Performance audiobooks

The Deathwatch Journal

By: Ian Rankin

Narrated by: Jimmy Chisholm

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping original story for BBC Radio 4 by award-winning crime writer Ian Rankin, written for the landmark Radio 4 Book at Bedtime slot

Saughton Prison, Edinburgh. 1962.

Prison guard Thomas Scott watches over a condemned man sentenced to hang for the murder of his wife.

His prisoner is a guilty man, that’s for sure. William Telfer has done... Read more

The Goon Show Compendium Volume 13: Early Show, Series 4, Part 1 & More

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers & Harry Secombe

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers star in 7 early episodes of The Goon Show, plus a plethora of bonus features.

Immensely popular and hugely influential, the groundbreaking series The Goon Show changed the face of British comedy.

This 13th collection turns the clock back to the 1950s and the series' earliest surviving recordings. The... Read more

Brain Drain And Declining Birth Rate Threaten The Future Of Greece

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven years since the financial crisis shook Greece, many young people lack opportunity or hope for the future. Austerity and financial insecurity have pushed the birthrate to all-time lows, and members of the younger generations are leaving Greece for better opportunities elsewhere, leaving experts worried about Greece’s very existence. Special... Read more

Hopp-Frosch

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Peter Bieringer

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein König liebt es derbe Späße zu machen und sucht nach billiger Unterhaltung oder Ablenkung. Er veranstaltet deshalb immer wieder große Feste, um sich selbst und seinen Hofstaat zu amüsieren. Zu diesem Zweck hält er einen verkrüppelten Narren und eine zwergenhafte Tänzerin namens Tripetta an seinem Hof gefangen. Jeder am Hofe lacht über den... Read more

Junk

By: Ayad Akhtar

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced, a fast-paced play that exposes the financial deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s.

Set in 1985, Junk tells the story of Robert Merkin, resident genius of the upstart investment firm Sacker Lowell. Hailed as "America's Alchemist," his proclamation that "debt is an... Read more

A Christmas Carol - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens & Bleak December

Narrated by: Sylvester McCoy, Anthony D.P. Mann & The Bleak ...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A New Holiday Tradition... Starring Sylvester McCoy as Scrooge!Charles Dickens' classic ghost story for Christmas is brought to life in a full-cast audio adaptation starring Sylvester McCoy (Doctor Who, The Hobbit) as Scrooge! When the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is delivered a grave warning by the ghost of his former business partner, he is forced... Read more

Man and Superman - Abridged

By: George Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: Dame Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Man and Superman was the first drama to be broadcast on the BBC’s Third Program on October 1, 1946. To celebrate Radio 3’s fiftieth anniversary, the play was directed by Sir Peter Hall, and preserved for all time in this lush audio dramatization.“A comedy and a philosophy,” Man and Superman is based on the Don Juan theme, and using all the... Read more

The Signalman and The Cask of Amontillado - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe & Bleak December

Narrated by: Sylvester McCoy, Anthony D.P. Mann & The Bleak ...

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A chilling double-feature from two of the most celebrated writers of all time! In Charles Dickens' The Signalman, the titular character (played by Sylvester McCoy of Doctor Who and The Hobbit) recounts to a traveling writer (Anthony D.P. Mann) the terrifying tale of a ghostly spectre who forewarns of death and tragedy. Meanwhile, in a lively... Read more

Loose Wheels and Narrow Necks - Abridged

By: Brian Price

Narrated by: David Ossman & others

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Over the years while writing, directing, and acting at radio theater workshops and in the Mark Time Radio show performances at Minneapolis’ CONvergence science fiction conventions, Brian Price and David Stearns found that they shared a love for classic Beat poetry, Lord Buckley, and prose poems, so they started doing some of their own. This is a... Read more

Tales of the City: Series 1 and 2

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Full Cast, Kate Harper & Lydia Wilson

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Lydia Wilson and Kate Harper star in these BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of the first and second novels in Armistead Maupin's acclaimed 'Tales of the City' series.

Set against the 1970s San Fransisco skyline, Maupin's Tales of the City introduces the unconventional tenants of 28 Barbary Lane, the domain of the eccentric, marijuana-growing... Read more

Der Bürger als Edelmann - Abridged

By: Molière

Narrated by: Eberhard Esche & Dieter Mann

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Molières Persiflage auf die französische Gesellschaft des 17. Jahrhunderts ist aktuell geblieben. Die Orchestersuite von Richard Strauss, 1920 uraufgeführt, untermalt spritzig und pointiert die spielfreudige Darbietung von Esche und Mann, bei der die beiden Schauspieler in alle Rollen des Stückes schlüpfen. Dieser Mitschnitt einer Aufführung des... Read more

Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders - Abridged

By: Mario Süßenguth

Narrated by: Heinz Drewniok

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der MDR-Reporter Heinz Drewniok schlüpft in die Mönchskutte und erzählt als Martin Luther, wie er sich mit Ablasshändlern, wundergläubigen Nonnen, dem Teufel gar herumschlug, warum er den Fürsten und Reichsständen in Worms trotzte, was er als Junker Jörg erlebte, warum die Bibelübersetzung eine große Mühe war, was er den Ehemännern aus eigener... Read more

The It Girls

By: Karen Harper

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper comes a novel based on the lives of two amazing sisters . . .One sailed the Titanic and started a fashion empire . . .The other overtook Hollywood and scandalized the world . . .Together, they were unstoppable.They rose from genteel poverty, two beautiful sisters, ambitious, witty, seductive.... Read more

The Whistler, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 51 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 (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 criminal acts were typically undone... Read more

The CBS Radio Workshop, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 4 hours 50 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

Space Patrol, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Space Patrol began as a television show in 1950 and was an overnight sensation. The series followed the 30th-century interplanetary exploits of Commander-in-Chief Buzz Corry of the United Planets Space Patrol and his young sidekick Cadet Happy. Together they thwarted evildoers wanting to take over the Universe. The show was targeted to children,... Read more

What I'd Do For Love

By: K.F. Johnson

Narrated by: Trei Taylor

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman scorned is a dangerous woman. Greer Patterson always felt like an outsider. Loathed by her step mother and half siblings for being the green eyed, fair skinned product of her black father's affair with a white woman; she's never truly felt loved by anyone except her father and husband Michael. When Greer's life as she knows it comes... Read more

Over and Out: My Innings of a Lifetime with Test Match Special

By: Henry Blofeld

Narrated by: Henry Blofeld

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

For over half a century, Henry Blofeld has conveyed his unfailing enthusiasm for the game of cricket as a much loved broadcaster and journalist. His characteristically patrician tones, overlaid with those of the bon viveur, have delighted listeners to the BBC's Test Match Special where the personality of the broadcaster comes second only to a... Read more

Pregnant Husband

By: Isaac Nkrumah Darko

Narrated by: Lynn Benson

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Obiba, a rich man and Aba are lovers who plan to marry in the future, but Obiba jilts Aba after he has caused her an irreparable harm and goes for another woman whom he marries. In a state of emotional pains, Aba curses Obiba for causing her an irreparable harm and for jilting her. Consequently, Aba’s curse makes Obiba lose his riches. In an... Read more

Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery

By: Jenny Colgan

Narrated by: Anne-Marie Piazza

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the most wonderful time of the year… and the perfect moment to escape to a charming English village! From the beloved author whose novels are ""sheer indulgence from start to finish"" (SOPHIE KINSELLA) comes a delightful holiday story — funny, heartfelt, romantic and packed with recipes — perfect for the winter months.In the Cornish coastal... Read more

Chuck D. Presents This Day in Rap and Hip Hop History

By: Chuck D

Narrated by: Chuck D, D.R.E.S. tha BEATnik & Shepard Fairey

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A one-of-a kind survey of rap and hip hop history from 1973 to today by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world.

In the more than 40 years since the days of DJ Kool Herc and "Rapper's Delight," hip hop and rap have become a billion-dollar worldwide phenomenon. Yet there is no definitive history of the genre-until now.

Based on... Read more

Casting the Runes - Abridged

By: M. R. James & Bleak December

Narrated by: David Warner, Anthony D.P. Mann & The Bleak Dec...

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“You are allowed 3 days...”The publication of a mysterious book on the history of witchcraft is at the center of a dark and terrifying mystery. It’s a race against time as Edward Dunning must try to unravel the secret of the ancient runes, and a demonic curse placed upon him by the evil Magnus Karswell—played by legendary film star David Warner... Read more

Geschichten, die das Herz berühren (Die Runde Ecke Vol. 3)

By: Patrick Lynen

Narrated by: David Kortes, Jana Hahn, Eva-Maria Kubik & Rola...

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

16 neue und packende Geschichten aus dem wahren Leben. Ohne Netz und doppelten Boden. Live aufgezeichnet bei unseren Veranstaltungen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Die Geschichten in Volume 3: -Vom Angsthasen zum Abenteurer -Ich fotografiere tote Kinder -Mit einer wildfremden Frau nach Brasilien -Ich war der Chef, den... Read more

The Swan Island Connection

By: Dorothy Johnston

Narrated by: Jennifer McDonald

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"All children were a mixture of innocence and guile, Chris Blackie thought, but the innocence had been squashed out of Bobby McGilvrey unnaturally young."A shocking murder rocks the quiet coastal Victorian town of Queenscliff, a place where police work usually entails minor traffic infringements and dealing with the occasional Saturday night... Read more