Performance audiobooks

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

"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

Dragnet: The Roseland Murder

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A gang that usually holds up drugstores robs and kills the manager of a dance hall. A stake-out in a garage yields results and a total of twelve guns. After a trial, two of the gang break out of jail. A gang of hold up men has been running loose in the city. They've committed more than a dozen robberies and are heavily armed and quick to shoot.... Read more

Dragnet: Big False Make

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Stanford confesses to robbing a store, but Sgt. Friday proves that he was at work at the time of the robbery! 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

Dragnet: Big Church

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A new member of the congregation receives anonymous letters and phone calls threatening her with murder. The notes bear the mark of a fanatic, but police suspect fraud until a faked attack confirms their suspicion. Read more

Dragnet: The Big Grifter

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Gentleman Wallace, a born con-man, takes advantage of two used-car dealers, and many others. Detective Sergeant Friday is assigned to Bunco Detail. An expert confidence man has resumed operations in the city. His criminal record dates back thirty-five years. He’s a master in the art of the gentle swindle. It ‘s Friday’s job to stop him. Read more

Dragnet: Big Watch

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A gang of vicious Hitch-Hike Bandits are committing assaults, robberies and attempted murders. Their victims are army officers stationed in the city. After one of the victims is killed by the gunmen, a manhunt is on 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

Author Sarah Broom On ‘The Yellow House’ And Putting New Orleans East On The Map PBS NewsHour

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Broom’s 2019 memoir, “The Yellow House,” won the National Book Award
for non-fiction. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Broom to discuss her mother
and how an obsession with houses passed down two generations to the author
herself, why Broom doesn’t appear until 100 pages into the book and the
larger story she is telling about New Orleans East. Read more

Laila Lalami’s “The Other Americans” Explores The Experience Of Being An Outsider

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey Brown caught up with the National Book Award fiction finalist Laila Lalami at the Miami Book Festival. Her latest work of fiction, "The Other Americans," explores issues of immigration and identity, part of our ongoing arts and culture series, Canvas. Read more

The Weird Circle: Mad Monkton

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An excellent ghost story; ancient prophesy and the unburied dead. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Wooden Ghost

By: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

As they rode along in their carriage beyond them on the road they see a man hailing them to stop. It is a tall man in a cape and wide brimmed hat and he tells Heir Gerard Dahl that he has been waiting for him to return from Rotterdam. Dahl is the uncle and guardian of Rose Falderkaust and the caped man tells him that he will visit him tonight at... Read more

The Weird Circle: The Last Days of a Condemned Man

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Andre Germaine has been condemned by the law of the state and freaky circumstance. He has been accused of his own murder and of a crime against his own family. He fought under Boneparte, he served his country, married and fathered a child but all those things come to nothing in the cell of the condemned. He believes it is the working of a curse... Read more

The Weird Circle: The Burial of Roger Melvin

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A man promises to bury his dying friend, but fails to keep his promise. A strange revenge. Read more

Dusting Contours

By: Nicola Ravenscroft

Narrated by: Nicola Ravenscroft & Craig Van Ness

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Dusting Contours is a contemplation on the nature of love, passion, devotion, loss, and joy. An anthology of thirty-one spoken-word performances set to profoundly contemplative music and ambient soundscapes, this sensitive and moving work of art explores the sensual, the passionate, the maternal, the magical, and the sacred.With verse written by... Read more

The Weird Circle: The Fatal Love Potion

By: Edward Lytton

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An old story told in modern terms, with the expected wild ending. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Executioner

By: Honoré De Balzac

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The French conquerors impose a strange doom on a noble Spanish family. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Returned

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A man's first wife returns from the dead for a horrible revenge. Read more

The Weird Circle

By: Various

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Originally broadcast between 1943 and 1945, these thirty-minute, supernatural episodes featured stories written by popular authors at the time including Robert Lewis Stevenson, Victor Hugo, Edgar Alan Poe, and even Charles Dickens. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Warning

By: R.P. Gillies

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Esther was lying in bed half asleep when the clock struck midnight and a voice spoke to her. It sounded to her like her bother Tom and it warned her that her husband Charles must not go to the house of Waverley that it would bring death and sorrow. Esther begged her husband not to go to the house tonight even though he was going to find out what... Read more

The Weird Circle: The Murder of the Little Pig

By: Émile Gaboriau

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Messier Lehan had been plaguing Messier LeCoque for years to let him write up some of his interesting criminal cases. He considered him the most popular citizen of Paris and certainly the greatest detective of the time. And he finally gave in and agreed to allow him to write up his last case for his paper, The Murder of the Little Pig, alias... Read more

The Weird Circle: Rapicini's Daughter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A good story about an actor who commits murder and then tries to convince the police that he's insane Read more

The Tragedy of Macbeth, Part II: The Seed of Banquo

By: Noah Lukeman

Narrated by: Benjamin Curns, Nate Rubin, Baile de Lacey, Lau...

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“An audacious achievement.”
--Jennifer Lee Carrell, Ph.D. (Harvard)
New York Times Bestselling author of Interred With Their Bones/The Shakespeare Secret

“Lukeman’s sequel to the Scottish play succeeds as both a fascinating literary exercise and an entertaining play in its own right….[A] poetic, well-paced drama.”
—Booklist

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