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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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Angels in America
By: Tony Kushner
Narrated by: Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Deni...
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Presenting an original audiobook performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring the cast of the National Theatre's 2018 Broadway revival.
In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National... Read more
Shakespeare in a Divided America
By: James Shapiro
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • A New York Times Notable Book
A timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our divided land.
“In this sprightly and enthralling book . . . Shapiro amply demonstrates [that] for Americans the politics of Shakespeare are not... Read more
Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 1
By: John Finnemore
Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast, John Finnemore...
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether flying actresses to Italy, cricketers to the Sahara, or a cat to Abu Dhabi, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.
Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN... 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
Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Samantha Spiro, Emilia Fox, Maxine Peake, Chiwe...
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this BBC full-cast production of Much Ado About Nothing, some handsome soldiers return from battle. Yet one soldier finds himself locked in a merry war of his own...
In Shakespeare's comedy of wit, love and miscommunication, Beatrice and Benedick and Hero and Claudio are pushed into and pulled out of love, their friends playing cupid with... Read more
Fear of Flying
By: Erica Jong
Narrated by: Full Cast, Julianna Jennings, Kevin Shen & Max ...
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The radio premiere of Erica Jong's uninhibited feminist classic about female sexuality.
Isadora Wing has been married to psycho-analyst Bennett for five years. But she has become restless and yearns for men, for solitude, and for the perfect, guiltless, ‘zipless f**k’.
Having overcome her fear of flying to travel to a conference in Vienna with... Read more
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
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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The Amen Corner
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor, Dion Graham, January LaVo...
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century—a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons.
"[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves." —Langston Hughes
In his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all... Read more
Crime & Crime
By: August Strindberg
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Playwright Maurice is on the very verge of having success and notoriety upon the opening of his new play. In fact, he's so elated at his future prospects that he's decided to propose to his mistress, Jeanne once the evening is over. However, he comes into contact with a femme fatale named Henriette, who so beguiles him with danger and mystery... Read more
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Deirdre of the Sorrows
By: J.M. Synge
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Come and join me as we rediscover one of the greatest myths to come out of the Emerald Isle: "Deirdre of the Sorrows," adapted for the stage by J.M. Synge.Deirdre, a woman of immeasurable beauty, is betrothed/condemned to the King of Ulster, Conchubar. But in true mythological fashion, there is a prophecy which prevents this--a prophecy that... Read more
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The Tinker's Wedding
By: J.M. Synge
Narrated by: Brendan Moir
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Come join me in the hilarious romp that is The Tinker's Wedding by J.M. Synge, a story of two young tinkers trying to con a travelling holy man into marrying them, all while their mother is constantly trying to satiate her indomitable thirst for drink, thereby inadvertently causing more problems than the drink is worth. Blaming,... 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 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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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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