Art audiobooks

A Joe Bev Audio Theater Sampler, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua, Alan Reed, William Melillo, Cha...

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua, Alan Reed, William Melillo, Cha...

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Joe Bev Audio Theater Sampler, Volume 1 is an anthology representing more than forty years of storytelling by Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a Joe Bev, the award-winning actor, writer, producer, and director. Each half-hour is beautifully produced with original a cast of professional actors, sound effects, and music.Volume 1 includes: - "The Mystery of... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Detective Shows, Vol. 4 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy sixteen of the greatest detective shows from radio’s Golden Age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.The Golden Age of radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars voicing fiction’s most famous... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Shows, Vol. 4 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy sixteen of the greatest episodes from the Golden Age of radio in this collection spanning 1942 through 1960.This collection contains episodes of The Jack Benny Program, The Abbott & Costello Show, Gunsmoke, The Amos ‘N’ Andy Show, Suspense, Fibber McGee & Molly, Dragnet, Have Gun—Will Travel, and many others. Relive the best radio... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Shows, Vol. 5 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy sixteen of the greatest episodes from the Golden Age of radio in this collection spanning 1942 through 1960.This collection contains episodes of The Jack Benny Program, The Aldrich Family, Gunsmoke, Suspense, Fibber McGee & Molly, Dragnet, Have Gun—Will Travel, Mystery in the Air, The Kraft Music Hall, Escape, and many others. Relive... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Western Shows, Vol. 4 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy sixteen of the greatest western shows from radio’s Golden Age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.The Golden Age of radio had incredible western shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear western heroes catch the bad guys and save ladies in distress. This... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Western Shows, Vol. 5 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy sixteen of the greatest western shows from radio’s Golden Age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.The Golden Age of radio had incredible western shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear western heroes catch the bad guys and save ladies in distress. This... Read more

Dear Me - Abridged

By: Peter Ustinov

Narrated by: Peter Ustinov

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

Sir Peter Ustinov's beautifully crafted autobiography is told with exquisite wit and insight. From his birth in April 1921, it spans his extraordinary career as actor, playwright, film star and director, confirming his early belief that he is 'irrevocably betrothed to laughter'. Ustinov's renowned gift for mimicry is... Read more

Rembrandt van Rijn - Abridged

By: Richard Muther & Rembrandt

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Die Tragödie Rembrandt ist der erste typische Fall eines künstlerischen Märtyrertums, das mit bourgeoisen Kulturen untrennbar verwachsen scheint. Man verfolgt, wie er erst sich bemüht, die Welt zufrieden zu stellen; dann, wie er, des trocknen Tones satt, ihr voll Ingrimm den Fehdehandschuh hinwirft; wie er, des Kampfes müde, sich in sich selbst... Read more

Diego Velasquez - Abridged

By: Richard Muther & Diego Velasquez

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Velázquez malte nicht das platt auffallende, sondern das allverbreitete, allgegenwärtige Licht, das Ambiente, die Luft, die zwischen den Dingen wogt. So suggerieren seine Bilder den Eindruck einer Weite und räumlichen Tiefe, wie ihn kein früherer erreichte. Doch die Luft schafft nicht nur den Raum, sie harmonisiert auch die Farben. Bei... Read more

Leornado da Vinci - Abridged

By: Richard Muther & Leonardo da Vinci

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Leonardo da Vinci hat die Universalität des Renaissancegeistes ihren Gipfel erreicht. Nie vorher und nachher hat menschliche Begabung in so erstaunlicher Weise sich über alle Gebiete des Denkens erstreckt. Er war ein Genius, der die Malerei gar nicht als Hauptberuf, sondern als etwas Nebensächliches betrieb, der den Pinsel nur zur Hand nahm,... Read more

The Call of the Weird - Abridged

By: Louis Theroux

Narrated by: Louis Theroux

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America.

For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the... Read more

Antony and Cleopatra - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman world, has become the thrall of the fascinating Cleopatra.Affairs of state call Mark Antony to Rome, but the attractions of the queen of Egypt prove impossible to resist. From one of history’s greatest love stories Shakespeare builds this magnificent tragedy of the clash between love and... Read more

The New Old-Time Radio Hour - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua, a full cast, Lorie Kellogg, Ken...

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

OTR fans rejoice! Tired of listening to the same shows? Here are two new OTR stories, produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua. This hour of comedy was recorded before a live audience at SUNY Dutchess in Poughkeepsie, New York on March 20, 2007. Includes: Fibber McGee and Molly: "The House... Read more

The Christmas That Almost Never Was - Abridged

By: Charles Dawson Butler

Narrated by: Charles Dawson Butler, Don Messick & Marian Ric...

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is Christmas Eve at the North Pole when Santa Claus loses his "remembery" and only a child who has been good for 365 days can save Christmas! Producer Joe Bevilacqua has unearthed this vintage 1940s recording of the charming Yuletide children's radio play, written and starring Daws Butler, the voice and Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick... Read more

Johnners' It's Been A Lot Of Fun - Abridged

By: Brian Johnston

Narrated by: Brian Johnston

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Brian Johnston died in 1994 at the age of 81, the Daily Telegraph described him as ‘the greatest natural broadcaster of them all’. In this delightful reading from his autobiography 'It’s Been a Lot of Fun', Brian recalls his schooldays at Eton and Oxford, his early career in the family coffee business in the City, Hamburg and Brazil, and... Read more

Lucas Cranach - Abridged

By: Richard Muther & Lucas Cranach

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Auf dem Augsburger Reichstag 1550 trafen zwei berühmte alte Herren zusammen: der 72jährige Tizian aus Venedig und der 78jährige "ehrenfeste, hochweise und fürtreffliche Herr Lucas Cranach, Bürgermeister und Maler aus der churfürstlich Sächsischen Hauptstadt Wittenberg". Welchen Eindruck machten sie auf einander? Was sagte wohl Tizian zu dem... Read more

Meu Hino - Abridged

By: Hermes

Narrated by: Heron Eloy & Thais Artoni

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Van, um jovem estudante e poeta, se recusa a cantar o Hino Nacional Brasileiro, alegando que só canta aquilo que entende. Incentivado por seus amigos Ká e Dan, ele decide se encontrar com Abdias, um ex-roteirista que lidera um centro cultural na comunidade. Van embarca em um estágio de dois meses com o mestre Abdias para desvendar os versos do... Read more

Cultural Amnesia - Abridged

By: Clive James

Narrated by: Clive James

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James.

With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic.

'One stupendous starburst of wild brilliance' –... Read more

Deconstructing Laurel & Hardy - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua & Lorie Kellogg

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

This comedy hour combines audio from classic Laurel and Hardy movie clips with a new radio theater production in which "the boys" open a fix-it shop and recall their past failures as they handle a barrage of wacky customers.In the new moments, full of funny sound effects and music, Joe Bev voices not only Stan and Ollie but James Finlayson,... Read more

Starke Stücke. Johann Sebastian Bach. Brandenburgische Konzerte - Abridged

By: Markus Vanhoefer

Narrated by: Stefan Wilkening

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sommer 1720. Nach einem Kur-Aufenthalt in Karlsbad kehrt der 35-jährige Hofkapellmeister Johann Sebastian Bach mit seinem Dienstherrn, Fürst Leopold, nach Köthen zurück. Groß ist die Vorfreude, seine Familie endlich wieder in die Arme schließen zu können. Doch dann kommt alles anders. Fassungslos steht er am Grab seiner Frau Maria Barbara. Wird... Read more

Lettere dal Fronte: Sangue a Colbricon - Abridged

By: Lucas Pavetto

Narrated by: William Angiuli & Librinpillole

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sisto Monti Buzzetti è morto in prima linea il 9 giugno 1917, due giorni prima di compiere 21 anni. Queste sono le lettere che ha inviato dal fronte alla sua famiglia. Sono 280 in tutto: la prima è del 20 marzo 1916. L'ultima scritta il giorno prima di morire, l'8 giugno 1917. Sono lettere in cui il giovane ufficiale, all'inizio, cerca... Read more

The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua, Charles Dawson Butler & Robert ...

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua, Vernon Morris, Henry J. Quinn, ...

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Comedy and mystery are happy bedfellows in The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Veteran award-winning radio producer Joe Bevilacqua's ten-part radio theater series pays humorous homage to the classic characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are filled with sly references to the original "Canon," and even the Baker Street Irregulars and... Read more

Chicago Days / Hoboken Nights - Abridged

By: Daniel Pinkwater

Narrated by: Daniel Pinkwater

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As millions of radio listeners already know, no one has had a life quite like storyteller Daniel Pinkwater. In this comical collection of memories, Pinkwater tells of how he grew into the beloved figure he is today: a robust genius of the printed page and rotund genie of the radio. He shares a conversation with his father about art school that... 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