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Art and Drama Audio Books are great if you like listening to stuff about art and drama to get you motivated.
Below is our collection of art and drama audiobooks.
- Scarlet Pimpernel, The
“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...
- Searching for the Sound
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.
- Sea Wolf, The
A sophisticated man is thrust into the dangerous world of a sealing sailor
- Secrets of the Code
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.
- Seven Ages
An Anthology of Poetry with Music.
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations.
- Seven Poor Travellers, The
A lesser known but heart warming Charles Dickens Christmas story, set on Christmas Eve.
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
All 154 of the Shakespeare's sonnets are beautifully read.
- Shakespeare's Speeches: Hamlet - Act III, Scene
I
'To be or not to be - that is the question…'
- Shakespeare's Speeches: Henry V - Act IV, Scene
III
Richard Burton's rich and resonant voice delivers Henry V's address to his army on the eve of Agincourt!
- Shakespeare's Speeches: King Lear - Act II,
Scene IV
Alec Guinness's performance as King Lear stirs the listener in this recording from the BBC Sound Archives.
- Shakespeare's Speeches: Macbeth - Act II, Scene
II
With Denis Quilley as Macbeth, this recording from the BBC Sound Archives brings Shakespeare's memorable words to life.
- Shakespeare's Speeches: Macbeth - Act I, Scene
VII
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.
- Shakespeare's Speeches: Richard III - Act I,
Scene I
Ian Holm delivers King Richard IIIs soliloquy, bringing Shakespeare's wonderful lines, full of pyschological insight, vividly to life.
- Shakespeare's Speeches: Romeo and Juliet
- Act I, Scene III
This impassioned speech is beautifully spoken by Fay Compton in this BBC Sound archives recording.
- Shakespeare's Speeches: The
Merchant Of Venice - Act IV, Scene I
In this recording from the BBC Sound Archives, Hannah Gordon is Shakespeare's wise Portia.
- Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia
Full-Cast. Is it possible Holmes can be bested ... by a woman no less?
- Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure
Full-Cast. Holmes engages his arch enemy Professor Moriarty in a deadly battle of wits
- Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band
Full-Cast. Holmes and Watson investigate the terrible doings at Stoke Moran manor
- Silas Marner
Silas Marner's redemption and restoration endorses the goodness in people...
- Silver Spoon, The
“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
- Slaughterhouse-Five
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.
- Small House at Allington, The
Squire Dale, the embittered old bachelor who lives in the great house at Allington, has loaned the nearby small house rent free to his
widowed sister-in-law and her two daughters, Lily and Bell. The action centers on the strained relations between the two houses and on the
romantic entanglements...
- Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle
Smith of Wooton Major tells of the preparation of the Great Cake to mark the Feast of Good Children and the magical...
- Soldier's Promise, A
The heroic true stroy of an American soldier and an Iraqi boy.
- Song of Hiawatha, The
The Song of Hiawatha was one of the most loved and quoted narrative poems of the 19th century.
- Song of Roland, The
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...
- Sonnets
A Shakespeare Recording Society Production, this selection of Shakespeare's Sonnets is read by the legendary Sir John Gielgud.
- Sonnets, The
This new recording presents all 154 of Shakespeare's Sonnets, using the New Cambridge Shakespeare texts.
- Steve Martin: The Magic Years
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...
- Steven Pacey Interview
Actor Steven Pacey discusses his work as a reader for audiobooks.
- Stick It!
Stick It! Rocking Road Stories told by legendary classic rock drummer Corky Laing...
- Story of Classical Music, The
The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled
Jones.
- Story of Dr. Dolittle, The
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...
- Suitable Boy, A
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.
- Swan Song
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.
- Tale of Two Cities, A
The doctor has just been released, demented, when the story opens. He is brought to England where he gradually recovers his health and his
sanity.
- Tales from the Black Museum: The Hammer
Head
Orson Welles introduces and stars in true crime stories from the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's infamous gallery of death...
- Tales from the Black Museum: The Pigskin
Glove
Orson Welles introduces and stars in true crime stories from the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's infamous gallery of death...
- Tales from the Black Museum: The Receipt
Orson Welles introduces and stars in true crime stories from the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's infamous gallery of death...
- Tales of the Fish Patrol
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...
- Talisman, The
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.
- Tempest, The
Audiences the world over still thrill to The Tempest's dark comedy and magical fantasy.
- Tempest, The
The wronged Duke raises a tempest to shipwreck his old opponents on his island so that he can ensure justice is done.
- Tempest, The
Shakespeare's magical, other-wordly final play.
- Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The
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.
- Theatre Royale: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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...
- Theatre Royale: Private Rooms
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...
- Theatre Royale: The Happy Hypocrite
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...
- Therese Raquin
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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