Art audiobooks

Red Nails

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Red Nails is one of the books featuring Conan the Cimmerian (a.k.a Conan the Barbarian) written by American author Robert E. Howard. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan encountering a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are proactively resigned to their own destruction. The tale also features a tough and... Read more

Hunter Patrol

By: H. Beam Piper

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Hunter Patrol is a 1959 sci-fi story co-authored by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire. A soldier travels into the future to kill a dictator. After completing the mission and returning home to his present time, he doesn't remember what he has done. With him he has an envelope with the formula for a fizzy drink that would make him able to conquer... Read more

The World That Couldn't Be

By: Clifford D. Simak

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The World That Couldn't Be is a sci-fi story by Clifford D. Simak, published in 1958. Our hero Duncan is a farm owner on an alien planet, very alien, in fact, since no one, absolutely no living creature or plant has sex, for instance... But that's not the least of Duncan's troubles, as some alien life form is attacking his crops, the hunt is on.... Read more

Blood and Stone - Abridged

By: Marty Ross

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on the true story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, perhaps one of the greatest mass murderers of all time, a woman who tortured and killed over 600 young women for their bloodToo noble to be executed, in 1610 the “Bloody Lady of Cachtice” was bricked up in a set of rooms in her own castle in Slovakia. Why then should the young and beautiful... Read more

The Mighty Carlins - Abridged

By: Collin Doyle

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the anniversary of his wife’s death, Leo Carlin and his two sons come together for their traditional night of sharing the good and not-so-good memories of the dearly departed Mrs. Carlin. Beers are drunk. Plans are hatched. Secrets are revealed.The Mighty Carlins is a black comedy that celebrates a family at its worst.Starring Shane Rimmer,... Read more

Emails Abroad - Abridged

By: Julia Messenger & Shirley Mawer

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Emails Abroad is a play based on travels abroad relayed by e-mails between an ingenuous first-time traveler and her disillusioned home-bound sister. It culminates in their role-reversal, with the possibility of closure, a tragic end, or a new beginning.Starring Maggie Turner and Robin Miller Read more

We Are Not the BBC - Abridged

By: Susan Casanove

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This story is a lighthearted look at the radio drama production process as seen by the members of an amateur dramatics society in a sleepy suburb of Swansea.It can’t be difficult to make your own play for radio, can it? And with a LAMDA-trained professional actor at the helm, surely nothing could go wrong. After their attempt at Mike... Read more

No Cause for Alarm - Abridged

By: Gareth Rubin

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No Cause for Alarm is a silly play.It has no comment to make about the human condition, love in the twenty-first century, or the Iraq war.Starring James Ash, Michael Good, Ceri Gifford, Jennifer McFarlane, Gareth Rubin, Tim Smith, Trevor Cutherbertson, Jack Bowman, and Neil Frost Read more

The Trial of Sherlock Holmes - Abridged

By: Peter Davis & Matthew Woodcock

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sherlock Holmes, the world’s greatest consulting detective, is on trial for his life!Trapped in a nightmarish court room and charged with endangering the public and his friends, Holmes is forced to relive some of his most bizarre cases with only Doctor Watson to aid his defense.Gasp at the Adventure of the Lizard’s Hands! Work your brain into a... Read more

Laying Ghosts - Abridged

By: Clare Reddaway

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Connie’s beloved husband, Jack, dies after twenty-seven years of marriage, Connie hopes that her only son, Gary, will console her. Gary, however, finds that level of commitment a bit, well, too much of a commitment. Connie is left with interfering neighbor Val until Gary’s girlfriend Sandra rings with some unexpected news.This sets Connie... Read more

Stage Fright - Abridged

By: Lynn Howes

Narrated by: Abi Titmuss & a full cast

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stage Fright by Lynn Howes, directed by Emma TaylorA savagely funny satire on celebrity and theater that garnered five-star reviews at its world premiere, Stage Fright charts the struggle for supremacy between three actors appearing in a play together: old friends Peter and Charles, and Geraldine, the young and vulnerable actress they have... Read more

The St. Valentine’s Day Murder - Abridged

By: Peter Davis

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It’s Valentine’s Day, but events turn less than romantic when one of the members of a dating site is murdered. Can detective Jean-Pierre LePoulet find the killer?Recorded in front of an audience at the New Diorama Theatre, The St. Valentine’s Day Murder stars Neil Frost, Mike Garnell, Debbie Bearelle, Philp Noth, Laura Marsall, Jade Allen, Laura... Read more

We Are the BBC - Abridged

By: Susan Casanove

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rob Sterling Davies is on the crest of a wave: a celebrated scriptwriter, actor, television personality, the new doyen of Just a Minute, and apparently, Stephen Fry’s new best friend. But all isn’t quite as it seems, and when Stephen discovers that Rob’s BAFTA-winning script was stolen, he undertakes to expose Rob for the fraud he is.We Are the... Read more

Ben Rosenfeld: The Russian Optimist

By: Ben Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Ben Rosenfeld

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Rosenfeld creates smarter comedy for smarter people. The Russian Optimist blends his family’s experience as Russian Jewish immigrants in America with his philosophical beliefs, political observations, and unique characters. Read more

The Devil in Iron

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Devil in Iron is one of the original Conan the Cimmerian (a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian) books, published in 1934. The plot concerns the resurrection of a mythical demon due to the theft of a sacred dagger, and an unrelated trap - in the lovely form of a noble born sensational beauty called Octavia - that lures Conan to the island fortress... Read more

The Misplaced Battleship

By: Harry Harrison

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Misplaced Battleship is a sci-fi short story by author Harry Harrison, published in 1960. James Bolivar DiGriz, alias "Slippery Jim" and "The Stainless Steel Rat", is a fictional character and the protagonist of a series of comic science fiction novels by the same author. "Slippery Jim" is the listener's wonderfully sly, funny and... Read more

No Great Magic

By: Fritz Leiber

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

No Great Magic fits into author Fritz Leiber's dizzying view of history as a battlefield in constant change. He explores the idea in his "Change War" novel, The Big Time, and this work is part of the action. It works by itself as the tale of poor Greta, a girl taken in "like a pet" by a company of Shakespearean actors. She lives in the dressing... Read more

Arm of the Law

By: Harry Harrison

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Arm of the Law is a 1958 story by sci-fi pro Harry Harrison. The cops in a backwater station on Mars get more than they bargained for in the form of a new ROBOT recruit - sent to them from earth in a box... All kinds of complications, danger and even fun ensue! Read more

A Slave Is a Slave

By: Henry Beam Piper

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A Slave Is a Slave is a story by sci-fi master H. Beam Piper, published in 1962. A slave based society is overtaken by a bigger power that outlaws slavery... "Something everybody owns, nobody owns, MykhylEschkhaffarobjected.'Oh, no, Mykhyl; it will belong to everybody,' KhreggorChmidd told him earnestly. 'But somebody will have to take care of... Read more

The Biography of a Grizzly

By: Ernest Thompson Seton

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing tale of the wildlife from a bear's perspective! The listener gets a real insight into the challenges and delights of the everyday life of a grizzly named Wahb, having been orphaned from his mother and sibling to a hunter, our hero has to survive alone in the rugged but beautiful mountains of Wyoming... Read more

Triplanetary

By: E. E. Smith

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Triplanetary is a science fiction novel and space opera by author E. E. Smith, published in 1948. It consists of two parts. The first explains the series background, which consists of a conflict between the evil Eddorians and the benevolent Arisians. This conflict is carried out throughout the history of an oblivious humankind on Earth. The... Read more

Uncle Remus Returns

By: Joel Chandler Harris

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from southern African - Americans. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of Aesop's Fables and Jean de la Fontaine's stories. Uncle Remus is a kindly old former slave who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him... A... Read more

The Children's Life of the Bee

By: Maurice Maeterlinck

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Published in 1901, The Children's Life of the Bee, by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature; is a wonderfully informative and poetic in-depth look at what exactly goes on in a hive, with insightful observations on its fascinating characters such as the drones, the workers and, of course, the queen... Read more

The Chapter Ends

By: Poul William Anderson

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Chapter Ends is a sci-fi story set tens of thousands of years in the future. What is the primary concern here is quite simply the end of human habitation on Earth and some serious decision making on what to do next... The author makes some very interesting and deep observations about human and cultural evolution. Read more