Performance audiobooks

Barnabas, Quentin and the Frightened Bride

By: Marilyn Ross

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Barnabas, Quentin and the Frightened Bride (October 1970)

Ann and John Hayward’s honeymoon at Collinwood slowly turns into a series of nightmares.

Soon after their arrival, John, who is recovering from a war injury, falls victim to strange, violent spells. In a fit of irrational jealousy, he accuses his wife of falling in love with Barnabas... Read more

Barnabas, Quentin and the Haunted Cave

By: Marilyn Ross

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Barnabas, Quentin and The Haunted Cave (September 1970)

Harriet Turnbridge asks Barnabas Collins for help after her husband, her brother-in-law, and father-in-law are found dead, their throats savagely ripped open.
 
The police insist the killer is a mad beast. Harriet thinks that the phantom recently seen at Collinwood is responsible. Barnabas... Read more

How Response To George Floyd’S Death Reflects ‘Accumulated Grievance’ Of Black America

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the days since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody,
there have been peaceful protests, violent clashes and persistent calls for
justice. But there is a long history behind this particular shocking event.
Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is chair of the department of African
American Studies at Princeton University, and he... Read more

Tayari Jones Answers Your Questions About ‘The Street’

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Tayari Jones wrote the introduction to a new edition of Ann Petry's
1946 novel "The Street," our May pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book
club, Now Read This. Jones joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions
about the "The Street," and Jeff announces the June book selection. Read more

Бег

By: Михаил Булгаков

Narrated by: Илья Прудовский

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Пьеса М. А. Булгакова "Бег" – о последнем этапе гражданской войны, пронизанном болью поражения белой армии. О судьбе русских эмигрантов, выброшенных волной революции за пределы родной страны и страдающих в разлуке. О бессилии перед лавиной истории и тщетности надежд убежать от родины, от судьбы, от самих себя… Read more

Lovin Safari

By: Dean Hamid

Narrated by: Excellence En'Sound

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

LOVIN’ SAFARI SYNOPSISThere’s nothing like a woman who’s attractive, educated, and armed with many talents…talent’s that could knock a grown man to his knees.Safari Kennedy is an only child, born to parents who both faced untimely deaths. Unlike her mother, who dies in an automobile accident, Safari witnesses the murder of her father. For some... Read more

Letters To Lenin - Episode One

By: Olivia Lewis-Brown

Narrated by: Stephen Hannify, Ryan Butterworth, Abigail Pidg...

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter; Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police spies." - Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848)Bernard Bradshaw along with his crew are caught in a sudden cave in. Within... Read more

How A Centuries-Old Water Mill Is Providing This British County Its Daily Bread

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

We close the week with an uplifting tale from the United Kingdom. Amid
shortages of essential supplies during the coronavirus era, a picturesque
water mill of the medieval period has been pressed back into service -- to
provide bakers and grocers in the county of Dorset with fresh flour.
Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports. Read more

Author Lawrence Wright On ‘Eerie Parallels’ Between The Pandemic And His New Novel

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Amid a global pandemic comes a novel about a global pandemic. Lawrence
Wright wrote “The End of October” before the new coronavirus was discovered
in China, but some of its chapters feel ripped from today’s headlines.
Wright joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss returning to fiction after years in
journalism and what inspired his prescient story. It's... Read more

Tryst

By: Aaron Eldritch

Narrated by: Robert Beitzel

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on real events, this dramatized nonfiction describes the paranormal events experienced by four young men just as they enter adulthood. At the turn of the millennium, one unassuming house in a quiet neighborhood sees the Eldritch brothers and their two friends facing their deepest fears. What starts as youthful innocence grows darker and... Read more

Classic Radio Spotlight: Bing and Bob, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope are heard together and separately in twelve of the greatest shows from the golden age of radio!Bing Crosby and Bob Hope each had long careers in radio, the movies and on television. They each had their own radio programs and often appeared together during the golden age of radio. This collection contains twelve radio... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Mystery Shows, Vol. 4 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enjoy sixteen of the greatest mystery shows from radio’s golden age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.The golden age of radio had incredible mystery shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in spine-chilling radio mystery and... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Mystery Shows, Vol. 5 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The golden age of radio had incredible mystery shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in spine-chilling radio mystery and horror. In this collection of sixteen episodes, you’ll hear episodes of Suspense starring Rita Hayworth, Joseph Cotten,... Read more

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Vol. 4 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Johnny Dollar was America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Enjoy sixteen of his greatest cases from radio’s golden age!The golden age of radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite detective find out “who done it?” From... Read more

Strange Wills, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Warren William & a full cast

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

These are the stories of strange wills made by strange people. Men and women who defy and defile every moral law of respectability and decency to satisfy a mad desire!Distinguished Hollywood actor Warren William starred in Strange Wills, a mystery-drama series produced and syndicated by Teleways Radio Productions in 1946. William portrayed... Read more

Andy Card And Rahm Emanuel On What Trump Is Doing Right — And Wrong

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Governing in a crisis like the novel coronavirus pandemic can define a
presidency. What lessons does history have to offer as a guide? Judy
Woodruff reports and talks to former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was
President Obama’s chief of staff during the Great Recession, and the
National Endowment for Democracy’s Andrew Card, who served as... Read more

The Murders in the Rue Morgu - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe & Bleak December

Narrated by: The Bleak December Players

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the mind of the master of the macabre - Edgar Allan Poe - comes a tale of mystery and murder! When a brutal and seemingly impossible murder has been committed, the police call upon the services of Auguste Dupin (the original "consulting detective", and inspiration for Sherlock Holmes) to solve the baffling and bloody mystery. It's a race... Read more

Journal d'un Fou (Nicolas Gogol)

By: Nikolai Gogol & Nicolas Gogol

Narrated by: David Serero

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Journal d'un Fou (Nicolas Gogol), interprété en Francais par David Serero. The "Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol, performed in French language by David Serero. Read more

Pygmalion

By: George Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: Harriet Seed

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.”

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is the fascinating tale of Henry Higgins, a professor of speech and phonetics who takes on the task of teaching Eliza Doolittle, a lower-class flower seller, how to “act like a... Read more

Aristophanes: Lysistrate

By: Aristophanes

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Männer verursachen Krieg und Leid. Ihre Frauen wollen das nicht länger hinnehmen und verweigern sich ihnen, bis sie mit dem Kriegen aufhören – mit Erfolg! Die Komödie des Aristophanes gehört zu den erfolgreichsten klassischen Komödien. Read more

Morbus Leben

By: Hank Zerbolesch

Narrated by: Hank Zerbolesch

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Nach einem mehrtägigen Drogentrip kommt Hank Zerbolesch wieder zu sich. In der Tasche ein blutverschmiertes Messer und auf den Fersen Odium, ein rachsüchtiger Gangsterboss. Hauptkommissar Hans Franke verhaftet Martin Richter, einen wichtigen Mitarbeiter Odiums. Zeitgleich kassieren seine Kollegen den Gangsterboss persönlich wegen Mordes. Das ist... Read more

Euripides: Medea

By: Euripides

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Medea hat Jason geholfen, das Goldene Vlies zu erringen und dafür ihre Familie verraten. Nun verstößt Jason sie – und die Tragödie beginnt. Weltberühmter Stoff und noch heute vielgespieltes Stück! Read more

Othello

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Edward James Beesley

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.”

Othello is a tragedy play by William Shakespeare, written in the middle of his career in 1603. The story follows Othello, a general in the Venetian army, and Iago, a treacherous soldier who conspires against him to make him believe that his wife... Read more

Barnabas, Quentin and the Witch's Curse

By: Marilyn Ross

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Barnabas, Quentin and the Witch's Curse (August 1970)

Against her will, Anita Burgess accompanies her brother Jeffrey to Collinwood. He is determined to get revenge against Quentin Collins who he believes is responsible for his best friend’s death.
           
Pretending friendship toward Quentin, Anita and Jeffrey learn he has established a... Read more