Art audiobooks

Boston Blackie: The Disappearing Body

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

There's a dead body in Blackie's apartment. After Blackie is lured out with a decoy telephone call, the body disappears. Then, stolen pearls find their way into Blackie's safe! Mary and Blackie return home early from the pictures to find a corpse in the dining room. While Blackie tries to explain to Mary that he knows nothing about the body,... Read more

Boston Blackie: Mary Disappears

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Shorty’s been arrested by Inspector Friday for sticking up a gas station and even though he told them it was a guy named Donald Bolton Shorty has ended up in Jail. Inspector Friday informs Mary to tell Blackie that Shorty’s guilty and he’s to keep his nose out of this case. Read more

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras

By: Duncan Tonatiuh

Narrated by: Armando Duran

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny Bones tells the story of how the amusing calaveras-skeletons performing various everyday or festive activities-came to be. They are the creation of Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe (Lupe) Posada (1852-1913). In a country that was not known for freedom of speech, he first drew political cartoons, much to the amusement of the local population... Read more

Chasing the Last Laugh

By: Richard Zacks

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain’s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy—and revived his world-class sense of humor

Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation’s... Read more

Boston Blackie: Amnesia Victims

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Burke woke up this morning in a strange office with a lump on his head and he has no idea where he’s been for the last three weeks. Burke has read the story of the murder of George Digby in the morning paper and is afraid that he had something to do with it. Burke calls Blackie to help him find out. Read more

Boston Blackie: TV Poisoning

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A man about to expose a criminal on Television is poisoned by a glass of water. Three other people, however, drank the water without ill effects! Boston Blackie and Mary Wesley seem to be settling in to watch a TV show with Inspector Faraday. As the set warms up they see Inspector Faraday and three other men seated around a table. Mary comments... Read more

Boston Blackie: Gambler Joe Garland Killed

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Blackie visits Joe Garland to pays a friend's gambling debt. Joe is murdered while Blackie is locked in an adjacent room. Read more

Boston Blackie: The Masters Diamond

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

At a swank dinner party, the Masters diamond disappears, and Mrs. Masters has been murdered. Read more

The Road Home

By: author

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Some say a place is home when you know where all the roads go. Over in Lake Wobegon, all the roads take you there, and it's never been any different. And what you learn along the way is that—quicker than any road sign or street map or pair of shiny red shoes—all you really need is a story to get you from here to there. A story about an ordinary... Read more

Boston Blackie: Simmons Construction Murder

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Falling for his friend's girl, he fails to reckon with an unusual roommate. The young man was tall tanned and impressive. There wasn’t a guest at Mrs. Parkford-Smith’s cocktail party who would deny that his presence had livened the affair considerably. The hostess especially appreciated Mr. Derek Marlow, his gentle flattery and his absurdly... Read more

Boston Blackie: Atkins, Jewel Theif

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Peggy Williams' pearl necklace has gone missing from her safe and Boston Blackie was at the scene of the crime, so of course in Faraday’s book he’s the prime suspect. But the insurance company thinks it may be staged for a false insurance claim. Read more

Boston Blackie: Murder at the Movies

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A movie star is shot while in a trunk, but no bullet went through the trunk and the bullet wasn't inside the trunk either. The commercials for Champagne Velver beer heard on this program and the others following were not part of the original network broadcast, nor even an integral part of the Ziv syndication discs. The commercials were found on... Read more

Boston Blackie: Murder With An Alibi

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

John Blake seems to have committed the perfect crime. He has killed Thomas Evers, just as he told Blackie that he would. Blake also has a perfect alibi and seems to be making a fool out of Blackie! John Blake, a student of crime has come urgently to see Blackie. He wants to know why a murderer is always caught? Blackie replies “that’s easy... Read more

History of Cinema

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Cinema can be defined as the art of performed act, intended to entertain an audience. Most people think of cinema as being of a very recent origin. In its true entirety, cinema is however, an ancient entity that has existed with us since 3 millennia at least. It could have existed prior to beginnings of our organised societies and settlements at... Read more

Rant in E-Minor: Variations

By: Bill Hicks

Narrated by: Bill Hicks

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Rant in E-Minor: Variations is Bill Hicks’ most brilliant album in its raw form with no music interludes. The original release was compiled from multiple shows in Austin, Texas and other locations; this version is one of those Austin evenings, October 24th, 1993. It contains Hicks’ classic material, never-before-heard bits, and some new twists... Read more

Art Theory

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Art theory has great prominence since bygone era. Many people are fond of art and in fact artists are taking the art form to portray their views on any particular situation, trend, or a topic. The art theory was refined in the twentieth century by adding many other art forms. This visual language has huge demand since ages. People are exhibiting... Read more

The Vanishing Velázquez

By: Laura Cumming

Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016

“As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel” (The Economist), the incredible true story—part art history and part mystery—of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.

When John... Read more

Hamilton

By: Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jeremy McCarter

Narrated by: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A backstage pass to the groundbreaking, hit musical Hamilton, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, including the award-winning libretto, behind-the-scenes photos and interviews, and exclusive footnotes from composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda, now streaming on Disney+ with the original... Read more

History of Art

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

What we know of Art History today actually has its roots back to the 19th century, but what the study is about, dates back to the ancient world. The art historians depend on the semiotics, formal analysis, iconography and psychoanalysis for understanding the history of a piece of art. After the World War II when photographic imitation and... Read more

History of Opera

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Tracy Tupman

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Blending music, dance, visual arts and drama seamlessly to create one of the most interesting things that millions of audiences enjoy is what opera is all about. Its 400 year old history is rich with instances of rise and fall of opera.With its roots in the Renaissance period, opera gradually spread across the world and today it has become a... Read more

John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme: Series 5

By: John Finnemore

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Finnemore

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

John Finnemore's Double Acts Series 1 is the winner of the Writers Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy and the Comedy.co.uk awards for Best Radio Sketch Show!

The complete fifth series of BBC Radio 4’s award-winning sketch show, written by and starring the writer of Cabin Pressure.

'One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite some... Read more

Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Comedies

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast, Geraldine McEwan, Miriam Margolyes &...

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Three classic radio productions from the BBC archives starring Nigel Hawthorne, Miriam Margolyes, Geraldine McEwan and a host of celebrated acting talent.

These three legendary plays, performed by some of the best-known theatrical actors of the 20th Century, are the perfect way to commemorate England's greatestdramatist.

The Taming of the Shrew:... Read more

A Guide to Coastal Wildlife

By: Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss

Narrated by: Brett Westwood & Phil Gates

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining guide to some of our commonest and most curious coastal wildlife.

Brett Westwood is joined by naturalist Phil Gates in this informative and entertaining guide to a variety of common coastal wildlife. Recorded in early summer along the coast of Northumberland, each programme focuses on a different habitat – rock pools, sandy... Read more

Don't Go to Jail!

By: Saul Goodman & Steve Huff

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Got the long arm of the law around your neck?
Does Lady Justice have her eye on you?
Were you set up at a lineup?
Saul Goodman can help!

There are some crazy laws out there. Did you know that in New Mexico there’s a law that says “idiots” can’t vote? Or that Massachusetts still has a ban on Quakers and witches? Or that in Georgia it’s illegal to put... Read more