Performance audiobooks

The Case Of Perfect Carer

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Cowley sisters employ a carer to look after the ailing Carmela, Morag appears to suit their needs perfectly. But after a spectacular jewel theft on the night of the Hunt Ball, it appears that the perfect carer might be implicated... Read more

The Pale Horse

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jeremy Clyde, Stephanie Cole, Terenc...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation from the Queen of Crime.

Father Gorman is called to a dingy rooming house to see a woman who, before she dies, confesses a bizarre tale to him. Leaving the house he is followed but, in the fog, a fatal blow is struck. Nine names on a piece of paper found in the dead priest's shoe is recovered. The clue leads... Read more

The Dressmaker's Doll

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Octavia's triumphant new dress designs are the only thing on her mind - but is it safe to ignore the ominous dressmaker's doll which appears in her workshop? Today's cut-throat fashion industry provides this story's backdrop. Read more

The Unexpected Guest

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & Jeremy Clyde

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A foggy night... a lonely country house... and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look anything but straightforward... First staged at the Duchess Theatre in... Read more

Murder On The Orient Express

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt. One of their glittering number lies dead in his cabin, stabbed a mysterious twelve times. There is no lack of clues for Poirot - but which clue is real and... Read more

Remembering Kenneth Williams

By: Kenneth Williams

Narrated by: Kenneth Williams

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This compilation brings together wonderful highlights of Kenneth Williams’ career. For more than 30 years, Kenneth Williams kept the nation in stitches with his outrageous gallery of comic creations and an effortlessly brilliant barrage of repartee and innuendo on radio and television. In 'Beyond Our Ken' and 'Round the Horne', Kenneth Williams... Read more

Remembering Kenny Everett

By: Kenny Everett

Narrated by: Kenny Everett & Barry Cryer

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A special compilation of highlights from cuddly Ken’s television and radio shows. Kenny Everett was one of radio’s great innovators, the funniest DJ of our time and a one-off whose madcap comedy burst the boundaries of broadcasting. Introduced and presented by Barry Cryer, this recording features the definitive Kenny Everett: the jokes, the... Read more

NPR Holiday Favorites

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

David Sedaris contributes his now classic “Santaland Diaries,” his account of his experiences playing Santa’s little helper at Macy’s in New York.Susan Stamberg sneaks her mother-in-law’s recipe for cranberry relish onto the air—again. Storyteller Kevin Kling finds an invitation to participate in a production of The Nutcracker too tempting to... Read more

The Christmas Companion

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The first new Prairie Home Christmas collection in ten years is a warm and wonderful celebration of storytelling, music, and the holiday spirit. 

It’s Christmas in Lake Wobegon, Christmas at the old radio show, Christmas at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Christmas wherever friends and families gather to rejoice, reminisce, and share the... Read more

The Phoenix and the Turtle / The Passionate Pilgrim

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Gerard Logan

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Passionate Pilgrim, a collection of beautiful verses by Shakespeare and other contemporary poets, is here paired with the Bard's intriguing allegorical work The Phoenix and the Turtle, which focuses on the love and death of two birds a Phoenix and a Turtle Dove. Mysterious and haunting, these rarely recorded works are richly rewarding,... Read more

The Sunset Limited

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Ezra Knight, Tom Stechschulte & Austin Pendleton

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A recipient of the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Cormac McCarthy has established himself as the rare author whose every work is a cause for celebration. With this novel in dramatic form, McCarthy gives voice to existential dread and ultimate meaning. "Like the novelists he admires-Melville,... Read more

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

By: Lynn Nottage

Narrated by: Deidrie Henry, Russell Hornsby, Tinashe Kajese,...

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Crump family is adrift and in trouble. Widowed Godfrey is under the spell of Sweet Father Divine, while his teen daughters, Ernestine and Ermina, immerse themselves in the illusions of Hollywood to escape racial prejudice. But things change quickly when free-spirited Aunt Lily shows up: Godfrey remarries a white woman, Ermina discovers boys,... Read more

Once in a Lifetime

By: George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart

Narrated by: Caroline Aaron, Edward Asner, Jen Dede, Jeanie ...

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1929 as The Jazz Singer hits the silver screen and the talkies promise to change movies forever. Enter three down-and-out vaudevillians who hatch a hare-brained scheme to “make it big” in Tinsel Town. Their plan? To open a voice academy for the witless stars of silent movies. The only things standing in their way are ditzy starlets and... Read more

The Physicists

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Narrated by: Anne Gee Byrd, Matthew Patrick Davis, Bruce Dav...

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Johann Mobius, the world’s greatest physicist, is locked away in a madhouse along with two other scientists. Why? Because he is haunted by recurring visions of King Solomon, and the other two are convinced they are Einstein and Newton. But are these three actually mad? Or are they playing a murderous game with the world at stake? This... Read more

The Noel Coward Collection

By: Noel Coward

Narrated by: Annette Bening, Harriet Harris, Judith Ivey, Jo...

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Six phenomenally sophisticated Noël Coward comedies:

Fallen Angels: Julia and Fred and Willy and Jane are happily married and the best of friends, until a postcard arrives with news of the imminent arrival of a certain handsome Frenchman.Gay, debonair, and utterly sophisticated. Performed by: Annette Bening, Harriet Harris, Judith Ivey, Joe... Read more

Awake and Sing!

By: Clifford Odets

Narrated by: Emily Bergl, Ben Gazzara, Jonathan Hadary, Jane...

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Clifford Odets’ masterpiece, starring Mark Ruffalo, Richard Kind and Ben Gazzara, brings to life the struggles of a working-class family aspiring to the promise of the American Dream. Even as they endure the country’s worst economic nightmare, three generations of an immigrant family are crowded into a Bronx tenement, fiercely determined to stay... Read more

The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold

By: Molière

Narrated by: Brian Bedford, Emily Bergl, Dakin Matthews, Jul...

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Molière wrote some of the most durable and penetrating comedies of all time. The Imaginary Cuckold and The School for Husbands are two of his grand farces of marriage and misunderstanding, one set in Paris and the other in the provinces. In The School for Husbands, a tyrannical husband-to-be seeks to isolate his ward, while unwittingly carrying... Read more

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men

By: Lonne Elder III

Narrated by: Rocky Carroll, John Cothran Jr., Brandon Dirden...

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

This classic play by Academy Award nominee Lonne Elder III gives us the portrait of a Harlem family that dreams of a better life, but pursues it in tragic ways. First produced by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1969, the critically acclaimed Ceremonies in Dark Old Men opened the door for a new generation of African American playwrights, including... Read more

Fake

By: Eric Simonson

Narrated by: Kate Arrington, Coburn Goss, Francis Guinan, Al...

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated writer and director Eric Simonson explores the most famous archeological hoax in history. Alternating between 1914 and 1953, journalists and scientists set out to uncover who planted the Piltdown Man skull. Everyone's a suspect, including legendary Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

An L.A. Theatre... Read more

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

By: Moisés Kaufman

Narrated by: JB Blanc, Dakin Matthews, Ian Ogilvy, Peter Pai...

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moisés Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship, with a cast of characters... Read more

Tartuffe

By: Molière

Narrated by: Brian Bedford, Martin Jarvis, Alex Kingston, JB...

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Initially banned in France by King Louis, Molière's celebrated social satire Tartuffe exposes false piety and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church. When a pious fraud worms his way into a wealthy family and manipulates the patriarch into giving up his fortune, it’s up to his family to expose the truth before they end up in the poorhouse!

An L.A.... Read more

Good Morning Nantwich - Abridged

By: Phill Jupitus

Narrated by: Phill Jupitus

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ? The opening DJ on the Beeb’s new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio. Disregarding the prescriptive chart-led schedule and showing no fear in the... Read more

Paul Temple And Steve

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Crawford Logan, Full Cast & Gerda Stevenson

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1938 to 1968, crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular serials. Now the dapper duo return refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves, to investigate the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind in post-war London. Enlisted... Read more

Under Milk Wood (2003)

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Richard Burton

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Burton's voice has been digitally remastered and seamlessly mixed with an all-Welsh cast to create a magical, fresh visit to the unique but universally recognisable world of Llareggub. Richard Burton's inimitable narration as the Narrator in the BBC's 1963 recording of 'Under Milk Wood' was hugely acclaimed. In this 2003 production,... Read more