Art audiobooks

Das Leben des Raffael

By: Giorgio Vasari

Narrated by: Frank Thomas

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Für Giorgio Vasari, dem einzigartigen Chronisten der italienischen Malerei gab es die Götter: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci und Raffael, danach kam erst der Herrgott. Raffael war unter den Dreien der jugendliche Tragiker, der an einem Karfreitag geboren wurden und mit noch jungen Jahren von 37 ebenfalls an einem Karfreitag starb. Vasari... Read more

Beth Lapides' Un-Carbaret: The Un & Only

By: Un-Cabaret

Narrated by: Un-Cabaret

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This definitive Un-Cabaret album features unusually honest stories from seriously funny performers from the ground-breaking Un-Cabaret live show. Read more

Vivat Rex: Volume One (Dramatisation)

By: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Marti...

Narrated by: Full Cast & Richard Burton

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Burton narrates this famous dramatic chronicle of the English Crown, a treasure of the BBC radio archive published on CD for the very first time.

Vivat Rex is the landmark drama series first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977. Over the course of 26 instalments, each one narrated by Richard Burton with a full cast, the fortunes of the... Read more

In Ruins

By: Eddie Pepitone

Narrated by: Eddie Pepitone

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedic force of nature Eddie Pepitone delivers a darkly funny, rage-fueled performance in Brooklyn, where he discusses the perils of being a male model, speaking to his dog like his therapist, and the death of the American Dream. Read more

Tom McCaffrey: Adventures in Comedy

By: Tom McCaffrey

Narrated by: Tom McCaffrey

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring interviews with comedy legends Janeane Garofalo, Jim Gaffigan, Margaret Cho and many more, this film shadows one comic’s (Tom McCaffrey) experiences doing stand-up and the harsh realities that come with following his dreams at any cost. Read more

Big Dumb Animal

By: Matt Braunger

Narrated by: Matt Braunger

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live at The Bell House in Brooklyn, Big Dumb Animal is Matt Braunger at his best. He gives everyone a glimpse at what it's like to be a big dumb animal with an anger problem. He explores a vast array of topics ranging from the absurdity of a quiet Jägerbomb to his overly nice hometown of Portland, Oregon. Read more

A Kim Jong-Il Production

By: Paul Fischer

Narrated by: Stephen Park

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Before becoming the world’s most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea’s Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi)—South... Read more

You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To

By: Paul Frees & Annelle Frees

Narrated by: Fred Frees & Jen Olivier

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

World War II was a difficult time for separated couples everywhere. Paul "Buddy" Frees would soon become one of America's most popular voice-over artists. Audrey "Annelle" Frees was the love of his life. One of them wouldn't make it through the war. This is the story of their all-too-short marriage, told in the letters they wrote to each... Read more

The Lux Radio Theatre, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hosted by Cecil B. DeMille and starring numerous icons of the screen, this collection of old-time radio classics includes six episodes of The Lux Radio Theatre—one of the longest running, most extravagant shows from radio's golden age. The show featured the greatest stars in Hollywood appearing in hour-long radio adaptations of their biggest... Read more

Casey, Crime Photographer, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Staats Cotsworth & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the March 1934 issue of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask, Jack "Flashgun" Casey, crime photographer, made his debut. His creator was former newspaper and advertising executive George Harmon Coxe Jr., who wrote more than sixty crime fiction novels in his lifetime. Casey's keen eye for detail served him well on the job, helping him to... Read more

Jordan Carlos: The Blackest

By: Jordan Carlos

Narrated by: Jordan Carlos

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Jordan Carlos is a Brooklyn-based comic who has appeared on various popular television series. Carlos refers to himself as “that dude from that thing,” and has been seen as the star and resident nerd on MTV’s Guy Code, Girl Code, Guy Court, as well as The Colbert Report, Nurse Jackie, and Broad City. Carlos regularly works as College Humor’s... Read more

Rodney Perry: 44 and Still Ticking

By: Rodney Perry

Narrated by: Rodney Perry

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming up through comedy clubs all across America, Rodney had the opportunity to learn the business of funny from some of the best. His first job in Hollywood was serving as writer and warm-up guy for Kym Whitley’s show, Oh Drama, on BET. For four seasons, he served as co-host and “man on the street” for the comedy competition show, Bill... Read more

Brooks McBeth: This Ain't Shakespeare

By: Brooks McBeth

Narrated by: Brooks McBeth

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

Weaving The Fabric Of The World With Our Stories

By: Rebecca Solnit

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebecca Solnit discusses how all of us are connected to one another as though we are threads woven into the fabric of the world. Storytelling is often our way of tracing these threads, starting with our personal stories and exploring outward. The effects of our stories can be subtle and powerful. Solnit explains how we make our stories and how... Read more

Thomas Dale: Love, Me

By: Thomas Dale

Narrated by: Thomas Dale

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

It is from his world of colorful characters that Thomas Dale draws the true stories he brings to comedy stages across the country. His ability to marry warmth and acceptance with brutal honesty and acute awareness of his surroundings has won over fans and comedy insiders alike. He is a heartwarming, hilarious storyteller who breaks down... Read more

Cocktail Sticks

By: Alan Bennett

Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Alex Jennings & Full Cast

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's short autobiographical play, originally directed by Nicholas Hytner for the National Theatre. Alan looks back on his early life with affection and sadness, revisiting some of the themes and conversations of his memoir 'A Life Like other People's'. Both he and his mother are seduced by the idea that other... Read more

A Christmas Carol - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on the classic story by Charles DickensIn this fully dramatized adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Michael Dick (Ebenezer Scrooge) and cast take you on an incredible journey into the supernatural as a miserly man comes to realize the true spirit of Christmas.Featuring virtuoso performances from the entire cast, riveting... Read more

Running to Detroit - Abridged

By: Dave Carley

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Meg and her mom Sandra are heading to Detroit to do a little cross-border shopping and take in a Tigers game. But Sandra’s passport has expired, and they are turned back. An odd encounter on the Windsor waterfront leads them into a wild night of time travel, rum smuggling, a near drowning, hijackers, customs officials thirsty for bribes, and a... Read more

The Science of Interstellar

By: Kip Thorne

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie's jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded... Read more

Silver Screen Fiend

By: Patton Oswalt

Narrated by: Patton Oswalt

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a “heartfelt and hilarious” (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obsessively watching classic films at a legendary theater in Los Angeles. “[Oswalt has] a set of synapses like a pinball machine and a prose style to... Read more

Van Gogh

By: Julian Bell

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“I believe in the absolute necessity of a new art of colour, of drawing and—of the artistic life,” Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888. “And if we work in that faith, it seems to me that there’s a chance that our hopes won’t be in vain.” His prediction would come true. In his brief and explosively creative life—he committed... Read more

How Not to Make a Short Film

By: Roberta Marie Munroe

Narrated by: Roberta Marie Munroe

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Anyone can make a short film, right? Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two before being accepted to a slew of film festivals, right? Wrong. Roberta Munroe screened short film submissions at Sundance for five years, and is an award-winning short filmmaker in her own right. So she knows a thing or two about... Read more

The Ten Dollar Ticket

By: Jeff Garcia

Narrated by: Jeff Garcia

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Latino comic Jeff Garcia aims to give you your money's worth with his signature original shows in this special from 2008. Fellow friends and comics, Bruce Jingles and Rene Garcia, join him as they discuss race, dating and fighting style differences. Read more

Jeff Garcia: Livin' The Dream

By: Jeff Garcia

Narrated by: Jeff Garcia

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Famed Latino comedian and voiceover artist, Jeff Garcia, comes to you from San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino with his signature improv style. He comments on his family, unreliable cars, white people, marriage and his run-ins with the law. Read more