Performance audiobooks

NPR Sound Treks: Animals

By: NPR

Narrated by: Jon Hamilton

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From rainforests to deserts, mountains to plains, the sea to the sky, animals raise their voices in an eclectic and thrilling chorus. This collection celebrates the unique calls of the keel-billed toucan, Guatemalan coatimundi, hammerhead bat, Central African elephant, urban katydid, and many more intriguing creatures whose sounds we seldom... Read more

NPR Sound Treks: Adventures

By: NPR

Narrated by: Jon Hamilton

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Experience a refreshing adrenaline rush on this NPR guided tour of the ultimate in outdoor fun: Whether whitewater rafting on the Hudson River, mountain climbing in the Himalayas, kayaking in Alaska, airboarding in Oregon’s Cascade mountains, or bungee jumping in Australia, each story is an amazing sound adventure—and a great escape.

The NPR... Read more

A Life in Comedy

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 2002, Garrison Keillor gave three live performances at the Yale Repertory Theatre, reading from a variety of his published and unpublished stories, novels, and essays. The award-winning radio personality and man behind the Lake Wobegon phenomenon presented his original musings on the life and times in which we live. Presenting one man,... Read more

Journey into Space: The Host

By: Charles Chilton

Narrated by: Alan Marriott, Chris Pavlo, David Jacobs, Full ...

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A further BBC Radio episode of the classic science fiction series created by Charles Chilton.

In this exciting adventure, Jet Morgan and his crew receive a distress call from an abandoned space freighter. But when they board the ship, Jet and Doc discover a digitised personality locked inside the ship's computer - one with a deadly intent. The... Read more

Charles Paris: The Dead Side of the Mic

By: Simon Brett & Jeremy Front

Narrated by: Suzanne Burden, Full Cast, Charlotte Green & Bi...

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Actor and reluctant sleuth Charles Paris is facing chaos on the domestic front. He's lodging with his ex-wife Frances, and now their pregnant daughter has moved in as well. It's all a bit much....

So he is over the moon when he lands a job on the BBC Radio Rep - but the ink is barely dry on his contract when a murder takes place in Broadcasting... Read more

Beloved Clara

By: Lucy Parham

Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Martin Jarvis & Lucy Parham

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Beloved Clara, the intense relationships between Robert Schumann, his wife Clara, and Johannes Brahms are brought to vivid life through music and excerpts from their passionate writings. With the arrival of the young, dynamic Brahms into their household, the Schumanns’ fragile marriage is threatened by the deepening bond between Clara and... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Shirley Anderson, David Catlin, Raymond Fox, Jo...

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A full-cast dramatization of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic masterpiece. The Scarlet Letter is set in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts, and concerns the public condemnation of Hester Prynne, who bears an illegitimate child. However, the story is not about adultery, nor is it specifically about sin. Rather it traces the effect of actual and... Read more

NPR Road Trips: Family Vacations

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

With generous splashes of popular culture and human interest, the NPR Road Trips series introduces you not only to far-off locations and unusual destinations, but to the people who inhabit them—and seek them out. Each story focuses on real locations, real people, and real history in the thought-provoking, imaginative and entertaining way you’ve... Read more

Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life

By: Mike Golic & Mike Greenberg

Narrated by: Mike Golic & Mike Greenberg

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Every morning more than three million listeners tune in to Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio—mostly to hear the Mikes’ (Golic and Greenberg) riotous back-and-forth on everything from why baseball managers should dress like real people to how to lose a fight with the wife with dignity. In Mike and Mike’s Rules for Sports and Life, the... Read more

Claim to Fame

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

One day, Lindsay Scott is basking in the glow of being TV's most popular child star. And the next day, her joy turns to torture. Somehow she can hear everything that's being said about her-all the time, and from every place on the globe. After her apparent nervous breakdown, Lindsay disappears from the public eye until-years later-a tabloid... Read more

Pilgrimage to Beethoven

By: Richard Wagner

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Allan Corduner, Arye Gross & Paul...

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Adapted from the diaries of Richard Wagner, Beethoven’s music soars in the background as a poor young composer named Richard Wagner struggles toward Vienna to meet the composer he idealizes.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Allan Corduner, Arye Gross and Paul Mercier.adapted by Bernard da Costa, translated by... Read more

David Mamet Shorts: Bobby Gould in Hell; Reunion; The Shawl

By: David Mamet

Narrated by: Gus Buktenica, Dale Calandia, Marilou Henner, J...

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Three one-act plays from David Mamet, one of the master stage writers of our time:

The Shawl - A clairvoyant is in the process of swindling an unsuspecting woman on the basis of clever guess work and speculation. But it appears the clairvoyant has special powers that even he may not be aware of.

Reunion - After years of separation, Reunion follows... Read more

Two Ronnies

By: Various

Narrated by: Ronnie Barker & Ronnie Corbett

Length: 44 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 compilation of classics from the much-loved show includes the sketches 'The Strange Case of Mrs. Mace', 'Plain Speaking', 'Grublian', 'Dr. Spooner Re-Visited', 'A Doctor’s Life' and 'About a... Read more

Brian Johnston Down Your Way: Favourite People And Places Vol. 1

By: Brian Johnston

Narrated by: Brian Johnston & Guests

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Down Your Way was one of the most popular programmes on radio and spanned six decades. Every week the presenter would visit towns and villages throughout the UK, discovering fascinating people and places. Brian Johnston presented the series for fifteen years and 733 programmes. For this recording, his son Barry has selected the most eccentric,... Read more

The Country Wife

By: William Wycherley

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jonathan Pryce & Maggie Smith

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered too obscene to be staged in its original form for nearly 200 years, William Wycherley’s bawdy comedy tells the tale of Mr Horner - a notorious rake who spreads the false rumour that he is impotent in order to gain free access to other men’s wives. When he meets the young, innocent Margery Pinchwife, the ‘country wife’ of the title,... Read more

Time And The Conways (Classic Radio Theatre)

By: J.B. Priestley

Narrated by: Full Cast, Marcia Warren & Stella Gonet

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Time and the Conways follows the fortunes of one family over a period of years, and offers a moving perspective on the abstract nature of the past, present and future. It is 1919, the War is over and the Conway family are celebrating their daughter Kay's 21st birthday. But her sudden premonition of their lives in 1937 casts a shadow over their... Read more

Dick Barton The Mystery Of The Missing Formula - Abridged

By: Edward J. Mason

Narrated by: Toby Stephens

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Where has George Cameron disappeared to? What deadly formula has he discovered? Why is his daughter Lucy in such terrible danger? And why was the meek chemist Tibbs so ruthlessly killed? The fate of the country lies in the hands of one man... Dick Barton – Special Agent! Captain Richard Barton, late of the Commandos, made his radio debut on... Read more

Guns

By: Doris Baizley

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Tyne Daly, Bruce French, Robert D...

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

The year is 2076, the nation’s Tricentennial. Guns are outlawed, but the last seven surviving weapons are in captivity and on display in your city zoo. Billy the Kid’s colt .45, Andrew Jackson’s dueling pistol, a retired military rifle, a backwoods hunting rifle, a playful plastic toy gun, an unfinished nuclear handgun, and the flashy Saturday... Read more

Emma's Child

By: Kristine Thatcher

Narrated by: David Darlow, Gary Houston, Jackie Katzman, Tom...

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Susan Smith Backburn Prize honoring women writers worldwide, Emma’s Child explores the idea of commitment in a marriage as a parent. Told gently, lovingly and with unexpected humor, this is the story of a childless couple struggling to decide whether to continue the adoption process when the baby they had hoped for is born severely... Read more

Magic Roundabout, The (Vintage Beeb)

By: BBC

Narrated by: Eric Thompson

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

First published by BBC Records and Cassettes in 1971, The Magic Roundabout includes 10 stories written and read by Eric Thompson, featuring the popular characters of Dougal, Florence, Zebedee, Dylan, Brian and Ermintrude. The stories include 'Dougal's Experiment' (in which he does some very complicated arithmetic); 'A Starry Night' (in which... Read more

Three Viewings

By: Jeffrey Hatcher

Narrated by: Paul Fox, Jared Harris, Siobhán Hewlett, Moira ...

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A funeral parlor in a small Midwestern town is the setting for these three darkly funny and touching short plays. In Tell Tale, we enter the private thoughts of a respectable married mortician, lost in passion for a beautiful real estate broker who markets to the bereaved. In Thief of Tears, we meet Mac, the attractive daughter of an upper-class... Read more

Saint Joan - Abridged

By: George Bernard Shaw & Yuri Rasovsky

Narrated by: a distinguished cast

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412—burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431—rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456—designated Venerable in 1904—declared Blessed in 1908—and finally canonized in 1920. She is the most notable Warrior-Saint in the Christian calendar, and the queerest fish among the eccentric... Read more

Precious Sons

By: George Furth

Narrated by: Barry Cullison, Chad Hutchison, Judith Ivey, Fr...

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Judith Ivey recreates her critically acclaimed Broadway performance as a tough, eccentric mother from Chicago's South Side. When she squares off against her husband over the fate of their "precious sons," shattering family secrets come to light.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barry Cullison, Chad Hutchison, Judith Ivey,... Read more

The Fiery Furnace

By: Timothy Mason

Narrated by: L.D. Barrett, Shannon Cochran, William Fichtner...

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Around a family dining table deep in the Heartland, where Senator Joe McCarthy once sat and discussed his fondness for beets, nothing is as it seems. Gunnar, the family patriarch, is an upstanding farmer - or is he? Why is his favorite daughter so anxious to flee to Chicago? And why does her mother want to go too? Daughter Charity, a devoted... Read more