Main content

Categories: Audiobooks

  1. Special Deliveries

    Series of short stories about some rather special deliveries

    BBC Radio 4

  2. Elizabeth David Essays

    Nichola McAuliffe reads extracts from essays written by food writer Elizabeth David

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  3. Imagining Chekhov

    Three stories by Alison MacLeod that explore the life and work of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    BBC Radio 4

  4. The Real Henry James

    The great writer is revealed through his letters and memoirs. Read by Henry Goodman.

    BBC Radio 4

  5. Leap

    Short stories that explore the idea of 'leap'

    BBC Radio 4

  6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Omnibus)

    Amanda Hale stars in an adaptation of the classic Bronte novel

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  7. F Scott Fitzgerald - The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

    F Scott Fitzgerald's novella set in Montana where a family secret is starting to slip out

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  8. Reader, I Married Him

    Series of stories celebrating the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte's birth.

    BBC Radio 4

  9. The Visitors Book and Other Ghost Stories by Sophie Hannah

    Supernatural tales in modern everyday settings.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  10. Hot Milk: Omnibus

    In Spain, a daughter is constantly seeking a remedy for her ailing mother

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  11. Kenneth Williams Reads: Cold Comfort Farm

    Kenneth Williams reads Stella Gibbons's 1932 classic tale

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  12. Gillian Slovo - 10 Days: Omnibus

    Gillian Slovo's tale of how those in power react when riots hit London

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  13. John Heilpern - A Patriot for Us

    Biography of playwright John Osborne by John Heilpern

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  14. Border Crossing

    Short story series that sets up unique pairings between foreign and British writers.

    BBC Radio 4

  15. James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Joanna Lumley reads the classic Bond story by Ian Fleming

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  16. Not Working by Lisa Owens

    Lisa Owens' comic debut, depicting a life unravelling in minute and spectacular ways.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  17. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

    An unmarried governess is sent by her agency to the wrong booking. Stars Maureen Lipman.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  18. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

    John Moffatt reads the classic tale of a butler's devoted service at a stately home

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  19. The Third Man by Graham Greene

    Samuel West reads the classic Graham Greene novella

    BBC Radio 4

  20. The First Church of the New Millennium by Bryan Appleyard

    In 1999, Stephen Rix is a successful architect who has a vision

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  21. Deborah Moggach - Suspicion

    Velda's new boyfriend is handsome and charming. Why is she increasingly suspicious of him?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  22. Dirt Road by James Kelman

    James Kelman's potent exploration of love, grief and the power of music.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  23. Reading Europe: Italian Snapshots

    Three stories from contemporary Italy.

    BBC Radio 4

  24. Hilary Mantel - Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (Omnibus)

    Cartographer Frances Shore encounters significant challenges when she goes to Saudi Arabia

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. Sue Townsend - The Queen and I

    Sue Townsend's novel imagining life for the royals after the monarchy is dismantled

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  26. Nina Stibbe - Paradise Lodge

    A story of being very young and very old, and the laughter and the tears in between.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  27. Three Score and Ten

    Ian McMillan presents archive recordings of remarkable poets reading their own work

    BBC Radio 3

  28. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (Omnibus)

    A nurse arrives in Ireland too watch over a girl apparently surviving without food

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. Angela Carter's Book of Fairytales

    Anthology of fairy tales from around the world

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  30. Alan Bennett - Keeping On Keeping On

    Alan Bennett reads extracts from his diaries.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  31. Sgeulachd an Duine

    Sgeulachd an duine bho Dhonnchadh MacGillIosa agus bho Fhionnlagh Macleòid.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  32. Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen

    Sylvestra Le Touzel reads Karen Blixen's classic story.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  33. The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch

    Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the impact of the Reformation on people's lives now.

    BBC Radio 4

  34. The Nation's Favourite Love Poem

    Britain's favourite romantic verse, recited by various celebrities.

    BBC One

  35. The Nation's Favourite Children's Book

    Celebrities talk about their favourite childhood reads.

    BBC One

  36. Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor by Adrian Fort

    By Adrian Fort. Biography of the first woman to take a seat in the British Parliament.

    BBC Radio 4

  37. Alice Munro - Dear Life

    Short stories by Alice Munro, set in the small towns and domestic surroundings of Canada

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  38. The Railway Children

    Dramatisation of E Nesbit’s classic tale about three children who move to Yorkshire.

    BBC

  39. Late Night Story

    Tom Baker reads a series of macabre stories on the theme of childhood.

    BBC

  40. Will Self - Irreversible

    A man walks into an isolated pub, sporting a peculiar jacket. What could he be hiding?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  41. Mat Coward - Clean and Bright

    Washing air seems natural to Granny. But her grandson can't see the point.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  42. Tourists by John Burnside

    A woman holidays with her ex-husband, who wants to revisit the past to correct a mistake.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  43. Doris Lessing - Flight

    A capricious granddaughter and a dovecote of birds are an old man's only escape.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  44. Christopher Reason - The Final Furlong

    An old man with a broken heart wonders whether he can remedy his sorry situation.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  45. John Burnside - A Snowman on the Old Perth Road

    A childhood prank leaves lifelong scars. Read by John Gordon Sinclair.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  46. John Mortimer's Life, Love and the Law

    The novelist, playwright, QC and Rumpole creator entertains an audience.

    BBC Radio 7

  47. Julian MacLaren-Ross - I Had to Go Sick

    Will a soldier ever get signed off sick? A tale of service life in the Second World War.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  48. Julian MacLaren-Ross - Second Lieutenant Lewis: A Memoir

    World War Two - a soldier recalls an unlikely friendship with Welsh poet Alun Lewis.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  49. Philip K Dick - Of Withered Apples

    A woman picks a last withered apple, but the dying ancient tree is determined to survive.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  50. An Illustration of Modern Science by Richard Marsh

    Convinced she'll be murdered, stage artiste Beauffie Buckingham wants to make her will.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  2. 1
  3. …
  4. 9
  5. 10
  6. 11
  7. 12
  8. 13
  9. …
  10. 36