Art audiobooks

Portrait: Joseph Beuys, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Heiner Stachelhaus

Narrated by: Friedrich Küppersbusch

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die neue PORTRAIT-Reihe startet mit "Joseph Beuys". Wer war er? Scharlatan, Guru, Magier, Schamane? Oder ein Künstler, der die Dimensionen herkömmlicher Kunst und Kunstauffassung sprengte? Basierend auf jahrzehntelangen persönlichen Kontakten und Gesprächen mit Angehörigen und Freunden, Anhängern und Gegnern, entwirft Heiner Stachelhaus ein... Read more

The Winter’s Tale - Abridged

By: E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakes...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

King Leontes of Sicilia is seized by sudden and terrible jealousy of his wife Hermione, whom he accuses of adultery. He believes the child Hermione is bearing was fathered by his friend Polixenes, and when the baby girl is born he orders her to be taken to some wild place and left to die. Though Hermione's child escapes death, Leontes' cruelty... Read more

The Judgment of Paris

By: Ross King

Narrated by: Tristan Layton

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic... Read more

The Judgment of Paris - Abridged

By: Ross King

Narrated by: Tristan Layton

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic... Read more

Story - Abridged

By: Robert McKee

Narrated by: Robert McKee

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For more than 15 years, Robert McKee's students have been taking Hollywood's top honors. His “Story Seminar” is the world's ultimate seminar for screenwriters, filmmakers, and novelists. Now, Robert McKee's Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting reveals the award-winning methods of the man universally regarded as... Read more

Mahalia Jackson

By: Montrew Dunham

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Halie” Jackson grew up in poverty on the levees of New Orleans, hunting for alligators for food along the Mississippi River with her brother, Peter. But every Sunday young Mahalia sang proudly in the church choir, the youngest member at age five. She left school after eighth grade and worked as a maid to help support her family. However, her... Read more

All Shook Up

By: Carson Holloway

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The national debate over popular music’s effect on character is both furious and confused. Conservatives complain primarily about lyrics, appealing to public decency and safety. Liberals, swift to the defense of any self-expression, simultaneously celebrate rock’s liberating ethos and deny its cultural influence. Carson Holloway is out to... Read more

Paul Temple And The Alex Affair

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Full Cast, Marjorie Westbury & Peter Coke

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

For thirty years the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help... Read more

The Bona World Of Julian & Sandy

By: Barry Took

Narrated by: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne & Kenneth Williams

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of 1960s sketches from "Round the Horne" featuring the outrageously camp couple, Julian and Sandy. Oozing with innuendo and double-entendre, they engage on a variety of entrepreneurial endeavours, from Guided Tripettes to the Bona Guest House, Bogmouth. Read more

Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

Narrated by: Amy Brenneman, Megan Austin Oberle, Kirsten Pot...

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a... Read more

De Kooning’s Bicycle

By: Robert Long

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Some of the twentieth century’s most important artists and writers—from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Fairfield Porter to Jean Stafford—lived and worked on the East End of Long Island. The home they made there would affect their creative work for years to come. Pollock found there a connection to nature that inspired some of the most... Read more

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

By: Dito Montiel

Narrated by: Jason Collins

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Orlandito “Dito” Montiel grew up wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times Square whore houses, and at times getting near much graver trouble. Entering adulthood in the... Read more

It's All About Cats

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

We all know someone like them: women whose lives revolve around their cats. Here Donald Davis paints verbal portraits of two very different women in his life who shared a fiercely unshakable sense of priorities. It was simply understood that the cats came first, and once you accepted that, everything else made perfect sense. Employing his... Read more

Irrational Fear

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

We all have our personal phobias and white-knuckle moments. The title story of Irrational Fear tells of Davis's mother's fear of snakes and the way she eventually got even with him for making fun of her. (She always came out on top.) The second story, "The Red Coat", tells why his father and his father's brother-in-law finally stopped playing... Read more

From Black and White to Living in Color

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

There was a time during Donald Davis's college freshman year when he wasn't really sure if he wanted to claim his hometown of Sulpher Springs, North Carolina. But a boy by the name of Stanley Easter changed his mind. "The year after that," he recalls, "I did go home from college for Thanksgiving. In fact, I had now become so proud of where I was... Read more

Broken Bones

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Broken Bones is a double set of double stories. The first set is made up of a story Davis's grandmother told about the time his mother broke her arm - twice! The second story in the first set is about how his little brother's collarbone was broken - twice! It is about how trouble is genetic in families. The second set of stories concerns Davis'... Read more

Antony and Cleopatra - Abridged

By: Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakespeare, Tom W...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman world, has become the thrall of the fascinating Cleopatra.Affairs of state call Mark Antony to Rome, but the attractions of the queen of Egypt prove impossible to resist. From one of history’s greatest love stories Shakespeare builds this magnificent tragedy of the clash between love and... Read more

The Unpredictable, Benevolent, Brilliant Revolution

By: Rob Brezsny

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Rob Brezsny is a self-acclaimed "perpetrator of sacred uproar" who revels in the limitless possibilities in the chaos that surrounds us. He envisions a world where each of us is a "rapturist," stealing one another's pain and spreading outrageous joy everywhere. Mr. Brezsny's words are thrilling and heady, but somehow also grounded in the reality... Read more

I Should Have Been at Work - Abridged

By: Des Lynam

Narrated by: Des Lynam

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the most sought-after celebrity titles of recent years, Des Lynam’s autobiography gives a frank and opinionated insight into the man behind the myth. Famously guarded about his private life, Des sets the record straight on all the stories that have been written about him, giving a unique view of life at the very top... Read more

All’s Well That Ends Well - Abridged

By: Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakespeare, Tom W...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The young and virtuous physician’s daughter Helena desperately loves Count Bertram, but he regards her as beneath his notice.When Helena cures the king of France of a mortal illness, he rewards her with Bertram’s hand, but before their marriage can be consummated, the count flees. To win her husband back again, Helena forms a daring and... Read more

Timon of Athens - Abridged

By: Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright, William S...

Narrated by: Alan Howard, a full cast, Norman Rodway & Damia...

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This controversial play follows the declining fortunes of a man of extravagant contradictions.The fabulously rich Timon believes all his friends to be as open-hearted and generous as himself. When his wealth suddenly evaporates, however, he discovers the truth and his altruism turns to a bitter hatred of mankind. Stirred up by the cynical... Read more

Dean and Me

By: Jerry Lewis

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of his fifty-year friendship with Dean Martin. 

They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined... Read more

I've Been to the Mountaintop

By: Clayborne Carson & Kris Shepard

Narrated by: Hachette Assorted Authors

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. includes the text of his most well-known oration, "I Have a Dream", his acceptance speech for the... Read more

The Lost Painting

By: Jonathan Harr

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story. 

An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to... Read more