Performance audiobooks

Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

Narrated by: Emma Fielding & Stephen Fry

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen Fry narrates this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the famous Victorian comic novel.

Orphan Becky Sharp and wealthy Amelia Sedley are best friends at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. On leaving school, ambitious, social-climbing Becky looks for a rich man to support her, while the sweet-natured Amelia meets her old friend... Read more

Boy & Going Solo

By: Roald Dahl

Narrated by: Full Cast & Patrick Malahide

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Two new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Roald Dahl's gripping autobiographical stories.

These two compelling adaptations, based on Roald Dahl’s real-life tales of his of his boyhood and youthful overseas adventures, celebrate his remarkable life and commemorate his genius.

Boy Dahl’s childhood was one of excitement, wonder, terror and... Read more

Synergy

By: Keith Reddin

Narrated by: Rosalind Chao, Jeffrey Donovan, Richard Kind, A...

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

For most people, an afternoon trip to the dentist is the very definition of hell. When Debs routine dentist appointment turns out to be a meeting with Lucifer himself, she bargains her way back to living with a promise to secure a certain number of souls. Naturally, she begins her scavenger hunt in the corporate sector—the Disney Corporation to... Read more

But Not For Me

By: Keith Reddin

Narrated by: Timothy Carhart, Harry Groener, Gary Houston, L...

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Keith Reddin's examination of the early career of Richard Nixon. Set in a suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel, a paranoid Dick Nixon is an idealistic young congressman who is ambivalent about resorting to a monumentally underhanded “dirty trick”. This was orchestrated by Nixon's conniving campaign official Roy Day against his Democratic opponent,... Read more

Classic Radio Spotlights: Jack Webb - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: Jack Webb & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jack Webb (1920–1982) was a popular American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter. He started out in the entertainment industry in comedy but achieved his first success playing the title character in the radio show Pat Novak, for Hire. His greater success came from his role as Los Angeles Police Department sergeant Joe Friday... Read more

Night Beat, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & NBC Radio

Narrated by: Frank Lovejoy & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This radio drama stars Frank Lovejoy in twelve half-hour episodes that aired in 1950, during the golden age of radio.Among several newspaper-based dramas during radio’s golden age, Night Beat was a cut above the others. It was the story of Randy Stone, a hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman, and his quest for the human-interest story behind the... Read more

Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: Paul McGrath, Boris Karloff & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Every week, Inner Sanctum Mysteries told a story of ghosts, murderers, and lunatics. Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBC radio’s Blue Network in January 1941 and featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history as an organist hit a dissonant chord, a... Read more

Suspense, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: Cary Grant, Robert Young & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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. Often referred to as “Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills” it focused on suspenseful thrillers starring the... Read more

The Man Called X, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Herbert Marshall, Leon Belasco & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve exciting episodes of international intrigue from the golden age of radio.“Wherever there is mystery, adventure, intrigue, in all the strange and dangerous places in the world, there you will find the man called X!” Debonair British actor Herbert Marshall stars as FBI secret agent Ken Thurston, “the man who crosses the ocean as... Read more

Richard III (in French) - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare & David Serero

Narrated by: David Serero

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

RICHARD III de William Shakespeare. Monologues interprétés par David Serero en Francais. Adapté en Francais par David Serero. Read more

Lee debe dejar de comer dulces

By: Leela Hope

Narrated by: Erica Van Boven

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A todas las personas les gustan los dulces, pero algunas veces comemos demasiados. ¿Tus niños tienen problemas al comer alimentos saludables? ¿Tienen caries?Lee Debe Dejar de Comer Dulces es la historia de un niño pequeño que decidió mal. Lee encuentra una bolsa llena de dulces mientras su madre está afuera. ¿Qué debe hacer? Su decisión... Read more

The Mountaintop

By: Katori Hall

Narrated by: Aja Naomi King & Larry Powell

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3 is the subject of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. Hours after King’s final speech, punctuated by his immortal line, “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” the celebrated Reverend forms an... Read more

Boy

By: Anne Ziegler

Narrated by: Sarah Drew, John Getz, Travis Johns, Amy Pietz ...

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Anna Ziegler’s Boy is a powerful statement about sexual identity and the mystery of what makes us who we are. After a baby boy is seriously injured in an accident, a doctor persuades his parents to raise the child as a girl. As the child grows up, the child—known as Samantha and Adam at different times—faces an extraordinary challenge to carve... Read more

Brave New World - Abridged

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Full Cast, Jonathan Coy, Justin S...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Aldous Huxley's classic dystopian novel
It's 2116, and Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are token rebels in an irretrievably corrupted society where promiscuity is the norm, eugenics a respectable science, and morality turned upside down. There is no poverty, crime or sickness - but no... Read more

Dimension X, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers & Norman Rose

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Adventures in time and space … told in future tense…” was famous narrator Norman Rose’s opening to the radio show with some of radio’s earliest science fiction, adapted from masters of the genre.Dimension X was one of radio’s first adult science fiction series and made its mark by adapting short stories by acknowledged masters in the field,... Read more

Duffy’s Tavern, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Ed Gardner & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Duffy’s Tavern was a radio comedy series featuring tavern manager Archie, his get-rich-quick schemes, and his well-known guest stars.The familiar opening song “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” is interrupted by the ring of a telephone and actor Ed Gardner’s New Yorkese accent as he answered, “Hello, Duffy’s Tavern, where the elite meet to eat.... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Mystery Shows, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Basil Rathbone, Humphrey Bogart & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection contains twelve of the greatest mystery shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio, featuring the legendary stars that made them great.You will hear Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, Joan Fontaine, and other stars in classic radio episodes from such radio shows as Suspense, Escape,... Read more

The Cisco Kid, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jack Mather, Harry Lang & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy twelve half-hour episodes of the Western adventures of the Cisco Kid and his sidekick Pancho from the popular radio series of the 1940s and ’50s.The Cisco Kid was a popular film, radio, television, and comic-book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his short story, “The Caballero’s Way,” published in 1907... Read more

The Amos ’n’ Andy Show, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve more episodes of the antics of Amos, Andy, and the Kingfish, along with guest stars, including Jack Benny, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, and “Wizard of Oz” Frank Morgan.Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll made their radio debut on January 12, 1926, as the comedic blackface characters Sam ’n’ Henry. On March 19, 1928, they introduced... Read more

The Originalist

By: John Strand

Narrated by: Edward Gero, Karry Warren & Harlan Work

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia believed that the United States Constitution is the most reliable source for a fair interpretation of the law as it is applied today. He was, in other words, an “originalist.” But aren’t the laws written over 200 years ago subject to interpretation—or even guesswork? Edward Gero stars as the late Justice... Read more

Classic Radio Spotlights: Frank Sinatra

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Frank Sinatra & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the top entertainers of the twentieth century, Frank Sinatra, stars in fourteen broadcasts from the golden age of radio.Although “Ol’ Blue Eyes” would conquer records, film, and television, it was radio that first made Frank Sinatra a star. Spanning the years 1943 to 1954, this collection showcases Sinatra from such shows as Suspense, The... Read more

Shardlake: Dark Fire

By: CJ Sansom

Narrated by: Full Cast, Justin Salinger & Robert Glenister

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on the second novel in C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime series.

Summer, 1540. It has been three years since the terrible events at Scarnsea monastery, and lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is living a quiet life in London – until a summons from Cromwell sees him embarking on another... Read more

Raymond Chandler: The BBC Radio Drama Collection

By: Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast, Kelly Burke & Toby Stephens

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete collection of landmark BBC Radio dramas of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mysteries.

Philip Marlowe is the archetypal noir detective: wisecracking and world-weary, hardboiled yet honourable. This volume includes all eight dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's groundbreaking crime novels featuring his iconic hero.

The Big Sleep... Read more

Alan Bennett: Stories

By: Alan Bennett

Narrated by: Alan Bennett

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A unique collection of eight Alan Bennett stories, read by the author. Alan Bennett is one of Britain's best-loved authors and an acclaimed storyteller. This exclusive compilation includes eight of his best tales, collected together for the first time.

Here is his celebrated, iconic memoir The Lady in the Van; as well as two fascinating... Read more