Performance audiobooks

Man of the Moment

By: Alan Ayckbourn

Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Jane Carr, Kenneth Danziger, Ma...

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The price of accidental fame is hashed out in this comedy about a famous bank robber and the clerk who foiled his biggest heist. Ayckbourn’s 1988 play anticipates the popularity - and absurdity - of reality TV.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Rosalind Ayres as Jill Rillington
Jane Carr as Trudy Parks
Kenneth Danziger as... Read more

My Visits with MGM

By: Edit Villarreal

Narrated by: Yolanda Lloyd, Tony Plana, Rose Portillo, Ruben...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A wistful look back at a young Hispanic woman’s “MGM” which stands for “My Grandmama”. The narrator often channels “MGM” for advice as she tries to succeed as a second-generation American.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Yolanda Lloyd, Tony Plana, Rose Portillo, Ruben Sierra and Renee Victor.

Directed by Peggy Shannon.... Read more

Say Zebra

By: Sherry Coman

Narrated by: Akuyoe, Lisa Bonet, Michael Broomberg, Jack Col...

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing drama in which a white South African journalist agrees to assist a young African-Canadian woman on a dangerous journey to locate her missing friend in South Africa.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Akuyoe, Lisa Bonet, Michael Broomberg, Jack Coleman, Maxine James, Lamakhosi Kunene, Thenjiwe Kunene, Zosukuma Kunene,... Read more

Tears of Rage

By: Doris Baizley

Narrated by: Barbara Bain, David Birney, Beth Broderick, Ant...

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Three young women share an apartment in New York during the summers of 1967 and 1968. But as the Vietnam War begins to exact its toll on their generation, they must decide whether to stand for their country or their loved ones.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, David Birney, Beth Broderick, Anthony Edwards, Megan... Read more

Time Flies

By: David Ives

Narrated by: Fran Adams, Ed Begley Jr., Shannon Cochran, Eva...

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A series of short comic vignettes from playwright David Ives, In the title work, two houseflies try to make the most out of their brief time on earth.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fran Adams, Ed Begley Jr., Shannon Cochran, Evan Gore, Arye Gross and Victoria Principal.

Directed by Ron West. Recorded before a live audience... Read more

Twilight's Last Gleaming

By: Harry Shearer

Narrated by: Fran Adams, Ed Begley Jr., Judyann Elder, Arye ...

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Shearer’s parody of a presidential election. In this fantasy, Bob Dole Jr. faces off against a wrestler named Greenberg as they fight for one family’s votes by camping out in their living room.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fran Adams, Ed Begley Jr., Judyann Elder, Arye Gross, Daniel Passer, Richard Masur, Harry... Read more

Voir Dire

By: Joe Sutton

Narrated by: Christine Avila, Barbara Bosson, Shannon Cochra...

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A highly -placed school official is accused of buying drugs on the street. Is he an out-of-control addict or a victim of discrimination? Voir Dire - a legal term meaning “to say what is true”- is the story of the racially-mixed jurors who will decide the official’s fate.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Christine Avila,... Read more

An American Rose

By: Charlotte Jones

Narrated by: Carl Prekopp, Fenella Woolgar, Lisa Eichhorn, L...

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Kennedys were the most famous family in England when Joseph became American Ambassador in London. But daughter Rosemary's behaviour began to cause the family increasing concern. Award winning writer Charlotte Jones' play is inspired by the lives of two of JFK's sisters, 'Rosemary' Kennedy, who died in 2005, but underwent a prefrontal... Read more

Vincent Price Presents - Volume Three

By: M. J. Elliott, Jack J. Ward & Deniz Cordell

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Seven Lives of Dr. Phibes - Dramatized by M.J. Elliott, from a story by Mel Smith, Clark Castillo, Paul H. Birch.As the new world prepares to ring out the old millennium, Inspector Trout arrives in New York City to be greeted by a series of macabre murders and the knowledge that his arch-nemesis, Dr. Anton Phibes is behind them!Trapped -... Read more

Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins, Nick Aalerud & The Colonial Radi...

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Fleming had no idea how horrible war really was. Attacks come from all sides, bullets fly, bombs crash. Men everywhere are wounded, bleeding, and dying. Now, Henry's fighting for his life and he's scared. He must make a decision, perhaps the most difficult decision he will ever make in his life: save himself, run from the enemy and desert... Read more

The Alamo

By: Jerry Robbins

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna arrives in San Antonio with 6,000 troops and begins to besiege the Alamo for thirteen days. Flying a red flag and playing the El Deguello (cut the throat), Santa Anna signals that no quarter will be given to the defenders. You will be there with David Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Travis, and 16-year-old... Read more

More Kenneth Williams' Stop Messing About

By: Myles Rudge

Narrated by: Hugh Paddick, Joan Sims & Kenneth Williams

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims as they go beyond Round the Horne. Taking over the mantle of Round the Horne, Stop Messing About carried on the comedy tradition, which reunited Kenneth Williams with both Hugh Paddick and Kenneth's Carry On co-star, Joan Sims. These four episodes include such favourites as crusty old judge Sir... Read more

The Bid

By: Matthew Solon

Narrated by: John Sessions

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After five years of planning and an 18-month campaign costing more than £15m, England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup ended in humiliation in front of millions of TV viewers around the world. This thrilling drama tells the behind-the-scenes story of what happened in Zurich in the days leading up to the momentous announcement on 2nd December... Read more

Do You Like Banana, Comrades?

By: Csaba Szekely

Narrated by: Brian Bowles, Daniel Rabin, Freddy White, Jane ...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

It's difficult being young and in love when your Dad is a high ranking official in Ceausescu's communist machine, your mother weeps all the time and your brother is trying to kill you. This wild and sideways look at life behind the Iron Curtain during Ceausescu's regime is a first play by a young Hungarian writer living in Romania and was... Read more

Keynes V Hayek

By: Paul Mason

Narrated by: Paul Mason & Various

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views. John Maynard Keynes believed that government spending could create employment and longer term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich Hayek believed that investments have to be based on... Read more

The American Senator

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Anna Maxwell-Martin, Full Cast, Joanna David & ...

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The American Senator By Anthony Trollope. Dramatised by Martyn Wade.
Part One:
Arabella is determined to keep her engagement to John Morton a secret. Perhaps, there is a more exciting and wealthy husband she might be able to catch.
Part Two:
Lord Rufford has kissed Arabella twice but she realises that much more needs to be done to win him and his... Read more

Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Anna Massey, Full Cast, Steve Hodson & Tom Baker

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the polluted and poverty-ridden Coketown, Louisa and Tom Gradgrind endure a cold and loveless childhood at the hands of their self-satisfied and unimaginative father Thomas. Starved of affection, Louisa is forced into a miserable marriage with the self-made industrialist Josiah Bounderby, thirty years her senior, whilst Tom descends into a... Read more

The Bob Servant Emails: A BBC Radio Dramatisation starring Brian Cox

By: Neil Forsyth

Narrated by: Brian Cox, Felix Dexter, Full Cast, Laura Solon...

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Cox stars as the 63-year-old Servant in these wickedly funny full-cast email exchangesBorn and bred in Dundee, Bob Servant sees himself as the people's champion. Once a cheeseburger magnate and part of what he claims to be 'the largest window cleaning round in Western Europe', he's now retired and feeling a little bored. After winning a... Read more

The Ration Book Olympics

By: Clare Balding

Narrated by: Clare Balding & Various

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1948 Olympics were very different from the impressive spectacle that London put on in 2012. Three years after the end of the Second World War, Britain was still gripped by austerity. Rationing was still in force, severe bomb damage was still much in evidence and no new sports facilities could be built. Visiting athletes were put up in... Read more

Occupation

By: Andy Macdonald

Narrated by: Alexander Morton, Brian Ferguson, Sally Reid & ...

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A tense and powerful drama exploring the timely issues of unemployment, ethics and international conflict. A fifty year old factory employee finds his own way to make a stand. With orders still on the books, Kenny Gall refuses to leave the factory he has worked in for more than thirty years. This will have serious implications for the company,... Read more

Sinners and Saints

By: ReShonda Tate Billingsley & Victoria Christophe...

Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning authors Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley are both beloved for their strong female leads and juicy plotting. In Sinners & Saints, Murray and Billingsley join forces to tell a tale packed with drama, scandal, and redemption. Jasmine Bush and Rachel Adams both want their husbands to be elected president of... Read more

Exchange

By: Yuri Trifanov

Narrated by: Ian Abercrombie, Rosalind Ayres, Sharon Bamber,...

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The dreary aspects of Soviet housing and one family’s attempt to “exchange” its tiny Moscow apartment for a larger one. Adapted from a novella by the respected Russian writer Yuri Trifanov, as translated by playwright Michael Frayn.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Ian Abercrombie as Viktor’s Father
Rosalind Ayres as... Read more

Make and Break

By: Michael Frayn

Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Allan Corduner, David Ellenstei...

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Copenhagen and Noises Off. A comedy-drama about a door manufacturing company and a fateful convention in Frankfurt.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Rosalind Ayres, Allan Corduner, David Ellenstein, Julian Holloway, Peter A. Jacobs, Martin Jarvis, Robin Goodrin Nordli, James Warwick and Michael... Read more

Copenhagen

By: Michael Frayn

Narrated by: Shannon Cochran, David Krumholtz & Alfred Molina

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

How different would the world have looked had the Nazis been the first to build an atomic bomb? Werner Heisenberg, one of Hitler's lead nuclear scientists, famously and mysteriously met in Copenhagen with his colleague and mentor, Niels Bohr, one of the founders of the Manhattan Project. Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning drama imagines their... Read more