Performance audiobooks

Short Story Press Presents All Lesser Creatures

By: Short Story Press & Matthew Kilpatrick

Narrated by: Tom Sleeker

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“All Lesser Creatures” takes an often-used mythologic monster idea and twists into a new direction. You will see the more familiar take on the idea in the story as well but also as seen in a very different light. This story realizes the full potential of a certain basic idea, just as the main character realizes the full and awesome potential of... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Without Decent Restraint

By: Short Story Press & Matthew Kilpatrick

Narrated by: Benjamin Allen

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“Without Decent Restraint” is a story about the duality of man, both the conflict between the mind and the body, and also how the desire to get what we want can put that very thing in danger. It examines whether or not the things we do, justified to ourselves as being done out of concern for others, can actually have a selfish motive. It... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Monkey Freckles

By: Short Story Press & Sarah Zachary

Narrated by: Bethany Ward

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Liam grew up thinking he wanted to be a zookeeper. He practically lived in the zoo as a child, and his brother is wild enough to be an animal, so it seems perfect. But no one told him he had to go through so much higher education. No one told him he needed practical experience. As an unhappy volunteer who works at the zoo after high school each... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Meet Me At The Track

By: Short Story Press & Tara Mitchell

Narrated by: Patricia Figuccio

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellen is a busy single mother with a daughter in eighth grade. She works as a nurse and because of that she misses out on some moments with her daughter Ashley. While in attendance at Ashley's track meet she meets a nice man whose daughter also runs track and happens to be part of a relay team that Ashley is on. As the girls become closer it put... Read more

Dining with the Dead

By: Nancy Fulton

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Every funeral is an unplanned occasion thrown together under terrible circumstances by people in shock and mourning. No one involved in burying the dead can fail to recognize their own mortality or confront the course their life has taken to date. In this wry, funny, heart felt, full cast audio play about the death of a philandering family... Read more

The Museum of Curiosity: Series 9-12

By: John Lloyd

Narrated by: Jo Brand, John Lloyd, Noel Fielding & Romesh Ra...

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Professor John Lloyd and Curators Noel Fielding, Jo Brand, Romesh Ranganathan and Sally Phillips as they plunge down the badger hole of ignorance in a search for the universe's most mind-boggling oddnesses.

The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing... Read more

Dinner

By: Moira Buffini

Narrated by: David Hounslow, Harriet Walter, Nicholas Farrel...

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously black satirical comedy about the dinner party from hell.

The fastidious host, Paige, decides to throw a dinner party in honour of her husband Lars, who is celebrating the success of his pop psychology book, Beyond Belief. She carefully plans a surprise menu that will mark the occasion, and anxiously checks with the waiter she has... Read more

Duft nach Weiß

By: Stefanie Gregg

Narrated by: Stefanie Gregg

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Anelija wächst wohlbehütet bei ihren Großmüttern in einem kleinen Dorf auf. Von ihrer Mutter aus Deutschland erhält sie Briefe auf so strahlend weißem Papier, wie sie es in ihrer bulgarischen Heimat nicht kennt. Ihr Wunsch nach Freiheit, nach dem "Duft nach Weiß", wird immer größer. Auch der Schriftsteller Georgi Markow verspürt den Wunsch. Er... Read more

Filling In This Perception Gap Can Help Low-Income Students Succeed

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For many students at LaGuardia Community College in New York, making it from the first day of school to graduation is a struggle. And they’re not alone. Part of this national problem? We don't have a good idea of who's going to college, and the ways their complex lives and extra costs can trip them up. Hari Sreenivasan reports as part of our... Read more

Thinking Sideways

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Spike Milligan

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A centenary collection of the best BBC Radio programmes about the legendary Spike Milligan – including brand new documentary Spike Milligan: Inside Out

Named for Spike’s explanation of his sense of humour – ‘I’m Irish – we think sideways’ – this BBC radio anthology, published to celebrate the centenary of his birth, provides unique insight into... Read more

Property

By: Lionel Shriver

Narrated by: Lionel Shriver

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin.Intermingling settings in America and Britain,... Read more

Friedrich Schiller: Maria Stuart. Ein Drama

By: Friedrich Schiller

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Maria Stuart: Das Drama um die katholische Königin von Schottland, die ihrer Halbschwester Elisabeth I. Den englischen Thron streitig macht – und schließlich von dieser zum Tode verurteilt wird, ist noch heute ein Klassiker auf den Bühnen – und vor allem im Klassenzimmer. In diesem Hörbuch wird das GESAMTE Stück UNGEKÜRZT vorgetragen, inklusive... Read more

Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Initially launched as Barrie Crane, Confidential Investigator on NBC in 1951, the series soon made a name change to Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator. It starred movie and film veteran William Gargan as hard-boiled New York-based private eye Barry Craig. Gargan had been playing Martin Kane, Private Detective on both radio and TV. In the... Read more

Boston Blackie, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Horatio Black was known to friend and foe as Boston Blackie—an ex-jewel thief and safecracker constantly suspected of crimes he did not commit and forced to play the role of detective to clear his name. His girlfriend, Mary Wesley, assisted Blackie from time to time, as did his pal Shorty. Forced to defend himself against the accusations of New... Read more

The Gunsmoke, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Around Dodge City and in the territory out West, there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that’s with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of … GUNSMOKE!” Radio westerns were aimed at kids until 1952 when Gunsmoke hit the radio airwaves. Produced for adult listeners, the stories were grim, the deaths brutal and life on the plains... Read more

Classic Radio's Greatest Shows, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection contains 12 of the greatest shows ever broadcast during the Golden Age of Radio – including episodes of The Jack Benny Program, Burns & Allen, Gunsmoke, The Amos ‘N’ Andy Show, Philip Marlowe, The Green Hornet, X Minus One, Sherlock Holmes and many others. Radio’s finest actors perform before the microphones, including: Jack... Read more

Broadway Is My Beat, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Broadway Is My Beat was a dark, gritty radio crime drama that ran on CBS from 1949 until 1954. The series was originally broadcast from New York with Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Police Detective Danny Clover. Produced by Lester Gottlieb, it was directed by John Dietz. By the thirteenth episode, the series moved to Hollywood (still set... Read more

Suspense Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic proportion. It aired on CBS from 1942 to 1962 and is considered by many to be the best mystery/drama series of the golden age. Known as Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills, it focused on suspenseful stories starring the biggest names in... Read more

The Old Time Radio's Greatest Detectives, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Golden Age of Radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars voicing fiction’s most famous gumshoes. This collection includes Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade searching for the Black Bird in The Maltese Falcon in a radio... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The detective character, Sam Spade, was created by Dashiell Hammett for his crime novel The Maltese Falcon. Spade was a hard-boiled detective with cold detachment, a keen eye for detail and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. The character is most closely associated with Humphrey Bogart who played Sam Spade in the third and... Read more

The Goodbye Girl - Abridged

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: Ellis Greer, Anna Mathias, Matthew Floyd Miller...

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this unique audio adaptation of Neil Simon’s screenplay, Paula McFadden’s a down-on-her-luck actress who’s forced to take in a new roommate – the eccentric, noisy, and generally unpleasant Eliot Garfield– who also happens to be an actor. As their careers and finances hit new lows, their reluctant partnership threatens to turn into something... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Super Shy Guy

By: Short Story Press & Mark Laughlin

Narrated by: Eric Boozer

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Short Story Press Presents Super Shy Guy by Mark LaughlinDo you know a super shy guy? Some guy who appears to have it all together, except for one thing – he can’t talk to women? That’s the problem, Jim, the protagonist of “Super Shy Guy” by Mark Laughlin has. He joins a local book club to try and come to meet people and come out of his shell a... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Barren

By: Short Story Press & Jesse Matthew Jacondin

Narrated by: Alexa Crema

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Four years ago, Nick Laverdi left his hometown of Barren in northern New Jersey and moved directly east to the city of New York. After the well-publicized collapse of the only famous person to ever come from Barren, the town picked up a crippling reputation that it was never able to shake. Each native bears its burden like a cross, and Nick is... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Better Than Syntax

By: Short Story Press & Blaise Marcoux

Narrated by: Eric Boozer

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

He is a famous author, a man who has penned best sellers. A man with a wife and a safe, sedate life. What drives his inner sorrow, then? What fuels his hidden frustration? Perhaps the answers start with the strange one-worded statements other people keep making at him. Maybe the truth lies in the reason why he is so extraordinarily afraid of... Read more