Performance audiobooks

Bel Canto

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist""Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book."" —Washington Post Book WorldNew York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett’s spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural... Read more

BBC Radio Shakespeare: A Collection of Eight Comedies

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Anne-Marie Duff, David Tennant, Full Cast, Hele...

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight full-cast BBC Radio productions of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies

Full of merriment, mayhem, mischief and mistaken identity, here are eight iconic radio productions of Shakespeare's most magical comedies, featuring star casts and introduced by Sir Richard Eyre.

Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's delightful comedy sparkles with the verbal... Read more

Animal Farm

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Daniel Allen & Nick Patterson

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you ready to listen? George Orwell's classic "Animal Farm" comes to life in audio format, narrated by the compelling Daniel Allen with unforgettable character performances by Nick Patterson. This audiobook elevates the original text to a new dimension, offering listeners a genuine audio drama experience.
"Animal Farm" begins with the animals... Read more

Neverwhere

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Anthony Head, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher...

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere... An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into the strange world of London Below. There he meets the Earl of Earl's Court, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the... Read more

Angels in America

By: Tony Kushner

Narrated by: Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Deni...

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring the cast of the National Theatre's 2018 Broadway revival.

In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National... Read more

Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

Narrated by: Alan Partridge

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

'It may be the funniest thing ever committed to sound' DAVID BADDIEL
'The audiobook is an absolute dream' RICHARD OSMAN
'Not only has Alan Partridge created an entirely new storytelling structure, it's very funny indeed' JON RONSON
'Partridge... has become the man our time deserves. Aha!' THE TIMES
'This is a deeply silly book. It's also... Read more

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 4

By: John Finnemore

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

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether it's dealing with a stuffed sheep, an angry princess or a rogue fruit tray, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.

Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN... Read more

The Joyce Carol Oates Collection

By: Joyce Carol Oates

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

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Mr. Men

By: Roger Hargreaves

Narrated by: Arthur Lowe

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr Funny's car is a shoe! It looks very funny when he drives to the zoo. But can he cheer up the animals? Mr Dizzy always gets things confused, until one day he happens upon a wishing well... Mr Bump tries his hand at many jobs, but keeps getting fired! Will he ever bump into one that's suitable for him? Mr Fussy is a fussy old fusspot who... Read more

All Quiet on the Western Front

By: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrated by: Carolyn Pickles, Chris Pavlo, Dan Starkey, Donn...

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A full-cast dramatisation of one of the greatest war novels of all time.

First published as a novel in 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a group of young German soldiers who are enduring, and then coming to terms with, the realities of the First World War.

At the age of 19, following the outbreak of the First World War, Paul... Read more

Mr. Men Stories

By: Roger Hargreaves

Narrated by: Arthur Lowe

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Mr Messy, Mr Snow, Mr Daydream, Mr Bounce, Mr Mean and Mr Chatterbox in these six delightful tales for children and adults. Mr Messy is messy by name and messy by nature - until he meets Mr Neat and Mr Tidy! Mr Snow is magically brought to life by Santa at Christmas - and helps deliver the presents. Mr Daydream takes a daydreaming boy on... Read more

The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Derrick Magolski

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great Gatsby: An Exquisitely Crafted 1920s American Tale of Life-Long Obsessions & Ceaseless Devotions“So, we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”On the prosperous Long Island shores sit the grand affluence of West Egg and East Egg — places where a sinister Gatsby’s mansion, with his mysterious... Read more

My Name Is Lucy Barton (Dramatic Production)

By: Elizabeth Strout & Rona Munro

Narrated by: Laura Linney

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the stage production of My Name is Lucy Barton, starring Academy Award and Tony nominee Laura Linney.

Praised as "deeply affecting" and "heartbreaking" by The Guardian (UK), this is a faithful adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout's bestselling novel of the same name.... Read more

Notes from the Field

By: Anna Deavere Smith

Narrated by: Anna Deavere Smith

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Smith’s powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope.” —The Village Voice 

Anna Deavere Smith’s extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. "One of her most ambitious and... Read more

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

By: Fred Rogers

Narrated by: John Lithgow & Kate Mulgrew

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Best Seller 

For the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charming treasury, sure to be cherished by generations of children as well as the millions of adults who grew up with Mister Rogers. The audiobook includes the iconic song Won't You Be My... Read more

Jump At the Sun

By: Kathleen McGhee-Anderson

Narrated by: David Downing, Cyndi James Gossett, Tommy Hicks...

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

As the twenties roared and the Harlem renaissance thrived, a young woman from rural Florida became the toast of literary New York. Jump at the Sun chronicles the passionate life of Zora Neale Hurston (author of “Their Eyes Are Watching God”) who went from spinning tales on the front porch of a country store, to writing prize-winning stories,... Read more

Inheritance

By: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold, Medina Hahn & Mi...

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Three people – Indigenous, immigrant, and settler – journey over dangerous terrain in a race against time, and each other, to gain control of a vast parcel of land. YOU decide how events unfold, ultimately determining how the land is stewarded, and by whom.
 
An urban couple are on a getaway to visit her father at his vast rural estate. But when... Read more

Journey's End

By: R.C. Sherriff

Narrated by: James Callis, Josh Cole, Jack Cutmore-Scott, To...

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s March 1918, and World War I is raging in Europe. In the trenches in northern France, a group of British officers, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope, ready themselves for a major German attack while facing their worst fears. R.C. Sherriff drew on his own experiences in World War One to create the play, which premiered in 1928 and is now... Read more

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Egmont

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Graf Egmont ist bei seinem niederländischen Volk äußerst beliebt, da er mit seiner entspannten Art der Herrschaft die spanische Besatzung fast vergessen macht. Jedoch: seine Art ist dem spanischen König ein Dorn im Auge, der den strengen Herzog von Alba schickt, um hart aufzuräumen. Egmont erkennt die drohende Gefahr nicht und wähnt sich durch... Read more

My Mother Said I Never Should

By: Charlotte Keatley

Narrated by: Lesley Nicol, Siobhan Finneran, Cecilia Appiah ...

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Keatley's powerful, poignant drama follows four generations of mothers and daughters through the sweeping societal changes of the 20th century

‘A landmark play, the theatrical equivalent of breaking the four-minute mile’ Guardian

Written in 1985, this groundbreaking play premiered at Contact Theatre, Manchester, in 1987. It subsequently... Read more

Shark Night

By: R. L. Stine

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Lots of kids dream of being on TV—but for Liam it’s a NIGHTMAREAlone in a giant water tank, Liam, holding a camera, watches as a twenty-foot-long hammerhead shark is about to be lowered in with him. This is not where he thought his day was going.Liam is helping his mom film a documentary for the Danger Channel.A twelve-year-old battling a shark!... Read more

Seal Of Approval

By: Kirk Hunter & Steve Winchell

Narrated by: Kirk Hunter

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Come and experience a journey of self-discovery through fabulous 1980s-derived music, an epic original orchestral score, and thrilling dialog and narration! In a complex web of relationships, Adam, a charismatic and independent man haunted by childhood insecurities, believes that he finds solace and strength in his quest to save the Guatemalan... Read more

Journey into Space: Operation Luna & The Red Planet

By: Charles Chilton

Narrated by: Andrew Faulds, Alfie Bass, Guy Kingsley-Poynter...

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The first two series of the iconic 1950s science fiction trilogy, set in the unimaginably far-flung future of the late 20th century

Written by veteran radio producer Charles Chilton, Journey into Space kept Light Programme listeners enraptured between 1953 and 1958. Almost eight million people tuned in to the interstellar adventures of Jet Morgan... Read more

Journey into Space: The World in Peril & The Return from Mars

By: Charles Chilton

Narrated by: Andrew Faulds, Alfie Bass, Guy Kingsley-Poynter...

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The final series of Charles Chilton’s classic 1950s sci-fi trilogy and the gripping 1981 sequel

Written by veteran radio producer Charles Chilton, Journey into Space kept Light Programme listeners enraptured between 1953 and 1958. Almost eight million people tuned in to the interstellar adventures of Jet Morgan and his intrepid crew, making it... Read more