Art audiobooks

Car Talk: The Hatchback of Notre Dame

By: Ray Magliozzi & Tom Magliozzi

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Hatchback of Notre Dame includes many memorable Car Talk classics, including Morley Safer of CBS's Sixty Minutes, displaying a downright embarrassing obsession with his Peugeot, and space shuttle astronaut John Grunsfeld, who calls from Hawaii. (Well, 700 miles over Hawaii, actually). And, there's one of Click and Clack's all-time favorite... Read more

Commercial Radio

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A word or thirty from the sponsors of public radio’s enduring Saturday-evening staple, Commercial Radio features the best bits (and questionable marketing strategies) of many Lake Wobegon establishments. In addition to missives from longtime supporters such as the Catchup Advisory Board and the American Duct Tape Council, special messages from... Read more

The Magical Reindeer

By: David Ocasio

Narrated by: Fran Gregory

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Magical Reindeer The Magical Reindeer Long before all Christmas’, the magic apples and Santa’s magical reindeer, Santa came to know Kasandra whose childhood mishap planted the seed for what would bring about Santa’s flying reindeer. Kassandra who is now the angel of Christmas along with Eddie, Santa’s first magical reindeer who now... Read more

Creativity as a Path to Enlightenment

By: Nina Wise

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Nina Wise is a dancer, a singer, and a performer of improvisational theater. She's also a spiritual seeker and teacher with an eclectic practice that embraces both Buddhism and her Jewish heritage. She sees absolutely no difference between her creative arts and her spirituality - in fact, they are one and the same. Read more

Jetzt auch Für Frauen

By: Hans Liberg

Narrated by: Hans Liberg

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Durch den internationalen Charakter seiner Shows, seine musikalische Virtuosität und seinen feinsinnigen Humor wurde er häufig für Auftritte auf großen internationalen Galas engagiert. Read more

Victory Over Violence

By: Eve Ensler

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A casual conversation about menopause ultimately led to a grassroots movement that raised awareness about violence against women in the form of a play, The Vagina Monologues. Here Ensler discusses how violence against women affects everyone and why patriarchy actually oppresses men as well as women, and much more. Read more

Hollywood Animal - Abridged

By: Joe Eszterhas

Narrated by: Eric Bogosian

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He spent his earliest years in post WWII–refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland—stealing cars, rolling drunks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. He became the screenwriter of the worldwide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, and Flashdance. He also wrote the legendary disasters Showgirls and Jade. The rebellion never... Read more

Kevin Kline: Becoming Falstaff

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey Brown speaks with actor Kevin Kline about the challenges of portraying Sir John Falstaff in the new production of Shakespeare's Henry IV at New York's Lincoln Center Beaumont Theatre. Read more

liest Joseph Goebbels: Diese Stunde der Idiotie

By: Joseph Goebbels

Narrated by: Serdar Somuncu

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Serdar Somuncu zitiert und kommentiert die Sportpalast-Rede von Reichspropagandaminister Joseph Goebbels vom 18. Februar 1943. Nach der spektakulären Lesung aus Hitlers "Mein Kampf" ein neues brisantes Projekt. Read more

50 Favourite Nursery Rhymes

By: BBC

Narrated by: Andrew Branch & Anne Rosenfeld

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic BBC compilation of nursery rhymes, with light-hearted commentary from two BBC presenters.

In this popular collection, actors Andrew Branch and Anne Rosenfeld perform over fifty fantastic nursery rhymes, from familiar favourites to lesser-known gems, speaking the rhymes aloud and chatting about their meanings. As they listen, children... Read more

This Little Piggy

By: BBC

Narrated by: Nigel Williams & Bronwyn Baud

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of classic nursery rhymes and songs brought to you by the BBC.

Join in with over 40 minutes of fun with familiar favourite rhymes including This Little Piggy, Incy Wincy Spider and Baa Baa Black Sheep. Pre-schoolers will love to sing, dance and learn with this traditional compilation of 30 cheerful songs. Head down to the farm with... Read more

The Merchant of Venice - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Hugh Griffith

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

...if you prick us do we not bleed? - Shylock. A Shakespeare Recording Society Production. The complete play in five acts.The beautiful Portia has many suitors within Venetian society, among them the young nobleman Bassanio, who has squandered his fortune. Desperate to win Portia’s heart, Bassanio borrows money from Shylock, the Jewish... Read more

As You Like It - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

""All the world's a stage."" —JaquesThe complete play in five acts. A Shakespeare Recording Society Production. A full-cast performance featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Michell, Max Adrian, Stanley Holloway and OthersAs You Like It is quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown, lovers, disguises, rifts and... Read more

Much Ado About Nothing - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Rex Harrison

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Two couples—Benedick and Beatrice, and Hero and Claudio—must overcome deception, gossip, and, occasionally, their own misplaced pride if their love is to persevere. Aided by military commander Don Pedro and impeded by his brother Don John, the friends go to great lengths in the pursuit of marriage.
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The Taming of the Shrew - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o'Sunday - Petruchio A Shakespeare Society Production.The complete play in five acts. Read more

The Merry Wives of Windsor - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Sir John Falstaff has very little money upon his arrival in Windsor, and sets out to court two wealthy wives in the hopes of fattening his coin purse. The two clever wives—Mistress Page and Mistress Ford—discover Falstaff’s plot, but instead of rejecting him, set out to have some fun at his expense.Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William... Read more

The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Peter Wyngarde & (Null) Cast

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He after honor hunts, I after love. He leaves his friends to dignify them more, I leave myself, my friends and all, for love. Proteus - Act I, Scene IA Shakespeare Society Production.The complete play in four acts. Read more

Twelfth Night - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts. Read more

The Comedy of Errors - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Alec Mccowen & Anna Massey

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

We came into the world like brother and brother; And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. - Dromio of EphesusThe Comedy of Errors is likely the very first play Shakespeare ever wrote, and for that reason alone it deserves a special place in literary history. Yet, despite the author's lack of maturity, the play is unmistakably the... Read more

Surrendering to Wholeness

By: Jerry Wennstrom & Marilyn Strong

Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of twenty-nine, Jerry Wennstrom changed the course of his life in a way that brought answers to life's "big" questions and more. He was a successful New York City artist when he began to sense that something much larger and more important was stirring, waiting to emerge in his life. What he discovered was a path to understanding and... Read more

The Goomba's Book of Love - Abridged

By: Steven R. Schirripa

Narrated by: Steven R. Schirripa

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Move over Miss Lonelyhearts . . . Steven R. Schirripa, author of the runaway bestseller A Goomba’s Guide to Life, is back with more life lessons from the neighborhood. Recalling stories of his own colorful journey from the streets of Bensonhurst to the bright lights of Las Vegas and stardom as Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri in the HBO hit series The... Read more

Hollywood Animal

By: Joe Eszterhas

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 28 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

He spent his earliest years in post WWII–refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland—stealing cars, rolling drunks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. He became the screenwriter of the worldwide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, and Flashdance. He also wrote the legendary disasters Showgirls and Jade. The rebellion never... Read more

A Goomba's Guide to Life - Abridged

By: Steven R. Schirripa & Charles Fleming

Narrated by: Steven R. Schirripa

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Attention would-be paesans: Can’t distinguish “gabagool” from “pasta fazool”? Not sure how to properly accessorize your track suit with gold chains? Does the phrase “go to the mattresses” make you sleepy? Now Steven R. Schirripa, The Sopranos’ own Bobby Bacala, exposes the inner mysteries of this unique Italian-American hybrid in A Goomba’s... Read more

A Thread Across the Ocean

By: John Steele Gordon

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe -- the center of world affairs -- was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic, making the United States isolated and vulnerable.

But in 1866, the... Read more