Performance audiobooks

Let George Do It, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Detective series Let George Do It came to radio in 1946. It starred Bob Bailey as ex-G.I. and detective-for-hire George Valentine. Clients came to Valentine’s office after reading a newspaper carrying his classified ad: Personal notice: Danger’s my stock in trade. If the job’s too tough for you to handle, you’ve got a job for me. George... Read more

Short Story Press Presents Ghost Stalker

By: Short Story Press & Isabella Bailey

Narrated by: Jess Combs

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Prowler" is a marriage of supernatural horror and psychological thriller, a story about how our personal issues can manifest in strange and unnerving ways.• Our protagonist, Victoria, is a successful businesswoman.• She has a history of mental illness, but that's behind her now, despite what her distant husband might say.• What starts out as a... Read more

Man of the House

By: Short Story Press & Alex Eaker

Narrated by: Glenn Bulthuis

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

After his mother goes deaf, a young boy must navigate through the many difficulties of his childhood. The boy witnesses his Mom deal with loss, his father becoming distant, his older brother living a life of his own. The protagonist feels alone, powerless, voiceless. At the same time, the boy tries to impress the girl of his dreams at school,... Read more

Can ‘Cultural Proficiency' Among Teachers Help Close Student Achievement Gap?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Racial disparity in academic achievement remains a leading problem in American education, both at the K-12 and the college levels. A number of studies show greater diversity in the teaching profession can address some of those concerns. Hari Sreenivasan has a look at a teacher training program that is aiming to increase diversity in the... Read more

A Marx Brothers Festival - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Marx Brothers Festival is a hilarious collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities—written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered radio and TV performances by Groucho, Chico, and Harpo.In this set: The Uncle Lefty ShowA Comedy of ErrorsShe Fell DownAt the BistroWith Apologies to William... Read more

A W. C. Fields Festival - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A W. C. Fields Festival is a collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the great bulbous nosed comedian—written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio broadcasts.This set includes:Laughter Demands as a Kind of NecessityThe Whiskey RebellionThe Red HornetThe Brittle StarfishThe Blind... Read more

How Wyoming Manages To Keep Its Rural Schools Open

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The one-room schoolhouse may seem like a distant memory from U.S. history, but about 200 of them still exist today, including Wyoming’s tiny Valley Elementary School. It has only six students, but in Wyoming, education funding is redistributed so that students can have access to similar resources, no matter how small or remote their location.... Read more

Poet Willie Perdomo On The Value Of Writing Letters In A Digital World

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Texting and emailing have revolutionized the way we communicate, enabling us to be more efficient and stay in touch more easily. But they have also altered the dynamics of some of our most important relationships. Within this new digital communication landscape, what have we lost? Poet Willie Perdomo, author of The Crazy Bunch, shares his humble... Read more

A Hollywood Heroes Festival - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Hollywood Heroes Festival is collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of great actors of the past: Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, and John Wayne—written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio broadcasts.This set includes:Love Finds General Grant (Gary Cooper)Casablanca Jack... Read more

A Walk in the Woods

By: Lee Blessing

Narrated by: Alfred Molina & Steven Weber

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An idealistic American diplomat locks horns with a mercurial Soviet negotatior during a series of conversations in the woods outside Geneva. As their mutual friendship and understanding deepens, an awareness that their work may ulimately be pointless casts a shadow over their hopes to achieve a lasting peace.

Includes a post-play discussion with... Read more

Many College Students Struggle To Pass Remedial Math. Do They Need To?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Colleges created remedial education classes to ensure students were sufficiently prepared for more advanced material. But increasingly, there’s a sense that remedial courses are hurting the prospects of the students they are intended to help. As a result, some California colleges and high schools are rethinking their approach to teaching math --... Read more

Angels in America

By: Tony Kushner

Narrated by: Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Deni...

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring the cast of the National Theatre's 2018 Broadway revival.

In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National... Read more

Othello - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

PASSIONATE LOVE IN A PREJUDICED WORLDIn Shakespeare’s most intimate tragedy, director Bill Rauch explores racism, religious bias, xenophobia, and the more disturbing aspects of relationships in the context of our society’s ongoing struggle with polarizing differences.Consumed by their bigotry, those who praised the Moorish general Othello’s... Read more

The Great Gildersleeve, Vol. 3

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve was a popular character appearing regularly on The Fibber McGee & Molly Show. On August 31, 1941, the character landed his own situation comedy show, The Great Gildersleeve, becoming radio’s first spin-off. Gildy moved from the town of Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where he raised his orphaned niece and nephew,... Read more

For These States And Cities, Funding College Is Money In The Bank

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A majority of American college graduates leave school with tens of thousands of dollars in student loans. The issue of paying for college is so concerning that several 2020 presidential candidates have proposed forgiving student debt or making public colleges free. But as Hari Sreenivasan reports, some states and cities aren't waiting, and are... Read more

A Parody Outline of History - Abridged

By: Donald Ogden Stewart

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Parody Outline of History is hilarious but scathing anti-war satire of The Outline of History (1920) by H. G. Wells, written by Donald Ogden Stewart, in the styles of popular authors of the day, and first published in 1921 only a year after World War I ended.This ear-popping audio dramatization was produced and voiced by Joe Bevilacqua (aka... Read more

Gunsmoke, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Around Dodge City and in the territory out West, there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that’s with a US Marshal and the smell of … GUNSMOKE!”Radio westerns were aimed at kids until 1952 when Gunsmoke hit the radio airwaves. Produced for adult listeners, the stories were grim, the deaths brutal, and life on the plains... Read more

Fibber McGee & Molly, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fibber McGee & Molly had a long and successful run on radio (1935–1959). The program showcased terrific comic and musical talent, headlined by its creators and stars, married couple Jim and Marian Jordan. Living in the fictional Midwestern town of Wistful Vista, Fibber was an American teller of tall tales and a braggart, usually to the... Read more

The Stan Freberg Show - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Stan Freberg Show ran on CBS radio for only fifteen episodes in 1957. It starred comedian Stan Freberg and featured his stock company of performers: Daws Butler, June Foray, and Peter Leeds. It also featured singing star Peggy Taylor, the vocal stylings of The Jud Conlon Rythmnaires, and the musical direction of Billy May. Despite its short... Read more

A Stan & Ollie Festival - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Stan & Ollie Festival is a hilarious collection of tributes, parodies and rarities of the Laurel & Hardy comedy team—written, produced and performed by Joe Bev. Bonus tracks feature remastered clips of their classic performances on radio, stage and screen.Included in this set:For the Freedom of the WorldFatherland Security OfficersA... Read more

Why Immigration Is A Focal Issue In South African Election

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In South Africa, voters will go to the polls Wednesday in an election that could present the strongest challenge to date for the ruling African National Congress. A recent wave of xenophobic attacks has put the issue of immigration front and center, amid growing frustration with high rates of unemployment and poverty. Special correspondent Fred... Read more

A Freelancer’s Nightmare

By: Short Story Press & Isaiah Atabo

Narrated by: Jess Combs

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Her father left them when she was just 5. Now in her early 20's Lucy knew better than to concentrate on her academics alone. She did every menial job she could lay her hands upon so as to support herself and (hopefully) relieve the burden on her mother...she did this despite the fact that her mum was against her being a student-worker.The... Read more

Melinda Gates On Her Foundation'S Work And The Need To ‘Lift Up Women' Worldwide

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the world's largest private philanthropic organization, with an endowment of $50 billion. Melinda Gates plays a huge role in shaping its work, and her new book, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World, chronicles some of the inspiring men and women she has met through it. Judy Woodruff... Read more

Tom and Viv

By: Michael Hastings

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast & Lia Williams

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the heart-breaking story of TS Eliot's marriage to Viv Haigh-Wood.

Michael Hastings' best known play charts the turbulent, doomed marriage of the young TS Eliot and the charismatic Vivienne Haigh-Wood. This moving, highly-charged study has been described as 'one of the most important plays of the 20th century'.

Stars... Read more