Performance audiobooks

Last Of The Summer Wine Volume 1

By: Roy Clarke

Narrated by: Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Compo, Foggy and Clegg wreak havoc in four vintage episodes from the world's longest-running comedy series. Only a man with a ferret down his trousers could love Nora Batty. So lock up your ferrets (and Nora Batty!), here come Yorkshire's hilarious adventurers - three pensioners in four classic capers from the BBC television series which kept... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Douglas Hodge, Full Cast & Geraldine McEwan

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

When orphan Pip meets the escaped convict Magwitch in an overgrown churchyard on the Kent marshes, little does he know that the incident will change his life forever. Some years later, now apprenticed to his blacksmith brother-in-law, Pip falls in love with the beautiful Estella. Her half-crazed and bitter guardian Miss Havisham, however, exerts... Read more

The Kneebone Cadillac

By: Carl Grose

Narrated by: Alex Tregear, Amanda Lawrence, Carl Grose, Char...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Kneebones of United Downs have hard lives, weird vehicles and a love of Country and Western music. When scrap dealer Jed Kneebone dies, his three children are left in serious trouble. But they have inherited Jed's prized 1956 Cadillac Eldorado - could the legendary Boneshaker Stock Car Races be the answer? A wry Cornish comedy about family,... Read more

The Falcon And The Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

Narrated by: David Birrell, Gemma Lawrence & Helen Macdonald

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen Macdonald is a falconer and poet. She keeps a goshawk called Mabel. As a child she fell in love with a rare book of intense nature writing, J.A. Baker's The Peregrine, which records a winter watching wild peregrines on the Essex coast. Her new play brings her birds and his together. Baker tramps the bleak coastal marshes scanning the skies... Read more

Goldfish Girl

By: Peter Souter

Narrated by: Alex Jennings & Juliet Stevenson

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you couldn't remember a single minute of the ten years you'd spent with the love of your life? Joe can remember everything about Ally; Ally remembers nothing about Joe A romantic, sad drama starring Alex Jennings as Joe and Juliet Stevenson as Ally. Directed by Gordon House. Read more

Pandemic

By: John Dryden

Narrated by: Ben Daniels, Emily Beecham, Full Cast & Michael...

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A three-part thriller by John Dryden. In Part 1, 'The Present', Dr Jan Roldano, microbiologist and WHO advisor on infectious diseases, arrives in Bangkok to give a keynote lecture at a medical conference. But when a virulent strain of bird flu emerges, he finds himself trapped in Thailand. In Part 2, 'The Future', it is five years after a... Read more

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Jamie Glover, Ian McDiarmid & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of Wilde's gothic masterpiece. When Dorian Gray gazes upon his portrait, he is struck by his own youth and beauty and makes a wish that they will last forever. Gradually, his simple good nature is corrupted with the help of his hedonistic friend Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian sinks into a life of debauchery and... Read more

The Bridesmaid / Going Wrong

By: Ruth Rendell

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jamie Glover, Oona Beeson, Peter Win...

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Love and death are the principal players in these two BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of chilling Ruth Rendell stories. In 'The Bridesmaid', when Philip embarks on an affair with Senta, his sister's bridesmaid, she reminds him of the stone statue he adored as a child. Yet Senta is married, and Philip's overwhelming aversion to violence... Read more

Funny Business

By: AJ Stern

Narrated by: Michele Medlin

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

AJ Stern's beloved Frankly, Frannie series delights young readers with each adventure starring pint-sized career gal Frannie B. Miller. In Funny Business, Frannie is vacationing in Florida with her parents when she's wonderstruck by the very "official" happenings inside the hotel-including an actual business conference! Armed with her briefcase... Read more

Wrath of the Titans

By: M. J. Elliott

Narrated by: J. T. Turner, Alex Bookstein & The Colonial Rad...

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Five years have passed since the legendary Perseus defeated the evil Gorgon Medusa, killed the Kraken and assumed the crown of Argos. Things seemed idyllic throughout the kingdom and the news of an heir put the citizens in a celebratory mood. Yet lurking in the shadows is the one being in Argos simmering with hate and discontent. Calibus, once... Read more

La venganza del silencio

By: Alonso Cueto

Narrated by: Walter Krochmal

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Un hombre de la aristocracia de Lima aparece muerto en el medio de la calle, con un disparo en el corazon. Mientras las conjeturas se van apilando a su alrededor, el narrador-sobrino de la victima-decide investigar quien podria ser el asesino. Entonces emergen los secretos en la vida de su tio muerto: su romance clandestino, su pasado oculto,... Read more

Jailbird Lover (BBC Radio Drama)

By: Various

Narrated by: Charles Dale, Claire Louise Cordwell, Lestyn Jo...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Mid-Wales: and a lonely bachelor avoids personal contact as much as humanly possible, despite the best efforts of his well-meaning but nosey next door neighbours. Gwilym Lloyd whiles away his time, pottering in the garden, learning the harmonica and writing letters to women serving long-term prison sentences in various jails around the world.... Read more

Charles Paris: A Reconstructed Corpse

By: Simon Brett & Jeremy Front

Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Full Cast & Suzanne Burden

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Nighy returns as Charles Paris: unsuccessful actor, bad husband and dipsomaniac. Desperately in need of work, having been kicked out of the marital home, Charles jumps at playing a missing property developer in a crime reconstruction programme. But the missing person case soon turns to murder when severed body parts begin to appear. ... Read more

Check, Please!

By: AJ Stern

Narrated by: Michele Medlin

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Fan-favorite author A.J. Stern is well known for her popular Frankly, Frannie books starring a young girl who loves offices. In this third hilarious installment, Frannie notices the slow service at the opening night of a local restaurant. Her eyes always open for employment opportunities, Frannie decides to help out. But her plan for landing a... Read more

North Shore Fish

By: Israel Horovitz

Narrated by: Kristin Ace, Karen Caplan, Laura Sigrid Crook, ...

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A comedy-drama about the good-hearted workers at North Shore Fish, a seafood processing plant in Gloucester, Massachusetts. When a government inspector lays down the law, their jobs and lives face irrevocable changes.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Kristin Ace, Karen Caplan, Laura Sigrid Crook, Heidi J. Dallin, John Fiore,... Read more

American Dreams

By: Velina Hasu Houston

Narrated by: Mary Bond Davis, Yvonne Farrow, Bonnie Oda Homs...

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

After World War II, an African-American war vet brings home his Japanese bride. The family must learn to be tolerant of their new family member, while dealing with prejudice in the outside world.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Mary Bond Davis, Yvonne Farrow, Bonnie Oda Homsey, Peter A. Jacobs, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee,... Read more

At Long Last Leo

By: Mark Stein

Narrated by: James Farentino, Julie Harris, Mitchell Hebert,...

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Beagle has spent two years writing a 638 page manifesto on human harmony that just might change the world. The problem is only that no one wants to read it, especially not Leo’s unharmonious family.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Arye Gross, Mary Gross, Valerie Mahaffey, Marc-Bradley Phillips and Robert... Read more

Bad Axe

By: P.J. Barry

Narrated by: John Castellanos, Harry Hamlin, Amy Irving, Pet...

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of a woman accused of murdering her husband at a military outpost in the Old West. Did hostile Indians force her to scalp him as revenge for his brutality, or did she kill him out of frustration with her plight as a soldier’s wife?

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring John Castellanos, Harry Hamlin, Amy Irving, Peter... Read more

Golf With Alan Shepard

By: Carter W. Lewis

Narrated by: John Astin, Charles Durning, Richard Hoyt Mille...

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A quartet of aging retirees tee up for a witty and incisive reflection on love, faith, time, and (of course) golf. Over eighteen holes, the four men face truths ranging from the quotidian to the cosmic as they bicker and bond on the putting green.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring John Astin, Charles Durning, Richard Hoyt... Read more

The Hole in the Top of the World

By: Fay Weldon

Narrated by: Barbara Bain, Zeljko Ivanek & Valerie Landsburg

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Walter Matthau stars in the story of a climate scientist trying to balance romance and research. The piece is both serious and surreal as Matthau removes the “fourth wall” while addressing the show’s recording engineer.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Zeljko Ivanek and Valerie Landsburg.

Directed by Shaun... Read more

In the Moonlight Eddie

By: Jack LoGiudice

Narrated by: Shelley Berman, Jonathan Emerson, Lyvingston Ho...

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Playwright Gil Landau is finally experiencing a Broadway smash after many years of draught and disaster. Gil has finally produced an overnight sensation, but his reverie quickly turns to panic when rumors begin circulating about the questionable authorship of his play. Adding to the mix is an unscrupulous agent, a boozy leading lady, and Gil's... Read more

Incunabula

By: Anna Nicholas

Narrated by: Alan Corduner, Ken Danzinger, Joanna Frank, Mar...

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Literary figures from a book thief’s library come alive, offering romantic and other advice. The “Incunabula” is a prize book that the thief has purloined. Will he get away with his greatest theft, or will hard reality intervene to strip him of his prized possesion?

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Alan Corduner, Ken... Read more

It's Not a Fair World

By: Harry Shearer & Tom Leopold

Narrated by: Fran Adams, David Arnott, Lewis Arquette, James...

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Shearer’s fantasy about a World’s Fair held in Kansas City. Told in quick blackouts, it resembles a profane Simpsons episode.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fran Adams, David Arnott, Lewis Arquette, James Avery, Hank Azaria, Dan Castellaneta, Timothy Fall, David L. Lander, Tom Leopold, Edie McClurg, Julie Payne, Mary... Read more

Long Ago And Far Away

By: David Ives

Narrated by: Samantha Bennett, Jane Brucker, Ian Gomez, Arye...

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A series of short comedic works from playwright David Ives, with subjects ranging from the Lindbergh baby to chimps typing literary classics. The title work is a more serious, nostalgic look at two generations of apartment dwellers who meet in a time warp.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Samantha Bennett, Jane Brucker, Ian... Read more