Art audiobooks

Understanding the Rise of the Islamic State

By: Lawrence Wright

Narrated by: Lawrence Wright & Jeffrey Brown

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young man, Lawrence Wright first visited the Middle East when he taught English in Cairo. He has spent much of his life since reporting on the region -- documenting culture by sharing the stories of individuals. His new book, The Terror Years, considers the evolution of extremism and the Islamic State since 9/11. Wright sits down with... Read more

Undisclosed Files of the Police

By: Bernard Whalen, Philip Messing & Robert Mladinich

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 175 years of true crimes culled from the city's police blotter, told through startling, rarely seen images and insightful text by two NYPD officers and a NYC crime reporter.
From atrocities that occurred before the establishment of New York's police force in 1845 through the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 to the... Read more

The Birth of a Nation

By: Nate Parker

Narrated by: Nate Parker

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This official tie-in to the highly acclaimed film, The Birth of a Nation, surveys the history and legacy of Nat Turner, the leader of one of the most renowned slave rebellions on American soil, while also exploring Turner’s relevance to contemporary dialogues on race relations.

Based on astounding events in American history, The Birth of a Nation... Read more

The Art of Rivalry

By: Sebastian Smee

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, each linked to a counterpart by friendship, admiration, envy, and ambition. All eight are household names today. But to achieve what they did, each needed the influence of a contemporary—one who was... Read more

The Originalist

By: John Strand

Narrated by: Edward Gero, Karry Warren & Harlan Work

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia believed that the United States Constitution is the most reliable source for a fair interpretation of the law as it is applied today. He was, in other words, an “originalist.” But aren’t the laws written over 200 years ago subject to interpretation—or even guesswork? Edward Gero stars as the late Justice... Read more

In Such Good Company

By: Carol Burnett

Narrated by: Carol Burnett

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2017 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album

Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show.
 
Who but Carol Burnett herself has the timing, talent, and wit to pull back the curtain on the Emmy-Award winning show that made television history for eleven... Read more

Reading the Silver Screen

By: Thomas C. Foster

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film.No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked, frightened, elated, moved, and thrilled. We expect... Read more

Samurai Rising

By: Pamela S. Turner

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family-and lost. His father was killed, his mother... Read more

TV (The Book)

By: Alan Sepinwall & Matt Zoller Seitz

Narrated by: Alan Sepinwall & Matt Zoller Seitz

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible?

For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown newspaper-critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller... Read more

She Made Me Laugh

By: Richard Cohen

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Nora Ephron, one of the most famous writers, film makers, and personalities of her time is captured by her long-time and dear friend in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship.Nora Ephron (1941–2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist, essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated... Read more

Alan Bennett: Stories

By: Alan Bennett

Narrated by: Alan Bennett

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A unique collection of eight Alan Bennett stories, read by the author. Alan Bennett is one of Britain's best-loved authors and an acclaimed storyteller. This exclusive compilation includes eight of his best tales, collected together for the first time.

Here is his celebrated, iconic memoir The Lady in the Van; as well as two fascinating... Read more

The Wrong Box

By: Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne

Narrated by: Stanley Green

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two elderly brothers Masterman and Joseph Finsbury, who are the last two surviving members of a tontine, an investment scheme set up many years before, in which the last member stands to receive a fortune.... Read more

Classic Radio Spotlights: Frank Sinatra

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Frank Sinatra & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the top entertainers of the twentieth century, Frank Sinatra, stars in fourteen broadcasts from the golden age of radio.Although “Ol’ Blue Eyes” would conquer records, film, and television, it was radio that first made Frank Sinatra a star. Spanning the years 1943 to 1954, this collection showcases Sinatra from such shows as Suspense, The... Read more

Shardlake: Dark Fire

By: CJ Sansom

Narrated by: Full Cast, Justin Salinger & Robert Glenister

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on the second novel in C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime series.

Summer, 1540. It has been three years since the terrible events at Scarnsea monastery, and lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is living a quiet life in London – until a summons from Cromwell sees him embarking on another... Read more

Raymond Chandler: The BBC Radio Drama Collection

By: Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast, Kelly Burke & Toby Stephens

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete collection of landmark BBC Radio dramas of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mysteries.

Philip Marlowe is the archetypal noir detective: wisecracking and world-weary, hardboiled yet honourable. This volume includes all eight dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's groundbreaking crime novels featuring his iconic hero.

The Big Sleep... Read more

Dangerous Assignment, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Brian Donlevy & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1949 NBC brought handsome Irish American actor Brian Donlevy to the radio microphones as international troubleshooter Steve Mitchell in the spy series Dangerous Assignment. Mitchell worked for an unnamed US government intelligence agency, whose boss, “the Commissioner,” dispatched him to world trouble spots. Mitchell’s assignment was to solve... Read more

Frontier Gentleman, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: John Dehner & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve episodes of the adventures of an English journalist in the American West of the 1870s in this show from the golden age of radio.Frontier Gentleman was a radio western series aimed at adults that aired on CBS radio for one season in 1958. It starred radio veteran John Dehner as J. B. Kendall, a reporter for the London Times. The... Read more

The Hall of Fantasy, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve episodes of the horror and mystery series written and produced by radio announcers beginning in 1946.There were several series under the Hall of Fantasy banner, all produced by Richard Thorne. The first originated from radio station KALL in Salt Lake City. Richard Thorne and Carl Greyson were announcers for the station and... Read more

The Lineup, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Bill Johnstone & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the golden age of radio comes twelve episodes of this popular and realistic police procedural.The Lineup was a hard-boiled drama. Like Dragnet, it realistically showed police doing their jobs. The show always began with a police sergeant ordering suspects to stand at attention so that the victim, behind one-way glass, could try to identify... Read more

Play All

By: Clive James

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Television and TV viewing are not what they once were—and that’s a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming and in the very manner in which television is watched.... Read more

The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams

By: Edward Gross & Mark A. Altman

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White, Jason Olazabal, Nate Aldrich, ...

Length: 34 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the true story behind the making of a television legend. There have been many books written about Star Trek, but never with the unprecedented access, insight and candor of authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross. Having covered the franchise for over three decades, they’ve assembled the ultimate guide to a television classic.

The... Read more

Car Talk Science: MIT Wants Its Diplomas Back

By: author

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Presented together for the first time, here are all-time favorite Car Talk calls that run happily off road, veering into the amazing world of science, where Tom and Ray actually wield some authority. MIT may want its diplomas back, but the world's most knowledgeable garage scientists are undeterred in seeking greater knowledge – and laughter. Read more

Blue Territory

By: Robin Lippincott

Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A poetic immersion into the life and art of Joan Mitchell, the great American abstract expressionist painterA contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell is not as well known as her male counterparts, not only because she was a woman but also because she spent most of her working life in France. Still, in 2013 Bloomberg... Read more

Unconstitutional

By: Colin Quinn

Narrated by: Colin Quinn

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Filmed live in Tarrytown, NY long-time comedian, Colin Quinn, brings up some excellent points about America's history. Laugh out loud to this stand-up special while learning a thing or two! Read more