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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..
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One isolated lighthouse. Three misfit men. Thousands upon thousands of ravenous flesh-eating RATS!
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Phil is hired to protect a Debutant .... from her mother.
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A cat wearing a ruby necklace starts Phil on a new lead.
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Another murder, but Phil is not sure it was the intended victim.
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A famous crime writer is being blackmailed and hires Phil.
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The ruby bracelet begins to cause more problems as several people claim ownership.
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Phil begins to uncover clues about her husbands murder. Part 1 of 2
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WAITING FOR REDEMPTION - Part 2: The final episode - as Phil solves her husbands murder.
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It's Aesop's Fables - told by Aesop himself, in the highly entertaining production in the classic CRT style!
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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First published in 1885, 'Huckleberry Finn' is one of the undoubted masterpieces of American literature...
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The Illiad and the Odyssey are retold in a glorious saga.
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Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in the first collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon
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Mark Twain's classic tale recounts the adventures of the ever resourceful Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn...
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The masterpiece of Rome's greatest poet, Virgil's Aeneid.
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These wonderful stories have delighted adults and children for centuries.
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An author's agent finds he's in for an outrageous night when his two Best Selling clients meet.
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With music, sound effects and all the expertise of the BBC, these four traditional fairy tales are brought magically to life in full cast recordings, guaranteed to enchant all listeners
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In this brilliant forerunner to Bennett's series Talking Heads monologues, Patricia Routledge plays Margaret Schofield. a woman whose existence revolves around the gossip and minutiae of office life..
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Alan Bennett's three classic BBC Radio full-cast dramas; Kafka's Dick, Forty Years On and An Englishman Abroad...
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Alan Bennett reads three further chapters from Untold Stones, his major collection of new writings.
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Alan Bennett presents highlights from his remarkable career at the BBC.
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A critically-acclaimed double bill of Alan Bennett plays, originally performed at the National Theatre and adapted for BBC Radio 4...
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Against a backdrop of delicate imagery, Willa Cather explores the tough inner terrain of a man in mid-life crisis. Bartley Alexander is a master bridge engineer at the height of his power, comfortable with success and all it brings. Yet he yearns for the lost vibrancy of his youth and so leads a...
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The fantasy worlds in which Alice finds herself introduce her to some well known characters!
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When Alice sees the White Rabbit run by, it occurs to her that she's never seen a rabbit with a watch before. Burning with curiosity, she jumps up and follows him into a rabbit-hole of enchantment...
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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...
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An anthology of Shakespearian speeches performed by the world's leading actors.
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A collection of poems by one of the greatest literary & cultural figures of the 20th century.
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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...
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A Garden fairy tale.
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Andersen's tales have become part of universal folk lore.
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Full-cast tale of espionage, betrayal and romance set against the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
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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,...
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Allow the Arabian Nights tales weave their enchantment.
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Classic story of a hasty world tour taken up on a gentelmen's club wager
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A fresh vision of Britain's greatest story: The epic of King Arthur - from his conception in sorcerous lust, to the shining wonder of his...
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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...
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A quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown.
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Anecdotes, jokes, poems and sketches from the ever-entertaining Pam Ayres
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Ballet Shoes is a classic of 20th-century children's literature. The lively humour and sense of fun that have made the novel such a favourite are brought to life in this enchanting dramatisation.
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A perfect introduction to The Ballet.
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This magnificent novel is a satirical comedy about the fight for ascendancy among the clergy in a cathedral city. The formidable Mrs. Proudie, the oily Mr. Slope, and the flamboyant Signora Neroni are among the memorable characters vying to be the dominant voice in the quiet diocese of Barchester.
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Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in its subject field, Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys gives you a valuable overview of your college-level course. From Middle English thr...
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"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...
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A man's fascination with his wife's teeth ends with tragic consequences.
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A Jules Verne adaptation about an English Blockade Runner in the American Civil War
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An audio anthology of the most dramatic moments in American history.
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"The Alien at Planet X" is the first Brad Lansky adventure, captured in hi-fi stereo.
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"The Alien Engineer" is the second Brad Lansky adventure, captured in hi-fi stereo.
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A full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's great classic story of a lost golden age.
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The Enormity of Man and written words...
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A comic look at Julius Caesar, his closest confidant, his relationship with the Queen of Egypt and the Senators who plotted his assassination.
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The wonderful music that accompanies The Cairo Trilogy is available to download separately. Omar Sharif leads an all-Egyptian cast in a three-parter recorded entirely in Egypt's...
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Omar Sharif leads an all-Egyptian cast in a three-parter recorded entirely in Egypt's capital...
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Omar Sharif leads an all-Egyptian cast in a three-parter recorded entirely in Egypt's capital...
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Omar Sharif leads an all-Egyptian cast in a three-parter, recorded entirely in Egypt's capital...
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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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.
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Dr. Peter Blood gives medical attention to a wounded man after the battle of Sedgemore, as the Dragoons arrive in search of rebels.
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Falsely accused of being a rebel, Peter Blood is sent to Barbados and sold into slavery.
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Blood secures a small boat and plans to escape from Barbados
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A Spanish pirate ship attacks Bridgetown, as Blood and his fellow slaves plan to escape the plantation.
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The pirates loot the town of Bridgetown, as Blood and the convicts discover their escape boat has been sunk.
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Blood poses as a liberated Spanish prisoner, as his captured ship is stopped off Hispaniola by a a Spanish Galleon.
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While in Tortuga, Captain Blood meets the French Buccaneer Levasseur, who wants to join forces with Blood's crew.
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Captain Levasseur captures the son and daughter of the Governor of Tortuga, and takes them to the island of the Virgin Magra.
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Captain Blood and his crew are trapped by Spanish Galleons, anchored outside the harbor of Maracaybo.
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Heavily outnumbered, Captain Blood devises a plan to escape from Maracaybo.
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Arabaella Bishop and Lord Julian are sailing to Barbados, when their ship is attacked by Don Miguel and the Milagrosa.
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Captain Blood attacks the Milagrosa, not knowing Arabella is onboard.
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Outnumbered by Colonel Bishops Jamaica Fleet, Captain Blood accepts a Kings Commission from Lord Julian to escape capture/
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Even holding a Kings Commission, Colonel Bishop plans to capture and hang Captain Blood at Port Royal.
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Captain Blood and his fleet join forces with the French to attack Cartagena.
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In a spectacular battle on both land and sea, Captain Blood and his buccaneers attack Cartagena.
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Captain Blood sails into Port Royal for the final showdown with the French fleet.
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The Greatest Pirate Adventure Of Them All!
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Classic sea-faring, coming of age story enjoyed by all ages...
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When all the roads go missing, PI Stanley Park races to save Vancouver's famous Grand Prix.
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Installment #1 of the Case. Try for FREE!
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FULL CAST. Vancouver BC Radio Detective Stanley Park investigates the murder of...a radio detective!
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Installment #1 of the series. Try for FREE!
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The only thing that gets Julie through the day is her CAT. But the beast had friends down the road.
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The poems of Yeats, Swift, Burns and other Celts.
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It is now Thomas’ most widely known work, a wistful, tender, touching, wide-eyed in wonder evocation of the sights, smells and sounds of a child’s Christmas in a seaside town in Wales.
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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....
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A classic Charles Dickens story set on New Years Eve - with the haunted chimes in a church tower
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Magnificent production of the most beloved of Dickens seasonal classics
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A wonderful reading of the story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas.
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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...
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On this recording, Christmas past brings alive Christmas present.
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"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...
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The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne.
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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...
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The radio play of The Chronology Protection Case was adapted by Mark Shanahan with Paul Levinson...
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From the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day.
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An absolute joy to listen to. An attractive and accessible collection.
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Five stories from women writers of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th.
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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...
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Ten enduring Kipling poems recited in the wonderful Cockney lilt.
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Shows what can happen when two very different societies come together.
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A Yankee mechanic, knocked out in a fight, awakens at Camelot in A.D. 528. He saves himself from prison and death by posing as a magician and becoming minister to King Arthur. But when he attempts to help out the peasants, he meets opposition.
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Samuel West and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's great tragedy of power and pride.
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Love stories of the haunted.
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Love stories of the haunted.
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Another Charles Dickens holiday classic brimming with holiday charm.
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Aldous Huxley here introduces us to an amiable group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian painting are just a few of the subjects for discussion among the eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an...
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Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recrimination that quickly develops men denounce their neighbours...
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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...
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This collection of stories, originally published in 1922, is the basis for an upcoming major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. F. Scott...
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Full-cast, very modern update of the classic Bram Stoker novel.
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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...
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Frederick Winterbourne, an American expatriate visiting at Vevey, Switzerland, meets commonplace, newly rich Mrs. Miller from Schenectady, New York, her mischievous small son and her daughter, Daisy, an “inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.” The Millers have no perception of the...
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"You have a true higher self and [The Dance] tells you how to come from there all the time and be authentic and make a lasting difference"
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In Daniel Deronda, George Eliot left behind the world of the Victorian middle classes that she explored so well in Middlemarch. Eliot, with her hero Deronda, attempts to come to terms with the English Jews, a society within a society, which the people of her time seemed either oblivious to or...
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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...
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John Wyndham's classic novel of man's struggle in a besieged world is dramatised by Giles Cooper in this classic 1968 recording.
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Hear LA sleuth Mark Markheim solve crime all whilst adroitly enunciating elaborate alliterations
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The glorious but tragic story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
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Gibbon's work occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces.
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One of the greatest texts in the English language.
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When the U.S. Supreme Court determines the fate of genetically engineered beings - whether they're humans or animals - humanity learns that the law is truly a double edged sword...
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Lush imagery and the mellifluous voice of the poet imbued with music and sounddesign.
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Children's story uses tragedy to underscore the gulf between devotion and selfishness.
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Perhaps the most well-known collection of reminiscences.
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A black comedy about terrorism, war and conjugal strife. A 2006 National Book Award Nominee...
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Doctor Thorne adopts his niece Mary, keeping secret her illegitimate birth as he introduces her to the best local social circles. There she meets and falls in love with Frank Gresham, who is intent on marrying her despite her seeming poverty. Only Doctor Thorne knows that Mary is to inherit a...
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Death Comes to Time is an original audio adventure uniting elements from the Doctor's past with bold and original ideas for his future...
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The first doctor becomes the second in this exclusive recording of Doctor Who's original regeneration story, starring Patrick Troughton with linking narration by Anneke Wills
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Patrick Troughton's Doctor arrives on Atlantis in this classic soundtrack adventure, with linking narration by Anneke Wills and an exclusive bonus interview.
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Tom Baker and Sophie Aldred appear in one of three full-cast BBC radio dramas based around the real-life worlds of Doctor Who...contains adult themes and language...
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Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter...
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Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter...
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A Birthday: Christina Rossetti’s joyful celebration that her one true love has arrived, read by Jenny Agutter...
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Robert Herrick’s poetic tribute to his mistress’s beautifully carefree style of dress...
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A short section from Milton’s epic poem, expressing how much sweeter the world is when you are with the one you love...
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From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Some meditations on love from Edward Fitzgerald’s translation...
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From The Song of Solomon: A beautiful extract from the famous biblical hymn to love..
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s plea to her lover to love her just for herself, and not for any qualities that may fade away..
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Robert Burns’s well-known poem celebrating the enduring power of true love, read by Bill Wallis..
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Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet, in which he tries, and fails, to find an apt comparison in nature, read by Bill Wallis..
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Edward Lear’s much-loved comic poem, featuring the most elegant fowl in literature and his beautiful feline friend...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Christopher Marlowe’s emotional appeal to his lady to run away with him...
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John Donne’s famous poem about two lovers surprised by the astonishingly rapid arrival of sunrise...
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Andrew Marvell’s classic plea to his mistress to show her love for him while they are both still young and passionate...
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Traces the events leading up to and after one of Edwardian London's most publicized crimes
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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...
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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.
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This stunning release includes the highly acclaimed re-make of Dylan's definitive play, Under Milk Wood...
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The complete book of Acts taken from Zondervan’s acclaimed, Audie Award®-winning NIV Audio Bible Dramatized New Testament...
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13 Episode High Fantasy drama. A battle between Good and Evil in a land of magic and power.
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20 of Poe's chilling stories and poems performed by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone.
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In “Elsie in New York,” Elsie is an innocent young woman who must look for work to make a living. Although she applies for several positions, do-gooders interfere. Thinking they are saving her soul, in actuality they point her to her destruction. In “The Purple Dress,” two young women clerks...
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In this sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney’s arch- enemy travels to England in pursuit of the impudent enemy of the French Republic. Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate, once and for all, both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife, Marguerite.
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Jane Austen’s engaging and infuriating heroine sparkles in this superb full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation...
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Do you know the difference between seeing what you saw, and saying what you saw?
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The complete book of Revelation taken from Zondervan’s acclaimed, Audie Award®-winning NIV Audio Bible Dramatized New Testa...
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Representing the work of more than thirty poets, and extending from Thomas Hardy’s lines on the loss of Titanic to the present-day...
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Four couples explore the hopelessness of their invlovements within the same motel room.
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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 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
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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...
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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.
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Father Brown investigates a death at the Vernon Hotel.
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Father Brown comes to the aid of a man receiving threatening letters, but he is unable to prevent him from being killed with an arrow.
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A man is murdered, a man confesses to the murder and is arrested, but Father Brown doesnt believe either claim.
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A labor dispute leads to murder.
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Fears for Ears is an Award Winning CD of unique horror fiction stories in full audio theatre format
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Two men vying for the hand of Esther, a young woman of charm and virtue, are Felix Holt, an idealistic young artisan, and Harold Transome, the intelligent heir to an estate. She is drawn to Holt yet has dreams of marrying into a life of refinement.
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At the site of a 100-year-old massacre, unseen forces swirl about in the wind...
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A fully-dramatized performance by Leonard Nimoy, John De Lancie and cast members of the H.G. Wells' classic, The First Men in the Moon. Written at a time when the idea of travelling...
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Full Cast. Flash battles the merciless Emperor Ming of Mongo. Winner 2000 Silver Mark Time Award.
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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...
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John Galsworthy devoted virtually his entire professional career to creating a fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes. Flowering Wilderness is the eighth novel in his Forsyte Chronicles, which has become established as one of the most popular and...
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When artist Tim Lefens walked into the care center for people with cerebral palsy, he had a life-changing experience. Because of his passion and determination, he and his student-artists emerged to...
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Alan Bennett stars in a new production of his own acclaimed satirical comedy.
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Mark Robarts, the new young vicar in the village, seeks high connections to further his career but is preyed upon to guarantee a substantial loan, which brings Mark to the brink of ruin. Meanwhile, romances are in bloom, including between Mark's sister, Lucy, and Lord Lufton, with a marriage in...
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The gothic tale of Frankenstein and his construction of a human being who runs amok.
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The fifteen stories collected here demonstrate the genius of Katherine Mansfield, who was compared to Chekhov. These are not tales of violent incidents or dexterous plot but sensitive revelations of human behavior in ordinary situations. The men, women, and children whom Mansfield portrays are...
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In the Maheus family, the father and three of seven children work brutal hours to extract coal far beneath the earth amid hazards of landslides, fire, poisoned air, and poisoned health. Then comes the idea of a workers’ revolt, and soon the settlement is aflame. Zola chronicles the conflicts,...
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This work is one of the most starkly realistic dissections of men and women possessed by sensuality and alcoholism ever attempted.
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Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a newly married couple with the right connections but little money, devise a shrewd plan to sponge off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas. How their plan unfolds is a charming comedy of Eros.
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Creepy tales from the cities of the dead.
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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...
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Marie Antoinette goes on a picnic.
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A captain. A battleship. A pitch dark night.
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The Bard gets a jolly lesson in ye olde show biz.
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Prehistoric homo habilis takes a step towards the future.
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Full-Cast. The great Tootenhotep unveils the 7-1/2th Wonder of the World!
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Some of the finest and most memorable works in the English language.
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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...
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Magical Verse for the Wheel of the Year: 32 Seasonal Poems. In this enchanting collection modern-day bard Tallyessin (winner of the Bardic Chair of Bath)...
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The tie-in audiobook of the bestselling novel, now a major Hollywood film starring James Cromwell, Harry Dean Stanton and Tom Hanks...
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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...
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Thus gentle reader, I have given thee faithful history of my travels for sixteen years and above seven months; wherein I have not been so studious of ornament as truth
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Swift’s masterpiece of satire tells of the fantastic voyages of the Englishman Lemuel Gulliver, whose travels take him to lands where the inhabitants are only six inches tall as well as to lands where they are sixty feet high, where horses have the capacity to reason, and where animals are...
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Shakespeare's classic as dramatized by renowned vocal actor David I. Davies
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The first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies.
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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...
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Michael Sheen stars as Hamlet with Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beaven as Ophelia in the best-known and most powerful tragedy of modern times...
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Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up his two children, Louisa and Tom, accordingly, suppressing the imaginative sides of their nature. They are raised without love and affection, and the consequences are devastating.
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A journey to genuine haunted places of the American South.
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A journey to genuine haunted places of the American South.
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Marlow, the story’s narrator, tells his friends of an experience in the British Congo where he once ran a river steamer for a trading company. He tells of the ivory traders’ cruel exploitation of the natives there. Chief among these is a greedy and treacherous European named Kurtz, a man who has...
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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,...
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Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and Prince Hal in Shakespeare's stirring history.
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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...
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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...
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Alan Bennett's new, award-winning play as heard on BBC Radio 3 features the National Theatre cast...
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Here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music.
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The story of literature that has touched the hearts & stirred the minds of countless readers.
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This absorbing history is illustrated by over 100 musical examples.
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An enthralling story - told with nearly 100 famous musical extracts.
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Here is the diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre.
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A court jester seeks revenge against the king, who brutalized his love.
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A tale of madness, or possession, or perhaps both.
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Robb White knows everything there is to know about getting on the water and staying there as long as you possibly can. While still a young boy, he built his first boat, hewn from the tin roof of an...
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Howard’s End is a charming country house in Hertfordshire which becomes the object of an inheritance dispute between the Wilcox family and the Schlegel sisters. Through romantic entanglements, disappearing wills, and sudden tragedy, the conflict over the house emerges as a symbolic struggle for...
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Twain's story of an orphan is often cited as the greatest American novel.
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Ugly and deformed but humble and loyal, Quasimodo is the hunchback living in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. He is trapped between his love for a Gypsy girl and his love for the archdeacon, his benefactor.
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Recorded live for BBC Radio 4, Hymn is a memoir of music in childhood, written by Alan Bennett and George Fenton
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A horrific modern comedy which includes readings of several Poe works. Based on the stage play.
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The first of Homer's epic poems. Translated by Samuel Butler.
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The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war.
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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.
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This is one of the great recordings of a great play. John Gielgud stars as Earnest and Edith Evans .....
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In Chancery is the second novel in John Galsworthy's epic Forsyte Saga, a brilliant social satire about an upper-class family. After suffering the death of her lover and abuse from her husband Soames, Irene Forsyte has finally left her marriage for good. Though disgraced by her affair, she forms...
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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.
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One night, while dumping a corpse in a swamp, a killer unexpectedly discovers love and horror.
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves.
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Maeve talks about hearing her work on audio, narrated by her cousin and friend Kate Binchy...
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The tie-in to the Disney Pictures release starring Mark Wahlberg - the true story of the NFL’s oldest rookie...
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A deeply spiritual works in which the author brings to life the wisdom of her beloved prose poem in such a passionate and touching manner
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Terry Wogan tells the story of his journey from Irish childhood to chat show host in his own delightfully Iaconic fashion
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This boxed set features Jack London's thrilling classics, The Call of the Wild and White Fang. London’s adventurous nature, intuitive feeling for animal life, and superb storytelling skills have given his tales an enduring place in the annals of American literature.
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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...
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Jane Eyre is the story of an unloved and penniless orphan who triumphs over harsh treatment to become a spirited and independent young woman...
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Sir John Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates and even a hundred years after his birth he continues to attract acclaim and admiration.
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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...
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A special tribute edition of Home Truths, hosted by Tom Robinson, including a visit to John Peel's family at 'Peel Acres'...
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Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare's most popular and polished works.
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BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first...
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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...
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Alison Steadman, Richard Griffiths and Nigel Anthony star in this BBC radio 4 version of Alan Bennett's acclaimed comedy drama...
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The Robert Louis Steven Adventure Classic is now a thrilling Audio Play!
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Farcical comedy tells the tale of the Killist, the meanest, toughest, orneryest gun in the old west.
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Shakespeare's bitter tragedy of loyalty, power and politics.
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The story of a foolish and self-indulgent king who learns the value of self-knowledge.
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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...
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Oscar Wilde's first play confronts the hypocrisy of public 'morality'.
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" Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in, delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose."--Robert Graves This...
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" Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in, delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose."--Robert Graves This...
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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...
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The Headless Horseman roams Sleepy Hollow in Washington Irvings Classic tale.
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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...
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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...
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The complete Gospel of Luke taken from Zondervan’s acclaimed, Audie Award®-winning NIV Audio Bible Dramatized New Testament...
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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...
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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...
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Well-known war correspondent and artist Dick Heldar returns to London and falls in love with his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. Then he learns he is going blind due to a war injury. As his vision fails, he must choose between the love of a woman and the love of the men who stood by him at the front.
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The Lives of the Great Artists was the first truly comprehensive history of art.
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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...
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From the author of such children’s classics as The Secret Garden and A Little Princess comes this enchanting story of a young boy discovering his true destiny. Twelve-year-old Marco has spent his life traveling with his father in secrecy, forbidden to speak about their country of origin,...
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Kelly and her mother huddle on a rainy NYC street fearing they’ll never know enough about each other
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This biography presents the Lucille that her fans have never known, from her virtual abandonment in childhood, through her early vaudeville and Hollywood years, to her troubled relationship with Desi Arnaz. Brady gives us the thoughtful and candid biography this great star deserves.
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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),...
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"...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...
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Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's drama of greed and destiny.
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Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dramatic tale of greed and destiny...
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Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles. In this seventh installment, the story continues of the lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths of the fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians,...
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Tales from The Traveller's Rest. Short stories by Dennis Rookard and read by John Glasscock.
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This two-part adult fairytale by the author of The Secret Garden combines a charming Cinderella tale with an ironic look at class structure and the Edwardian marriage market in turn-of-the-century London. Emily Fox-Seton is distantly related to aristocracy, but she is struggling to make ends...
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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...
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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...
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Gaskell's powerful drama, adapted here for Woman's Hour, is regarded as one of the most important novels of its time...
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When a prince deserts his subjects, death comes looking for him.
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When a young woman is offered the choice of saving a man's life at the price of her own chastity, what should she do? The political and moral corruption of Vienna has driven Duke...
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Shakespeare's dramatic and complex comedy.
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Here are the beloved adventures of the mischievous hero Robin Hood and his brave and merry band of outlaws who forged a chivalrous code to protect the oppressed and despoil the oppressors. Breathtaking escapes, hilarious escapades, and classic characters make this a favorite story everywhere.
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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..
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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...
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Middlemarch is a multilayered work centering around two expertly constructed characters: Dorothea Brooke, an idealistic young woman who traps herself into a loveless marriage, and Tertius Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor. This work is epic in scope and unsurpassed in its depiction of human nature.
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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...
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"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,...
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Sylvestra Le Touzel, Sam West and David Threlfall star in Shakespeare's delightful comic fantasy.
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This is a dynamic, modern dramatisation of a classic book by John Wyndham....
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From her birth in Newgate Prison, where her mother is under sentence of death for theft, to her final position of wealth, Moll Flanders demonstrates a spirit of industry and an indomitable will. One of the earliest social novels of English life, Moll Flanders features one of the most lively,...
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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast...
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A full-cast performance of one of the greatest verbal sparring matches in all of literature.
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David Tennant stars as Benedick with Samantha Spiro as Beatrice in Shakespeare's merry comedy of wit, words and romance.
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One of the outstanding novels in the canon of American literature, My Ántonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in the vast frontier farmlands of Nebraska. Infused with a gracious passion for the land, it renders a deeply moving portrait of a community and the free-spirited girl at...
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One of the outstanding novels in the canon of American literature, My Ántonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in the vast frontier farmlands of Nebraska. Infused with a gracious passion for the land, it renders a deeply moving portrait of a community and the free-spirited girl at...
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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...
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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...
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Nicholas, the hearty young hero, takes us on a journey through nineteenth-century England in a delightful series of adventures accompanied by some of Dickens’s best swaggering scoundrels and most unforgettable eccentrics.
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It is 1793, France, the year of the guillotine. Already Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and terror reigns. In Ninety-Three, Victor Hugo’s inspired last novel, that tumultuous year’s events are woven into an epic masterpiece which captures brilliantly the moment that shaped the...
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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
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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
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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
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A perfect blend of vintage Noel Coward sure to be enjoyed by faithful fans and new listeners.
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The thrilling tale of the wanderings of the hero Odysseus after the end of the Trojan war.
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Homer's Adventures of Odysseus. Translated by Samuel Butler,
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Clare Charwell has just fled her sadistic husband in Ceylon and boarded a ship back to England. On the boat, she meets the charming Tony Croom, who falls madly in love with her. Though Clare’s relationship with Tony is platonic, her husband has been secretly gathering “evidence” to accuse her of...
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Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her...
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Aeschylus here dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos. The action begins when King Agamemnon, returning victorious from the Trojan War, is treacherously slain by his wife. It end
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The stormy passions of Shakespeare's tragedy resonate with powerful emotion in this BBC radio 3 production.
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The second in Shakespeare's greate sequence of four tragedies.
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This terse and startling novel is the story of a struggle for possession and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young...
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A white lie about a smear of blood and a garage door leads two young twins to alarming assumptions.
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Set in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic, where she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how...
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Pam Ayres at her entertaining best in a live stage show from Stratford-upon-Avon...
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Warm and witty, direct and droll, the sharply funny Pam Ayres has been amusing and entertaining her many fans for years...
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'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...
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Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language.
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Full-Cast. An indigestible tragic romantic comedy of love, jealousy, betrayal and murder.
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Pensées (Thoughts) is a collection of Pascal’s notes and ideas for a book in defense of faith in a rational world. These fragments give evidence of a profoundly original thinker who has resolved his conflict between a scientific mind demanding proof and a spiritual position maintained by faith.
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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...
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of J. M. Barrie's tale of childhood adventure starring Toyah Willcox as Peter Pan and Ron Moody as Captain Hook
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In this seminal story of naval life during the Napoleonic War, Frederick Marryat’s young hero embarks upon a life at sea and finds it to be a rough school indeed. Peter Simple is a towering tale from the great age of sail, filled with keen wit, vivid characters, and gripping adventure.
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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...
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Plutarch's unique insight into the great men of the Ancient World through his biographies.
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This specially commissioned recording offers a wide-ranging choice of Burns's songs and lyrical poems; and longer poems...
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'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...
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These days, English professors teach anything and everything but classic English literature. They prefer to indoctrinate their students in Marxism and feminism and propagandize against our “oppressive” Western culture. Take a fascinating tour through our great literature, in all its politically...
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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...
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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 ...
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MODERN RADIO'S GREATEST WESTERN SERIES RETURNS WITH ALL NEW EPISODES!
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IN CHICAGO. Britt and Chad travel to Chicago where Doc is hospitalized.
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While in Chicago,Britt once again encounters Jenny White.
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A young lady is the sole survivor of an Indian attack on a raft traveling on the Powder.
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Doc wants to join Britt and Dawes in their search for the attackers of the raft.
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Britt fears another uprising with the Sioux.
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Britt takes on the river pirates who have been attacking boats and homesteads along the Powder.
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A mysterious visitor takes a room at Millie's Hotel.
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The railroad arrives in Clearmont, bring one thousand workers and trouble.
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While hunting buffalo for the railroad, peace with the Sioux is threatened.
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Tragedy and death strike Clearmont, in this, the most dramatic episode of the Powder River series.
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Natty Bumppo in his ninetieth year is still competent as a frontiersman and trapper. He is drawn into conflict with society in the form of an immigrant party led by the surly Ishmael Bush. Once again this great man of nature is called upon to exhibit his courage and resourcefulness to rescue...
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'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...
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Two Kidnappers learn their plan is less than perfect
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Two childrens classics involving children being taken from their parents as a punishment.
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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...
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Anna Leath, an American widow living in France, has engaged in a love affair with George Darrow, a diplomat. However, when Darrow is on his way to consolidate marriage plans at Anna’s French chateau, he encounters Sophy Viner, who is as sprightly and spontaneous as Anna is restrained and demure....
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Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, marks the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth in BBC R3’s Sunday Feature ‘Rembrandt 400’...
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Clym Yeobright, a diamond merchant in Paris, returns to his home in Egdon where he falls in love with the sensuous Eustacia Vye. She marries him, hoping he will take her away to Paris. But Eustacia’s dreams of escape are not to be realized. Clym Yeobright, the returning native, cannot bring her...
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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...
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A comic masterpiece brimming with false identities!
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*Stop Press* BBC's Robin Hood audiobook download available in January ! Meanwhile, listen to Richard Armitage, who plays Guy of Gisbourne, talk about his character..
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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...
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Mr. Frank Softly was sent to one of the most fashionable and famous of the great public schools. He said, “I ran away three times, and was flogged three times. I made four aristocratic connections, I learnt to play at cricket, to hate rich people. . . and to receive kicks and serious advice...
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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...
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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...
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Shakespeare's play is filled with wit, tenderness, dramatic variety and poetic beauty.
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Douglas Henshall stars as Romeo with Sophie Dahl as Juliet and Susannah York as Lady Capulet in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love...
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In this novel, Eliot re-creates the upheavals of fifteenth-century Florence through the noble and courageous Romola, who finds herself increasingly disillusioned by the career of Savonarola and repelled by her unscrupulous, self-indulgent husband.
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The image and lifestyle of Jimi Hendrix was larger-than-life, but beyond this was a complex man who struggled to accept his role as an idol. This sensitive, meticulously-researched biography recounts the entire arc of Hendrix’s twenty-seven years, from po
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Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. M. Forster’s glorious tale of love in Italy and England...
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Devastated by the end of her relationship, Rose reunites with her best friend from high school.
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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...
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The ethereal words of the great thinker Omar Khayyam.
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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...
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“Who is this man, this Scarlet Pimpernel?” Each day this question grew more pressing to the rulers of the French Revolution. Only this man, this maddeningly elusive figure, threatened their total power, defying the vast network of fanatics, informers, and secret agents that the Revolution spread...
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A sophisticated man is thrust into the dangerous world of a sealing sailor
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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...
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Was Jesus actually married to Mary Magdalene? Did they have a child together? In the Secrets of the Code, Burstein attempts to distill expert opinion on the subject.
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An Anthology of Poetry with Music.
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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...
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A lesser known but heart warming Charles Dickens Christmas story, set on Christmas Eve.
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All 154 of the Shakespeare's sonnets are beautifully read.
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'To be or not to be - that is the question…'
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Richard Burton's rich and resonant voice delivers Henry V's address to his army on the eve of Agincourt!
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Alec Guinness's performance as King Lear stirs the listener in this recording from the BBC Sound Archives.
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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.
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With Denis Quilley as Macbeth, this recording from the BBC Sound Archives brings Shakespeare's memorable words to life.
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Ian Holm delivers King Richard IIIs soliloquy, bringing Shakespeare's wonderful lines, full of pyschological insight, vividly to life.
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This impassioned speech is beautifully spoken by Fay Compton in this BBC Sound archives recording.
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In this recording from the BBC Sound Archives, Hannah Gordon is Shakespeare's wise Portia.
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Full-Cast. Is it possible Holmes can be bested ... by a woman no less?
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Full-Cast. Holmes engages his arch enemy Professor Moriarty in a deadly battle of wits
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Full-Cast. Holmes and Watson investigate the terrible doings at Stoke Moran manor
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Silas Marner's redemption and restoration endorses the goodness in people...
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“But, however much or little ‘A Modern Comedy’ may be deemed to reflect the spirit of an Age, it continues in the main to relate the tale of life which sprang from the meeting of Soames and Irene in a Bournemouth drawing-room in 1881….”—John Galsworthy
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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...
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Smith of Wooton Major tells of the preparation of the Great Cake to mark the Feast of Good Children and the magical...
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The heroic true stroy of an American soldier and an Iraqi boy.
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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...
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The audiodrama of this twelfth-century French epic allows listeners to hear the story as they might have in medieval time, when a traveling troubador would recite the poem in the village square. It describes the heroic exploits of Roland and the campaign of Charlemagne. Fired by the religious...
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As read by the legendary Sir John Gielgud-- perhaps the greatest interpreter of the Bard we shall ever know-- the sonnets in this selection come alive...
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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...
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This is no ordinary celebrity biography pieced together by an outsider. Steve Martin and author Morris Walker had a close relationship growing up. They were class clowns together, charming the girls and the teachers with their wit and eventually going on the road as comedians. You’ll meet the...
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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...
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Doctor Dolittle, a little, lovable, old doctor, has so many animal pets that his people patients will not come to him any more. In fact, he likes the animals better, and he can talk to them, too! Soon his fame spreads all over the world and when the monkeys in Africa are stricken with an...
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A Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India... it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century.
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In his old age, Soames Forsyte has mellowed into a patient and benign figure, guarding with especial tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert the tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with Jon Forsyte.
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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...
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Orson Welles introduces and stars in true crime stories from the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's infamous gallery of death...
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Orson Welles introduces and stars in true crime stories from the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's infamous gallery of death...
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Orson Welles introduces and stars in true crime stories from the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's infamous gallery of death...
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These seven stories are based on Jack London’s youthful adventures as an oyster pirate. In the early 1900s, San Francisco Bay was plagued by oyster pirates who plundered in broad daylight. At sixteen, London’s common sense suggested he change sides. Thus he joined the Fish Patrol. Catching the...
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The Crusaders, led by Richard I of England, are encamped in the Holy Land and torn by the dissensions and jealousies of the leaders, including Coeur de Lion himself and Philip of France.
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"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,...
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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...
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Shakespeare's magical, other-wordly final play.
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A beautiful woman with a young child and a mysterious past takes up residence at Wildfell Hall and becomes the passionate focus of attention of a young unmarried country gentleman, in this tragic tale that reveals the secret violence in a society considered well-mannered.
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At the farthest reaches of the British Empire, four men swear an oath to keep a terrible secret, a secret drenched in blood which is the key to immense wealth...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband’s earthy friend Laurent. But their passion for...
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This historical romance, perhaps the greatest cloak-and-sword story ever written, relates the adventures of four fictional swashbuckling heroes and their escapades against the master of intrigue, Cardinal Richelieu, and the quintessential wicked woman, Lady de Winter.
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"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...
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
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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...
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A multi-voice audio recording of a fresh, new translation for today’s generation.
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A multi-voice audio recording of a fresh, new translation for today’s generation.
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A multi-voice audio recording of a fresh, new translation for today’s generation.
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In To Let, Jon and Fleur, now both nineteen years old, fall in love. However, when Jolyon informs his son of the past feud between the families, Jon decides that he cannot marry Fleur. Meanwhile, Soames learns that his second wife, Annette, has been unfaithful to him, and the Forsyte family...
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Stephen Glennard, a young lawyer, sells a package of love letters, written to him over the years by distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn, to raise money to pay for his forthcoming wedding to another woman. After the wedding, his secret comes back to haunt him, and when he confesses to his wife,...
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In this book that implicitly condemns slavery, David Wilson is called “Pudd’nhead” by the townspeople, who fail to understand his combination of wisdom and eccentricity. He redeems himself by solving a murder mystery and a case of transposed identities.
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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...
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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...
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The year 1866 was marked by a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon. For some time, sea vessels had been threatened by “an enormous thing,” a long phosphorescent object, infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale—until Captain Nemo put his submarine, the Nautilus, into...
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Personal recollections of the foundations of the BBC in an old army hut in Essex.
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"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...
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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,...
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A classic BBC Radio full-cast drama of Dylan Thomas' poetic play for voices starring Richard Burton...
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Dylan Thomas wrote this as a radio play for voices and this is the only recording ever made with Thomas in the cast. This play is full of humour, a joyful sense of the goodness of life and love...
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Under Western Eyes, Conrad’s novel of political treachery and oppression, begins with a bomb that kills a hated Russian minister of police, along with innocent bystanders. A young student named Razumov hides the perpetrator, then betrays him and becomes a spy among his exiled comrades. He faces...
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Brilliantly produced horror story about vampire neighbours from the acclaimed FearsForEars anthology
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Hear LA sleuth Mark Markheim solve crime all whilst adroitly enunciating elaborate alliterations
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Country vicar Dr. Primrose has a good heart, a good family and a good income, but suddenly, his idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of misfortunes. Despite all the calamity, however, he never loses sight of Christian morality, and this eventually brings him justice and the restoration...
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Lucy Snowe is a stoic young Englishwoman. Beset by adverse circumstances, on a momentary whim she travels to Belgium to seek her livelihood as a teacher in a girls’ boarding school. There, surrounded by giddy pupils, under the control of the cunning school matron, wooed by an...
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Historial recordings of poetry, humor and drama. 1908 - 1947.
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The Voyage Out opens as a group of lively, eccentric British tourists embark on a sea voyage from London to a resort in South America. The focus soon turns to Rachel Vinrace, a shy, awkward young woman headed on a voyage of self-discovery through love, illness, and, finally, death. A wry and...
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'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...
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Leo Tolstoy's epic War and Peace chronicles one of the most turbulent eras in Russian history, encompassing the drama and intensity of life during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
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War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of each individual’s place in the historical process. War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself.
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When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs...
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This powerful and moving anthology includes poems of war from the eighteenth century to our own days in the long shadow...
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Anthony Trollope’s classic novel centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended. On discovering this, young John Bold determines to expose what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he...
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot...
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Every generation finds in The Way of All Flesh a reaffirmation of youth’s rightful struggle against the tyranny of harsh parents and its admirable will for freedom of personal expression. This is a fascinating character study of a young man who survives the influence of a hateful, hypocritical...
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A womans's discovery of a haunted wedding dress leads to a tragic end.
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In this opening novel of the second trilogy in the Forsyte Chronicles, Fleur and Michael Mont begin to question their marriage when a love triangle develops between them and their mutual friend, author Wilfred Desert.
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How was it that Lionel Lukin, living miles from the sea, came to develop the Lifeboat?
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An eccentric architect and Egyptologist dies leaving a bizarre will for this family to discover.
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What befalls a star-crossed triangle of friends and lovers in this novel illustrates exquisitely what happens when a woman’s desire for both her lover and riches makes the object of her affection question his own true worth in her eyes.
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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...
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Romantic and gothic elements combine in this tightly-constructed thriller which induces excitement and fear in its audience...
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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...
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An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature for many generations to come...
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