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Captain Blood - Episode 13: Hostilities

Author : Rafael Sabatini

Performed By : Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air

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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Hard Times

Author : Charles Dickens

Performed By : Frederick Davidson

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 11 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Classic Literature

Our Price : $23.95

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"A bitter indictment of industrialization, with its dehumanizing effects on workers and communities in mid-19th-century England."
--Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

"The narrator's British accent goes well with Dickens's overly dramatic and lush prose."
--AudioFile

Originally written for Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, this short novel follows the fate of Sissy Jupe, a warm-hearted circus child, and the family that adopts her. Deserted by her ailing father, Sissy is taken into the cold household of the Gradgrind family, which operates a school. The "eminently practical" Thomas Gradgrind believes only in facts and figures and has raised his children accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative sides of their nature. They grow up in ignorance of love and affection, of beauty and culture, or of empathy for others, and the consequences are devastating. Only after numerous crises does Thomas realize that his principles have corrupted their lives.

Dickens's satirical expos of the Industrial Revolution condemns the utilitarianism that exploited the bodies, minds, and souls of the vulnerable labor class.