The Winter’s Tale - Abridged
By: E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakes...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
King Leontes of Sicilia is seized by sudden and terrible jealousy of his wife Hermione, whom he accuses of adultery. He believes the child Hermione is bearing was fathered by his friend Polixenes, and when the baby girl is born he orders her to be taken to some wild place and left to die. Though Hermione's child escapes death, Leontes' cruelty... Read more
View audiobookHenry VIII - Abridged
By: E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakes...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
King Henry is married to Catherine of Aragon, but he has been smitten by the charms of the queen's maid of honor, Anne Boleyn, and is tempted to divorce his dignified and noble wife. Meanwhile, the lords of England resent the influence of Henry's trusted advisor, Cardinal Wolsey, who is gradually drawing power into his own hands. As Catherine... Read more
View audiobookPaul Temple And The Alex Affair
By: Francis Durbridge
Narrated by: Full Cast, Marjorie Westbury & Peter Coke
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
For thirty years the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help... Read more
View audiobookOur Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 31 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
This sinister masterpiece was Dickens’ last completed novel and perhaps his ultimate vision of a dark, macabre London and the corrupting power of money. Opening with a father and daughter scavenging for corpses on the Thames, this chilling tale unfolds around drownings, disguises and doubles, violence, murder, and triumphant love.Young John... Read more
View audiobookTop Girls
By: Caryl Churchill
Narrated by: Amy Brenneman, Megan Austin Oberle, Kirsten Pot...
Length: 1 hour 38 minutes
Abridged: No
In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a... Read more
View audiobookThe Bona World Of Julian & Sandy
By: Barry Took
Narrated by: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne & Kenneth Williams
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A selection of 1960s sketches from "Round the Horne" featuring the outrageously camp couple, Julian and Sandy. Oozing with innuendo and double-entendre, they engage on a variety of entrepreneurial endeavours, from Guided Tripettes to the Bona Guest House, Bogmouth. Read more
View audiobookPaul Temple And The Margo Mystery
By: Francis Durbridge
Narrated by: Full Cast, Marjorie Westbury & Peter Coke
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
For thirty years the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help... Read more
View audiobookSeven Classic Plays - Abridged
By: William Shakespeare, Alexandre Dumas, George Be...
Narrated by: Yuri Rasovsky, a full cast, John Glover, Nichol...
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Blackstone Audio is proud to present seven great plays in a collection that illustrates the development of European drama from ancient times to the threshold of the modern theater: Medea by Euripides, The Tempest by Shakespeare, The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, Camille by Dumas, An Enemy of the People by Ibsen, Arms and the Man by Shaw, and... Read more
View audiobookThe Oresteia - Abridged
By: Aeschylus
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 3 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The only complete trilogy to survive from ancient Greek theater is presented here in this sound recording of all three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides.In the Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos. Action begins when King Agamemnon returns victorious from the Trojan War but is... Read more
View audiobookSherlock Holmes Theatre - Abridged
By: Arthur Conan Doyle, William Gillette & Yuri Ras...
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, Kristoffer Tabori & a full cast
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Blackstone is pleased to present the first ever audio recordings of the only two Holmes plays written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This specially commissioned production by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear is a unique, must-have audio for all Sherlockians.In Sherlock Holmes, Professor Moriarity, the Napoleon of crime, plots with would-be... Read more
View audiobookHenry the Fourth - Abridged
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Harry Andrews & Pamela Brown
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This updated edition offers a strongly theatrical perspective on the origins of Shakespeare's The First Part of King Henry IV and the history of its interpretation. The introduction clarifies the play's surprising, de-centred dramatic structure, questioning the dominant assumption that the drama focuses on the education of Prince Hal. It calls... Read more
View audiobookLove's Labour's Lost - Abridged
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Ian Richardson & Full Cast
Length: 2 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This new edition of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost presents a highly readable text of the play based on the first quarto of 1598. A thorough but concise critical commentary and a comprehensive introduction illuminate the significant elements of the play, its remarkable use of language, and its performance history. Read more
View audiobookTitus Andronicus - Abridged
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"When will this fearful slumber have an end?"
Titus Andronicus: The Complete Play in Five Acts
A Shakespeare Recording Society ProductionTitus Andronicus is William Shakespeare's harrowing vision of unending vengeance. After defeating the Goths in battle, Titus Andronicus returns to Rome only to be cold-bloodedly deceived and barbarically... Read more
Antony and Cleopatra - Abridged
By: Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakespeare, Tom W...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 3 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman world, has become the thrall of the fascinating Cleopatra.Affairs of state call Mark Antony to Rome, but the attractions of the queen of Egypt prove impossible to resist. From one of history’s greatest love stories Shakespeare builds this magnificent tragedy of the clash between love and... Read more
View audiobookAnna in the Tropics
By: Nilo Cruz
Narrated by: Alma Martinez, Jonathan Nichols, Winston Rocha,...
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This poignant and poetic Pulitzer Prize winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration. But when he reads aloud from "Anna Karenina", he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid... Read more
View audiobookRichard III - Abridged
By: Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Cope...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Brilliantly manipulative and entirely amoral, the hero-villain Richard is one of Shakespeare's greatest roles.The Yorkists have emerged victorious from the civil wars and Edward IV wears the English crown. But Edward's misshapen brother Richard harbors kingly ambitions and will stop at nothing to achieve the throne. In a fatal battle on Bosworth... Read more
View audiobookTimon of Athens - Abridged
By: Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright, William S...
Narrated by: Alan Howard, a full cast, Norman Rodway & Damia...
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This controversial play follows the declining fortunes of a man of extravagant contradictions.The fabulously rich Timon believes all his friends to be as open-hearted and generous as himself. When his wealth suddenly evaporates, however, he discovers the truth and his altruism turns to a bitter hatred of mankind. Stirred up by the cynical... Read more
View audiobookAll’s Well That Ends Well - Abridged
By: Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakespeare, Tom W...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The young and virtuous physician’s daughter Helena desperately loves Count Bertram, but he regards her as beneath his notice.When Helena cures the king of France of a mortal illness, he rewards her with Bertram’s hand, but before their marriage can be consummated, the count flees. To win her husband back again, Helena forms a daring and... Read more
View audiobookMurder in the Casbah and Other Mysteries - Abridged
By: Anthony Boucher & Denis Green
Narrated by: Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Welcome to the Golden Age of Radio and the best in classic mystery.
From 1939-1946 Americans gathered around their radio to listen to The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- featuring Basil Rathbone as the high-strung crime solver and Nigel Bruce as his phlegmatic assistant, Dr. Watson.
Witty, fast-paced and always surprising, these great... Read more
Private Lives
By: Noel Coward
Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Marnie Mosiman, Ian Ogilvy, Beg...
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Private Lives shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Rosalind Ayres, Marnie Mosiman, Ian Ogilvy, Begonya Piazza and Kristoffer Tabori. Read more
Fresh Air: The Best of Stage and Screen
By: Terry Gross
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations, broadcast nationwide on more than 450 National Public Radio (NPR) stations and in Europe on the World Radio... Read more
View audiobookKing Lear - Abridged
By: William Shakespeare, Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Cope...
Narrated by: Trevor Peacock, Clive Merrison, a full cast, Sa...
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This shattering drama of isolation and loss is one of the greatest tragedies in world literature.King Lear of Britain has three daughters: the hard-hearted Goneril and Regan, and the good and gentle Cordelia. He determines to divide his kingdom between them, giving the largest share to she who can say she loves him the best. Lear’s tragic lack... Read more
View audiobookAs You Like It - Abridged
By: E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakes...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This pastoral is one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, due to its delightful heroine, the wise, witty, and virtuous Rosalind, who complicates her love life by disguising herself as a young man.ACT IScene 1. Orlando, the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys, has been kept “rustically at home” by his older brother, Oliver; he has been denied... Read more
View audiobookHenry VI, Part 3 - Abridged
By: William Shakespeare, Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Cope...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The monstrous power of one of Shakespeare's most memorable characters, Richard Plantagenet, emerges in Henry VI, Part 3, a portent of things to come.The Yorkists have been temporarily victorious and the Duke of York has assumed the throne, but the Lancastrians, led by Queen Margaret, counter-attack. As the fortunes of war shift, both the... Read more
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