Top Arts & Entertainment Audiobooks

Trent Reznor, founder of Nine Inch Nails (NIN) began creating music early in his life and cites his Pennsylvanian childhood as an early influence....

"Medicine Woman Dr. Quinn" and the former "Bond Girl" remembers the most embarrassing moments of her life and why Richard Chamberlain never wanted to make any movie with her again....

Geoffrey Fletcher's London was not the big landmarks, but rather 'the tawdry, extravagant and eccentric'. He wrote about parts of the city no-one ever had before. This could be an art nouveau pub, a Victorian music hall, a Hawksmoor church or even a public toilet in Holborn in which the...

High up on the wooden scaffolding tower of the Sistine Chapel, two fresco plasterers get on with the day’s work preparing the ceiling for their boss Michelangelo who has not bothered to turn up for work again. As they do so, they bemoan the uselessness of the great master. Pope Julius and...

Sometimes you want comedy that comes from both the brain and the butt, and somewhere in between, maybe the spleen. Hampton Yount's third album, Able. is his follow-up to his albums Unbearable and Bearable, finishing out his trilogy of poorly named stand-up albums....

First published by BBC Records and Cassettes in 1971, The Magic Roundabout includes 10 stories written and read by Eric Thompson, featuring the popular characters of Dougal, Florence, Zebedee, Dylan, Brian and Ermintrude. The stories include 'Dougal's Experiment' (in which he does some very...

Lord of the Mince is classic Julian Clary. A brilliant and hysterical mix of innuendo and cutting edge bitchiness....

Jillian Lauren, author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem discusses her incredible real-life experience “auditioning” for the harem of Prince Jefri of Brunei....

A facsimile edition of the original 1978 LP of sketches and songs from the cult BBC Radio comedy Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie, this download edition of the 1978 LP brings you right back to the world of I’m Sorry, I’ll Read...

The enchanting NPR holiday favorite. "Old Marley was as dead as a doornail": and so, nearly, was Christmas itself when Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 1843. Most traditions had been forgotten, and few if any employees got time off to celebrate. Dickens' story captured the...

In a world where your voice totally matters, what do you do if you don't have the sexiest voice, the most commanding voice, the most articulate voice...or are simply not happy with the voice you have?...

This audio course enables you to refine your Canadian accent for your next role or audition....

Stand up comedian and former Late Night with Jimmy Fallon writer Anthony Jeselnik brings his dark humor and wit to San Francisco....

In 1978, while working as a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine, Audible founder and CEO Don Katz wrote a cover story about Jane Fonda....

In 1990, the avant-garde jazz musician Sun Ra arrived at Dartmouth to collaborate with the school's jazz band, where Michael Lowenthal - an anxious, 20-year-old senior - played trumpet....

Veteran actor Titus Welliver (Lost, The Good Wife) talks about what it’s like to play the iconic Detective Harry Bosch....

Comedian Zarna Garg is known for her work onstage, but her story leading up to her career in comedy is equally stunning.

Bringing us sunshine on this recording are 'Ern’s magnificent body', 'A visit from the police' and Ernie’s going to be 'Bob Hope’s chief scriptwriter'. Other highlights from Eric and Ern’s TV show from 1971 include 'The diamond ring in the window'; 'Carry on Ern' and 'Eric Morecambe...

Def Leppard led the way, in 1980, for Britain’s new wave of heavy metal. They were catapulted to stardom within months alongside other bands such as Iron Maiden, Saxon and Whitesnake....

Here is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of horror. The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to a farm from her house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field while above him the seagulls were diving and...