Performance audiobooks

Dragnet: Big Betty

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A bunco gang of petty swindlers have set up operations in the city. They work the obituary racket, selling worthless merchandise to the relatives of the deceased. They're experienced, cunning and they work fast. Read more

Dragnet: Big Light

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Wilson, a movie director, has been killed at the studio. A 250 pound lamp had fallen on him. Read more

Dragnet: Big Car

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In four months, fifteen food markets in Los Angeles have been held up and robbed. The bandit is well-dressed and well-armed, and a bright red Pontiac looks like a clue for the police. Read more

Dragnet: Big Quack

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A man posing as a doctor is burglarizing homes in the city. Marla Hutchins commits suicide after being robbed by the phony Dr. Schulte, owner of the Los Angeles College of Psychotherapeutics. The police have his description and must find him. Read more

Dragnet: Big Slip

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Jesse McGowan, a used car dealer, bought a new Mercury from Lewis Carter. The car turns out to have been stolen, and so was the pink slip. Read more

Author Sarah Broom On ‘The Yellow House’ And Putting New Orleans East On The Map PBS NewsHour

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Broom’s 2019 memoir, “The Yellow House,” won the National Book Award
for non-fiction. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Broom to discuss her mother
and how an obsession with houses passed down two generations to the author
herself, why Broom doesn’t appear until 100 pages into the book and the
larger story she is telling about New Orleans East. Read more

Laila Lalami’s “The Other Americans” Explores The Experience Of Being An Outsider

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey Brown caught up with the National Book Award fiction finalist Laila Lalami at the Miami Book Festival. Her latest work of fiction, "The Other Americans," explores issues of immigration and identity, part of our ongoing arts and culture series, Canvas. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Last Days of a Condemned Man

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Andre Germaine has been condemned by the law of the state and freaky circumstance. He has been accused of his own murder and of a crime against his own family. He fought under Boneparte, he served his country, married and fathered a child but all those things come to nothing in the cell of the condemned. He believes it is the working of a curse... Read more

The Weird Circle: The Burial of Roger Melvin

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A man promises to bury his dying friend, but fails to keep his promise. A strange revenge. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Fatal Love Potion

By: Edward Lytton

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An old story told in modern terms, with the expected wild ending. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Wooden Ghost

By: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

As they rode along in their carriage beyond them on the road they see a man hailing them to stop. It is a tall man in a cape and wide brimmed hat and he tells Heir Gerard Dahl that he has been waiting for him to return from Rotterdam. Dahl is the uncle and guardian of Rose Falderkaust and the caped man tells him that he will visit him tonight at... Read more

The Weird Circle: The Murder of the Little Pig

By: Émile Gaboriau

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Messier Lehan had been plaguing Messier LeCoque for years to let him write up some of his interesting criminal cases. He considered him the most popular citizen of Paris and certainly the greatest detective of the time. And he finally gave in and agreed to allow him to write up his last case for his paper, The Murder of the Little Pig, alias... Read more

The Weird Circle: The Warning

By: R.P. Gillies

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Esther was lying in bed half asleep when the clock struck midnight and a voice spoke to her. It sounded to her like her bother Tom and it warned her that her husband Charles must not go to the house of Waverley that it would bring death and sorrow. Esther begged her husband not to go to the house tonight even though he was going to find out what... Read more

The Weird Circle

By: Various

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Originally broadcast between 1943 and 1945, these thirty-minute, supernatural episodes featured stories written by popular authors at the time including Robert Lewis Stevenson, Victor Hugo, Edgar Alan Poe, and even Charles Dickens. Read more

The Weird Circle: Mad Monkton

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An excellent ghost story; ancient prophesy and the unburied dead. Read more

Dusting Contours

By: Nicola Ravenscroft

Narrated by: Nicola Ravenscroft & Craig Van Ness

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Dusting Contours is a contemplation on the nature of love, passion, devotion, loss, and joy. An anthology of thirty-one spoken-word performances set to profoundly contemplative music and ambient soundscapes, this sensitive and moving work of art explores the sensual, the passionate, the maternal, the magical, and the sacred.With verse written by... Read more

The Weird Circle: Rapicini's Daughter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A good story about an actor who commits murder and then tries to convince the police that he's insane Read more

The Weird Circle: The Executioner

By: Honoré De Balzac

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The French conquerors impose a strange doom on a noble Spanish family. Read more

The Weird Circle: The Returned

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A man's first wife returns from the dead for a horrible revenge. Read more

The Tragedy of Macbeth, Part II: The Seed of Banquo

By: Noah Lukeman

Narrated by: Benjamin Curns, Nate Rubin, Baile de Lacey, Lau...

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“An audacious achievement.”
--Jennifer Lee Carrell, Ph.D. (Harvard)
New York Times Bestselling author of Interred With Their Bones/The Shakespeare Secret

“Lukeman’s sequel to the Scottish play succeeds as both a fascinating literary exercise and an entertaining play in its own right….[A] poetic, well-paced drama.”
—Booklist

Recommended Reading, New... Read more

Schachnovelle

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Martin Umbach

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Schachnovelle von Stefan Zweig gelesen von Martin Umbach. Das letzte große Abenteuer, sagt man, ist die Erforschung des menschlichen Bewusstseins - abenteuerlich allein schon durch die verwirrende Tatsache, dass kein anderes Instrument dafür zur Verfügung steht, als eben dieses Bewusstsein selbst. Mit überwältigender Konsequenz und fast... Read more

Old Time Radio Commercials

By: Guardian Maintenance

Narrated by: Guardian Maintenance

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Brings back many old memories of the past. Very good collection. Read more

X Minus One

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Robert A. Heinlein

Length: 51 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958, in various timeslots on NBC. Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950-51), X Minus One is widely considered among the finest science fiction dramas ever produced for radio. The first 15 episodes were new versions of Dimension X... Read more

CBS Radio Mystery Theater – Volume 3

By: Napoleon Hill

Narrated by: Napoleon Hill

Length: 300 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1974 long-time radio producer Himan Brown convinced CBS to green-light a new anthology of Radio Dramas, CBS Radio Mystery Theater (CBSRMT). Radio Drama had been declared "dead" twelve years before. CBS Radio Mystery Theater was meant to appeal to an audience that remembered when old time radio drama was a popular form of family... Read more