Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'.  Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock H...

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Sherlock Holmes' Rediscovered Railway Stories

One of TIME’s 10 best nonfiction books of the decade  "Meet the new Stephen Hawking...The Order of Time is a dazzling book." (The Sunday Times) From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, comes a concise, elegant exploration of ti...

The Order of Time

A collection of BBC radio full-cast dramatisations of Jane Austen's six major novels. Jane Austen is one of the finest writers in the English language, and this volume includes all six of her classic novels.  Mansfield Park: on a quest to find a posi...

The Jane Austen BBC Radio Drama Collection

Anyone looking to let off some steam is bound to find something to love in Cabin Pressure. The combination of snappy repartee and brilliant voice-acting makes this a side-achingly funny experience from start to finish.  Stephanie Cole ("Doc Martin"),...

Cabin Pressure

Stephanie Cole (Doc Martin), Benedict Cumberbatch, and Roger Allam (The Thick of It) star in the complete second series of the hit sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. ...

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 2

Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Roger Allam star in the first series of the hit sitcom about the tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. By John Finnemore (‘The News Quiz’, ‘That Mitchell & ...

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 3

The complete finale of the hit BBC Radio 4 sitcom- 2 episodes.  Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and prayer world of a tiny, one-plane airline, staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. In this, the finale o...

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafka's famous story of man-turned-insect, Metamorphosis. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile After a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a huge, monstrous, coc...

Metamorphosis

In this Christmas special 'Molokai' - It's Christmas morning, but when Carolyn schedules an extra stop-off to the Hawaiian island of Molokai, Arthur has just seven minutes to celebrate Christmas. Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch & Roger Allam sta...

Cabin Pressure: Molokai (Christmas Special 2010)

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Fanny Price finds her life isn't going as she would have wished.... Fanny grows up mostly miserable in Mansfield Park, where she has always been treated as inferior...

Mansfield Park

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, feisty, devastatingly acute Horace Rumpole in this collection of cracking cases, also starring Timothy West as the older Rumpole.  Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: It is the '50s, and two war heroes have b...

Rumpole: The Penge Bungalow Murders and other stories

The first part of the Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova, a special film tie-in version. The film, starring Heath Ledger as Casanova with Jeremy Irons and Sienna Miller, will be released in UK February 2006.

Casanova

It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model's pose chalked in place. But before Agatha Troy, artist and instructor, returns to the class, the pose has been re-enacted in earnest: the model is dead, fixed for ever in one of ...

Artists in Crime

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's 1930s novels. The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning hi...

Death in a White Tie

Winner of the Specsavers Audiobook of the Year 2018.   Penguin presents the audio edition of The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. The best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting journey to discover the meaning of ti...

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly’s biography of one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of any age.  In this fascinating biography of the notorious libertine, Ian Kelly draws on documents by Casanova, his friends, and his lovers (...

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Ian Kelly's Casanova

Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey read a love story in letters, played out against the backdrop of the Second World War.  'Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in ...

My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters

Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by p...

The Spire

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young Horace Rumpole in this second stellar collection of court cases, also starring Timothy West as the older Rumpole. 'Rumpole and the Man of God': It is 1959, and Rumpole must defend a clergyman accused of shopliftin...

Rumpole: The Gentle Art of Blackmail & Other Stories

The lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in a beautiful stream which winds past their homes. Then one of their small community is found brutally murdered; beside him is the freshly killed trout. Both died by violence - but Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn's murder investigation seems to be much more interested in the fish...

Scales of Justice

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, feisty, devastatingly acute Horace Rumpole in this collection of cracking cases, also starring Timothy West as the older Rumpole. Rumpole and the Old Boy Net: With the help of his new pupil, Miss Phillida Trant, ...

Rumpole: The Sleeping Partners & Other Stories

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Horace Rumpole in this fourth collection of dramatic court cases. 'Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation' Erskine-Brown is working on a sordid ABH and affray case which allegedly occurred in a Soho night club. When he and Rumpo...

Rumpole: The Age of Miracles & Other Stories

Benedict Cumberbatch reads five stories featuring the famous vegetarian railway detective Thorpe Hazell, as heard on BBC Radio 4.  In "The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box", Hazell hatches a daring plan to retrieve a highly sensitive government docu...

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Thrilling Stories of the Railway

Benedict Cumberbatch, Greta Scacchi and Simon Russell Beale star in Michael Frayn's award-winning play about the controversial 1941 meeting between physicists Bohr and Heisenberg. Copenhagen, Autumn 1941.  The two presiding geniuses of quantum physic...

Copenhagen

A thriller and love story set in 10th-century Japan.  Lady Shonagon is an imperial courtesan, living at the court of the Japanese Emperor in the 10th century. When a series of disturbing thefts within the palace walls throws the court into confusion ...

The Pillow Book: Series 1-11

An epic full-cast dramatisation of Paul Scott’s classic series of novels charting the last days of the British Raj. Spanning the years from 1942 to 1947, this landmark saga explores the relationships between an array of soldiers and civilians station...

The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence & A Division of the Spoils

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the heartbreaking story of TS Eliot's marriage to Viv Haigh-Wood. Michael Hastings' best known play charts the turbulent, doomed marriage of the young TS Eliot and the charismatic Vivienne Haigh-Wood. This moving, highly...

Tom and Viv

An updated edition of this compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring, and powerful letters, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon: Letters of Note. Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same n...

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

In this moving collection, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful letters about love ever written. Whether inspired by love’s first blush or the recriminations at its ending, the regrets of unrequited feelings and the joys of passions...

Letters of Note: Love

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Snowman and the Snowdog based on characters by Raymond Briggs, read by Benedict Cumberbatch.  The Snowman and The Snowdog is the much-anticipated sequel to The Snowman by Raymond Briggs.  This enchanting audiobook reunites readers with the Snowman and introduces them to an adorable new puppy-friend, the Snowdog. Includes music from the beautiful score of the film. 

The Snowman and the Snowdog

In Letters of Note: Art, Shaun Usher celebrates extraordinary correspondence about art, from missives on the agony of being overlooked, the ecstasy of producing work that excites, to surprising sources of inspiration and rousing manifestos.  A star-s...

Letters of Note: Art

An irresistible new volume of affectionate missives about our feline companions from Charles Dickens, Anne Frank, Raymond Chandler, Elizabeth Taylor, and more, from the author of the best-selling Letters of Note collections. Florence Nightingale send...

Letters of Note: Cats

In Letters of Note: War, Shaun Usher brings together some of the most remarkable letters that encapsulate the human experience of war, from unimaginable feats of courage and compassion, to unthinkable episodes of violence and horror.  A star-studded ...

Letters of Note: War

A powerful new volume of missives about combat by Alexander Hamilton, General Sherman, Evelyn Waugh, Kurt Vonnegut, and more, from the author of the best-selling Letters of Note collections. Defeated Cossacks taunt the pompous sultan of the Ottoman E...

From Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to John Lennon, Prince, and Kim Gordon, tune in to the evocative expressions of treasured composers, musicians, singers, and songwriters in this enchanting volume from the compiler of the best-selling Letters of Note co...

Letters of Note: Music

Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies.  This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and ...

A splendid new volume of missives about art, from the author of the best-selling Letters of Note collections. Vincent Van Gogh curses the stare of the blank canvas. Salvador Dali contemplates mailing a piece of his "lobster-colored pajamas" to Federi...

In Letters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions.  A star-studded cast of readers brings the letters to life, with co...

From Napoléon Bonaparte and Frida Kahlo to Nelson Mandela and Ayn Rand, glimpse the ardors of artists, painters, writers, and more in this touching volume of beautiful missives, from the author of the best-selling Letters of Note collections.  Beetho...

A powerful collection of letters on the theme of war, curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website.  The first volume in the best-selling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world's most entertaining, ...

In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about some of the musicians and music that enrich our lives. Wonderfully wide-ranging and illuminating, it will delight music lovers of all stripes.  A sta...

A surprising and varied collection of letters on the subject of art curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website.  The first volume in the best-selling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world's most ...

A fascinating new volume of messages about motherhood, from the author of the best-selling Letters of Note collections. In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and about mothers, celebrating the joy and grief...

Letters of Note: Mothers

A gorgeous collection of letters about mothers and motherhood, curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website. The first volume in the best-selling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world's most entert...

In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and to mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour and frustration, wisdom and sacrifice the role brings to both parent and child.  A star-studded cast of readers br...

An irresistible feline-themed selection of letters from the curator of the globally popular Letters of Note website. The first volume in the best-selling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world's most entertaining, inspiring,...

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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English film, television, theatre and voice actor. His most acclaimed roles include Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking (2004), Victor Frankenstein and his creature in Danny Boyle's stage adaptation of Frankenstein (2011) at the Royal National Theatre, Sherlock Holmes in the BBC/PBS series Sherlock, Peter Guillam in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Christopher Tietjens in the BBC/HBO miniseries Parade's End (2013), Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Smaug the dragon through voice and motion capture in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy. Cumberbatch stars in the upcoming historical drama film, The Imitation Game (2014) as wartime cryptographer Alan Turin

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