Art audiobooks

The Tender Beauty Of Aging

By: Alice Matzkin & Richard Matzkin

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice and Richard Matzkin are artists whose work truly is an expression of their lives. Most recently they’ve been applying their gifts to express the beauty—yes, the beauty—of aging, and they do it with the tenderness they’ve learned in their twenty-seven years of loving each other. Read more

Star

By: Peter Biskind

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 23 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Famously a playboy, Warren Beatty has also been one of the most ambitious and successful stars in Hollywood. Several Beatty films have passed the test of time, from Bonnie and Clyde (which confirmed for him the importance of controlling the projects he was involved in) to Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds (for which he won the best director Oscar),... Read more

Dangerously Funny

By: David Bianculli

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Decades before The Daily Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour proved there was a place on television for no-holds-barred political comedy with a decidedly antiauthoritarian point of view. In this explosive, revealing history of the show, veteran entertainment journalist David Bianculli tells the fascinating story of its three-year network... Read more

It's Only a Movie

By: Mark Kermode

Narrated by: Mark Kermode

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

To avoid fainting, keep repeating

It's only a move
..only a movie
..only a movie
..only a movie

If you grew up believing that Planet of the Apes told you all you needed to know about politics, that Slade in Flame was a savage exposé of the pop world, and that The Exorcist revealed the meaning of life, then you probably spent far too many of your... Read more

Magic Roundabout, The (Vintage Beeb)

By: BBC

Narrated by: Eric Thompson

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

First published by BBC Records and Cassettes in 1971, The Magic Roundabout includes 10 stories written and read by Eric Thompson, featuring the popular characters of Dougal, Florence, Zebedee, Dylan, Brian and Ermintrude. The stories include 'Dougal's Experiment' (in which he does some very complicated arithmetic); 'A Starry Night' (in which... Read more

Three Viewings

By: Jeffrey Hatcher

Narrated by: Paul Fox, Jared Harris, Siobhán Hewlett, Moira ...

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A funeral parlor in a small Midwestern town is the setting for these three darkly funny and touching short plays. In Tell Tale, we enter the private thoughts of a respectable married mortician, lost in passion for a beautiful real estate broker who markets to the bereaved. In Thief of Tears, we meet Mac, the attractive daughter of an upper-class... Read more

The Gospel According to Lost

By: Chris Seay

Narrated by: Chris Seay

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“Chris Seay is one of my favorite people. He’s a shepherd at heart. His insights on culture always take me into a better understanding of the world we live in. I’m grateful for him in so many ways.”—Don Miller, author of Blue Like JazzAn epic journey into the deepest mysteries of faithLost is not just a television show. It has become much larger... Read more

Judith Jamison - Extended Interview

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this 2010 interview, Judith Jamison talks to Jeffrey Brown about her career as a dancer, choreographer and artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Read more

Doctor Who At The BBC: A Legend Reborn

By: BBC

Narrated by: Elisabeth Sladen & Various

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2005, after sixteen years off-air, Doctor Who returned to BBC Television – and soon became more popular than ever before. In this special anthology of clips and interviews, featuring newly-released material, Elisabeth Sladen journeys back to the recent past to delve into the show’s dazzling success. With the help of extracts from radio... Read more

Taylor Swift

By: Sarah Tieck

Narrated by: Noah Luce

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This book discusses the family background, education, rise to fame, and future plans of country music star Taylor Swift. From Swift’s work as a songwriter to her first record contract, readers will learn about her talent and dedication. Topics covered include Swift’s first two albums, Taylor Swift and Fearless, as well as her awards,... Read more

Molly Sweeney

By: Brian Friel

Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Jeanie Hackett, Shannon Holt, A...

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Molly Sweeney, by the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, tells the story of married couple Molly and Frank, who live in a remote Irish village. Molly has been blind since birth, but now a surgeon – Mr. Rice – believes he may be able to restore her sight. In a series of interwoven monologues, Molly Sweeney takes us into the minds of three people... Read more

The Simpsons

By: John Ortved

Narrated by: Justine Eyre & John Allen Nelson

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Simpsons is one of the most successful shows to ever run on television. From its first moment on air, the series's rich characters, subversive themes, and layered humor resounded deeply with audiences both young and old who wanted more from their entertainment than what was being meted out at the time by the likes of Full House, Growing... Read more

Bill T. Jones - Extended Interview

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill T. Jones has long been recognized as one of this country’s leading contemporary dancers and choreographers, known for his mix of athleticism and his willingness to take on big subjects from the world around him. Most recently, Jones is tackling history: Traveling around the country are works about the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, and... Read more

The American Journey of Barack Obama

By: The Editors of Life Magazine

Narrated by: The Editors of Life Magazine

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades Americans have turned to LIFE to see, understand, and remember the most important events and people of our time. Just as LIFE once opened up the glittering Kennedy White House, LIFE now focuses its lens on Barack Obama.

The American Journey of Barack Obama covers the candidate from his childhood and adolescence to his time as editor... Read more

Green Metropolis

By: David Owen

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares—as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, David Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all,... Read more

An Actor's Business

By: Andrew Reilly

Narrated by: Andrew Reilly

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An Actor's Business covers everything you need to know to market yourself as an actor, with thorough and concise information about the movie-making process, drama school, community theatre, acting on television and in commercials, unions, and agents. A thorough and well-written resource for anyone wanting to understand all facets of the acting... Read more

Spiral Jetta

By: Erin Hogan

Narrated by: JoAnna Perrin

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and... Read more

Last Words - Abridged

By: George Carlin

Narrated by: Patrick Carlin

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For the last 14 years of his life, the brilliant, caustic, and hilarious George Carlin worked on his autobiography—now, written with bestselling author Tony Hendra and posthumously published, Carlin has proven that even after death, he is still one of the funniest men who ever lived.

One of the undisputed heavyweight champions of American comedy,... Read more

America--An Insider's View

By: Gerld Rosen, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerald Rosen has seen America from most every vantage point. He grew up in a house without books, obtained an ivy league Ph.D. in literature, and went on to run a liquor store on the edge of Harlem. He's crossed paths, in one way or another, with Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Janis Joplin…even Babe Ruth. So his observations about American culture... Read more

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 2

By: John Finnemore

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast, John Finnemore...

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether flying a nervous bassoonist to Gdansk or a horrible sister to Helsinki, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.

Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN... Read more

Robert Altman

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Various

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.

His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few... Read more

Robert Altman - Abridged

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.

His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few... Read more

Car Talk: Tales of the Brothers Grime

By: Tom Magliozzi & Ray Magliozzi

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Brothers Grimm told tales that in their original, unedited form were strange, sometimes rambling, and of dubious moral integrity—in other words, they’re the perfect model for our Brothers Grime, the Tappet Brothers. America’s favorite auto mechanics share reminiscences, rants, and hate mail in another time-wasting yet genuinely useful... Read more

Double Take

By: Kevin Michael Connolly

Narrated by: Kevin Michael Connolly

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kevin Connolly has used an unusual physical circumstance to create a gripping work of art. This deeply affecting memoir will place him in the company of Jeanette Walls and Augusten Burroughs.” — Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants “Charming … Connolly recounts growing up a scrappy Montana kid—one who happened to be born without legs...... Read more