Arts & Entertainment

Doc Brown hosts a showcase of the best in spoken word, rap and slam. With brand new live performances, plus gems from the archive....

Celebrate over 30 years of the world's most notorious rock band with the audiobook edition of The Dirt - the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe....

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

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....

Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller, and here, using his lyrics as starting points, he reads stories of his life and his songs....

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality....

Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy....

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....

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....

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

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town....

I'll help you take your photography to new levels with my easy-to-understand and easy-to-use handbook that is packed with tips from some of the world's best photographers. Find out how you can apply their secrets for capturing outstanding photos....

In the first book to define visual culture for the general listener, Mirzoeff draws on art history, theory and everyday experience to provide an engaging and accessible overview of how visual materials shape and define our lives....

Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history....

John O’Donohue’s friend and frequent collaborator John Quinn collects a series of talks and essays from the poet-philosopher on humanity’s relationship with the land, the ache of absence, our place in an often mysterious universe, and the great adventure of death itself....

Even if you have listened to many of these illustrative pieces throughout your life you will never hear them the same way again after experiencing these lectures....

Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way....

Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey read a love story in letters, played out against the backdrop of the Second World War....

From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music....

In the last decade, no industry has been through as much upheaval and turmoil as the music industry. If you're looking for quick fame and instant success, you're in the wrong field....

When Heidi, a lively orphan girl, goes to live with her grandfather in a little hut high in the Alps, she soon learns to live in perfect harmony with her surroundings....

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....

In Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart, Alice Walker examines our troubled times while also chronicling a life well lived....

The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood.... 

This spellbinding series of 32 lectures will introduce you to the transcendentally beautiful performing art....

Nikita Gill's poetry has captured hearts and minds all over the world. This collection showcases mostly unseen poetry and prose, delving into ideas about passion, identity, empowerment...

The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....