Stephen Fry

Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry, a lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction....

Powered flight. Votes for women. Human sexuality. Mass migration. The psychology of dreams. The magic of the movies. Spies and detectives. Welcome to Stephen Fry’s Edwardian Secrets....

On the surface, the Victorian age is one of propriety, industry, prudishness and piety. But scrat....

Stephen Fry travels into the most remarkable place we know - our brain. The organ of knowledge and the one we know least about....

Discover the story of a gentleman's most distinguished accessory, the necktie, with the inimitable Stephen Fry as your guide....

The King’s death, the rise of cinema, the bizarre craze for disguise and the unexpected onset of war, as told from the point of view of a part time soldier on jolly military exercises. Like those new cinema audiences, people were in the dark about the future....

This episode examines how the role of women in education, marriage, divorce, sexuality, psychology and politics were all debated in the Victorian era....

This episode of Victorian Secrets recounts the lives, times and experiences of Black Victorians in Britain....

This episode will explore the famous network of pipes and ducts and drainage systems which will take us deep underground, into the Victorians’ public pride and joy, the new London sewers....

This episode will penetrate some of the secrets of Victorian sexuality, public and private and will challenge some deeply held misconceptions....

Step right up, step right up and don’t be shy - welcome to Victorian Secrets, and the secrets of... The Freak Show....

This episode takes us to Victorian secrets ‘on the Wilde Side’ – although Oscar Wilde, often seen as a central character, only has a small part to play in our look at male same sex love....

This episode of Victorian Secrets is all about ‘The look’. It’s about a sudden image-consciousness among men and women....

In this episode we visit Victorian Asylums and examine how the intentions of those who built and operated these places were partly in response to the revelations of secrets of previous eras....

This episode looks at what could you or should you believe in the Victorian Era....

On the surface, the Victorian age is one of propriety, industry, prudishness and piety. But scratch the surface and you’ll find scandal, sadism, sex, madness, malice and murder....

This was to be an age of excess for some, and plenty for others. An age when the ruling classes enjoyed a secret life of large-scale adultery. Plus, the story of a female celebrity cook whose quail puddings were loved by the King. But was there more to their relationship? Find out....

How our brains interact with reality....

Are male and female brains different? Find out....

Wiring five hundred trillion pathways....