Performance audiobooks

Two On A Tower (Bbc Radio 4 Classic Serial)

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Blake Ritson & Maggie O'Neill

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of star-crossed lovers in the West Country.

'Two on a Tower' is Hardy's ninth novel and contains perhaps his most complete treatment of the theme of love across the class and age divide, and also the fullest expression of his fascination with astronomy and science. ... Read more

Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: Tom Ferguson & Maxine Peake

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw. One of the great works of English literature, this powerful, compelling story explores love from its first tentative beginnings through to passionate sensuality and eventual tragic disillusionment. Lavinia Greenlaw's new version for... Read more

The Good Soldier Svejk

By: Jaroslav Hasek

Narrated by: Sam Kelly & Adrian Lukis

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Christopher Reason of the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hasek. This tale charts the exploits during the First World War of 'European Forrest Gump', Svejk, in his progress through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian army. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech... Read more

Orley Farm (BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial)

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Full Cast, Samantha Bond & Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel, described as a '... brilliantly choreographed legal thriller' (Mail on Sunday), centres on the pathos of the main character, Lady Mason. Youthful marriage choices, middle-aged marital crisis, love and loss revolve around the legal action and the complex portrayal of Lady Mason, who is both sympathetic and wily. The novel proposes a... Read more

Old Sweet Songs

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 6, 1974, about a dozen people made their way to the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in St. Paul for the first broadcast of a new radio show. Things went pretty well, so Garrison Keillor and his team produced another show, then another . . . close to 500 in the first 10 years alone.

Today A Prairie Home Companion is heard... Read more

She Stoops to Conquer

By: Oliver Goldsmith

Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Adam Godley, Julian Holloway, J...

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In Oliver Goldsmith’s classic comedy of manners, two young men set out to woo the alluring and upper-crust Kate and Constance. But is anybody in this rural estate truly who they seem? Bawdy hijinks and popped pretensions are the hallmarks of this romping frolic that’s kept audiences laughing for over two centuries. Recorded before a live... Read more

NPR: The First Forty Years

By: NPR

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NPR was created in 1970, three years after Congress passed the Public Broadcasting Act and established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Signing the act into law, President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “We in America have an appetite for excellence . . . we want most of all to enrich man’s spirit.” Today NPR produces and distributes... Read more

NPR More Funniest Driveway Moments

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Most NPR listeners have experienced at least one “driveway moment”: You’re so captivated by a story, interview, or essay you’re hearing on the radio that you sit in your driveway, motor running, to hear it all the way through. Even if the ice cream is melting in the trunk. 
 
The latest collection of this best-selling series features memorable... Read more

Appointment With Fear

By: Valentine Dyall & Various

Narrated by: Full Cast, Marius Goring, Marjorie Westbury & V...

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Four gripping episodes from the famous 1940s BBC Radio horror series. Includes: 'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allen Poe (18 September 1943); 'The Speaking Clock' by John Dickson Carr (13 April 1944); 'The Clock Strikes Eight' by John Dickson Carr (18 May 1944); 'And the Deep Shuddered' by Monckton Hoffe (20 November 1945). ... Read more

The Very Best of Bob and Ray

By: Bob Elliott & Ray Goulding

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Bob & Ray, comedians told jokes. After Bob & Ray, they told stories. When they first got together in 1946 on WHDH-AM Boston, no one guessed that their subtle, intelligent, deadpan brand of humor would revolutionize the comedic landscape.

With a gift for an improvisation and a keen understanding of the absurd, Bob Elliott and Ray... Read more

Neil Simon’s Eugene Trilogy

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: Caroline Aaron, Justine Bateman, Rob Benedict, ...

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Neil Simon’s acclaimed Eugene Trilogy:

Brighton Beach Memoirs
In Neil Simon’s first installment of his darkly funny semiautobiographical Eugene Trilogy, we meet his family in 1930’s Brooklyn. Performed by: Max Casella, Peter Michael Goetz, Valerie Harper, Alexana Lambros, Anna Sophie Loewenberg, Jonathan
Silverman and Joyce Van Patten.

Biloxi... Read more

RFK: The Journey to Justice

By: Murray Horwitz & Jonathan Estrin

Narrated by: Michael Leydon Campbell, Philip Casnoff, Henry ...

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A behind-the-scenes story of a high-stakes political drama that dared the country and its citizens to look into the mirror -- and change. Robert Kennedy had an early mistrust of Dr. Martin Luther King and his tactics, but became one of the civil rights movement’s greatest champions. Through Kennedy’s transformative experience, the victories... Read more

California Suite

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Bruce Davison, Marsha Mason...

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A four part comedy confection as only Neil Simon can write it! Four couples arrive, in turn, from London, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York and separately inhabit a Beverly Hills hotel suite, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas. Beverly Hills will never be the same.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance... Read more

The Constant Wife

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Kate Burton, Mark Capri, Stephe...

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

There’s something Constance Middleton’s friends are dying to tell her: her husband is having an affair – with her best friend! Despite their hints, Constance remains ever cool, and seemingly oblivious. Or is she? In this biting comedy of manners, marriages and mistresses, Constance – a not-so-desperate housewife - has some ideas of her own... Read more

The Neil Simon Collection

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: Norman Aronovic, Laura Linney, J. Fred Shiffman...

Length: 17 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten essential plays by Neil Simon, one of the world’s most celebrated, translated, and widely performed playwrights.

Barefoot in the Park
Newlyweds move into a new apartment with no furniture, the wrong paint, leaking
skylight and wacky neighbors! A classic comedy! Performed by: Norman Aronovic, Laura Linney, J. Fred Shiffman, Judy Simmons and Eric... Read more

The Gates Of Baghdad

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A group of adventurers set out from Damascus to visit the legendary Gate of Baghdad, also known as the Gate of Death. When one of the party is found dead, the others look to the seemingly unimpeachable Mr Parker Pyne. Read more

The Last Séance

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs & Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Having lost her husband and only child to the war in Afghanistan, a young woman turns to an Irish couple for hope in the form of a miracle. But dark forces are at work, and the price to pay for salvation may be too much to bear. Read more

The Gypsy

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

War-wounded sailor Dickie Carpenter is haunted by strange visitations from a ghostly woman. When his friend Robert tries to solve the mystery, though, he ultimately has to fight his own terrifying battle between love and death. Read more

The Hound Of Death

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1920, and an ambitious doctor meets a nun apparently traumatised by what she witnessed in the Great War. An attempt to restore the woman's sanity results in the uncovering of something very sinister indeed. Read more

Magnolia Blossom

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Emilia Fox, Full Cast & Julian R...

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Theo is determined to seek happiness with her husband's business rival, Vincent. Having fled London for Paris, however, she soon learns of Richard's financial collapse - and discovers that rather more than just his job is at stake. Starring Emilia Fox as Theo, Alex Jennings as Richard and Julian Rhind-Tutt as Vincent. Dramatised by Mike Walker. Read more

Philomel Cottage

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Lizzie McInnerny & Tom Hollander

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When Alex and Terry set up their own e-commerce company in Philomel Cottage, everything looks rosy until money goes missing from Alex's account. Soon she is questioning her partner - and, indeed, the cottage itself. Read more

A Murder Is Announced

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Ian Lavender, Jamie Glover & June Wh...

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30pm. Friends please accept this, the only intimation.' Nestled among the usual notices about dogs for sale and appeals for domestic help, the startling entry in the personal column of the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette has the entire village agog with... Read more

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & Peter Sallis

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Tyrannical millionaire Simeon Lee has been estranged from most of his family for years. But now, on Christmas Eve, the old man calls them all together once more. Unable to disobey, the children gather uneasily and wonder what their father's intentions are. Does he want to clear up past misunderstandings or cause fresh mischief? Before they can... Read more

A Pocket Full Of Rye

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & June Whitfield

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye grain in his pocket. His death is followed in quick succession by a woman dying while eating bread and honey, and a maid in her garden. Inspector Neele, in charge of investigating the spate of murders, consults with Miss Marple, who has an interesting and surprising theory to offer. She... Read more