Art audiobooks

Dragnet: Brick Bat Slayer

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A homicidal maniac who uses a brick-bat is on the loose. A large dragnet slowly gets him cornered. A mad killer is loose in the city. In every instance he leaves the murder weapon behind but there are no finger prints or clues to the killers identity. Detective Sergeant Joe Friday has been assigned to Homicide and it's his job to get the killer... Read more

Dragnet: The Garbage Chute

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A Chinaman has been badly beaten and his valuable jade has been stolen. The needed clue is supplied by an observant six-year-old boy. A young woman has been murdered. Her body was discovered behind locked doors. The assassin is still at large. Detective Sergeant Joe Friday has been assigned to Homicide Detail and it's his job to find him. Read more

Dragnet: Claude Jimmerson, Child Killer

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Two little girls, aged seven and eleven are missing. Their pet collie is found beaten to death. Foul play is suspected. Detective Sergeant Friday is assigned to Robbery Detail. A holdup has been committed in a neighboring city. A bystander is shot to death and two others are wounded. The bandits are ruthless and well armed and it ‘s Friday’s job... Read more

"Trust Exercise" Author Susan Choi On Power Dynamics And Timely Fiction

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan Choi’s novel “Trust Exercise” takes place in a high school for the
performing arts in an unnamed southern city. But the subjects examined,
including consent, power and memory, are universally relevant. “Trust
Exercise” won the 2019 National Book Award for fiction, and Jeffrey Brown
spoke with Choi at November’s Miami Book Fair about why... Read more

What Life Is Like For Afghans Under Taliban Control

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

For months, American diplomats have been negotiating with Taliban leaders
to end the war in Afghanistan. U.S. officials hoped the Taliban would
announce a suspension of fighting this week, but details have yet to be
determined. Meanwhile, the war grinds on, with attacks nearly every day.
But what is life like for Afghans existing under Taliban... Read more

Before They Were Kings Vol 2

By: Martin Lawrence, Dave Chappelle, Charles Cozart...

Narrated by: Martin Lawrence, Dave Chappelle, Charles Cozart...

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The greats of comedy, when they were young and struggling with their great early routines. Read more

Before They Were Kings Vol 1

By: Chris Rock, Steve Harvey, AJ Jamal, Arsenio Hal...

Narrated by: Chris Rock, Steve Harvey, AJ Jamal, Arsenio Hal...

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The greats of comedy, when they were young and struggling with their great early routines. Read more

Author Sarah Broom On ‘The Yellow House’ And Putting New Orleans East On The Map PBS NewsHour

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Broom’s 2019 memoir, “The Yellow House,” won the National Book Award
for non-fiction. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Broom to discuss her mother
and how an obsession with houses passed down two generations to the author
herself, why Broom doesn’t appear until 100 pages into the book and the
larger story she is telling about New Orleans East. Read more

The Mysterious Miss Empress

By: Samuel Fort

Narrated by: Amy Putt

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Marie Empress was an English singer, dancer, male impersonator and comedienne who performed in vaudeville and theater around the world at the turn of the twentieth century. She achieved her greatest success as an actress in early American motion pictures and was known as "the sublime vampire woman." She was considered one of the most beautiful... Read more

Laila Lalami’s “The Other Americans” Explores The Experience Of Being An Outsider

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey Brown caught up with the National Book Award fiction finalist Laila Lalami at the Miami Book Festival. Her latest work of fiction, "The Other Americans," explores issues of immigration and identity, part of our ongoing arts and culture series, Canvas. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Executioner

By: Honoré De Balzac

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The French conquerors impose a strange doom on a noble Spanish family. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Warning

By: R.P. Gillies

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Esther was lying in bed half asleep when the clock struck midnight and a voice spoke to her. It sounded to her like her bother Tom and it warned her that her husband Charles must not go to the house of Waverley that it would bring death and sorrow. Esther begged her husband not to go to the house tonight even though he was going to find out what... Read more

The Weird Circle: The Returned

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A man's first wife returns from the dead for a horrible revenge. Read more

The Weird Circle: Mad Monkton

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An excellent ghost story; ancient prophesy and the unburied dead. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Fatal Love Potion

By: Edward Lytton

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An old story told in modern terms, with the expected wild ending. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Burial of Roger Melvin

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A man promises to bury his dying friend, but fails to keep his promise. A strange revenge. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Last Days of a Condemned Man

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Andre Germaine has been condemned by the law of the state and freaky circumstance. He has been accused of his own murder and of a crime against his own family. He fought under Boneparte, he served his country, married and fathered a child but all those things come to nothing in the cell of the condemned. He believes it is the working of a curse... Read more

The Weird Circle: Rapicini's Daughter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A good story about an actor who commits murder and then tries to convince the police that he's insane Read more

Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light

By: Peter Schjeldahl & Jarrett Earnest

Narrated by: Peter Schjeldahl

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings—some long, some short—that taken together forma group portrait of many of the world’s most significant and interesting artists.From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman, Old Masters to contemporary masters, paintings to comix, and saints to charlatans, Schjeldahl ranges widely through the diverse and... Read more

The Weird Circle: The Murder of the Little Pig

By: Émile Gaboriau

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Messier Lehan had been plaguing Messier LeCoque for years to let him write up some of his interesting criminal cases. He considered him the most popular citizen of Paris and certainly the greatest detective of the time. And he finally gave in and agreed to allow him to write up his last case for his paper, The Murder of the Little Pig, alias... Read more

The Weird Circle: The Wooden Ghost

By: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

As they rode along in their carriage beyond them on the road they see a man hailing them to stop. It is a tall man in a cape and wide brimmed hat and he tells Heir Gerard Dahl that he has been waiting for him to return from Rotterdam. Dahl is the uncle and guardian of Rose Falderkaust and the caped man tells him that he will visit him tonight at... Read more

Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna

By: Alessandra Belloni

Narrated by: Alessandra Belloni & Matthew Fox

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

An experiential guide to the ancient healing rituals of the Black Madonna

• Reveals the practices and rites of the still-living cult of the Black Madonna in the remote villages of Southern Italy, including the healing rites of the tarantella dance

• Details shamanic chants, rhythms, and songs and how to use them for self-healing, transformation,... Read more

The Weird Circle

By: Various

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Originally broadcast between 1943 and 1945, these thirty-minute, supernatural episodes featured stories written by popular authors at the time including Robert Lewis Stevenson, Victor Hugo, Edgar Alan Poe, and even Charles Dickens. Read more

TV Noir

By: Allen Glover

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The pioneering, incisive survey of noir on television—the first of its kind Noir—as a style, movement, or sensibility—has its roots in hard-boiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called “film noir” by French cinéastes. But film isn’t the only medium with a taste for... Read more