Audiobooks narrated by Ed Asner

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? Audiobook

In the mid-1950’s, the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating the communist influence in the entertainment industry. This searing docudrama from actual transcripts of the hearings reveals how decent people were persuaded to “name names,” and the steep price paid by those who refused. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: René Auberjonois, Edward Asner, Bonnie Bedelia, Jack Coleman, Bud Cort, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Robert Foxworth, Harry Hamlin, James Earl Jones, Richard Masur, Franklyn Seales, Joe Spano, James Whitmore, Michael York, and Harris Yulin.

Eric Bentley (Author), Bonnie Bedelia, Bud Cort, Ed Asner, Edward Asner, Franklyn Seales, Harris Yulin, Harry Hamlin, Hector Elizondo, Jack Coleman, James Earl Jones, James Whitmore, Joe Spano, Michael York, Rene Auberjonois, Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Masur, Robert Foxworth (Narrator)

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Communion with God

In 1992, Neale Donald Walsch-depressed, in poor health, unhappy with his life, wrote an angry letter to God. His frustrated questions, What does it take to make life work? What have I done to deserve a life of such continuing struggle?, poured out onto a yellow legal pad. Before he was through, his pen stayed suspended over the paper, and a reply was whispered into his mind by a voiceless voice:"Do you really want an answer to all these questions, or are you just venting?" Communion with God is the latest in a series of books chronicling Walsch's extraordinary experience.

Neale Donald Walsch (Author), Ed Asner, Edward Asner, Ellen Burstyn (Narrator)

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For Us All

A team of lawyers uses a little-known legal writ to fight and overturn the conviction of Fred Korematsu, unjustly sentenced for resisting the WWII mass incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The play draws much inspiration from Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and his Quest for Justice by Lorraine K. Bannai (University of Washington Press 2015) and Justice Delayed by Peter Irons (Wesleyan University Press 1989). Includes a conversation with playwright Jeanne Sakata and four of the attorneys from the Korematsu v. United States case: Lori Bannai, Peter Irons, Dale Minami and Don Tamaki. For Us All is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in January 2021. Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg Edward Asner as John J. McCloy Brooke Ishibashi as Karen Korematsu Tess Lina as Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, Times Analyst, Clerk Mike McShane as Lt. General John L. DeWitt, CBS News Anchor, ABC News Anchor, NBC Reporter Derek Mio as Dale Minami Joy Osmanski as Lorraine (Lori) Bannai, Maya Jeanne Sakata as Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga André Sogliuzzo as Edward Ennis, Victor Stone, NY Times Reporter Josh Stamberg as Peter Irons Greg Watanabe as Fred Korematsu, Eric Yamamoto Paul Yen as Don Tamaki Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson Prepared for audio by Mark Holden and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, Editor: Neil Wogenson Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

Jeanne Sakata (Author), Brooke Ishibashi, Ed Asner, Tess Lina (Narrator)

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Forty-Two Stories

Forty-Two Stories by Douglas Post is a comedy about life in a high-rise condominium. A professional student from the University of Chicago is moonlighting as janitor. A stressed-out apartment manager is at odds with the residents and on the edge of a nervous breakdown. And a motley assortment of other staff members struggles with survival in the face of urban pandemonium and with the fact that one of them may be breaking into the units and stealing women’s underwear. A Next Theatre co-production. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Edward Asner as Frank Rengin Altay as Demetra Jane Blass as Alice Kyle Colerider-Krugh as Zackary Sam Macy as Sergio Mike Nussbaum as Gunter Morocco Omari as Timothy David M. Pasquesi as Ed Steve Pickering as Ross Directed by Susan Booth. Recorded before a live audience at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie in June of 1998.

Douglas Post (Author), David M. Pasquesi, Ed Asner, Edward Asner, Jane Blass, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Mike Nussbaum, Morocco Omari, Rengin Altay, Sam Macy, Steve Pickering (Narrator)

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God's Eye

Winner of Booky Award for top 10 book of the year 2011 Finalist - USA Best Book Awards for mystery/suspense and cover design Fiction 2012 Finalist - Best Audiobook Award 2012 Katharine can’t believe what she’s seeing. Her world has always been planned and orderly, but now, she’s petrified that she’s going insane, and she’s equally afraid that she’s not. What if the strange creatures she’s seeing really are disappearing and the messages showing up in Latin actually mean something? When two equally charismatic men suddenly turn up in her life, she begins to find some balance. But it doesn’t take long before she realizes that neither man is what he seems. And Katharine has a very important choice to make...one that will change her life forever.

A.J. Scudiere (Author), Ed Asner, Joe Barrett, Kathe Mazur, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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God's Eye

Katharine can't believe what she's seeing. Her world has always been planned and orderly, but now, she's petrified that she's going insane, and she's equally afraid that she's not. What if the strange creatures she's seeing really are disappearing and the messages showing up in Latin actually mean something? When two equally charismatic men suddenly turn up in her life, she begins to find some balance. But it doesn't take long before she realizes that neither man is what he seems. And Katharine has a very important choice to make...one that will change her life forever. Winner of Booky Award for top 10 book of the year 2011 Finalist - USA Best Book Awards for mystery/suspense and cover design Fiction 2012 Finalist - Best Audiobook Award 2012

A.J. Scudiere (Author), Ed Asner, Joe Barrett, Kathe Mazur, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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God’s Eye

A demon… Every soul he claims is another chance to advance, until he can walk among us, look like us, make us believe in him. The only thing holding him back is… An angel… The rules of the realm bind him from fighting on the demon’s terms. But this is his chance to steal something away from the demon, to steal the thing the demon wants most… A woman who must choose… A woman who has been chosen, Katharine is suddenly a pawn in a game in which the rules and the stakes are beyond her comprehension. She must take a side even though she can’t tell angel from demon. And in the end, they will all be judged. “As heiress to a Fortune 500 company, Katherine is always suspicious of new men who enter her life. Little does she know that the two newest men in her life represent opposite sides of a force that threatens reality itself. Nor does she know she’s the key to the future. God’s Eye is another wonderful audio-movie recorded at Skyboat Studios. It’s a bit reminiscent of the Twilight movies, with its handsome monsters and beautiful women, but there’s more to it than surface beauty. The production is flawless, down to the funky noises and jarring sounds designed to awaken listeners en route to work in the morning. Stefan Rudnicki heads a cast that includes Kathe Mazur, Joe Barrett, and an all-too-short appearance by Ed Asner.”—AudioFile

A. J. Scudiere (Author), Ed Asner, Edward Asner, Joe Barrett, Kathe Mazur, Stefan Rudnicki, Various, Various Narrators, Various Readers (Narrator)

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Hotel Oubliette

Inspired by the released American hostages, Hotel Oubliette is a darkly comedic play that explores what happens when two emotionally disconnected men are chained to a post with an endless amount of time stretching before them. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Thomas Caruso, Arye Gross and Marsha Mason.

Jane Anderson (Author), Arye Gross, Ed Asner, Edward Asner, Marsha Mason, Thomas Caruso (Narrator)

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I'd Rather Eat Pants

What do fast-talking, New York octogenarians, Abe and Mabel, do when their life-long grocery store, Pepperstein Produce, is driven out of business by Wonder Food? They embark on the ultimate road trip with a nineteen year-old stoner, Wisdom, to Los Angeles to become actors. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring Edward Asner, Jonathan Banks, Ed Begley Jr., Emily Bergl, Dan Castellaneta, Derek Cecil, Bob Edwards, Clea Lewis, Anne Meara, Kendall Schmidt and Susan Stamberg. Directed by Gordon Hunt. Recorded in front of a live audience by L.A. Theatre Works.

Peter Ackerman (Author), Ed Asner, Ed Begley, Ed Begley Jr., Edward Asner, Jonathan Banks (Narrator)

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Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting

On a spring day in 1947, Mr. Rickey, the powerful General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, summons heavyweight champion Joe Louis, tap star Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson and actor Paul Robeson to his hotel room in Manhattan. Rickey wants their support when he taps Jackie Robinson to be the Major League’s first black ballplayer. But a power struggle ensues when the eloquent Robeson raises questions about Rickey’s motivations to integrate white baseball. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, David Downing, Tommy Hicks, Carl Lumbly, Sterling Macer, Charlie Robinson and Rugg Williams.

Ed Schmidt (Author), Carl Lumbly, Ed Asner, Edward Asner, Rugg Williams (Narrator)

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Murder in the First

This moving courtroom drama is based on a true incident that exposed the shocking conditions at Alcatraz. The tale begins when 18-year old Willie Moore makes the biggest mistake of his life. Now all he wants is a chance to talk baseball before he dies. Recorded at the DoubleTree Guest Suites, Santa Monica, in 1995. Directed by Steve Albrezzi Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg Edward Asner as Henkin and Warden Harold Humson Kate Asner as Mary McCasslin David Birney as Byron Davidson Ron Byron as The Bailiff and The Jailer William Frankfather as Milton Glenn and Harve Bennet Arye Gross as Henry Willard Davidson Andrew Hawkes as Willie Moore Cynthia Mace as Blanche and Irene Eric Poppick as William McNeil John Randolph as Judge Henry T. Clawson Gil Segel as Jerry Hoolihan, the Landlord, and Burt Russell Bill Smitrovich as Derek Simpson, the Foreman, and Terrence Swenson Radio Production and Original Music by Raymond Guarna; Foley Artist: Amy Strong

Dan Gordon (Author), Ed Asner, Kate Asner (Narrator)

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New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July

As a young Jewish man in 17th century Amsterdam, Baruch de Spinoza excelled as a theological student; but as he encountered free-thinking Protestants, atheists, and radicals in this relatively tolerant city, he began to question his religion and the nature of God. As a result, he was branded a heretic and faced excommunication. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Matthew Wolf as Baruch de Spinoza Edward Asner as Abraham van Valkenburgh Richard Easton as Saul Levi Mortera Andrea Gabriel as Clara Arye Gross as Ben Israel Amy Pietz as Rebekah James Wagner as Simon de Vries Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

David Ives (Author), Amy Pietz, Andrea Gabriel, Arye Gross, Ed Asner, James Wagner, Matthew Wolf, Richard Easton, Various Performers (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Ed Asner