A criminal odyssey set against the dusty, sun-kissed backdrop of Oklahoma and Kansas during America's Great Depression. Carl Webster is a rising star in the US Marshals Service, one of the elite man-hunters currently chasing the likes of Dillinger
Alan Garner is an English novelist best known for his fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, bein
BBC radio productions of Mark Twain's very best novels and short stories - plus bonus material
Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens), was one of the foremost writers and humorists to come out of the United States. Hailed by William Faulk
Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice wi
The collected BBC radio adaptations of Virginia Woolf's major novels are a series of acclaimed audio dramas, featuring star casts like Vanessa Redgrave and Kristin Scott-Thomas, bringing her modernist masterpieces like Mrs Dalloway, To the Lightho
It’s 1904. New Mexico. Legendary lawman Pat Garrett has grown weary and old. An altercation with President Roosevelt has left his future looking bleak, his present is awash with whisky, blood and bulle
One boy and his toy are about to change everything....
Jack loves his childhood toy Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens - DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for
The Child by Sebastian Fitzek is a gripping Audible audio drama about a lawyer, Robert Stern, who takes on the case of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy, Simon, who claims he was a serial killer in a past life, leading Stern to discover actual bodi
A moment of reprieve. Nobody knows you. No one owns you. You're on day release.
Lenny Henry plays double murderer Frank Watt, who is getting ready to face life on the outside after 30 years in prison. He's looking forward to getting out, but thing
A five-part vintage crime drama about a mysterious death on an ocean liner.
Aboard the Carthena, on its way from Sydney to Southampton, a passenger walks on the dark deck, unaware his death is only seconds away. It's a death which will set in moti
A long weekend in Liverpool, one murder and four stunning dramas
A fantastic four-part series, this story of interwoven lives is set in Liverpool over a long weekend, created in collaboration by four Liverpudlian writers. In each of the stories th
Book 2 of 3: The Supernatural Casefiles of Sherlock Holmes
Many of Holmes's more fantastic cases have yet to see publication, since their grotesque and outré nature would have stretched the reader's sensibilities beyond any normal boundaries. Th
Book 1 of 3: The Supernatural Casefiles of Sherlock Holmes
From the Supernatural Case Files of Sherlock Holmes, London's most beloved detective encounters his most deadly foe, and the results will be unlike any Sherlock Holmes adventure before i
Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel, the inspiration for the award-winning film, opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all 12 questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Bil
A taut new thriller exploring espionage, power, and mystery at Europe’s northern edge.
Set against the stark beauty of the Åland archipelago – a demilitarised Finnish territory where Swedish is the official language and Russia still watches from a
Eight episodes of the vintage BBC Radio comedy starring Ronnie Barker
Created by Ronnie Barker and producer John Fawcett Wilson, Lines From My Grandfather’s Forehead ran for two series on BBC Radio 4 from 1971-72, winning a Writers' Guild Award f