Art audiobooks

Suspense, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic proportion. It aired on CBS from 1942 to 1962 and is considered by many to be the best mystery drama series of the golden age. Often referred to as "Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills," it focused on suspenseful thrillers starring the... Read more

Stories We Tell

By: Mike Cosper, Timothy J. Keller & Collin Hansen

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The average American watches 5 hours of TV every day. Collectively, we spend roughly $30 billion on movies each year.Simply put, we’re entertainment junkies. But can we learn something from our insatiable addiction to stories? Mike Cosper thinks so.From horror flicks to rom-coms, the tales we tell and the myths we weave inevitably echo the... Read more

Effie

By: Merryn Williams

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Victorian scandals don't come much more intimate and revealing than a wife seeking an annulment from her famous husband because their marriage has not been consummated. When Effie Ruskin sought escape from her desperately unhappy life with art critic John Ruskin, she shattered the Victorian illusion of the perfect marriage. That she could then... Read more

101 Amazing Facts about The Hunger Games

By: Jack Goldstein & Frankie Taylor

Narrated by: Jack Goldstein

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know which classical legend was a key inspiration for Suzanne Collins when she wrote The Hunger Games? Or why Katniss is so named? What amusing incidents happened to the cast and crew during filming? And what are the key differences between the books and the films? This fantastic audiobook features over one hundred fascinating facts,... Read more

The Story of the Statue of Liberty

By: Benjamin Levine & Isabelle F. Story

Narrated by: Karen Commins

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Statue of Liberty, one of the world’s most iconic symbols, was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States. Standing proudly in New York Harbor, it became a welcoming sight to scores of immigrants.Although the statue commemorates the friendship between two countries, the gift almost didn’t occur!In this concise... Read more

Les Miserables

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Full Cast, Joss Ackland & Roger Allam

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Joss Ackland, Roger Allam and Leslie Phillips star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel.

When poverty drives Jean Valjean to steal a loaf of bread from a baker’s window, it is an action that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A citizen of post-revolutionary France, he is sentenced to nineteen years’... Read more

Citizen Keane

By: Adam Parfrey & Cletus Nelson

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Teary, big-eyed orphans and a multitude of trashy knockoffs epitomized American kitsch art as they clogged thrift stores for decades.When Adam Parfrey tracked down Walter Keane—the credited artist of the weepy waifs—for a San Diego Reader cover story in 1992, he discovered some shocking facts. Decades of lawsuits and countersuits revealed the... Read more

Good Things Come - Abridged

By: Dave Carley

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Some say having an open window while you sleep at night is a guarantee of good health. For young Ellen, it was an open invitation to allow all manner of scary things to enter her cozy little bedroom. As she grew older, Ellen discovered an open window wasn't so scary after all. As a child she shivered from fear. But now she shivers with... Read more

For The Love Of Poetry And Sacred Texts

By: Willis Barnstone

Narrated by: Phil Cousineau

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Willis Barnstone is a poet, translator, biblical scholar, memoirist, anthologist, teacher, and painter. If we are to grasp his greatest contribution to culture over the course of his professional life, we can focus on his role first and foremost as a poet – a lover of words, both his own and those of others, and on what he believes are sacred... Read more

One Funny Momma

By: Cocoa Brown

Narrated by: Cocoa Brown

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Cocoa Brown assails her craft with such passion and soul-searching veracity that when she claims a stage, the ensuing act is nothing short of a force of a nature. Cocoa draws from painful reminiscences and hard-knocked lessons, weaving humorous tales that uplift, upend, and upgrade what you thought you knew about comedy. What drives the comic... Read more

The Eating of the Gods

By: Jan Kott

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Eating of the Gods the distinguished Polish critic Jan Kott reexamines Greek tragedy from the modern perspective. As in his earlier acclaimed Shakespeare, Our Contemporary, Kott provides startling insights and intuitive leaps which link our world to that of the ancient Greeks. The title refers to the Bacchae of Euripides, that tragedy of... Read more

Dragnet, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jack Webb & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in Los Angeles, and starring Jack Webb as the stoic Sergeant Joe Friday, Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama of all time, having made extensive runs on both radio and television. Webb, also the producer of the show, took the series to new highs, insisting on realism in every facet of the program. The... Read more

Dimension X, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dimension X was one of old-time radio's first adult science fiction shows. Though it only ran for a short time, the show made its mark by adapting short stories written by some of the best known masters of the genre—Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Kurt Vonnegut, and others. Writers Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts adapted the... Read more

My Friend Irma, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Marie Wilson & Cathy Lewis

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Some might remember My Friend Irma as the movie that served as the launching pad for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Others recall a television show of the same name. But My Friend Irma actually originated as a radio sitcom that aired on CBS from 1947 to 1954. The show chronicled the daily high jinks of an extremely dim-witted blonde stenographer... Read more

The Good, the Bad and the Drugly

By: Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A mind-blowing collection of drug stories, illegal-substance-related rants & raves by a psychedlic posse of inspired comedians. Read more

Das Leben des Raffael

By: Giorgio Vasari

Narrated by: Frank Thomas

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Für Giorgio Vasari, dem einzigartigen Chronisten der italienischen Malerei gab es die Götter: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci und Raffael, danach kam erst der Herrgott. Raffael war unter den Dreien der jugendliche Tragiker, der an einem Karfreitag geboren wurden und mit noch jungen Jahren von 37 ebenfalls an einem Karfreitag starb. Vasari... Read more

Beth Lapides' Un-Carbaret: The Un & Only

By: Un-Cabaret

Narrated by: Un-Cabaret

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This definitive Un-Cabaret album features unusually honest stories from seriously funny performers from the ground-breaking Un-Cabaret live show. Read more

Vivat Rex: Volume One (Dramatisation)

By: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Marti...

Narrated by: Full Cast & Richard Burton

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Burton narrates this famous dramatic chronicle of the English Crown, a treasure of the BBC radio archive published on CD for the very first time.

Vivat Rex is the landmark drama series first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977. Over the course of 26 instalments, each one narrated by Richard Burton with a full cast, the fortunes of the... Read more

In Ruins

By: Eddie Pepitone

Narrated by: Eddie Pepitone

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedic force of nature Eddie Pepitone delivers a darkly funny, rage-fueled performance in Brooklyn, where he discusses the perils of being a male model, speaking to his dog like his therapist, and the death of the American Dream. Read more

Tom McCaffrey: Adventures in Comedy

By: Tom McCaffrey

Narrated by: Tom McCaffrey

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring interviews with comedy legends Janeane Garofalo, Jim Gaffigan, Margaret Cho and many more, this film shadows one comic’s (Tom McCaffrey) experiences doing stand-up and the harsh realities that come with following his dreams at any cost. Read more

Big Dumb Animal

By: Matt Braunger

Narrated by: Matt Braunger

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live at The Bell House in Brooklyn, Big Dumb Animal is Matt Braunger at his best. He gives everyone a glimpse at what it's like to be a big dumb animal with an anger problem. He explores a vast array of topics ranging from the absurdity of a quiet Jägerbomb to his overly nice hometown of Portland, Oregon. Read more

A Kim Jong-Il Production

By: Paul Fischer

Narrated by: Stephen Park

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Before becoming the world’s most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea’s Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi)—South... Read more

You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To

By: Paul Frees & Annelle Frees

Narrated by: Fred Frees & Jen Olivier

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

World War II was a difficult time for separated couples everywhere. Paul "Buddy" Frees would soon become one of America's most popular voice-over artists. Audrey "Annelle" Frees was the love of his life. One of them wouldn't make it through the war. This is the story of their all-too-short marriage, told in the letters they wrote to each... Read more

The Lux Radio Theatre, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hosted by Cecil B. DeMille and starring numerous icons of the screen, this collection of old-time radio classics includes six episodes of The Lux Radio Theatre—one of the longest running, most extravagant shows from radio's golden age. The show featured the greatest stars in Hollywood appearing in hour-long radio adaptations of their biggest... Read more