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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
By: Dito Montiel
Narrated by: Jason Collins
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Orlandito “Dito” Montiel grew up wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times Square whore houses, and at times getting near much graver trouble. Entering adulthood in the... Read more
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De Kooning’s Bicycle
By: Robert Long
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Some of the twentieth century’s most important artists and writers—from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Fairfield Porter to Jean Stafford—lived and worked on the East End of Long Island. The home they made there would affect their creative work for years to come. Pollock found there a connection to nature that inspired some of the most... Read more
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All Shook Up
By: Carson Holloway
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The national debate over popular music’s effect on character is both furious and confused. Conservatives complain primarily about lyrics, appealing to public decency and safety. Liberals, swift to the defense of any self-expression, simultaneously celebrate rock’s liberating ethos and deny its cultural influence. Carson Holloway is out to... Read more
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Paul Temple And The Alex Affair
By: Francis Durbridge
Narrated by: Full Cast, Marjorie Westbury & Peter Coke
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
For thirty years the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help... Read more
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Top Girls
By: Caryl Churchill
Narrated by: Amy Brenneman, Megan Austin Oberle, Kirsten Pot...
Length: 1 hour 38 minutes
Abridged: No
In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a... Read more
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From Black and White to Living in Color
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
There was a time during Donald Davis's college freshman year when he wasn't really sure if he wanted to claim his hometown of Sulpher Springs, North Carolina. But a boy by the name of Stanley Easter changed his mind. "The year after that," he recalls, "I did go home from college for Thanksgiving. In fact, I had now become so proud of where I was... Read more
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It's All About Cats
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
We all know someone like them: women whose lives revolve around their cats. Here Donald Davis paints verbal portraits of two very different women in his life who shared a fiercely unshakable sense of priorities. It was simply understood that the cats came first, and once you accepted that, everything else made perfect sense. Employing his... Read more
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Irrational Fear
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 47 minutes
Abridged: No
We all have our personal phobias and white-knuckle moments. The title story of Irrational Fear tells of Davis's mother's fear of snakes and the way she eventually got even with him for making fun of her. (She always came out on top.) The second story, "The Red Coat", tells why his father and his father's brother-in-law finally stopped playing... Read more
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Broken Bones
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Broken Bones is a double set of double stories. The first set is made up of a story Davis's grandmother told about the time his mother broke her arm - twice! The second story in the first set is about how his little brother's collarbone was broken - twice! It is about how trouble is genetic in families. The second set of stories concerns Davis'... Read more
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Antony and Cleopatra - Abridged
By: Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakespeare, Tom W...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 3 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman world, has become the thrall of the fascinating Cleopatra.Affairs of state call Mark Antony to Rome, but the attractions of the queen of Egypt prove impossible to resist. From one of history’s greatest love stories Shakespeare builds this magnificent tragedy of the clash between love and... Read more
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The Unpredictable, Benevolent, Brilliant Revolution
By: Rob Brezsny
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Rob Brezsny is a self-acclaimed "perpetrator of sacred uproar" who revels in the limitless possibilities in the chaos that surrounds us. He envisions a world where each of us is a "rapturist," stealing one another's pain and spreading outrageous joy everywhere. Mr. Brezsny's words are thrilling and heady, but somehow also grounded in the reality... Read more
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I Should Have Been at Work - Abridged
By: Des Lynam
Narrated by: Des Lynam
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of the most sought-after celebrity titles of recent years, Des Lynam’s autobiography gives a frank and opinionated insight into the man behind the myth. Famously guarded about his private life, Des sets the record straight on all the stories that have been written about him, giving a unique view of life at the very top... Read more
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All’s Well That Ends Well - Abridged
By: Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakespeare, Tom W...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The young and virtuous physician’s daughter Helena desperately loves Count Bertram, but he regards her as beneath his notice.When Helena cures the king of France of a mortal illness, he rewards her with Bertram’s hand, but before their marriage can be consummated, the count flees. To win her husband back again, Helena forms a daring and... Read more
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Timon of Athens - Abridged
By: Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright, William S...
Narrated by: Alan Howard, a full cast, Norman Rodway & Damia...
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This controversial play follows the declining fortunes of a man of extravagant contradictions.The fabulously rich Timon believes all his friends to be as open-hearted and generous as himself. When his wealth suddenly evaporates, however, he discovers the truth and his altruism turns to a bitter hatred of mankind. Stirred up by the cynical... Read more
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Dean and Me
By: Jerry Lewis
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of his fifty-year friendship with Dean Martin.
They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined... Read more
The Lost Painting
By: Jonathan Harr
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story.
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to... Read more
Dean and Me - Abridged
By: Jerry Lewis & James Kaplan
Narrated by: Gregory Jbara
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got... Read more
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Fresh Air: The Best of Stage and Screen
By: Terry Gross
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations, broadcast nationwide on more than 450 National Public Radio (NPR) stations and in Europe on the World Radio... Read more
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As You Like It - Abridged
By: E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakes...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This pastoral is one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, due to its delightful heroine, the wise, witty, and virtuous Rosalind, who complicates her love life by disguising herself as a young man.ACT IScene 1. Orlando, the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys, has been kept “rustically at home” by his older brother, Oliver; he has been denied... Read more
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Local Man Moves to the City
By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"New York is a hard place to visit, but a pretty good place to live," says Garrison Keillor, and on this humorous and insightful audio collection he explains why. This Grammy Award-nominated collection comprises 10 monologues in which Keillor reflects on New York City life through the eyes of a transplanted Minnesotan. These stories are among... Read more
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Victoria Wood
By: Victoria Wood
Narrated by: Victoria Wood
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A selection of classic moments from Victoria Wood’s award-winning BBC TV programme. Here it is - the first collection of assembled highlights from Victoria Wood’s award-winning BBC television show 'Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV'. This release spills forth the likes of Julie Walters, Patricia Routledge, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston and Susie... Read more
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Only Fools And Horses 2
By: John Sullivan
Narrated by: David Jason, Full Cast & Nicholas Lyndhurst
Length: 1 hour 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The adventures of Del Boy and Rodney have become part of the nation's consciousness, and for many years record-breaking audiences have followed their hilarious wheeling and dealing on BBC1. Read more
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Victoria Wood Encore
By: Victoria Wood
Narrated by: Victoria Wood
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Julie Walters, Alan Rickman, Dora Bryan, Jim Broadbent and Celia Imrie, Hugh Lloyd, and many more join Victoria Wood in this positively bloated bumper collection oozing with songs, sketches, and monologues. Read more
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I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again 3
By: BBC
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Described by Barry Took as "a kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrases, and innuendo, revolving at breakneck speed and with a complete disregard for logic", I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again pre-dated I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue. It showcased the comic talents of Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, and Bill... Read more
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