Performance audiobooks

Pericles - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2015 production of Pericles, Shakespeare’s first romance. This stunning work of audio theater, fully dramatized with performances by the OSF cast, is a must-listen.Pericles, Prince of Tyre, sets out to woo a princess and sails headlong into harrowing adventure. Pursued by an... Read more

Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Tragedies

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast, Ian McKellen, Paul Scofield & Peggy ...

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Three powerful radio productions from the BBC archives starring Ian McKellen, Ronald Pickup and 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.

Romeo and Juliet: The... Read more

Candy Matson, Yukon 2-8209, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Candy Matson was no girl detective … she was all woman. Candy Matson was a response to all the hard-boiled detectives on the radio like Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, and Pat Novak, and all those other detectives who were beaten up on a regular basis. Candy, played by Natalie Park, was hard-boiled in her own way. She never compromised her femininity... Read more

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The first volume of the perennial favorite sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie & HarrietOzzie Nelson was Red Skelton’s bandleader on the populare radio series The Red Skelton Show. Ozzie’s wife, Harriet Hilliard, was Skelton’s singer. When Skelton was drafted in March of 1944, Ozzie was prompted to create his own family sitcom radio series. The... Read more

This Is Your FBI, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This Is Your FBI, as the title suggests, was a crime drama that featured true cases from the FBI and was told from an agent's viewpoint. The show's producer and director, Jerry Devine, had once worked for the FBI, so having him for the show would allow each story to be told in the best way possible. J. Edgar Hoover, who was the chief of the FBI... Read more

Classic Radio Spotlights: Jack Benny - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jack Benny

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve radio episodes featuring Jack Benny in different series from the golden age of radio. This collection includes episodes from The Jack Benny Program, Suspense, The Burns & Allen Show, The Bing Crosby Show, The Ford Theatre, and many more. Read more

Dragnet, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jack Webb & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in Los Angeles, and starring Jack Webb as the stoic Sergeant Joe Friday, Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama of all time, having made extensive runs on both radio and television. Webb, also the producer of the show, took the series to new highs, insisting on realism in every facet of the program. The... Read more

Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collection: Volume One

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Carl Bernard, Full Cast & Hugh Morton

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Three complete radio dramas featuring writer-cum-amateur detective Paul Temple, plus bonus archive material. When it comes to classic crime partnerships, Paul Temple and his wife Steve are the crème de la crème. Between 1938 and 1968 their glamorous exploits enthralled generations of radio listeners around the world. Here, presented in... Read more

American Buffalo

By: David Mamet

Narrated by: Rich Hutchman, Josh Stamberg & Maurice Williams

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

David Mamet’s gift for storytelling and forging poetry from both the plain-spoken and profane turns an ill-conceived scheme to steal a rare coin into a triumph of dramatic art. In a junk shop, three men of different generations plan their heist. But their fates, like the nickel’s worn image of the beleaguered buffalo, may have been sealed long... Read more

Remembrance

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen years after the release of the first Mediator novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot returns with a deliciously sexy new entry to a fan-favorite series. Suze Simon—all grown up and engaged to her once-ghostly soulmate—faces a vengeful spirit and an old enemy bent on ending Suze's wedded bliss before it begins.You can take... Read more

Murder at Midnight, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Raymond Morgan & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Produced in New York, Murder at Midnight came to ABC Radio in September of 1946 and featured horror stories with supernatural twists. Raymond Morgan, a former Long Island minister who had left the cloth for the excitement of radio, was the foreboding host who each week uttered the lines: “Midnight, the witching hour when the night is darkest,... Read more

Rocky Fortune, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Frank Sinatra, Barney Phillips & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve adventure-packed episodes of the radio drama Rocky Fortune.This 1953 radio adventure series stars Frank Sinatra as Rocco Fortunato, a.k.a. Rocky Fortune, a footloose and fancy-free young man of several talents. In constant need of employment, Rocky accepts odd jobs from the Gridley Employment Agency—jobs that typically lead him... Read more

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection contains twelve amazing detective adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective genius, Sherlock Holmes, first came to NBC radio in 1930, starring Richard Gordon. By 1939, Basil Rathbone took over as Holmes, with Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. The duo were simultaneously... Read more

Mr. & Mrs. North, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, Mr. & Mrs. North were fictional amateur detectives appearing in novels, motion pictures, radio, and television. The Norths were not professional detectives, but simply a well-to-do New York couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week and felt compelled to solve the crimes. A 1942 MGM movie... Read more

Our Miss Brooks, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Our Miss Brooks was a situation comedy show heard on radio and seen on television and films starring Oscar winner Eve Arden. Her skill with the wicked one-liner and acid aside had begun to lead to typecasting so, to find a new image, Arden signed on for the lead in radio’s Our Miss Brooks. The series centered on Connie Brooks, a smart,... Read more

PIGmalion - Abridged

By: Mark Dunn

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast production inspired by Pygmalion, Shaw’s classic drawing room tale of language and class division, and its musical incarnation, My Fair LadyPIGmalion tells the story of one Eliza Doolittle, who sells homemade pork rinds at the Tri-Counties Fair and Livestock Show. The daughter of a hardscrabble Mississippi pig farmer, Eliza dreams of... Read more

Steel Magnolias

By: Robert Harling

Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Jeanie Hackett, Shannon Holt, A...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Within the walls of Truvy’s beauty shop are six women whose lives increasingly hinge on the existence of one another. Together, they absorb the passing seasons, just like the weathered wooden structure of the salon “home” that they share.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring
Frances Fisher, Jeanie Hackett, Shannon Holt,
Amy Pietz,... Read more

A Hero’s Journey

By: Play arrangements by Mark Richard & poems and p...

Narrated by: John Mahoney & Kelly Nespor

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

An adaptation of the prose & poetry of author Raymond Carver and his wife Tess Gallagher.
The story chronicles the final year of Carver’s life when he was struggling to finish his final book. This two-person play is a co-production with Chicago’s City Lit Theater. Read more

Judgment at Nuremberg

By: Abby Mann

Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson, Michael Canavan, Jake Gr...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Abby Mann's classic story about the Nuremberg trials, under which German leaders were found guilty of crimes against humanity in 1945 and 1946. Even today, the play remains a shattering indictment of the consequences of unchecked authority and the seductive power of group thought.

Includes an audience talkback with Judge Bruce Einhorn, who served... Read more

Donny's Brain

By: Rona Munro

Narrated by: Paul Fox, Jared Harris, Siobhán Hewlett, Moira ...

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The acclaimed Scottish playwright Rona Munro has created a remarkable story about a man who wakes up from a car crash with brain damage. Now, he sees the world as the person he was three years ago, when his life and loves were in a very different place.

This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays.... Read more

Donny’s Brain

By: Rona Munro

Narrated by: Paul Fox, Jared Harris, Siobhán Hewlett, Moira ...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The acclaimed Scottish playwright Rona Munro has created a remarkable story about a man who wakes up from a car crash with brain damage. Now, he sees the world as the person he was three years ago, when his life and loves were in a very different place.

This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays.... Read more

Stuck Behind Bars, A Writer Found A Way To Connect To The World

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Reginald Dwayne Betts grew up an honor student with hopes for college, but went to prison at 16 for carjacking, his first run-in with the law. Reading, and poetry in particular, became a comfort and gave him a new identity. The writer, who is now a law student and a prison reform advocate, sits down with Jeffrey Brown to discuss his work and his... Read more

Poetry Helps Youth At A Juvenile Detention Center Find Peace

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy aims to help troubled youths in Chicago’s Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center address their personal issues by writing poetry about their circumstances and upbringing. Jeffrey Brown talks with poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, who turned around his life with writing and education after eight and a half... Read more

This Sceptred Isle Collection 2: 1702 - 1901

By: Christopher Lee

Narrated by: Anna Massey, Peter Jeffrey, Brett Usher, Denys ...

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The final five volumes from the landmark BBC radio series This Sceptred Isle.

Christopher Lee's epic history tells the story of Britain from the Romans to the death of Victoria. This collection includes the original volumes 6-10:

1702-1760: The First British EmpireThe reign of George I; Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, and the... Read more