Art and Drama Audio Books
Below are our current Audio
Books for our Art and Drama Audio Book section
- Chronicles
- Volume One
Revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One
is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences.
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Chronology Protection Case, The (Unabridged)
The radio play of The Chronology Protection Case was adapted by
Mark Shanahan with Paul Levinson...
- Clare
Corbett Interview
Actress Clare Corbett discusses her work as a reader for
audiobooks.
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Classical Music 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving
Classical Music
In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years
of music, introduces listeners to the great works, and profiles in
depth many significant composers. Classical Music 101 is a
high...
- Classic
American Poetry
From the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day.
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Classic American Short Stories
An absolute joy to listen to. An attractive and accessible
collection.
- Classic
Drama: Daniel Deronda
George Eliot’s last and undeniably great novel, which tells the
story of young Daniel Deronda and his fateful relationship with the
astonishing Gwendolen Harleth.
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Classic Drama: Huckleberry Finn
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Mark Twain’s classic novel
of adventure, loyalty and responsibility.
- Classic
Drama: Mansfield Park
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Jane Austen's perceptive study of
middle class morals and mores in the nineteenth century.
- Classic
Drama: Moby Dick
This large-scale adaptation, recorded in America, skilfully
reproduces the unique mixture of adventure, myth, history and
philosophy in Melville's epic tale.
- Classic
Drama: Pickwick Papers, The
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Mr Samuel Pickwick, retired
businessman and confirmed batchelor, is determined that after a
quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the
world.
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Classic Drama: Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
A new dramatisation of the Thomas Hardy classic, ‘Tess Of The
d’Urbervilles’, transmitted as the BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial.
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Classic Drama: Thirty-Nine Steps, The
Tom Baker stars as Sir Walter Bullivant with David Robb as man of
action Richard Hannay in a thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast
dramatisation of this classic tale of wartime espionage.
- Classic
Women's Short Stories
Five stories from women writers of the 19th century and the first
decades of the 20th.
- Cockney's
Kipling, A
Ten enduring Kipling poems recited in the wonderful Cockney
lilt.
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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A
Shows what can happen when two very different societies come
together.
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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A
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.
- Coriolanus
Samuel West and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's great tragedy
of power and pride.
- Cricket
on the Hearth
Another Charles Dickens holiday classic brimming with holiday
charm.
- Crome
Yellow
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...
- Crucible, The
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A community stands accused of
witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recrimination that quickly
develops men denounce their neighbours...
- Cuculian
Trilogy, The
Cuculian, 'The Hound of Ulster', is the champion of Ireland and is
best remembered for his single-handed defense of Ulster. This is
the first time Cuculian’s story has been available in audio.
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories, The: by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
This collection of stories, originally published in 1922, is the
basis for an upcoming major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and
Cate Blanchett.
- Curse of
Dracula, The
Full-cast, very modern update of the classic Bram Stoker novel.
- Cymbeline
One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso
theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage
imperiled by mistrust and rebuilt in the context of international
confllict.
- Daisy
Miller
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...
- Daniel
Deronda
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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