Art audiobooks

Alfred Kerr - Briefe aus der Reichshauptstadt - Abridged

By: die Gehörgäng & Martin Freitag

Narrated by: Thomas Schendel

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zwischen 1895 und 1900 schrieb Alfred Kerr, der junge Autor und angehende prominente Kritiker Woche für Woche an die "Breslauer Zeitung" seine Berliner Briefe. Sie sind ein großartiger Weltstadt-Report, Liebeserklärung und Kritik in einem."  Vorwort zur Buchausgabe "Wo liegt Berlin?" Briefe aus der Reichshauptstadt", Herausgeber Günther Rühle,... Read more

The Story of Dr. Kildare, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Convinced they could build on the success of the already released motion-picture series, MGM Studios hired Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore to reprise their screen roles as Dr. James Kildare and Dr. Leonard Gillespie in a syndicated radio series. Kildare was the compassionate, caring physician at Blair General Hospital, New York City; Gillespie a... Read more

The Spirit of Christmas Day - Abridged

By: George Zarr

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

In this uplifting and humorous story, John, a stressed-out working father, embarks on a journey to reconnect with the true meaning of today’s Christmas.This full-cast dramatization features vivid sound effects that set each scene, accompanied by unforgettable original music. Filled with an inspirational message of hope, The Spirit of Christmas... Read more

Boston Blackie, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Boston Blackie—the amateur detective who was the enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend!Created by author Jack Boyle, Boston Blackie was a reformed jewel thief and safecracker, constantly suspected of crimes he did not commit and forced to play the role of detective to clear his name. His girlfriend, Mary... Read more

Mallets Aforethought - Abridged

By: Jeff Ward & Doug Bost

Narrated by: Jeff Ward, Doug Bost & a full cast

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mallets AforethoughtTwo aging croquet champions finally meet their match at a high-stakes tournament on the Maine coast.Script: Doug BostProduction: Union SignalCast:James S. BostMadge BostDoug BostUnion Signal is Jeff Ward and Doug Bost. From their ruined garage, they’ve been producing radio plays that have been broadcast on National Public... Read more

A Study in Wax - Abridged

By: Doug Bost & Jeff Ward

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Study in WaxFrom the classic script by Antony Ellis. Two men at an arctic station find out how deadly it can be to listen to somebody else’s music all winter long. Script: Antony EllisProduction: Union SignalMusic: S.A.M.Cast:Doug BostJeff WardMort MilderUnion Signal is Jeff Ward and Doug Bost. From their ruined garage, they’ve been producing... Read more

Dorcus - Abridged

By: Jeff Ward & Doug Bost

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

DorcusA Speculation for Public Radio. Dorcus profiles a young surgeon who makes a giant difference for her tiny patients.Script: Jeff WardProduction: Union SignalCast:Josh WeinsteinJeff WardCarolyn BaeumlerBibb BaileyDanton StoneJerry GerberUnion Signal is Jeff Ward and Doug Bost. From their ruined garage, they’ve been producing radio plays that... Read more

SpaceGirl - Abridged

By: Brian Price & Jerry Stearns

Narrated by: a full cast, David Ossman, Richard Fish, Melind...

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast comedy production from the Great Northern Audio TheatreLinda Kim Shelmerdine discovered her considerable powers during her hormonal years (the Sun was having similar problems then). But she read the superheroes’ guide books, and her years in 4-H helped too.Now fifty-nine, SpaceGirl is somewhat disillusioned with the way superheroism... Read more

Georgia and the Bad Idea - Abridged

By: Doug Bost & Jeff Ward

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Georgia and the Bad IdeaGeorgia finds some new friends to trick-or-treat with on Halloween. But their scary costumes might be real. Recorded live on WBAI-FM, New York.Script: Jeff WardProduction: Union SignalArtwork: Jimmy Dean HornCast:Carolyn BaeumlerMatt HarringtonPriscilla HolbrookDoug BostSusan MicariJeff WardFloraine KayMary MicariAmy... Read more

Roadkill - Abridged

By: Jeff Ward & Doug Bost

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

RoadkillA driver picks up a hitch-hiker on a dark stretch of highway in the Badlands and starts a cat-and-mouse game to reveal the identity of an escaped killer.Script: Doug BostProduction: Union SignalArtwork: Jimmy Dean HornCast:Doug BostJeff WardKJ SanchezKen MunchChris HatfieldUnion Signal is Jeff Ward and Doug Bost. From their ruined... Read more

October Surprise - Abridged

By: Doug Bost & Jeff Ward

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

October SurpriseA Speculation for Public Radio. October Surprise is the tale of a murderer whose career in mayhem can’t be stopped, even by his own death.Script: Jeff WardProduction: Union SignalCast:Josh WeinsteinDoug BostJeff WardElisa DeCarloMary MicariKevin MaherDoug TyskUnion Signal is Jeff Ward and Doug Bost. From their ruined garage,... Read more

Solid State University - Abridged

By: Jerry Stearns

Narrated by: Jerry Stearns, Dan Coffey, Dave Moore, Sarah ...

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast comedy production by the Great Northern Audio TheatreWhat if computers ran colleges and nobody came to class? This 1993 mockumentry was so far ahead of its time, it has already happened. The droll documentary style would make Christopher Guest proud. Read more

Tumbleweed Roundup - Abridged

By: Brian Price & Jerry Stearns

Narrated by: Jerry Stearns, Damiian Mariio Lang, Thea Alexa...

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast comedy production by the Great Northern Audio TheatreMack Brown remembers all those old Tumbleweed Roundup movies he saw as a kid and wonders what happened to them; they don’t show up on late-night television or in video stores anymore. Driven by nostalgia, he begins to search for the missing films.As he hunts down this elusive piece... Read more

Permafrost, MN - Abridged

By: Brian Price & Jerry Stearns

Narrated by: Irene Ruderman, Donna Alexander & a full cast

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Permafrost is an unincorporated (and entirely concocted) town on the logging road, off the gravel road, off the county road from Big Falls, in Koochiching County, Minnesota. It went into the unusually hard winter of 1887–88 and never came out. Oh, it isn’t frozen in time, it’s just frozen.There is what is called a “microclimate” around... Read more

Night Beat, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & NBC Radio

Narrated by: Frank Lovejoy & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There were several newspaper-based dramas during radio’s golden age, including Box 13, Let George Do It, and Casey, Crime Photographer, but Night Beat was a cut above. It was the story of Randy Stone, hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman, and his quest for the human-interest story behind the headlines. It starred Frank Lovejoy as Stone, who came to... Read more

The Great Northern Audio Theatre Collection - Abridged

By: Jerry Stearns & Brian Price

Narrated by: David Ossman, Phil Proctor & a full cast

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Great Northern Audio Theatre creates its own unique brand of lighthearted, whimsical, and comic original stories that evoke the inventiveness of Firesign Theatre and the sophistication of golden-age radio producer, Norman Corwin. This ultimate collection features eighteen stand-alone satires and comedies, many of which were performed before... Read more

The New Adventures of Michael Shayne, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jeff Chandler & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Michael Shayne, “the reckless, red-headed Irishman,” was a popular hard-boiled detective created by crime novelist Brett Halliday. Mike settled in New Orleans just after World War II, making crime pay by fighting it with a license and an attitude.Like Mike Hammer and Philip Marlowe, Shayne is a loner. Once happily married, Mike is devastated... 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 New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Sydney Greenstreet & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Created in 1934 by American mystery author Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe is one of the most iconic private investigators in crime fiction. As Watson did for Holmes, Archie Goodwin, Wolfe’s confidential assistant, narrates the cases of the detective genius. Wolfe was an armchair detective who rarely left his luxurious brownstone in New York, so Archie... Read more

Box 13, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Alan Ladd

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Movie star Alan Ladd played Dan Holiday, retired newspaperman turned fiction writer and adventurer extraordinaire. To gain ideas for his books, Holiday placed an ad in the Star-Times newspaper: “Adventure wanted—will go anywhere, do anything—Box 13.” It wasn’t long before his Box 13 became jammed with adventures galore.Holiday always had more... Read more

Crime Classics, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Lou Merrill & others

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crime Classics was a true-crime radio docudrama that aired on CBS from June 1953 to June 1954. Created, produced, and directed by Elliott Lewis, the program examined crimes and murders throughout history. Founded in Lewis' own personal interest in famous murder cases, the program meticulously recreated the facts, atmosphere, and personages of... Read more

The Whistler, Vol. 4 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I am the Whistler and I know many things, for I walk by night … many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak!The Whistler was one of radio’s top mystery programs, airing from May 16, 1942, until September 22, 1955. Airing on CBS radio and... Read more

EL VIAJE A ORIÓN - Abridged

By: Ricardo Quintana

Narrated by: Ricardo Quintana

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Demócrito y Tutmosis tienen una amistad entrañable, de esas amistades ampliamente honestas y respetuosas, sin reservas, que trascienden al tiempo, a las circunstancias e incluso a otras vidas u otras dimensiones. Ambos comparten pensamientos en común y largas horas de debate y aprendizaje sobre la vida, la evolución, la energía y el trabajo... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Science Fiction Shows, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection contains thirteen of the greatest science fiction shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio—including two episodes each of Dimension X, CBS Radio Workshop, and X Minus One, plus three episodes of Suspense and Escape. Radio’s finest actors perform before the microphones, including William Conrad, Parley Baer, Joseph... Read more