Art and Drama Audio Books

• Rapunzel & The Pied Piper of Hamlin
  Two childrens classics involving children being taken from their parents as a punishment.
  
  
• Rebecca
  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...
  
  
• Reef, The
  Anna Leath, an American widow living in France, has engaged in a love affair with George Darrow, a diplomat. However, when Darrow is on his way to consolidate marriage plans at Anna’s French chateau, he encounters Sophy Viner, who is as sprightly and spontaneous as Anna is restrained and demure....
  
  
• Rembrandt 400
  Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, marks the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth in BBC R3’s Sunday Feature ‘Rembrandt 400’...
  
  
• Return of the Native, The
  Clym Yeobright, a diamond merchant in Paris, returns to his home in Egdon where he falls in love with the sensuous Eustacia Vye. She marries him, hoping he will take her away to Paris. But Eustacia’s dreams of escape are not to be realized. Clym Yeobright, the returning native, cannot bring her...
  
  
• Richard II
  Samuel West stars as Richard II with Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt in Shakespeare's lyrically tragic history.
  
  
• Rivals, The
  A comic masterpiece brimming with false identities!
  
  
• Robin Hood BBC TV: The Richard Armitage (Guy of Gisbourne) Interview
  *Stop Press* BBC's Robin Hood audiobook download available in January ! Meanwhile, listen to Richard Armitage, who plays Guy of Gisbourne, talk about his character..
  
  
• Rodin
  Auguste Rodin was not only the greatest sculptor but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times. Grunfeld's exhaustive biography documents artistic and personal struggles against...
  
  
• Rogue's Life, A
  Mr. Frank Softly was sent to one of the most fashionable and famous of the great public schools. He said, “I ran away three times, and was flogged three times. I made four aristocratic connections, I learnt to play at cricket, to hate rich people. . . and to receive kicks and serious advice...
  
  
• Roman Lives
  Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire. Here he considers some of the major figures who had left their stamp.
  
  
• Romeo & Juliet
  Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love. The full beauty and meaning of some of the most lyrical lines ever written can truly be heard.
  
  
• Romeo and Juliet
  Shakespeare's play is filled with wit, tenderness, dramatic variety and poetic beauty.
  
  
• Romeo And Juliet: BBC Radio Shakepeare (mp3)
  Douglas Henshall stars as Romeo with Sophie Dahl as Juliet and Susannah York as Lady Capulet in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love...
  
  
• Romola
  In this novel, Eliot re-creates the upheavals of fifteenth-century Florence through the noble and courageous Romola, who finds herself increasingly disillusioned by the career of Savonarola and repelled by her unscrupulous, self-indulgent husband.
  
  
• Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
  The image and lifestyle of Jimi Hendrix was larger-than-life, but beyond this was a complex man who struggled to accept his role as an idol. This sensitive, meticulously-researched biography recounts the entire arc of Hendrix’s twenty-seven years, from po
  
  
• Room With A View, A
  Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. M. Forster’s glorious tale of love in Italy and England...
  
  
• Rose, A Chicago Valentine & Romance With Comedy
  Devastated by the end of her relationship, Rose reunites with her best friend from high school.
  
  
• Roverandom
  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...
  
  
• Rubaiyat, The - Omar Khayyam Classic narrated by David Ian Davies
  The ethereal words of the great thinker Omar Khayyam.
  
  
• Rumpole and the Primrose Path
  In these episodes Rumpole is played by Timothy West, whilst the part of She Who Must Be Obeyed is taken by his real-life wife, Prunella Scales.
  
  
• 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...

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