Art audiobooks

The Odyssey of Sport

By: Phil Cousineau

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Phil Cousineau has found that as early as 1400 B.C. - and probably much earlier - competitive games anchored communities, created a diversion from violence, and even contributed to the evolution of the human body, mind, and soul. "This desire to shine brightly," says Cousineau, "at least in one moment in your life, either on the battlefield or... Read more

Lies My Teacher Told Me

By: James Loewen

Narrated by: Brian Keeler

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This national best-seller and American Book Award winner is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. James W. Loewen, a distinguished critic of history education, puts 12 popular textbooks under the microscope. What he finds is a proliferation of blind patriotism, mindless... Read more

Time, Myth and the Artist's Way

By: Bokara Legendre

Narrated by: Neil Harvey

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The thin membrane through which artists birth poems, sculpture, images, and sound is like the membrane through which spirit manifests. One might ask, "Is the realm of the spiritually attuned artist much different than that of the shaman?" Like the wounded healer, artists often appear to hover around the gates of heaven as well as the gates of... Read more

Gasping for Airtime

By: Jay Mohr

Narrated by: Jay Mohr

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

When twenty-year-old Jay Mohr moved to New York City, he never thought he would land his first real job on Saturday Night Live. But he did—and what followed were two crazy years of trying to keep up with his talented cast mates and get on the air as often as possible. Jay offers an intimate first-person account of the inner workings of Saturday... Read more

My Funny Friends

By: Mike McColl Jones

Narrated by: Mike McColl Jones

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedy writer, Mike McColl Jones, has lots of funny friends. Graham Kennedy, Bert Newton, Don Lane, Tommy Hanlon Jnr, Stuart Wagstaff, Steve Vizard, Frankie J. Holden... Mike has written for them all. In a career spanning decades, Mike has been an insider at television's funniest moments - on and off the screen. In My Funny Friends, Mike... Read more

And Now Here's…

By: Mike McColl Jones

Narrated by: Mark Mitchell

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike McColl Jones has heard the words 'And now here's...' 6000 times and each of those 6000 times tonight show hosts such as Graham Kennedy, Don Lane, Bert Newton and Steve Vizard have walked into shot and spoken words written for them by Mike. Few people are more qualified to write this history of Australian Tonight shows. In a career spanning... Read more

Gasping for Airtime - Abridged

By: Jay Mohr

Narrated by: Jay Mohr

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A hilarious look at what life was really like inside Saturday Night Live

When 21-year old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling,... Read more

Car Talk: The Hatchback of Notre Dame

By: Tom Magliozzi & Ray 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

Holy Cow!

By: Sarah Macdonald

Narrated by: Kate Hosking

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

After backpacking her way around India, Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. When a beggar at the airport reads her palm and insists she will one day return - and for love - she screams 'Never!' and gives the country, and him, the finger. Eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah's life is... 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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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