Audio books

Classic Literature

  • The Illiad and the Odyssey are retold in a glorious saga.
  • Mark Twain's classic tale recounts the adventures of the ever resourceful Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn...
  • The masterpiece of Rome's greatest poet, Virgil's Aeneid.
  • The fantasy worlds in which Alice finds herself introduce her to some well known characters!
  • 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...
  • 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,...
  • Classic story of a hasty world tour taken up on a gentelmen's club wager
  • 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...
  • Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
  • A wonderful reading of the story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas.
  • The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne.
  • 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...
  • From the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day.
  • An absolute joy to listen to. An attractive and accessible collection.
  • 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...
  • Gibbon's work occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces.
  • Perhaps the most well-known collection of reminiscences.
  • 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...
  • The first of Homer's epic poems. Translated by Samuel Butler.
  • This is one of the great recordings of a great play. John Gielgud stars as Earnest and Edith Evans .....
  • 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.
  • Oscar Wilde's first play confronts the hypocrisy of public 'morality'.
  • 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...
  • Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's drama of greed and destiny.
  • When a prince deserts his subjects, death comes looking for him.
  • Shakespeare's dramatic and complex comedy.
  • David Tennant stars as Benedick with Samantha Spiro as Beatrice in Shakespeare's merry comedy of wit, words and romance.
  • 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...
  • A perfect blend of vintage Noel Coward sure to be enjoyed by faithful fans and new listeners.
  • Homer's Adventures of Odysseus. Translated by Samuel Butler,
  • Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language.
  • Full-Cast. An indigestible tragic romantic comedy of love, jealousy, betrayal and murder.
  • '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...
  • 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...
  • A comic masterpiece brimming with false identities!
  • 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...
  • The ethereal words of the great thinker Omar Khayyam.
  • 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...
  • Smith of Wooton Major tells of the preparation of the Great Cake to mark the Feast of Good Children and the magical...
  • Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
  • 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...
  • '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...