Performance audiobooks

Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collection: Volume One

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Carl Bernard, Full Cast & Hugh Morton

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Three complete radio dramas featuring writer-cum-amateur detective Paul Temple, plus bonus archive material. When it comes to classic crime partnerships, Paul Temple and his wife Steve are the crème de la crème. Between 1938 and 1968 their glamorous exploits enthralled generations of radio listeners around the world. Here, presented in... Read more

American Buffalo

By: David Mamet

Narrated by: Rich Hutchman, Josh Stamberg & Maurice Williams

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

David Mamet’s gift for storytelling and forging poetry from both the plain-spoken and profane turns an ill-conceived scheme to steal a rare coin into a triumph of dramatic art. In a junk shop, three men of different generations plan their heist. But their fates, like the nickel’s worn image of the beleaguered buffalo, may have been sealed long... Read more

Remembrance

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen years after the release of the first Mediator novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot returns with a deliciously sexy new entry to a fan-favorite series. Suze Simon—all grown up and engaged to her once-ghostly soulmate—faces a vengeful spirit and an old enemy bent on ending Suze's wedded bliss before it begins.You can take... Read more

Our Miss Brooks, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Our Miss Brooks was a situation comedy show heard on radio and seen on television and films starring Oscar winner Eve Arden. Her skill with the wicked one-liner and acid aside had begun to lead to typecasting so, to find a new image, Arden signed on for the lead in radio’s Our Miss Brooks. The series centered on Connie Brooks, a smart,... Read more

Murder at Midnight, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Raymond Morgan & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Produced in New York, Murder at Midnight came to ABC Radio in September of 1946 and featured horror stories with supernatural twists. Raymond Morgan, a former Long Island minister who had left the cloth for the excitement of radio, was the foreboding host who each week uttered the lines: “Midnight, the witching hour when the night is darkest,... Read more

Mr. & Mrs. North, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, Mr. & Mrs. North were fictional amateur detectives appearing in novels, motion pictures, radio, and television. The Norths were not professional detectives, but simply a well-to-do New York couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week and felt compelled to solve the crimes. A 1942 MGM movie... Read more

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection contains twelve amazing detective adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective genius, Sherlock Holmes, first came to NBC radio in 1930, starring Richard Gordon. By 1939, Basil Rathbone took over as Holmes, with Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. The duo were simultaneously... Read more

Rocky Fortune, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Frank Sinatra, Barney Phillips & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve adventure-packed episodes of the radio drama Rocky Fortune.This 1953 radio adventure series stars Frank Sinatra as Rocco Fortunato, a.k.a. Rocky Fortune, a footloose and fancy-free young man of several talents. In constant need of employment, Rocky accepts odd jobs from the Gridley Employment Agency—jobs that typically lead him... Read more

PIGmalion - Abridged

By: Mark Dunn

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast production inspired by Pygmalion, Shaw’s classic drawing room tale of language and class division, and its musical incarnation, My Fair LadyPIGmalion tells the story of one Eliza Doolittle, who sells homemade pork rinds at the Tri-Counties Fair and Livestock Show. The daughter of a hardscrabble Mississippi pig farmer, Eliza dreams of... Read more

A Hero’s Journey

By: Play arrangements by Mark Richard & poems and p...

Narrated by: John Mahoney & Kelly Nespor

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

An adaptation of the prose & poetry of author Raymond Carver and his wife Tess Gallagher.
The story chronicles the final year of Carver’s life when he was struggling to finish his final book. This two-person play is a co-production with Chicago’s City Lit Theater. Read more

Donny’s Brain

By: Rona Munro

Narrated by: Paul Fox, Jared Harris, Siobhán Hewlett, Moira ...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The acclaimed Scottish playwright Rona Munro has created a remarkable story about a man who wakes up from a car crash with brain damage. Now, he sees the world as the person he was three years ago, when his life and loves were in a very different place.

This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays.... Read more

Judgment at Nuremberg

By: Abby Mann

Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson, Michael Canavan, Jake Gr...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Abby Mann's classic story about the Nuremberg trials, under which German leaders were found guilty of crimes against humanity in 1945 and 1946. Even today, the play remains a shattering indictment of the consequences of unchecked authority and the seductive power of group thought.

Includes an audience talkback with Judge Bruce Einhorn, who served... Read more

Donny's Brain

By: Rona Munro

Narrated by: Paul Fox, Jared Harris, Siobhán Hewlett, Moira ...

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The acclaimed Scottish playwright Rona Munro has created a remarkable story about a man who wakes up from a car crash with brain damage. Now, he sees the world as the person he was three years ago, when his life and loves were in a very different place.

This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays.... Read more

Steel Magnolias

By: Robert Harling

Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Jeanie Hackett, Shannon Holt, A...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Within the walls of Truvy’s beauty shop are six women whose lives increasingly hinge on the existence of one another. Together, they absorb the passing seasons, just like the weathered wooden structure of the salon “home” that they share.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring
Frances Fisher, Jeanie Hackett, Shannon Holt,
Amy Pietz,... Read more

Stuck Behind Bars, A Writer Found A Way To Connect To The World

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Reginald Dwayne Betts grew up an honor student with hopes for college, but went to prison at 16 for carjacking, his first run-in with the law. Reading, and poetry in particular, became a comfort and gave him a new identity. The writer, who is now a law student and a prison reform advocate, sits down with Jeffrey Brown to discuss his work and his... Read more

Poetry Helps Youth At A Juvenile Detention Center Find Peace

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy aims to help troubled youths in Chicago’s Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center address their personal issues by writing poetry about their circumstances and upbringing. Jeffrey Brown talks with poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, who turned around his life with writing and education after eight and a half... Read more

This Sceptred Isle Collection 2: 1702 - 1901

By: Christopher Lee

Narrated by: Anna Massey, Peter Jeffrey, Brett Usher, Denys ...

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The final five volumes from the landmark BBC radio series This Sceptred Isle.

Christopher Lee's epic history tells the story of Britain from the Romans to the death of Victoria. This collection includes the original volumes 6-10:

1702-1760: The First British EmpireThe reign of George I; Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, and the... Read more

Best quotes by William Shakespeare

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's best dramatist. His plays have been translated into every major language, and are the most performed ever. His work contains stunningly modern insight, witty jokes and soaring passion; it is an endless source of amazement and inspiration. We have selected for... Read more

The Cid, a Spanish hero

By: JM Gardner

Narrated by: Jonathan Waite

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

It is as great an offence against a child to starve his mind as to starve his body. The Astorg Audiobook collection means to bring together the fairy tales, stories, myths and legends which have fed the children of many generations in the years when the imagination is awakening and craving stimulus and material to work upon. These two stories... Read more

Hamlet - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast Production

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hamlet is one of the great classics, if not the greatest, of English drama. Set in Denmark, the play recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. Read more

Othello - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast Production

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The plot revolves around four characters: Othello, a Moor general in the Venetian army, his wife, Desdemona, his lieutenant, Cassio, and his most trusted advisor Iago. Because of its diverse subject, namely love, jealousy, racism and betrayal, Othello remains relevant and valid even today. Read more

Have Gun—Will Travel, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: John Dehner & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Have Gun—Will Travel follows the adventures of Paladin, a soldier of fortune turned hired gunfighter, played by John Dehner. Paladin prefers to settle problems without violence, yet when forced to fight, he excels.It’s 1875, and Paladin lives at the swanky Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, where he dresses in formal wear, eats gourmet food,... Read more

Much Ado About Nothing - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast Production

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Much Ado is a romantic comedy that revolves around obstacles presented to two young lovers as well as a "merry war" of the sexes. Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Gerald Mohr & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Raymond Chandler’s celebrated hard-boiled 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 brought the character to the air in his own weekly series starring Van Heflin, The New Adventures of Philip Marlowe. A summer replacement for The Bob Hope... Read more