Art audiobooks

Big Deal

By: Kevin Winkler

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Fosse (1927–1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game, in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders, turned-in stance, and stuttering, staccato jazz movements. Fosse moved decisively... Read more

Främling

By: Andreas Ekström & Johanna Koljonen

Narrated by: Hanna K Schmitz

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Carola är en av våra mest omtyckta artister genom tiderna. Som tonåring slog hon igenom stort på Melodifestivalen 1983 med låten Främling. Men det finns också de som är kritiska. Mot hennes talang, hennes religiösa uttalanden. Vem är Carola egentligen? Vad har hennes musik betytt för människor i Sverige? I världen? - Read more

Florida's toxic red tide is a perfect storm for the Gulf Coast

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In Florida, a toxic algae bloom that began last fall has killed dolphins, sea turtles, manatees, even a whale shark. And the toxins are not only devastating to wildlife, but difficult for humans and the economy as well. William Brangham reports from Sanibel Island on the slow-moving catastrophe. Read more

Confidential Confidential

By: Samantha Barbas

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including their sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality, publisher Robert Harrison... Read more

Fashion Climbing

By: Bill Cunningham

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and style

For Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings after school in the city's chicest boutiques, Bill dreamed... Read more

Joyful

By: Ingrid Fetell Lee

Narrated by: Ingrid Fetell Lee

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Make small changes to your surroundings and create extraordinary happiness in your life with groundbreaking research from designer and TED star Ingrid Fetell Lee.

Next Big Idea Club selection—chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the "two most groundbreaking new nonfiction reads of the season!"

"This book has... Read more

#Nine9er: The Ultimate Modeling & Acting Handbook

By: Anthony Toma

Narrated by: Lisa Kirsch

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

#Nine9er: The Ultimate Modeling & Acting Handbook by Anthony Toma offers an in-depth guide to understanding and finidng success as a model, actor or other talent. For those looking to get into the entertainment industry or who are looking to expand their career modeling or acting, this is a must read. The book also utilizes some tools of the... Read more

Uhus Reise durch die Musikgeschichte - Abridged

By: Kristina Dumas, Cornelia Ferstl, Katharina Neus...

Narrated by: Udo Wachtveitel, Burchard Dabinnus, Achim Höppn...

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Von Gregorianik bis Filmmusik, von Minnesang bis zur Zwölftonmusik. Uhu nimmt uns mit auf eine spannende Reise durch 1100 Jahre Musikgeschichte. Und nebenbei erfahren wir in den Hörspielen dieser Ausgabe auch einiges über Politik, Gesellschaft, Kultur und allerlei Kurioses aus dem jeweiligen Jahrhundert. Ein umfassendes Werk, das in keinem... Read more

Starke Stücke. Johann Sebastian Bach: Das Weihnachts-Oratorium - Abridged

By: Markus Vanhoefer

Narrated by: Stefan Wilkening, Stefan Hunstein, Burchard Dab...

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Leipzig, im Advent des Jahres 1734. Johann Sebastian Bach sitzt bibbernd in der Componierstube der Thomasschule. Es ist der kälteste Winter seit langem, so kalt, dass angeblich sogar die Vögel an den Ästen festfrieren. Der Komponist hat sich Großes für die feierlichen Weihnachts-Gottesdienste der beiden Leipziger Hauptkirchen, St. Thomas und St.... Read more

How ‘the incarceration capital of America’ embraced criminal justice reform

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, the state of Louisiana has been known as the incarceration capital of America. But over the past year, the state has been trying to shed that reputation with new reforms that decrease the prison population and save money. William Brangham went to find how it’s playing out for former prisoners, in a story produced by Frank Carlson in... Read more

Resisting the African ‘brain drain’ that has created a health care crisis

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A "brain drain" is sending many of Africa’s highly skilled workers abroad--and leaving a painful void in their absence. But an organization called Seed Global Health is training new medical professionals and encouraging them to remain in their native countries, where they are so desperately needed. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Uganda as part... Read more

All That Jazz

By: Ethan Mordden

Narrated by: Joel Froomkin

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths—the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamour of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, and the Wild West gangsterville that was the city of Chicago itself.



The tale of a young... Read more

Burlesque Dancer 101

By: HowExpert

Narrated by: Nikki Kwiatkowski

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to become a professional burlesque dancer with clear, detailed steps illustrated by real-life examples of famous performers from the 20th century and current stars, and benefit from a former performer's insight Discover the legends of the art form and its origins, find out what kind of performer you want to become, and enter a world... Read more

The Gardner Heist

By: Ulrich Boser

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads—and a $5 million reward—none of the paintings have been recovered. Worth... Read more

Ezequiel Campa: En Vivo y En La Hierba

By: Ezequiel Campa

Narrated by: Ezequiel Campa

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The Argentinian comedian explores various topics about his family life, from his mother who brings everyone into her depression, to growing up with a father who was so cheap that he had to share his birthday party with another child. Read more

Playing to the Gods

By: Peter Rader

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting story of the rivalry between the two most renowned actresses of the nineteenth century: legendary Sarah Bernhardt, whose eccentricity on and off the stage made her the original diva, and mystical Eleonora Duse, who broke all the rules to popularize the natural style of acting we celebrate today.

Audiences across Europe and the... Read more

Alles über Storytelling - mit Geschichten zum Erfolg (Story-Telling)

By: Patrick Lynen

Narrated by: Patrick Lynen

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Ihre Kommunikation ist Ihre Visitenkarte. Denn die richtige Kommunikation überzeugt. Lernen Sie Ihre Ausdrucksweise lieben und richtig einzusetzen. Schon wirken Sie authentisch und überzeugen sogar Ihre "Gegner". Allein mit der richtigen Dramaturgie können Sie dafür sorgen, dass Ihre Botschaften packend rüberkommen und Ihr Gegenüber Ihnen gerne... Read more

How to See

By: David Salle

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Engaging with a wide range of Salle's friends and contemporaries—from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons,... Read more

Who Was Selena?

By: Max Bisantz, Kate Bisantz & Who HQ

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Discover why Selena, the Queen of Tejano music, became one of the most celebrated Mexican-American entertainers of the twentieth century!

As a young girl, Selena Quintanilla sang in a band called Selena y Los Dinos with her brother and sister. The family performed at fairs, weddings, quinceañeras, and on street corners in their native Texas.... Read more

Women in Clothes

By: Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton & o...

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Karen Sepulveda, Keisha Zollar, ...

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities—famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old—on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives.It began with a survey. The editors composed a list of more... Read more

Philistines at the Hedgerow - Abridged

By: Steven Gaines

Narrated by: Steven Gaines

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author Steven Gaines's "richly entertaining" (People) and juicy social history of the Hamptons.

As one of America's most fabled communities--long a magnet for artists, celebrities, the very rich, and their respective hangers-on--the Hamptons have been a scene of constant collision among the established old guard, New Money, and the... Read more

Abdelkarim, Staatsfreund Nr. 1

By: Abdelkarim

Narrated by: Abdelkarim

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Abdelkarim hat sich oft gefragt, was er eigentlich ist: ein deutscher Marokkaner oder ein marokkanischer Deutscher? Mittlerweile weiß er es: Er ist ein Deutscher gefangen im Körper eines Grabschers. Abdelkarim hat sich aber um den Gesellschaftsteilnahmeschein bemüht und er hat es geschafft! Er ist der wichtigste Mann in Deutschland. Er ist der... Read more

How tech is putting the needs of impoverished Kenyans on the map

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

At least 50 percent of Nairobi's population lives in slums, yet until a few years ago, many busy neighborhoods were blank spaces on official maps. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya on the ways mapping technology is bringing needed services to some of the poorest people on the continent. Read more

The Noel Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection

By: Noel Coward

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Full Ca...

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven BBC radio full-cast productions of Noël Coward’s classic plays – plus bonus material including a profile of Coward and extracts from his diaries

Renowned for his wit, style and sophistication, Noël Coward was one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century. His plays, set in the glittering world of high society in which he lived,... Read more