Performance audiobooks

How This Philanthropist Hopes To Boost Mid-Career Women Artists

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The work of women artists makes up only 3 to 5 percent of major museums'
permanent collections in the U.S. and Europe. Many of these artists
struggle financially -- but Susan Unterberg is trying to change that. For
decades, the artist has supported her female peers as an anonymous
benefactor. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Unterberg to discuss why... Read more

Theatre Studies: The Basics

By: Robert Leach

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in a second edition, 'Theatre Studies: The Basics' is a fully updated guide to the wonderful world of theatre. The practical and theoretical dimensions of theatre – from acting to audience – are woven together throughout to provide an integrated introduction to the study of drama, theatre and performance. Topics covered include: dramatic... Read more

"Heart Berries" Author Terese Marie Mailhot Answers Your Questions

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Terese Marie Mailhot, author of our January pick for the NewsHour-New York
Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader
questions on “Heart Berries,” and Jeff announces the February book
selection. Read more

Whitehall 1212

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Whitehall 1212 was a 1951-1952 crime radio series based on facts. The title is actually derived from the telephone number of the Scotland Yard. It featured several stories of true crime, presented by Chief Inspector John Davison. Read more

Whitehall 1212: The Magenta Blotting Pad

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A magenta colored blotting paper is on exhibit in the Black Museum because of its involvement with a murder in Oxford. A foreign gentleman's poor sister has been killed. Read more

Whitehall 1212: The Inoperative Wireless

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A wireless set that was never intended to be operative is in the Black Museum because of its involvement with the murder of a bartender with strychnine. Read more

Whitehall 1212: The Fournier Case

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman's body is found in an old trunk at the Charing Cross railroad station baggage claim. Who killed Mrs. Noami Fornier? Read more

Whitehall 1212: The Blitz Murder Case

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The first show of the series. A visit to the Black Museum and an exhibit of teacup fragments. A woman and her companion have been killed with a shotgun. Read more

Whitehall 1212: The Case of The Unidentified Woman

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman's stocking is kept in the Black Museum as a keepsake of a woman who was struck by a motorcar. However, the woman wasn't killed by the car, she was seen getting into a green van...with a shoe painted on the side. Read more

Whitehall 1212: The Murder of Duncan Frazier

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Sidney Patterson's body has been found in a burning building. But, he was shot in the back! Mr. Patterson then turns out to be Duncan Frazier! The teeth tell the story. Read more

Whitehall 1212: The Man Who Murdered His Wife

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman's body is found covered with quicklime. Mrs. Hope Russell seems to have been murdered by her husband...but he was really killed by the Luftwaffe! Read more

Whitehall 1212: The Winchester Bottles

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A Winchester bottle is the exhibit in the Black Museum associated with the murder of a four year old girl. A set of mysterious fingerprints on the bottle cannot be identified. Scotland Yard decides to fingerprint the entire town of Blackbourne! Read more

Whitehall 1212: The Case of Thomas Applebee

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas A'Becket Appleby has been murdered. His Wife Alma is arrested for the crime, but her young lover confesses to the crime. Read more

Whitehall 1212: The Case of Dr. Duncan Allen

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A bottle of The Glenlivet in the Black Museum is the exhibit in a case of stolen uranium! Read more

A Bud & Lou Festival - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Bud & Lou Festival is a hilarious collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the Abbott & Costello comedy team—written, produced, and performed by Joe Bev. Bonus tracks feature remastered episodes of their radio broadcasts.Included in this set:The Unemployment RateA Dollar a DayU-DriveGoing HuntingNobody’s in Right?Calling... Read more

Georg Büchner: Dantons Tod

By: Georg Büchner

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dantons Tod spielt zur Zeit der Schreckensherrschaft der Französischen Revolution, die langsam, aber sicher, ihre eigenen Kinder frisst. Das Drama in vier Akten wurde erst 1902 uraufgeführt. Mit dabei: Ein pdf-Dokument mit kompletter Titelliste. Read more

My Favorite Husband: Literary Club's Speaker Came to Dinner

By: Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh & Jess Oppenheimer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Liz invites a famous big game hunter home to dinner to meet her husband, whom she claims is a big game hunter too. Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Death by Adoption

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 9.45 pm on a Saturday night in September 1937. The business district of central city Texas is dark except for the office of Harry Cashman’s used car lot. Cashman is pacing the small office in agitation as a man in a leather windbreaker crosses the lot slipping between the cars for sale and knocks at the door. He is the blood father that... Read more

Suspense: Taming of the Beast

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A scheming phoney doctor is delighted to discover that his wife has a brain tumor that will kill her in three months! Dr Ferrari knew what kind of woman Nora was the moment he laid eyes on her. She was very beautiful and equally utterly heartless. She was the kind of a woman who wants everything, gives nothing and still thinks she’s a passionate... Read more

Suspense: Til Death Do Us Part

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A man and his wife sit beside the fire in their country cottage. They are Professor Craft and his wife Cynthia. The cottage is rather isolated, 3 miles from the nearest house, no electricity, central heating or telephone. Professor Craft is convinced that his wife is having an affair with a young Doctor from the village so he devises a plan to... Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Room 114

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Steve flies to Rotterdam to find ex-Nazi Rudolph Karpel...with the help of the Glutenschwitzen girls! Read more

Suspense: One Way Ride to Nowhere

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the premiere drama programs of the Golden age of Radio, Suspense was subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills”. The protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a bizarre or threatening situation; solutions were “withheld until the last possible second” and evildoers were usually punished in the end. Read more

Our Miss Brooks: Poetry Mix-Up

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Who's been sending romantic poetry to Harriet Conklin? Our Miss Brooks manages to keep pretty busy teaching English at Madison High School but in spite of her preoccupation with her own subject she’s managed to find quite a bit of time lately to pursue the study of biology. Read more

My Favorite Husband: Liz Becomes a Sculptress

By: Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh & Jess Oppenheimer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Liz takes up sculpture and hires a model. As we look in on 321 Bundy Drive, Sheridan Falls, it's late afternoon. Liz is just arriving home from her club meeting, and is met at the door by George. Liz has had a very educational day at the club today. They had a lecture on older people and how they can be kept happy and useful, but as Liz has no... Read more