Performance audiobooks

Short Story Press Presents Jillian’s Days

By: Short Story Press & Tara Mitchell

Narrated by: Aida-Maria Boiesan

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"Jillian’s Days" is the story of a romance that takes several years to develop. Jillian lives with a trusted and dependable friend, Charlie. They had a unique friendship and living arrangement that was comfortable for both of them. Jillian, although happy with the arrangement, felt that one day it would end. She wanted that typical life with a... Read more

Why the rise of the electric scooter has been a bumpy ride

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It began with just 10 electric scooters in Santa Monica, California, but soon sidewalks and streets were flooded with thousands of them. Essentially skateboards with handles that can be picked up and dropped off anywhere, they've been rolled out in scores of U.S. cities, where local officials have struggled to cope and residents have mixed... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Why You

By: Short Story Press & Tara Mitchell

Narrated by: Catherine O'Connor

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“Why You” is about two seniors. One has a rough and troubled home life. The other has a strong close knit family. Collin takes charge after his girlfriend Cleo disappears for a short time. He looks for her at work and school. He goes to her home and there discovers the root of Cleo life problems. Not knowing what to do, Collin talks to his... Read more

Heinrich von Kleist / Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden / Über das Marionettentheater

By: Heinrich von Kleist

Narrated by: Richard Heinrich

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Heinrich von Kleist / Zwei Essays Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden Über das Marionettentheater gesprochen von Richard Heinrich. Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden: ist ein Aufsatz des Schriftstellers Heinrich von Kleist, der wahrscheinlich in dessen Königsberger Zeit (1805–06)... Read more

Lustige Geschichten - Abridged

By: Anton Tschechow

Narrated by: Werner Wilkening

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Anton Tschechow / Anton Chekhov Lustige Geschichten gelesen von Werner Wilkening Inhaltsverzeichnis: Eine schreckliche Nacht Der Redner Einmal im Jahr Die Nacht vor der Verhandlung Verwirrung der Geister Der Rächer seiner Ehre Ein Glücklicher Der teure Hund Der Dramatiker Der Gast Der Kater Ein Unikum Erstdruck der... Read more

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective genius, Sherlock Holmes, came to NBC radio in 1930 starring Richard Gordon. By 1939, Basil Rathbone was heard as Holmes with Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. The duo was simultaneously starring in a popular series of Sherlock Holmes features for Fox, and later for Universal. By the end of the feature run in the... Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was radio’s top detective program. Raymond Chandler's celebrated hardboiled private eye, Philip Marlowe, made his radio debut in 1945 on The Lux Radio Theatre with “Murder My Sweet” starring Dick Powell. Two years later, NBC would bring the character to the air in his own weekly series starring Van Heflin in The... Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Like its predecessor Dragnet – Tales of the Texas Rangers adapted actual police case files for its broadcasts. Leading each week’s investigation of an actual Texas Ranger case was the same Texas Ranger, Jayce Pearson, portrayed by movie star Joel McCrea. Because the stories were set in present day, Pearson used the latest scientific techniques... Read more

This festival aims to bridge the urban-rural political divide ‘in a time of rot’

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A food and arts festival in central Wisconsin has grand ambitions. “Fermentation Fest” celebrates art, farming and all things fermented. But in addition to serving up sauerkraut and kombucha, festival organizers from The Wormfarm Institute also hope it provides an opportunity for people living in urban and rural areas to connect with each other.... Read more

Stuck in a TV Time Warp

By: Lissa Rovetch

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Arizona is excited to spend the weekend at her friend's house and they have a fun list of things planned. But they get sidetracked by a TV-show marathon and end up spending a day in front of the television. Read more

Red Faced in Row 22

By: Myra Sanderman

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A series of embarrassing events occur to a boy in a dark movie theater. He has to choose between taking the easy way out or doing what is right. Read more

It’s Not What You Know: Series 1-5

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Joe Lycett & Miles Jupp

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What would Jonathan Agnew do if he wasn't a cricket commentator? Who would play Romesh Ranganathan in a film of his life? What's the naughtiest thing Sara Pascoe did as a child?

It's not what you know, but who you know that matters... and indeed, how well you know them. The show is a bit like ‘Mr and Mrs’, except that it's not played by husbands... Read more

Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme: The Complete Series 1-4

By: Tim Key

Narrated by: Tim Key & Tom Basden

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever wondered just how much of life you can understand through poetry?

Tim Key is never far from stage and screen - from Peep Show to Alpha Papa to Taskmaster. But now he's back doing what he does best - attempting to recite poetry whilst tormenting his friend and musician, the equally brilliant, and long suffering, Tom Basden.

From ruminating on... Read more

The Great Gildersleeve, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve was a popular character appearing regularly on The Fibber McGee & Molly Show. On August 31, 1941, the character landed his own situation comedy show, The Great Gildersleeve, becoming radio’s first spin-off. Gildy moved from the town of Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where he raised his orphaned niece and nephew,... Read more

For many in El Salvador, life hangs in the balance, amid fears of brutal gangs

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Extraordinary violence is among the factors pushing Central Americans north toward the U.S. In El Salvador, rival gangs like MS-13 and the 18th Street Gang kill thousands per year, despite a harsh crackdown by law enforcement. Special correspondent Danny Gold reports from San Martin on how these brutal groups control the population and drive one... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Off His Leash

By: Short Story Press & Brandon Dowless

Narrated by: Sean Posvistak

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Randall cannot remember a day in the last ten years that he has not spent beside his canine friend, Eduardo the Magnificento, or Ed. Ever since Rand found the pup nestled against a hot-water pipe, the two have been inseparable, spending countless hours together wandering through the woods on adventures, some make-believe and some real. But now,... Read more

Old Time Radio's Greatest Comedies, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The golden age of radio had incredible comedy shows that kept Americans in stitches for decades. Families gathered around their living room radios to be entertained by the greatest names in Hollywood each and every day. This collection includes Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Eve Arden as Connie Brooks on Our Miss Brooks, Jim and Marian Jordan as... Read more

Old Time Radio's Greatest Detectives, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

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 gumshoes. This collection includes Dick Kollmar starring as ‘enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no... Read more

Octavio Solis on growing up a ‘skinny brown kid' on the U.S.-Mexico border

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

As politicians spar over immigration, playwright Octavio Solis recounts his childhood as a “skinny brown kid” in El Paso in his memoir “Retablos”. Solis says that though he was in the U.S. legally, Border Patrol would ask him to recite the pledge of allegiance. Jeffrey Brown also talks with Solis about his work consulting for the Disney film... Read more

11th Hour Audio Productions Audio Anthology, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: James Comtois, Steve Schneider, Justin Mullane,...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 11th Hour Audio Anthology is a collection of eleven macabre tales created by masters of modern audio drama to haunt and terrify you.Intensive Care by James ComtoisAlex Ericson is checked into a New England Hospital after a major car accident. The more he wakes up, the more Alex realizes his condition is more critical than he could ever... Read more

Ocultando la Verdad,Una historia romántica en el Viejo Oeste

By: Kent Hamilton

Narrated by: Ernesto Tissot

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Toda relación se basa en la honestidad y la confianza.... Kathy y Paul finalmente se están adaptando a vivir juntos en Farvale. Todo parece estar bien en su pequeño hogar, sin nada que estropee su felicidad, pero Kathy lleva un secreto.Todo cambia en el momento en que Paul le cuenta a Kathy sobre su hermano menor, Daniel, quien no tiene adónde... Read more

As Europe battles over border policy, migrants flood to Spain

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Three years into the migration crisis, Europe remains as divided as ever about how to handle the influx of people arriving illegally from Africa. Spain has overtaken Italy as their main entry point, in part because of its more welcoming stance toward immigrants. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on the treacherous route migrants must... Read more

Poet Phil Kaye Remembers his Grandfather and Reimagines Traditional Masculinity

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Phil Kaye is a Japanese-American poet and filmmaker and co-director of "Project Voice," an organization that partners with schools to bring poetry into the classroom. He shares one of his poems, "Surplus," for a brief but spectacular take on his grandfather, Cheerful Al, and the limitations of "traditional masculinity." Kaye's latest book Date... Read more

Elis and John Present the Holy Vible

By: Elis James & John Robins

Narrated by: Elis James & John Robins

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

'Elis and John are my go-to place when I need a bloody good laugh. Properly funny!' Sarah Millican
Comedians Elis James and John Robins have captured the hearts and minds of a generation, and it's time those hearts and minds had a book. Or an audiobook, that not only features extra nuggets and riffs that are too hot for the printed page, but also... Read more