Performance audiobooks

Why The Florida Keys Still Need Support, A Year And A Half After Hurricane Irma

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In March, FEMA ended its temporary housing program for people affected by Hurricane Irma, which slammed the Florida Keys in September 2017. But as rebuilding continues after one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, shelter for survivors and volunteers continues to be a major challenge in an area known for a critical shortage of affordable... Read more

In The Uk, Brexit Supporters Feel Their Will Is Being Thwarted

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking an extension for the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, after failing three times to get Parliament to agree to her proposal. Now some Brexit supporters are afraid their country’s separation from the EU will never happen. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on the mood in... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Shows, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection contains sixteen of the greatest shows ever broadcast during the Golden Age of Radio—including episodes of The Jack Benny Program, The Abbott & Costello Show, Burns & Allen, Gunsmoke, The Amos ’n’ Andy Show, Philip Marlowe, Gang Busters, Suspense, X Minus One, Our Miss Brooks, Sherlock Holmes and many others. Relive the... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Detective Shows, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The golden age of radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars voicing fiction’s most famous gumshoes. This collection includes Dick Powell as suave detective Richard Diamond, Vincent Price as the Saint, Jack Webb as Sergeant... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Westerns, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The golden age of radio had incredible Western shows that kept Americans glued to their sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear Western heroes catch the bad guys and save ladies in distress. This collection includes Gregory Peck in an hour-long episode of The Gunfighter on the Screen Director’s Playhouse; James Stewart as... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Comedy Shows, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The golden age of radio had incredible comedy shows that kept Americans in stitches for decades. Families gathered around their living room radios to be entertained by the greatest names in Hollywood each and every day. This collection includes Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Eve Arden as Connie Brooks on Our Miss Brooks, Jim & Marian Jordan in... Read more

Biographer Robert Caro On Why It's Taking Decades To Fully Capture LBJ

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Caro is one of the nation’s preeminent biographers, known for meticulous research and taking his time with a subject. Indeed, he began his massive series The Years of Lyndon Johnson in 1977, but its final volume won't be published for at least another year. Meanwhile, Caro has written a memoir about how he does what he does, titled... Read more

After The Fall Of Isis Caliphate, Its Capital Remains A City Of The Dead

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the Islamic State’s physical territory has dissolved, immense destruction from the brutal battle to eradicate the militant group remains. In the former caliphate’s capital city, Raqqa, survivors sort through the wreckage in search of bodies, recalling the atrocities they’ve seen in this city of the dead. Special correspondent Jane... Read more

Victoria Wood: From Soup to Nuts

By: Victoria Wood

Narrated by: Rebecca Front & Victoria Wood

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebecca Front presents this two-part look back at Victoria Wood’s stand-up and songs using her own archives and tapes – including never-before-heard material

Victoria Wood was a comedian, actress and all-round national treasure. She wrote and starred in countless sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over four decades, winning numerous... Read more

What Blest Genius

By: Andrew McConnel Stott

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 1769, three thousand people descended on Stratford-upon-Avon to celebrate the artistic legacy of the town’s most famous son, William Shakespeare. Attendees included the rich and powerful, the fashionable and the curious, eligible ladies and fortune hunters, and a horde of journalists and profiteers. For three days, they paraded... Read more

Macbeth

By: Harold Bloom

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the ambitious and mad titular character to his devilish wife Lady Macbeth to the moral and noble Banquo to the mysterious Three Witches, Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read, performed in innovative productions set in a vast array of times and locations, from Nazi... Read more

A Sense of Darkness

By: Kristen Howe

Narrated by: Kristen Howe

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Carmen searching for her missing daughter on the border. Her crazy husband blames the migrants for kidnapping his step daughter. Read more

The Critical Role Of "Guarded" Chief Justice John Roberts

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

With the country feeling deeply polarized and a Supreme Court that has moved to the right under President Trump, the role of Chief Justice John Roberts is attracting increased interest and scrutiny, including in The Chief, a new book by Joan Biskupic. Judy Woodruff talks to Biskupic about the pivotal justice's “guarded” personality, drive to... Read more

Casey, Crime Photographer, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The character of Jack "Flashgun" Casey was first penned by former newspaper and advertising executive, George Harmon Coxe, Jr. in the March 1934 issue of Black Mask, the legendary Pulp Magazine. Casey was a cameraman who took photographs that accompanied reporter's newspaper stories. His keen eye for detailed served him well at solving the... Read more

Old-Time Radio's Greatest Stars: Lucille Ball Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lucille Ball was an accomplished actress, comedian, model, entertainment studio executive and producer. She was the star of the self-produced TV sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life with Lucy as well as television specials aired under the title The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. She began her career in 1929 as a model, graduating to... Read more

Philo Vance, Detective, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Created by S.S. Van Dine, Philo Vance was quite popular in books, movies and on radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, very intelligent and cultured private detective – an Americanized Sherlock Holmes – working out of New York. In the movies, William Powell, Warren William, Paul Lukas and Basil Rathbone starred as Vance. On radio, he was voiced... Read more

Who Was Elvis Presley?

By: Geoff Edgers

Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Put on your blue suede shoes and get ready for another addition to the Who Was…? series! The King could not have come from humbler origins: Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, during the Depression, he grew up with the blues music of the rural South, the gospel music of local churches, and the country-western classics. But he forged a sound all his... Read more

Our Miss Brooks, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Our Miss Brooks was a situation comedy show heard on radio and seen on television and films. It starred Hollywood film and New York stage veteran Eve Arden, who had specialized in playing the wisecracking friend to the heroine. She often did it better than anyone else, receiving an Oscar nomination for 1945's Mildred Pierce. Arden's skill with... Read more

Prolonged Brexit Impasse Causes Rising Angst In The Uk

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

European leaders agreed to delay the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union for at least a few weeks, but there is still no deal for how the withdrawal will occur. As the impasse drags on, protesters take to the streets and it's clear that “Brexiters” and “Remainers” alike are growing increasingly impatient and uneasy about their... Read more

Die Geschichte vom großen Krakeel zwischen Iwan Iwanowitsch und Iwan Nikiforowitsch

By: Nikolai W. Gogol

Narrated by: Werner Wilkening

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Nikolai W.Gogol Die Geschichte vom großen Krakeel zwischen Iwan Iwanowitsch und Iwan Nikiforowitsch gelesen von Werner Wilkening. Aus dem Russischen von Korfiz Holm. Die beiden Landadligen Iwan Iwanowitsch und Iwan Nikiforowitsch aus der Stadt Mirgorod sind schon fast ein Leben lang gute Nachbarn und werden von ihren Mitbürgern... Read more

Im Sommer geht man raus, sagt Mutter (Hörspiel)

By: Sabine Salzmann

Narrated by: Antonie Lawrenz, Nell Sophia Korthals & Alicia ...

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Sommer in Brandenburg: Das war Jungsein. Das war Rauchen in den leeren Kasernen, nachdem die sowjetischen Soldaten weg waren. Das war Umherstreifen. Das war die lange Dorfstraße und der Bus, der nur dreimal am Tag fuhr. Das war Schwimmen gehen. Das war die Angst vor den Faschos. Das war die Freundschaft zwischen Anne und Bettina. Das war, bevor... Read more

A Culinary Tradition For The Persian New Year

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Nowruz, the Persian holiday celebrating the new year, is observed in Iran and parts of Western and Central Asia. It marks the first day of the vernal equinox. Najmieh Batmanglij, author of eight cookbooks on Iranian cuisine that are widely celebrated among the Iranian diaspora, reminisces about her Iranian childhood while cooking Persian new... Read more

Can Uganda Block Ebola'S Spread From Neighboring Congo?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Eastern parts of Democratic Republic of Congo are suffering from the second-worst outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in history, with more than 500 dead so far. Neighboring Uganda is watching with concern as the crisis unfolds, wary of allowing Ebola to spread to its people. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on measures Uganda is... Read more

How Residents From El Paso Feel About Border Barriers

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Amid the roiling national debate about immigration and a border wall, construction crews in El Paso, Texas, are busy replacing 20 miles of wire mesh fencing with a bollard-style structure. Border Patrol says this kind of barrier is crucial for preventing people from crossing the border illegally. Special correspondent Angela Kocherga talks to El... Read more