Monday, November 30, 2009

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Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings



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Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings


Author : Various

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : Select Music & Distribution

Runtime : 2 hours 5 minutes

Categories : Shakespeare

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In this remarkable anthology of historical recordings are many of the great artists of the past. Early cylinder recordings of Sir Henry Irving preserve the voice and character of the greatest actor of the Victorian period as well as Ellen Terry, his stage partner for many years. In this programme, are documented the changing styles of Shakespeare performance - a fascinating study - with such varied actors as Tree, Gielgud, Thorndike, Olivier, and from the USA, Booth and Barrymore.



The second disc is no less absorbing, an entertaining miscellany of melodrama, tragedy, comedy - including the famous extract of Edith Evans' performance as Lady Bracknell and an unforgettable dialogue between Laurel and Hardy. In addition, are some great actors from France, Germany and even Russia - the formidable singer/actor Feodor Chaliapin.

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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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Here's Johnny! My Memories of Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show, and 40 Years of Friendship



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Here's Johnny! My Memories of Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show, and 40 Years of Friendship


Author : Ed McMahon

Performed By : Ed McMahon

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 4 hours

Categories : Arts & Drama

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"[McMahon is] an engaging reader with a conversational style and sharp comic timing.

With an emphasis on classic "Tonight Show" moments, McMahon's recollections will bring back warm

memories for viewers."AudioFile



Here's Johnny! is like sitting with Ed and Johnny over lunch.



Brilliant in front of the camera but shy in person, Johnny Carson seldom gave interviews. But no one knew

him better than Ed McMahon, Carson's personal friend and showbiz sidekick for almost forty years. Now,

with Johnny's blessings before he died, McMahon can finally share all the stories that only he knows. From

the sofa at Johnny's right, to backstage, to their personal relationship, McMahon provides a real picture of

the man who so carefully censored his public image, revealing the caring person within the dynamic star.


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Importance of Being Earnest, The
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Author : Oscar Wilde
Performed By : Full Cast Performance
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.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

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Killist, The



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Killist, The


Author : Emmett Loverde

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : One Act Audio Theatre

Runtime : 30 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Humor

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Full Cast Recording. Written by Los Angeles playwright Emmett Loverde, "The Killist" tells the story of the meanest, toughest, orneryest outlaw in the Old West and his improbable farcical comeuppance at the hands of the bizarre denizens of Bone Dry, Arizona, the purtiest little town you ever did see (on audio CD).

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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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Germinal



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Germinal


Author : Emile Zola

Performed By : Frederick Davidson

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 17 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Classic Literature

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"Few readers of audiobooks can match Frederick Davidson's remarkable skill.he's equal

to the task, rendering this complex, yet worthwhile, novel accessible to all listeners."--AudioFile


With flawless construction and impeccable detail, Zola chronicles the conflicts, lusts, and deprivation of life

in the coal fields of nineteenth-century France. A father and three of seven children work brutal hours, facing

hazards such as landslides, fire, and poisoned air, to scrape together enough money for food. When their

lodger, tienne, shares ideas of a workers' revolt, the family gradually embraces his plans. Soon the

settlement is aflame with resolve to strike for better wages and working conditions. Savage and horrifying

events ensue as miners clash with management and with each other.



Published in 1885, Germinal helped establish Emile Zola--an artist of unsparing candor--as the leading

figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. Andr Gide chose this masterpiece as one of the ten best

novels in the French language.



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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.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

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Cricket on the Hearth



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Cricket on the Hearth


Author : Charles Dickens

Performed By : Colonial Radio Theatre

Publisher : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air

Runtime : 1 hour 20 minutes

Categories : Audio Theater
Drama
Dramatizations
Classics

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Another Charles Dickens holiday classic brimming with holiday charm.

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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.

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Glimpses of the Moon, The



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Author : Edith Wharton

Performed By : Anna Fields

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 9 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

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"As Wharton tells [the] story, the sharp irony of both her prose and her characters

bleeds into pools of true feeling."Kirkus Reviews


"There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as 'major'and Edith

Wharton is one."Gore Vidal


Set in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures

of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but not much in the way of funds.

They devise a shrewd bargain: they'll marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends,

honeymooning in their mansions and villas.



As Susy explains, "We should really, in a way, help more than we should hamper each other. We both

know the ropes so well; what one of us didn't see the other mightin the way of opportunities, I mean.

And then we should be a novelty as married people. We're both rather unusually popularwhy not be

frank?and it's such a blessing for dinner-givers to be able to count on a couple of whom neither one

is a blank."



The other part of the plan is that if either one of them meets someone who can advance them socially,

they're each free to dissolve the marriage. How their plan unfolds is a comedy of Eros that will charm

all fans of Wharton's work.



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Hymn: Alan Bennett And The Medici String Quartet
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Hymn: Alan Bennett And The Medici String Quartet

Author : Alan Bennett and George Fenton
Performed By : Alan Bennett
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 50 minutes
Categories : Biographical
Music Related
Comedy
Biographical
Non Fiction
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Recorded live for BBC Radio 4, Hymn is a memoir of music in childhood, written by Alan Bennett and George Fenton

 

'I am one of those boys, state-educated in the Forties and Fifties, who came by the words of Hymns Ancient and Modern by singing them day in, day out in school every morning at assembly. It's a dwindling band... you con pick us out at funerals and memorial services because we can sing the hymns without the book'

To mark their 30th anniversary, the Medici Quartet asked composer George Fenton and writer Alan Bennett to collaborate on a piece for performance at the Harrogate International Festival. The result was Hymn, a meditative piece, by turns funny and
melancholy, in which Bennett looks at the part which music played in his childhood, at his father's doomed attempts to teach him the violin, and at what hymns mean to him now. The illustrative suite for strings, played by the Medici Quartet , draws on a range of musical references including Elgar, Delius and several well-known hymns. Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre, Hymn is prefaced by an introduction from the author.

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Ebon Storms - Music Soundtrack



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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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Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
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Author : Victor Hugo
Performed By : Frederick Davidson
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 17 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Classic Literature
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"What a beautiful thing Notre-Dame is!"--Gustave Flaubert

Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo's masterful tale of heroism and
adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831. It is the story of Quasimodo,
the deformed bell-ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral, who falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda.
When Esmeralda is condemned as a witch by Claude Frollo, the tormented archdeacon who lusts after
her, Quasimodo attempts to save her; but his intentions are misunderstood. Written with a profound sense
of tragic irony, Hugo's powerful historical romance remains one of the most thrilling stories of all time.

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Chronicles - Volume One



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Chronicles - Volume One


Author : Bob Dylan

Performed By : Sean Penn

Publisher : Simon & Schuster

Runtime : 6 hours

Categories : Autobiography
Arts & Drama
Music Related
Music Related

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"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else."



Bob Dylan's Chronicle: Volume One explores the critical junctions in his life and career. Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities -- smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.



Revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences. Dylan's voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.




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Huckleberry Finn
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Huckleberry Finn

Author : Mark Twain
Performed By : Thomas Becker
Publisher : In Audio
Runtime : 10 hours 19 minutes
Categories : Classics
Classic Literature
Over 10s
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Twain's story of an orphan is often cited as the greatest American novel. 

Based in the mid 1800s before the Civil War, the novel chronicles the journey of and relationship between Huckleberry Finn and a runaway southern slave, Jim, as they flee south on the Mississippi River. The pair have a journey that bring them together and that clearly shows Mark Twain's dislike for slavery in the southern culture.

Friday, November 27, 2009

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Green Fire



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Green Fire


Author : Tallyessin Silverwolf

Performed By : Tallyessin Silverwolf

Publisher : Awen Publications

Runtime : 1 hour 10 minutes

Categories : Poetry

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GREEN FIRE



Magical Verse for the Wheel of the Year



In this enchanting collection modern-day bard Tallyessin (winner of the Bardic Chair of Bath) shares his repertoire of bardic poems based upon the eight pagan festivals of the year - from Imbolc to the Winter Solstice - a poem for every celebration to recite and enjoy !



A Poem for all Seasons !



* Imbolc - inklings of spring

* Spring Equinox - relationships & balance

* Beltane - wildwood passion

* Summer Solstice - solar festivities

* Lughnasadh - bread, blood & barley

* Autumn Equinox - fruitfulness & shadows

* Samhain - time of the hunter

* Winter Solstice - death & rebirth



All poems are based upon the 8 Pagan Festivals and can be used in celebrations and ceremonies - or as inspiration for one's own sacred words.

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Howards End
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Howards End

Author : E. M. Forster
Performed By : Nadia May
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 11 hours
Categories : Classic Literature
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"Howards End is undoubtedly Forster's masterpiece; it develops to their full the themes
and attitudes of [his] early books and throws back upon them a new and enhancing light."--Lionel Trilling

A vibrant portrait of Edwardian England, Howards End examines personal relationships and conflicting
values. The Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and their brother Tibby, place their values in civilized living,
music, literature, and conversation with their friends. The Wilcoxes, Henry and his children Charles, Paul, and
Evie, are concerned with the business side of life and distrust emotions and imagination.

Howards End, a charming country house in Hertfordshire which belonged to Henry Wilcox's first wife, becomes the
object of an inheritance dispute between the Wilcox family and Schlegel sisters. Through romantic entanglements,
disappearing wills, and sudden tragedy, the conflict over the house emerges as a symbolic struggle for England's
very future.