8 Great Audio Shows to Listen to on Audible

Charlie Miller is a D-list celebrity who has gone missing off the coast of Key Biscayne, Florida. Two deskbound Police department employees take it upon themselves to solve the mystery. 

Starring: Zachary Quinto, Michelle Buteau, Ashley Benson, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Chase Crawford.

Listen if you enjoy: celebrity, mysteries, comedy.

Kym is the story of Kym Wilson, a single, middle-aged stand up comic trying to succeed and raise Trevante, the boy left on her doorstep by her friend. 

Starring: Kym Whitley, Sherri Shepherd, Carter Lee Hamilton, David A. Arnold, Lena Waithe, Cynthia Erivo, Jenifer Lewis and Jess Hilarious. With original music by Wyclef Jean. 

Listen if you enjoy: comedy, heartfelt stories, parenthood.

Hit Job follows Brynn who desperately needs a job to help her ailing grandmother. As a last resort she takes a job at KillCo. whose motto is “Do Bad Things for Good Reasons”. She unexpectedly gets caught up in a company-wide contest which gives her “killer job” a whole new meaning. 

Starring: Keke Palmer, Pete Davidson, Max Greenfield, Natasha Lyonne, Mikey Day, Naomi Ekperigin, Matt Bomer, Michelle Collins, Brooke Shields, Bobby Moynihan, Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, Tabitha Brown, Tom Bergeron, John Lutz and Okieriete “Oak” Onaodowan.

Listen if you enjoy: dark comedy, Dexter.

Sour Hall is based on a short story by Naomi Booth. This is the story of George and Ash, an interracial lesbian couple who move to George’s family farm on the Yorkshire Moors. As they settle into their new life, a Boggart begins tormenting them.

Starring: Lucy Fallon and Pearl Mackie

Listen if you enjoy: spooky stories, the paranormal, suspense. Please check content warnings before listening. 

Green Wing: Resuscitated picks up 12 years after Green Wing ended with the same cast of characters. Some have been making great progress (Guy is a media personality, Caroline is a medical pioneer, Alan escaped a prison sentence) and some have not (Martin is still not a doctor). 

Starring: Oliver Chris, Olivia Colman, Pippa Haywood, Mark Heap as Alan, Michelle Gomez, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Karl Theobald. 

Listen if you enjoy: Green Wing, hospital comedy, slapstick humour. 

Slushy is the story of Maya who joins the Bennett Station Adelie Penguin Program as a research assistant in Antarctica (even though she is completely unqualified). By the time she realises that she wants to be back home in Australia, the ship has already left and no is leaving Antarctica until the summer ends. 

(To note – since writing this, Slushy has been removed from the Audible membership but you can still buy it.)

Starring: Pallavi Sharda, Greg Larsen, Vidya Rajan, Dilruk Jayasinha, Kate McLennan, Kate McCartney, Rebecca Massey, Paul F. Tompkins, Shaun Micallef, Eddie Perfect, Kris McQuade, Zoe Coombs Marr, Dave Lawson, Max Brown, Anne Edmonds, Bjorn Stewart, Chris Ryan, Sun Park, Wayne Blair, Alex Menglet and Natalia Novikova.

Listen if you enjoy: comedy, penguins, environmental issues

Veronica and Gary have been selected as the first people to leave their luxurious fallout shelter 7421 since the apocalypse generations ago. Gary wants to explore and Veronica wants to hide around the corner and eat baked beans until it’s time to return home. Their plans are ruined when they are captured by slavers and have to form an escape plan with their fellow captives: pirate queen Lady Reaver and her deformed mutant Clump. 

Starring: Gemma Whelan, Sindhu Vee, Rufus Hound, Marek Larwood, Wilf Scolding, Alana Ramsey, Felicity Duncan and C Grezo.  

Listen if you enjoy: post-apocalyptic stories, sci-fi, comedy.

Set roughly 20 years in the future and seven years after a comet hit the Earth and blacked out the sun, the world is a dark and frozen place where vampires now roam. Darcy, a vampire hunter, and her sister Hope live with other survivors in a castle in the British countryside fighting for the survival of humanity and trying to stay alive.

Starring: Holliday Grainger, Emse Creed-Miles, Himesh Patel, David Gyasi, Liam Cunningham, Caroline Ford, Indira Varma, Bella Ramsey and many more. 

Listen if you enjoy: vampires, apocalypse, horror, heartfelt stories, sci-fi.