Art audiobooks

Grausamer Spass? - Abridged

By: Karl-Josef Kuschel

Narrated by: Karl-Josef Kuschel & Heinz Dieter Assmann

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein erfolgreiches, kämpferisches Leben hatte er gelebt, Heinrich Heine, der 1831 unter dem Eindruck einer neuen Revolution nach Paris gegangen war. Große Visionen von einer Erneuerung der Menschheit im Geist der Freiheit und der Schönheit hatte er entworfen: die Menschen als Götter. Den "Himmel" hatte er "den Engeln und den Spatzen" überlassen... Read more

Francisco de Goya - Abridged

By: Richard Muther

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Goyas Schaffen klingen alle Melodien seines Zeitalters zu einem wilden Potpourri zusammen. Er war in den Kämpfen der Epoche Mittel- und Brennpunkt. Als Harlekin mit der Schellenkappe folgt er dem Leichenzuge der alten aristokratischen Gesellschaft. Als großer Agitator sucht er ein neues Weltalter vorzubereiten, und als Pessimist, an allem... Read more

Talent Springs Eternal - Abridged

By: David De Silva

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Talent Springs Eternal takes place in and around LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City, where alumni and friends are planning the twentieth reunion of the class of 1984. The “spirits” of Michael Peters (class of 1966) and Carmen Diaz (class of 1984) appear and observe what is happening at the school, which... Read more

The Goodbye Girl - Abridged

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: Ellis Greer, Anna Mathias, Matthew Floyd Miller...

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this unique audio adaptation of Neil Simon’s screenplay, Paula McFadden’s a down-on-her-luck actress who’s forced to take in a new roommate – the eccentric, noisy, and generally unpleasant Eliot Garfield– who also happens to be an actor. As their careers and finances hit new lows, their reluctant partnership threatens to turn into something... Read more

Theater-Tondokumente - Abridged

By: Georg Büchner, Jean Giraudoux, Friedrich Dürren...

Narrated by: Ernie Wilhelmi, Theo Lingen, Hans Quest, Hans-C...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hans-Christian Blech und Ernie Wilhelmi, haben ihren festen Platz in der deutschen Theatergeschichte nach 1945. Für das Hörbuch wurden alle verfügbaren Theater-Tondokumente mit Hans-Christian Blech und Ernie Wilhelmi aus den 50er und 60er Jahren zusammengestellt: 1. Der Tod des Handlungsreisenden (Schweikart,1950) 2. Intermezzo... Read more

The City on the Edge of Forever - Abridged

By: Harlan Ellison

Narrated by: Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir, LeVar Burton...

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison, The City on the Edge of Forever has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an “eviscerated” version—which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series’ history. In its original form, The City... Read more

The Youth of Old Age - Abridged

By: Stuart Price

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wickedly acerbic, The Youth of Old Age shows acclaimed British actor Prunella Scales at her dragon-tongued best. As the story’s matriarch, she’s determined to prevent her heir from marrying “out of sorts.”Written and directed by award-winning Stuart Price, you’d be mad not to listen to this wicked comedy. Read more

The Beginners Guide to Growing Organic Mushrooms - Abridged

By: Elia Friedenthal

Narrated by: Peter Seymour

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

How do you grow organic mushrooms at home?Is it cheaper to grow your own mushrooms?How do you grow healthy mushrooms?THE PROCESS OF GROWING MUSHROOMS IS VERY DIFFERENT THAN GROWING OTHER VEGGIES AND FRUITS.Other vegetables and fruits require a lot of sunlight but mushrooms are totally opposite. If they get light, they will die and if other... Read more

2010: Space Commander! - Abridged

By: Stuart Price

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since our bodies cannot genuinely explore space, why not get rid of them?Without wanting to trot out the already tired clichés about social networking sites being our main interaction, or point out that with gaming systems becoming so sophisticated the next generation will spend an overwhelming amount of time interacting through the Internet, it... Read more

Spook Squad - Abridged

By: Jim Spiers

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This radio show is from The Wireless Theatre Company Collection, Vol. 1.In this hilarious British comedy, a mismatched bunch of oddballs and geeks, along with a borderline-psychotic television presenter, venture to a haunted inn in England to record the first-ever episode of Spook Squad—a groundbreaking television show investigating the bizarre,... Read more

Dream On - Abridged

By: Paul Ekert

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This radio show is from The Wireless Theatre Company Collection, Vol. 1.Robert is having a dream about his late wife. The next night, there she is again, hauntingly familiar in the full personification of her monstrous personality. His current wife is not amused with his nocturnal flirtation with the past.As dreams and reality begin to overlap,... Read more

The Wireless Theatre Collection, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: the Wireless Theatre Company, Stuart Price & Pa...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The award-winning and critically acclaimed Wireless Theatre Company strives to keep radio theater alive and well. From the hilarious to the terrifying, this diverse collection features ten Wireless Theatre productions in a single volume:Spook Squad by Jim Spiers, directed by Jack Bowman2010: Space Commander! by Stuart Price, directed by David... Read more

Phonophobia - Abridged

By: Jack Bowman & Robert Valentine

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Blighted by phonophobia, a history student takes refuge from the London din in a quiet bookshop off Charing Cross Road. There he makes a chance discovery: an old scrap of paper hidden in a dusty book. On that scrap is a code hiding a lost musical score—the last work of the evil Anton Valderberg Drache! With Halloween approaching, the student... Read more

Medusa on the Beach - Abridged

By: Marty Ross

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Biddlecombe is a perfectly ordinary English seaside town—except everyone there has been turned to stone.Two seriously out-of-their-depth police officers uncover the strange truth of what happened when middle-aged and romantically disappointed hairdresser Marjorie Briggs finds something in a polythene bag on the beach that didn’t belong... Read more

Angels in the Dark - Abridged

By: Susan Casanove

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Roger Benezoscee is the worst boss you’ve ever had. What could possibly force this obnoxious, egotistical old megalomaniac to change his ways? Nothing short of a Damascene conversion.This innovative mystery stars Kim Durham (Matt Crawford in The Archers). Fans of anagrams may ponder the significance of the character names: Roger Benezoscee, Cath... Read more

Radio Hoohah - Abridged

By: Octavia MacKenzie & Ashley McGuire

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A hilarious BBC Radio Four spoof from Octavia MacKenzie and Ashley McGuireToday on Radio Hoohah:In My Mind delves into the thoughts of Leonora Velvety Constable-Wheeler and her passion for pugs, Shakespeare, and taking her clothes off when she totally doesn’t realize it.Popular soap opera The Burgers has a few surprises in store when Mrs. White... Read more

Devon Girl - Abridged

By: Zalie Burrow

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Have you ever wondered what life would be like as a young woman running a farm? Sally Anne Criplett is just that girl.Living with her mole-obsessed, gun-happy, cider-drinking father, Sally has her work cut out. But with the love of local farm boy Johnny Hutchins and their mutual passion for Elvis and farm machinery, life can be full of... Read more

Brave New World - Abridged

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Full Cast, Jonathan Coy, Justin S...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Aldous Huxley's classic dystopian novel
It's 2116, and Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are token rebels in an irretrievably corrupted society where promiscuity is the norm, eugenics a respectable science, and morality turned upside down. There is no poverty, crime or sickness - but no... Read more

The Aldrich Family, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Bobby Ellis & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Aldrich Family was a popular situation comedy that was heard on radio and seen in films, on television, and in comic books. Teenager Henry Aldrich, the creation of playwright Clifford Goldsmith, was an endearingly bumbling kid growing awkwardly into adolescence. Episodes revolved around Henry’s misadventures with girls, his family, and his... Read more

The CBS Radio Workshop, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: various authors

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The CBS Radio Workshop regularly featured the works of the world’s greatest writers, including Ray Bradbury, Archibald MacLeish, William Saroyan, Lord Dunsany, and Ambrose Bierce, among others. The radio series aired from January 27, 1956, through September 22, 1957, and was a revival of the prestigious Columbia Workshop from the 1930s and... Read more

The Black Museum, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve episodes of the classic mystery radio show, The Black Museum.The Black Museum was a weekly radio crime drama produced for the BBC in 1951 and based on real-life cases from the files of Scotland Yard. Orson Welles, who was living in London at the time, was both host and narrator for these dramatized stories based on Scotland... Read more

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

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve episodes from the greatest detective shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio, with the legendary stars that made them great. You’ll hear Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson, Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolfe, Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Chester Morris as Boston Blackie, Dick Powell as... Read more

Box 13, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Alan Ladd, Sylvia Picker & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Movie star Alan Ladd played Dan Holiday, a former newspaperman turned mystery novelist and adventurer. To gain ideas for his books, Holiday placed an ad in the Star-Times newspaper: “Adventure wanted—will go anywhere, do anything—write Box 13, Star-Times.” It wasn’t long before his post office box became jammed with adventure offers galore. The... Read more

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Abridged

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Full Cast, John Dougall & Stuart McQuarrie

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. At its heart is an enigma: what is the strange connection between the apparently unrelated Dr Henry Jekyll and Mr Edward Hyde? A battle between good and evil is played out in Victorian London, and its origins are stranger than anyone could imagine.... Read more