Performance audiobooks

The Animal Fair & Other Stories

By: Philip Hawthorn & Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen and Play encourages the pre-school child to observe the world with theirs ears! Each audiobook contains an exciting mix of songs, nursery rhymes, sound puzzles and tongue twisters and finishes with a short story. Listen and Play offers more than just songs, more than just stories, more than just rhymes. It takes a journey through sound... Read more

More News from Lake Wobegon: Hope

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Hope contains “Truckstop”; “Smokes”; “The Perils of Spring”; “Let Us Pray.”. Read more

More News from Lake Wobegon: Faith

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Faith contains “Rotten Apples”; “O Death”; “The Wise Men”; “A Trip to Grand Rapids”. Read more

Secret Order

By: Bob Clyman

Narrated by: Angela Goethals, Will McCormack, Richard Schiff...

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In the high-stakes world of cancer research, Dr. William Shumway has just made a stunning breakthrough. But is it really the long-sought cure for cancer? Despite the young scientist’s reservations, a senior mentor pressures him to trumpet his findings to the world. Part medical drama, part suspense-filled thriller, Secret Order turns its... Read more

NPR Driveway Moments Baseball

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories from the National Public Radio archives honor America's national pastime.<



Stories so compelling you'll stay in your car to hear them through—even if you're sitting in your own driveway. Peabody-winning Talk of the Nation host Neal Conan presents tales about the big leagues and the little, the fans in the stands, the players, the... Read more

English Majors

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes the Six-Minute Hamlet, tributes to Hawthorne and Kerouac and Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an M.F.A. scam, Garrison Keillor’s recollection of growing up bookish in a football-loving town, and the Ballad of John Henry ('John Henry was an English major and poetry was his line. He sat by the window with his yellow... Read more

The Unopened Casebook Of Sherlock Holmes

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Nicky Henson & Simon Callow

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are six extraordinary adventures, never revealed before, starring Simon Callow as Sherlock Holmes and Nicky Henson as Dr Watson, written by John Taylor. Read more

Major Barbara

By: George Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: J.B. Blanc, Kate Burton, Matthew Gaydos, Brian ...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara is a major in the Salvation Army - but she’s also the daughter of Andrew Undershaft, a man who’s made millions from the sale of weapons of war. The real battle, however, rages between between the devilish father and his idealistic daughter as they answer the question: does salvation come through faith or finance? This sparkling comedy... Read more

Laura Solon Talking And Not Talking

By: Laura Solon

Narrated by: Laura Solon

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete BBC Radio 4 series by Perrier Award-winner Laura Solon. Laura Solon won the Perrier at Edinburgh Festival in 2005 with her sensational debut show. In this, her complete Radio 4 series, all six episodes feature a mix of monologues and sketches from this extraordinary writer and performer. There will be talking, not talking, some... Read more

The Tao Of Bergerac

By: Will Smith & Roger Dew

Narrated by: John Nettles

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

The complete BBC Radio 4 series starring comedian Will Smith and John Nettles. Will Smith is obsessed with Bergerac, the classic TV show set in Jersey, and has one guiding force: an audio book of John Nettles reading the ancient Chinese text of the Tao. This helps Will find a way through when the road seems blocked. Now Will brings the Tao of... Read more

Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting

By: Ed Schmidt

Narrated by: Edward Asner, David Downing, Tommy Hicks, Carl ...

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

On a spring day in 1947, Mr. Rickey, the powerful General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, summons heavyweight champion Joe Louis, tap star Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson and actor Paul Robeson to his hotel room in Manhattan. Rickey wants their support when he taps Jackie Robinson to be the Major League’s first black ballplayer. But a power struggle... Read more

Stick Fly

By: Lydia Diamond

Narrated by: Justine Bateman, Dule Hill, Tinashe Kajese, Car...

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Sensitive "Spoon" LeVay and his brother "Flip" see their weekend at the family home on Martha's Vineyard as a perfect opportunity to introduce their girlfriends to their upper class African American parents. Instead, they stumble into a domestic powder keg that exposes secrets of prejudice, hypocrisy and adultery. This fantastic new play comes... Read more

Moving Bodies

By: Arthur Giron

Narrated by: Mark Harelik, John Vickery, Emily Bergl, Jessic...

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A chronicle of the brilliant life of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Richard Feynman. From his role in the development of the atomic bomb to his controversial testimony at the investigation of the Challenger disaster, Feynman casts a long shadow across the worlds of physics and mathematics. Through playwright Arthur Giron's eyes, we see how... Read more

Broadway Bound

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: Caroline Aaron, Dan Castellaneta, Kyle Coleride...

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The final installment of the playwright Neil Simon’s acclaimed biographical Eugene Trilogy, preceded by Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues.

Having returned from World War II, Eugene Jerome and his brother Stanley pair up to break into the world of professional comedy writing. Inspiration strikes when they aim their sights on their... Read more

Chocky

By: John Wyndham

Narrated by: Cathy Tyson, Full Cast, Owen Teale & Sacha Dhawan

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids, comes this chilling tale of a normal boy confronted with abnormal circumstances. Matthew had always been an ordinary boy. Even when he started talking to himself and introduced his invisible friend, Chocky, to the family, it was obviously just a phase he was going through. And all children... Read more

John Mortimer Presents The Trials Of Marshall Hall

By: John Mortimer

Narrated by: Michael Butt

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Marshall-Hall, who was born in Brighton in 1858, became perhaps the country's most successful advocate of all time, building his reputation on a phenomenal talent for acquitting defendants in murder trials where a guilty verdict had seemed a foregone conclusion. Given that murder during this period carried a sentence of execution by... Read more

Henry VIII - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Sybil Thorndike

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This abridged performance of the last of Shakespeare's plays founded on English history was recorded in 1952. Henry VIII was first published in the 1623 folio edition of Shakespeare's plays. This performance stars Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir Lewis Casson & Ralph Truman (as King Henry VIII). Read more

The Best of Second City: Vol. 1

By: Second City: Chicago's Famed Improv Theatre

Narrated by: Fran Adams, Scott Adsit, Scott Allman, Edward A...

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Take an unforgettable ride with the classic sketches that helped make this America’s foremost comedy troupe. The Second City lampoons every aspect of modern American life, with brilliant improvised sketches on subjects ranging from salad bars to affairs of state.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fran Adams, Scott Adsit,... Read more

The Best of Second City: Vol. 2

By: Second City: Chicago's Famed Improv Theatre

Narrated by: Fran Adams, Scott Adsit, Scott Allman, Edward A...

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Take an unforgettable ride with the classic sketches that helped make this America’s foremost comedy troupe. The Second City lampoons every aspect of modern American life, with brilliant improvised sketches on subjects ranging from salad bars to affairs of state.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fran Adams, Scott Adsit,... Read more

The Best of Second City: Vol. 3

By: Second City: Chicago's Famed Improv Theatre

Narrated by: Fran Adams, Scott Adsit, Scott Allman, Edward A...

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Take an unforgettable ride with the classic sketches that helped make this America’s foremost comedy troupe. The Second City lampoons every aspect of modern American life, with brilliant improvised sketches on subjects ranging from salad bars to affairs of state.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fran Adams, Scott Adsit,... Read more

King Henry IV: The Shadow of Succession

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Harry Althaus, William Brown, Wilson Cain III, ...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Shakespeare’s riveting, epic drama of a family in crisis, and a country on the brink of civil war. Wracked by illness and tormented by guilt, King Henry IV fears for England’s future after his death. The heir to the throne, Prince Hal, seems intent only on a life of debauchery in the company of the dissolute – but hilarious – Sir John Falstaff.... Read more

Archers Ambridge Affair

By: Various

Narrated by: Angela Piper, Caroline Lennon, Charles Collingw...

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary tale of desire, betrayal and death from Britain's longest running and best loved radio serial. Wealthy, philandering gentleman farmer Brian Aldridge embarked on a casual fling with freelance translator Siobhan Hathaway, but what ensued was the most explosive affair in the history of Ambridge. After a series of secret trysts,... Read more

The Nation's Favourite Poems

By: Various

Narrated by: Greg Wise, John Nettles & Siobhan Redmond

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Forty-five of Britain's best-loved poems, read by John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise and Emma Fielding.

In a national poll conducted to discover Britain's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's 'If -' was voted number one. This unique anthology brings together over forty poems from the poll, including the top ten.

Here is poignant war poetry... Read more

Desire Under the Elms

By: Eugene O'Neill

Narrated by: Paul Adelstein, Orson Bean, Amy Brenneman, Dwie...

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Eugene O’ Neill’s tale of Ephraim Cabot, greedy and hard like the stone walls that surround his farm, the family patriarch brings home his new young bride, Abbie. His grown sons disapprove; one leaves but the other stays to fight for the family fortune. What follows is a tragedy of epic proportions.

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