Multi-award-winning production company, The Owl Field, produces 3D audio drama that places the listener at the centre of the story and surrounds them with a full cast, immersive sound effects and original music....

As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: To make the world’s first computer-animated movie....

The secrets of creative thinking by a lecturer at the world famous St. Martin's College of Art who has spent a lifetime researching innovative thinkers....

Collected Poems was first published in 1958 and has sold over two million copies. Here for the first time is the audio edition....

This expanded audio collection presents William Zinsser's On Writing Well, the classic teaching book that has sold more than 1 million copies, together with a new 90-minute section....

Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Regarded as one of the most mesmerizing performers of his day, he lives on in his music....

Now, at last, biographer Philip Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was never enough....

Marilynne Robinson discusses her Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling second novel....

Kate Chopin is a widely considered the forerunner to the feminist authors of the twentieth century. Focusing on themes of race and gender, her short stories largely center on rural life....

Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English, you can write poetry....

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity....

Here's a rhyming story of a mouse and a monster....

Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned....

Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Avengers, the X-Men, Watchmen, and more....

By the end of the book, Parini has recovered a truth often obscured by our clamorous culture: without poetry, we live only partially....

One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets we’re surrounded by....

The great adventure story tells of Odysseus, a veteran of the Trojan War, who - through a landscape peopled with monsters, sea nymphs, evil enchantresses, and vengeful gods....

In this stunningly original memoir, Edmund de Waal travels the world to stand in the great buildings his forebears once inhabited....

In the insightful How Music Works, David Byrne offers his unique perspective on music....

In this brilliant translation, Robert Fagles brings the vigor of contemporary language to Homer's 2,700-year-old tale....

Feisty Chicago private eye Vic ‘V.I.’ Warshawski is used to getting mixed up in complicated cases....

Here is an audiobook of the hugely successful Josephine Hart Poetry Hours at the British Library....

Discover the beauty of music theory and become a better musician through the power of understanding....

Experience Hamlet as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds....

If you want to understand the Late Middle Ages, Neville Coghill's famous translation of The Canterbury Tales provides one of the very best means of doing so.....

Over the centuries, orchestral music has given us a category of works that stand apart as transcendent expressions of the human spirit....

Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, "to justify the ways of God to men"....

The best and most engaging portraits of the Romans as living people are to be found in the works like those of the four poets featured in this recording. In Howard Felperin’s lively translations, these pieces become verbal postcards of the era, revealing in exquisite detail the passion and the grief, the joy and the pain experienced by the people of Rome as they deal with the inevitable fascination of love as it permeates their daily lives.

Opening eyes and minds just a little wider, this collection of exquisite poetry offers a window into the lives of people told through more than 3,000 years' worth of stories....

This one-man, two-act play premiered, after several delays, in Key West, Florida, in 2009. It examines another phase in the life of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway. From the joys of absinthe to the appeal of Ava Gardner, Ernest Hemingway turns to the exotic temptations of China and his third wife, Martha Gellhorn. Back in Cuba, he chases U-boats and tracks Nazi spies as a prelude to the European war and flying missions with the Royal Air Force.