Art audiobooks

Philistines at the Hedgerow - Abridged

By: Steven Gaines

Narrated by: Steven Gaines

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author Steven Gaines's "richly entertaining" (People) and juicy social history of the Hamptons.

As one of America's most fabled communities--long a magnet for artists, celebrities, the very rich, and their respective hangers-on--the Hamptons have been a scene of constant collision among the established old guard, New Money, and the... Read more

My Gorgeous Life - Abridged

By: Dame Everage

Narrated by: Dame Edna Everage

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dame Edna Everage, housewife and megastar— not to mention investigative journalist, social anthropologist, swami, and chanteuse— recounts her life and times. From her humble beginnings in the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds to her marriage to Lord Norm Everage and her subsequent rise to megastardom, Everage recalls the... Read more

New Rules - Abridged

By: Bill Maher

Narrated by: Bill Maher

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bill Maher first came to national attention as the host of the hit program Politically Incorrect, in which he offered a combustible mixture of irreverence and acerbic humor that garnered him a loyal following. In his popular and long-running HBO television show, Real Time with Bill Maher, his reputation for being a hilarious provocateur... Read more

Casey, Crime Photographer, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Staats Cotsworth & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the March 1934 issue of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask, Jack "Flashgun" Casey, crime photographer, made his debut. His creator was former newspaper and advertising executive George Harmon Coxe Jr., who wrote more than sixty crime fiction novels in his lifetime. Casey's keen eye for detail served him well on the job, helping him to... Read more

The Amos ’n’ Andy Show, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve more episodes of the antics of Amos, Andy, and the Kingfish, along with guest stars, including Jack Benny, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, and “Wizard of Oz” Frank Morgan.Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll made their radio debut on January 12, 1926, as the comedic blackface characters Sam ’n’ Henry. On March 19, 1928, they introduced... Read more

The Cisco Kid, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jack Mather, Harry Lang & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy twelve half-hour episodes of the Western adventures of the Cisco Kid and his sidekick Pancho from the popular radio series of the 1940s and ’50s.The Cisco Kid was a popular film, radio, television, and comic-book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his short story, “The Caballero’s Way,” published in 1907... Read more

Brahms - Crianças Famosas - Abridged

By: Ann Rachlin

Narrated by: Kely Rodrigues

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nesta obra, é apresentada a infância de Brahms, um compositor ilustre e que possuía uma característica muito importante para desenvolver o seu talento: uma ótima audição. Com influência clara de Beethoven, tornou-se uma das mais importantes figuras do romantismo musical europeu do século 19. Os maiores gênios da história já foram criança um dia... Read more

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

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Basil Rathbone, Humphrey Bogart & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection contains twelve of the greatest mystery shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio, featuring the legendary stars that made them great.You will hear Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, Joan Fontaine, and other stars in classic radio episodes from such radio shows as Suspense, Escape,... Read more

Introduction to Consent Culture and Teen Films - Abridged

By: Michele Meek

Narrated by: Michele Meek

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy audio of the introduction to the book Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in Teen Films read to you by the author.Teen films of the 1980s were notorious for treating consent as irrelevant with scenes of boys spying in girls' locker rooms and tricking girls into sex. Contemporary movies, on the other hand, now routinely... Read more

Beethoven - Crianças Famosas - Abridged

By: Ann Rachelin

Narrated by: Kely Rodrigues & Helena B. Gomes Klimes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Os maiores gênios da história já foram criança um dia e por meio desta série queremos convidar você a descobrir seus próprios talentos. E para isso você não precisa se identificar com um ou outro. Você pode construir seu próprio repertório de referências e inspirações. A vida desses grandes artistas foi marcada por muito amor ao seu ofício e... Read more

The Old Cart Wrangler’s Saga - Abridged

By: Brian Price

Narrated by: David Ossman

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

We’ve all seen that lone shopping cart sitting on the edge of a parking lot. Who goes and gets it and brings it home? The cart wrangler, of course.Brimming with easy humor, fantasy, and wisdom, David Ossman—of Firesign Theatre fame—gives the performance of a lifetime in this theatrical full-length monologue backed by a crack Kansas City jazz... Read more

Gasping for Airtime - Abridged

By: Jay Mohr

Narrated by: Jay Mohr

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A hilarious look at what life was really like inside Saturday Night Live

When 21-year old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling,... Read more

Night Beat, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & NBC Radio

Narrated by: Frank Lovejoy & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This radio drama stars Frank Lovejoy in twelve half-hour episodes that aired in 1950, during the golden age of radio.Among several newspaper-based dramas during radio’s golden age, Night Beat was a cut above the others. It was the story of Randy Stone, a hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman, and his quest for the human-interest story behind the... Read more

Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: Paul McGrath, Boris Karloff & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Every week, Inner Sanctum Mysteries told a story of ghosts, murderers, and lunatics. Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBC radio’s Blue Network in January 1941 and featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history as an organist hit a dissonant chord, a... Read more

Duffy’s Tavern, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Ed Gardner & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Duffy’s Tavern was a radio comedy series featuring tavern manager Archie, his get-rich-quick schemes, and his well-known guest stars.The familiar opening song “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” is interrupted by the ring of a telephone and actor Ed Gardner’s New Yorkese accent as he answered, “Hello, Duffy’s Tavern, where the elite meet to eat.... Read more

Dimension X, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers & Norman Rose

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Adventures in time and space … told in future tense…” was famous narrator Norman Rose’s opening to the radio show with some of radio’s earliest science fiction, adapted from masters of the genre.Dimension X was one of radio’s first adult science fiction series and made its mark by adapting short stories by acknowledged masters in the field,... Read more

Simon Studio Presents: The Portrait - Abridged

By: Sarah Levine Simon

Narrated by: Roger Hendricks Simon, Cara Duff-MaCormac, Rex ...

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Portrait is a satirical comedy revolving around an upper-crust dinner party, where a family's young bohemians "duel" their snobbish elder East Side counterparts over ownership of a rich ancestral portrait. This play, written by Sarah Levine Simon, was first performed at Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium and was later broadcast in 1993... Read more

The Cavalcade of America, Collection 2 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Cavalcade of America dramatized the greatest events in American history and featured the biggest names in Hollywood!In 1935, the DuPont Company chose to enhance its image by dramatizing great events in American history to an audience of millions each week on The Cavalcade of America. “Cavalcade” is a term used to describe pioneers who shaped... Read more

Amos ’n’ Andy, Vol. 7 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll & a full cast

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll star as Amos ‘n’ Andy, in the most popular comedy show of the Golden Age of radio!On March 19, 1928, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll introduced Amos ‘n’ Andy, which went on to become one of the most popular and longest-running programs in radio history. During the height of its popularity, almost the entire... Read more

Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Collection 3 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Created by Blake Edwards (of Pink Panther fame), Richard Diamond, Private Detective came to NBC radio in 1949 starring film actor and crooner Dick Powell. Powell had recently played Philip Marlowe in the popular RKO film Murder, My Sweet and jumped at the chance to play a suave detective on radio. Richard Diamond was a light-hearted New... Read more

The Cisco Kid, Collection 2 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: Yes

Here’s adventure … here’s romance … here’s O.Henry’s Robin Hood of the old west in sixteen exciting radio adventures of … The Cisco Kid!The Cisco Kid was a popular film, radio, television, and comic book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his short story “The Caballero’s Way,” published in 1907 in the... Read more

Classic Radio Spotlights: Jack Webb - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: Jack Webb & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jack Webb (1920–1982) was a popular American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter. He started out in the entertainment industry in comedy but achieved his first success playing the title character in the radio show Pat Novak, for Hire. His greater success came from his role as Los Angeles Police Department sergeant Joe Friday... Read more

The Man Called X, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Herbert Marshall, Leon Belasco & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve exciting episodes of international intrigue from the golden age of radio.“Wherever there is mystery, adventure, intrigue, in all the strange and dangerous places in the world, there you will find the man called X!” Debonair British actor Herbert Marshall stars as FBI secret agent Ken Thurston, “the man who crosses the ocean as... Read more

Suspense, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: Cary Grant, Robert Young & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 53 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