Performance audiobooks

Meanwhile with The Bearded Ladies

By: Fay Rusling & Oriane Messina

Narrated by: Fay Rusling, Oriane Messina & Ronnie Corbett

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The Bearded Ladies’ write and star in their BBC Radio 4 series, which co-stars Mark Addy and Ronnie Corbett. ‘The Bearded Ladies’ are two well-established double acts – Oriane Messina & Fay Rusling and Charlotte McDougall & Susie Donkin – who have written for TV’s ‘Green Wing’, ‘Smack the Pony’ and Radio’s ‘Dead Ringers’. 'Meanwhile... Read more

Noel Coward An Audio Biography

By: Sheridan Morley

Narrated by: Sheridan Morley

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Playwright, actor, singer, songwriter, poet, and scriptwriter, Sir Noël Coward used his "talent to amuse" to spectacular effect for almost 60 years.

Sir Laurence Olivier, Lord Mountbatten, and Joyce Carey are just some of the voices heard paying tribute to the elegant star in this audio biography, which is linked by the broadcaster and critic... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion: The Final Performance

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Here's the last weekly live broadcast that started it all—the glorious tradition of saying goodbye. The final performance (June 13, 1987) brought Garrison Keillor and guests together for sweet music, sparkling wit, and the latest "News from Lake Wobegon."



Contents: Hello Love; Loves Old Sweet Song; Garrison Talks of Leaving; Tell Me Why;... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion: The 3rd Annual Farewell Performance

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This complete original radio broadcast of the third Farewell (June 10, 1989) features boogie piano player Butch Thompson, Robin and Linda Williams doing their show-stopping "Mavis and Marvin Smiley" routine, a "News from Lake Wobegon" monologue, and the latest on "Buster the Show Dog."



Contents: Hello Love, Westbound Passenger Train, Powdermilk... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion: The 4th Annual Farewell Performance

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live on June 16, 1990 at the University of Iowa, this original radio broadcast features "News From Lake Wobegon" and great guest performances from Jean Redpath, Peter Ostroushko, Greg Brown, and Tom Keith.



Contents: Hello Love; Open Up Your Heart; Why Iowa; Powdermilk Biscuits/Back Again; Iowa Waltz, Reach for Tomorrow; If I Had Known;... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion: The 2nd Annual Farewell Performance

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall, the second Farewell (June 4, 1988) was a joyous reunion heard by millions of fans. This complete original radio broadcast stars Keillor and friends Chet Atkins, Leo Kottke, the Everly Brothers, and more.



Contents: Hello Love; Buster Preview; Small Songs; Peanut Butter; Chaplin in New Shoes; Greetings;... Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Full Cast & Roy Marsden

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parents’ warnings he runs away to sea to embark on a series of thrilling adventures: struggles with Barbary pirates, a shipwreck and the extraordinary meeting with Man Friday... Roy Marsden plays the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of... Read more

Paul Temple And The Madison Mystery

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Crawford Logan, Full Cast & Gerda Stevenson

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1938 to 1969 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. They inhabit a sophisticated, well-dressed world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women are chic and the men wear cravats - and where Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland... Read more

Pollyanna

By: Eleanor H. Porter

Narrated by: Full Cast & Gayle Hunnicutt

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic American tale, starring Gayle Hunnicutt. When Pollyanna's father dies, she is sent to live with her only surviving relative, the rich but stern Aunt Polly. Pollyanna's joy soon turns to disappointment when her spinster aunt gives her a cold greeting and tells her she is to stay in the attic.... Read more

Alice Through the Looking Glass

By: Stephen Wyatt & Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Full Cast, John Bird, Ken Campbell & Windsor Da...

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Ken Campbell, Windsor Davies, John Bird and John Fortune star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.

When Alice leans too close to the Looking Glass, she suddenly finds herself in a land of caustic characters and twisted logic – a back-to-front world where flowers can talk, Queens can run and a crown could depend on a game of chess... In... Read more

Moonfleet

By: John Meade Falkner

Narrated by: Full Cast, James Laurenson & Robert Glenister

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When fifteen-year-old John Trenchard discovers a secret passage into the vault of the powerful Mohune family, his peaceful life in the Dorset village of Moonfleet is at an end. It is said that Captain Mohune, the notorious Blackbeard, haunts the place with wild and bloodcurdling cries, forever seeking his hidden treasure. As John sets off in a... Read more

Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers 2008 Tour Edition

By: Geoffrey Cowan & Leroy Aarons

Narrated by: Diane Adair, Bo Foxworth, John Getz, James Glea...

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely docudrama about The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public’s right to know against the government’s desire for secrecy.

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

An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Stefan Rudnicki, Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb

Narrated by: a full cast, Joe Barrett, David Birney, Scott B...

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Blackstone Audio presents An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, a sparkling adaptation based on Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, augmented by miscellaneous scenes and soliloquies from Shakespeare’s plays. Read by a full cast and featuring Elizabethan songs and dances in new arrangements for stringed instruments, this... Read more

Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Frank Muller-hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best reader I have ever heard"-brings us back to where it all begins: the original text of Hamlet. He reads the complete work, with stage directions, bringing to it a passion and an attachment developed over 16 years as a professional actor. Read more

15 Minute Musical

By: David Quantick, Richie Webb & Dave Cohen

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete fourth series of brief musical comedies – as heard on BBC Radio 4. These musical comedies contain some of the most foot-tapping satire you’ll ever hear... * ‘Westminster Side Story’ – Gordon Brown and David Cameron are two gang leaders with nothing to fight about. * ‘Life on Noel’ – Noel Edmonds wakes up in 2007 and is desperate to... Read more

We Are Klang

By: Marek Larwood, Steve Hall & Greg Davies

Narrated by: Greg Davies, Steve Hall & Marek Larwood

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The specially commissioned BBC radio series from the trio who were nominated for an if.comedy award. 'We Are Klang' are three stand-up comedians: Greg Davies - ‘a very fat Rik Mayall’ - Steve Hall - ‘a poor man’s David Baddiel’ - and the hairless Marek Larwood - ‘a homeless Matt Lucas’. Their sell out Edinburgh show was nominated for an... Read more

Betjeman's Britain Poems From The BBC Archive

By: BBC & John Betjeman

Narrated by: John Betjeman

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir John Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates. Even after his death, his popularity continues to garner acclaim and new admirers. Fortunately, he left behind a legacy of poetry readings and performances in the BBC archives that can be enjoyed in this comprehensive collection. Selected from over thirty years of radio and... Read more

Santos & Santos

By: Octavio Solis

Narrated by: Andrew Carrillo, Anthony Diaz-Perez, Marilyn Do...

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Santos & Santos centers around a morally ambivalent Mexican-American law firm that subsidized its well-meaning political battles with drug money. A chain reaction of tragedy ensues when the youngest and well-meaning “good brother” betrays his older siblings.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Andrew Carrillo, Anthony... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion: Tourists

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1981-82, A Prairie Home Companion went on tour, visiting and performing in friendly places like Lansing, Michigan and Ashland, Oregon. This scrapbook of musical highlights features performances by The Butch Thompson Trio, Robin and Linda Williams, The Odessa Balalaikas, The Klezmer Conservatory Band, and Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion Anniversary Album

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This festive collection is a nostalgic trip through five years of America's favorite radio show. "Commercials" for Powdermilk Biscuits, Jack's Deep Valley Bed and more introduce songs and sketches like "The Finn Who Would Not Take a Sauna," and "The Cat Came Back." Selected from the original live radio broadcasts.



Contents: Read more

NPR Funniest Driveway Moments

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected from the National Public Radio archives, these stories by some of NPR's favorite commentators will keep listeners laughing.



A "driveway moment" is when you're so captivated by a story on NPR that you stay in your car to hear it to the end—even if you're sitting in your own driveway. Some are serious, some are touching, and some, like the... Read more

The Paris Letter

By: Jon Robin Baitz

Narrated by: John Glover, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor, ...

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest work from one of America’s most important young playwrights and creator of the current hit TV series, “Brothers and Sisters”. Financial powerhouse Sandy Sonnenberg finds his personal and professional life threatened by unraveling secrets from his past. A tragic game of financial and moral betrayal plays out over four decades, with... Read more

The Complete Barchester Chronicles

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Amanda Root, Anna Massey, Brenda...

Length: 18 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial life

One of the most respected, successful chroniclers of nineteenth-century life, Anthony Trollope is still widely read and much-loved today. The Barchester Chronicles - witty moral comedies with a wonderful range of characters - are among his most... Read more

Pam Ayres In Potting On

By: Christoper Thompson, Pam Ayres & Peter Reynolds

Narrated by: Full Cast, Geoffrey Whitehead & Pam Ayres

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Pam and Gordon Grant are a couple at odds running a rural garden centre. While Pam still feels young and is determined to avoid the slippery slope into middle-age, Gordon seems keen to dive in - slippers first. Pam’s ally at the garden centre is teenager Carol, a girl more than happy to speak her mind. If only, Gordon complains, there was... Read more