Art audiobooks

The Chase, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hear sixteen stories of trying to beat the clock in NBC radio’s thrilling series The Chase!In 1952, radio program creator Lawrence Klee brought The Chase to NBC radio. Developed as a psychological drama, the premise was that many life situations place their subjects in a chase of one type or another. A chase for fame. A chase from peril. A chase... Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Texas, more than 260,000 square miles and fifty men make up the oldest and most famous law enforcement body in North America—the Texas Rangers!Like its predecessor Dragnet, Tales of the Texas Rangers adapted actual police case files for its broadcasts. Leading each week’s investigation of an actual Texas Ranger case was the same Texas Ranger,... Read more

Urban Priol, TILT! 2019

By: Urban Priol

Narrated by: Urban Priol

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Alles, was man über die vergangenen zwölf Monate in Sachen Politik und Gesellschaft wissen muss, geballt auf 2 CDs. Schonungslos, schnell und wortgewandt kredenzt Urban Priol eine hochprozentig angesetzte Jahresendbowle für Hirn und Herz. Ob klitzekleines Klimapaketchen, der Master of Maut-Desaster Andi Scheuer, Miss Ernte Julia Klöckner oder... Read more

BOGAAZAN!

By: Akira Hayasaka adapted by Ichiko Flynn & Robert...

Narrated by: June Angela, Francois Chau, Shizuko Hoshi, Jim ...

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

As the Japanese battleship Yamato steams towards the island of Okinawa in the closing months of World War II, a naval officer on board makes an unexpected discovery among the stores of rice, leeks, and pickled radishes. A child has stowed away there, hoping to return to her mother on Okinawa. His reluctant decision to protect her prompts a... Read more

Luise Kinseher, Mamma Mia Bavaria

By: Luise Kinseher

Narrated by: Luise Kinseher

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Wer mit Bayern klar kommt, kann auch Europa! Das neue Kabarettprogramm von Luise Kinseher beschäftigt sich mit einer Frage von globalem Ausmaß: Welche Bedeutung hat Bayern vom Weltraum aus betrachtet? Und welche Bedeutung hat das für die Welt? Bayern passt gerade mal auf einen moosgrünen Bierdeckel, der bei Google Earth schon mit drei Klicks im... Read more

Nikita Miller, Wir haben Geburtstag

By: Nikita Miller

Narrated by: Nikita Miller

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Nikita Miller, auf der Suche nach der großen Liebe, durchlebt dabei einen Fehlschlag nach dem anderen bis ihm gesagt wird: "Hör endlich auf, deine Zeit damit zu verschwenden nach der richtigen Frau zu suchen. Versuch stattdessen endlich mal zum richtigen Mann zu werden." Wenn ich den richtigen Job habe, bin ich ein Mann. Oder muss ich einfach... Read more

William Lee Martin: The Nutcracker

By: William Lee Martin

Narrated by: William Lee Martin

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Texas comedian returns with his third television one-hour special talking all things Christmas including traditions, the pitfalls of having family over, and finding the ultimate gift in this one-of-a-kind stand-up special. Read more

Americans Are Drowning In Medical Debt, So This Nonprofit Is Buying — And Forgiving — It

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Collectively, Americans owe nearly a trillion dollars of medical debt, and Congress is trying to figure out a policy response. But in the meantime, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on an unusual non-profit’s effort to relieve the burden of medical debt for those in need. Read more

The Cinnamon Bear - Complete Radio Shows (1937)

By: Barbara Jean Wong

Narrated by: Verna Felton

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Cinnamon Bear is an old-time radio program produced by Transco (Transcription Company of America), based in Hollywood, California. The series was specifically designed to be listened to six days a week between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Read more

Les Miserables

By: Orson Welles

Narrated by: Isabel F. Hapgood

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Les Miserables (1937) was Orson Welles' first radio series. He served as actor, director, producer, and adaptor, developing narrative and audio techniques that would later be used for The Mercury Theatre on the Air. Read more

Pebble in the Sky (Dramatized)

By: Isaac Asimov 

Narrated by: Isaac Asimov

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original... Read more

Orson Welles: The Ultimate Collection

By: Orson Welles

Narrated by: Harold Bloom

Length: 63 hours

Abridged: No

If you are a lover of old-time radio and a fan of Orson Welles, you won't want to miss this treasure chest of legendary Orson Welles radio broadcasts! With his flair for the sensational and innovative, Welles captured audiences' attention with his 1930s CBS weekly drama series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, later renamed The Campbell Playhouse,... Read more

The Art of Dramatic Writing

By: Lajos Egri

Narrated by: Troy W. Hudson

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Among the many "how-to" playwriting books that have appeared over the years, there have been few that attempt to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel, or screenplay. Examining a play from the inside... Read more

Walter Gropius

By: Bernd Polster

Narrated by: Hans Jürgen Stockerl

Length: 21 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Biograf und Designhistoriker Bernd Polsters enthüllt die wahre Geschichte des Bauhaus-Gründers und der Architekten-Legende Walter Gropius Walter Grophius zählt zu den ganz Großen der modernen Architektur: Was aber hat er wirklich gebaut? Nicht viel. Und das ist auch nicht wirklich erstaunlich, denn nach zwei Jahren Studium war klar, dass ihm... Read more

Why Millennials Are Increasingly Choosing An Alcohol-Free Lifestyle

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Millennials are increasingly reevaluating their relationship with alcohol.
A movement known as “sober curious” is gaining popularity with these young
adults, who are questioning both the physical effects of alcohol and the
way drinking is ingrained in American culture. And now, bars and breweries
are looking to capitalize on the trend by... Read more

The World of Sanditon: The Official Companion

By: Andrew Davies & Sara Sheridan

Narrated by: Adrian Scarborough

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of Jane Austen's Sanditon television series.

Sanditon, the final novel Austen was working on before her death, has been given an exciting conclusion, and will be brought to a primetime television audience on PBS/Masterpiece for the very first time by Emmy and BAFTA Award winning screenwriter... Read more

Hollywood Lights, Nashville Nights

By: Victoria Hallman & Diana Goodman

Narrated by: Victoria Hallman & Diana Goodman

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In their star-studded memoir, Hollywood Lights, Nashville Nights, coauthors Victoria Hallman and Diana Goodman are the first of the iconic Hee Haw Honeys to write about their lives as the glamour gals of TV’s longest-running syndicated variety show. Read more

Ben Hecht

By: Adina Hoffman

Narrated by: Adina Hoffman

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist.



He was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented eighty percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today." Besides tossing off dozens of... Read more

Ballpark

By: Paul Goldberger

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union Grounds in Brooklyn was a "saloon in the open air"), to the much mourned parks of the early 1900s (Detroit's Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans), to the stadiums we fill today, Paul Goldberger makes clear the inextricable bond between the American city and America's favorite pastime.... Read more

Barnabas Collins Versus the Warlock

By: Marilyn Ross

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Barnabas Collins Vs. the Warlock (October 1969)

David Collins and Amy Jennings, two charming, innocent children are suddenly turned into demons. At first their pranks only annoy Maggie Evans, their governess. But soon she realizes they have become malicious, bent on destroying all of Collinwood.

Convinced the children are possessed by a... Read more

The Peril of Barnabas Collins

By: Marilyn Ross

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Peril of Barnabas Collins (November 1969)

After falling in love with beautiful heiress Diana Hastings, Barnabas Collins makes a desperate attempt to find a cure for his vampire curse. He summons to Collinwood Dr. Rudolf Padrel, a strange scientist who claims he can develop a serum that will make Barnabas a normal man again.

But as time... Read more

Bobby Slayton: Born to Be Bobby

By: Bobby Slayton

Narrated by: Bobby Slayton

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Living legend Bobby Slayton is one of the most recognized, respected, and energetic comedians working today. Read more

Gareth Reynolds: Riddled With Disease

By: Gareth Reynolds

Narrated by: Gareth Reynolds

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Gareth Reynold’s debut album, Riddled With Disease is delightful dip into the observational comedy that Gareth carefully constructs every night on stage. Whether he’s tackling deep societal conversations like racism, the AIDS epidemic or his cat named Jose, Gareth delivers spirited tales through a cynical lens in his Riddled With Disease. Read more

Jenny McCarthy's Dirty Sexy Funny

By: Jenny McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Justine Marino...

Narrated by: Jenny McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Justine Marino...

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Several popular female comedians like Tammy Pescatelli, Lynne Koplitz, Paula Bel and Tiffany Haddish shed some light on what it's really like to be a woman. Read more