Art audiobooks

Novelist Valeria Luiselli On Writing To Document ‘Political Violence’

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The U.S. is reportedly experiencing illegal immigration at the highest rates since 2007, with significant increases in the number of unaccompanied minors. It is these child migrants who are the subject of Valeria Luiselli’s book “Lost Children Archive.” Luiselli talks to Jeffrey Brown about her experience helping child asylum seekers, balancing... Read more

Planet Trek fm #28 - Die ganze Welt von Star Trek - Abridged

By: Björn Sülter

Narrated by: Björn Sülter

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Über Episode #28 Die zweite Staffel von "Star Trek: Discovery" geht mit "Light and Shadows" ("Licht und Schatten") weiter. Medienjournalist und Star-Trek-Experte Björn Sülter spricht in seinem Podcast "Planet Trek fm" mit Co-Pilot Moritz Wolfart über das neue Abenteuer und ordnet es ein. Du möchtest Autoren, Synchronsprechern, Fans, Nerds... Read more

Planet Trek fm #27 - Die ganze Welt von Star Trek - Abridged

By: Björn Sülter

Narrated by: Björn Sülter

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Über Episode #27 Die zweite Staffel von "Star Trek: Discovery" geht mit "The Sound of Thunder" ("Donnergrollen") weiter. Medienjournalist und Star-Trek-Experte Björn Sülter spricht in seinem Podcast "Planet Trek fm" mit der Autorin und Übersetzerin Claudia Kern, Torben Kessler von SYFY sowie Co-Pilot Moritz Wolfart über das neue Abenteuer und... Read more

Escape: The Man Who Would Be King

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

You are making your way over the Great Indian Desert alone and dying of thirst while behind you pursuing you as a fanatical cop he is who once bowed to you as king and now called for your life… Read more

Escape: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating story about the home life of the richest family in the world. In a country as large as the U.S. there are many odd and wonderful corners hidden away, but none more fabulous and wonderful than the one conceived in the imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald and located in the pages of his famous short story of the same name. It is... Read more

Escape: The Fourth Man

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An excellent radio drama about three escaped convicts on a raft, and of their savage companion, a cannibal! New Maya in the South Pacific, to a generation of French criminals two words to be uttered in the same terrified breath with Devils Island. The penal colony at New Maya where the cutthroats, sadists and the dregs of the French society were... Read more

Daily Rituals: Women at Work

By: Mason Currey

Narrated by: January LaVoy & Michael Crouch

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

More of Mason Currey's irresistible Daily Rituals, this time exploring the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists--painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work, the choices they have to make: rebuffing convention, stealing (or secreting away) time from the pull... Read more

Escape: The Country of the Blind

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A mountain guide finds a hidden valley where no-one has eyes. However, the blind think that he is deformed. Zebarra is a mining engineer in Ecuador near the towering Andes. Up until a year ago his chief sport was mountaineering. His last climb was an attempt to climb the remote and forbidding peak of Parascotopetl, the 20,000-foot crag... Read more

Escape: Leiningen Versus the Ants

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A determined man battles even more determined insects in the tropical jungles. You are isolated on a remote plantation in the crawling Amazon Jungle and an immense army of ravenous ants is closing in on you - swarming in to eat you alive. A deadly black army from which there is no escape. Read more

Escape: Evening Primrose

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating adventure with a strange assortment of characters who live inside New York's department stores. You are groping in the midnight dimness of a gigantic department store and suddenly you realize that a hundred eyes are staring at you from the shadows and a hundred hands are reaching for your throat and your most urgent desire is to... Read more

Escape: The Lost Special

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A whole train has simply vanished. Where on earth is it? Read more

Foursome

By: Carolyn Burke

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art.

New York, 1921: acclaimed photographer Alfred Stieglitz celebrates the success of his latest exhibition—the... Read more

Escape: Orient Express

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A complex but exciting tale of intrigue on the trans-Balkan Railroad. You're aboard the Orient Express rushing through the European night, bound for Istanbul and in your compartment with you, a gun pointed at your head, a small, mysterious stranger is about to take your life. Read more

Escape: The Man Who Could Work Miracles

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic story about the bloke who could. In this tale you are crouched in the middle of an immense hurricane. Houses, animals, trees sweeping past you, and you suddenly realize that you have tampered with the Universe, that you are bringing about the destruction of the World. Lovely British accents in this tale with a message. A delightful... Read more

Gypsy

By: Gypsy Rose Lee

Narrated by: MEOW, MEOW

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Gypsy Rose Lee’s memoir became a New York Times bestseller in 1957, inspiring the 1959 hit musical, two movies, and three revivals. Now a fourth, directed by Arthur Laurents and starring Patti LuPone, is lighting up New York, winning top Broadway theatre awards, including three 2008 Tony Awards, as well as raves from critics and ... Read more

The Seven Basic Plots

By: Christopher Booker

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 38 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of "basic stories" in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that... Read more

Escape: S.S. San Pedro

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A psychiatrist being blackmailed is killed by doing a Brody from his apartment window. His blackmailer is later found strangled! Read more

Forty Fantastically Funny Fables

By: Joe Bevilacqua & Daws Butler

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Forty Fantastically Funny Fables is forty fables for the whole family! And they’re funny!This audio collection was written, performed in different voices, and fully produced with sound effects and music—in the style of the Jay Ward cartoons by Daws Butler (Yogi Bear) protege Joe Bevilacqua.Stories in this set:The City Mouse and the Country... Read more

Why Climate Change Is An 'All-Encompassing Threat'

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Although a candidate just entered the 2020 presidential race with a platform centered on climate change, some experts say Americans aren’t fully aware of the scope and seriousness of global warming. Among them is David Wallace-Wells, who argues in a new book that the severity of the climate crisis has not yet been acknowledged, let alone... Read more

Lofty

By: Lofty Fulton

Narrated by: Lofty Fulton

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of standing tall against the odds
Australian voice-over artist Lofty Fulton knows what it's like to have the odds stacked against him: Born with achondroplasia, which is a form of dwarfism, his grandmother thought he should be locked away from the world. At school, he suffered years of relentless bullying, believing the lie he would... Read more

COSMIC COWBOY the MUSICAL

By: JD West

Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo, JD West, Jai Conley, Becky Par...

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A zany musical comedy, touching love story, and fast-
paced adventure thriller combined – with “Elvis Presley
meets Star Wars” plot twists – COSMIC COWBOY the
MUSICAL stars the love-struck alien Prince Remo, from
faraway Planet Vegas (complete with glowing blue-grey
skin and personal flying saucer), and the object of his
adoration, aspiring Nashville... Read more

Editor in Chic

By: Mikki Taylor

Narrated by: Mikki Taylor

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this vibrant blend of Marie Kondo and Iyanla Vanzant, the “First Lady of Beauty” and trusted lifestyle expert Mikki Taylor shares uplifting advice for women who want to cultivate their own unique brand of beauty both inside and out in this “master class on beauty, wellness, purpose, and what it means to live in your power zone” (Gabrielle... Read more

The 007 Diaries

By: Sir Roger Moore

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

To tie in with the release of his first James Bond film, Live and Let Die, Roger Moore agreed to keep a day-by-day diary throughout the film's production which was published just ahead of the premiere in July 1973. From the previous October, when he was unveiled as the new 007, through to his first scenes on location in New Orleans and his final... Read more

Philip Simon, Meisenhorst

By: Philip Simon

Narrated by: Philip Simon

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Staatsbürgerkunde mit Philip Simon ist drastisch und unterhaltsam: In seinem neuen Programm "Meisenhorst" führt der niederländisch-deutsche Kabarettist vor, dass im Grundgesetz mehr Zündstoff steckt, als Progression in bundesdeutschen Köpfen. Rechtzeitig zum 70. Geburtstag der bundesdeutschen Staatsbibel stellt Philip Simon die entscheidende... Read more