Performance audiobooks

The Whistler, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Whistler was one of radio’s top mystery programs airing from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. Sponsored by the Signal Oil Company, The Whistler (Joseph Kearns, Gale Gordon and Bill Forman) was an ominous narrator who knew the killer’s every move even before they did. The stories followed an effective formula in which a person's... Read more

The Cavalcade of America, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1935, the DuPont Company chose to enhance its image by dramatizing great events in American history to an audience of millions each week on The Cavalcade of America. “Cavalcade” is a term used to describe pioneers who shaped the way America operates today. DuPont’s motto: “Maker of better things for better living through chemistry” was read... Read more

The Halls of Ivy, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Created by Don Quinn, the co-creator of Fibber McGee & Molly, The Halls of Ivy was a situation comedy series that ran on NBC radio from 1950 through 1952. Originally slated to star Gale Gordan and Edna Best, the lead roles went to British husband-and-wife actors Ronald and Benita Colman. The Colman’s were well versed at comedy and already a... Read more

Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Created by Blake Edwards (of Pink Panther fame), Richard Diamond, Private Detective came to NBC radio in 1949 starring film actor and crooner Dick Powell. Powell had recently played Philip Marlowe in the popular RKO film Murder My Sweet and jumped at the chance to play a suave detective on radio. Richard Diamond was a light-hearted New... Read more

The Weird Circle, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Weird Circle was an anthology of classic thrillers from the pens of the world’s best-known and respected fiction authors of the 19th Century. The focus was horror and suspense stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mary Shelley (among others) with the occasional drama by Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. The... Read more

Captain Midnight, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The adventures of Captain Midnight came to radio in 1938, originally sponsored by The Skelly Oil Company and later by Ovaltine. Our hero was Captain Jim “Red” Albright, a World War One U.S. Army pilot. His “Captain Midnight” code name was given to him by a general who sent him on a high-risk mission from which he returned precisely at the stroke... Read more

The Aldrich Family, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Aldrich Family was a popular teenage situation comedy that was heard on radio and seen in films, television and comic books. The creation of playwright Clifford Goldsmith, teenager Henry Aldrich was an endearingly bumbling kid growing awkwardly into adolescence. Episodes revolved around Henry’s misadventures with girls, his family and his... Read more

Night Beat, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

There were several newspaper-based dramas during radio’s golden age including The Big Story, Casey, Crime Photographer, Box 13, and Let George Do It but Night Beat was a cut above the others. It followed Randy Stone, hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman and his quest for the human-interest story behind the headlines. Hollywood actor Frank Lovejoy... Read more

Escape, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 until September 25, 1954. The series' well-remembered opening combined Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain with this introduction, as intoned by Paul Frees and/or William Conrad: “Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure?... Read more

The Jack Benny Program, Collection 2

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Benny liked to portray himself as a skinflint but his generosity as a comic allowed other characters to get their fair share of laughs … usually at his expense. Benny got more laughs playing the straight man and didn’t care if he was the butt of the jokes. With his brilliant timing, smooth delivery, and trademark mannerisms, Benny was a... Read more

Un Hogar para Myrtle

By: Leela Hope

Narrated by: Margarita Valderrama

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

libros infantiles en español :Un Hogar para Myrtle¿A tus hijos o hijas les resulta difícil hacer amigos?¿A veces sienten que no encajan?Un Hogar para Myrtle narra la historia de una amistosa monstrua roja que necesita un lugar para vivir. Siente que no encaja en ningún lado y se enfrenta al rechazo en su búsqueda de un hogar. Aprenderá que,... Read more

How tech is putting the needs of impoverished Kenyans on the map

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

At least 50 percent of Nairobi's population lives in slums, yet until a few years ago, many busy neighborhoods were blank spaces on official maps. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya on the ways mapping technology is bringing needed services to some of the poorest people on the continent. Read more

How Trump’s tariffs changed the fates of these two factories

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

How are President Trump's tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum affecting manufacturers and workers? At two different Missouri factories, there are two very different stories. Mid Continent Steel and Wire, which makes nails, has already eliminated 100 jobs. But about 60 miles away at Magnitude 7 Metals, the reopened aluminum smelter is back up... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Stitches of Fate

By: Short Story Press & Holly Williford

Narrated by: James M. Dolciamore

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hello, my name is Aura Smith; we are here to take you back to your time. I do not exactly why you think killing, what was his name again… oh yes, Stalin was a great idea, but you can’t just go around fixing things like that. Without Stalin the world would have been a very different place, you see. I understand he was evil for whatever the... Read more

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 17

By: BBC

Narrated by: Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Harry Hill, Jack De...

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Four more extended episodes from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, specially compiled by producer Jon Naismith

'ISIHAC is still unmissable. It remains the most thrillingly anarchic panel show in any media you care to name' Simon Mayo, Mail on Sunday

‘The funniest comedy quiz show of them all’ Sue Arnold, The Observer

Welcome to the seventeenth... Read more

The Noel Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection

By: Noel Coward

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Full Ca...

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven BBC radio full-cast productions of Noël Coward’s classic plays – plus bonus material including a profile of Coward and extracts from his diaries

Renowned for his wit, style and sophistication, Noël Coward was one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century. His plays, set in the glittering world of high society in which he lived,... Read more

Fear of Flying

By: Erica Jong

Narrated by: Full Cast, Julianna Jennings, Kevin Shen & Max ...

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The radio premiere of Erica Jong's uninhibited feminist classic about female sexuality.

Isadora Wing has been married to psycho-analyst Bennett for five years. But she has become restless and yearns for men, for solitude, and for the perfect, guiltless, ‘zipless f**k’.

Having overcome her fear of flying to travel to a conference in Vienna with... Read more

Disgraced

By: Ayad Akhtar

Narrated by: Geoffrey Arend, Behzad Dabu, Hari Dhillon, Same...

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Amir has left his Pakistani heritage behind in an attempt to make partner at his corporate law firm, but his wife Emily doesn’t share his negative feelings about Islam—she’s encouraged Amir to help with the case of a controversial imam. When they throw a dinner party for Amir’s colleague Jory and her husband Isaac, the hard truths revealed lead... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Fix, Reset, and Reload

By: Short Story Press & Blaise Marcoux

Narrated by: Michael Fell

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Crusher Bruskiewicz doesn't believe he can be stopped. The fifteen-year old takes every challenge thrown his way, bolstering his fearsome reputation and encouraging his bullying ways. Some of his adventures are hazy in his mind, though, and hard to remember specifically.What the teenager doesn't know is that he keeps dying from his... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Poor Choices

By: Short Story Press & Robert Porter

Narrated by: Oliver Hunt

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Poor Choices is a short story about an intelligent man named Dan who works retail. Dan has a lot of talents and a good education, but he is prone to making bad choices that keep him from really having the type of life that he wants. He works at a company called Game Swap, which is a used video game store not unlike ones you see in the mini-malls... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Accidental Expectations

By: Short Story Press & Jessie Qu

Narrated by: Olivia Lauer

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Love can happen, at any place, any time, with any given person. Many people dream of having a rendezvous with a foreigner in a foreign country and have the romance of a lifetime. And that’s exactly what Sophie got when she traveled to Firenze for a short vacation while work-studying abroad.In the outskirts of Tuscany, a fuse sparked, leaving... Read more

American Indian Radio Voices

By: Colleen Keane

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Highlights presents American Indian Radio Voices written by Colleen Keane. This audiobook describes how American Indians have radio stations on their reservations so that they can spread the news and keep people informed, ensuring that their voices can be heard by everyone. Read more

Short Story Press Presents Chest of Childhood

By: Short Story Press & Janet Marie Lewis

Narrated by: Krista Nicely

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An aged, decrepit old woman wanders the quiet hallways of her home. She remembers a day when they were brighter…more kinetic with anticipation of life within their walls. Family was a regular occurrence and the tinkling laughter of grandchildren used to echo through the house. Oh how she missed those times as she now hobbles oh-so-slowly with... Read more

Why does one of the most needed jobs pay so poorly?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

With about 10,000 baby boomers retiring every single day, home care is one of the fastest growing, most needed occupations in America. But there's a problem: The current median pay is just $10.49 per hour. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on why these vital workers get paid so little. Read more