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Great Moments in History: "Shakespeare at the Globe"

Author : Jim Cort

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : One Act Audio Theatre

Runtime : 5 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Shakespeare
Humor

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The Bard gets a jolly lesson in ye olde show biz.

FULL CAST RECORDING

Written by Jim Cort

Recorded at What You Say Studios

Produced & Directed by Glenn Carlson

Cast:

• Shakespeare - John Mercer
  
• The Manager - Digby Christian.
  

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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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Case of the Curious Etching: Monday

Author : Not Known

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : One Act Audio Theatre

Runtime : 2 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Humor

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Installment #1 of the series. Vancouver BC radio detective Stanley Park investigates the murder of ... a radio detective. O! The irony of it all! Full Cast.

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Importance of Being Earnest, The

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.

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Christmas Carol, A

Author : Charles Dickens

Performed By : Colonial Radio Theatre

Publisher : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air

Runtime : 1 hour 9 minutes

Categories : Audio Theater
Drama
Dramatizations
Horror & Suspense
Classics

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The Colonial Radio Theatre pulls out all the stops in this magnificent production of the Charles Dickens classic! Newly recorded in 2004 (from their original 1998 script), "A Christmas Carol" is a great match for radio theatre, and CRT has remained faithful to the book in every way. Jeffrey Gage has created one of his finest music scores - from the powerful, booming opening of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," to the frightening tones of the Ghost of Christmas Future; add a fantastic cast, a couple of hundred sound effects,(you supply the egg nog) and you have a holiday treat for all ages.

Excellent in everyway

Bob from Colorado - 19 Nov 2004

This program is the ultimate in Christmas oriented audio theater. The music score is awesome, the acting and sound effects superb. The Colonial Radio Theatre folks were very true to the book, and have included sections that are almost universally edited out. This does not hurt the flow of the story at all. Dickens was a master, and this his masterpiece. Download this one and you will be very very impressed... Merry Christmas everyone!

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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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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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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.

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Case of the Curious Etching: 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: A mysterious woman walks in to Vancouver BC private investigator Stanley Park's office and announces her husband has been murdered.
Tuesday: Vancouver BC radio detective Stanley Park investigates the murder of ... a radio detective!
Wednesday: PI Park sniffs for clues in this olfactorious episode.
Thursday: Stanley Park, armed only with a duck, awaits his destiny in this limping installment.
Friday: The explosive conclusion to the "Case of the Curious Etching".

The Case of the Curious Etching 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, Marilynn Fowler.

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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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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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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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Elusive Pimpernel, The

Author : Baroness Orczy

Performed By : Johanna Ward

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 9 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

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"Johanna Ward brings suspense and wit to this story of intrigue set in the days following the

French Revolution....She makes good use of her native British and superb French accents to help create

vivid and complex personalities. Ward's great sense of mood and timing carry listeners through to the very

end...."--AudioFile

In this sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney's arch-enemy travels to England in pursuit

of the impudent enemy of the French Republic. Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate, once

and for all, both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife Marguerite. Lured to France, where the entire town of Boulogne

is held hostage on their behalf, they seem to be hopelessly trapped. Will the Scarlet Pimpernel prevail?

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Hunchback of Notre Dame, The

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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Dozen Red Roses, A: From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Author : Edward Fitzgerald

Performed By : Bill Wallis

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 2 minutes

Categories : Poetry

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From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Some meditations on love from Edward Fitzgerald’s translation from the enigmatic Persian poet, read by Bill Wallis.

A single poem, available also within the collection entitled  "A Dozen Red Roses: 12 Valentines Poems"

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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.

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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.

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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.