Art audiobooks

The Billionaire's Vinegar - Abridged

By: Benjamin Wallace

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.

In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbes family. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band... Read more

Up Till Now - Abridged

By: William Shatner & David Fisher

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of William Shatner's half-century career and private life. The audio will take readers from the streets of Montreal to regional theatre, where Shatner was once called upon to replace Christopher Plummer as Henry V— in a role he had never rehearsed, with actors he had never met. It will describe his early TV work and movies,... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion: Tourists

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1981-82, A Prairie Home Companion went on tour, visiting and performing in friendly places like Lansing, Michigan and Ashland, Oregon. This scrapbook of musical highlights features performances by The Butch Thompson Trio, Robin and Linda Williams, The Odessa Balalaikas, The Klezmer Conservatory Band, and Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion Anniversary Album

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This festive collection is a nostalgic trip through five years of America's favorite radio show. "Commercials" for Powdermilk Biscuits, Jack's Deep Valley Bed and more introduce songs and sketches like "The Finn Who Would Not Take a Sauna," and "The Cat Came Back." Selected from the original live radio broadcasts.

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Audition

By: Barbara Walters

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 26 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”

And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing... Read more

Audition - Abridged

By: Barbara Walters

Narrated by: Barbara Walters

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me:
“I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”

And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing... Read more

NPR Funniest Driveway Moments

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected from the National Public Radio archives, these stories by some of NPR's favorite commentators will keep listeners laughing.



A "driveway moment" is when you're so captivated by a story on NPR that you stay in your car to hear it to the end—even if you're sitting in your own driveway. Some are serious, some are touching, and some, like the... Read more

See You on the Radio

By: Charles Osgood

Narrated by: Charles Osgood

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Witty, wise, rueful commentaries from one of broadcasting's funniest, most stylish writers and newsmen.

"Charles Osgood is one of the best writers in America today, any form or medium," says Dan Rather, and Jim Lehrer concurs, "He is a special mind and voice in a business where his kind is rare—and cherished." No one writes quite the way he... Read more

The Animal Fair & Other Stories

By: Philip Hawthorn & Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen and Play encourages the pre-school child to observe the world with theirs ears! Each audiobook contains an exciting mix of songs, nursery rhymes, sound puzzles and tongue twisters and finishes with a short story. Listen and Play offers more than just songs, more than just stories, more than just rhymes. It takes a journey through sound... Read more

Pam Ayres In Potting On

By: Christoper Thompson, Pam Ayres & Peter Reynolds

Narrated by: Full Cast, Geoffrey Whitehead & Pam Ayres

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Pam and Gordon Grant are a couple at odds running a rural garden centre. While Pam still feels young and is determined to avoid the slippery slope into middle-age, Gordon seems keen to dive in - slippers first. Pam’s ally at the garden centre is teenager Carol, a girl more than happy to speak her mind. If only, Gordon complains, there was... Read more

The Complete Barchester Chronicles

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Amanda Root, Anna Massey, Brenda...

Length: 18 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial life

One of the most respected, successful chroniclers of nineteenth-century life, Anthony Trollope is still widely read and much-loved today. The Barchester Chronicles - witty moral comedies with a wonderful range of characters - are among his most... Read more

Cultural Amnesia - Abridged

By: Clive James

Narrated by: Clive James

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James.

With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic.

'One stupendous starburst of wild brilliance' –... Read more

More News from Lake Wobegon: Faith

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Faith contains “Rotten Apples”; “O Death”; “The Wise Men”; “A Trip to Grand Rapids”. Read more

More News from Lake Wobegon: Hope

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Hope contains “Truckstop”; “Smokes”; “The Perils of Spring”; “Let Us Pray.”. Read more

Singing For Your Life

By: Judy Fjell

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Judy Fjell feels that music should be more than a commodity left only to the professional. She is a strong advocate of musical literacy being an integral part of our education. Read more

Working For Your Soul

By: Thomas Moore, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

If your life is going along in a straight line there is little room for a creative change of direction. If you have a gnawing question about something better that might be waiting around the bend, Moore points to unexpected signs that it might help you make space to find fulfillment in a more creative direction in your life. Read more

English Majors

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes the Six-Minute Hamlet, tributes to Hawthorne and Kerouac and Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an M.F.A. scam, Garrison Keillor’s recollection of growing up bookish in a football-loving town, and the Ballad of John Henry ('John Henry was an English major and poetry was his line. He sat by the window with his yellow... Read more

NPR Driveway Moments Baseball

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories from the National Public Radio archives honor America's national pastime.<



Stories so compelling you'll stay in your car to hear them through—even if you're sitting in your own driveway. Peabody-winning Talk of the Nation host Neal Conan presents tales about the big leagues and the little, the fans in the stands, the players, the... Read more

The Unopened Casebook Of Sherlock Holmes

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Nicky Henson & Simon Callow

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are six extraordinary adventures, never revealed before, starring Simon Callow as Sherlock Holmes and Nicky Henson as Dr Watson, written by John Taylor. Read more

Pictures at a Revolution

By: Mark Harris

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967—Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Dolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde—and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, forever.



It's the mid-1960s, and westerns,... Read more

The Tao Of Bergerac

By: Will Smith & Roger Dew

Narrated by: John Nettles

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

The complete BBC Radio 4 series starring comedian Will Smith and John Nettles. Will Smith is obsessed with Bergerac, the classic TV show set in Jersey, and has one guiding force: an audio book of John Nettles reading the ancient Chinese text of the Tao. This helps Will find a way through when the road seems blocked. Now Will brings the Tao of... Read more

Laura Solon Talking And Not Talking

By: Laura Solon

Narrated by: Laura Solon

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete BBC Radio 4 series by Perrier Award-winner Laura Solon. Laura Solon won the Perrier at Edinburgh Festival in 2005 with her sensational debut show. In this, her complete Radio 4 series, all six episodes feature a mix of monologues and sketches from this extraordinary writer and performer. There will be talking, not talking, some... Read more

Tom Cruise - Abridged

By: Andrew Morton

Narrated by: John Hinch

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 2006 Forbes magazine ranked Tom Cruise as the most powerful celebrity in the world. With three Golden Globe awards, three Academy Award nominations, and 27 films with an average box office gross of nearly $100 million, People Magazine's choice for the "Sexest Man Alive" in 1990 is unquestionably one of the biggest movie stars of our time.

He... Read more

The Age of Shakespeare

By: Frank Kermode

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Britain's most esteemed scholar of 16th and 17th century literature, Frank Kermode is also a noted author and professor. In this Modern Library Chronicle, he uses the context of the Elizabethan Era to link each of Shakespeare's plays to their probable years of creation. By portraying the bard's England in terms of its society, economy, and arts,... Read more