Art audiobooks

Dark History of Hollywood

By: Kieron Connolly

Narrated by: Kellie Mitchell (Female Synthesized Voice)

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording has been digitally produced, by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.'Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and... Read more

Greek Myths

By: Martin J. Dougherty

Narrated by: William Birch (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording has been digitally produced, by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.Plato dismissed Greek mythology as ‘old wives’ chatter’ but such chatter, from... Read more

There Used to Be a Me

By: Ian Billings

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Sellers, rightly regarded as a comic genius, lived a life full of success and excess - fuelled by indulgence and wild mood swings. Dying at an early age in 1980, Sellers left no autobiography, no revealing record of his life and feelings. This audio play aims to fill that gap.
Featuring an incredible solo performance from Alfred Molina... Read more

Diario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: Febrero 1943

By: José Delgado

Narrated by: Carlos Urrutia

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

La Segunda Guerra Mundial se alza en su inmensidad y complejidad sobre el resto de la historia humana. Un número de víctimas difícil de concebir, jamás superado por ningún otro conflicto; las masas de hombres, mujeres y recursos movilizados en una guerra que sacudió hasta los confines más remotos del planeta; la batalla ideológica entre el... Read more

Duplik Jonas 7

By: Birgit Rabisch

Narrated by: Matthias Ernst Holzmann

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Jonas ist ein Duplik. Er lebt mit vielen anderen Dupliks in einem sogenannten Hort, abgeschottet von der Welt, und muss nichts anderes tun als Sport treiben, sich richtig ernähren und auf seine Gesundheit achten. Nur eine Bedrohung gibt es in diesem idyllisch anmutenden Leben: den FRASS. Eine Krankheit, die plötzlich und unbemerkt auftritt,... Read more

Can I Recycle This?

By: Jennie Romer

Narrated by: Jennie Romer

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The first illustrated guidebook, now adapted for audio, that answers the age-old question: Can I Recycle This?

Since the dawn of the recycling system, men and women the world over have stood by their bins, holding an everyday object, wondering, "can I recycle this?" This simple question reaches into our concern for the environment, the care we... Read more

Lilyville

By: Tovah Feldshuh

Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This heartwarming and funny memoir from a beloved actress tells the story of a mother and daughter whose narrative reflects American cultural changes and the world's shifting expectations of women.

From Golda to Ginsburg, Yentl to Mama Rose, Tallulah to the Queen of Mean, Tovah Feldshuh has always played powerful women who aren't afraid to sit at... Read more

Burns and Allen, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

George Burns and Gracie Allen were one of the biggest comedy duos the world has ever known. Enjoy sixteen of their greatest radio broadcasts!When real-life husband and wife George Burns and Gracie Allen worked together in vaudeville, George was the comic and his wife, Gracie, had the straight lines. They switched their roles upon discovering... Read more

Philco Radio Time, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bing Crosby stars in sixteen half-hour musical-variety episodes of Philco Radio Time and invites his celebrity friends to join him!Until his semi-retirement in 1958, Bing Crosby worked steadily on radio and had a sizeable number of chart singles over two consecutive decades. And, somewhat surprisingly, he was also responsible for changing the... Read more

Drama Shows from the Golden Age of Radio, Vol. 5 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy sixteen of the greatest drama episodes from the Golden Age of radio in this collection spanning 1946 to 1957.This collection episodes of Dangerous Assignment, Dragnet, The Whistler, and many others. Relive the best radio drama shows from yesterday and the legendary stars that made them amazing in this incredible collection.The Big Story,... Read more

Tough Guys on Suspense, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Suspense … Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills! Suspense mixed mystery, suspicion, and dangerous adventure like no other. Featuring the biggest names in Hollywood, it stirred your nerves to offer you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution … until the last possible moment!Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred... Read more

Broadway Is My Beat, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York City Detective Danny Clover worked homicide “from Times Square to Columbus Circle—the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world—Broadway, my beat.”Broadway Is My Beat was a dark, gritty radio crime drama that ran on CBS from 1949 until 1954. The series was originally broadcast from New York with Anthony Ross... Read more

Artrage

By: Everett Aison

Narrated by: Jack Estes

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mace Caslon is a successful New York attorney and a serious collector of art. So why does he decide to walk into the Metropolitan Museum of Art and spray acid over a $41 million painting by Picasso, in broad daylight and in front of shocked museum-goers? And how does that act affect the lives of thousands of people, especially those close to him? Read more

Die Bildhauerin

By: Pia Rosenberger

Narrated by: Hannah Baus

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ich fordere lautstark die Freiheit!" Camille Claudel Muse, Aktmodell, Bildhauerin – Camille Claudel war einer der bedeutendsten Künstlerinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts, die sich von gesellschaftlichen Zwängen befreite und sich in einer männlichen Disziplin durchsetzte. Paris, 1881. Die siebzehnjährige Camille Claudel weiß schon früh, was sie will:... Read more

Articulating Design Decisions

By: Tom Greever

Narrated by: Ric Chetter

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do well. In many cases, how you communicate with stakeholders, clients, and other nondesigners may be more important than the designs themselves. Because if you can't get their support, your work will never see the light of day--no matter how good it... Read more

The Secret Diary of a British Muslim Aged 13 3/4

By: Tez Ilyas

Narrated by: Tez Ilyas

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

'Essential...A complex blend of overexcited Adrian Mole-like anecdotes mixed with shocking moments of racism and insights into Muslim religious practices' Sunday Times

The hilarious and pubescent debut book from your favourite British Muslim comedian (that's Tez Ilyas, by the way) is coming to a shop near you. You may know and love Tez from his... Read more

Exploring Our National Parks; Volume 1

By: Michael Finney

Narrated by: Michael Finney

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Exploring the National Parks across the United States is an opportunity that should not be taken for granted. To understand the profound notions of preservation and conservation, we must get as close to the land as possible. This album is a seed that is attempting to plant itself in you to see them for your self.Captured here are nine parks... Read more

Quarantine Session #45: Gabrielle Korn + Whembley Sewell

By: Gabrielle Korn

Narrated by: Whembley Sewell

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabrielle Korn, former editor-in-chief of Nylon, discusses her new essay collection Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes with Whembley Sewell, editor-in-chief of Them. Along with discussions of editor vs. writer mindsets and the taboos around discussing money, especially for women, their conversation... Read more

Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes

By: Maureen Whittaker

Narrated by: Luke Barton

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeremy Brett’s performances as Sherlock Holmes over a period of more than ten years are to this day collectively considered the definitive iteration of everyone’s favourite master sleuth. Jeremy delighted viewers with his dashing, arrogant, moody interpretation of the most popular famous detective. He brought a brooding intensity to his finest... Read more

Make Your Art No Matter What

By: Beth Pickens

Narrated by: Beth Pickens

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Artist's Way for the 21st century—from esteemed creative counselor Beth Pickens.

If you are an artist, you need to make your art. That's not an overstatement—it's a fact; if you stop doing your creative work, your quality of life is diminished. But what do you do when life gets in the way? In this down-to-earth handbook, experienced artist... Read more

Beeswing

By: Richard Thompson

Narrated by: Richard Thompson

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021

“Thompson is a master showman . . .  [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch.”
—The Wall Street Journal

Now Featuring an Interview with Elvis Costello
 
In this moving, immersive,... Read more

Picturing Peter Bogdanovich

By: Peter Tonguette

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1971, Newsweek heralded The Last Picture Show as "the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane." Indeed, few filmmakers rivaled Peter Bogdanovich's popularity over the next decade. Riding the success of What's Up, Doc? (1972)and Paper Moon (1973), Bogdanovich became a bona fide celebrity, making regular appearances... Read more

Celebrating Birds

By: Natalia Rojas & Ana Maria Martinez

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo, Timothy Andrés Pabon & Laura...

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A gorgeously illustrated and interactive full-color guide to more than 181 birds of North America, featuring recorded vocalizations of each, based on the bestselling board game, Wingspan.

Praised for its gorgeous illustrations, accurate portrayal of bird habitats, and its gameplay, the bird-focused board game Wingspan has become an international... Read more

On Air: My Fifty -Year Love Affair with Radio

By: Jordan Rich

Narrated by: Jordan Rich & Ken Carberry

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A candid, personal story of one radio broadcaster’s life, both on and off the air.  It’s a look behind-the-scenes of the radio business and how it is has evolved for the author over many decades. Read more