Art audiobooks

The Youth of Old Age - Abridged

By: Stuart Price

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wickedly acerbic, The Youth of Old Age shows acclaimed British actor Prunella Scales at her dragon-tongued best. As the story’s matriarch, she’s determined to prevent her heir from marrying “out of sorts.”Written and directed by award-winning Stuart Price, you’d be mad not to listen to this wicked comedy. Read more

Angels in the Dark - Abridged

By: Susan Casanove

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Roger Benezoscee is the worst boss you’ve ever had. What could possibly force this obnoxious, egotistical old megalomaniac to change his ways? Nothing short of a Damascene conversion.This innovative mystery stars Kim Durham (Matt Crawford in The Archers). Fans of anagrams may ponder the significance of the character names: Roger Benezoscee, Cath... Read more

2010: Space Commander! - Abridged

By: Stuart Price

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since our bodies cannot genuinely explore space, why not get rid of them?Without wanting to trot out the already tired clichés about social networking sites being our main interaction, or point out that with gaming systems becoming so sophisticated the next generation will spend an overwhelming amount of time interacting through the Internet, it... Read more

Spook Squad - Abridged

By: Jim Spiers

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This radio show is from The Wireless Theatre Company Collection, Vol. 1.In this hilarious British comedy, a mismatched bunch of oddballs and geeks, along with a borderline-psychotic television presenter, venture to a haunted inn in England to record the first-ever episode of Spook Squad—a groundbreaking television show investigating the bizarre,... Read more

Medusa on the Beach - Abridged

By: Marty Ross

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Biddlecombe is a perfectly ordinary English seaside town—except everyone there has been turned to stone.Two seriously out-of-their-depth police officers uncover the strange truth of what happened when middle-aged and romantically disappointed hairdresser Marjorie Briggs finds something in a polythene bag on the beach that didn’t belong... Read more

Dream On - Abridged

By: Paul Ekert

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This radio show is from The Wireless Theatre Company Collection, Vol. 1.Robert is having a dream about his late wife. The next night, there she is again, hauntingly familiar in the full personification of her monstrous personality. His current wife is not amused with his nocturnal flirtation with the past.As dreams and reality begin to overlap,... Read more

The Wireless Theatre Collection, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: the Wireless Theatre Company, Stuart Price & Pa...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The award-winning and critically acclaimed Wireless Theatre Company strives to keep radio theater alive and well. From the hilarious to the terrifying, this diverse collection features ten Wireless Theatre productions in a single volume:Spook Squad by Jim Spiers, directed by Jack Bowman2010: Space Commander! by Stuart Price, directed by David... Read more

Will Miles: good year

By: Will Miles

Narrated by: Will Miles

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedy, women, music, Will Miles does them all but he's only good at one. Find out which one it is on his album Good Year. Read more

James Adomian & Anthony Atamanuik: Trump vs. Bernie: Live from Brooklyn

By: James Adomian & Anthony Atamanuik

Narrated by: James Adomian & Anthony Atamanuik

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedians James Adomian (Bernie Sanders) and Anthony Atamanuik (Donald Trump) bring two of the most controversial candidates in history, head-to-head, or rather bald-to-toupee, in a debate unlike anything you've ever seen before! The Presidential contenders will battle to prove once and for all that they are the candidate worth your vote! While... Read more

The Lonely City

By: Olivia Laing

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir, and biography on the subject of loneliness told through the lives of six iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring. You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The... Read more

Andrew Kennedy: Almost Black

By: Andrew Kennedy

Narrated by: Andrew Kennedy

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Bilingual entertainer Andrew Kennedy proves he is one of the most hysterical comedians today on his album Almost Black. Read more

The Writing Game

By: David Lodge

Narrated by: Ian Abercrombie, Michael Brandon, Christine Est...

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In a rickety, 17th century converted farmhouse in Dorset, England, a group of authors teaches a creative writing seminar. One of them—a brash American novelist—finds he’s got more to learn about writing and romance than he ever dreamed possible.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Ian Abercrombie as Jeremy Dean, Michael Brandon... Read more

Mothers

By: Kathleen McGhee-Anderson

Narrated by: Lira Angel, Takayo Fischer, Lynn Hamilton, John...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of two single mothers—one Japanese, the other Appalachian—who struggle to raise their mixed-race children in a Chicago tenement.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Lira Angel as Penny, Takayo Fischer as Grandmother/Others, Lynn Hamilton as Momma Rainey, John Herzog as Judge/Others, Lyvingston Holmes as Mrs. Ellis,... Read more

Chatting Science Fiction

By: Jim Freund

Narrated by: Ursula K. Le Guin & Ray Bradbury

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of interviews and chats is culled from some of the more recent episodes of the world’s longest-running radio program on speculative fiction, Hour of the Wolf, produced and hosted by Jim Freund since 1974. Many of these recordings were made at conventions, the Nebula Awards, some with the audience, and some in studios.... Read more

Who Was Maurice Sendak?

By: Janet Pascal

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

It seems entirely fitting that Maurice Sendak was born on the same day that Mickey Mouse first made his cartoon debut--June 10, 1928. Sendak was crazy about cartoons and comic books, and at twelve, after seeing Disney's Fantasia, he decided that he was going to become an illustrator. His love of childrens books began early: often sick and... Read more

Who Is Jeff Kinney?

By: Patrick Kinney & Who HQ

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Even as a kid, everyone thought Jeff Kinney was talented. People loved his drawings, and when he went to college, his comic strip Igdoof was so popular that it spread to other universities! Still, Jeff faced challenges. His cartoons were rejected by syndicates that claimed his art was unprofessional. Then, an idea struck: Jeff would write a... Read more

Talent Springs Eternal - Abridged

By: David De Silva

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Talent Springs Eternal takes place in and around LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City, where alumni and friends are planning the twentieth reunion of the class of 1984. The “spirits” of Michael Peters (class of 1966) and Carmen Diaz (class of 1984) appear and observe what is happening at the school, which... Read more

Absolute Power

By: Mark Tavener

Narrated by: John Bird & Stephen Fry

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen Fry and John Bird star in all four series of the BBC Radio 4 satirical comedy, plus the 2006 special episode.

Set in the Machiavellian world of modern PR, Absolute Power introduces us to London-based 'government-media relations consultancy' Prentiss McCabe, whose partners Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe are frequently embroiled in the... Read more

Absolutely Fabulous

By: Jennifer Saunders

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jennifer Saunders & Joanna Lumley

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Patsy and Edina are in full swing in these four BBC TV soundtrack episodes - Fat; Birthday; Death; Happy New Year - starring Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, with Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and others. Duration: 1 hour 40 mins. Read more

Fibber McGee & Molly, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fibber McGee & Molly had a long and successful run on radio from 1935 to 1959, featuring its creators and stars, married couple Jim and Marian Jordan. Living in the fictional midwestern city of Wistful Vista, Fibber was an American teller of tall tales and a braggart, usually to the exasperation of his long-suffering wife, Molly, who tried... Read more

The Weird Circle, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Weird Circle radio show was an anthology of classic thrillers from the pens of the world’s best-known and respected fiction authors of the nineteenth century. The focus was on stories of horror, suspense, and the supernatural by such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Mary Shelley, with an occasional drama by the likes... Read more

The Adventures of Rocky Jordan, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jack Moyles & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart’s character Rick Blaine from the classic movie Casablanca, Rocky Jordan relocated to Cairo after being ousted from St. Louis by his enemies. Now living in North Africa, Rocky Jordan owns and operates a gin joint, the Café Tambourine, and finds himself involved in an assortment of mystery and intrigue endeavors... Read more

Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Dick Powell & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Created by Blake Edwards of The Pink Panther fame, Richard Diamond, Private Detective came to NBC radio in 1949 starring film actor and singer Dick Powell. Powell had recently played Philip Marlowe in the popular RKO film Murder, My Sweet and jumped at the chance to play a suave detective on radio.Edwards’ hard-boiled private detective scripts... Read more

Let George Do It, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Bob Bailey & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The detective series Let George Do It came to radio in 1946. It starred Bob Bailey as George Valentine, ex-GI and detective for hire. Clients came to Valentine’s office after reading a newspaper carrying his classified ad:Personal notice: Danger’s my stock-in-trade. If the job’s too tough for you to handle, you’ve got a job for me, George... Read more