Art audiobooks

Paul Taylor - Extended Interview

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this 2007 interview, dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor talks to Jeffrey Brown about his career. Read more

The Chrysalids & Survival

By: John Wyndham

Narrated by: Full Cast, John Moffatt, Nicholas Courtney, Ste...

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Two classic tales from acclaimed British science fiction writer John Wyndham. In The Chrysalids, ten-year-old David is a happy, ordinary boy, untroubled except for occasional strange dreams about a mysterious city – until he befriends Sophie, who is unlike anybody he has met before: she has six toes. But, in the ultra-religious village of... Read more

The Midwich Cuckoos

By: John Wyndham

Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Full Cast & Sarah Parish

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Driving back from a weekend in London, Richard and Janet Gayford are surprised to find the village of Midwich sealed off because of ‘army manoeuvres’. There are no birds singing, the air seems thick and there is a strange sort of music in the air. It soon becomes clear that there is an invisible wall around the village, and everyone within the... Read more

The Al Read Show

By: Ronnie Taylor

Narrated by: Al Read

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Described by Radio Times as "a brilliant observer of the domestic scene, a master reporter of life as we know it", Al Read's weekly show drew audiences of 35 million during the 1950s and 60s.Born in Salford in 1909, Al started life as a sausage manufacturer, having inherited the family's meat-processing factory. His comedy developed from his... Read more

Fresh Air: Stars

By: Terry Gross

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Terry Gross interviews eleven stage and screen personalities. Read more

The Gross

By: Peter Bart

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When movies cost hundreds of millions to make and market, the magnitude of the wagers is astonishing. Vast riches rain down on those who gamble wisely, and careers are made and lost in one weekend. But never is this box office race more feverish than during the summer blockbuster season, when the studios roll out their most expensive,... Read more

Portrait of an Artist

By: Laurie Lisle

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the most original painters America has ever produced. Her vivid visual vocabulary—sensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earth—has had a profound and lasting influence on American art in this century.Renowned for her fierce independence, iron determination, and unique artistic vision, O'Keeffe had a... Read more

How to Watch TV News

By: Neil Postman & Steve Powers

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

America is suffering from an information glut. Most Americans are no longer clear about what news is worth remembering or how any of it connects to anything else. Thus, Americans are rapidly becoming the least knowledgeable people in the industrial world.In How to Watch TV News, author and academic Neil Postman and television journalist Steve... Read more

Michelangelo

By: George Bull

Narrated by: Nadia May

Length: 18 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Michelangelo was recognized during his lifetime as the greatest living artist, creator of a number of masterpieces in sculpture, fresco painting, and architecture. He impressed his contemporaries as a forceful personality, a divine genius endowed with intense emotional power. Often portrayed as a solitary and austere figure, he in fact enjoyed a... Read more

Lives of the Artists, Vol. 1

By: Giorgio Vasari

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgio Vasari’s original vision of the arts was to see the artist as divinely inspired. This historical work describes the lives of forty-five artists, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, with striking immediacy conveyed through character sketches, anecdotes, and detailed... Read more

Name Dropping

By: Barnaby Conrad

Narrated by: Barnaby Conrad

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When El Matador opened in 1958, Bennett Cerf called it "the most attractive room in America." Part saloon, part salon, Barnaby Conrad's nightclub was nestled in the heart of San Francisco's cabaret and nightlife district. On any given night, one might find Noël Coward, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, or Tyrone Power... Read more

Catching the Big Fish

By: David Lynch

Narrated by: David Lynch

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.

Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed... Read more

Digging for the Truth

By: Josh Bernstein

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Digging For the Truth: A Real-Life Adventurer Explores the World's Greatest Ancient Mysteries
Josh Bernstein, host of The History Channel's hit series Digging for The Truth, takes readers beyond the cameras for an even closer look at his adventures through some of the most intriguing, remote, and physically challenging locations on the planet as... Read more

King Richard the Second - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Richard the Second is a poet’s play, full of great speeches and fine writing rather than subtle character drawing and keen insight. Performed by Sir John Gielgud, Jeremy Brett, and a Full Cast. Read more

Essential Vonnegut Interviews

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Kurt Vonnegut

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to... Read more

Walt Disney

By: Neal Gabler

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 33 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney.

Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with... Read more

Walt Disney - Abridged

By: Neal Gabler

Narrated by: Leonardo Leoncavallo

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seven years in the making and meticulously researched, here is the definitive portrait of one of the most important figures in American entertainment and cultural history.
From the young Walt Disney breaking free of a heartland childhood to the visionary whose desire for escape honed an innate sense of what people wanted to see on the screen,... Read more

Monty Python's Flying Circus

By: Eric Idle & Michael Palin

Narrated by: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael...

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones star in this innovative and groundbreaking series which includes 19 of their best sketches. From the memorable 'Nudge Nudge Wink Wink' to the celebrated 'Dead Parrot Sketch', there’s also the hairdresser with a fear of hair who really wanted to be a lumberjack... Read more

Lessons in Becoming Myself - Abridged

By: Ellen Burstyn

Narrated by: Ellen Burstyn

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A deeply personal and electrifying memoir by Ellen Burstyn, renowned actress and six-time Academy Award nominee.

By the time Ellen Burstyn arrived in New York to study acting, she'd already worked as a Texas fashion model, a Montreal chorus girl, suffered numerous toxic relationships, and just as many name changes and spiritual paths. Theater... Read more

A Visit to Mark Twain's House

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic performance of Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company was broadcast live from the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford Connecticut.



The Hartford house is where Twain wrote many of his works. The show pays homage to Twain's genius and personality with humor, period music, and a classic Keillor monologue. Guests included Roy Blount, Jr.,... Read more

John Peel Remembered Margrave Of The Marshes

By: John Peel & Sheila Ravenscroft

Narrated by: Carolyn Pickles & Michael Angelis

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Includes the BBC Radio 4 serialisation of ‘Margrave of the Marshes’, John Peel’s part-written autobiography completed by his wife, Sheila Ravenscroft and read by Michael Angelis and Carolyn Pickles. John Peel was one such, whose contribution to British culture is undeniable. His 40-year career on Radio 1 and Radio 4 reached a huge and diverse... Read more

Paul Temple And The Sullivan Mystery

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Crawford Logan, Full Cast & Gerda Stevenson

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In a thrilling case that takes Paul and Steve to exotic Egypt, Paul Temple is called in to investigate a mysterious murder. The twisting trail takes them from London to the back streets and nightclubs of Cairo... From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one... Read more

In the Middle of Nowhere

By: Terry Underwood

Narrated by: Terry Underwood

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This remarkable journey of a young city convert following her man and his dream to the back of beyond involves the listener with rare intimacy. In one of the most remote locations in the world, you share their hopes and heartaches, joys and laughter, with emotions as deep as the love of Terry and John Underwood. This audiobook transports you to... Read more

Portrait: Marlene Dietrich, Vol. 04 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Helga Bemmann

Narrated by: Lo Malinke

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wie nur wenige andere hat Marlene Dietrich das Gesicht des 20. Jahrhunderts mitgeprägt: als Lola in Sternbergs "Der blaue Engel", als Frenchy in "Der große Bluff" und als "Zeugin der Anklage". Mit Anfang 50 startete sie eine zweite internationale Karriere - als Diseuse. Einfühlsam folgt Helga Bemmann dem Lebensweg der großen Schauspielerin und... Read more