Performance audiobooks

The Innocence of Father Brown, Volume 3

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: The Colonial Radio Players & J.T. Turner

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest takes on bandits, traitors, and killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it. The award-winning... Read more

Everything She Forgot

By: Lisa Ballantyne

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Some things aren't meant to be remembered . . .They're calling it the worst pileup in London history. Margaret Holloway is driving home, but her mind is elsewhere—on a troubled student, her daughter's acting class, the next day's meeting—when she's rear-ended and trapped in the wreckage. Just as she begins to panic, a disfigured stranger pulls... Read more

Dead Man’s Hole - Abridged

By: Doug Bost & Jeff Ward

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dead Man’s HoleA ghost story about two fraternity pledges who must spend a night on the Maine coast and enter Thunder Hole at dawn—but they find they are not alone.Script: Doug BostProduction: Union SignalArtwork: Jimmy Dean HornMusic: IrisCast:Doug BostJeff WardSteve FarrellCarolyn BaeumlerPriscilla HolbrookStephen WicksUnion Signal is Jeff... Read more

December 17 - Abridged

By: Doug Bost & Jeff Ward

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

December 17When one day doesn’t follow the next, Mike realizes he’s not traveling through time anymore—time is traveling through him.Script: Jeff WardProduction: Union SignalMusic and engineering: Mark BalloraArtwork: Jimmy Dean HornCast:Doug BostSusan MicariJeff WardChris LongfellowTrissy CallanMark BalloraSteve FarrellMary MicariPriscilla... Read more

The Exorcist

By: William Peter Blatty

Narrated by: Alexandra Mathie, Full Cast & Robert Glenister

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Glenister and Ian McDiarmid star in a gripping BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of William Peter Blatty’s classic horror novel

‘When a radio play is this good, the devil really is in the details’ Radio Times

Summoned to a case of apparent possession, Father Karras is at first sceptical, then horrified. The victim –a 12-year-old girl named Regan –... Read more

The Lady in the Van

By: Alan Bennett

Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Full Cast & Maggie Smith

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Maggie Smith stars in this BBC radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's highly acclaimed autobiographical stage play

An eccentric old lady moves into a quiet street in Camden Town. There she remains, installed in her van in glorious self-sufficiency, until the council instructs her to move on. Then a kind homeowner invites her to move her van into his... Read more

Charles Dickens: The BBC Radio Drama Collection: Volume One

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Full Cast & Pam Ferris

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Powerful full-cast radio dramatisations of four of Charles Dickens' most famous novels

Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned novelists of all time, and this first volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes four of his best-loved stories.

The Pickwick Papers
Mr Samuel Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club, forms a Corresponding... Read more

The New Adventures of Michael Shayne, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jeff Chandler & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Michael Shayne, “the reckless, red-headed Irishman,” was a popular hard-boiled detective created by crime novelist Brett Halliday. Mike settled in New Orleans just after World War II, making crime pay by fighting it with a license and an attitude.Like Mike Hammer and Philip Marlowe, Shayne is a loner. Once happily married, Mike is devastated... Read more

Night Beat, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & NBC Radio

Narrated by: Frank Lovejoy & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There were several newspaper-based dramas during radio’s golden age, including Box 13, Let George Do It, and Casey, Crime Photographer, but Night Beat was a cut above. It was the story of Randy Stone, hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman, and his quest for the human-interest story behind the headlines. It starred Frank Lovejoy as Stone, who came to... Read more

Mr. Huston / Mr. North

By: Nat Segaloff

Narrated by: Nat Segaloff

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist, producer, and film historian Nat Segaloff takes listeners behind the scenes during the final days of the great Hollywood filmmaker John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen).In the summer of 1987, a group of the screen’s most notable stars gathered in glamorous Newport, Rhode Island, to make Mr. North, a charming but... Read more

Die Arthus Saga

By: Thomas Tippner

Narrated by: Matthias Ernst Holzmann

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Die König Artus Saga auf zwei Hörbuch-CDs, gesprochen von Matthias Ernst Holzmann. Die mehrfach aufgegriffene Sage um König Artus, Schloss Camelot, den Zauberer Merlin und das im Stein steckende Schwert Excalibur zählt zu den bekanntesten Sagen des frühen Mittelalters. Read more

Radio Pro

By: Joe Martelle

Narrated by: Joe Martelle & Jordan Rich

Length: 22 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Radio Pro is several books in one, covering every aspect of personality radio—from the history of pioneer broadcasters to how to become a successful personality. Forty-one-year radio pro Joe Martelle also brings together a richly varied selection of candid comments on the subject from over 150 of America’s best broadcasters—seasoned pros who... Read more

Tea

By: Velina Hasu Houston

Narrated by: Shuko Akune, June Angela, Takayo Fischer & Lily...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Velina Hasu Houston’s Tea uses history and poetic writing to weave a drama
about Japanese “war brides” living in Kansas.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Shuko Akune, June Angela, Takayo Fischer, Lily Mariye and Diana Tanaka. Read more

Dear Elizabeth

By: Sarah Ruhl

Narrated by: Julian Sands & JoBeth Williams

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The complicated relationship between the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell is revealed in nearly thirty years’ worth of correspondence. Taken from their exchange of letters, Dear Elizabeth is a study in friendship, intimacy, and the power of words.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring JoBeth Williams and Julian Sands, with... Read more

The Life of Riley, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: William Bendix & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Created by Irving Brecher, The Life of Riley starred William Bendix as Brooklyn-born Chester A. Riley, a family man who worked as a wing riveter at the fictional Cunningham Aircraft plant in California. The stories were usually set at home, where Riley would cheerfully disrupt life with his malapropisms and ill-timed intervention into minor... Read more

The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Sydney Greenstreet & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Created in 1934 by American mystery author Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe is one of the most iconic private investigators in crime fiction. As Watson did for Holmes, Archie Goodwin, Wolfe’s confidential assistant, narrates the cases of the detective genius. Wolfe was an armchair detective who rarely left his luxurious brownstone in New York, so Archie... Read more

You Never Can Tell

By: George Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: Siobhán Hewlett, James Callis, Nicholas Hormann...

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

How many plays start in a dentist’s chair and climax with a wild masquerade party? Shaw’s hilarious comedy of errors involves mistaken identity, tangled courtship, and wise advice from “the perfect waiter.” With a nod to Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Shaw’s You Never Can Tell is a lightning-paced satire of romance and Edwardian... Read more

I Was Really Very Hungry

By: M.F.K. Fisher

Narrated by: Anne Archer, Kurt Ehrmann, Jennifer Friedmann &...

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A portrait of one of the greatest American food writers of the 20th century, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, whose writing transcended recipes and reviews to probe our deep-seated relationship to our appetites. Assembled from diaries, journalism, and short stories, Kelly Nespor's play creates a vivid tableau of the life of this preeminent and... Read more

NPR The Best of Pop Culture Happy Hour

By: author

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An energetic, fun-filled round table from NPR exploring the many ways entertainment intersects with day-to-day life.

NPR's popular podcast features spirited roundtable discussions covering a wild and unpredictable landscape of pop culture subject matter, from the phenomenon of the fiasco (the result of ambition that exceeds competency) to “Pop... Read more

Waterlogg Classic Literature Pack - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection provides over five hours of radio dramatizations of some of the greatest literature ever written, as adapted, produced, and directed by Joe Bevilacqua.The Bear: A Classic One-Act Play by Anton ChekhovThe Bear, one of the great works of Anton Chekhov, tells about the strange beginnings of love between the recently widowed Mrs.... Read more

Escape, Vol. 2

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1947 to 1954, CBS's Escape was radio's leading high-adventure anthology series. The show's famous opening, delivered by Paul Frees and William Conrad, asked: "Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you … Escape!" This was followed by another announcer adding, "Escape!... Read more

Crime Classics, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Lou Merrill & others

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crime Classics was a true-crime radio docudrama that aired on CBS from June 1953 to June 1954. Created, produced, and directed by Elliott Lewis, the program examined crimes and murders throughout history. Founded in Lewis' own personal interest in famous murder cases, the program meticulously recreated the facts, atmosphere, and personages of... Read more

Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: David Tennant, Full Cast & Naomi Frederick

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

David Tennant stars as Malvolio in Shakespeare's comedy of disguise, madness and love.

One of Shakespeare's happiest plays, Twelfth Night is both a comedy of misrule and a trenchant attack on puritanism. Disguise and deceit leads to misadventure, madness and mistaken love. Orsino loves Olivia, but she loves Cesario, who really does love Orsino... Read more

Welcome, Foolish Mortals, Revised Edition

By: Ben Ohmart

Narrated by: Fred Frees

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

He was Disney’s Haunted Mansion Ghost Host, Boris Badenov, Professor Ludwig von Drake, Pillsbury Dougboy, Toucan Sam, the Green Lama, and thousands of voices you have heard on records, radio, television, and in films. He was voice acting genius Paul Frees.Paul’s son Fred Frees reads this second edition of author Ben Ohmart’s biography.Fred Frees... Read more