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Amber Iman’s powerful concert melds her onstage work in shows such as Shuffle Along and Soul Doctor with her work offstage as a founding member of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and Black Women on Broadway. Using personal stories and songs, she takes the audience on a journey through love, rejection, race, artistry, and heartbreak in a performance that challenges, encourages, and uplifts, reminding us that we have the capacity to move forward from any setback.

Listen as stage and screen performer Jason Gotay (Gossip Girl, Evita) brings his breathtaking vocals and gift of storytelling to a musical narrative about his journey to self-acceptance. With soulful interpretations of musical theater selections and pop favorites, the Bring It On: The Musical actor walks us through transformational moments of his past while paying homage to the fierce women who have inspired him.

Approval Junkie brings her laugh-out-loud, often tender recollections of the turbulent emotional waters of adolescence and adulthood to listeners. It is a no-holds-barred look into Salie's very relatable journey to self-acceptance, learning that the only person she ever truly needs to impress is herself.

Make sure the kids aren’t around! Just because you’re a grown-up doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the art of the children’s bedtime story. Nick Offerman presents this collection of 15 short stories written in the style of a classic kid’s tale, but with a decidedly dark and adult approach.

This year has not been easy, and navigating the crushing toll of the pandemic, isolation, and racial injustice has made focusing on health and wellness more important than ever.

This step is crucial; in the third session we explore personal branding and how it can land you work. If you’ve been struggling to figure out what your personal brand is, then this is for you!

In a performance that combines the personal and poetic with the literary and the lyrical, Grammy, Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe-winning artist Common spins something entirely new and bold for both his old-school fans and those new to one of hip-hop’s most essential voices. This is Bluebird Memories, part of Audible's Words + Music that blends storytelling, music, and performance to create a one-of-a-kind listening experience.

​The My Fair Lady story gets a thoroughly modern, thoroughly invigorating update in this unsparing (and hilarious) look at America’s capitalist tech culture. Eli is a tough young woman who makes paper flowers on Venice Beach, where she lives in a homeless tent camp. A chance encounter with a smug tech CEO, Hig, sparks an intriguing quid pro quo: she brings him an image-burnishing entrepreneurial offer, and he, in turn, hires her to present GAL - his new artificial intelligence service - at an upcoming conference.

What? You don’t know Adam Wade? Here’s your chance! Adam Wade’s personal-yet-universal stories and vulnerable delivery have made him one of the most popular storytellers and comedians in the country on "story slam" platforms like The Moth and Comedy Central’s Whiplash. This Audible Original, performed on stage in front of a live audience, combines Wade’s greatest hits stories with entirely new material.

Why have viewers always had a love affair with romance movies? From tragic love stories, like Romeo + Juliet, to feel-good rom-coms, like Sleepless in Seattle, people simply cannot get enough of these movies. Join Professor Eric R. Williams to analyze dozens of titles that fall under the scope of "romance films"—inviting students to see old favorites in a new light and introduce them to elements of romance in movies one might not consider to be part of the genre.

Ponder the world's most pressing and seemingly pointless questions with Iain Lee and guests.

In the 10 lessons of TV's New Golden Age, Professor Eric R. Williams will take you on a tour of this high watermark period in television history, sometimes known as the "Third Golden Age of Television", or G3. Along the way, you will consider some of the best and the worst that television has to offer, not just in G3, but throughout the history of the medium.

Billy Kelly's This Is a Family Show! is a stand-up comedy experience (with music) that parents and kids can enjoy together. From jokes about nocturnal animals and microwaves to Ben Franklin and people throwing turtles, the whole family will laugh along while listening to this comedian’s unique perspectives. It’s comedy toast with the crust cut off. Who needs all that crusty talk about dating, politics, and money, anyway?

When Mexican-born novelist Lucia lands her first TV writing job, she immediately feels out of place in the White, male-dominated writers' room. Before long, she’s drawn to the only other Latino around, a janitor named Abel, and the two begin an unlikely friendship—one that’s tested when Abel’s confidences start showing up in Lucia’s scripts.

Brooklyn North is the true story of how four black men were wrongfully convicted of murder —nearly all connected to a once-legendary NYPD homicide detective, Louis Scarcella.

Lolly Adefope (Ghosts, Shrill, This Time with Alan Partridge) is regularly inundated by Fanmail. So what better way to reply, than via a podcast? Over the series she'll be reading out fan letters, solving fan problems, interviewing fans and celebrity fans alike - and asking important questions like 'why do you love me so much?' and ‘what is it about me that you love so much?’ Lolly Adefope’s Fanmail is a part-improv comedy guest-starring Aidy Bryant, Steve Buscemi, Steve Coogan, Brett Goldstein, Mae Martin, Diane Morgan, Charlotte Ritchie, Kiel Smith-Bynoe, Katy Wix and many more.

In Carrie Soto Is Back, best-selling author Taylor Jenkins Reid chronicles the riveting story of a notorious tennis star and her journey out of retirement to reclaim her grand-slam record. In this conversation, the author discusses her final novel about fame with Audible Editor Katie.

Alice Levine presents Very Modern Quests - a role-playing game set in the excruciating awkwardness of the real world. In each episode one celebrity will become the protagonist in a choose-their-own adventure game with a difference; no goblins, no elves, just the nitty gritty of everyday life and no idea what’s about to happen. Join Quest Master Alice Levine as she guides our guests through an everyday adventure with the help of character comedian Emma Sidi, embodying the everyday individuals we’d rather avoid.

Welcome to our third series of The Graham Norton Book Club where stories - reading them, writing them, listening to them, talking about them – are still front and centre. We’re featuring some of the world’s best-known and best-loved authors – like Maggie O’Farrell, Ann Cleeves, Jilly Cooper, NK Jemisin and Jonathan Coe.

It’s the middle of the night in Tehran when Michael arrives at the apartment of his ex-girlfriend, Shima. He finds her anxiously awaiting a mysterious visitor and fears he’s interrupted a tryst, only to gradually learn that the truth is much stranger and more sinister. What follows is a series of cunning detours in this atmospheric and elusive odyssey that challenges expectations and assumptions at every turn.