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Witness

By: Paramount Pictures
Narrated by: A full cast
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    Dec 21 2023

    From the creative minds behind Are You Afraid of the Dark (Audible’s Best Listens of 2023), writer Mac Rogers crafts the intriguing, revealing, and captivating tale of the Audible Original, Witness.

    Two vastly different worlds collide when an Amish boy, Samuel Lapp, becomes the sole witness to the murder of an undercover cop while visiting Philadelphia with his mother Rachel. Assigned to the case, narcotics detective John Book vows to protect Samuel and uncover the killer.

    But when the investigation takes a gut-wrenching turn, the lives of Rachel, Samuel, and Book are bound together in a fight for survival. The trio flees to a place forsaken by modern society to escape the killer’s crosshairs. But hiding cannot protect Book and Rachel from a forbidden longing that threatens to destroy the delicate balance between their worlds. With their hunters closing in, how far will Book and Rachel go to protect what they love?
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  • Episode 1: Cracks Are Showing

    Episode 1: Cracks Are Showing
    Dec 21 2023
    Amish widow Rachel and her 8-year-old son Samuel are waylaid in a Philadelphia train station, where Samuel witnesses a terrible crime: the murder of an undercover cop working for narcotics detective John Book.
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    29 mins
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  • Episode 2: You Tell Me

    Episode 2: You Tell Me
    Dec 21 2023
    Book struggles to convince Rachel to keep Samuel in Philadelphia long enough to identify the men who killed Jordan - but the killers may be closer than Book thinks.
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    26 mins
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Ryan Andes
Erin Cottrell
Ollie Robinson
About the Performer-Ryan Andes

About the Performer

Recent voice acting work includes Marvels as Galactus, Transformers: Cyberverse as Grimlock and Shockwave, Pokemon as Kahuna Hala. Broadway: Big Fish as Karl the Giant. TV Musicals: Peter Pan, Live! Off-Broadway: Sweeney Todd (Avery Fisher Hall w NY Phil), The Wild Party (NYCC Encores). Select regional: 1776 as Lee, (The MUNY), South Pacific (The MUNY and Papermill), Best Little Whorehouse... (Finger Lakes) as Ed Earl. TV Drama: Person of Interest, Elementary, Madam Secretary, The Path, Time After Time, YOU.

Erin Cottrell

About the Performer

Erin Cottrell is an award-winning actress and voice-over artist known for her leading role in the Love Comes Softly TV series, as well as portraying Caroline Ingalls in the Disney/ABC remake of Little House on the Prairie. She's appeared in dozens of TV shows and films, including Legally Blonde 2, NCIS, ER, Medium, Cold Case, Ed and the feature film The Identical, starring opposite Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd. Her extensive voice-over credits include video games ( Final Fantasy, Dishonored, Kingdom Hearts, etc.), national ad campaigns (Audi, Tyson, Splenda, etc.), animated series ( Robot Chicken and Doc McStuffins), audiobooks, and she's the English-speaking voice of Shanghai Disneyland. She's a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, as well as a wife and mother living in LA.

Ollie Robinson

About the Performer

Ollie Robinson, 9 years old, was born in Los Angeles and resides in New York City. Ollie starred in the role of Mauricio Rentzel on CBS’s Bull from 2016 to 2022. In addition to his regular series work, Ollie has enjoyed guest roles on The Good Fight, Madame Secretary, Modern Love, and Blue’s Clues, and has appeared on SNL multiple times, most recently playing a young Kyle Mooney.
Ollie has worked on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Nickelodeon, and has done national print, commercial, and voice-over work for brands ranging from Pfizer to Hershey’s. Ollie can be heard as a voice actor, playing a lead character, Skippy, on YouTube Kids’ Axl the Axolotl.
In addition to his acting, Ollie is three belts away from being a black belt in tae kwon do, enjoys playing Roblox, and loves animals. Ollie is represented by Bonnie Shumofsky Bloom at Stewart Talent.

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I was brought to tears

This kid seriously deserves an Oscar for his acting.
Also, I now need to watch the movie!
This was such a fantastic listen!

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Excellent listen

Great story, great performances. Mi felt like i was watching a video, but i couldnt see it. Very impressed with the overall production

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Short but Great!!!

I really enjoyed this short story, change of pace, most of my listens are 30+ hours.
I finished this in 2 days!!
Great classic adventure, thriller, a lil romance to add,
I thoroughly enjoyed……. Thx!

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Excellent version of Witness

Superior cast & narration. Loved how well the story was told. No commercials was a nice bonus.

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An addicting listen!

This audio drama gave me a renewed appreciation for the 1984 Peter Weir film starring Harrison Ford. While that version has minimal dialogue and lush cinematography, the podcast does a tasteful job of expanding the interior lives of its characters. It’s a perfect companion piece.

Paramount, please make more of these projects. I loved every second of this.

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I really loved this

They did such a good job putting this together. I vaguely remembered the movie (liked it, though it's been years). This brought so much of it back, and really felt like a deeper, unique take on the story -- more intimate with all the characters. The production values are so impressive, too. It's a genuinely engaging listen, so well directed and produced.

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The acting and sound effects!

Excellent acting, story and sound effects! Well done! How old is the actor that did Samuel? He was excellent.

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A Superb Performance of a Terrific Screenplay

The plot twists in this updated gritty city versus patriarchal pastoral culture novel highlight human wants, needs, goodness and depravity. Respect, caring, loyalty and love manage to finally triumph over evil to win the day. The movie is free to Prime subscribers and needless to say I watched it again nearly 40 years after its debut . The Audible version fills in details not in the movie. I highly recommend both the Audible listening and watching the movie. Two home runs!!

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Wow! Don't Pass On This One

Great cast, great story, excellent sound. I really enjoyed this one and and I bet I listen to it again in time.

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Pretty darn good and I’m super critical LOL

I automatically hated John Book because it wasn’t Harrison Ford but overall, the casting was very good. I liked how it went more in-depth than the movie — but also quoted a few lines verbatim from the film. I could’ve done with less taking God’s name in vain. And going from Lancaster to Stroudsburg? Ridiculous and implausible. It’s 2 hours by car so by buggy, what is that, 6 years?

Would like to see (hear?) more about the Naomi/Caleb the creep storyline.

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