Miranda’s back, but she’s not sticking around for long. In an attempt to regain her mojo, she’s packing up her whips, chains and thigh-high boots to leave London, and set out on a road trip unlike any other. With her best frenemy, and fellow dominatrix, Mistress Laveen in tow, she heads out to see what delights – and displeasures – they can dish out from the “comfort” of budget hotel rooms across the UK.

Welcome to Audible's finest Comedy Club. In this fourth series of live showcases, stand by for more full length stand-up sets by both established stars and emerging newcomers of the comedy scene. This series features performances from: writer, creator and all round comedy hero Danielle Ward; the unhinged and hilarious Bobby Mair; antipodean comedy legend Dai Henwood; pithy and smart Peter Brush; and the instantly likeable Archie Maddocks.

Meet Miranda. She is a cheerful and happy-go-lucky single girl who just happens to be a dominatrix with a dungeon in her flat where she services clients with flogging and extreme correction and (if she's lucky) gets the occasional slave to pay her for the honour of doing her vacuuming.

Welcome to Audible's finest Comedy Club. In this third series of live showcases, expect front row seats at more full-length comedy sets from both established stars and emerging newcomers of the stand up scene. This series features performances from: surreal and smart Stuart Laws; Alexis Dubus’ brilliant Gallic character creation, Marcel Lucont; the political and whipsmart Grainne Maguire; Rob Carter performing as ‘literary genius’ Christopher Bliss; and legend of the comedy scene, Phil Nichol.

Welcome to Audible's finest Comedy Club. In this second series of live showcases, our funny bones will be tickled by both established stars and emerging newcomers of British comedy. This series features performances from the extremely articulately angry Michael Legge, one of the smartest comics on the scene Alice Fraser, YouTube breakout star Shane Todd, multi-award-winning comedian Tim Renkow and hard-hitting satirist Tiernan Douieb.

International stars of the comedy world, established legends of the British stand-up scene and exciting new voices perform exclusively for your laugh-out-loud pleasure. Bringing together a diverse mix of well-known favourites and cutting-edge newcomers, this series of live shows recorded exclusively for Audible at the 70th anniversary of the Edinburgh Fringe, features performances from Reginald D. Hunter, Mark Watson, Josie Long, Andrew Maxwell and Angela Barnes amongst many others.

Meet the Bourgeois family, the most wealthy and powerful clan of conniving schemers in all of Baldwin Hills, CA. High above Los Angeles in their palatial mansion, the Bourgeois’ bask in luxury and vie for control of the Fine Swine skincare empire. Dark secrets from the past bubble up to the surface, and before long somebody winds up dead. Who is getting stabbed in the back? Who is doing the stabbing? What other secrets will refuse to stay buried?

Following on from her examination of the weird and wonderful animal kingdom, this second season of Earpedia sees comedian Sue Perkins presenting a series of audio guides to the planet's most useful, bizarre and interesting plants. Join Sue as she explores the truly horrible welwitschia mirabilis, which looks like a gateway into the pit of hell, the stony lithops plant, which resembles a dog's testicles, the technically poisonous cocoa plant, the caveman's discovery of rubber, and how much of the Venus flytrap's diet is actually flies.

Britain's most chilling crimes are brought sensationally to life in this compelling new series, using court room transcripts, police interviews, 999 calls, secret audio recordings and eye witness testimonies. With new insights into those responsible - from the shocking murders and manhunt of Raoul Moat to Jamie Bulger's killers - this show is not for the easily disturbed.

Broadcaster, comedian and writer Mark Dolan interrogates the most intriguing people imaginable. Prepare yourselves for a comedic exploration of the eclectic, odd and strange - and expect the unexpected as ordinary people reveal the extraordinary truth about themselves. In each show, Mark invites three very interesting people into his own personal lounge for insights, revelations and entertaining confessions. Presented with intellectual curiosity, Mark searches for the awesome, reveals the hidden and exposes the truth about his guests' lives.

Ordinary people. Extraordinary stories. Listen to history's unsung heroes who changed the world, in this powerful documentary series. Get closer to events you may only have heard about from school books with these first person accounts of key moments in recent world history. In each episode we explore pertinent dates from 1936 to 2010 and find out what happened through the eyes of those who were there. Crossing the globe and drawing on events in London, Mexico City and Afghanistan to name but a few we hear stories including takes from an athlete, journalist, chess player and soldier.

Having experienced her own difficulties with depression and self-harm, in What Do I Do? Mental Health and Me, Dame Kelly Holmes sets out to discover how other people cope, talking to TV personalities, writers, comedians, journalists and more about their mental health. Kelly’s guests include: TV presenter Davina McCall; journalists Jon Ronson and Alastair Campbell; author Philip Pullman; comedians Catherine Bohart, Eddie Izzard, Felicity Ward and Rory Bremner; transgender rights activist Munroe Bergdorf; musician Amanda Palmer; and mental health expert Dr David Crepaz-Keay.

In this five-part series, US happiness expert and positive psychologist Michelle Gielan and British journalist and author Oliver Burkeman explore ways to become truly happier, backed up by scientific evidence. Bringing their own unique and counter-balanced personalities to proceedings they ask questions such as: what is happiness? Can we make ourselves happier? And why is everyone talking about mindfulness? Michelle and Oliver tackle these questions with the help of some of the world’s leading experts on the subjects and at the end of each episode, Michelle leads the listener through a quick and easy practical exercise that has been shown to increase happiness. Listeners will be left with a genuine takeaway from each episode and encouraged to explore the topics further and take their own steps towards a happier life.

The 3-Day Effect is a look at the science behind why being in the wild for a minimum of three days can make us happier, healthier and more creative. Whether it’s rafting down Utah’s Green River, backpacking in Colorado wilderness or strolling through Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., scientists are finding that immersions in nature can reduce anxiety, enhance creativity and boost overall well-being.   

We’ve all heard the word wellness, but what does it actually mean? Why is the concept of wellness so popular right now? And why is the wellness industry booming? In this series the comedian Alice Fraser goes on a quest to find out. On the way she meets the three guys known as the so-called fathers of wellness, she takes part in a yoga class with a social media influencer and she chats to two scientists carrying out a landmark study on the meaning and measurement of wellbeing.

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. Presented by Stephen Fry, this series delves deep into a period of time we think we know, to discover an altogether darker reality. The stories we’re told offer a different perspective on an era which underwent massive social change. As education, trade, technology and culture blossomed, why was there an undercurrent of the ‘forbidden’ festering beneath Victorian society?

Sunday Times best-selling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson, teams up with The Science Museum to celebrate the ideas and inventions of the incurably curious. Across this five-episode series, Bill Bryson, with the help of The Science Museum's curators, takes us object-by-object through some of the museum's lesser known inventions and discoveries - and the human stories behind them.

To find out how the greatest financial fraud in history imploded, journalist Steve Fishman tracks down the victims, the federal investigators, the accomplices, and the mastermind, Bernie Madoff himself. Ponzi Supernova takes listeners through the calculated lies, frantic hi-jinx, and lax financial oversight that ultimately weaponised a Ponzi scheme into a $65 billion destructive force that reached across the globe and still has lasting effects today.