Monday, August 31, 2009

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Canterbury Tales - Volume III, The



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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer

Performed By : Full Cast Performance

Publisher : Select Music & Distribution

Runtime : 3 hours 35 minutes

Categories : Poetry
Classic Literature
Dramatizations
Classics
Short Stories

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The Friar's Tale

The Summoner's Tale

The Lawyer's Tale

The Seaman's Tale

The Prioress's Tale

The Manciple's Tale

The Physician's Tale


Seven more Tales presented here in unabridged modern verse - an ideal way to appreciate the genuinely funny and droll talent of England's early master storyteller. The group continues its pilgrimage to Canterbury, talking with each other, their interaction mediated (sometimes) by the affable Host - Chaucer himself. Eight leading British actors bring the medieval world into the 21st century, and at least in terms of character, not much seems to have changed!


The Canterbury Tales, written near the end of Chaucer's life and hence towards the close of the fourteenth century, Is perhaps the greatest English literary work of the Middle Ages: yet it speaks to us today with almost undimmed clarity and relevance.


Chaucer imagines a group of twenty-nine pilgrims who meet in the Tabard Inn in Southwark, intent on making the traditional journey to the martyr's shrine of St Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. Harry Bailly landlord of the Tabard, proposes that the company should entertain themselves on the road with a storytelling competition. The teller of the best tale will be rewarded with a supper at the others' expense when the travellers return to London. Chaucer never completed this elaborate scheme - each pilgrim was supposed to tell four tales, but in fact we only have twenty-four altogether - yet, with the pieces of linking narrative and the prologues to each tale, the work as a whole constitutes a marvellously varied evocation of the medieval world which also goes beyond its period to penetrate (humorously, gravely tolerantly) human nature itself.


Chaucer, as a member of this company of pilgrims, presents himself with mock innocence as the admiring observer of his fellows, depicted in the General Prologue. Many of these are clearly rogues - the coarse, cheating Miller, the repulsive yet compelling Pardoner - yet in each of them Chaucer finds something human, often a sheer vitality or love of life which is irresistible: the Monk may prefer hunting to prayer, but he is after all a manly man, to be an abbot able. Perhaps only the unassuming, devoted Parson and his humbly labouring brother the Ploughman rise entirely above Chaucer's teasing irony; certainly the Parson's fellow clergy and religious officers belong to a Church riddled with gross corruption. Everyone, it seems, is on the make, in a world still recovering from the ravages of the Black Death.


Translation by Frank Ernest Hill, [1935-).



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Inimitable Jeeves, The
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Inimitable Jeeves, The

Author : P G Wodehouse
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 3 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Modern Classics
Dramatizations
Comedy
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'Richard Briers and Michael Hordern... sensational in the main roles.' -- Time Out

Typical. Just when Bertie thinks that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world, things start to go wrong again...

There's young Bingo Little, who's in love for the umpteenth time and needs Bertie to put in a good word for him with his uncle; Aunt Agatha, who forces Bertie to get engaged to the formidable Honoria Glossop; and the troublesome twins, Claude and Eustace, whose antics when let loose in London know no bounds.

Add to that some friction in the Wooster home over a red cummerbund, purple socks and some snazzy old Etonian spats, and poor Bertie's really in the soup...

Only one man can save the day - the inimitable Jeeves.

The perfect pairing of Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie ensures constant hilarity in this full-cast radio dramatisation that also includes David Jason, Pat Coombs and Miriam Margolyes.

WRITTEN BY
P. G. Wodehouse

FIRST BROADCAST
BBC Radio 4
5 June 1973

NUMBER OF EPISODES
Eight

LAST BROADCAST
7 August 1973

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Barchester Towers



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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.



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In The Overgrown Swamplands Of Love & Persistance - A Tale Of Love & Horror
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In The Overgrown Swamplands Of Love & Persistance - A Tale Of Love & Horror

Author : Michael Hemmington
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Publisher : Wollcott & Sheridan Aural Performance Library
Runtime : 41 minutes
Categories : Romance
Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
Dramatizations
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One night, while dumping a corpse in a secluded, marshy, swamp, a serial killer unexpectedly discovers love and horror.

Performers:
Sandy J. Hotchkiss,
Lissa Lia,
Leslie J. Pearson,
Heather Wood,
K. Anderson Yancy

Sunday, August 30, 2009

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Antony & Cleopatra



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Antony & Cleopatra


Author : William Shakespeare

Performed By : Full Cast Performance

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 2 hours 55 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Classic Literature
Shakespeare

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Frances Barber and David Harewood star in Shakespeare's towering tale of great love, political intrigue and tragedy.



BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard.



Antony & Cleopatra is an intense love story, exploring the constant conflict between duty and emotion with characters so charismatic they continue to fascinate after 2,000 years. Shakespeare achieved some of his most beautiful poetry in this play, and the richness of the language makes it perfect for audio.



The play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre, with specially composed music.



Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the new millennium.

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In Flanders Fields and Other Poems about War
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In Flanders Fields and Other Poems about War

Author : Lieut.-Col. John McCrae and Wilfred Owens
Performed By : Ralph Cosham
Publisher : In Audio
Runtime : 2 hours
Categories : Poetry
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In WWI, possibly the most horrific modern war, two soldier poets described inner impressions telling us much about war and the people who fight them.

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Captain Blood - Episode 04: Pirates!



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Captain Blood - Episode 04: Pirates!


Author : Rafael Sabatini

Performed By : Colonial Radio Theatre

Publisher : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air

Runtime : 25 minutes

Categories : Audio Theater
Drama
Dramatizations
Action & Adventure
Historical

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The Greatest Pirate Adventure Of Them All!

The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air is proud to present Rafael Sabatini's adventure classic, "Captain Blood," fully dramatized for the first time. Dr. Peter Blood is arrested and sentenced to hang for treating a wounded rebel. Instead of death, he is sent to Barbados as a slave. When the Spanish attack the port city of Bridgetown, he and his fellow slaves capture the Spanish ship and set out to sea, where he becomes the notorious Pirate, Captain Blood. Battles on Sea and on Land, daring escapes, sword duels to the death, a touch of romance, and a magnificent score by Jeffrey Gage, �??Captain Blood�?� is a swashbuckling adventure on a very grand scale! Presented in 17 episodes.


The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air presents Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood.
Starring Jerry Robbins, Amy Strack, Deniz Cordell, J.T. Turner, Joseph Zamparelli Jr, Hugh Metzler, Aaron Smith, Tom Berry, James Turner, Leigh Berry and the Colonial Radio Players.

Executive Producer Mark Vander Berg.
Music by Jeffrey Gage.
Dramatized for Audio, Produced and Directed by Jerry Robbins
�? 2006 Colonial Radio Theatre.



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In Chancery: Book Two of The Forsyte Saga
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In Chancery: Book Two of The Forsyte Saga

Author : John Galsworthy
Performed By : David Case
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 11 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Classic Literature
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In Chancery, the second novel in John Galsworthy's epic social satire The
Forsyte Saga, follows the events of A Man of Property. After suffering the death of her
lover and abuse from her husband Soames, Irene Forsyte finally leaves her marriage for good.
Though socially disgraced by her affair, she forms a bond with the late Old Jolyon, a father of the
Forsyte clan who had grown distant from the family after reconciling with one of his outcast sons.
The young Jolyon had been disinherited after divorcing his wife to marry a penniless foreign governess.

Now, with both his father and his beloved wife dead, the younger Jolyon finds himself drawn in sympathy
to Irene, who was so dear to Old Jolyon in his final days. Their shared troubles blossom into a romance,
to the horror of Soames Forsyte.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

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Ebon Storms - Music Soundtrack



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Ebon Storms - Music Soundtrack


Author : Edward Hauser & Scott J. L. Spear

Performed By : Edward Hauser & Scott J. L. Spear

Publisher : Last Summer Productions

Runtime : 2 hours 16 minutes

Categories : Music Related

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This 2 hour and 16 minute sound track from the high fantasy audio drama Ebon Storms contains 53 audio tracks.  The original music was written and performed by Edward Hauser and Scott J. L. Spear.  The soundtrack makes a great addition to any RPG game setting.


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01 Ebon Storms Main Title Theme 1:21
02 Zenekar's March 2:05
03 Guild Tower 1:40
04 Ritual of Summoning 6:14
05 Refracted Visions 1:24
06 The Epic Battle 2:01
07 Valeria's Ultimate Sacrifice 1:25
08 The Unraveling of Time 1:12
09 Shasgorath 3:30
10 Suspicious Faith 1:59
11 Questioning Illuma 2:28
12 Allandra's Mission 6:06
13 Midday in the Deep 1:01
14 Bregnor 0:53
15 Elrad's Vision 2:08
16 Allandra Reflects in Bregnor 1:58
17 Hag Attack 4:11
18 Cilegna's Apperance 1:48
19 Attack At The Keep 7:25
20 Farsha's Charge 6:05
21 Thangar and Trellyn 4:42
22 Farsha Remembered 1:18
23 The Temple of the Mind 0:59
24 Farsha's Funeral 2:59
25 Charn's Escape 1:47
26 The Fugitive Galana 0:23
27 The Dark Communion 4:23
28 Storm Clouds 0:35
29 Gareth the Gray 0:51
30 With Little Relief 0:25
31 The Skull Chamber  3:49
32 A Facade of Calm 0:59
33 The Red Robes Attack 3:49
34 Caulder's Final Lesson 4:17
35 Cilegna's Descent 0:43
36 The Shadow Shall Reign 2:03
37 Cilegna's Dark Speech 1:42
38 Chaos at the Pier 2:14
39 The Children of the Light 3:40
40 The Traitor Revealed 0:59
41 The Burning of Shasgorath 6:51
42 Age of Darkness 2:05
43 Illuma's Rage 2:21
44 Burdened With Guilt 2:09
45 Cilegna's Arrogance 0:44
46 Working Together 3:07
47 Punishment 1:35
48 Bound By The Past 2:54
49 Ebon Storms End Title 1:51
50 Illuma's Light 2:46
51 Ebon Rock 1:45
52 A World Filled With Magic 6:42
53 Main Title - Rain & Thunder 1:52



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Importance of Being Earnest, The
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Importance of Being Earnest, The

Author : Oscar Wilde
Performed By : Alec McCowen, Lynn Redgrave and cast
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Runtime : 3 hours
Categories : Classic Literature
Classics
Modern Classics
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Jack Worthing lives in the country with his budding young ward Cecily Cardew and her fusspot governess, Miss Prism.

To escape his situation, Jack invents a brother named Ernest who lives in London and frequently needs him.

When in London, Jack then poses as Ernest.

This elaborate fabrication proceeds smoothly until Jack/Ernest falls in love and his fiancee’s mother discovers there is more – or, rather, less – to him than meets the eye.

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Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys: American Literature



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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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Importance of Being Earnest, The
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Author : Oscar Wilde
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Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 1 hour 50 minutes
Categories : Classic Literature
Dramatizations
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Performed by: John Gielgud, Edith Evans and cast.

This is one of the great recordings of a great play. John Gielgud stars as Earnest and Edith Evans gives her indomitable performance as Lady Bracknell in this classic radio recording from 1951.

Performance styles may have changed, but this is an unmatched production bearing all the hallmarks of outstanding audio drama featuring some of the finest actors of the 20th century.

Also included are two collections of poetry readings by John Gielgud and Edith Evans.

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Canterbury Tales, Selected



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Canterbury Tales, Selected


Author : Geoffrey Chaucer

Performed By : David Butler

Publisher : In Audio

Runtime : 9 hours 8 minutes

Categories : Poetry
Classic Literature
Classics

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This modern translation of these sometimes bawdy stories, written in the 14th century by the Father of English Poetry, entertain while telling us about England before the Renaissance.

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Iliad, The
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Iliad, The

Author : Homer
Performed By : Anton Lesser
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 4 hours
Categories : Poetry
Classic Literature
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Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war. Achilles has quarrelled with Agamemnon and sulks in his tent, while Hector brings his Trojans to the brink of victory; but fate will have the last word...

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All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics



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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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Iliad, The
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Iliad, The

Author : Homer
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Publisher : In Audio
Runtime : 16 hours 24 minutes
Categories : Poetry
Classic Literature
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The first of Homer's epic poems. Translated by Samuel Butler.

Friday, August 28, 2009

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Classic American Poetry



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Classic American Poetry


Author : Various

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Publisher : Select Music & Distribution

Runtime : 2 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Poetry
Classic Literature

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Poetry, Whitman believed, is the voice of the nation, expressing its deepest converns, ambitions and longings, and that is certainly true of the great classic poetry of America. This wide-ranging anthology - from the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day - reflects the changing preoccupations and visions of Americans.


Here are 65 poems by the leading classic figures, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and E.E. Cummings, as well as popular anonymous works such as Frankie and Johnny which are an integral part of American consciousness.



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I Might Be Edgar Allan Poe
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I Might Be Edgar Allan Poe

Author : Dawson Nichols
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Publisher : The Ambit Group
Runtime : 1 hour 17 minutes
Categories : Dramatizations
Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
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Meet Joseph Walker, a patient at the Oakbrook Mental Health Facility. In this audio drama, Joseph obtains access to a cassette recorder and then creates an audio letter for his sister Rose.

Over the course of several days he introduces her to his doctor and several fellow inmates, one of whom suggests to Joseph that his life bears a striking resemblance to that of Edgar Allan Poe.

Joseph then proceeds to familiarize himself with the works of E.A. Poe. His fluency with Poe's work is astonishing�??to others and himself. And it is this familiarity, this ease with Poe's works, that leads Joseph to believe that he himself might be the Master of Horror.

Based on the internationally award-winning play, this production features performances of various Poe stories and poems including The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart.