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BBC Radio Shakespeare: A Collection of Eight Comedies
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Anne-Marie Duff, David Tennant, Full Cast, Hele...
Length: 16 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Eight full-cast BBC Radio productions of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies
Full of merriment, mayhem, mischief and mistaken identity, here are eight iconic radio productions of Shakespeare's most magical comedies, featuring star casts and introduced by Sir Richard Eyre.
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's delightful comedy sparkles with the verbal... Read more
Bel Canto
By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist""Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book."" —Washington Post Book WorldNew York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett’s spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural... Read more
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Neverwhere
By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Anthony Head, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher...
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere... An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into the strange world of London Below. There he meets the Earl of Earl's Court, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the... Read more
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Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Tragedies
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Full Cast, Ian McKellen, Paul Scofield & Peggy ...
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Three powerful radio productions from the BBC archives starring Ian McKellen, Ronald Pickup and Paul Scofield and a host of celebrated acting talent . These three legendary plays, performed by some of the best-known theatrical actors of the 20th Century, are the perfect way to commemorate England's greatest dramatist.
Romeo and Juliet: The... Read more
Billy Collins Live
By: Billy Collins
Narrated by: Billy Collins
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this exclusive audio publishing event, Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares an evening of his poetry in a benefit reading for WNYC, New York Public Radio. Often compared to Robert Frost, his poetry has been embraced by people of all ages and backgrounds, and his readings are most often standing room only.
Performed by the author... Read more
Brideshead Revisited
By: Evelyn Waugh
Narrated by: Ben Miles, Full Cast & Jamie Bamber
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1944 Captain Charles Ryder travels with a company of soldiers to Brideshead. He has been there before, and the great house serves as a potent reminder of the decadent, stylish lifestyle now destroyed by the austerity of the Second World War. Charles' mind travels back twenty years to when he was a student at Oxford, in thrall to the... Read more
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Classic Radio Spotlights: Jack Webb - Abridged
By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio
Narrated by: Jack Webb & a full cast
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jack Webb (1920–1982) was a popular American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter. He started out in the entertainment industry in comedy but achieved his first success playing the title character in the radio show Pat Novak, for Hire. His greater success came from his role as Los Angeles Police Department sergeant Joe Friday... Read more
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Humour and Madness: Early Restoration Comedies
By: William Wycherley, Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Geo...
Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Prunella Scales, Maggie Smith, Jo...
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A sparkling collection of nine witty full-cast comedies from the early Restoration era
Raunchy, risqué and rebellious, early Restoration comedies were a breath of fresh air for 17th century theatregoers. With Charles II restored to the throne in 1660, Oliver Cromwell's ban on stage performances was rescinded, and for the first time, women were... Read more
Les Miserables
By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Full Cast, Joss Ackland & Roger Allam
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Joss Ackland, Roger Allam and Leslie Phillips star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel.
When poverty drives Jean Valjean to steal a loaf of bread from a baker’s window, it is an action that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A citizen of post-revolutionary France, he is sentenced to nineteen years’... Read more
Appointment With Death
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
'You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed? It's the only solution.' Even when on holiday in Jerusalem - the so-called City of Peace - Hercule Poirot can't seem to escape the strains of death and murder. His first evening at the King Solomon Hotel finds the above phrase floating into his room from outside. What does it mean? Who is... Read more
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Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Ellie Beaven, Full Cast, Juliet Stevenson, Kenn...
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In this BBC full-cast production, the ghost of Hamlet's father orders him to kill the man who took his life, his throne and his wife: Claudius.
In a tale of caution, tragedy and revenge, Hamlet is driven to madness by his mission and his father's legacy.
Michael Sheen stars as Hamlet, with Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as... Read more
The Sum of Our Days
By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Isabel Allende & Blair Brown
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination of a beloved matriarch, the indomitable New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende. ""An inspiring and thought-provoking... Read more
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My Name Is Lucy Barton (Dramatic Production)
By: Elizabeth Strout & Rona Munro
Narrated by: Laura Linney
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Presenting an original audiobook performance of the stage production of My Name is Lucy Barton, starring Academy Award and Tony nominee Laura Linney.
Praised as "deeply affecting" and "heartbreaking" by The Guardian (UK), this is a faithful adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout's bestselling novel of the same name.... Read more
Notes from the Field
By: Anna Deavere Smith
Narrated by: Anna Deavere Smith
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Smith’s powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope.” —The Village Voice
Anna Deavere Smith’s extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. "One of her most ambitious and... Read more
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
By: Fred Rogers
Narrated by: John Lithgow & Kate Mulgrew
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times Best Seller
For the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charming treasury, sure to be cherished by generations of children as well as the millions of adults who grew up with Mister Rogers. The audiobook includes the iconic song Won't You Be My... Read more
Jump At the Sun
By: Kathleen McGhee-Anderson
Narrated by: David Downing, Cyndi James Gossett, Tommy Hicks...
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: No
As the twenties roared and the Harlem renaissance thrived, a young woman from rural Florida became the toast of literary New York. Jump at the Sun chronicles the passionate life of Zora Neale Hurston (author of “Their Eyes Are Watching God”) who went from spinning tales on the front porch of a country store, to writing prize-winning stories,... Read more
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As Infinity Equates to Zero
By: Brendan Moir
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Two astronomers realize that the universe, having expanded to the fullest extent, is now collapsing in on itself at an alarming rate. The two astronomers observe this phenomenon as pleasantly and remorsefully as a sunset, discussing love, life, and the purpose of both before the universe collapses. Read more
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The Creditors
By: August Strindberg
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes
Abridged: No
When is vengeance justified? And to what extent?Adolf, an artist, is having martial problems with his independent wife Tekla. Meanwhile, Gustav, his friend, attempts to get Adolf to stand up for himself and "be the man of the house." But behind all of this superficial talk is a psychological war being waged on three fronts, and each party will... Read more
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The Insect Play
By: Karel Čapek & Josef Čapek
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Come and listen to one of the most famous collaborations of early twentieth century Czech literature, "The Insect Play, or Ad Infinitum."Come and see how many similarities The Brothers Čapek draw between our problems, our beliefs, and our struggles with the lives of the very critters that walk beneath our feet. Join our inebriated narrator as he... Read more
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The Dance of Death (Part 1 & 2)
By: August Strindberg
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Come join me as we enter the scene of a remote military outpost where we'll experience the tumultuous relationship between two embittered souls as they confront the harsh realities of their disintegrating marriage. Oh how lives of others can be so easily dismantled by the whims of the few."I have lived a life of quiet desperation, clinging to... Read more
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The Playboy of the Western World
By: J.M. Synge
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Come join me in reading the magnum opus of J.M. Synge, where a young traveler has come from out of town boasting that he's committed patricide, which, rather than ostracizing him, causes many women of the town to become morbidly curious about this young man, including the prettiest girl in town and the quite newly vivacious widow. But what... Read more
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The Ghost Sonata
By: August Strindberg
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Enter the surreal world of August Strindberg's "The Ghost Sonata," where a young student becomes entangled in the mysterious affairs of a haunted mansion. As he navigates its labyrinthine corridors, he encounters a cast of eccentric characters, including a mysterious old man who seems to have blackmail over everyone in the house, a woman who has... Read more
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RUR
By: Karel Čapek
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the cornerstones of early science fiction writing, and the work that introduced the concept of "robot" to the western world, Rossum's Universal Robots (or RUR) is Karel Čapek's finest work, and is the inspiration for multiple pop culture references from the 1940's through the 80's, ranging from works such as The Night of the Living Dead,... Read more
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The Well of the Saints
By: J.M. Sygne
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A blind couple regains their sight only to realize they hate the look of one another. Hilarity and pigheadedness ensues.Come join me on a three act romp through the Irish countryside where we begin to learn that ugliness and beauty aren't as topical as one might believe, and that the people who have their sight are oftentimes the ones who are... Read more
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