Audie Award, Distinguished Achievement in Production, 2015 A full-cast audio edition of a perennial favorite - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold over one million copies. Special content in this edition includes the story behind The Gr...

The Graveyard Book: Full-Cast Production

"If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!' Charles Dickens' ghostly tale of sour and stingy m...

A Christmas Carol

From Blackadder to Call the Midwife, from the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit to Harry Potter, Miriam Margolyes is the outspoken great aunt (after two sherries) we all wish we had - this is (at last) her extraordinary life story, and it's well worth the wai...

This Much Is True

Audie Award, 2019: Literary Fiction and Classics Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award 2018 This Audible Exclusive performance of Bleak House features a unique introduction written and narrated by Miriam Margolyes.  Recognised as one of Dickens' most a...

Bleak House

"You girls are my vocation... I am dedicated to you in my prime."  So says Miss Jean Brodie, a teacher unlike any other. She is proud and cultured. A romantic, with progressive, sometimes shocking ideas and aspirations for the girls in her charge. Wh...

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer. But he is still invited to all the "best" houses, while his female conquests must hide their shame in seclusion. In this devastating drawing-room comedy, Oscar Wilde uses his celebrated wit to expose English society's narrow view of everything from sexual mores to Americans.

A Woman of No Importance

A sparkling collection of the major works of the ever-adored Oscar Wilde, with incredible casts including Judi Dench, Martin Clunes, Michael Sheen, Miriam Margolyes, Ian McDiarmid, Joely Richardson, Penelope Keith, Martin Jarvis, Diana Rigg, Simon Ru...

The Oscar Wilde BBC Radio Drama Collection

Jack Worthington has invented a rakish brother, Ernest, who calls Jack away from family duties and gives him an excuse to travel to London. Similarly, Algernon Moncrieff has created the persona of Bunbury, an invalid friend, who periodically requires...

The Importance of Being Earnest (Dramatized)

Please note: This title contains explicit language and scenes of a graphic sexual nature. This Original multicast drama blends history with fiction to tell the story of Jonah, a young apprentice from London who raises himself from poverty by wit and ...

Apprentice - Scarlet City - Part I

A tender love story, a serpentine villainess, a glittering setting in London society, and a showering of Wildean witticism are only a few of the reasons why this play has enjoyed hugely successful revivals in London, in New York, and on the silver sc...

An Ideal Husband

Revolting rhymes Did you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, or that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? Think again! Master storyteller Roald Dahl adds his own darkly comic twists to six favorite tales, complete ...

Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts

Contains some scenes of violence that younger listeners may find upsetting. Recommended for listeners aged 16+  This Original multicast drama piece blends history with fiction to tell the story of Jonah and his rise to fame through war, disease, ruin...

Rise: Scarlet City - Part II

Jane Austen's classic romantic comedy is the sparkling tale of the Bennets, a family blessed with five daughters and a mother desperate to marry them off. The tempestuous pairing of the witty, independent Elizabeth and her arrogant but honorable suitor Mr. Darcy sets the standard for all great couples of stage and screen. Although many have tried, few literary romances have matched the wit and gentile satire of Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Pride and Prejudice (Dramatized)

This Original multicast drama piece blends history with fiction to tell the story of Jonah, a young apprentice from London who raises himself from poverty by wit and luck to become one of the most powerful merchants of the age.  A true rags-to-riches...

Empire: Scarlet City - Part III

David Copperfield is the story of a boy growing to maturity in the affairs of the world and of the heart, surrounded by some of Dickens' most memorable characters: David's eccentric great-aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood; the ever-optimistic Mr Micawber; j...

David Copperfield (Dramatised)

Patricia Gallimore and Miriam Margolyes star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic comic novel.  Strong of will and slender of ankle, 20-year-old orphan Flora Poste is blessed with every virtue save that of being able to earn her...

Cold Comfort Farm

Jaide and Jack Shield’s lives are changing in a very, very strange way. The weather is turning against them. Magical disasters occur when they’re around. And a mysterious explosion has just destroyed their house... from the inside. Without knowing wh...

Troubletwisters

Using her best social-climbing instincts and refusing to be embarrassed, Lucia sets out to conquer London and mingle with the beau monde. Soon a secret group of 'Luciaphiles' springs up; the social climbers who make up its rank never tire of watching her get into and out of all kinds of trouble.

Lucia in London

A lord, his wife, her admirer and an infamous blackmailer converge in the irreverent satire that launched Wilde's succession of classic social comedies. This delicious comic feast serves up a scandal about good girls, bad husbands and hilarious hypocrisy - utterly contemporary and divinely funny.

Lady Windermere's Fan

Taking the position of mayor in the town of Tilling brings much delight to Lucia. However, with her local rival Miss Mapp around, trouble is never far away. Lucia is elevated to her new position with Georgie Pilson as her sidekick, confidant, and escort. Lucia and Georgie renew their acquaintance with the opera diva Olga Braceley and the composer Cortese, but nobody in Tilling believes Lucia when she claims to have entertained a duchess.

Trouble for Lucia

From number one best-selling children’s author David Walliams comes his biggest and most epic adventure yet! This is the story of a 10-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth... Read all about it! Read all about it! Ice Monster found in Arctic!...

The Ice Monster

Everyone loves a bedtime story. And here are eight of the best from BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime, each with a Christmas theme, written by an array of literature's best-known names. They include Laurie Lee, Charles Dickens, and Hans Christian Anderse...

Christmas Book at Bedtime: Complete Series

Three classic radio productions from the BBC archives starring Nigel Hawthorne, Miriam Margolyes, Geraldine McEwan and a host of celebrated acting talent. These three legendary plays, performed by some of the best-known theatrical actors of the 20th ...

Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Comedies

When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted.

Through the Looking Glass

Hear Dickens' gift for social commentary in this classic story of the poor orphan, Oliver. In this time-tested classic, Dickens aimed to expose the filth of the London underworld as well as attack the inhumanity of the New Poor Law of 1834. This audiobook is a stunning performance by the award-winning Miriam Margolyes, who is considered one of the most knowledgeable and brilliant actors/interpreters of Dickens.

Oliver Twist

Eight full-cast BBC Radio productions of Shakespeare's best loved comedies. Full of merriment, mayhem, mischief and mistaken identity, here are eight iconic radio productions of Shakespeare's most magical comedies, featuring star casts and introduced...

BBC Radio Shakespeare: A Collection of Eight Comedies

In this BBC full-cast production of All's Well That Ends Well, the trials of marriage are hilariously explored. Will Helena complete the Herculean tasks to win Bertram's love? All's Well That Ends Well finds Helena rewarded for her ministries to the ...

All's Well That Ends Well

Soon to be a major new London theatre show, The Witness for the Prosecution follows the hapless Leonard Vole as he learns he has been accused of murdering a wealthy widow in order to get his hands on the inheritance. His predicament is made even wors...

The Witness for the Prosecution (Dramatised)

"How are your lectures going?" asked Kitty of Joseph, a kind of desperate intentness in her voice and face. This was her style of the moment with the male sex. "Very well, thank you," said Jospeh and added: "We heard about the practices of the Minoan...

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

The siege of Troy has lasted almost ten years. Inside the walled city, food is becoming scarce and the death toll is rising. From the heights of Mount Olympus, the gods keep watch.  But Aphrodite, goddess of love, is bored with the endless, dreary wa...

Troy

While they prepare for Passover, a family of Jewish women klezmer musicians struggles for survival, but music and love prove not enough, only the unthinkable can save them. Also features The Devil's Brides, music inspired by the audio play.  Producer...

The Witches of Lublin - Collectors Edition (includes The Devil's Brides Music)

Here's Dicken's Christmas classic of Ebenezer Scrooge and his encounter with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Originally published in 1843, A Christmas Carol has continued to be one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time.

A Christmas Carol [BBC Version]

England between the wars was a paradise of calm and leisure for the very, very rich. Into this enclave is born Mrs. Emmeline Lucas—La Lucia, as she is known—a woman determined to lead a life quite different from the subdued formality of her class.  W...

Queen Lucia

Dorothy L. Sayers' classic play cycle based on the life and times of Jesus Dorothy L. Sayers was best known for her mystery novels featuring aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. But she was also a poet, playwright and committed Christian, a...

The Man Born to Be King

From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, Dickens’ Women tells the story of Charles Dickens’ life through his beloved characters. Cowritten and performed by Miriam Margolyes, best known for her role as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, this one-wo...

Dickens' Women

Nothing escapes the snooping opera glasses of Miss Elizabeth Mapp. She whiles away her busy hours observing the small English village of Tilling, and recording the antics in her notebook. But her observations are set to be disrupted by amorous advanc...

Miss Mapp

Hailed as "the heir to Roald Dahl" by The Spectator, the UK’s number one best-selling children’s author, David Walliams, will have fans of Jeff Kinney and Rachel Renee Russell in stitches! David Walliams burst on to the American scene with his New Yo...

'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!'  Charles Dickens' ghostly tale of sour and stingy ...

Brought to you by Penguin.  Vintage Classics Murdoch: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the 20th century. To celebrate her centenary, Vintage Classics presents special editions of her g...

The Bell

On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole - and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl, read by Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig.  You can think again if you thought you knew the stories of some of the most popular fairy tales. Here are six of the best known retold, with more than a twist or two, by the master of the comic and the blood-curdling.

Revolting Rhymes

'Lottie and Kezia stood on the patch of lawn just inside the gate, all ready for the fray in their coats with brass anchor buttons....'  In the realm of the short story, Katherine Mansfield established a highly original style. Undramatic, poetic, and...

Bliss and Other Stories

Mapp and Lucia is the centrepiece of E. F. Benson's series of Lucia novels - bringing together for the first time the eponymous middle-aged doyennes of polite 1930s society Miss Elizabeth Mapp and Emmeline Luca (Lucia to her friends).  Lucia, recentl...

Mapp and Lucia

Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman and Nigel Planer star in Sue Limb's comedy parodying the arty and adulterous adventures of the Bloomsbury Group.  A stellar cast, including Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions, join in this affectionate se...

Gloomsbury: Series 1

Arch enemies Mapp and Lucia return in the next instalment of E.F. Benson’s classic series of rural snobbery. Lucia is now a permanent resident of Tilling and continues her way up the social ladder with gusto, making attempts through the Town Council,...

Lucia's Progress

Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman and Roger Lloyd-Pack star in Sue Limb's comedy parodying the arty and adulterous adventures of the Bloomsbury Group.  A stellar cast, including Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions, join in this affectionat...

Gloomsbury: Series 2

Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman, and Nigel Planer star in Sue Limb's comedy parodying the arty and adulterous adventures of the Bloomsbury Group.  A stellar cast, including Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy, and John Sessions, join in this affectionate ...

Gloomsbury: Series 3

Dramatisations and a reading of selected novels by Barbara Pym - plus bonus material. Barbara Pym is one of the 20th-century's wittiest, and most underrated, novelists. Her perceptive comedies of manners, centred around the domestic lives and loves o...

Barbara Pym: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Originally broadcast in the Saturday Play slot on 8 November 2008. Wine shop owner Gerald desperately needs money: his business is failing and the landlord has raised the cost of the l...

Von Ribbentrop's Watch (BBC Radio 4: Saturday Play)

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Dirty Beasts by Roald Dahl, read by Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Mangan, and Tamsin Greig. In Dirty Beasts we meet a ghastly menagerie of wonderfully comic animals that can only have been invented by Roald Dahl....

Dirty Beasts

The first of Ayckbourn's darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage. Two couples develop an unlikely friendship in this painfully funny portrait of British suburban life.

Just Between Ourselves

Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was part of the race to uncover the secrets of DNA in the 1950’s. Her more famous contemporaries Watson and Krick took all the kudos for the discovery of the molecule’s double helix structure – ye...

Photograph 51

Miriam Margolyes and Alison Steadman star in the fourth BBC Radio 4 series of Sue Limb's wickedly funny parody of the Bloomsbury Group.  This fourth series sees our arty, adulterous Bohemians struggling with the issues of class, money and how to beco...

Gloomsbury: Series 4

The way we communicate has changed. Today many of our interactions are digital, but until recently writing letters was the norm. Drawing from over 100 miles of records held at the UK's official government archive, The National Archives at Kew, this c...

In Their Own Words

The first fascinating part of Joanna Toye's delightful trilogy about life in Ambridge. Covering the years 1951-1967, Family Ties introduces the main characters: Dan, Doris, Phil, Christine, Jack and Peggy and their children, Walter Gabriel, the Fairb...

The Archers: Family Ties 1951-1967

A collection of political tales - first published in British workers’ magazines - selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael Rosen In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, unique tales inspired by traditional literary forms appe...

Workers' Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain

A BBC Radio 4 parody of the lives of the Romantic poets by Sue Limb, writer of the hit comedy Gloomsbury.  An everyday story of towering genius, set in and around the Lakeland retreat of William and Dorothy Wordsmith. The Wordsmiths have not long set...

The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere: The Complete Series 1 and 2

A spectacular new middle-grade fantasy series from NYT best-selling authors Garth Nix and Sean Williams, in which two twins find that they must act as wards against a threatening evil. The Evil has been trying to break into our dimension and dominate...

Troubletwisters: Book 1

Fact: A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there.…  When the Goon turns up demanding "Archer’s 2,000", life turns upside down. As Howard desperately tries to get to the bottom of this peculiar demand, he discovers that the town is run by seven crazy wizards (not all of whom live in the present!) and someone is trying to take over the world!  Exciting, bizarre and truly hilarious!

Archer's Goon

The complete fifth series of Sue Limb’s satirical send-up of the Bloomsbury Group. In this fifth series, our arty, adulterous Bohemians are creating havoc at home and abroad. Henry is hoping to ignore his fiftieth birthday – but Vera has organised a ...

Gloomsbury: Series 5

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

Once Upon a Timeless Tale Collection is a contemporary retelling of the most well-known and best-loved fairy tales of all time.  Traditional stories from Hans Christian Anderson and Charles Perrault are brought alive for a fresh generation of listene...

Once Upon a Timeless Tale Collection

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...

When Cow hears that she is going in a truck to never-come-back, her old friend Ratty knows that he must help her escape. They are joined by Woolly the tough, fierce lamb who doesn’t want to be lamb chops any more than Cow wants to be beef stew. As th...

The Road to Somewhere

The Fart Powder was such a successful invention that Doctor Proctor couldn't stop there. Next up: a Time-Travel Bath Bomb. Throw the Bath Bomb in the tub, lather up, and imagine where you'd like to visit. The battle of Waterloo? No problem. The Frenc...

Time-Travel Bath Bomb

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...

Letters of Note: Love

Nilly is new to the neighbourhood, but is quick to make friends: Doctor Proctor, an eccentric professor; and Lisa, who is teased by the twin terrors Truls and Trym. Nilly and Lisa help Doctor Proctor develop his latest invention, a powder that makes ...

Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder

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...

Letters of Note: Cats

This fictional novella, by Chen Yuanbin, follows the quest of a pregnant Chinese peasant woman who is searching for a public apology from the authorities to compensate for her husband having been kicked by the head of their rural village.  The film of The Story of Qiu Ju, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li in the title role, won the Golden Lion Prize at the 9th Venice International Film Festival. 

The Story of Qiu Ju

An inspired and inspiring collection of letters on the theme of music, 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 ent...

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...

Letters of Note: Mothers

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...

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,...

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...

A compilation of remarkable letters with love at their heart, 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...

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...

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