Performance audiobooks

Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Mark Capri, Josh Clark, Stephen Collins, JD Cul...

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Shakespeare’s timeless story of revenge, corruption, and murder is considered one of the greatest works in the English language. Prince Hamlet sets out to avenge his beloved father's death at the hand of his uncle Claudius — but Hamlet's spiral into grief and madness will have permanent and immutable consequences for the Kingdom of Denmark.... Read more

Powder River - Season Two

By: Jerry Robbins

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins, Derek Aalerud & The Colonial Rad...

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Season Two of POWDER RIVER, Britt MacMasters has once again put on the badge of United States Marshal and returns to Clearmont, Wyoming after several months away on the trail with his son Chad. There he finds a new Sheriff in town who doesn't like the idea of a U.S. Marshal living in his jurisdiction but soon calls on the famed Marshal for... Read more

Jarrem Lee - Ghost Hunter - The Tollington Hall Case, The Ancient Burial Barrow, Lord Wentworth's Statue, and Professor Taylor's Final Experiment

By: Gareth Tilley

Narrated by: Jerry Robbins & The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In science one reasons by analogy, so when mankind is confronted by experiences entirely beyond its understanding it takes an individual with intelligence and bravery in equal measure to push back the boundaries of the unknown…. In London, in the 1900s, the solutions to supernatural occurrences were investigated by a man who was famous for his... Read more

The Rivals

By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Narrated by: The Colonial Radio Players

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The Rivals has been delighting audiences since its very first presentation at London's Covent Garden Theatre on January 17th, 1775. The idealistic Lydia Languish, reads nothing but romantic novels, and in doing so, believes she can only find true love in the arms of a man without wealth. Captain Jack Absolute has fallen in love with her, and... Read more

Welcome To The Wasteland

By: DJ Britton

Narrated by: Anamaria Marinca, Benjamin Askew, Lesley Sharp,...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

As Chief Executive of her local council, Robyn has just days to stop recycling being wiped from her ambitious environmental plans. But the credit crunch continues to put pressure on other priorities. Meanwhile, her daughter Afrah provides a safe house for a fiercely committed environmentalist from Eastern Europe. Written by D. J. Britton and... Read more

Stream, River, Sea

By: Peter Souter

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Juliet Stevenson & Lizzy Watts

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

By Peter Souter. Hugh and Bella, are running to the same timetable, the timetable you're on if someone you love has just died, and they keep running into each other. They visit the same undertakers at the same time; Hugh's Mum is cremated immediately after Bella's husband; and they even end up in the same bereavement-counselling group. But... Read more

Two Ronnies, The Volume 2 (Vintage Beeb)

By: Ronnie Barker & Ronnie Corbett

Narrated by: Ronnie Barker & Ronnie Corbett

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Two Ronnies was one of Britain's most successful comedy sketch shows, and dominated the TV schedules for sixteen years between 1971 and 1987. This second compilation of classics from the much-loved show includes such sketches as 'Mispronounciation'; 'Night, Night; Cheers'; 'Cricket Commentators'; 'Train of Events'; and not forgetting 'The... Read more

Measure for Measure

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: John Gielgud & Ralph Richardson

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson lead a cast performance of Shakespeare's play that deals with mercy, justice, truth and their relationship to pride and humility. Read more

Our Mutual Friend (Woman's Hour Drama)

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Full Cast & Pauline Quirke

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Following his father's death, John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance. But he finds he is only eligible if he marries Bella Wilfer. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boffin, who is also Bella's guardian. 'Our Mutual Friend' was Charles Dickens' last complete... Read more

Taming of the Shrew

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Trevor Howard, Margaret Leighton & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Trevor Howard and Margaret Leighton lead a full cast performance of this popular Shakespeare comedy Read more

Positive

By: Tina Pepler

Narrated by: Chris Yapp, Deirdre Mullins, Gerard Cooke, Jack...

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A pregnant fourteen year-old and her angry mother present the ante-natal team with some difficult decisions in a gripping medical ethics drama written by Tina Pepler. When Rosie is admitted to A&E with stomach pains, she's shocked to find out that she's pregnant. Her mother is even more horrified, and the ante-natal team must decide if... Read more

Best Interests

By: Sasha Hails

Narrated by: Alex Tregear, Elaine Caxton, Gerard McDermott, ...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Two new dramas which get inside the emotional realities of dealing with ethical dilemmas. When a confused young man with no I.D. and a Doctor Who fixation is brought into hospital, the staff have clear rules about how decisions can be made on his behalf. But when he starts to make his own wishes clear, are they right to listen? Starring... Read more

6 Minute English Science And Technology

By: BBC Learning English

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn and improve your English with the BBC. Collected here for the first time are 12 episodes from BBC Learning English's popular 6 Minute English series. Aimed at intermediate-level learners of English, each programme examines a different topic which is discussed and explained to help learners increase their knowledge of the English language.... Read more

How Dolly Got Rotherham Reading

By: Sarfraz Manzoor

Narrated by: Sarfraz Manzoor

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Dolly Parton grew up in poverty in rural East Tennessee, where children only attended school if there was no work to be done on the farm. She came to regard literacy skills as a passport to a better life and in 1995 she launched the 'Imagination Library'. All local children were sent a book a month, from birth to age 5. In 2007, she brought the... Read more

Delorean

By: Glenn Patterson

Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Michelle Fairley, Patrick Fitzsym...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Northern Ireland was a very dark place in the 1980s. A hunger strike was looming, street violence and tit for tat murders were an everyday occurrence, but in a small corner of West Belfast something extraordinary was happening. In a factory in Dunmurry a unique new sports car was being built, a DMC 12, a style icon for the late 20th century. For... Read more

Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?

By: Micky Flanagan

Narrated by: Micky Flanagan

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete BBC radio series of Micky Flanagan's autobiographical comedy show - plus pilot episode

'Excellent, funny and poignant' Miranda Sawyer, The Observer

Based on his Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated show What Chance Change?, Micky Flanagan's debut radio series combines brilliant stand-up with insightful behind-the-scenes interviews to tell... Read more

The Last Project: El Utimo Proyecto

By: Michael Butt

Narrated by: Bryan Dick, William Marquez & Yolanda Vasquez

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

El Ultimo Proyecto - The Last Project by Michael Butt, a play in two languages- Spanish and English. A romantic thriller set in the hills of Andalucia. A British former soldier, Travis, has a love affair with the wife of a famous Spanish film director. Story telling and reality collide when the director insists Travis helps with his latest... Read more

Legendary Scenes from Shakespeare - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud & Richard Burton

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Finest Shakespearean Actors including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Richard Burton perform some of their most wellknown scenes from King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II and A Midsummer Night's Dream Read more

Shakespeare at the R.S.C. - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave & Peggy Ashcroft

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Finest Actors who have performed with The Royal Shakespeare Company including John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft and Edith Evans perform some of their most well received scenes. Read more

Measure for Measure - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s compelling tragicomedy that explores restraint—and lack thereof.Who legislates morality? The duke’s authoritarian deputy, Angelo, is hell-bent on stamping out moral decay. He reactivates outdated draconian laws and aims his... Read more

New Jerusalem

By: David Ives

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Richard Easton, Andrea Gabriel, A...

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young Jewish man in 17th century Amsterdam, Baruch de Spinoza excelled as a theological student; but as he encountered free-thinking Protestants, atheists, and radicals in this relatively tolerant city, he began to question his religion and the nature of God. As a result, he was branded a heretic and faced excommunication. Includes an... Read more

A Doll House

By: Henrik Ibsen

Narrated by: Tony Abatemarco, Tim DeKay, Jeannie Elias, Cali...

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora’s well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Ibsen’s play is as fresh today as it was when it first stormed the stages of 19th-century Europe.

An L.A. Theatre... Read more

Completeness

By: Itamar Moses

Narrated by: Mia Barron, Jason Ritter, Mandy Siegfried & And...

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A play about love between gun-shy young scientists! Just how does a computer scientist romance a molecular biologist? Elliot offers to build a computer program to help Molly with her latest research project, but they discover that love just might be the winning formula - if they can only move beyond their fear and past heartbreak.

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A Rough in the Diamond

By: Jeff Santo

Narrated by: Dennis Franz, Joe Mantegna & Richard Zavaglia

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Three former big-league baseball players reunite at a fantasy camp and reveal funny and poignant things about their lives and careers. This bittersweet comedy comes from playwright Jeff Santo, whose father Ron Santo was a beloved player and broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Dennis Franz, Joe... Read more