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DELISA: DErivative LIfe SApien

Author : K. Anderson Yancy

Performed By : Various

Publisher : Wollcott & Sheridan Aural Performance Library

Runtime : 1 hour 9 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations

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When the U.S. Supreme Court determines the fate of genetically engineered beings - whether they're humans or animals - humanity learns that the law is truly a double edged sword.

"Delisa" provides a first glimpse of a problem that does not yet exist, but one day will. we infuse plants with animal DNA, animals with plant DNA. When we start doing it to humans, what are they ? Do they remain humans ? Do they become something else ? More ? equal ? Superior ?

What is humanity ? How is it defined ?

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Brad Lansky and the Alien at Planet X

Author : J.D. Venne

Performed By : full cast

Publisher : protophonic

Runtime : 57 minutes

Categories : Sci-Fi
Dramatizations

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Brad Lansky and Alex John are veteran space explorers. Zara, a life form scientist on Earth, is collaborating on a research project with Sandy Larkin in a distant part of the Milky Way. Sandy has discovered a new intelligent life form, but his transmissions suddenly stop without warning. Soon after, Zara is paid a visit by an alien Nomad who claims to have Sandy’s coordinates, but will only part with them at a price, claiming that a hostile life form at these coordinates destroyed his ship.

Distraught, Zara calls on Brad for help, knowing that he and Sandy were good friends back in flight school. Brad and Alex mount a rescue mission, but how should they best prepare for it? Have the Nomad’s people kidnapped Sandy, or are they dealing with a hostile new life form? And how should they prepare for an encounter with a powerful life form they know almost nothing about?

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Case of the Abducted Asphalt -- A Gas Town Mystery: IN COLOR!

Author : Glenn Carlson

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : One Act Audio Theatre

Runtime : 10 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Humor

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Monday: Police Chief Van Dusen hires Vancouver BC PI Stanley Park to find the city's stolen roads in time to save the Grand Prix.
Tuesday: Vancouver BC radio detective Stanley Park is joined on the case by Inspector Angus MacBlow and busy-body traffic reporter LuLu Richmond.
Wednesday: An unexpected proclamation leads PI Park and posse to a Latvian bakery where things aren't what they seem!
Thursday: Park and pals are trapped ... will they Beat the Heat?!?
Friday: Stanley Park races to the finish line in the accelerated finale to the "Case of the Abducted Asphalt".

THE CASE OF THE ABDUCTED ASPHALT was produced in conjunction with WHAT You Say Productions. Listen for the ridiculous product placements in each "daily" 2 minute installment. Written by and featuring Glenn Carlson, Digby Christian, Scot Crisp, Terri Dien, John True.

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Blood

Author : Various

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : Listen & Live

Runtime : 6 hours

Categories : Dramatizations
American
Pre 1900
Military

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"Listen & Live's Adrenaline Series is one of the best in the genre." - The Denver Post

The Civil War, the most dramatic moment in our nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers and observers.

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All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics

Author : Carson Holloway

Performed By : Nadia May

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 6 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Arts & Drama

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"The great virtue of All Shook Up is its unfashionable insistence that music be taken seriously...

"Wall Street Journal

"Refreshing...may well appeal to both critics and defenders of pop music."

Publishers Weekly

The national debate over popular music's effect on character is both furious and confused. Conservatives complain primarily about lyrics, appealing to public decency and safety. Liberals, swift to the defense of any self-expression, simultaneously celebrate rock's liberating ethos and deny its cultural influence. Carson Holloway is out to shatter the assumptions of pop's critics and defenders alike, showing that

music is more beneficial than we think.

Plato and Aristotle, Holloway finds, were aware that music can either inflame the soul with passion or can awaken it to reason and help to cultivate temperance. What Holloway proposesa rediscovery of the musical wisdom of Plato and Aristotlewill completely change the way we think about music.

Carson Holloway is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the 2005-06 William E. Simon Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. His articles have appeared in the Review of Politics and Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy.

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of fourteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.

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Blockade Runners, The

Author : Jules Verne

Performed By : Colonial Radio Theatre

Publisher : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air

Runtime : 1 hour 10 minutes

Categories : American
Audio Theater
Drama
American
Dramatizations

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From Jules Verne comes this radio production about an English Blockade Runner in the American Civil War, and its attempt to free a prisoner held by the Confederates.

A sea story by a great author comes to life

Bob from Colorado - 19 Jun 2004

Jules Verne wrote some incredible stories in his day many of which have been made into successful movies. It only seems right that the Colonial Radio should present one of his little known Civil War short stories to the listening public. while it may not be one of his most fanciful tales, it is packed with action and suspence, and remains quite true to its time.
I think you will find this program to be an enjoyable hour spent, and then you will begin to wonder about what else Jules wrote that needs to be performed by these guys.

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A+ Audio Guide: The Great Gatsby

Author : Richard Glatzer

Performed By : Lawrence Pressman

Publisher : Hachette Audio

Runtime : 1 hour

Categories : Classic Literature
Self Help

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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate and enjoy great works of literature. With a dramatic presentation that gives voice to the printed word, you'll experience these classic works as never before. Welcome to A+ Audio .

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

Audio contains:

• Introduction to the Roaring Twenties


• Detailed Narrative Guide to the Novel


• Dramatic Readings


• Critical Analysis

Music from:

• George Gershwin's


• Preludes For Piano and Sleepless Night

PDF booklet contains:

• Character List

• Scene-by-Scene Synopsis

• Glossary of Terms

• Sample Test and Review Questions

• Study Reference for Books, Music, Film.

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Bernice

Author : Edgar Allen Poe

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : Wollcott & Sheridan Aural Performance Library

Runtime : 36 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations

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A man's fascination with his wife's teeth ends with tragic consequences.

Performer:
K. Anderson Yancy

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Alan Bennett - Three Plays

Author : Alan Bennett

Performed By : Various

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 4 hours 5 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Comedy
Drama
Humor
British

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Alan Bennett's three classic BBC Radio full-cast dramas; Kafka's Dick, Forty Years On and An Englishman Abroad

 

Kafka's Dick - Alison Steadman, Richard Griffiths and Nigel Anthony star in this BBC Radio 4 version of Alan Bennett's acclaimed comedy drama, described by the Daily Telegraph's Gillian Reynolds as ' Pure joy '. Bennett's brilliantly clever comedy not only examines the relationship between life and art, but also asks what was Kafka's embarrassing little problem?

Forty Years On - Alan Bennett stars in the production of his own acclaimed satirical comedy about a headmaster of Albion House who is retiring and takes part in the end-of-year entertainment for the last time. It also stars Robert Bathurst and Eleanor Bron .

An Englishman Abroad - Michael Gambon and Penelope Wilton star as Guy Burgess and Coral Browne in this BBC Radio full-cast drama based on a real-life chance encounter in 1958 between the world famous spy and a Shakespearean actress.

Clever, funny and poignant, Alan Bennett's masterful plays are rightly regarded as modern classics.

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Believe Me

Author : John R. Alden

Performed By : Christopher Hurt

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 7 hours

Categories : Poetry

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It's not often that an acclaimed historian is revealed to be the author of light
verse, but John R. Alden here presents us with 1,707 couplets, quatrains, and other terse
verse in the tradition of Ogden Nash. His subject matter ranges from dinosaurs to computers,
from Confucius to Darwin, from Jonah to George Bush. His wit, wisdom, and powers of
observation are sure to amuse and delight. A sample: "How did Arkman Noah/Provide for
protozoa?"

John R. Alden died in 1991. Blackstone Audiobooks has also recorded his George Washington: A Biography and Rise of the American Republic.

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Elsie in New York and The Purple Dress

Author : O. Henry

Performed By : Susan McCarthy, David Thorn, and Bobbie Frohman

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 30 minutes

Categories : Classic Literature

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"In O. Henry's world, establishment figures become boobs and rich men become dunces,

while rogues become heroes and down-and-outers become gentlemen."Coconut Telegraph

In "Elsie in New York," Elsie is an innocent young woman who, upon the death of her father, must look

for work to make a living. Her father expected her to trust to the goodheartedness of his previous employer,

but Elsie prefers to make her own way in life. Although she visits an employment agency and applies for

several positions, do-gooders interfere. Thinking they are saving her soul, in actuality they point her to her

destruction.



In "The Purple Dress," two young women clerks have been saving money all year to buy new dresses for

the one gala of their year, the annual Thanksgiving dinner given by their employer. Both are hoping to catch

the eye of one attractive gentleman bachelor at the party. But interactions with a landlady and a dressmaker

intervene, and things turn out much differently than either girl could have imagined.

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Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys: American Literature

Author : Francis E. Skipp, Ph.D.

Performed By : Stuart Langton

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 4 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Knowledge & Learning
Classic Literature
Classics

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An excellent introduction for students at the high-school or college levels.
Midwest Book Review

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field,
Barrons EZ-101 Study Keys gives you a valuable overview of your college-level course.
Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for
term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and textbooks.

In American Literature, all main periods are covered, from the colonial period to the
present movement toward cultural diversity. Also covered are key themes and personalities,
with emphasis on major figures, including Ben Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman,
Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes,
Tennessee Williams, Alice Walker, and many more.

Stuart Langton is an award-winning actor based in New York City. He works in theater, film, and TV and has narrated audiobooks for more than ten years.

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Flying Colors

Author : Tim Lefens

Performed By : Grover Gardner

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 7 hours

Categories : Arts & Drama
Autobiography
Biographical
Knowledge & Learning
Inspiration & Devotion

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"Grover Gardnerinfuses the story with Lefen's passion and creates well-developed

voices for the secondary characters. This upbeat, dramatic story of overcoming odds is a

day-brightener listeners shouldn't overlook."AudioFile



"This book is the inspirational story of the power of art to change lives. Gardner's reading is just as

inspirationalhe even gets sound effects into the story. After listening to Flying Colors, you will

never see a person in a wheelchair in quite the same way."KLIATT



When Tim Lefens walked into the Matheny School in New Jersey to show slides of his paintings, his

one-hour visit became a life-changing experience. The students he met had severe physical challenges:

only one of them could talk, none could walk, and all lacked the use of their hands. As a painter facing

his own gradual loss of eyesight, Tim had come to fully appreciate the power of art, and he was

determined to enable the students to paint despite their physical limitations.



Lefens created breakthrough techniques for these students that gave full, exacting control of the creative

process for such remarkable young artists as Natalia with her brash wit, the brooding Mike with his

Harley-Davidson hat, the mischievous Chet, the passionate cowgirl Cindy, and Angel, the volcanic Latino.



Flying Colors, an immensely inspiring story about leaping over obstacles, reveals the passion and

determination of one man, his student-artists, and their emergence together from a virtual silence to luminous

expression.



Tim Lefens is the founder of A.R.T. (Artistic Realization Techniques) and lives in Belle Mead, New Jersey.



Grover Gardner, named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" by AudioFile magazine, has recorded more than five hundred audiobooks. He is the recipient of more than thirteen Earphones Awards as well as an Audie Award. In addition to narrating, he has an active career as an actor and stage director. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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Barchester Towers

Author : Anthony Trollope

Performed By : Simon Vance

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 19 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

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"In the writing of Barchester Towers I took great delight. The Bishop and Miss Proudie were very real to me, as were also the troubles of the archdeacon and the loves of Mr. Slope."--Anthony Trollope

This magnificent novel, sequel to The Warden and second in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, satirizes the struggle for ascendancy among the clergy of a cathedral city. The contest is between the outgoing church authorities led by Archdeacon Grantly and the newcomers led by Mrs. Proudie and her protg, the ambitious Mr. Obadiah Slope. Each wishes to become the dominant voice in the quiet diocese of Barchester, and they contend for the newly vacant post of warden of Hiram's Hospital.

The truth is that Barchester's leadership is really concerned with social rather than spiritual or moral issues. These intrigues, entwined through the lives of many memorable characters, provide a humorous backdrop for exploring the clash between the old and new ways in Victorian England.