Performance audiobooks

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

Frontier Gentleman, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: John Dehner & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve episodes of the adventures of an English journalist in the American West of the 1870s in this show from the golden age of radio.Frontier Gentleman was a radio western series aimed at adults that aired on CBS radio for one season in 1958. It starred radio veteran John Dehner as J. B. Kendall, a reporter for the London Times. The... Read more

The Lineup, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Bill Johnstone & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the golden age of radio comes twelve episodes of this popular and realistic police procedural.The Lineup was a hard-boiled drama. Like Dragnet, it realistically showed police doing their jobs. The show always began with a police sergeant ordering suspects to stand at attention so that the victim, behind one-way glass, could try to identify... Read more

The Hall of Fantasy, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve episodes of the horror and mystery series written and produced by radio announcers beginning in 1946.There were several series under the Hall of Fantasy banner, all produced by Richard Thorne. The first originated from radio station KALL in Salt Lake City. Richard Thorne and Carl Greyson were announcers for the station and... Read more

Dangerous Assignment, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Brian Donlevy & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1949 NBC brought handsome Irish American actor Brian Donlevy to the radio microphones as international troubleshooter Steve Mitchell in the spy series Dangerous Assignment. Mitchell worked for an unnamed US government intelligence agency, whose boss, “the Commissioner,” dispatched him to world trouble spots. Mitchell’s assignment was to solve... Read more

Never Again War - Abridged

By: Helen Engelhardt

Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson, Nick Sullivan, Katherine Kel...

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

SueMedia Productions / Midsummer Sound Company present the original audio drama, Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Käthe Kollwitz by Helen Engelhardt.Begun as a stage play by Engelhardt, this audio adaptation of Never Again War focuses on key biographical moments in Kollwitz’s long life to give the audience an understanding of the complex world... Read more

The Wireless Theatre Collection, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: the Wireless Theatre Company, Susan Casanove &...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the hilarious to the terrifying, this diverse collection features ten Wireless Theatre productions in a single volume:We Are the BBC by Susan Casanove, directed by Jack BowmanRob Sterling Davies is on the crest of a wave—and apparently Stephen Fry’s new best friend. But all isn’t quite as it seems.We Are Not the BBC by Susan Casanove,... Read more

The Lives of Harry Lime, a.k.a. The Third Man, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Orson Welles & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Made as a prequel to the hit film The Third Man, this radio show was created to follow the adventures of the popular character Harry Lime, played here, and in the movie, by Orson Welles.The 1949 film The Third Man won an Academy Award and was an international success, called “magic” by Roger Ebert and “one of the finest films ever made” by the... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Westerns, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: John Wayne, Alan Ladd & various performers

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve episodes from the greatest Western shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio! You’ll hear William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke; John Dehner as the man called Paladin in Have Gun—Will Travel; Alan Ladd in a Western tale well-calculated to keep you in suspense; John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Gregory Peck... Read more

The New Adventures of Michael Shayne, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jeff Chandler & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Michael Shayne, “the reckless, redheaded Irishman” was a popular hard-boiled detective created by crime novelist Brett Halliday. In the novels, Michael Shayne settled in Miami just after WWII, making crime pay by fighting it with a license and an attitude. Like Mike Hammer and Philip Marlowe, Shayne was a loner. The backstory on Mike is that he... Read more

Jeff Regan, Investigator, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jack Webb, Frank Graham & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jeff Regan, Investigator came to CBS Radio on July 10, 1948, with Jeff Regan as a tough private eye working for a detective agency run by Anthony J. Lyon. Regan introduced himself on each show with “I get ten a day and expenses. They call me the Lyon’s Eye.”Lyon, portrayed by Wilms Herbert, ran the International Detective Bureau, a small private... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Howard Duff, Steven Dunne & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sam Spade was a hard-boiled detective with cold detachment, a keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. The character of Sam Spade was created by writer Dashiell Hammett in 1930 for his crime story The Maltese Falcon, and for most people, the character is closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who... Read more

The Joe Bev Experience

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford & Barbara Bush

Length: 24 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Veteran Radio Personality (NPR, Sirius XM Radio) Joe Bev presents his favorite conversations with such highly diverse people as Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, Barbara Bush, John Houseman, June Foray, Diana Canova, Fred Frees, Bob Bergen, Phil Proctor, Joe Alaskey, Steve Mendoza, Noel Blanc, David Ossman, Janet Waldo, Fred Grandinetti, and... Read more

Dialogue

By: Robert McKee

Narrated by: Robert McKee

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited follow-up to the perennially bestselling writers' guide Story, from the most sought-after expert in the art of storytelling.
Robert McKee's popular writing workshops have earned him an international reputation. The list of alumni with Oscars runs off the page. The cornerstone of his program is his singular book, Story, which has... Read more

Shardlake: Dissolution

By: CJ Sansom

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jason Watkins & Mark Bonnar

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on CJ Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel.

Winter, 1537. Henry VIII has declared himself Supreme Head of the Church, and instructed his chief minister Thomas Cromwell to dissolve England's religious houses and seize their wealth. But Cromwell's plot to bring down the abbeys has hit a snag... Read more

Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Romances

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast, Hannah Gordon, Paul Scofield & Tim P...

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Three classic radio productions from the BBC archives starring Hannah Gordon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Paul Scofield and a host of celebrated acting talent.

These three legendary plays, performed by some of the best-known theatrical actors of the 20th Century, are the perfect way to commemorate England's greatest dramatist.

The Winter's Tale
One man's... Read more

Until research unlocks medical understanding of marijuana, patients experiment

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Lenny and Amy’s 5-year-old son has epilepsy. When conventional medications caused terrible side effects, they started giving him a daily drop of cannabis oil, with dramatic results. But it’s a calculated risk: While there is anecdotal evidence of cannabis’ effectiveness, scientists face research roadblocks because it’s a schedule 1 controlled... Read more

Box 13, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Alan Ladd, Sylvia Picker & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Movie star Alan Ladd played Dan Holiday, a former newspaperman turned mystery novelist and adventurer. To gain ideas for his books, Holiday placed an ad in the Star-Times newspaper: “Adventure wanted—will go anywhere, do anything—write Box 13, Star-Times.” It wasn’t long before his post office box became jammed with adventure offers galore. The... Read more

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

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve episodes from the greatest detective shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio, with the legendary stars that made them great. You’ll hear Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson, Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolfe, Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Chester Morris as Boston Blackie, Dick Powell as... Read more

The Black Museum, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve episodes of the classic mystery radio show, The Black Museum.The Black Museum was a weekly radio crime drama produced for the BBC in 1951 and based on real-life cases from the files of Scotland Yard. Orson Welles, who was living in London at the time, was both host and narrator for these dramatized stories based on Scotland... Read more

The CBS Radio Workshop, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: various authors

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The CBS Radio Workshop regularly featured the works of the world’s greatest writers, including Ray Bradbury, Archibald MacLeish, William Saroyan, Lord Dunsany, and Ambrose Bierce, among others. The radio series aired from January 27, 1956, through September 22, 1957, and was a revival of the prestigious Columbia Workshop from the 1930s and... Read more

The Aldrich Family, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Bobby Ellis & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

The Trouble with Lexie

By: Jessica Anya Blau

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“There isn’t a human alive who can resist the charm of Jessica Anya Blau’s novels! A coming-of-age tale for the new millennium, The Trouble with Lexie is one of the most deeply enjoyable—and deeply satisfying—novels I’ve read in ages.” —Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger YearFrom the beloved author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and The... Read more

2010: Space Commander! - Abridged

By: Stuart Price

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since our bodies cannot genuinely explore space, why not get rid of them?Without wanting to trot out the already tired clichés about social networking sites being our main interaction, or point out that with gaming systems becoming so sophisticated the next generation will spend an overwhelming amount of time interacting through the Internet, it... Read more