius and a poet and writer of great accomplishment. In all his work, Michelangelo impressed his contemporaries as a divine genius...
• Midsummer Night's Dream, A
  
  Sylvestra Le Touzel, Sam West and David Threlfall star in Shakespeare's delightful comic fantasy.
• Midwich Cuckoos, The
  
  This is a dynamic, modern dramatisation of a classic book by John Wyndham....
• Midsummer Night's Dream
  
  A Midsummer Night's Dream must be one of the most enduringly popular of Shakespeare's plays, and it is not difficult to see why: the work blends several kinds of comedy with a powerful atmosphere...
• Midsummer Night's Dream, A
  
  "The course of true love never did run smooth" —Lysander A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's best early works, an airy, romantic romp in the woods among bumbling rustics,...
• Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time
  
  In this collection of musical portraits, jazz pianist and radio host Marian McPartland pays tribute to such legendary figures as Benny Goodman, Bill Evans, Joe Morello, Paul Desmond, Alec Wilder, M...
• Lives of the Great Artists, The
  
  The Lives of the Great Artists was the first truly comprehensive history of art.
• Lives of the Twelve Caesars
  
  Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian and...
• Life of Dante, A
  
  Dante's vision, The Divine Comedy, has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early 14th century. Here is a brief account of his life, compiled from various sources...
• Life of Shakespeare, A
  
  The plays of William Shakespeare, and his famous lines, are part of the national consciousness. There may be few solid facts about Shakespeare the man, and yet not only do we want to know all about...
• Love Song Of..., The
  
  Kelly and her mother huddle on a rainy NYC street fearing they’ll never know enough about each other
• Macbeth
  
  By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601),...
• Mangle War, The
  
  Being an account in words and music of the great Anglo-French Mangle War of 1897, and the patriotic roll a Music Hall song played in its outcome. Both the script and music were writen by...
• Macbeth
  
  Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's drama of greed and destiny.
• Macbeth
  
  "...All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death." — Macbeth Macbeth is among the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies, a dark but fascinating glimpse into the...
• Oliver Twist
  
  Tim McInnerny stars as the murderous Bill Sikes with Pam Ferris as Mrs Mann and Edward Long as Oliver in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of one of Dickens' best known novels...
• Othello
  
  The second in Shakespeare's greate sequence of four tragedies.
• Odyssey, The
  
  The thrilling tale of the wanderings of the hero Odysseus after the end of the Trojan war.
• Oedipus The King
  
  In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian...
• Over Our Dead Bodies
  
  A white lie about a smear of blood and a garage door leads two young twins to alarming assumptions.
• Paradise Lost
  
  Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language.
• Paradise
  
  'I have been in the Heaven that takes up most of his light, and saw things there that those who descend from that height cannot speak of or forget...' Led by his guide Beatrice, Dante leaves...
• Pam Ayres Live On Stage
  
  Pam Ayres at her entertaining best in a live stage show from Stratford-upon-Avon...
• Pam Ayres Poetry Collection, The
  
  Warm and witty, direct and droll, the sharply funny Pam Ayres has been amusing and entertaining her many fans for years...
• Odyssey, The
  
  Winner of a Gold Award for Abridged fiction at the Spoken Word Awards 2005 A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer’s epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon...
• My Life As a 10-Year-Old Boy!
  
  Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, reveals what it's like to be at the center of an American institution, one that reinvented the sitcom, rocked the networks to the core, and changed fore...
• Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection, The
  
  On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on...
• Much Ado About Nothing
  
  A full-cast performance of one of the greatest verbal sparring matches in all of literature.
• Much Ado About Nothing
  
  David Tennant stars as Benedick with Samantha Spiro as Beatrice in Shakespeare's merry comedy of wit, words and romance.
• NIV Dramatized Audio Bible - New Testament
  
  The NIV Dramatized Audio Bible - New Testament is more than a Bible you listen to. It’s an experience that helps you enter into God’s Word . . . So God’s Word can ent
• Noel Coward Audio Collection, The
  
  A perfect blend of vintage Noel Coward sure to be enjoyed by faithful fans and new listeners.
• Odyssey, The
  
  Homer's Adventures of Odysseus. Translated by Samuel Butler,
• NIV Dramatized Audio Bible - Old Testament
  
  The NIV Dramatized Audio Bible - Old Testament is more than a Bible you listen to. It’s an experience that helps you enter into God’s Word . . . So God’s Word can ent
• NIV Dramatized Complete Audio Bible
  
  The NIV Dramatized Audio Bible is more than a Bible you listen to. It’s an experience that helps you enter into God’s Word . . . So God’s Word can ent
• I Might Be Edgar Allan Poe
  
  A horrific modern comedy which includes readings of several Poe works. Based on the stage play.
• Iliad, The
  
  The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war.
• Horla, The
  
  A tale of madness, or possession, or perhaps both.
• Huckleberry Finn
  
  Twain's story of an orphan is often cited as the greatest American novel.
• Iliad, The
  
  The first of Homer's epic poems. Translated by Samuel Butler.
• In Flanders Fields and Other Poems about War
  
  In WWI, possibly the most horrific modern war, two soldier poets described inner impressions telling us much about war and the people who fight them.
• In The Overgrown Swamplands Of Love & Persistance - A Tale Of Love & Horror
  
  One night, while dumping a corpse in a swamp, a killer unexpectedly discovers love and horror.
• Importance of Being Earnest, The
  
  This elaborate fabrication proceeds smoothly until Jack/Ernest falls in love and his fiancee’s mother discovers there is more – or, rather, less – to him than meets the eye.
• Importance of Being Earnest, The
  
  This is one of the great recordings of a great play. John Gielgud stars as Earnest and Edith Evans .....
• Hop Frog
  
  A court jester seeks revenge against the king, who brutalized his love.
• Here's Johnny! My Memories of Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show, and 40 Years of Friendship
  
  Brilliant in front of the camera but shy in person, Johnny Carson seldom gave interviews. Only Ed McMahon, Carson's personal friend and showbiz sidekick for over forty years, can tell the stories t...
• History Boys, The
  
  Alan Bennett's new, award-winning play as heard on BBC Radio 3 features the National Theatre cast...
• Henry IV - Part One
  
  Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and Prince Hal in Shakespeare's stirring history.
• Henry IV - Part Two
  
  Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son, Hal, in this powerful production, which also stars Timothy West and Prunella Scales...
• History of Classical Music, The
  
  Here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music.
• History of the Musical, The
  
  An enthralling story - told with nearly 100 famous musical extracts.
• History of Theatre, The
  
  Here is the diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre.
• History of English Literature, The
  
  The story of literature that has touched the hearts & stirred the minds of countless readers.
• History of Opera, The
  
  This absorbing history is illustrated by over 100 musical examples.
• King Richard III
  
  Kenneth Branagh heads an outstanding cast in playing one of Shakespeare's strongest characters. The eighth production in the widely admired series of Shakespeare plays presented by Naxos AudioBooks...
• Lady Windermere's Fan
  
  Oscar Wilde's first play confronts the hypocrisy of public 'morality'.
• King Lear
  
  The story of a foolish and self-indulgent king who learns the value of self-knowledge.
• King Lear
  
  Shakespeare's bitter tragedy of loyalty, power and politics.
• Leaves of Grass
  
  Whitman succeeded in his ambition to create something uniquely American. His poems are woven into the very fabric of the American character, from his solemn dirge "O Captain! My Captain!" to the jo...
• Life and Works of W.B. Yeats, The
  
  W.B. Yeats remains one of the most popular poets of the twentieth century. The Lake Isle of Innisfree, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, Down by the Salley Gardens, The Secret Rose - these...
• Life of Christ: The Gospel of Luke, The
  
  The complete Gospel of Luke taken from Zondervan’s acclaimed, Audie Award®-winning NIV Audio Bible Dramatized New Testament...
• Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  
  The Headless Horseman roams Sleepy Hollow in Washington Irvings Classic tale.
• Letters to a Young Artist
  
  In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Anna Deavere Smith advises her young artist on everything from how to stay healthy to tips for building a diverse network of friends and profession...
• Killist, The
  
  Farcical comedy tells the tale of the Killist, the meanest, toughest, orneryest gun in the old west.
• James Stewart: A Biography
  
  This riveting biography follows Stewart from his childhood shaped by a strong-willed father to the fateful encounter with actress Margaret Sullavan, his first professional theatrical experiences on...
• Jane Eyre
  
  Jane Eyre is the story of an unloved and penniless orphan who triumphs over harsh treatment to become a spirited and independent young woman...
• Inimitable Jeeves, The
  
  A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves.
• Interview with Maeve Binchy
  
  Maeve talks about hearing her work on audio, narrated by her cousin and friend Kate Binchy...
• John Bull's Other Island
  
  When Thomas Broadbent, an Englishman, visits Ireland for the first time, he is accompanied by his friend Larry Doyle, an Irishman who is returning to his homeland after being away for many years...
• Kafka's Dick
  
  Alison Steadman, Richard Griffiths and Nigel Anthony star in this BBC radio 4 version of Alan Bennett's acclaimed comedy drama...
• Kidnapped
  
  The Robert Louis Steven Adventure Classic is now a thrilling Audio Play!
• Julius Caesar
  
  Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare's most popular and polished works.
• Just a Little Fiddle
  
  Ever since that long gone age of railways - Whenever that was - Stations have needed porters. That special breed of men who during those long periods between trains, can find endless tasks to...
• Passion Poison & Petrification
  
  Full-Cast. An indigestible tragic romantic comedy of love, jealousy, betrayal and murder.
• Tempest, The
  
  Shakespeare's magical, other-wordly final play.
• Theatre Royale: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  
  In this episode from the series, Sir Laurence Olivier stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the famous Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde classic by Robert Louis Stevenson...
• Tempest, The
  
  "Our revels now are ended... this rough magic I here abjure..." In Shakespeare hinting at the end of his own magnificent career in these and others lines spoken by the great magician,...
• Tempest, The
  
  Ian McKellen, as Prospero, heads a strong cast in Shakespeare's last great play. The wronged Duke raises a tempest to shipwreck his old opponents on his island so that he can ensure justice...
• Theatre Royale: Private Rooms
  
  Theatre Royal: In this episode from the series, Ralph Richardson stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the famous Private Rooms classic by J.B.Priestley...
• Through the Looking Glass
  
  Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  
  Also sprach Zarathustra was conceived and written by Friedrich Nietzsche during the years 1881 -1885; the first three Parts were published in 1883 and 1884. The book formed part of his 'campaign...
• Theatre Royale: The Happy Hypocrite
  
  First broadcast as an half-hour radio programme in the 1950's, this performance captures the marvellous theatrical style of post-war radio before the advent of television and offers the experience...
• Three Musketeers, The
  
  "All for one and one for all!" The young and headstrong D'Artagnan, having proven his bravery by dueling with each, becomes a friend of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, members of the King's...
• Tales from the Black Museum: The Receipt
  
  Orson Welles introduces and stars in true crime stories from the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's infamous gallery of death...
• Song of Hiawatha, The
  
  By the shores of Gitche Gumee By the shining Big-Sea-Water Stood the wigwam of Nokomis Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis The Song of Hiawatha was one of the most loved and quoted...
• Sonnets, The
  
  Every bit as dazzling as the best of his dramas and comedies, Shakespeare's sonnets represent one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. And because they are love poems of an extraordinarily...
• Slaughterhouse-Five
  
  Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a...
• Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle
  
  Smith of Wooton Major tells of the preparation of the Great Cake to mark the Feast of Good Children and the magical...
• Sonnets, The
  
  Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like 'the darling buds of May', or 'remembrance of things past',or 'the marriage of true minds'. For centuries...
• Tales from the Black Museum: The Hammer Head
  
  Orson Welles introduces and stars in true crime stories from the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's infamous gallery of death...
• Tales from the Black Museum: The Pigskin Glove
  
  Orson Welles introduces and stars in true crime stories from the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's infamous gallery of death...
• Story of Classical Music, The
  
  The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones. In 1200 years, classical music grew from the...
• Tale of Two Cities, A
  
  The "two cities" are Paris in the time of the French Revolution, and London. Dr. Manette, a French physician, having been called in to treat a young peasant and his sister, realizes that they have...
• War Of The Worlds, The
  
  When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs...
• War Poems
  
  This powerful and moving anthology includes poems of war from the eighteenth century to our own days in the long shadow...
• Voices of Black America
  
  Historial recordings of poetry, humor and drama. 1908 - 1947.
• Walden
  
  'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left...
• Waste Land, The, & Four Quarters
  
  These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot...
• Winter's Tale, The
  
  The Winter's Tale was one of the very last plays Shakespeare wrote, a moving romance whose themes are sin, forgiveness, death, rebirth, and the power of Time and Nature to heal all wounds. Based on...
• Wuthering Heights
  
  Wuthering Heights is the story of love turning on itself and of the violence and misery that result from thwarted passion. A book of immense power, it is filled with the raw...
• Wedding Dress, The
  
  A womans's discovery of a haunted wedding dress leads to a tragic end.
• Will of Osiris, The
  
  An eccentric architect and Egyptologist dies leaving a bizarre will for this family to discover.
• Vengeance in Vegas
  
  Hear LA sleuth Mark Markheim solve crime all whilst adroitly enunciating elaborate alliterations
• TNIV Complete Audio Bible
  
  A multi-voice audio recording of a fresh, new translation for today’s generation.
• Treasure Island
  
  The narrator of this timeless adventure story is the lad, Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow, an inn on the west coast of England in the 18th century. An old buccaneer takes up...
• TNIV Audio Bible - New Testament
  
  A multi-voice audio recording of a fresh, new translation for today’s generation.
• TNIV Audio Bible - Old Testament
  
  A multi-voice audio recording of a fresh, new translation for today’s generation.
• Twelfth Night
  
  Twelfth Night, nowadays one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most-admired comedies, was not always so regarded: Samuel Pepys saw the play three times in the 1660s and judged it 'silly'. Modem...
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  
  Published in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the abolitionists' message to the public conscience - no woman before or since has so moved America to take action against an injustice. Indeed,...
• Vampires Next Door
  
  Brilliantly produced horror story about vampire neighbours from the acclaimed FearsForEars anthology
• Two Emma Toc, Writtle
  
  Personal recollections of the foundations of the BBC in an old army hut in Essex.
• Two Plays for Voices
  
  "The joy for me is knowing that somebody can have this strange audio experience. They're getting something as good as you get from radio." - Neil Gaimen Produced by the Sci-Fi Channel and...
• Rivals, The
  
  A comic masterpiece brimming with false identities!
• Rodin
  
  Auguste Rodin was not only the greatest sculptor but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times. Grunfeld's exhaustive biography documents artistic and personal struggles against...
• Rebecca
  
  When Maxim de Winter brings his shy new bride to his beautiful stately home on the Cornwall coast, it seems like all her dreams have come 1...
• Richard II
  
  Samuel West stars as Richard II with Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt in Shakespeare's lyrically tragic history. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when...
• Roman Lives
  
  Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire. Here he considers some of the major figures who had left their stamp on the history of...
• Room With A View, A
  
  Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. M. Forster’s glorious tale of love in Italy and England...
• Rose, A Chicago Valentine & Romance With Comedy
  
  Devastated by the end of her relationship, Rose reunites with her best friend from high school.
• Romeo & Juliet
  
  Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love. BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly...
• Romeo and Juliet
  
  Shakespeare's play is filled with wit, tenderness, dramatic variety and poetic beauty.
• Rapunzel & The Pied Piper of Hamlin
  
  Two childrens classics involving children being taken from their parents as a punishment.
• Plutarch - Greek Lives
  
  Plutarch's unique insight into the great men of the Ancient World through his biographies.
• Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, The
  
  This specially commissioned recording offers a wide-ranging choice of Burns's songs and lyrical poems; and longer poems...
• Persian War, The
  
  In this, the first prose history in European civilization. Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia. Here are not...
• Pied Piper of Hamelin, The
  
  Here are 60 of the finest and most entertaining poems for younger listeners. There are nonsense poems (The Jumblies) classic animal poems (The Snail ) stories of adventure (The Ballad of Sir...
• Poets of the Great War
  
  'The truth untold,/ The pity of war, the pity war distilled...' Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had...
• Purgatory
  
  'Now of that second kingdom I shall sing where human souls are purified of sin. and made worthy to ascend to Heaven.' Purgatory is the second part of Dante's The Divine Comedy. We find...
• Ransom Of Red Chief, The
  
  Two Kidnappers learn their plan is less than perfect
• Port Authority
  
  Three men, Kevin, Dermot and Joe, stand and tell their stories on a bare stage. They never meet. Or do they? From this simplest of dramatic devices emerges a rounded tale of Irish life across the...
• Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
  
  Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left a remarkable legacy when she died. Her bold, brilliant canvasses had a stunning, profound, and lasting influence ...
• Shakespeare's Speeches: Macbeth - Act II, Scene II
  
  With Denis Quilley as Macbeth, this recording from the BBC Sound Archives brings Shakespeare's memorable words to life.
• Shakespeare's Speeches: Richard III - Act I, Scene I
  
  Ian Holm delivers King Richard IIIs soliloquy, bringing Shakespeare's wonderful lines, full of pyschological insight, vividly to life.
• Shakespeare's Speeches: King Lear - Act II, Scene IV
  
  Alec Guinness's performance as King Lear stirs the listener in this recording from the BBC Sound Archives.
• Shakespeare's Speeches: Macbeth - Act I, Scene VII
  
  From the BBC Sound Archives, one of Shakespeare's most famous and memorable speeches, with Paul Scofield and Peggy Ashcroft as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, bringing these ominous words vividly to life.
• Shakespeare's Speeches: Romeo and Juliet - Act I, Scene III
  
  This impassioned speech is beautifully spoken by Fay Compton in this BBC Sound archives recording.
• Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure
  
  Full-Cast. Holmes engages his arch enemy Professor Moriarty in a deadly battle of wits
• Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band
  
  Full-Cast. Holmes and Watson investigate the terrible doings at Stoke Moran manor
• Shakespeare's Speeches: The Merchant Of Venice - Act IV, Scene I
  
  In this recording from the BBC Sound Archives, Hannah Gordon is Shakespeare's wise Portia.
• Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia
  
  Full-Cast. Is it possible Holmes can be bested ... by a woman no less?
• Shakespeare's Speeches: Henry V - Act IV, Scene III
  
  Richard Burton's rich and resonant voice delivers Henry V's address to his army on the eve of Agincourt!
• Rumpole and the Primrose Path
  
  This release comprises four 45 minute BBC Radio 4 plays adapted by John Mortimer from four stories in his latest published collection, Rumpole and the Primrose Path. Rumpole is a wine-imbibing...
• Searching for the Sound
  
  The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead. Phil Lesh first met Jerry Garcia in...
• Roverandom
  
  While on holiday in 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire. To console him...
• Rubaiyat, The - Omar Khayyam Classic narrated by David Ian Davies
  
  The ethereal words of the great thinker Omar Khayyam.
• Seven Ages
  
  An Anthology of Poetry with Music.
• Shakespeare's Sonnets
  
  All 154 of the Shakespeare's sonnets are beautifully read.
• Shakespeare's Speeches: Hamlet - Act III, Scene I
  
  'To be or not to be - that is the question…'
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  
  Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his...
• Seven Poor Travellers, The
  
  A lesser known but heart warming Charles Dickens Christmas story, set on Christmas Eve.
• Helen Hayes: My Life in Three Acts
  
  During her long career, Helen Hayes moved among the world's most famous and talented. She offers deft private portraits of such personalities as Joan Crawford, Charlie Chaplin, F. Scott Fitzgerald,...
• Captain Blood - Episode 01: Kirke's Dragoons
  
  Dr. Peter Blood gives medical attention to a wounded man after the battle of Sedgemore, as the Dragoons arrive in search of rebels.
• Captain Blood - Episode 02: Human Merchandise
  
  Falsely accused of being a rebel, Peter Blood is sent to Barbados and sold into slavery.
• Canterbury Tales - Volume II, The
  
  Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
• Canterbury Tales - Volume III, The
  
  Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
• Captain Blood - Episode 03: Plans of Escape
  
  Blood secures a small boat and plans to escape from Barbados
• Captain Blood - Episode 06: Don Pedro Sangre
  
  Blood poses as a liberated Spanish prisoner, as his captured ship is stopped off Hispaniola by a a Spanish Galleon.
• Captain Blood - Episode 07: Levasseur
  
  While in Tortuga, Captain Blood meets the French Buccaneer Levasseur, who wants to join forces with Blood's crew.
• Captain Blood - Episode 04: Pirates!
  
  A Spanish pirate ship attacks Bridgetown, as Blood and his fellow slaves plan to escape the plantation.
• Captain Blood - Episode 05: The Rebel-Convicts
  
  The pirates loot the town of Bridgetown, as Blood and the convicts discover their escape boat has been sunk.
• Canterbury Tales - Volume I, The
  
  Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
• Blood
  
  An audio anthology of the most dramatic moments in American history.
• Brad Lansky and the Alien at Planet X
  
  "The Alien at Planet X" is the first Brad Lansky adventure, captured in hi-fi stereo.
• Bernice
  
  A man's fascination with his wife's teeth ends with tragic consequences.
• Blockade Runners, The
  
  A Jules Verne adaptation about an English Blockade Runner in the American Civil War
• Brad Lansky and the Alien Engineer
  
  "The Alien Engineer" is the second Brad Lansky adventure, captured in hi-fi stereo.
• Caesar & Cleo
  
  A comic look at Julius Caesar, his closest confidant, his relationship with the Queen of Egypt and the Senators who plotted his assassination.
• Canterbury Tales, Selected
  
  This modern translation of these sometimes bawdy stories, written in the 14th century by the Father of English Poetry, entertain while telling us about England before the Renaissance.
• Brideshead Revisited
  
  A full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's great classic story of a lost golden age.
• Burn
  
  The Enormity of Man and written words...
• Case of the Abducted Asphalt: Monday
  
  Installment #1 of the Case. Try for FREE!
• Case of the Curious Etching: A Gas Town Mystery - IN COLOR!
  
  FULL CAST. Vancouver BC Radio Detective Stanley Park investigates the murder of...a radio detective!
• Captain Blood - Trailer
  
  The Greatest Pirate Adventure Of Them All!
• Case of the Abducted Asphalt -- A Gas Town Mystery: IN COLOR!
  
  When all the roads go missing, PI Stanley Park races to save Vancouver's famous Grand Prix.
• Case of the Curious Etching: Monday
  
  Installment #1 of the series. Try for FREE!
• Child's Christmas In Wales, A
  
  First recorded in February of 1952, this remastered recording of Dylan Thomas reading his A Child's Christmas in Wales recalls all of the sights, smells, and sounds of a long-ago-Christmas....
• Chimes, The
  
  A classic Charles Dickens story set on New Years Eve - with the haunted chimes in a church tower
• Catracked
  
  The only thing that gets Julie through the day is her CAT. But the beast had friends down the road.
• Celtic Poets
  
  The poems of Yeats, Swift, Burns and other Celts.
• Captain Blood - Episode 17: The Last Fight of the Arabella
  
  Captain Blood sails into Port Royal for the final showdown with the French fleet.
• Captain Blood - Episode 10: The Dupes
  
  Heavily outnumbered, Captain Blood devises a plan to escape from Maracaybo.
• Captain Blood - Episode 11: The Milagrosa
  
  Arabaella Bishop and Lord Julian are sailing to Barbados, when their ship is attacked by Don Miguel and the Milagrosa.
• Captain Blood - Episode 08: The Ransom
  
  Captain Levasseur captures the son and daughter of the Governor of Tortuga, and takes them to the island of the Virgin Magra.
• Captain Blood - Episode 09: The Trap
  
  Captain Blood and his crew are trapped by Spanish Galleons, anchored outside the harbor of Maracaybo.
• Captain Blood - Episode 12: Thief and Pirate
  
  Captain Blood attacks the Milagrosa, not knowing Arabella is onboard.
• Captain Blood - Episode 15: The Service of King Louis
  
  Captain Blood and his fleet join forces with the French to attack Cartagena.
• Captain Blood - Episode 16: Cartagena
  
  In a spectacular battle on both land and sea, Captain Blood and his buccaneers attack Cartagena.
• Captain Blood - Episode 13: Hostilities
  
  Outnumbered by Colonel Bishops Jamaica Fleet, Captain Blood accepts a Kings Commission from Lord Julian to escape capture/
• Captain Blood - Episode 14: War
  
  Even holding a Kings Commission, Colonel Bishop plans to capture and hang Captain Blood at Port Royal.
• A PHIL BYRNES MYSTERY. Episode 6: WAITING FOR REDEMPTION Part 1
  
  Phil begins to uncover clues about her husbands murder. Part 1 of 2
• A PHIL BYRNES MYSTERY. Episode 7: WAITING FOR REDEMPTION, Part 2
  
  WAITING FOR REDEMPTION - Part 2: The final episode - as Phil solves her husbands murder.
• A PHIL BYRNES MYSTERY. Episode 4: THE FAITHFUL WIFE
  
  A famous crime writer is being blackmailed and hires Phil.
• A PHIL BYRNES MYSTERY. Episode 5 BRACELET OF BETRAYAL
  
  The ruby bracelet begins to cause more problems as several people claim ownership.
• A VISIT WITH AESOP
  
  It's Aesop's Fables - told by Aesop himself, in the highly entertaining production in the classic CRT style!
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
  
  Mark Twain's classic tale recounts the adventures of the ever resourceful Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn...
• Aeneid
  
  The masterpiece of Rome's greatest poet, Virgil's Aeneid.
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
  
  First published in 1885, 'Huckleberry Finn' is one of the undoubted masterpieces of American literature...
• Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy
  
  The Illiad and the Odyssey are retold in a glorious saga.
• A PHIL BYRNES MYSTERY. Episode 3: STINGERS LAMENT
  
  Another murder, but Phil is not sure it was the intended victim.
• A+ Audio Guide: Frankenstein
  
  A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
• A+ Audio Guide: Macbeth
  
  A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
• 12 Books That Changed the World
  
  Twelve Books that Changed the World presents a rich variety of human endeavour and a great diversity of characters. There are also surprises. Here are famous books by Darwin, Newton..
• 3 Skeleton Key
  
  One isolated lighthouse. Three misfit men. Thousands upon thousands of ravenous flesh-eating RATS!
• A+ Audio Guide: The Great Gatsby
  
  A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
• A PHIL BYRNES MYSTERY. Episode 1: DEBUTANT IN DANGER
  
  Phil is hired to protect a Debutant .... from her mother.
• A PHIL BYRNES MYSTERY. Episode 2: A QUEENS RANSOM
  
  A cat wearing a ruby necklace starts Phil on a new lead.
• A+ Audio Guide: The Poetry of Walt Whitman
  
  A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
• A+ Audio Guide: The Sun Also Rises
  
  A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
• Arabian Nights, The
  
  Allow the Arabian Nights tales weave their enchantment.
• Around the World in 80 Days
  
  Classic story of a hasty world tour taken up on a gentelmen's club wager
• Antietam: The Lost Command
  
  Full-cast tale of espionage, betrayal and romance set against the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
• Antony & Cleopatra
  
  Frances Barber and David Harewood star in Shakespeare's towering tale of great love, political intrigue and tragedy. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923,...
• As You Like It
  
  Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind with David Morrissey as Orlando and Natasha Little as Celia in Shakespeare's festive comedy. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to...
• Ballet Stories
  
  A perfect introduction to The Ballet.
• Believe Me
  
  "How did Arkman Noah/Provide for protozoa?" It's not often that an acclaimed historian is revealed to be the author of light verse, but John R. Alden here presents 1,707 couplets, quatrains, and ot...
• As You Like It
  
  A quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown.
• Ayres on the Air
  
  Anecdotes, jokes, poems and sketches from the ever-entertaining Pam Ayres
• Andersen's Fairy Tales
  
  Andersen's tales have become part of universal folk lore.
• Alan Bennett at the BBC
  
  Alan Bennett presents highlights from his remarkable career at the BBC.
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  
  The fantasy worlds in which Alice finds herself introduce her to some well known characters!
• Aesop's Fables
  
  These wonderful stories have delighted adults and children for centuries.
• Agent, The
  
  An author's agent finds he's in for an outrageous night when his two Best Selling clients meet.
• All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics
  
  The national debate over popular music's effect on character is both furious and confused. Carson Holloway is out to shatter the assumptions of pop's critics and defenders alike, showing that music...
• All's Well That Ends Well
  
  Sian Phillips, Emma Fielding and Miriam Margolyes star in Shakespeare's comedy of men behaving badly and women doing it for themselves. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to...
• Among The Roses
  
  A Garden fairy tale.
• All The World's A Stage: Shakespeare's Speeches
  
  An anthology of Shakespearian speeches performed by the world's leading actors.
• Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection, The
  
  A collection of poems by one of the greatest literary & cultural figures of the 20th century.
• Christmas Carol, A
  
  A wonderful reading of the story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas.
• Erotic Scenes In A Cheap Motel
  
  Four couples explore the hopelessness of their invlovements within the same motel room.
• Essential Dylan Thomas, The
  
  This unique combination of historical and new recordings celebrates Dylan Thomas as poet, writer and performer. Here are some of his greatest poems, stories and broadcasts: readings given by Thomas...
• End Times: The Book of Revelation, The
  
  The complete book of Revelation taken from Zondervan’s acclaimed, Audie Award®-winning NIV Audio Bible Dramatized New Testa...
• English Verse: The Best of the Twentieth Century
  
  Representing the work of more than thirty poets, and extending from Thomas Hardy’s lines on the loss of Titanic to the present-day...
• Essential Word on the Street, The
  
  The stories, poetry, and music of the Bible come alive in this 60-minute performance based on the acclaimed book. Distinguished for being named an Au
• Fears For Ears
  
  Fears for Ears is an Award Winning CD of unique horror fiction stories in full audio theatre format
• Field, The
  
  At the site of a 100-year-old massacre, unseen forces swirl about in the wind...
• Farmer Giles of Ham
  
  Farmer Giles of Ham is one of Tolkien’s most popular stories, full of wit and humour, set in the days when giants and dragons walked...
• FATHER BROWN MYSTERIES. "The Blue Cross"
  
  Father Brown is traveling to London to attend a meeting of priests, and he is carrying with him a priceless silver cross, studded with blue sapphires.Flambeau, the thief, plans to steal it.
• Emperor's New Clothes
  
  Do you know the difference between seeing what you saw, and saying what you saw?
• Dozen Red Roses, A: To His Coy Mistress
  
  Andrew Marvell’s classic plea to his mistress to show her love for him while they are both still young and passionate...
• Dr Crippen
  
  Traces the events leading up to and after one of Edwardian London's most publicized crimes
• Dozen Red Roses, A: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
  
  The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Christopher Marlowe’s emotional appeal to his lady to run away with him...
• Dozen Red Roses, A: The Sunne Rising
  
  John Donne’s famous poem about two lovers surprised by the astonishingly rapid arrival of sunrise...
• Duke
  
  In this illuminating biography, Ronald L. Davis focuses on John Wayne's human side, portraying a complex personality defined by insecurity as well as courage and strength. Davis traces Wayne's stor...
• Ebon Storms
  
  13 Episode High Fantasy drama. A battle between Good and Evil in a land of magic and power.
• Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection, The
  
  20 of Poe's chilling stories and poems performed by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone.
• Dylan Thomas at the BBC
  
  Dylan Thomas reads his own prose and poetry in this unique collection from the archives. He is widely regarded as one of the 20th Century's most influential lyrical poets.
• Early Church: The Book of Acts, The
  
  The complete book of Acts taken from Zondervan’s acclaimed, Audie Award®-winning NIV Audio Bible Dramatized New Testament...
• Great Speeches and Soliloquies
  
  To be or not to be... Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow... O for a Muse of Fire... The quality of mercy is not strained... This sceptred isle... Once more unto the breach dear...
• Guitar: An American Life
  
  What was it about a small, humble folk instrument that allowed it to become an American icon? The guitar is "wall-to-wall popular in the United States," says Brookes in this chronicle of the guitar...
• Great Moments in History: "The Great Fish of Giza"
  
  Full-Cast. The great Tootenhotep unveils the 7-1/2th Wonder of the World!
• Great Poets of the Romantic Age
  
  Some of the finest and most memorable works in the English language.
• Hamlet
  
  Michael Sheen, Kenneth Cranham and Juliet Stevenson star in the best-known and most powerful tragedy of modern times. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since I...
• Haunted South, The, Part One
  
  A journey to genuine haunted places of the American South.
• Haunted South, The, Part Two
  
  A journey to genuine haunted places of the American South.
• Hamlet
  
  Shakespeare's classic as dramatized by renowned vocal actor David I. Davies
• Hamlet
  
  The first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies.
• Great Moments in History: "Standing Tall"
  
  Prehistoric homo habilis takes a step towards the future.
• Forty Years On
  
  Alan Bennett stars in a new production of his own acclaimed satirical comedy.
• Frankenstein
  
  The gothic tale of Frankenstein and his construction of a human being who runs amok.
• Flash Gordon Episode 1: The New Planet
  
  Full Cast. Flash battles the merciless Emperor Ming of Mongo. Winner 2000 Silver Mark Time Award.
• Flashback
  
  Nearly five decades of theatrical anecdotes as David Barry {Frankie Abbott in 'Please, Sir!) recalls working with the likes of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh...
• Grave Tales
  
  Creepy tales from the cities of the dead.
• Great Moments in History: "Encounter at Sea"
  
  A captain. A battleship. A pitch dark night.
• Great Moments in History: "Shakespeare at the Globe"
  
  The Bard gets a jolly lesson in ye olde show biz.
• Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings
  
  In this remarkable anthology of historical recordings are many of the great artists of the past. Early cylinder recordings of Sir Henry Irving preserve the voice and character of the greatest actor...
• Great Moments in History: "Cake No Frosting"
  
  Marie Antoinette goes on a picnic.
• Coriolanus
  
  Samuel West and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's great tragedy of power and pride.
• Creepy Love Stories, Part One
  
  Love stories of the haunted.
• Cockney's Kipling, A
  
  Ten enduring Kipling poems recited in the wonderful Cockney lilt.
• Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A
  
  Shows what can happen when two very different societies come together.
• Creepy Love Stories, Part Two
  
  Love stories of the haunted.
• Cuculian Trilogy, The
  
  Cuculian, 'The Hound of Ulster', is the champion of Ireland and is best remembered for his single-handed defense of Ulster. The author of these accounts is Standish O’Grady whose writings...
• Curse of Dracula, The
  
  Full-cast, very modern update of the classic Bram Stoker novel.
• Cricket on the Hearth
  
  Another Charles Dickens holiday classic brimming with holiday charm.
• Crucible, The
  
  Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recrimination that quickly develops men denounce their neighbours...
• Classical Music 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music
  
  In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to the great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers. Classical Music 101 is a high...
• Chronicles of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian
  
  The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne.
• Chronicles of Narnia, The: The Silver Chair
  
  Deep underground, a web of evil magic holds a prince in captivity. Narnia ... where owls speak, where evil weaves a spell ... where sorcery enslaves the land. Narnia is in peril, and...
• Christmas Carol, A
  
  The story of how the extraordinary events of Christmas Eve change the miserly Scrooge forever have made A Christmas Carol one of the greatest of all Christmas stories...
• Christmas Carol, A
  
  Magnificent production of the most beloved of Dickens seasonal classics
• Chronicles - Volume One
  
  "I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else." Bob Dylan's...
• Classic American Short Stories
  
  An absolute joy to listen to. An attractive and accessible collection.
• Classic Women's Short Stories
  
  Five stories from women writers of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th.
• Chronology Protection Case, The (Unabridged)
  
  The radio play of The Chronology Protection Case was adapted by Mark Shanahan with Paul Levinson...
• Classic American Poetry
  
  From the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day.
• Dozen Red Roses, A: From Paradise Lost
  
  A short section from Milton’s epic poem, expressing how much sweeter the world is when you are with the one you love...
• Dozen Red Roses, A: From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
  
  From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Some meditations on love from Edward Fitzgerald’s translation...
• Dozen Red Roses, A: A Birthday
  
  A Birthday: Christina Rossetti’s joyful celebration that her one true love has arrived, read by Jenny Agutter...
• Dozen Red Roses, A: Delight in Disorder
  
  Robert Herrick’s poetic tribute to his mistress’s beautifully carefree style of dress...
• Dozen Red Roses, A: From The Song Of Solomon
  
  From The Song of Solomon: A beautiful extract from the famous biblical hymn to love..
• Dozen Red Roses, A: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day
  
  Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet, in which he tries, and fails, to find an apt comparison in nature, read by Bill Wallis..
• Dozen Red Roses, A: The Owl and The Pussycat
  
  Edward Lear’s much-loved comic poem, featuring the most elegant fowl in literature and his beautiful feline friend...
• Dozen Red Roses, A: If Thou Must Love Me
  
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s plea to her lover to love her just for herself, and not for any qualities that may fade away..
• Dozen Red Roses, A: My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
  
  Robert Burns’s well-known poem celebrating the enduring power of true love, read by Bill Wallis..
• Dozen Red Roses, A: 12 Valentines Poems
  
  Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter...
• Dead Body's A Deal Breaker, A
  
  Hear LA sleuth Mark Markheim solve crime all whilst adroitly enunciating elaborate alliterations
• Death of Arthur, The
  
  The glorious but tragic story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
• Cymbeline
  
  This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years. One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage imperiled...
• Dante: Inferno, from The Divine Comedy
  
  Abandon All Hope You Who Enter Here (Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate) Dante's Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for...
• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Part II, The
  
  Gibbon's work occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces.
• Devoted Friend, The
  
  Children's story uses tragedy to underscore the gulf between devotion and selfishness.
• Diary of Samuel Pepys, The
  
  Perhaps the most well-known collection of reminiscences.
• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The
  
  One of the greatest texts in the English language.
• Depth Perception
  
  Lush imagery and the mellifluous voice of the poet imbued with music and sounddesign.

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