Art audiobooks

October Surprise - Abridged

By: Doug Bost & Jeff Ward

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

October SurpriseA Speculation for Public Radio. October Surprise is the tale of a murderer whose career in mayhem can’t be stopped, even by his own death.Script: Jeff WardProduction: Union SignalCast:Josh WeinsteinDoug BostJeff WardElisa DeCarloMary MicariKevin MaherDoug TyskUnion Signal is Jeff Ward and Doug Bost. From their ruined garage,... Read more

Georgia and the Bad Idea - Abridged

By: Doug Bost & Jeff Ward

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Georgia and the Bad IdeaGeorgia finds some new friends to trick-or-treat with on Halloween. But their scary costumes might be real. Recorded live on WBAI-FM, New York.Script: Jeff WardProduction: Union SignalArtwork: Jimmy Dean HornCast:Carolyn BaeumlerMatt HarringtonPriscilla HolbrookDoug BostSusan MicariJeff WardFloraine KayMary MicariAmy... Read more

Coming to the Stage: Season 2

By: Dan Levy

Narrated by: Dan Levy & Various Narrators

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In Season 2 of Coming to the Stage, Comedy Dynamics’ first original series, host Dan Levy introduces a new pool of up-and-coming comedians who people WILL be talking about tomorrow. This season features: Josh Fadem, Dan St. Germain, Rhea Butcher, Eddie Della Siepe, Donnivin Jordan, Ashley Barnhill, Megan Koester, Vincent Oshana, Merrill Davis,... Read more

This Ain't Shakespeare

By: Brooks McBeth

Narrated by: Brooks McBeth & Joel McHale

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Filmed live in Seattle, Joel McHale introduces us to his friend and fellow comedian, Brooks McBeth. Brooks has an edgy, but yet still endearing style of comedy that has made him a favorite at comedy clubs across the country. Read more

The Lady in the Van

By: Alan Bennett

Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Full Cast & Maggie Smith

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Maggie Smith stars in this BBC radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's highly acclaimed autobiographical stage play

An eccentric old lady moves into a quiet street in Camden Town. There she remains, installed in her van in glorious self-sufficiency, until the council instructs her to move on. Then a kind homeowner invites her to move her van into his... Read more

Charles Dickens: The BBC Radio Drama Collection: Volume One

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Full Cast & Pam Ferris

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Powerful full-cast radio dramatisations of four of Charles Dickens' most famous novels

Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned novelists of all time, and this first volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes four of his best-loved stories.

The Pickwick Papers
Mr Samuel Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club, forms a Corresponding... Read more

The Exorcist

By: William Peter Blatty

Narrated by: Alexandra Mathie, Full Cast & Robert Glenister

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Glenister and Ian McDiarmid star in a gripping BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of William Peter Blatty’s classic horror novel

‘When a radio play is this good, the devil really is in the details’ Radio Times

Summoned to a case of apparent possession, Father Karras is at first sceptical, then horrified. The victim –a 12-year-old girl named Regan –... Read more

Night Beat, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & NBC Radio

Narrated by: Frank Lovejoy & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There were several newspaper-based dramas during radio’s golden age, including Box 13, Let George Do It, and Casey, Crime Photographer, but Night Beat was a cut above. It was the story of Randy Stone, hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman, and his quest for the human-interest story behind the headlines. It starred Frank Lovejoy as Stone, who came to... Read more

The New Adventures of Michael Shayne, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jeff Chandler & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Michael Shayne, “the reckless, red-headed Irishman,” was a popular hard-boiled detective created by crime novelist Brett Halliday. Mike settled in New Orleans just after World War II, making crime pay by fighting it with a license and an attitude.Like Mike Hammer and Philip Marlowe, Shayne is a loner. Once happily married, Mike is devastated... Read more

Radio Pro

By: Joe Martelle

Narrated by: Joe Martelle & Jordan Rich

Length: 22 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Radio Pro is several books in one, covering every aspect of personality radio—from the history of pioneer broadcasters to how to become a successful personality. Forty-one-year radio pro Joe Martelle also brings together a richly varied selection of candid comments on the subject from over 150 of America’s best broadcasters—seasoned pros who... Read more

Making Faces

By: Kevin McDonald

Narrated by: Kevin McDonald

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Kevin McDonald, Canadian comedian, actor, and voice artist, most well-known as a member of The Kids in the Hall, is Making Faces on his latest album. There's one bit where he makes faces while an announcer describes the faces he's making in addition to multiple other hilarious sketches. Read more

A Carlin Home Companion

By: Kelly Carlin

Narrated by: Kelly Carlin

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the daughter of the iconoclastic comedic performer, Kelly Carlin’s memoir A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George “is written in the DNA of a Carlin, honest, biting, savage, funny, sad, dark, and profound…Hold on; like George Carlin, this book gives you a hell of a ride” (New York Times bestselling author and multi-award-winning... Read more

Dear Elizabeth

By: Sarah Ruhl

Narrated by: Julian Sands & JoBeth Williams

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The complicated relationship between the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell is revealed in nearly thirty years’ worth of correspondence. Taken from their exchange of letters, Dear Elizabeth is a study in friendship, intimacy, and the power of words.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring JoBeth Williams and Julian Sands, with... Read more

Tea

By: Velina Hasu Houston

Narrated by: Shuko Akune, June Angela, Takayo Fischer & Lily...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Velina Hasu Houston’s Tea uses history and poetic writing to weave a drama
about Japanese “war brides” living in Kansas.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Shuko Akune, June Angela, Takayo Fischer, Lily Mariye and Diana Tanaka. Read more

SpaceGirl - Abridged

By: Brian Price & Jerry Stearns

Narrated by: a full cast, David Ossman, Richard Fish, Melind...

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast comedy production from the Great Northern Audio TheatreLinda Kim Shelmerdine discovered her considerable powers during her hormonal years (the Sun was having similar problems then). But she read the superheroes’ guide books, and her years in 4-H helped too.Now fifty-nine, SpaceGirl is somewhat disillusioned with the way superheroism... Read more

Solid State University - Abridged

By: Jerry Stearns

Narrated by: Jerry Stearns, Dan Coffey, Dave Moore, Sarah ...

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast comedy production by the Great Northern Audio TheatreWhat if computers ran colleges and nobody came to class? This 1993 mockumentry was so far ahead of its time, it has already happened. The droll documentary style would make Christopher Guest proud. Read more

Tumbleweed Roundup - Abridged

By: Brian Price & Jerry Stearns

Narrated by: Jerry Stearns, Damiian Mariio Lang, Thea Alexa...

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast comedy production by the Great Northern Audio TheatreMack Brown remembers all those old Tumbleweed Roundup movies he saw as a kid and wonders what happened to them; they don’t show up on late-night television or in video stores anymore. Driven by nostalgia, he begins to search for the missing films.As he hunts down this elusive piece... Read more

The Great Northern Audio Theatre Collection - Abridged

By: Jerry Stearns & Brian Price

Narrated by: David Ossman, Phil Proctor & a full cast

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Great Northern Audio Theatre creates its own unique brand of lighthearted, whimsical, and comic original stories that evoke the inventiveness of Firesign Theatre and the sophistication of golden-age radio producer, Norman Corwin. This ultimate collection features eighteen stand-alone satires and comedies, many of which were performed before... Read more

Permafrost, MN - Abridged

By: Brian Price & Jerry Stearns

Narrated by: Irene Ruderman, Donna Alexander & a full cast

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Permafrost is an unincorporated (and entirely concocted) town on the logging road, off the gravel road, off the county road from Big Falls, in Koochiching County, Minnesota. It went into the unusually hard winter of 1887–88 and never came out. Oh, it isn’t frozen in time, it’s just frozen.There is what is called a “microclimate” around... Read more

Adam Wade: The Human Comedy

By: Adam Wade

Narrated by: Adam Wade

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Storyteller Adam Wade has won the Moth's GrandSLAM a staggering 20 times, so you know he can tell a good story. He spit his best of the best when he recorded his debut storytelling/comedy album, The Human Comedy, at The Bell House in Brooklyn. Read more

Trumbo

By: Bruce Cook

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate, essential biography of the man who broke the Hollywood blacklist.



A central figure in the Hollywood Ten and one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood history, two of Trumbo's screenplays earned Oscars (Roman Holiday and The Brave Ones) while he was blacklisted and unable to receive public credit for his work. Trumbo was... Read more

Ivory Vikings

By: Nancy Marie Brown

Narrated by: Tony Ward

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's... Read more

In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Dismantles the Deception of Idealism

By: Jonathan Franzen

Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen & Jeffrey Brown

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Franzen's latest novel unfolds between multiple characters across time and geography, connected by a theme named in its title: Purity. Jeffrey Brown visits the author on the California coast to discuss the book's inspiration and why he gets into heated public debates. Read more

The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Sydney Greenstreet & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Created in 1934 by American mystery author Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe is one of the most iconic private investigators in crime fiction. As Watson did for Holmes, Archie Goodwin, Wolfe’s confidential assistant, narrates the cases of the detective genius. Wolfe was an armchair detective who rarely left his luxurious brownstone in New York, so Archie... Read more