Art audiobooks

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Gerald Mohr & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Raymond Chandler’s celebrated hard-boiled private eye, Philip Marlowe, made his radio debut in 1945 on the Lux Radio Theatre with “Murder, My Sweet,” starring Dick Powell. Two years later, NBC brought the character to the air in his own weekly series starring Van Heflin, The New Adventures of Philip Marlowe. A summer replacement for The Bob Hope... Read more

Maggie Smith: A Biography

By: Michael Coveney

Narrated by: Sian Thomas

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This perfect gift audiobook for fans of Downton Abbey will take them behind the scenes of the Grand Dame who brings the Dowager Countess to life.

No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer,... Read more

Adam Sank: Live From The Stonewall Inn

By: Adam Sank

Narrated by: Adam Sank

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Adam Sank, one of the most recognized and accomplished openly gay stand-up comics in the country, is coming to you Live from the Stonewall Inn with his debut album, full of his thoughts on straight guys' balls, Grindr, and more. Read more

The Forgotten Village

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The novelist who wrote THE GRAPES OF WRATH and the director who produced CRISIS AND LIGHTS OUT in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but THE FORGOTTEN VILLAGE is unique among them in that... Read more

Strange Tools

By: Alva Noë

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers... Read more

Uncontrolled Comedy, Volume 1

By: Rip Micheals, Will "Spank" Horton, Ambrose Jone...

Narrated by: Rip Michaels, Will "Spank" Horton, Ambrose Jone...

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncontrolled Comedy is Def Comedy Jam meets the legendary Apollo Theater, with edgy sketch, ingenious sets, and the ability to showcase and produce the next legendary comedian. Read more

Skinny Bitch

By: Gina Yashere

Narrated by: Gina Yashere

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Witty, razor-sharp observations abound in this stand-up performance from Gina Yashere. From bits about her mom and men, to colonic irrigation and luggage this special leaves no stone unturned. Read more

The Union Signal Radio Theater Collection - Abridged

By: Doug Bost, Jeff Ward & Anthony Ellis

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Union Signal is Jeff Ward and Doug Bost. From their ruined garage, they’ve been producing radio plays that have been broadcast on National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, and Bavarian State Radio, as well as on local public radio stations across the country and on Joe Bevilacqua’s The Comedy-O-Rama Hour in its first XM Radio incarnation. Their... Read more

The Funches of Us

By: Ron Funches

Narrated by: Ron Funches

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Ron Funches is a very funny stand-up comedian with a unique delivery and lovable demeanor. You just want to hug and squeeze him like a big stuffed bear. His debut comedy album The Funches of Us has an easy going, inventive style that sounds the way fresh chocolate chip cookies taste. Read more

Roy Jackson: Ugly People Cause Problems

By: Roy Jackson

Narrated by: Roy Jackson

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Roy Jackson has been making people laugh his whole life with his innate ability to find humor in just about anything. On Jackson's debut album, Ugly People Cause Problems, he attacks his comedy with a "tell it like it is" approach. Read more

Laughing to America

By: Gina Yashere

Narrated by: Gina Yashere

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Filmed live in San Francisco, CA, UK's premier black female comedian, Gina Yashere, has come to America! Her unique take on being a cultural insider and outsider never fails to raise the roof as she gives us her take on the news gripping the nation. Read more

One Day in 1939

By: Arthur Godfrey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joe E. B...

Narrated by: Arthur Godfrey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joe E. B...

Length: 18 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Godfrey, The Romance of Helen Trent, Our Gal Sunday, The Goldbergs, President Roosevelt’s Address to Congress, Amos and Andy, Joe E. Brown, Major Bowes, Louis Prima, and more all in a row!This is a recording of a full broadcast day, remastered (from the National Archives transcript disks) by Joe Bevilacqua.On Thursday, September 21st,... Read more

Judy Toll: Shareaholic

By: Judy Toll

Narrated by: Judy Toll

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Judy Toll was a comedian and writer whose life was an open book on stage. In her first and only album (she lost a long battle with cancer in 2002), you can hear her best stand-up, all performed live at the famous Uncabaret. The album mostly covers her quixotic attempts to find the love of her life, and while the premise might seem well-worn,... Read more

Dixon of Dock Green

By: Ted Willis & Sue Rodwell

Narrated by: David Calder, David Tennant & Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

David Calder, David Tennant and Hamish Clark star in these BBC Radio 4 dramas based on the original TV series.

George Dixon became one of the best-known and most-loved fictional policemen during the course of three decades of BBC TV's Dixon of Dock Green, in which he was played by Jack Warner. In these 12 radio adaptations he once again upholds... Read more

We Bombed in New London

By: Brian Gari

Narrated by: Brian Gari

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We Bombed in New London tells the true story of one man’s tenacious plight to get his musical mounted. From its romantic inception to its eventual demise and then the score’s resurrection in cabarets and recordings, this book takes you on a journey through the ups and downs of the theatrical world with all its excitement, disappointment,... Read more

Drawing Blood

By: Molly Crabapple

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From a young age, Molly Crabapple had the eye of an artist and the spirit of a radical. After a restless childhood on New York's Long Island, she left America to see Europe and the Near East, a young artist plunging into unfamiliar cultures, notebook always in hand, drawing what she observed.



Returning to New York City after 9/11 to study art,... Read more

George Bettinger’s Mom & Pop Shop Interviews & Variety

By: George Bettinger

Narrated by: various entertainers

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

George Bettinger’s Mom & Pop Shop InterviewsComedian and radio personality George Bettinger talked with Emmy winning actress-comedienne Lilly Tomlin (Laugh-In) just after she received her Kennedy Center Honors Award. Tomlin, who currently stars opposite Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, and Sam Waterston in the “hit” Netflix original series Grace... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Shows, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection contains twelve of the greatest radio shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio. You’ll hear Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll in Amos ’n’ Andy; Bob Bailey in Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; Jim and Marian Jordan in Fibber McGee and Molly; William Bendix as Chester A. Riley in The Life of Riley; Eve Arden as Connie Brooks... Read more

George Bettinger’s Mom & Pop Variety Shop - Abridged

By: George Bettinger

Narrated by: various entertainers

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Marx Brothers, Laurel & Hardy, Three Stooges, and Soupy Sales are just some of the legendary “funsters”Music and Comedy For The Whole Family Perfect on Halloween, Thanksgiving Christmas, Chanukah, All Year. Like old time radio and TV with a modern twist! Curly’s Gormet Coffee FitWhether PrognosticationJerry Bazooka LewisLaurel &... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Comedy Shows, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Relive twelve of the best classic radio comedy shows from yesterday and the legendary stars that made them great in this incredible collection.Here are twelve of the greatest American comedy shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio. You’ll hear Ozzie and Harriet Nelson in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Freeman Gosden and Charles... Read more

Raising the Barre

By: Lauren Kessler

Narrated by: Hollis McCarthy

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lauren Kessler was twelve, her ballet instructor crushed not just her dreams of being a ballerina but also her youthful self-assurance. Now, many decades and three children later, Kessler embarks on a journey to join a professional company to perform in The Nutcracker. Raising the Barre is more than just one woman's story; it is a story... Read more

Auch eine Rosine hat noch Saft

By: Luise Lunow

Narrated by: Luise Lunow

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Mit über 80 Jahren hat Luise Lunow ihr bewegtes Leben aufgeschrieben und veröffentlicht. Sie selber spricht, als erfahrene Schauspielerin und Synchronsprecherin ihre Memoiren. In Babelsberg geboren, erlebt die Schauspielerin Luise Lunow den Bomben-Krieg und den Hunger der Nachkriegszeit, pendelt täglich zwischen Ost- und Westberlin, erfüllt... Read more

Wali Collins: Ladies and Gentlemen...

By: Wali Collins

Narrated by: Wali Collins

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Wali Collins is versatile, smart, and very, very funny. Wali is headed only one way, Stardom. If you haven’t seen Wali do his thing in either stand-up or acting, you’re missing out on one gifted man. Read more

Seaton Smith: Bologna Meat

By: Seaton Smith

Narrated by: Seaton Smith

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Seaton Smith of Fox's Mulaney, has been primed practicing his craft from a very young age starting in physical comedy. Originally starting comedy in Washington D.C., Seaton now lives and performs in NYC while headlining shows across the country riffing on hot-button topics ranging from race to sexuality. Read more