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James Stewart: A Biography

Author : Donald Dewey

Performed By : Tom Parker

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 19 hours

Categories : Rich & Famous
TV & Film
Arts & Drama
Biographical

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"Going beyond biography, Donald Dewey captures the wistful America of the 1940s

and '50s and the screen icon who symbolized it.With polished ease and impeccable pacing,

Parker brings listeners into each chapter and onto each movie set to glimpse Hollywood's inner

workings. Parker narrates with the same casual yet focused flair that characterized Stewart's

acting style. In this way, Parker lends an instant comfort and intimacy to the text and its subject,

while giving Dewey's writing center stage to engage and captivate the listener."AudioFile



"[A] voluminous, highly intelligent look at one of the richest and most complex of Hollywood star

personas, not incidentally, one of the industry's most beloved actors.very astute is the analysis

of Stewart's career choices, and the detailed recounting of his distinguished record as a bomber

pilot and squad commander during WW II is downright moving.A model of how to do a serious

but entertaining Hollywood biography."Kirkus Reviews



In the most penetrating and in-depth biography yet written about the beloved screen icon,

award-winning author Donald Dewey delves beneath the persona into the usually unremarked turmoil of

the actor's private life and behind the earnest Capraesque image so often accepted as the Stewart identity.

He draws upon extensive research and nearly two hundred interviews to follow Stewart from his hometown

of Indiana, Pennsylvania, and a childhood shaped by a strong-willed father, to the fateful encounter at

Princeton University with actress Margaret Sullavan, to his first professional theatrical experiences on

Cape Cod and the forging of a remarkable life-long friendship with Henry Fonda in New York, to his

unexpected stardom at MGM.



Tom Parker, recipient of the Golden Voice award, records a remarkable variety of books while pursuing his love of theater by directing two or three professional stage productions a year in the Washington, D.C., area.

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Kafka's Dick

Author : Alan Bennett

Performed By : Alan Bennett

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 1 hour 30 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Humor

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Alison Steadman, Richard Griffiths and Nigel Anthony star in this BBC radio 4 version of Alan Bennett's acclaimed comedy drama

'Pure joy' Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph

On his deathbed, Franz Kafka makes his faithful friend Max Brod promise to destroy his writings, so that future biographers can never pick over the secrets of his life. Flash forward to the present day, where Kafka aficionado Sydney Cunliffe is writing an article on the great man, and events begin to take a distinctly Kafkaesque turn. First a mysterious stranger appears on Sydney's doorstep, claiming to be Max Brod (who has been dead since 1968). Then the Cunliffes' tortoise metamorphoses into Kafka himself.

Max is desperate to prevent his old friend from discovering that he didn't burn all his books, for it soon becomes clear that all Kafka ever wanted was anonymity, and to get his own back on his bullying father But when Kafka Senior turns up, he insists that his son buries the hatchet. If not, he will reveal Kafka's secret - the real truth about him and his 'old man'...
Set in Prague, 27 Batcliffe Drive and Heaven, Bennett's brilliantly clever, fast-moving comedy not only examines the relationship between life and art, but also asks a rather more fundamental question: what exactly was Kafka's embarrassing little problem!