Performance audiobooks

Racconti di Franz Kafka

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Fabio Giua

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Per il secondo episodio della collana "Gli audioracconti di BeAudiCast", ecco tre racconti del grande Franz Kafka, meno noti della famosissima "Metamorfosi", ma altrettanto avvincenti e sempre attuali, quasi fossero stati scritti da pochi mesi. I racconti sono "Relazione per un'accademia" - "Un Fratricidio" e "Undici Figli" Read more

River Rules

By: Stevie Z. Fischer

Narrated by: Byron Wagner

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

River Rules is a small-town environmental suspense novel with a deep heart and powerful conscience. What the housing bubble didn’t break in Bridgeville—a small New England community blessed by the Connecticut River—greed, double-dealing, and rapid-fire change just might. Peter Russo, a part-time farmer and full-time rambler with his rescue dog,... Read more

‘Inheritance’ author Dani Shapiro answers your questions

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Dani Shapiro talks about memoir about her reckoning with an ancestry test that revealed a life-changing family secret: The beloved man who had raised her wasn't her biological father. Read more

The Hardest Lessons

By: Kelvin Bueckert

Narrated by: Kelvin Bueckert

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The Hardest LessonDescription:- A student about to end his life encounters a teacher about to end his career. Their relationship quickly builds to an explosive climax of choices...Yet, in the end, they find that they have both learned a valuable lesson. Although, if they were honest with themselves, they would both have to admit that it was the... Read more

At Greek Refugee Camp, There Are Few Defenses Against Covid-19 Threat

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Human rights activists and medical nonprofits are calling on the Greek
government to evacuate overcrowded refugee camps on islands in the Aegean
Sea, where an outbreak of COVID-19 would likely cause humanitarian
catastrophe. Concerns are especially grave regarding Moria camp on the
island of Lesbos. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports. Read more

Georg Büchner: Gesamtwerk – Die Hörbuch Box

By: Georg Büchner

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Alt wurde er nicht, der Georg Büchner (1813-1837). In seinem kurzen Leben schuf er jedoch Werke, die noch heute Weltgeltung haben. In der Reihe ihrer Ersterscheinung sind dabei: Der Hessische Landbote, Dantons Tod, Lenz, Leonce und Lena sowie Woyzeck. Mit dabei: Ein pdf-Dokument mit Titelliste. Read more

Shutdown Of U.S.-Mexico Border Leaves Migrants In Limbo And In Danger

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

President Trump recently announced strict new border controls, citing
concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. Officials will now turn away most
migrants entering the country from the U.S.-Mexico border -- including
people coming legally and fleeing violence. Jean Guerrero of KPBS spoke to
families stuck in limbo at the country’s busiest land... Read more

Author Ann Patchett On What To Read While Staying Home

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

As Americans stay home to try to reduce the spread of the novel
coronavirus, we wanted to provide suggestions for how to fill that time.
Author Ann Patchett joins Jeffrey Brown to offer book recommendations for
this strange time, including "War and Peace," "Here for It" and "The Night
Watchman." Read more

Barnabas, Quentin and the Nightmare Assassin

By: Marilyn Ross

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Barnabas, Quentin and the Nightmare Assassin (June 1970)

Carolyn Stoddard is knocked unconscious when the sports car she and Barnabas are riding in skids on a patch of ice. She regains consciousness in Collinwood with Barnabas and Quentin Collins at her side—but the year is 1870! And Collinwood is being terrorized by a savage killer. Carolyn... Read more

Barnabas, Quentin and the Avenging Ghost

By: Marilyn Ross

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Barnabas, Quentin and the Avenging Ghost (May 1970)

When the jury of which Roger Collins is chairman finds Harriet Barnes guilty of murder, she swears vengeance on the entire Collins family, then kills herself.

Soon, Celia Dalton, a guest at Collinwood, starts suffering strange spells. Each time she does, someone at Collinwood is violently... Read more

Coronavirus Pandemic Finally Hits Home For The United Kingdom

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In the United Kingdom just days ago, the attitude toward the novel
coronavirus pandemic was “keep calm and carry on.” Now, however, the stakes
are higher -- and the national feeling more grim. Prime Minister Boris
Johnson has ordered pubs and restaurants to close and residents to work
from home. He’s also promising billions in relief. Special... Read more

Economist Ken Rogoff On Whether the U.S. Has Ever Experienced A Crisis Like This One

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The coronavirus pandemic is causing immense economic damage. The number of
Americans filing for unemployment benefits has surged as businesses
nationwide close down and are forced to lay off workers. Has the country
ever experienced anything like this? Paul Solman talks to Harvard
University economist Ken Rogoff, whose book “This Time is... Read more

Yo-Yo Ma On Encouraging ‘Songs Of Comfort’ Amid Global Crisis

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Yo-Yo Ma, one of the world’s most renowned and beloved musicians, is trying
to provide comfort in this time of crisis. Ma has been posting videos of
himself performing short pieces and encouraging other musicians -- of all
levels -- around the world to join him in offering “Songs of Comfort.” Ma
joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss the project and... Read more

Despite Virus Fears, Arizona’s Changing Demographic Prepares To Go To The Polls

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Across the country, election officials are scrambling to decide how to
adjust to the coronavirus pandemic. Louisiana and Georgia have postponed
their primary contests, and candidates have eliminated public rallies
entirely. But in Arizona, Tuesday’s primary is still on, and some 80
percent of voters were expected to mail in their ballots ahead... Read more

In Florida, Path To Restoring Felons’ Voting Rights Has Been Fraught With Challenge

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Until 2018, Florida was one of only a few states that banned felons from
voting for life. But that year, a two-thirds majority of the state passed
an initiative to restore voting eligibility to felons who had served their
sentences. It was a major victory for voting rights -- but the subsequent
implementation has been fraught with legal battles,... Read more

The little-known story of the Republican Party’s 1st presidential nominee

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In a new book, NPR’s Steve Inskeep has chronicled the little-known story of
how the illegitimate son of an immigrant rose to become the Republican
Party’s first presidential nominee in 1856 -- with a lot of help from his
wife. Lisa Desjardins sits down with Inskeep to discuss “Imperfect Union:
How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West,... Read more

Shakespeare in a Divided America

By: James Shapiro

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • A New York Times Notable Book

A timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our divided land.

“In this sprightly and enthralling book . . . Shapiro amply demonstrates [that] for Americans the politics of Shakespeare are not... Read more

The little-known story of the Republican Party’s 1st presidential nominee

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In a new book, NPR’s Steve Inskeep has chronicled the little-known story of
how the illegitimate son of an immigrant rose to become the Republican
Party’s first presidential nominee in 1856 -- with a lot of help from his
wife. Lisa Desjardins sits down with Inskeep to discuss “Imperfect Union:
How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West,... Read more

Rahm Emanuel, Author of "The Nation City"

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Rahm Emanuel has served as a top adviser to Presidents Clinton and Obama, a
three-term congressman from Illinois and a two-term mayor of Chicago. But
in his new book, “The Nation City,” the longtime Democrat argues that
mayors are today’s most effective U.S. government officials. Emanuel sits
down with Judy Woodruff to discuss that idea as well... Read more

Georg Büchner: Leonce und Lena

By: Georg Büchner

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Prinz Leonce ist zu Tode gelangweilt. Sein Vater will ihn mit Lena verheiraten, was für Leonce nicht in Frage kommt. Lieber will er sich in Italien dem süßen Nichtstun hingeben! Auf der Reise begegnet er Lena – und verliebt sich Hals über Kopf. Georg Büchners einziges Lustspiel gehört zu den wichtigsten klassischen deutschen Komödien und ist von... Read more

Founding Stones

By: Abbe Rolnick

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Part coming of age, part political intrigue, Founding Stones questions what it means to be a citizen of the world. Trouble simmers in a small Pacific Northwest town when generations of secrets collide. Hannah, the daughter of the largest berry farmer in the county, searches for her voice after her twin sister dies of cancer. She jumps into the... Read more

Fate

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer & Adapted by Arnold Aprill

Narrated by: David Cromer, Marge Kotlisky, Malcolm Rothman, ...

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A talkative New Yorker corrals a writer at a cocktail party and forces him to listen to the story of her life. A co-production with the National Jewish Theater.

Recorded before a live audience at Chicago’s Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in July 1992.

Adapted and directed by Arnold Aprill
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Marge Kotlisky as... Read more

The Magic Barrel

By: Bernard Malamud

Narrated by: Shelley Berman, David Cromer, Marge Kotlisky, N...

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Natural comes a classic short story about a young rabbinical student and his fateful encounter with an enigmatic matchmaker. A co-production with the National Jewish Theater.

Recorded before a live audience at Chicago’s Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in July 1992.

Adapted and Directed by Arnold Aprill
Producing Director Susan... Read more

Cyrano de Bergerac (Off-Broadway Adaptation of 2018 by David Serero) - Abridged

By: Edmond Rostand & David Serero

Narrated by: David Serero

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cyrano de Bergerac (Off-Broadway adaptation of 2018 by David Serero). Studio Cast Album Recording, starring David Serero as Cyrano. Cyrano de Bergerac is often referred as the most iconic French theater play of all time, presented in English is a new adaptation. Read more