Performance audiobooks

Vivat Rex: Volume One (Dramatisation)

By: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Marti...

Narrated by: Full Cast & Richard Burton

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Burton narrates this famous dramatic chronicle of the English Crown, a treasure of the BBC radio archive published on CD for the very first time.

Vivat Rex is the landmark drama series first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977. Over the course of 26 instalments, each one narrated by Richard Burton with a full cast, the fortunes of the... Read more

The Baltimore Waltz

By: Paula Vogel

Narrated by: Jenny Bacon, Christopher Donahue & Jerry Saslow

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly satirical play written at the height of the AIDS crisis. As a young woman is diagnosed with a mysterious new illness, she and her beloved brother flee to Europe in search of a cure … and to escape the pain and uncertainty of the future.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jenny Bacon, Christopher Donahue and Jerry Saslow. Read more

John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night

By: John Ball

Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson, Michael Hammond, Kalen H...

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on John Ball’s novel which inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series, In the Heat of the Night pits a visiting black detective from California against a small Alabama town simmering with anger over desegregation. A fitting reflection of America in the 1960s, this Off-Broadway hit is provocative, timely, and... Read more

The General From America

By: Richard Nelson

Narrated by: Samantha Bennett, Steven Culp, Keene Curtis, Ri...

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

He was a friend of George Washington and a decorated hero of the Revolutionary War. What caused Benedict Arnold to renounce his country and become one of America’s most reviled figures? Richard Dreyfuss stars in Richard Nelson’s dramatic and surprisingly modern take on the man whose name is now a synonym for being a traitor.

An L.A. Theatre... Read more

Playland

By: Athol Fugard

Narrated by: Lou Ferguson, Francis Guinan & Paul Sandberg

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a South African traveling amusement park on New Year’s Eve, Athol Fugard’s “Playland” explores the possibilities for blacks and whites to find understanding in a racially divided world. A volatile dialogue begins when two men - a former soldier and a night watchman - delve into their sordid pasts.
A Steppenwolf Theatre Company... Read more

The Road to Mecca

By: Athol Fugard

Narrated by: Julie Harris, Amy Irving & Harris Yulin

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When her husband dies, aging Miss Helen begins to fill her home in the remote South African bush with strange sculptures made from beer cans and old headlights. A local clergyman and a young woman visitor try to decide whether Miss Helens peculiar art is an outpouring of creativity or an outbreak of madness. An incandescent drama by South... Read more

Master Harold and the Boys

By: Athol Fugard

Narrated by: Leon Addison Brown, Keith David & Bobby Steggert

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre's most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950's South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold's childhood and friendships in this absorbing, affecting coming of age... Read more

Sixteen Wounded

By: Eliam Kraiem

Narrated by: Omar Metwally, Megan Austin Oberle, Annabelle G...

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The fateful collision of a lonely Jewish baker and a passionate Palestinian sets in motion a deepening friendship as the two struggle with identity and loyalty to their beliefs and to each other. An act of violence brought them together. Will another tear them apart?

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Omar Metwally, Megan... Read more

Some Americans Abroad

By: Richard Nelson

Narrated by: Ken Baltin, William Cain, Tara Callaghan, Linds...

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When a group of American professors gathers in London to teach a theatre course, the sparks fly as they squabble over academic politics, with egos, reputations, and careers at stake.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast production, starring Ken Baltin, William Cain, Tara Callaghan, Lindsay Crouse, Julie Harris, Will Lyman, Kathleen McInerny, Dossy... Read more

A Memory of Violets

By: Hazel Gaynor

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the USA Today and New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home has once again created an unforgettable historical novel. Step into the world of Victorian London, where the wealth and poverty exist side by side. This is the story of two long-lost sisters, whose lives take different paths, and the young woman who will be... Read more

Every Now and Then - Abridged

By: George Zarr

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

A sunny day, a quaint antique store, browsing through the artifacts of the pastTo some, these are the ingredients for a pleasantly spent afternoon. To Frank, it is the beginning of a journey that will tear his world inside out. Is his amusing and puzzling journey down memory lane an actual journey, or is it a careening descent into madness?Also... Read more

Casey, Crime Photographer, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Staats Cotsworth & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the March 1934 issue of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask, Jack "Flashgun" Casey, crime photographer, made his debut. His creator was former newspaper and advertising executive George Harmon Coxe Jr., who wrote more than sixty crime fiction novels in his lifetime. Casey's keen eye for detail served him well on the job, helping him to... Read more

The Lux Radio Theatre, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hosted by Cecil B. DeMille and starring numerous icons of the screen, this collection of old-time radio classics includes six episodes of The Lux Radio Theatre—one of the longest running, 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... Read more

How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

Narrated by: Glenne Headly, Randall Arney, Joy Gregory, Paul...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Balmy evenings in rural Maryland are fraught with danger, and seductions can happen anywhere from a river bank to the front seat of a car, where a young self-conscious girl is learning to drive. To Li’l Bit, the radio is the most important part of the car, but the pop music of the 50’s can never quite drown out the harrowing images in her... Read more

The Undecided Molecule

By: Norman Corwin

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Jack Delson, Arye Gross, Daniel P...

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the imagination of radio pioneer Norman Corwin comes one of the strangest trials in the history of jurisprudence. A molecule refuses to be assigned to any particular substance and insists on choosing for itself.

Starring Edward Asner, Carl Reiner, Charlie Robinson, and Erika Schickel.

Written and directed by Norman Corwin. Read more

Under Milk Wood

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Matthew Rhys, Kate Burton, Laura Evans, John Fr...

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Matthew Rhys and Kate Burton headline a Welsh and Welsh-American cast celebrating the centenary of Dylan Thomas’ birth in a performance of his timeless “play for voices.” With characters such as Captain Cat, Polly Garter, and Nogood Boyo, Thomas brings to life the inhabitants of the fictional town of Llareggub in funny, poignant, and poetic... Read more

Cocktail Sticks

By: Alan Bennett

Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Alex Jennings & Full Cast

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's short autobiographical play, originally directed by Nicholas Hytner for the National Theatre. Alan looks back on his early life with affection and sadness, revisiting some of the themes and conversations of his memoir 'A Life Like other People's'. Both he and his mother are seduced by the idea that other... Read more

Romeo and Juliet - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast, Trystan Gravelle & Vanessa Kirby

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast BBC Radio 3 production of Shakespeare’s quick-witted summer tragedy.

In a town full of hatred, where the streets ring with the Capulet/Montague feud, and swords are too easily drawn, Romeo and Juliet find each other - and love - and never let go.

In Shakespeare’s famous play, first performed in 1595, the warring Capulets and Montagues... Read more

A Fine Summer's Day

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd takes readers into Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge’s past—to his perplexing final case before the outbreak of World War I.On a fine summer’s day in June, 1914, Ian Rutledge pays little notice to the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo. An Inspector at Scotland Yard, he is planning to... Read more

Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: various

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to exact on his uncle Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother, Hamlet's father King Hamlet, and subsequently seized the throne, marrying his deceased brother's widow,... Read more

Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: various

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare. Set mainly in Scotland, the play illustrates the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. It was most likely written during the reign of James I, who had been James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English... Read more

Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: various

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as a boy) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with the Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a... Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & NBC Radio

Narrated by: Joel McCrea & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Texas, more than 260,000 square miles! And fifty men who make up the oldest and most famous law enforcement body in North America!"Like its predecessor, Dragnet, Tales of the Texas Rangers adapted actual police cases for its broadcasts. Leading each week's investigation was Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, portrayed by movie star Joel McCrea.... Read more

Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Fanny Price finds her life isn't going as she would have wished...

Fanny grows up mostly miserable in Mansfield Park, where she has always been treated as inferior to her vivacious cousins. However, over time her steadfast and kind character make her an... Read more