Performance audiobooks

Lost and Found Sound

By: The Kitchen Sisters & Jay Allison

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On January 1, 1999, All Things Considered aired the first in a series of richly layered stories that trace the soundtrack of the 20th century. Broadcast weekly through 1999, continuing monthly through 2000, Lost & Found Sound chronicles, reflects, and celebrates the human experience in rare recordings and "sonic snapshots" submitted by... Read more

Definitely Above Average

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.

After the birth of Garrison Keillor's daughter, the stories, songs, and sketches on A Prairie Home Companion took on a distinctly parental bent. This new collection gathers the warmest, funniest, most affectionate examples: dance tunes and comedy with sound effects; songs featuring Chet Atkins,... Read more

Interview with poet Seamus Heaney

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Interview with poet Seamus Heaney on his translation of the poem Beowulf Read more

Pretty Good Jokes

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Fulfilling the flood of requests from enthused listeners, Pretty Good Jokes combines all the jokes from A Prairie Home Companion's first four joke shows (1996-1999). It is an entertaining mix of knock-knocks, one-liners, North Dakota, religious, animal, bar, and light bulb jokes, those famous "yo mama" insults and much more. This live recording... Read more

The Southpaw

By: Mark Harris

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Kate Asner, Earl Brown, Evan Gore...

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond, left-hander Henry Wiggen grows to manhood in a right-handed world. From his small-town beginnings, to the top of the game, Henry finds out how hard it is to please his coach, his girl, the sports page and himself-all at once. The first installation of a series that includes Bang the Drum... Read more

The Doctor's Dilemma

By: George Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: Jane Carr, Gregory Cooke, Kenneth Danziger, Roy...

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The blowhards, the know-it-alls, the scrupulous and the impecunious are all targets for Shaw’s incisive wit in his classic satire of the medical profession. A well-respected physician is forced to choose whom he shall save: a bumbling friend or the ne’er-do-well husband of the woman he loves.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring... Read more

The Playboy of the Western World

By: J.M. Synge

Narrated by: Orson Bean, Robert Evan Collins, Alexander Enbe...

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Orson Bean and Alley Mills star in the story of a man who becomes the town hero after he boasts of murdering his father. Riots greeted the first performance of this 1907 comic masterpiece of the Irish Literary Renaissance.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Orson Bean, Robert Evan Collins, Alexander Enberg, Jacqueline Heinze,... Read more

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: Annie Abbott, Lorin Dreyfuss, Richard Dreyfuss,...

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Neil Simon takes a good look at apartment life, career and role reversals, a nervous breakdown, and the love, torture, care, or inertia that somehow keeps a couple in a relationship for many years. At points, it's laugh-out-loud funny; at other times, it offers sensitive insight into the human condition. Fast-moving dialog with nonstop Simon... Read more

The Sisters Rosensweig

By: Wendy Wasserstein

Narrated by: Caroline Aaron, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jay Paulson, ...

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This delightful Broadway hit chronicles three Jewish sisters from Brooklyn as they gather in London to celebrate a birthday. Wasserstein’s three sisters include a brilliant banker and single mother who has given up on romance, a suburban housewife who moonlights as a talk-show host and a travel writer who still wants to write her serious book.

An... Read more

Tom's Midnight Garden

By: Philippa Pearce

Narrated by: Peter England, Una Stubbs, Crawford Logan & Ful...

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter England, Una Stubbs and Crawford Logan star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Philippa Pearce’s enchanting time-slip tale.

When his brother catches measles, Tom is sent away to stay with his Aunt Gwen and Uncle Alan, and is thoroughly fed up about it. What a boring summer it’s going to be! But tedium turns to adventure when,... Read more

Zero Hour 6

By: unknown

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

An episode from Rod Serling’s The Zero Hour radio program entitled “Wife of the Red-Haired Man” and starring Patty Duke, John Astin, Howard Duff, Harold Gould, and Benny Ruben. Read more

A Prairie Home Companion 25th Anniversary Collection

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This anniversary release features highlights from 25 years on the air, including favorite monologues like "Truckstop," "Gospel Birds" and "Pontoon Boat," plus brand-new stories never before available on audio. Also includes a special bonus collection of 25 toe-tapping tunes with down-home music from long-time show regulars, including Butch... Read more

I Sent a Letter to My Love

By: Melissa Manchester & Jeffrey Sweet

Narrated by: Stephen Bogardus, Meagan Fay, Melissa Mancheste...

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the Bernice Rubens' novel of the same name, I Sent a Letter to My Love is a romantic musical by Grammy winner Melissa Manchester and dramatist Jeffrey Sweet. It is 1955 and a lonely spinster, Amy, places a correspondence ad on a whim. But her hope for romance backfires when her wheelchair-bound brother is her only respondent. A tender... Read more

More News from Lake Wobegon: Love

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Love includes "Truckstop," "Uncle Al's Gift," "Rotten Apples," and "The Wise Men." Read more

Garrison Keillor Comedy Gift Pack

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Prairie Home Comedy and Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater in one fun-filled gift package.


Prairie Home Comedy Contents:
Freelance Writer; American Artistic Association; I Am A Tenor; Carp Trip; Memories of Pain; The Management Assumes No Responsibility; Second Methodist Church; Moodism; Reaching Out; Sex; Washing Your Hands; The In and Out Cat... Read more

Life These Days

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award for Best Short Stories Wherever Garrison Keillor's imagination takes him, the road back to Lake Wobegon is always a delightful one. His story collections about "the little town that time forgot" are his most popular; this Lake Wobegon collection features 11 wonderful stories recorded from live radio... Read more

Prairie Home Comedy

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty-four of the best-loved, most-requested songs and sketches from the original radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.

Contents:

Freelance Writer; American Artistic Association; I Am a Tenor; Car Trip; Memories of Pain; The Management Assumes No Responsibility; Second Methodist Church; Moodism; Reaching Out; Sex; Washing Your Hands; The... Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Spring

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the spring season.

Includes: "Me and Choir," "A Day in the Life of Clarence Bunsen," and "Letter from Jim." Read more

Working

By: Stephen Schwartz & Nina Faso

Narrated by: Eileen Barnett, Orson Bean, Harry Groener, Kait...

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The first revised and updated version of this 1970’s cult classic. A rousing musical with a cast of twenty, Working is for anyone who has ever punched a clock, a cow or a supervisor - or wanted to.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Eileen Barnett, Orson Bean, Harry Groener, Kaitlin Hopkins, Michael Kostroff, Kenna Ramsey,... Read more

The Young Man from Atlanta

By: Horton Foote

Narrated by: Phyllis Applegate, Jamie Hanes, Shirley Knight,...

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1950’s Houston, an affluent couple is transformed by tragedy when their son dies under mysterious circumstances and the husband loses his job of 40 years. Shirley Knight recreates her Tony-nominated performance in this 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Phyllis Applegate, Jamie Hanes,... Read more

In the Name of Security

By: Peter Goodchild

Narrated by: John de Lancie, William Frankfather, Arthur Han...

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Trial of Alger Hiss, The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer. At the height of the cold War, American democracy was challenged by the anti-Communist atmosphere of the McCarthy era. In the Name of Security re-opens three famous spy cases that rocked America between 1948 and 1954: Alger Hiss, Julius &... Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Winter

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the winter season.

Includes: "Guys on Ice," "The Christmas Story Re-told," and "Storm Home." Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Fall

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the fall season.

Includes: "Giant Decoys," "Daryl Tollerud's Long Day," and "Thanksgiving." Read more

Golden Age of Radio

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Groucho Marx

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring eight episodes of seven classic radio programs, this compelling collection of nostalgia will entertain listeners of all eras. Featured in this set are a live quiz show— You Bet Your Life, hosted by comic legend Groucho Marx— a thrilling segment of X-Minus One (“ The C-Chute” ) written by... Read more