Art audiobooks

Stuck Behind Bars, A Writer Found A Way To Connect To The World

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Reginald Dwayne Betts grew up an honor student with hopes for college, but went to prison at 16 for carjacking, his first run-in with the law. Reading, and poetry in particular, became a comfort and gave him a new identity. The writer, who is now a law student and a prison reform advocate, sits down with Jeffrey Brown to discuss his work and his... Read more

Poetry Helps Youth At A Juvenile Detention Center Find Peace

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy aims to help troubled youths in Chicago’s Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center address their personal issues by writing poetry about their circumstances and upbringing. Jeffrey Brown talks with poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, who turned around his life with writing and education after eight and a half... Read more

Uncontrolled Comedy, Volume 2

By: Mary Patterson Broome, Billy Sorrells, Angelina...

Narrated by: Mary Patterson Broome, Billy Sorrells, Angelina...

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncontrolled Comedy is Def Comedy Jam meets the legendary Apollo Theater, with edgy sketch, ingenious sets, and the ability to showcase and produce the next legendary comedian. Read more

This Sceptred Isle Collection 2: 1702 - 1901

By: Christopher Lee

Narrated by: Anna Massey, Peter Jeffrey, Brett Usher, Denys ...

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The final five volumes from the landmark BBC radio series This Sceptred Isle.

Christopher Lee's epic history tells the story of Britain from the Romans to the death of Victoria. This collection includes the original volumes 6-10:

1702-1760: The First British EmpireThe reign of George I; Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, and the... Read more

Classic Radio Spotlights: Orson Welles - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Orson Welles

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection spotlights the iconic Orson Welles in nine of his works from the golden age of radio. These radio dramas, airing from 1938 through 1951, are among his very best and can be enjoyed for years to come.Armed with the nickname the “Boy Genius,” Orson Welles graduated from the New York stage to expand his creative talents in the radio... Read more

Broadway Is My Beat, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Larry Thor & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Broadway Is My Beat was a dark, gritty radio crime drama that ran on CBS from 1949 until 1954. The series was originally broadcast from New York with Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Police Detective Danny Clover. Produced by Lester Gottlieb, it was directed by John Dietz. But by the thirteenth episode, the series moved to Hollywood (still... Read more

The Falcon, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Les Damon, a full cast, Jackson Beck, Mason Ada...

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Falcon radio series aired from 1943 until 1954. “The Falcon” was an alternate identity for detective Michael Waring. Like the Falcon movies, the radio plots mixed danger, romance, and comedy in equal parts. Each show began with a telephone ringing and Michael Waring, the Falcon, answering the phone. Speaking with a woman whose voice was... Read more

Have Gun—Will Travel, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: John Dehner & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Have Gun—Will Travel follows the adventures of Paladin, a soldier of fortune turned hired gunfighter, played by John Dehner. Paladin prefers to settle problems without violence, yet when forced to fight, he excels.It’s 1875, and Paladin lives at the swanky Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, where he dresses in formal wear, eats gourmet food,... Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Gerald Mohr & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Raymond Chandler’s celebrated hard-boiled private eye, Philip Marlowe, made his radio debut in 1945 on the Lux Radio Theatre with “Murder, My Sweet,” starring Dick Powell. Two years later, NBC brought the character to the air in his own weekly series starring Van Heflin, The New Adventures of Philip Marlowe. A summer replacement for The Bob Hope... Read more

Maggie Smith: A Biography

By: Michael Coveney

Narrated by: Sian Thomas

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This perfect gift audiobook for fans of Downton Abbey will take them behind the scenes of the Grand Dame who brings the Dowager Countess to life.

No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer,... Read more

Adam Sank: Live From The Stonewall Inn

By: Adam Sank

Narrated by: Adam Sank

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Adam Sank, one of the most recognized and accomplished openly gay stand-up comics in the country, is coming to you Live from the Stonewall Inn with his debut album, full of his thoughts on straight guys' balls, Grindr, and more. Read more

The Forgotten Village

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The novelist who wrote THE GRAPES OF WRATH and the director who produced CRISIS AND LIGHTS OUT in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but THE FORGOTTEN VILLAGE is unique among them in that... Read more

Strange Tools

By: Alva Noë

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers... Read more

Uncontrolled Comedy, Volume 1

By: Rip Micheals, Will "Spank" Horton, Ambrose Jone...

Narrated by: Rip Michaels, Will "Spank" Horton, Ambrose Jone...

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncontrolled Comedy is Def Comedy Jam meets the legendary Apollo Theater, with edgy sketch, ingenious sets, and the ability to showcase and produce the next legendary comedian. Read more

Skinny Bitch

By: Gina Yashere

Narrated by: Gina Yashere

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Witty, razor-sharp observations abound in this stand-up performance from Gina Yashere. From bits about her mom and men, to colonic irrigation and luggage this special leaves no stone unturned. Read more

The Union Signal Radio Theater Collection - Abridged

By: Doug Bost, Jeff Ward & Anthony Ellis

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Union Signal is Jeff Ward and Doug Bost. From their ruined garage, they’ve been producing radio plays that have been broadcast on National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, and Bavarian State Radio, as well as on local public radio stations across the country and on Joe Bevilacqua’s The Comedy-O-Rama Hour in its first XM Radio incarnation. Their... Read more

The Funches of Us

By: Ron Funches

Narrated by: Ron Funches

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Ron Funches is a very funny stand-up comedian with a unique delivery and lovable demeanor. You just want to hug and squeeze him like a big stuffed bear. His debut comedy album The Funches of Us has an easy going, inventive style that sounds the way fresh chocolate chip cookies taste. Read more

Roy Jackson: Ugly People Cause Problems

By: Roy Jackson

Narrated by: Roy Jackson

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Roy Jackson has been making people laugh his whole life with his innate ability to find humor in just about anything. On Jackson's debut album, Ugly People Cause Problems, he attacks his comedy with a "tell it like it is" approach. Read more

Laughing to America

By: Gina Yashere

Narrated by: Gina Yashere

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Filmed live in San Francisco, CA, UK's premier black female comedian, Gina Yashere, has come to America! Her unique take on being a cultural insider and outsider never fails to raise the roof as she gives us her take on the news gripping the nation. Read more

One Day in 1939

By: Arthur Godfrey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joe E. B...

Narrated by: Arthur Godfrey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joe E. B...

Length: 18 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Godfrey, The Romance of Helen Trent, Our Gal Sunday, The Goldbergs, President Roosevelt’s Address to Congress, Amos and Andy, Joe E. Brown, Major Bowes, Louis Prima, and more all in a row!This is a recording of a full broadcast day, remastered (from the National Archives transcript disks) by Joe Bevilacqua.On Thursday, September 21st,... Read more

Judy Toll: Shareaholic

By: Judy Toll

Narrated by: Judy Toll

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Judy Toll was a comedian and writer whose life was an open book on stage. In her first and only album (she lost a long battle with cancer in 2002), you can hear her best stand-up, all performed live at the famous Uncabaret. The album mostly covers her quixotic attempts to find the love of her life, and while the premise might seem well-worn,... Read more

Dixon of Dock Green

By: Ted Willis & Sue Rodwell

Narrated by: David Calder, David Tennant & Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

David Calder, David Tennant and Hamish Clark star in these BBC Radio 4 dramas based on the original TV series.

George Dixon became one of the best-known and most-loved fictional policemen during the course of three decades of BBC TV's Dixon of Dock Green, in which he was played by Jack Warner. In these 12 radio adaptations he once again upholds... Read more

We Bombed in New London

By: Brian Gari

Narrated by: Brian Gari

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We Bombed in New London tells the true story of one man’s tenacious plight to get his musical mounted. From its romantic inception to its eventual demise and then the score’s resurrection in cabarets and recordings, this book takes you on a journey through the ups and downs of the theatrical world with all its excitement, disappointment,... Read more

Drawing Blood

By: Molly Crabapple

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From a young age, Molly Crabapple had the eye of an artist and the spirit of a radical. After a restless childhood on New York's Long Island, she left America to see Europe and the Near East, a young artist plunging into unfamiliar cultures, notebook always in hand, drawing what she observed.



Returning to New York City after 9/11 to study art,... Read more