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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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First published in 1885, ‘Huckleberry Finn’ is one of the undoubted masterpieces of American literature…
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The Illiad and the Odyssey are retold in a glorious saga.
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These wonderful stories have delighted adults and children for centuries.
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Sian Phillips, Emma Fielding and Miriam Margolyes star in Shakespeare’s comedy of men behaving badly and women doing it for themselves. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to…
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Andersen’s tales have become part of universal folk lore.
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Frances Barber and David Harewood star in Shakespeare’s towering tale of great love, political intrigue and tragedy. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923,…
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Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind with David Morrissey as Orlando and Natasha Little as Celia in Shakespeare’s festive comedy. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to…
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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The story of how the extraordinary events of Christmas Eve change the miserly Scrooge forever have made A Christmas Carol one of the greatest of all Christmas stories…
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Deep underground, a web of evil magic holds a prince in captivity. Narnia … where owls speak, where evil weaves a spell … where sorcery enslaves the land. Narnia is in peril, and…
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An absolute joy to listen to. An attractive and accessible collection.
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Five stories from women writers of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th.
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Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recrimination that quickly develops men denounce their neighbours…
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The glorious but tragic story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
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Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son, Hal, in this powerful production, which also stars Timothy West and Prunella Scales…
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When Thomas Broadbent, an Englishman, visits Ireland for the first time, he is accompanied by his friend Larry Doyle, an Irishman who is returning to his homeland after being away for many years…
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Shakespeare’s bitter tragedy of loyalty, power and politics.
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Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian and…
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Sylvestra Le Touzel, Sam West and David Threlfall star in Shakespeare’s delightful comic fantasy.
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David Tennant stars as Benedick with Samantha Spiro as Beatrice in Shakespeare’s merry comedy of wit, words and romance.
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On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on…
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Homer’s Adventures of Odysseus. Translated by Samuel Butler,
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In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian…
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Tim McInnerny stars as the murderous Bill Sikes with Pam Ferris as Mrs Mann and Edward Long as Oliver in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of one of Dickens’ best known novels…
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‘I have been in the Heaven that takes up most of his light, and saw things there that those who descend from that height cannot speak of or forget…’ Led by his guide Beatrice, Dante leaves…
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Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language.
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In this, the first prose history in European civilization. Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks’ resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia. Here are not…
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Plutarch’s unique insight into the great men of the Ancient World through his biographies.
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Samuel West stars as Richard II with Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt in Shakespeare’s lyrically tragic history. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when…
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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 on the history of…
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Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. M. Forster’s glorious tale of love in Italy and England…
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The ethereal words of the great thinker Omar Khayyam.
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Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his…
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Shakespeare’s magical, other-wordly final play.
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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…
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Also sprach Zarathustra was conceived and written by Friedrich Nietzsche during the years 1881 -1885; the first three Parts were published in 1883 and 1884. The book formed part of his ‘campaign…
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Historial recordings of poetry, humor and drama. 1908 - 1947.
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‘If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.’ In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left…
