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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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A+ Audio Guide: Macbeth

Author : Dr. Mark Breitenberg

Performed By : Roger Rees

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.

 

William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Audio contains:

• Introduction to Shakespeare's London
• Detailed Narrative Guide to the Novel
• Dramatic Readings
• Critical Analysis

Music from:

• Guiseppi Verdi's opera Macbeth

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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All's Well That Ends Well

Author : William Shakespeare

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 2 hours 15 minutes

Categories : Shakespeare
Dramatizations
Classic Literature
Drama

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Sian Phillips, Emma Fielding and Miriam Margolyes star in Shakespeare's comedy of men behaving badly and women doing it for themselves.



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.



In All's Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare turns traditional fairytale on its head with the young Helena {Emma Fielding) who cures the King of France from a deadly illness and demands, as her reward, the hand of the young Count Bertram. But marriage is the last thing on badly-behaved Bertram's mind, and Helena must band together with her sisters to force him to honour his promise.The means may be devious but All's Well That Ends Well.



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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A+ Audio Guide: Frankenstein

Author : Richard Kaye

Performed By : Julian Sands

Publisher : Hachette Audio

Runtime : 1 hour

Categories : Self Help
Classic Literature

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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 .

Audio contains:

• Introduction to the World of Mary Shelley

PDF booklet contains:

• Detailed Narrative Guide to the Novel

• Character List
• Dramatic Readings • Scene-by-Scene Synopsis
• Critical Analysis • Glossary of Terms

Music from:

• Original Music Composed by David L. Harvey

Character List
Scene-by-Scene Synopsis
Glossary of Terms
Sample Test and Review Questions
Study Reference for Books, Music, Film

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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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3 Skeleton Key

Author : George Toudouze/James Poe

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : One Act Audio Theatre

Runtime : 30 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
Thrillers

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"Picture this Place" ...

With those words, one of broadcast's scariest tales began, and for thirty minutes, listeners in radio's "golden age" sat transfixed and horrified -- an experience audio theatre audiences of today can share with the past. Ahhhh but modern recording technology now allows for even greater horror ...

The One Act Players present a new THREE SKELETON KEY - full digital stereo recording, with newly created sound effects, and an original score composed and performed by John Clark Stiefel. Directed by Glenn Carlson and featuring the stalwart Scot Crisp and John Parsons,

Based on the short story by George Toudouze, our story tells the tale of three lighthouse keepers stationed off the coast of French Guyana in the 1930s. Their quiet if not monotonous life tending a lonely lighthouse is shattered one night by the arrival of a multitude of ravenous, flesh-eating ... RATS.

Creepy Tale will Stay with you long after the sun rises again ...

Icabod (father of Denny) Crane from The Black Coast of Noiree - 26 Oct 2004

After dark, go get yourself to an abandoned building on the edge of town where small and perhaps larger creatures scuttle by unseen as you listen to your player by sputtering candlelight. It's that kind of tale. Not one that makes you scream, or eject your dinner - just one that gets under your skin, inside your brain and creeps the bejeezus out of you. It'll be on your mind in the warm sunlight of morning as you eat your breakfast and dropping the spoon you'll sigh a ridiculous sigh of relief when the scrabbling at your patio door turns out to be your cat instead of ...

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Brideshead Revisited

Author : Evelyn Waugh

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 4 hours

Categories : Classic Literature
Classics

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'Here, at the age of thirty nine, I began to be old. '

In 1944 Captain Charles Ryder travels with a company of soldiers to Brideshead. It's a place he's been to before, and one which serves as a potent reminder of the decadent and stylish lifestyle now destroyed by the austerity of the Second World War.

Evelyn Waugh's moving and nostalgic novel revisits a golden age, when Ryder was a student at Oxford in the 1920s and in thrall to the captivating but tragic Sebastian Flyte. As the story unfolds over the next two decades, Ryder traces his friendship with Sebastian and his involvement with the young man's aristocratic Catholic family - in particular Julia, the eldest Flyte daughter.

Ben Miles stars as Charles Ryder with Jamie Bamber as Sebastian in this full-cast dramatisation, which also features Eleanor Bron and Edward Petherbridge.

Written By
Evelyn Waugh

First Broadcast
16 March 2003

NUMBER OF EPISODES
4

Last Broadcast
6 April 2003

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12 Books That Changed the World

Author : Melvyn Bragg

Performed By : Patricia Hodge, Hugh Ross, Robert Powell & Bill Bingham

Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks

Runtime : 2 hours

Categories : Arts & Drama
History
British

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When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or in the palaces of power, or even in the violence of nature, but between the pages of a book.

In our digitised age of instant information it is easy to underestimate the power of the printed word. In his fascinating new book accompanying the ITV series, Melvyn Bragg presents a vivid reminder of the book as agent of social, political and personal revolution.

Twelve Books that Changed the World presents a rich variety of human endeavour and a great diversity of characters.

There are also surprises. Here are famous books by Darwin, Newton and Shakespeare – but we also discover the stories behind some less well-known works, such as Marie Stopes’ Married Love, the original radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – and even the rules to an obscure ball game that became the most popular sport in the world . . .

Great Introduction

Nick Ashfield from Bristol - 19 Mar 2007

This is a great introduction to some books you might not have heard of before. It provides a 10 minute summary of each book. Excellent for listening to in the car on long car journeys. Would love to get it on DVD but unfortunately ITV have decided not to release it.

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Cymbeline

Author : William Shakespeare

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : Harper Collins US

Runtime : 2 hours 55 minutes

Categories : Shakespeare

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This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years.

One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage imperiled by mistrust and painfully rebuilt in the context of international conflict.

Roger Warren's commentary emphasizes the play's theatrical impact and pays close attention to its complex, evocative language.

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Le Morte D'Arthur Vol. 1

Author : Sir Thomas Malory

Performed By : Frederick Davidson

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 15 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

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"Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in, delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose."--Robert Graves

This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous
influence upon literature.

The story begins with King Uther Pendragon's use of enchantment to lay with Igraine, Duchess of Cornwall. Arthur is conceived and taken away in secret, returning as a young man to claim the throne by pulling the sword Excalibur from the stone. In retelling the story of Arthur's rule of Britain, Malory intertwines the romances of Guinevere and Launcelot, Tristram and Isolde, and Launcelot and Elaine. Sir Galahad's appearance at Camelot begins the quest for the Holy Grail.

Finally, Camelot is brought down by the conflict between King Arthur and his natural son, Mordred.

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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Part II, The

Author : Edward Gibbon

Performed By : Philip Madoc with Neville Jason

Publisher : Select Music & Distribution

Runtime : 7 hours 45 minutes

Categories : Classic Literature
Ancient

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Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces. This six-disc recording covers the final three volumes of Gibbon's work, tracing ten centuries in the life of the eastern half of the empire, whose capital city was Constantinople. Among the many figures who stride across Gibbon's stage here are the emperor Justinian I, a noble statesman and successful warrior, brought low by his lascivious wife, the former prostitute Theodora; the murdering Basil I, a peasant who nonetheless proved himself a worthy figure upon which to drape the purple; and the final emperor of all, Constantine XI, who died on the battlements of Constantinople in 1453, valiantly fighting a losing battle to prevent the Turks from gaining a city they had craved for centuries. It is still the work that sets the standard for all histories of the period.

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Lady Windermere's Fan

Author : Oscar Wilde

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : Select Music & Distribution

Runtime : 1 hour 45 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Classic Literature

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Oscar Wilde's first play confronts the hypocrisy of public 'morality' compared with genuine, private kindness.

When it opened in 1892, Lady Windermere's Fan was an instant success and now, a century later, it continues to be revived frequently. The reasons for its popularity are not difficult to identify: the play's witty dialogue contains many of Wilde's most quoted aphorisms, its stylish setting provides opportunities for elegant presentation, and its cast of memorable characters play out a story which is genuinely moving.

This new audiobook production brings together a cast worthy of Wilde's creative genius.

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Cairo Trilogy, The: Episode 3

Author : Naguib Mahfouz

Performed By : Full-Cast Production

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 1 hour

Categories : General
Dramatizations

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Omar Sharif leads an all-Egyptian cast in a three-parter recorded entirely in Egypt's capital...

Adapted from Naguib Mahfouz's novels, this is a gripping family saga, with a monstrous father, loving mother and their four children, set in seductive Cairo from 1917 to 1953 against a backdrop of political upheaval." --- The Times

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King Richard III

Author : William Shakespeare

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : Select Music & Distribution

Runtime : 3 hours 20 minutes

Categories : Shakespeare

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Kenneth Branagh heads an outstanding cast in playing one of Shakespeare's strongest characters.

The eighth production in the widely admired series of Shakespeare plays presented by Naxos AudioBooks in association with Cambridge University Press.