Art audiobooks

Suspense, Vol. 6 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Suspense … Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills!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. Known as Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills it focused on... Read more

Daniel Deronda - Abridged

By: Kate McAll

Narrated by: Edita Brychta, Barry Creyton, Ifan Meredith, Ce...

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Scornful of men and the love they profess for her, Gwendolen Harleth is a beautiful but spoiled young woman, frustrated by her limited options in Victorian England. Daniel Deronda is an intelligent, handsome young man who has been raised by his guardian, Sir Hugo Mallinger, but knows nothing of his true origins. Deronda’s search leads him into... 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

My Teacher Fried My Brains - Abridged

By: Bruce Coville

Narrated by: Arye Gross

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brains are sizzling in the seventh grade...The first day of seventh grade is probably the worst day of Duncan Dougal's life. He knows that things are really bad when he finds an alien's hand in a Dumpster and then gets plugged into an alien brain fryer! Can Duncan find out which of the four new teachers in his school is an alien before his... Read more

The All New “Lum & Abner” Comic Strips - Abridged

By: Donnie Pitchford

Narrated by: Donnie Pitchford & a full cast

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lum and Abner, the classic American network radio comedy show, was created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff and aired from 1931 to 1954.Now for the first time since 1954, veteran radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua and comic strip artist Donnie Pitchford bring you one hundred new "Lum and Abner" audio comic strips! These hilarious comedy... 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 Adventures of Maisie, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Ann Sothern & a full cast

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ann Sothern stars as underemployed entertainer Maisie Ravier in a radio spin-off of the popular MGM movie series!MGM produced ten successful Maisie movies from 1939 to 1947 starring gorgeous Ann Sothern as Mary Anastasia O’Connor, a brassy but kindhearted Brooklyn burlesque dancer who went by the stage name Maisie Ravier. Along with the Andy... 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

The Life of Riley, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: William Bendix & a full cast

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Riley’s penchant for turning mere trouble into near disaster through his well-intentioned bumbling was often aided or instigated by his best friend, Jim Gillis … and radio listeners howled with laughter!Created by Irving Brecher, the popular family sitcom The Life of Riley featured the comic misadventures of Chester A. Riley, an inept... 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

Classic Radio Spotlight: Jack Benny, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast & Jack Benny

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy eight hours of classic radio episodes starring the incomparable Jack Benny, including several episodes from his regular radio series The Jack Benny Program.For over half a century, Jack Benny was one of the great comics of stage, screen, radio, and television. On his long-running radio and television programs, Benny was depicted as a miser... Read more