Performance audiobooks

The CBS Radio Workshop, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The CBS Radio Workshop aired from January 27, 1956 through September 22, 1957 and was a revival of the prestigious Columbia Workshop which aired from 1936 to 1943. Creator William Froug launched the series with the powerhouse two-part adaptation of "Brave New World" and booked author Aldous Huxley to narrate his famous novel. "We'll never get a... Read more

Please Continue

By: Frank Basloe

Narrated by: Tara Lynne Barr, Will Brittain, Jake Green, Taj...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the true story of renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram, Please Continue recounts the infamous obedience experiments at Yale in the 1960s. In that study, participants were asked to administer strong electric shocks to a subject who gave the wrong answer to a question, not knowing that the shocks were fake, and they were the real... Read more

The Dangers Of Our ‘New Data Economy,' And How To Avoid Them

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Roger McNamee was an early investor in Facebook and still holds a stake in the social media giant--but he’s also become a vocal critic of its practices, especially around how it handles user data. McNamee offers his humble opinion on why as consumers, we need to stop being passive and take control of how we share our personal information. Read more

With ‘Mutual Air,' This California Artist Leverages The Sounds Of Science

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite increasingly dire assessments about the outlook for climate change, it can be difficult to remain mindful of our environment’s health on a daily basis. Jeffrey Brown traveled to the Bay Area to meet Rosten Woo, a Los Angeles-based artist whose work offers an unexpected way to become more aware of pollution as we go about our lives: by... Read more

It Happened In Japan

By: Baroness Albert d'Anethan

Narrated by: Elaine Hidayat

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

It happened in Japan is a 1923 romantic drama following a group of Western diplomats stationed in Japan during the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th Century. Focused on the main character Pearl, the book gives a great description of how life for a Westerner was in Japan during the period.
The book mixes silly and melodramatic... Read more

At U.S.-Mexico Border, Migrants Seeking Legal Entry Are Stranded In Hazardous ‘Limbo’

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Much of President Trump’s rhetoric over immigration focuses on the people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. But what is the situation for the thousands who wait on a daily basis to enter through legal means? In the second installment of our two-part series, Amna Nawaz crosses the border into Mexico to see firsthand how the existing U.S.... Read more

At U.S.-Mexico Border, Migrants Seeking Legal Entry Are Stranded In Hazardous ‘Limbo’

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Much of President Trump’s rhetoric over immigration focuses on the people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. But what is the situation for the thousands who wait on a daily basis to enter through legal means? In the second installment of our two-part series, Amna Nawaz crosses the border into Mexico to see firsthand how the existing U.S.... Read more

How Surge In Family Border Crossings Is Complicating Enforcement

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Yuma sector of the southwestern Arizona border, Border Patrol officials are observing dramatic shifts in the migrant populations they apprehend. In the past, a majority of migrants caught crossing illegally were single men. Now 90% of those apprehended are Central American families and unaccompanied children. Amna Nawaz reports on how... Read more

Die Flucht des Walter W.

By: Duane D. Muller

Narrated by: Duane D. Muller

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Flucht des Walter W. beruht auf einer wahren Begebenheit: Es ist das Jahr 1975. Ein junger Mann desertiert von der Nationalen Volksarmee mit dem Vorsatz, in den Westen zu fliehen. Die DDR-Behörden versuchen, dies mit allen Mitteln zu verhindern. Es wird detailliert beschrieben, wie man mit sogenannten Verrätern und deren Angehörigen verfuhr,... Read more

Author Marlon James On Never Outgrowing The Magical

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Marlon James is best known for writing literary fiction, including “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” which won the prestigious Man Booker Prize. But his latest book, “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” draws on a lifelong love of comics and fantasy. James sits down with Jeffrey Brown to discuss why he still seeks "a sword and some sorcery" and the... Read more

The Navy Lark: 60th Anniversary Special Edition

By: Lawrie Wyman

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips, Ronnie...

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A 60th anniversary celebration of the much-loved nautical comedy, featuring seventeen classic episodes plus bonus material
On 29 March 1959, The Navy Lark sailed the airwaves for the very first time. Starring Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray, with regular appearances from Ronnie Barker and Heather Chasen, it soon became a radio... Read more

Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel: The Complete Series 1-3

By: Nat Perrin & Arthur Sheekman

Narrated by: Frank Lazarus, Full Cast & Michael Roberts

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC radio recreation of the Marx Brothers’ lost shows, starring Michael Roberts and Frank Lazarus


‘For me this BBC version is a flattering improvement!’ Nat Perrin, co-creator of the original 1932 Marx Brothers Radio series


First broadcast on America’s NBC network between 1932-33, Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel charted the exploits of shady... Read more

A Humble Opinion On Accepting Risk In Order To Choose Joy

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Hobbies can offer an amazing sense of purpose and fulfillment, and many of us acquire new ones as we grow older. But what happens when a pursuit of passion poses risk of physical harm? Novelist Jane Hamilton shares her humble opinion on being willing to accept danger in exchange for a life well lived. Read more

Novelist Valeria Luiselli On Writing To Document ‘Political Violence’

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The U.S. is reportedly experiencing illegal immigration at the highest rates since 2007, with significant increases in the number of unaccompanied minors. It is these child migrants who are the subject of Valeria Luiselli’s book “Lost Children Archive.” Luiselli talks to Jeffrey Brown about her experience helping child asylum seekers, balancing... Read more

Escape: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating story about the home life of the richest family in the world. In a country as large as the U.S. there are many odd and wonderful corners hidden away, but none more fabulous and wonderful than the one conceived in the imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald and located in the pages of his famous short story of the same name. It is... Read more

Escape: The Man Who Would Be King

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

You are making your way over the Great Indian Desert alone and dying of thirst while behind you pursuing you as a fanatical cop he is who once bowed to you as king and now called for your life… Read more

Escape: The Country of the Blind

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A mountain guide finds a hidden valley where no-one has eyes. However, the blind think that he is deformed. Zebarra is a mining engineer in Ecuador near the towering Andes. Up until a year ago his chief sport was mountaineering. His last climb was an attempt to climb the remote and forbidding peak of Parascotopetl, the 20,000-foot crag... Read more

Escape: Leiningen Versus the Ants

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A determined man battles even more determined insects in the tropical jungles. You are isolated on a remote plantation in the crawling Amazon Jungle and an immense army of ravenous ants is closing in on you - swarming in to eat you alive. A deadly black army from which there is no escape. Read more

Escape: S.S. San Pedro

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A psychiatrist being blackmailed is killed by doing a Brody from his apartment window. His blackmailer is later found strangled! Read more

Escape: The Fourth Man

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An excellent radio drama about three escaped convicts on a raft, and of their savage companion, a cannibal! New Maya in the South Pacific, to a generation of French criminals two words to be uttered in the same terrified breath with Devils Island. The penal colony at New Maya where the cutthroats, sadists and the dregs of the French society were... Read more

Escape: Evening Primrose

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating adventure with a strange assortment of characters who live inside New York's department stores. You are groping in the midnight dimness of a gigantic department store and suddenly you realize that a hundred eyes are staring at you from the shadows and a hundred hands are reaching for your throat and your most urgent desire is to... Read more

Escape: The Man Who Could Work Miracles

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic story about the bloke who could. In this tale you are crouched in the middle of an immense hurricane. Houses, animals, trees sweeping past you, and you suddenly realize that you have tampered with the Universe, that you are bringing about the destruction of the World. Lovely British accents in this tale with a message. A delightful... Read more

Escape: The Lost Special

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A whole train has simply vanished. Where on earth is it? Read more

Escape: Orient Express

By: Les Crutchfield & John Dunkel

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A complex but exciting tale of intrigue on the trans-Balkan Railroad. You're aboard the Orient Express rushing through the European night, bound for Istanbul and in your compartment with you, a gun pointed at your head, a small, mysterious stranger is about to take your life. Read more