Performance audiobooks

Count of Montecristo – Orson Welles

By: Orson Welles

Narrated by: Orson Welles

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Starring Orson Welles Anges Moorehead and Ray Collins The Count of Monte Cristo is a tale of revenge and retribution. Edmond Dantès, a young, energetic sailor, is falsely accused of treason on his wedding day and incarcerated in the forbidding Château d'If. His escape and ultimate revenge on those who wronged him makes this one of the most... Read more

The Whistler: Bullet Proof

By: Kenneth Harvey

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

William Conrad plays a detective named, Conrad. The country’s largest news magazine wrote him up under crime described him as massive, soft spoke and methodical. Howard Martine was all of these and more. He was a man who believed in a planned existence whether it was business, matrimony or murder. Howard Martine never took chances… Read more

The Whistler: Blind Impulse

By: Sherman Marks

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The woman's husband is disappointed enough to get a whistleresque idea while atop a mule going down the Grand Canyon! Steve was in his glory. Never in his wildest dreams had he ever believed a thing like this could come to pass. Here they were, just the two of them at Carol Crandall’s special table at the Top of The Mark in San Francisco.... Read more

The Whistler: Body Off Billingsgate

By: Gladys Thornton, Audrey Totter, Chester Stratto...

Narrated by: Lawson Zerbe & Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A dead body is found floating with a five thousand pound cheque in his pocket. He was killed by a fountain pen! Read more

The Whistler: What Makes a Murderer

By: Gladys Thornton, Audrey Totter, Chester Stratto...

Narrated by: Lawson Zerbe & Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

There comes a time when a meek stock broker gets fed up with his humdrum life and chucks it all for romance and adventure in Florida...and actually finds both! Read more

The Whistler: The Hermit

By: Ben S. Hunter

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben's niece Joan suddenly arrives for a visit, before Harvey can find the loot! Harvey finds his old friend Ben living like a hermit afraid to spend the money he embezzled but Harvey is sure he has it and that it must be hidden somewhere in this old house. When he is sure Ben is asleep Harvey lets him self out, slips quietly down the hall to the... Read more

The Whistler: Brotherly Hate

By: Gladys Thornton, Audrey Totter, Chester Stratto...

Narrated by: Lawson Zerbe & Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Visiting hours were over and the Jeffrey Long museum in San Francisco was quiet. In the private office of the owner Jeffrey sat at his desk staring at the note in his hand; a note that was damp with his own perspiration. The hands trembled, as there was a tight nervous feeling in the pit of his stomach, symptoms of terror. It had all started... Read more

The Whistler: Swan Song . Digitally Remastered

By: Gladys Thornton, Audrey Totter, Chester Stratto...

Narrated by: Lawson Zerbe & Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The setting for murder can be anywhere. Perhaps it seems more at home in a dark alley or on an isolated dark road or yet in the dingy backroom of a cheap honky-tonk. But once murder is in the mind of someone and the dark plan evolved, the setting can be anywhere. It can even take place in a well lighted, well appointed apartment in the expensive... Read more

The Whistler: Custom Built Blonde

By: Gladys Thornton, Audrey Totter, Chester Stratto...

Narrated by: Lawson Zerbe & Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It was past midnight when Jerry Coonan left the cocktail bar with a tall blond in a mink coat. On the way out he gave the high sign to Red Stafford and Shorty Burton sitting idly at the bar waiting for the tip off and as he guided her out the front door he could see them get off their stools and prepare to leave. Jerry chuckled softly to... Read more

What Trump's Refugee Policies Could Mean For Places Like Bowling Green, Kentucky

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For the year that began in October, President Trump has capped the number of refugees who may enter the U.S. at 18,000 -- the lowest level since 1980. The policy is having a significant effect in what may seem like an unlikely place: Bowling Green, Kentucky, where a disproportionate number of refugees has settled in recent years, forming a... Read more

The Whistler: Boiling Point

By: Joe Fugano

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An idea develops which involves a bridge, until the boiling point is finally reached! Kelly never knew exactly when it was that he decided to kill her. Thinking it over afterwards, he realized that murder is something like a pot boiling over. The fire is underneath for a long time and nothing happens, and then all at once the heat reaches a... Read more

The Whistler: Small Town Girl

By: Gladys Thornton, Audrey Totter, Chester Stratto...

Narrated by: Lawson Zerbe & Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A good story about a cop who discovers that he's living in the same building with a homicidal maniac. Read more

Conet

By: Irdial

Narrated by: Akin Fernandez

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

THE CONET PROJECT - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of Numbers Stations. Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication.... Read more

The Whistler

By: Various

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This show, centered on a character called The Whistler, was an American radio drama that ran from 1942 until 1955. The Whistler was a mysterious narrator who told of various murder stories. When you hear the footsteps and the whistle, be prepared for a haunting story. Read more

The Chase, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hear sixteen stories of trying to beat the clock in NBC radio’s thrilling series The Chase!In 1952, radio program creator Lawrence Klee brought The Chase to NBC radio. Developed as a psychological drama, the premise was that many life situations place their subjects in a chase of one type or another. A chase for fame. A chase from peril. A chase... Read more

Old-Time Radio Legends, Vol. 1: Humphrey Bogart - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of Hollywood’s true screen legends, Humphrey Bogart, is spotlighted in this collection of radio broadcasts that he starred in. Humphrey Bogart began his screen career mostly playing gangsters due to his resemblance to John Dillinger. Bogart’s breakthrough from supporting roles to A-list stardom came with his performances in High Sierra and... Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Texas, more than 260,000 square miles and fifty men make up the oldest and most famous law enforcement body in North America—the Texas Rangers!Like its predecessor Dragnet, Tales of the Texas Rangers adapted actual police case files for its broadcasts. Leading each week’s investigation of an actual Texas Ranger case was the same Texas Ranger,... Read more

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tom Conway and John Stanley star as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes in sixteen crime stories that will keep you glued to your chair—cup of tea in hand!Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective genius, Sherlock Holmes, came to NBC radio in 1930 starring Richard Gordon. By 1939, Basil Rathbone was heard as Holmes with Nigel... Read more

The Chase, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hear sixteen stories of trying to beat the clock in NBC radio’s thrilling series The Chase!In 1952, radio program creator Lawrence Klee brought The Chase to NBC radio. Developed as a psychological drama, the premise was that many life situations place their subjects in a chase of one type or another. A chase for fame. A chase from peril. A chase... Read more

BOGAAZAN!

By: Akira Hayasaka adapted by Ichiko Flynn & Robert...

Narrated by: June Angela, Francois Chau, Shizuko Hoshi, Jim ...

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

As the Japanese battleship Yamato steams towards the island of Okinawa in the closing months of World War II, a naval officer on board makes an unexpected discovery among the stores of rice, leeks, and pickled radishes. A child has stowed away there, hoping to return to her mother on Okinawa. His reluctant decision to protect her prompts a... Read more

A Date With Judy

By: Aleen Leslie

Narrated by: Ann Gillis

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Best friends Judy (Jane Powell) and Carol (Elizabeth Taylor) compete for the affections of an older man (Robert Stack) during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship with Carol's bumbling brother, Oogie (Scotty Beckett), Judy suspects that her father (Wallace Beery) is having an affair with a beautiful dance... Read more

Americans Are Drowning In Medical Debt, So This Nonprofit Is Buying — And Forgiving — It

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Collectively, Americans owe nearly a trillion dollars of medical debt, and Congress is trying to figure out a policy response. But in the meantime, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on an unusual non-profit’s effort to relieve the burden of medical debt for those in need. Read more

Arsenic and Old Lace

By: Joseph Kesselring

Narrated by: Ioseph Kent

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle aunts have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar. Read more

Power to the People The Black Panthers Speak

By: Fred Hampton

Narrated by: Fred Hampton

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Panthers’ ideas were potent, and they continue to inspire many. Visit All Power to the People and reflect more deeply about the Black Panther Party and its place in our shared history. Read more