Art audiobooks

Wild City

By: Thomas Hynes

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to 40 of the most well-known, surprising, notorious, mythical, and sublime non-human citizens of New York City, and love letter to its surprising ecological diversity. 
From refugee parrots and prodigal beavers to gorgeous Fifth Avenue hawks and vengeful groundhogs, Wild City tells the funny, quirky, and memorable stories of forty of New... Read more

Kids on Stage

By: Beate Baylie & Karin Schweizer

Narrated by: Beate Baylie & Karin Schweizer

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Kids on stage - 4 englischeTheaterstücke & mehr dazu Vier englische Geschichten zum Anhören, Nachspielen, Aufführen und Vorlesen mit Stories und Facts zu: 1. Little Red Hen (Traditionel) - Facts about hens 2. Jack and The Beanstalk(Traditionel) - Facts about beans 3. Three Little Pigs (Traditionel) - Facts about pigs 4. Henry the... Read more

The Craft of Character

By: Mark Boutros

Narrated by: Adrian Hobart

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most complete and comprehensive guide to character I've ever read." - Adam CroftInternational Emmy nominated writer, Mark Boutros, offers a guide to creating characters who are engaging, emotionally driven and memorable. With experience writing comedy, drama and novels, Mark shares a mixture of theory, exercises and pitfalls, getting you... Read more

How A Centuries-Old Water Mill Is Providing This British County Its Daily Bread

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

We close the week with an uplifting tale from the United Kingdom. Amid
shortages of essential supplies during the coronavirus era, a picturesque
water mill of the medieval period has been pressed back into service -- to
provide bakers and grocers in the county of Dorset with fresh flour.
Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports. Read more

Wandelmut

By: Bodo Wartke

Narrated by: Bodo Wartke

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Mutig sein! Mit seinem sechsten Klavierkabarettprogramm erforscht Bodo Wartke eine beständig, in allem wirkende Dynamik: das Wechselspiel von Stetigkeit und Wandel. Dieser fortwährenden Veränderung zu begegnen - ihre Verunsicherungen zu beschreiben und die sich bietenden Möglichkeiten zu gestalten - macht sich der Klavierkabarettist neugierig... Read more

Paul Yoon (Run Me to Earth) with Hernan Diaz (In the Distance) at Greenlight Bookstore

By: Paul Yoon & Hernan Dia

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

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Author Lawrence Wright On ‘Eerie Parallels’ Between The Pandemic And His New Novel

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Amid a global pandemic comes a novel about a global pandemic. Lawrence
Wright wrote “The End of October” before the new coronavirus was discovered
in China, but some of its chapters feel ripped from today’s headlines.
Wright joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss returning to fiction after years in
journalism and what inspired his prescient story. It's... Read more

Annie Korzen: Funny, Jewish & Live! - Volume 2

By: Annie Korzen

Narrated by: Annie Korzen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Volume 2 of hilarity from humorist and comic actress Annie Korzen -- as seen on Seinfeld, Oliver Beene, New Girl, I'm Sorry -- who has spent her career making people laugh. Hear more of the best of live comedy performances from this master storyteller! Read more

Modern Family

By: Marc Freeman

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Christopher Lloyd, Frankie C...

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An oral history, with the full participation of cast and crew, of one of the most popular sitcoms in television history.

Since premiering in 2009, the groundbreaking television sitcom Modern Family has garnered tens of millions of devoted fans, earning 75 Emmy nominations and 22 Emmy Awards, including five in a row for Outstanding Comedy Series... Read more

The Chiffon Trenches

By: André Leon Talley

Narrated by: André Leon Talley

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this “captivating” (Time) memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments.

“The Chiffon Trenches honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion.”—Manolo Blahnik

NAMED ONE OF... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Mystery Shows, Vol. 4 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy sixteen of the greatest mystery shows from radio’s golden age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.The golden age of radio had incredible mystery shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in spine-chilling radio mystery and... Read more

Classic Radio Spotlight: Bing and Bob, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope are heard together and separately in twelve of the greatest shows from the golden age of radio!Bing Crosby and Bob Hope each had long careers in radio, the movies and on television. They each had their own radio programs and often appeared together during the golden age of radio. This collection contains twelve radio... Read more

Strange Wills, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Warren William & a full cast

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

These are the stories of strange wills made by strange people. Men and women who defy and defile every moral law of respectability and decency to satisfy a mad desire!Distinguished Hollywood actor Warren William starred in Strange Wills, a mystery-drama series produced and syndicated by Teleways Radio Productions in 1946. William portrayed... Read more

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Vol. 4 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Johnny Dollar was America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Enjoy sixteen of his greatest cases from radio’s golden age!The golden age of radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite detective find out “who done it?” From... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Mystery Shows, Vol. 5 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The golden age of radio had incredible mystery shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in spine-chilling radio mystery and horror. In this collection of sixteen episodes, you’ll hear episodes of Suspense starring Rita Hayworth, Joseph Cotten,... Read more

The Giant: A Novel of Michelangelo's David

By: Laura Morelli

Narrated by: Edoardo Camponeschi

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

As a colossal statue takes shape in Renaissance Florence, the lives of a master sculptor and a struggling painter become stunningly intertwined.

Florence, 1500. Fresco painter Jacopo Torni longs to make his mark in the world. But while his peers enjoy prestigious commissions, his meager painting jobs are all earmarked to pay down gambling... Read more

Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh

By: Gary Gulman

Narrated by: Gary Gulman

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Gary Gulman offers candid reflections on his struggles with depression through stand-up and short documentary interludes that provide insight into his mental health journey. Read more

Quarantine Session #3 Emily Gould with Naomi Fry at Greenlight Bookstore

By: Emily Gould

Narrated by: Naomi Fry

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Author and publisher Emily Gould chats with her good friend (and New Yorker staff writer) Naomi Fry about Gould's new novel of music and parenthood, Perfect Tunes. Their quarantined conversation includes the difficulties of mothering in a pandemic, the ubiquity of vomit in the novel, lots of one-liners, and even some impromptu musical numbers.... Read more

Andy Card And Rahm Emanuel On What Trump Is Doing Right — And Wrong

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Governing in a crisis like the novel coronavirus pandemic can define a
presidency. What lessons does history have to offer as a guide? Judy
Woodruff reports and talks to former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was
President Obama’s chief of staff during the Great Recession, and the
National Endowment for Democracy’s Andrew Card, who served as... Read more

Up All Night

By: Lisa Napoli

Narrated by: Lisa Napoli

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of 24-hour newsHow did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three national networks to the age of 24-hour channels and constantly breaking news? The answer—thanks to Ted Turner and an oddball cast of cable television visionaries, big league rejects, and nonunion... Read more

Funny Weather

By: Olivia Laing

Narrated by: Sophie Aldred

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction" (Harper's Bazaar) explores the role of art in the tumultuous twenty-first century.

In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Olivia... Read more

The Craft of Scene Writing

By: Jim Mercurio

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A professional screenwriter's master class in writing the most critical and challenging script element—the individual scene.



No one comes out of a movie talking about structure. What audiences love and remember about a movie are great scenes. Marlon Brando in the back seat in On the Waterfront giving his "I could'a been a contender" speech. Meg... Read more

The Golden Flea

By: Michael Rips

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Across America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost treasures. For decades, no such market was more renowned than the legendary Chelsea flea market, which sprawled over several blocks and within an old garage on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would trawl through booths crammed with vintage dresses,... Read more

Cezánne

By: Eugeni d'Ors

Narrated by: Luis D´Ors

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Este ejemplar de Eugenio D'ors gira entorno al artista que fue el pionero del rejuvenecimiento del arte clásico, con conceptos y realidades muy claras sobre su arte. Asimismo mostrar la disposición de Cézanne de realizar una innovación en el arte del siglo XX, llevado desde la astuta perspectiva de Eugenio D'Ors. El filósofo aplíca en Paul... Read more