Performance audiobooks

Abbott and Costello: Volume 3

By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work on radio and in film and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and early 1950s. The show mixed comedy with musical interludes and special guests. This volume contains episodes of Abbott and Costello from 1946 through 1948... Read more

Abbott and Costello: Volume 4

By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work on radio and in film and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and early 1950s. The show mixed comedy with musical interludes and special guests. This volume contains episodes of Abbott and Costello from 1948 through 1949... Read more

Boston Blackie

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

As originally created by author Jack Boyle, Boston Blackie was a safecracker—a hardened criminal who had served time in a California prison. Prowling the underworld as a detective, Boston Blackie was ""an enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend."" This collection contains episodes of Boston Blackie that... Read more

Crime Classics: The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner

By: Elliot Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The first show of the series, a summer replacement for Suspense. The story of the first woman tried and executed in the United States. The script was used as an audition for the series, recorded December 3, 1952. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence and teller of murders tells another true story of crime. Here is Thomas... Read more

Crime Classics: Coyle and Richardson. Why They Hung in a Spanking Breeze

By: Elliot Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A large, powerful gent of Scotland and his small companion engage in a nautical life of crime. Read more

Crime Classics: How Supan Got The Hook Outside Bombay

By: Elliot Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Brother vs. brother in old Bombay. A tiger, you know! An announcement is made that TV-Radio Life magazine has named the program, The finest radio crime series of 1953. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence and teller of murders tells another true story of crime. Set in 1856 in India it is listed in Thomas Hyland’s files as How... Read more

Abbott and Costello: Who's on First

By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Costello is going to play baseball with the New York Yankees. This leads to the famous, Who's On First routine. Read more

Crime Classics: Madeline Smith Maid or Murderess

By: Elliot Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A lovely lady is also a liberal user of arsenic. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence and teller of murders tells another true story of crime set in Glasgow, Scotland in the year 1857. Read more

Crime Classics: The Born Brothers & Hangman. A Study in Nip and Tuck

By: Elliot Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A story set in Rutland, Vermont, 1817. A man dances in the moonlight with the Little People. Read more

Crime Classics

By: Elliot Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This series features true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week is Mr. Thomas Hyland—a connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders. This collection contains episodes of Crime Classics that aired between 1953 and 1954. Each episode has been digitally remastered and... Read more

Romeo and Juliet

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Erin Bateman

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo” –Romeo and Juliet Act 5, Scene 3In Verona, Italy, two young people in love defy their families demands and pursue their love for one another above societal expectations. Their decisions and pursuit of love send ripples throughout their family and friend circles, causing... Read more

Dragnet: Big Smoke

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Old Mr. Stone, who kept his life savings in his mattress, has been killed. His invalid wife has been beaten with a club. Read more

Dragnet: Big Odd

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A gang of truck hijackers has been working in Los Angeles. They’ve stolen 14 loaded trucks. They’ve kidnapped and beaten one of the drivers. Read more

Dragnet: Big Ham

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An unidentified young girl, Jane Doe #17, has committed suicide with a .22 caliber rifle. Or has she? Read more

Dragnet: Big Lilly

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs. Rockman has been beaten to death...no, she's been shot...no, she killed herself! Read more

Dragnet: Big Rip

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A string of safe burglaries breaks out in LA. For the past two months thirty-five safes have been broken in to. The police know that there is more than one man in the operation but they do not have any leads to the thieves’ identities. Read more

Dragnet: Big Informant

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past two months a gang of safe burglars have been operating in Los Angeles. In that time they’ve hit a dozen places. The police have no lead to their identity. It’s Sergeant Friday’s job to get them… Read more

Dragnet: Big Parrot

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A man and his wife are found strangled to death in a rooming house, and the killer has set fire to the room to cover his tracks. Also a dead parrot, who's also been strangled, lies on the floor beside the bodies. Read more

Dragnet: Big Meet

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A gang of veteran dope peddlers moves into LA. They offer a hundred thousand dollars worth of heroin for sale. Sergeant Friday tries to trap Howard Scully, a careful narcotics wholesaler, who leads the gang. Friday goes undercover and poses as a buyer; he meets the leaders contacts and they're ready to do business. Read more

Dragnet: Big Mother

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A newborn, one of the three-day-old Striker baby twins, has been stolen from Mercy Hospital nursery. There is no trace of the infant and there is no trace of the abductor. Read more

Dragnet: The Big Escape

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The search for Max Tyler, a friend of Sergeant Friday who pulled an armed robbery, escaped from jail, and shot Ben Romero! Detective Sergeant Friday is assigned to Robbery Detail. Two armed bandits have robbed a large jewelers store in his city. One of the suspect escapes but one is apprehended and identified as a friend of Friday’s. It’s... Read more

What Life Is Like For Afghans Under Taliban Control

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

For months, American diplomats have been negotiating with Taliban leaders
to end the war in Afghanistan. U.S. officials hoped the Taliban would
announce a suspension of fighting this week, but details have yet to be
determined. Meanwhile, the war grinds on, with attacks nearly every day.
But what is life like for Afghans existing under Taliban... Read more

Dragnet: Big Revolt

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Borg has disappeared...and for an unusual reason. Read more

"Trust Exercise" Author Susan Choi On Power Dynamics And Timely Fiction

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan Choi’s novel “Trust Exercise” takes place in a high school for the
performing arts in an unnamed southern city. But the subjects examined,
including consent, power and memory, are universally relevant. “Trust
Exercise” won the 2019 National Book Award for fiction, and Jeffrey Brown
spoke with Choi at November’s Miami Book Fair about why... Read more