Performance audiobooks

Boston Blackie, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Richard Kollmar, Maurice Tarplin & Jan Miner

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are original broadcasts of the old-time radio show featuring amateur detective Boston BlackieCreated by author Jack Boyle, Boston Blackie was a master safecracker and hardened criminal who served time in a California prison. Rehabilitated, he decided to use his knowledge of the underworld to fight crime as an amateur detective. Known as “an... Read more

Boston Blackie: The Disappearing Body

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

There's a dead body in Blackie's apartment. After Blackie is lured out with a decoy telephone call, the body disappears. Then, stolen pearls find their way into Blackie's safe! Mary and Blackie return home early from the pictures to find a corpse in the dining room. While Blackie tries to explain to Mary that he knows nothing about the body,... Read more

The Road Home

By: author

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Some say a place is home when you know where all the roads go. Over in Lake Wobegon, all the roads take you there, and it's never been any different. And what you learn along the way is that—quicker than any road sign or street map or pair of shiny red shoes—all you really need is a story to get you from here to there. A story about an ordinary... Read more

Boston Blackie: Amnesia Victims

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Burke woke up this morning in a strange office with a lump on his head and he has no idea where he’s been for the last three weeks. Burke has read the story of the murder of George Digby in the morning paper and is afraid that he had something to do with it. Burke calls Blackie to help him find out. Read more

Boston Blackie: Simmons Construction Murder

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Falling for his friend's girl, he fails to reckon with an unusual roommate. The young man was tall tanned and impressive. There wasn’t a guest at Mrs. Parkford-Smith’s cocktail party who would deny that his presence had livened the affair considerably. The hostess especially appreciated Mr. Derek Marlow, his gentle flattery and his absurdly... Read more

Boston Blackie: TV Poisoning

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A man about to expose a criminal on Television is poisoned by a glass of water. Three other people, however, drank the water without ill effects! Boston Blackie and Mary Wesley seem to be settling in to watch a TV show with Inspector Faraday. As the set warms up they see Inspector Faraday and three other men seated around a table. Mary comments... Read more

Boston Blackie: The Masters Diamond

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

At a swank dinner party, the Masters diamond disappears, and Mrs. Masters has been murdered. Read more

Boston Blackie: Murder With An Alibi

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

John Blake seems to have committed the perfect crime. He has killed Thomas Evers, just as he told Blackie that he would. Blake also has a perfect alibi and seems to be making a fool out of Blackie! John Blake, a student of crime has come urgently to see Blackie. He wants to know why a murderer is always caught? Blackie replies “that’s easy... Read more

Boston Blackie: Gambler Joe Garland Killed

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Blackie visits Joe Garland to pays a friend's gambling debt. Joe is murdered while Blackie is locked in an adjacent room. Read more

Boston Blackie: Atkins, Jewel Theif

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Peggy Williams' pearl necklace has gone missing from her safe and Boston Blackie was at the scene of the crime, so of course in Faraday’s book he’s the prime suspect. But the insurance company thinks it may be staged for a false insurance claim. Read more

Boston Blackie: Murder at the Movies

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A movie star is shot while in a trunk, but no bullet went through the trunk and the bullet wasn't inside the trunk either. The commercials for Champagne Velver beer heard on this program and the others following were not part of the original network broadcast, nor even an integral part of the Ziv syndication discs. The commercials were found on... Read more

Boston Blackie: Mary Disappears

By: Jack Boyle

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Shorty’s been arrested by Inspector Friday for sticking up a gas station and even though he told them it was a guy named Donald Bolton Shorty has ended up in Jail. Inspector Friday informs Mary to tell Blackie that Shorty’s guilty and he’s to keep his nose out of this case. Read more

Hamilton

By: Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jeremy McCarter

Narrated by: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A backstage pass to the groundbreaking, hit musical Hamilton, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, including the award-winning libretto, behind-the-scenes photos and interviews, and exclusive footnotes from composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda, now streaming on Disney+ with the original... Read more

A Guide to Coastal Wildlife

By: Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss

Narrated by: Brett Westwood & Phil Gates

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining guide to some of our commonest and most curious coastal wildlife.

Brett Westwood is joined by naturalist Phil Gates in this informative and entertaining guide to a variety of common coastal wildlife. Recorded in early summer along the coast of Northumberland, each programme focuses on a different habitat – rock pools, sandy... Read more

Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Comedies

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast, Geraldine McEwan, Miriam Margolyes &...

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Three classic radio productions from the BBC archives starring Nigel Hawthorne, Miriam Margolyes, Geraldine McEwan 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 greatestdramatist.

The Taming of the Shrew:... Read more

John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme: Series 5

By: John Finnemore

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Finnemore

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

John Finnemore's Double Acts Series 1 is the winner of the Writers Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy and the Comedy.co.uk awards for Best Radio Sketch Show!

The complete fifth series of BBC Radio 4’s award-winning sketch show, written by and starring the writer of Cabin Pressure.

'One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite some... Read more

The Fulfillment

By: LaVyrle Spencer

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

New readers will fall in love with New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer's unforgettable novels—and for those who have already read her timeless romances, rediscover the passion and magic . . . .Two brothers work a rich and bountiful land—and one extraordinary woman shares their lives. To Jonathan Gray, Mary is a devoted and giving... Read more

The Lux Radio Theatre, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

The Lux Radio Theatre was one of the longest running—and most extravagant—shows from radio’s golden age. The show featured the greatest stars in Hollywood appearing in hour-long radio adaptations of their biggest motion pictures. Cecil B. DeMille was the host for the lavish production of what was to become a veritable checklist of many of... Read more

Rogue’s Gallery, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Dick Powell & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rogue’s Gallery was an old-time radio program starring Dick Powell as Richard Rogue, a private detective who trailed luscious blondes, protected witnesses, and did whatever else detectives do to make a living. What set this show apart from others in the genre was that midway through every episode, Rogue would invariably end up getting knocked... Read more

X minus One, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & NBC Radio

Narrated by: various performers & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Countdown for blastoff … X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one … Fire! From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future; adventures in which you’ll live in a million could-be years on a thousand may-be worlds.”Thus began each episode of X minus One, a... Read more

Philo Vance, Detective, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Philo Vance is a fictional character featured in numerous crime novels written by S. S. Van Dine published in the 1920s and 1930s, and who was later revived on radio and in film and television. During that time, Vance was immensely popular. He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish, dandy, a New York bon vivant with a highly intellectual... Read more

Mr. District Attorney, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mr. District Attorney came to radio in 1939 and focused on a crusading DA named Paul Garrett. Created, written, and directed by former law student Ed Byron, the series was inspired by the early years of New York governor Thomas E. Dewey. It was Dewey’s public war against racketeering which led to his election as governor and enabled him to run... Read more

The Recollections of Turner Ashbey

By: Brian Price

Narrated by: Brian Price

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 2096, and the eighty-three-year-old Turner Ashbey has seen a lot in the turbulent twenty-first century: the rising oceans, the Eastern Migration, the Stay Put, the Digital Undoing, the Tax Indentures, and of course, the collapse and dissolution of the United States Federal Government into, finally, one hundred and thirteen “ephemeral... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Emily Bergl, Jane Carr, Alexis Jacknow, Cerris ...

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Orphaned Jane journeys from a harsh childhood to become the loving caregiver of a child at the mysterious manor of Mr. Rochester. Jane is drawn to her enigmatic employer, but as dark secrets emerge, she must choose between her newfound security and the uncertainty of a life lived for oneself.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
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