Performance audiobooks

Burton at the BBC

By: BBC Audio

Narrated by: Full Cast & Richard Burton

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Highlights from Richard Burton’s finest BBC radio performances from the 1940s to the 1980s.

Richard Burton was one of the most famous British actors of the twentieth century, renowned for his magical, mellifluous voice. Before Hollywood tempted him away, he worked frequently for the BBC and many of his most electrifying performances were recorded... Read more

The Whistler, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: Bill Forman & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Whistler was one of radio's top mystery programs airing from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. The Whistler was an ominous narrator who opened each episode with, "I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the... Read more

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: Bob Bailey & a full cast

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

First heard on network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar chronicled the adventures of freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, "the man with the action-packed expense account." For fourteen years it was one of the most popular detective shows on the air, lasting until the final days of network radio drama in 1962. Each story... Read more

The Complete Talking Heads

By: Alan Bennett

Narrated by: Alan Bennett & Patricia Routledge

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete audio collection of Alan Bennett’s celebrated monologues, published together for the first time and performed by some of Britain’s best actors

The Talking Heads monologues are widely regarded as one of Alan Bennett’s finest dramatic achievements. First broadcast on BBC TV and BBC Radio 4 in the 1980s and 1990s, they won a host of... Read more

The Best Man

By: Gore Vidal

Narrated by: Terrence Currier, Johnny Holliday, Naomi Jacobs...

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This darkly satirical drama by Gore Vidal finds two presidential contenders seeking the endorsement of an aging ex-president, and explores how personal agendas can change the course of a nation's destiny. The political intrigues rampant in Vidal's 1960 setting are strangely similar what is going on today. Includes an interview with actors Fred... Read more

Good Black

By: Robert Penny

Narrated by: Rolanda Brigham, Yvonne Dabney, Ellis Foster, D...

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In Pittsburgh in the 1980’s, a young man falls in love with an older woman, and their lives are changed forever.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring Rolanda Brigham, Yvonne Dabney, Ellis Foster, Donn Carl Harper, Runako Jahi, Audrey Morgan, Kemati Janice Porter, and Valerie Robinson.

Directed by Woodie King Jr. Read more

The Whipping Man

By: Matthew Lopez

Narrated by: Aaron Jennings, Charlie Robinson & Mark J. Sull...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Tensions run high as Caleb de Leon, a young Jewish Confederate soldier, celebrates Passover with his family’s newly-freed slaves in the de Leons’ crumbling antebellum mansion. This gripping drama explores a little-known aspect of the Civil War, unearthing dark family secrets on the way to a shocking climax.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast... Read more

The Innocence of Father Brown, Volume 3

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: The Colonial Radio Players & J.T. Turner

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest takes on bandits, traitors, and killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it. The award-winning... Read more

Everything She Forgot

By: Lisa Ballantyne

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Some things aren't meant to be remembered . . .They're calling it the worst pileup in London history. Margaret Holloway is driving home, but her mind is elsewhere—on a troubled student, her daughter's acting class, the next day's meeting—when she's rear-ended and trapped in the wreckage. Just as she begins to panic, a disfigured stranger pulls... Read more

Dead Man’s Hole - Abridged

By: Doug Bost & Jeff Ward

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dead Man’s HoleA ghost story about two fraternity pledges who must spend a night on the Maine coast and enter Thunder Hole at dawn—but they find they are not alone.Script: Doug BostProduction: Union SignalArtwork: Jimmy Dean HornMusic: IrisCast:Doug BostJeff WardSteve FarrellCarolyn BaeumlerPriscilla HolbrookStephen WicksUnion Signal is Jeff... Read more

December 17 - Abridged

By: Doug Bost & Jeff Ward

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

December 17When one day doesn’t follow the next, Mike realizes he’s not traveling through time anymore—time is traveling through him.Script: Jeff WardProduction: Union SignalMusic and engineering: Mark BalloraArtwork: Jimmy Dean HornCast:Doug BostSusan MicariJeff WardChris LongfellowTrissy CallanMark BalloraSteve FarrellMary MicariPriscilla... Read more

Charles Dickens: The BBC Radio Drama Collection: Volume One

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Full Cast & Pam Ferris

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Powerful full-cast radio dramatisations of four of Charles Dickens' most famous novels

Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned novelists of all time, and this first volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes four of his best-loved stories.

The Pickwick Papers
Mr Samuel Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club, forms a Corresponding... Read more

The Exorcist

By: William Peter Blatty

Narrated by: Alexandra Mathie, Full Cast & Robert Glenister

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Glenister and Ian McDiarmid star in a gripping BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of William Peter Blatty’s classic horror novel

‘When a radio play is this good, the devil really is in the details’ Radio Times

Summoned to a case of apparent possession, Father Karras is at first sceptical, then horrified. The victim –a 12-year-old girl named Regan –... Read more

The Lady in the Van

By: Alan Bennett

Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Full Cast & Maggie Smith

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Maggie Smith stars in this BBC radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's highly acclaimed autobiographical stage play

An eccentric old lady moves into a quiet street in Camden Town. There she remains, installed in her van in glorious self-sufficiency, until the council instructs her to move on. Then a kind homeowner invites her to move her van into his... Read more

The New Adventures of Michael Shayne, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jeff Chandler & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Michael Shayne, “the reckless, red-headed Irishman,” was a popular hard-boiled detective created by crime novelist Brett Halliday. Mike settled in New Orleans just after World War II, making crime pay by fighting it with a license and an attitude.Like Mike Hammer and Philip Marlowe, Shayne is a loner. Once happily married, Mike is devastated... Read more

Night Beat, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & NBC Radio

Narrated by: Frank Lovejoy & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There were several newspaper-based dramas during radio’s golden age, including Box 13, Let George Do It, and Casey, Crime Photographer, but Night Beat was a cut above. It was the story of Randy Stone, hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman, and his quest for the human-interest story behind the headlines. It starred Frank Lovejoy as Stone, who came to... Read more

Mr. Huston / Mr. North

By: Nat Segaloff

Narrated by: Nat Segaloff

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist, producer, and film historian Nat Segaloff takes listeners behind the scenes during the final days of the great Hollywood filmmaker John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen).In the summer of 1987, a group of the screen’s most notable stars gathered in glamorous Newport, Rhode Island, to make Mr. North, a charming but... Read more

Die Arthus Saga

By: Thomas Tippner

Narrated by: Matthias Ernst Holzmann

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Die König Artus Saga auf zwei Hörbuch-CDs, gesprochen von Matthias Ernst Holzmann. Die mehrfach aufgegriffene Sage um König Artus, Schloss Camelot, den Zauberer Merlin und das im Stein steckende Schwert Excalibur zählt zu den bekanntesten Sagen des frühen Mittelalters. Read more

Radio Pro

By: Joe Martelle

Narrated by: Joe Martelle & Jordan Rich

Length: 22 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Radio Pro is several books in one, covering every aspect of personality radio—from the history of pioneer broadcasters to how to become a successful personality. Forty-one-year radio pro Joe Martelle also brings together a richly varied selection of candid comments on the subject from over 150 of America’s best broadcasters—seasoned pros who... Read more

Tea

By: Velina Hasu Houston

Narrated by: Shuko Akune, June Angela, Takayo Fischer & Lily...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Velina Hasu Houston’s Tea uses history and poetic writing to weave a drama
about Japanese “war brides” living in Kansas.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Shuko Akune, June Angela, Takayo Fischer, Lily Mariye and Diana Tanaka. Read more

Dear Elizabeth

By: Sarah Ruhl

Narrated by: Julian Sands & JoBeth Williams

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The complicated relationship between the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell is revealed in nearly thirty years’ worth of correspondence. Taken from their exchange of letters, Dear Elizabeth is a study in friendship, intimacy, and the power of words.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring JoBeth Williams and Julian Sands, with... Read more

The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Sydney Greenstreet & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Created in 1934 by American mystery author Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe is one of the most iconic private investigators in crime fiction. As Watson did for Holmes, Archie Goodwin, Wolfe’s confidential assistant, narrates the cases of the detective genius. Wolfe was an armchair detective who rarely left his luxurious brownstone in New York, so Archie... Read more

The Life of Riley, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: William Bendix & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Created by Irving Brecher, The Life of Riley starred William Bendix as Brooklyn-born Chester A. Riley, a family man who worked as a wing riveter at the fictional Cunningham Aircraft plant in California. The stories were usually set at home, where Riley would cheerfully disrupt life with his malapropisms and ill-timed intervention into minor... Read more

I Was Really Very Hungry

By: M.F.K. Fisher

Narrated by: Anne Archer, Kurt Ehrmann, Jennifer Friedmann &...

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A portrait of one of the greatest American food writers of the 20th century, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, whose writing transcended recipes and reviews to probe our deep-seated relationship to our appetites. Assembled from diaries, journalism, and short stories, Kelly Nespor's play creates a vivid tableau of the life of this preeminent and... Read more