Performance audiobooks

Ideal

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Christopher Lane & Robin Field

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Ayn Rand’s novel Ideal, in print for the first time ever—a landmark event for fans of the groundbreaking philosopherOriginally conceived as a novel but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand, Ideal is the story of beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda. Accused of murder, she is on the run and turns for help to six fans who have... Read more

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When veteran award-winning radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) was a student in his final semester at Kean College (now Kean University) in 1982, he designed his own course, in which he produced and directed a radio version of Hamlet.Casting Kean faculty and students, and portraying the melancholy Danish prince himself, Bevilacqua... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Science Fiction Shows, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection contains thirteen of the greatest science fiction shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio—including two episodes each of Dimension X, CBS Radio Workshop, and X Minus One, plus three episodes of Suspense and Escape. Radio’s finest actors perform before the microphones, including William Conrad, Parley Baer, Joseph... Read more

Box 13, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Alan Ladd

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Movie star Alan Ladd played Dan Holiday, retired newspaperman turned fiction writer and adventurer extraordinaire. To gain ideas for his books, Holiday placed an ad in the Star-Times newspaper: “Adventure wanted—will go anywhere, do anything—Box 13.” It wasn’t long before his Box 13 became jammed with adventures galore.Holiday always had more... Read more

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare & David Serero

Narrated by: David Serero

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare. Adapted by and Starring David Serero as Shylock. Off-Broadway Studio Cast Album Recording 2015. Read more

The Best of Chatting Up a Storm

By: Claudia Cragg

Narrated by: Claudia Cragg

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Russell Banks, Garrison Keillor, and Dave Isay are among those heard on Chatting Up a Storm, Vol. 1, a distillation of the best broadcast interviews by journalist Claudia Cragg, with thinkers, authors, and change-makers from the United States and around the world.This volume features twelve interviews, personally chosen by Claudia Cragg and... Read more

Tribes

By: Nina Raine

Narrated by: Barry Creyton, Thomas Dellamonica, Russell Harv...

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Billy has been deaf since birth, but his family has never learned sign language. In fact, until he meets Sylvia, who is fluent in ASL, Billy has never in his life been understood by anyone. This critically acclaimed sensation from Nina Raine will awaken all of your senses as it boldly asks some of life’s hardest questions: what is communication... Read more

And The Sun Stood Still

By: Dava Sobel

Narrated by: Robert Foxworth, John Vickery, Kate Steele, Mic...

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Dava Sobel’s thoughtful play brings to life the story of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer and mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe in which the Sun stands at the center. Plagued by self-doubt and threatened by religious censure, Copernicus resisted the publication of his work until just before his... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: Valley of Fear - Abridged

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Ian McKellen

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

**Ian McKellen was the WINNER of the BBC Audio Drama Award 2015 for Best Actor in an Audio Drama (for Eugenie Grandet)**

Sir Ian McKellen reads The Valley of Fear, the last of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four Sherlock Holmes novels. The mystery begins with a coded warning of imminent danger, drawing the illustrious Sherlock Holmes and the faithful... Read more

X minus One, Vol. 1

By: Hollywood 360 & NBC Radio

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

X Minus One, widely regarded as one of the finest science fiction dramas ever produced for radio, was broadcast on NBC from 1955 until 1958. It began as a revival of NBC’s Dimension X, which ran for just a year and a half, from 1950 to 1951. Though the first fifteen episodes of X Minus One were merely new versions of Dimension X episodes, the... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Christmas Shows, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Lucille Ball, Eve Arden & others

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection contains twelve of the greatest Christmas radio shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio! You’ll hear Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll in Amos ’n’ Andy, Lucille Ball in My Favorite Husband, Laurence Olivier as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Jim and Marian Jordan in Fibber McGee & Molly, Harold Peary in... Read more

Dad's Army: Complete Radio Series 3

By: Jimmy Perry & David Croft

Narrated by: Arthur Lowe, Full Cast & John Le Mesurier

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-six episodes from the third BBC Radio series starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn, plus the pilot episode of It Sticks Out Half a Mile

In 1973 the BBC adapted its hit wartime TV series for radio, featuring the original television cast and characters. Three series were broadcast between 1974 and 1976, with episodes adapted... Read more

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly's Casanova - Abridged

By: Ian Kelly

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly’s biography of one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of any age.

In this fascinating biography of the notorious libertine, Ian Kelly draws on documents by Casanova, his friends and his lovers (male and female) in order to bring fresh insights to the man’s life and world. The sights and smells... Read more

Cyrano de Bergerac

By: Edmond Rostand

Narrated by: Caroline Aaron, Hugo Armstrong, Kalen Harriman,...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Cyrano is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents whose whimsical aptitude for the spoken word is overshadowed by an attribute that is iconic, outrageous and gigantic—his nose. How can the curiously-snouted Cyrano ever hope to win the affections of the beautiful Roxane? Includes a conversation with Sue Lloyd, author of “The Man Who Was... Read more

Intelligence-Slave

By: Kenneth Lin

Narrated by: Garret Dillahunt, Joe Spano, Josh Stamberg, Dan...

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Curt Herzstark, an Austrian industrialist and concentration camp prisoner who was sent by the Nazis to an underground salt mine during the war. While in captivity, he continued his experiments with a device that would eventually become the hand-held calculator.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring Garret Dillahunt, Joe... Read more

Ubu Rex Saxonia

By: Peter Eckhart Reichel

Narrated by: Hans Teuscher

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit 1896 steht nun diese merkwürdig-skurrile Theaterfigur KÖNIG UBU auf den Bühnen dieser Welt und sorgt noch immer für heftige Kontroversen. Viele Künstler haben sich seither und immer wieder von Alfred Jarrys Textvorlage neu inspirieren lassen und schufen ihre eigenen Betrachtungsweisen auf das Stück. Nun betritt dieser unsterbliche Unhold... Read more

The Camp Waterlogg Chronicles 11 - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg & Donnie Pitchford

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, Donnie Pitchford...

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Firesign Theatre’s David Ossman (as George Tirebiter), comedy legend Shelley Berman, and former SNL comedian Senator Al Franken join the cast of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour for another six misadventures of Sgt. Lefty, Ellis da Boatkeeper, Adam Maxwell, Andy, and Woody (all voiced by Joe Bev); Olive Pitts, Ellis, Mrs. Terwilliger, and Lkie (all voiced... Read more

NPR Driveway Moments: More about Animals

By: Christopher Joyce

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

If you listen to NPR, you've had at least one "driveway moment." You're still sitting in your parked car, hooked by a story, needing to hear it all the way through. More About Animals features stories of fascinating encounters with our friends from the animal kingdom. Some whose behavior seems eerily familiar, some we would like to know better,... Read more

Broadcast Hysteria

By: A. Brad Schwartz

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 30, 1938, families across the country were gathered around their radios when their regular programming was interrupted by an announcer delivering news of a meteor strike in New Jersey. With increasing intensity, the announcer read bulletins describing terrifying war  machines moving toward New York City. As the invading force... Read more

Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBC's Blue Network in January 1941. It featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history: an organist hit a dissonant chord, a doorknob turned, and the famous "creaking door" slowly began to open. Every week, Inner Sanctum... Read more

Gunsmoke, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: William Conrad & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Around Dodge City and in the territory out West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with a US marshal and the smell of … Gunsmoke!"Radio Westerns were strictly for kids until 1952, when Gunsmoke hit the radio airwaves. The stories were grim, the deaths brutal, and life on the plains was harsh. Radio... Read more

Vivat Rex: Volume 2

By: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben J...

Narrated by: Full Cast & Richard Burton

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Burton narrates the second volume of this famous dramatic chronicle of the English Crown, a treasure of the BBC radio archive published on audio for the very first time.

Vivat Rex is the landmark drama series first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977. Over the course of 26 instalments, each one narrated by Richard Burton with a full cast,... Read more

Send for Paul Temple

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Bernard Braden, Full Cast & Peggy Hassard

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernard Braden stars in an original 1940 full-cast production of the very first Paul Temple adventure

Between 1938 and 1968 the exploits of amateur detective Paul Temple and his wife, Steve, enthralled generations of BBC radio listeners. Theirs was an exciting world of violence and glamour - car bombs and cocktail parties.

In Paul and Steve’s... Read more

Prairie Home Companion 40th Anniversary Collection

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Since A Prairie Home Companion first went on air, July 6, 1974, a steady stream of great musicians has crossed its stage—The Steele Sisters, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, Peter Ostroushko, The Wailin Jennys, Robin and Linda Williams Iris DeMent, Howard Levy—plus the radio detective Guy Noir, the Cowboys Dusty and Lefty, the librarian Ruth... Read more