Art audiobooks

We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives

By: Paul Shaffer & David Ritz

Narrated by: Paul Shaffer

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and a gig leading the band on Letterman?... Read more

American Rebel

By: Marc Eliot

Narrated by: Marc Eliot

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

As an actor, he seduced us with his tough-guy charm in A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry. As a director and a producer, he amazed us with his artistic insight and technical savvy in Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Changeling. Clint Eastwood represents the finest cinematic achievements of the last decades, and he remains one of film's... Read more

3rd & Bird

By: Josh Selig

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Five episodes from the hugely popular animated series featuring Samuel, Rudy and Muffin – as seen on BBC TV. ‘A Chorus for Us’, ‘Rolling Along’, ‘To Play or Not to Play’, ‘The Muffin Express’ and ‘Samuel’s Dance’. Read more

It’s Not What You Think - Abridged

By: Chris Evans

Narrated by: Chris Evans

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived – just about – to tell the tale… Chris Evans’s extraordinary career has seen him become one of the country’s most successful broadcasters and producers. From The Big Breakfast to Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush and TFI Friday, Chris changed the TV... Read more

Who Killed Hollywood?

By: Peter Bart

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this passionate love-hate letter to the film industry, Peter Bart pulls together his best columns from Variety and GQ, outlining in detail the history and inner workings of Hollywood. In story after story, Bart shows how the major studios have diverted their energies away from production of the shrewdly crafted pictures that once made the... Read more

Strange Things Happen

By: Stewart Copeland

Narrated by: Stewart Copeland

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“An excellent read.” —St. Petersburg Times “An often hilarious, always candid and astutely observed memoir chronicling a life observed, largely, from the vantage point of a drum throne.”—Buffalo News Rock legend Stewart Copeland, drummer for seminal pop trio The Police, shares his stories from before, during, and after his days with Sting and... Read more

The Hollywood Studios

By: Ethan Mordden

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Hollywood in the years between 1929 and 1948 was a town of moviemaking empires. The great studios were estates of talent: sprawling, dense, diverse. It was the Golden Age of the Movies, and each studio made its distinctive contribution. But how did the studios, “growing up” in the same time and place, develop so differently? What combinations of... Read more

Making Movies

By: Sidney Lumet

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the greatest directors of all time, Sidney Lumet has made movies that have been nominated for more than 50 Academy Awards. Making Movies is an honest and unflinching look at the business and craft of movie making. Lumet's book reveals the ingredients for the potion that brings movie magic to life and assures one thing: you will never look... Read more

The Dude Abides

By: Cathleen Falsani

Narrated by: Allen Secher

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of the eccentric and edgy films of the Coen brothers know there's more going on in their films than meets the eye. Award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani is the perfect guide for Coen fans, inviting them to take a deeper look at the popular films, from their debut Blood Simple to the recent Burn After Reading and all the... Read more

Poetry: Medicine For The Soul

By: Kim Rosen, MFA

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how poetry gives us solace in our darkest hours and lifts our spirits, with Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words. As you listen to Ms. Rosen recite her own favorite passages, you’ll feel a shamanic power speaking to your unconscious at a level beyond where any mere words can reach. Read more

Halfway To Hollywood - Abridged

By: Michael Palin

Narrated by: Michael Palin

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life, culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor),... Read more

Collections of Nothing

By: William Davies King

Narrated by: Robert Pavlovich

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly everyone collects something, even those who don’t think of themselves as collectors. William Davies King, on the other hand, has devoted decades to collecting nothing—and a lot of it. With Collections of Nothing, he takes a hard look at this habitual hoarding to see what truths it can reveal about the impulse to accumulate. Part... Read more

Journey Of A Lifetime

By: Alan Whicker

Narrated by: Alan Whicker

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The iconic broadcasting legend dusts down his suitcase for a final journey around the globe, revisiting locations of significance to his life and career. "You might say I'm set in my airways. I'm one of those lucky people whose professional and private lives blend exactly."Alan Whicker, 2007 This sumptuous book to... Read more

Archives of the Centuries

By: Roberto Trujillo

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it take to create a library-in particular, a research library worthy of Stanford University? Robert Trujillo has been developing special collections at Stanford for more than three decades. In this interview he shares the fascinating story of how the vast literary resources we rely on are generated. Read more

New Meaning to "Playtime"

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Arts education is typically not a staple of some heartland communities, so for nearly 40 years the Missoula Children's Theatre has been giving disadvantaged children an opportunity to discover their inner thespian. Jeffrey Brown reports. Read more

Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: John Gielgud & Ralph Richardson

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries—twelve timeless classics performed as radio theater, linked by violin music interludes.

The great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street, with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companion, Dr. Watson, and Orson Welles as the nefarious... Read more

One Less Bitter Actor

By: Markus Flanagan

Narrated by: Markus Flanagan

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing is more frustrating than talent unrealized, and every actor struggles with bitterness when they aren't working to their full potential. One Less Bitter Actor offers sage, pragmatic, anxiety-calming advice on how to succeed in acting from one who has. Markus Flanagan offers encouraging, highly useful pointers on such vital matters as: Read more

Torchwood The Sin Eaters

By: Brian Minchin

Narrated by: Gareth David-Lloyd

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Searching for the source of a bizarre Rift reading, Gwen, Jack and Ianto find a corpse on the beach, his face covered in hundreds of tiny cuts. Watching from the shadows is a man in black... The Reverend Hayward thinks he has found a way to take away people’s sins. The trouble is his special baptisms tend to take away their lives, too, for the... Read more

Lukas' Tagebuch - Live

By: Jan Böhmermann

Narrated by: Jan Böhmermann

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Jan Böhmermann, erzählt anhand der geheimen Lukas-Tagebücher den raketenhaften Aufstieg von Lukas: Vom Bankdrücker bei den Bayern über den Nationalmannschaftsliebling und Ballack-Klatscher bis hin zum Retter des 1. FC Köln - nur in Lukas' Tagebuch steht, wie es wirklich war! Wegen seiner Quatschserie Lukas' Tagebuch wurde Jan Böhmermann... Read more

Lynn Nottage: Ruined

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Playwright Lynn Nottage talks to Jeffrey Brown about her Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Ruined, set during Congo's civil war. Read more

Theater Sprouted From Garage

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Arlington, Virginia's Signature Theater won a 2009 Tony Award as one of the nation's best regional theaters. Jeffrey Brown explores the theater's history and humble beginnings. Read more

Traveller

By: Michael Katakis

Narrated by: Michael Katakis

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"How could I have known then with no maps acquired and my bags not yet packed that my journey had already begun? ...The tools of a traveler are compass and map. They calculate distances covered and destinations sought but cannot measure the consequences of experiences on a human heart," writes Michael Katakis in his introduction.

Traveller is... Read more

Just William's Luck

By: Richmal Crompton

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this full-length Just William novel, William and the Outlaws decide to form the Knights of the Square Table, 'rightin' wrongs' for a minor fee ('Small wrongs: sixpence. Big wrongs: one shillin'.) In their quest to earn enough money to become tramps, they stop at no amount of do-gooding, embarking on a plan to marry off their older brothers.... Read more

When the Silver Screen Shines With Truth

By: Dorothy Fadiman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From her first documentary about the light of spirit in every faith, Ms. Fadiman has dedicated her work to shedding light on provocative and touching stories of social justice, human rights, personal tragedy, and triumph. Read more