Performance audiobooks
The Birds
By: Daphne du Maurier & BBC
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Here is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of horror. The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to a farm from her house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field while above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed an idea about the birds... Read more
View audiobookThe Man Who Had All the Luck
By: Arthur Miller
Narrated by: Emily Bergl, Kevin Chamberlin, Tim DeKay, James...
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
An early Miller gem about a young Midwesterner who finds good fortune shining on him while it passes others by. As his successes pile up, he starts to wonder if he deserves it - and what will happen when his luck finally runs out. Includes an interview with director Michael Hackett. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural... Read more
View audiobookA Suitable Boy
By: Vikram Seth
Narrated by: Ayesha Dharker, Full Cast & Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A Suitable Boy is now a major 2020 BBC TV series, and one of the BBC's 100 novels that shaped our world.
The award-winning BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Vikram Seth's masterpiece
'The drama highlight of the year...this sumptuous production, wonderfully atmospheric, written with pace and performed, by an all-Indian cast, quite superbly. The novel may... Read more
The Ruby Sunrise
By: Rinne Groff
Narrated by: Asher Book, Katharine Leonard, Kate McGregor-St...
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed by The Boston Globe as "a gem," The Ruby Sunrise begins when a 1920s tomboy feverishly works to develop her latest invention - a little something called "television." Twenty-five years later, her daughter will stop at nothing to bring her mother's incredible story to life during TV's Golden Age. But will it get the truth it deserves? "A... Read more
View audiobookThe Busy World is Hushed
By: Keith Bunin
Narrated by: Jill Clayburgh, Hamish Linklater & Luke MacFarlane
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
With wisdom, humor and insight, The Busy World is Hushed examines the contradictions we find in our faith, our families and ourselves. Hannah, a widowed Episcopal minister, is hoping to translate a long-lost gospel when she is challenged by both her scholarly assistant and her wayward gay son. But when family secrets are revealed, only the... Read more
View audiobookCar Talk Classics
By: Tom Magliozzi & Ray Magliozzi
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Four all-time favorite episodes from the popular radio show—complete, unexpurgated, and hilarious.
Click and Clack may be America's most trusted car repair experts. They are certainly the funniest, as millions of listeners who tune in each week to Car Talk can attest. As each show unfolds, it develops its own zany feeling and rhythm, sometimes... Read more
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?
By: Eric Bentley
Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson, Michael Canavan, Jake Gr...
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In the mid-1950’s, the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating the communist influence in the entertainment industry. This searing docudrama from actual transcripts of the hearings reveals how decent people were persuaded to “name names,” and the steep price paid by those who refused.
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance... Read more
The Misanthrope
By: Molière
Narrated by: Harry Althaus, Amy Farrington, Bradford Farwell...
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Razor-sharp wit inflames a competitive game of survival in the salons of 17th century France where, in this world of "finest appearances," one man's blunt honesty shatters his society's delicate web of manners. Often considered to be Moliere's Hamlet, The Misanthrope is a wickedly scathing satire.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance... Read more
It's That Man Again Volume 1
By: BBC
Narrated by: Tommy Handley
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
It's That Man Again is a giant in the history of radio comedy. As Mat Coward's book Classic Radio Comedy says, "Surely the most written-about radio series in history, it was successful to an extent which is hard to imagine today. Its international audience was measured in the tens of millions. Its star, Tommy Handley, was undoubtedly the most... Read more
View audiobookNever Better
By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
"It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town…." Each week, more than four million radio listeners hear these words, and settle in for some old-fashioned, up-to-the-minute storytelling.
During live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor takes us to "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve,"... Read more
The Making Of Modern Medicine
By: Andrew Cunningham
Narrated by: Andrew Cunningham
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond. ‘The Making of Modern Medicine’ covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and... Read more
View audiobookThe Real Dr. Strangelove
By: Peter Goodchild
Narrated by: Jordan Baker, Corey Brill, John de Lancie, Reed...
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The birth of Armageddon. The first H-bomb detonates and the proud father is Edward Teller. But he's on a collision course with Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the bomb that obliterated Hiroshima. Now Oppenheimer has turned pacifist and the government will stop at nothing to "neutralize" him. And Teller is their star witness!
An L.A. Theatre... Read more
Work Song - Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright
By: Jeffrey Hatcher & Eric Simonson
Narrated by: Jim Beaver, Amy Brenneman, Chris Butler, Matthe...
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
In Work Song, tensions between master architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his tempestuous relationships are explored in this uniquely prismatic view of one of the great architects of the modern era. This engaging production includes a panel discussion with Wright biographer Harold Zellman.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jim... Read more
The Watts Towers Project
By: Roger Guenveur Smith
Narrated by: Roger Guenveur Smith
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Smith's edgy and funny The Watts Tower Project focuses on Simon Rodia, the Italian immigrant who spent 33 years building his towers - only to walk away from them, never to return. Smith blends his own childhood, the life of Rodia, and L.A. history to create a wonderfully eclectic piece.
An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Roger Guenveur... Read more
Fired Again
By: Annabelle Gurwitch and company
Narrated by: Scott Carter, Rob Cohen, Eric Gilliland, Jonath...
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
If you spend time at all in the work place you're going to get laid off, downsized, let go, out-sourced, axed, terminated, canceled, canned, dismissed - Fired! Odds are you might even get Fired Again! Annabelle Gurwitch's hugely popular book “Fired: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized and Dismissed” has led to the production of a hit... Read more
View audiobookThe Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 16 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty-three great Sherlock Holmes mysteries as published in Strand Magazine. These stories have won over readers in the thousands and have helped make Sherlock Holmes the most popular and most famous detective of all times.Arthur Conan Doyle, was born in Scotland in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools in England and Austria. In 1881 he... Read more
View audiobookThe Living Room
By: Graham Greene
Narrated by: W. Morgan Sheppard, Julian Sands, Kirsten Potte...
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes
Abridged: No
London in the 1950s. A mysterious house, home to a family that has seen better days, will not yield its secrets. And a love affair turns to tragedy... Greene, one of the foremost writers of the 20th century, based the play on his own passionate but doomed affairs, and his conflicted view of Catholicism.
Includes an interview with one of the... Read more
A Huey P. Newton Story
By: Roger Guenveur Smith
Narrated by: Roger Guenveur Smith & Marc Anthony Thompson
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In his brilliantly imagined, Obie Award-winning show, Roger Guenveur Smith explores the life of the controversial Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton through a series of improvisations based on his own words and writings. Biography, satire, and socio-political commentary blend within a landscape of fantastic sound design to create a provocative,... Read more
View audiobookBiloxi Blues
By: Neil Simon
Narrated by: Justine Bateman, Rob Benedict, Joshua Biton, Jo...
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The second hilarious installment of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy follows a naïve Eugene Jerome through boot camp. Performed by: Justine Bateman, Rob Benedict, Joshua Biton, John Cabrera, Matthew Patrick Davis, Steve Rankin, Josh Radnor, Russell Soder and Darby Stanchfield Read more
View audiobookThe Chrysalids & Survival
By: John Wyndham
Narrated by: Full Cast, John Moffatt, Nicholas Courtney, Ste...
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Two classic tales from acclaimed British science fiction writer John Wyndham. In The Chrysalids, ten-year-old David is a happy, ordinary boy, untroubled except for occasional strange dreams about a mysterious city – until he befriends Sophie, who is unlike anybody he has met before: she has six toes. But, in the ultra-religious village of... Read more
View audiobookThe Al Read Show
By: Ronnie Taylor
Narrated by: Al Read
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Described by Radio Times as "a brilliant observer of the domestic scene, a master reporter of life as we know it", Al Read's weekly show drew audiences of 35 million during the 1950s and 60s.Born in Salford in 1909, Al started life as a sausage manufacturer, having inherited the family's meat-processing factory. His comedy developed from his... Read more
View audiobookThe Midwich Cuckoos
By: John Wyndham
Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Full Cast & Sarah Parish
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Driving back from a weekend in London, Richard and Janet Gayford are surprised to find the village of Midwich sealed off because of ‘army manoeuvres’. There are no birds singing, the air seems thick and there is a strange sort of music in the air. It soon becomes clear that there is an invisible wall around the village, and everyone within the... Read more
View audiobookFresh Air: Stars
By: Terry Gross
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Terry Gross interviews eleven stage and screen personalities. Read more
View audiobookMary Stuart
By: Friedrich von Schiller
Narrated by: Sheelagh Cullen, Kenneth Danziger, Seamus Dever...
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
Elizabeth I of England is threatened by the survival of her Catholic cousin, Mary Stuart. Wrestling with her own conscience, the Queen agonizes over Mary's fate, amidst fears for her own life. Court intrigue has never been more gripping than in this "acute study in the art of double-dealing politics." (The New York Times)
An L.A. Theatre Works... Read more