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Forty Years On

Author : Alan Bennett

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 1 hour 35 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations

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The Headmaster has been at Albion House for fifty years, man and boy. Now he is retiring and tal<es part in the end-of-year entertainment for the last time. Entitled Speak For England, Arthur, It weaves together a multi-generational story of England: the glorious era at the turn of the century, when the summers were always golden: the fast-living inter-war years peopled by the Bloomsbury Group: and the growing cynicism of a country facing a second world war with the scars of the first still fresh in their memories.

Tongue-in-cheek, the play-within-a-play prompts an outraged response from the Headmaster, who can only see his beloved standards being mocked. Yet within the parody lies an almost painful nostalgia for a more peaceful age and the timeless misunderstanding of one generation by another.

Clever, funny and poignant, Alan Bennett's masterful play is rightly regarded as a modern classic.

Written By
Alan Bennett

First Broadcast
BBC Radio 4
28 August 2000

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Doctor Who - The Underwater Menace

Author : Various

Performed By : Anneke Wills

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 2 hours

Categories : Sci-Fi
Drama
Dramatizations
British

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Patrick Troughton's Doctor arrives on Atlantis in this classic soundtrack adventure, with linking narration by Anneke Wills and an exclusive bonus interview

 

The Tardis materialises on a small volcanic island; on board are the Doctor, Polly, Ben and their new companion Jamie. Exploration of their surroundings reveals a network of caves inside the extinct volcano - and before long all four travellers have been captured by those who live within...

This is Earth, and the lost city of Atlantis lies deep underground, its human citizens dependent for food upon a species known as the Fish People, Unfortunately for the Doctor and his friends, the Atlanteans waste little time in offering the new arrivals up as sacrifices to their goddess Amdo!

A certain Professor Zaroff has persuaded the Atlanteans that he can raise the city once more above the waves. But the Doctor soon realises that Zaroff's plan is insanely dangerous: the professor's lunatic dreams of ultimate power could lead to the destruction of the entire planet. Can the Doctor and company stop him?

Anneke Wills , who also plays Polly, narrates this classic adventure - only one episode of which survives in the television archives. In a specially recorded bonus interview, she recalls her experiences of making The Underwater Menace in 1967.

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Julius Caesar

Author : William Shakespeare

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 2 hours 20 minutes

Categories : Shakespeare
Dramatizations
British

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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.

Political intrigue and fierce battle rage in this tense and dynamic production in which a country is torn apart under the legacy of Julius Caesar, 'the colossus'.

Revitalised, original, and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the new millennium.

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Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks

Author : Various

Performed By : Various

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 2 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Sci-Fi
Dramatizations
Drama
TV

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The first doctor becomes the second in this exclusive recording of Doctor Who's original regeneration story, starring Patrick Troughton with linking narration by Anneke Wills

 

' I've been renewed... without it I couldn't survive .'

Before the astonished eyes of his companions Ben and Polly, the Doctor's whole body has apparently been transformed. Now they are confronted by a stranger who claims to be their old friend - but how can they know whether to trust him?

The Tardis's arrival on the swamp planet of Vulcan brings its own problems; the Doctor is mistaken for an official come to solve the Earth colony's in-fighting, and soon he and his companions are embroiled in political wranglings. However, a far more serious threat lurks within the colony. The scientist Lesterson has discovered a crashed space capsule, within it a group of inert metallic creatures which the Doctor identifies as Daleks. Refusing to heed the Doctor's warnings, Lesterson supplies power to the Daleks and revives them.

The awakened Daleks claim to be faithful servants of humanity - but could such a thing ever be possible? By covert means they seek an increasing level of energy, but for what? By the time the Doctor and his friends discover the Daleks' true plan for the colony, it looks as if it might already be too late to stop them...

Anneke Wills , who plays Polly in the story, narrates this debut story for the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton , first broadcast in 1966 and long since missing from the television archives.

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GUNS OF POWDER RIVER

Author : Jerry Robbins

Performed By : Colonial Radio Theatre

Publisher : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air

Runtime : 1 hour 43 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Western
Action & Adventure
Audio Theater
Westerns

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The cast of XM Radio's hit western series POWDER RIVER saddles up for a rousing action packed adventure in the feature length GUNS OF POWDER RIVER!

Two families arrive in Clearmont, determined to reach California before the snow falls. Britt, Doc, Sheriff Wilkins, and Rusty escort them through dangerous territory on the long journey. An exciting western epic the whole family will enjoy. GUNS OF POWDER RIVER reunites the original cast from Season One.

The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air presents

GUNS OF POWDER RIVER

with JERRY ROBBINS. SAM DONATO. LINCOLN CLARK. CYNTHIA PAPE. SHANE CLARKE. MARCIA FREIDMAN. J.T. TURNER.

Featuring Diane Lind. Phyllis Uloth. Lynn Armstrong. Rebecca Stevens. Matthew Scott Robertson. Connor Doherty. James McLean, and Derek Aalerud as Chad MacMasters.

Executive Producer Mark Vander Berg. Produced by Chris Snyder. Music by Jeffrey Gage. Written and Directed by Jerry Robbins

(c) 2007 CRT

Audio Cinema At Its Finest!

Cindy W. from Glen Burnie - 04 Sep 2007

All the works of Jerry Robbins and Colonial Radio Theatre are great and worth downloading, but there's a special place in my heart for Powder River.

The characters are three-dimensional, the music of Jeffrey Gage is truly beautiful, and the stories remind me of the Westerns I used to sit and watch with my dad.

Guns of Powder River is the first of what I hope will be several spin-offs "movies" from the series. Enjoy!

AWESOME !!!!

Ralph M from Marion , Iowa - 16 Sep 2007

The Colonial Radio Theatre Shows in general are well worth the money and the time to listen . Each of the cast members play their parts just as they were living in the era the shows are from . I am A big fan of The Powder River episodes and now have this one . Can't wait for the next season to be released .

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Doctor Who - Death Comes to Time

Author : Various

Performed By : Various

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 3 hours

Categories : Sci-Fi
Action & Adventure
Thriller
Dramatizations

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Sylvester McCoy , Stephen Fry and John Sessions star in an explosive, action-packed adventure in five episodes specially created for audio

 

' Even Time Lords die... '

When a dissident Time Lord group inadvertently caused the destruction of an entire civilisation through interference, its members vowed to repent by serving the Universe not as gods of Time but as mere men. Many years later, this peaceful resolve is severely tested when two of their number are killed — and the Doctor's seventh incarnation becomes embroiled in the struggle against the apparently unstoppable General Tannis.

Plagued by ominous portents, the Doctor and his companion Antimony must race across the Universe, taking in the Santine Republic, the Great Orion Nebula and the frozen heart of the Canisian Empire, Meanwhile the mysterious Minister of Chance battles his own inner demons, and former Tardis traveller Ace finds herself in training for a destiny she never dreamed possible. Matters reach a terrible climax when Tannis' next target for subjugation is identified. Exactly how much is the Doctor prepared to sacrifice in order to save Earth?

First webcast on BBCi and also featuring Sophie Aldred, Anthony Stewart Head and Jacqueline Pearce . Death Comes to Time is an original audio adventure uniting elements from the Doctor's past with bold and original ideas for his future. 

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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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Doctor Who at the BBC: The Tenth Doctor

Author : Various

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 2 hours 5 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Audio Theater
British
Sci-Fi

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The actress behind the much-loved Sarah Jane Smith is your guide through this exciting, suprising  and often funny  mix of radio and TV features, all based around the worlds of contemporary Doctor Who.

Travel behind the scenes in the company of David Tennant, Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman, Catherine Tate, Sarah Parish, Jessica Hynes, Thomas Sangster, and many other stars of series Two and Three.

Learn more about how Doctor Who is made from Russell T Davies, Susie Liggat and Edward Thomas - and eavesdrop on an unusual phone call to Executive Producer Julie Gardner!

Along the way you'll enjoy many fascinating Doctor Who-related items from Blue Peter, Breakfast, Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, front Row and Jo Whiley Meets Doctor Who - Back in Time series!

With laughter from the Dead ringers and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue teams thrown in, and a bonus peak at The Sarah Jane Adventures, this exclusive CD is guaranteed to provide two hours of enjoyment for Doctor Who fans young, old and in-between!

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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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Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays

Author : Various

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 2 hours 5 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Audio Theater
British
Sci-Fi

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Tom Baker and Sophie Aldred appear in one of threefull-cast BBC radio dramas based around the real-life worlds of Doctor Who.

Doctor Who, the TV series which millions adore, is the inspiration for these three original radio plays. Presented in their entirety, they each focus on the effect which the programme has had on the lives of ordinary – and some extraordinary – people.

Regenerations by Daragh Carville:

In this powerful and moving play, a group of friends reunite for an annual Doctor Who convention. Set against a backdrop of the Belfast troubles, the play deals with themes of sexuality and love, and features appearances by Tom Baker and Sophie Aldred.

Blue Veils and Golden Sands by Martyn Wade:

Delia Derbyshire was the delightful and unusual woman who created the unique sound of the original Doctor Who theme tune. This is a dramatised account of her early days at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and her later recollections of that time.

Dalek, I Love You by Colin Sharpe:

Nigel’s obsession with Doctor Who is a source of some concern to his mother. When he meets the girl of his dreams at a convention, life at home seems set to change forever…

Contains adult themes and language.

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Alan Bennett - Double Bill

Author : Alan Bennett

Performed By : Various

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 2 hours 10 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Comedy
Humor
Drama
British

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Patricia Routledge , Sir John Gielgud , Alan Bennett and Paul Eddington star in two plays as broadcast on BBC Radio 4

 

A Woman of No Importance - In this brilliant forerunner to Bennett's series of Talking Heads monologues, Patricia Routledge plays Margaret Schofield. a woman whose existence has long revolved around the gossip and minutiae of office life. As she recounts the events leading up to her first bout of tummy trouble, there is little hint of the developments ahead — or of the moving portrayal of brave and inevitable decline which writer and performer create between them.

Forty Years On - This BBC Radio 4 version of Alan Bennett's most popular stage play stars Sir John Gielgud , Paul Eddington , Bennett himself and other members of the original West End cast. Having been at Albion House for fifty years, man and boy the Headmaster is now retiring. Taking part in the end-of-term entertainment for the last time, he is outraged to find his beloved standards being mocked. A kaleidoscopic comedy, Forty Years On is part parody and part nostalgia for a fading English tradition.

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Doctor Thorne

Author : Anthony Trollope

Performed By : Simon Vance

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 20 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Classic Literature

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Anthony Trollope once said, "A novel should give a picture of common life enlivened by humour and sweetened by pathos." Trollope admirably fulfills his own criteria in this charming third novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.

Doctor Thorne adopts his niece Mary, keeping secret her illegitimate birth as he introduces her to the best local social circles. There she meets and falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to a vastly mortgaged estate; yet Frank is obliged to find a wealthy wife. Only Doctor Thorne knows that Mary is to inherit a large legacy that will make her acceptable to the otherwise disapproving middle-class society to which Frank belongs. Where fiery passion fails, understated English virtues of patience, persistence, and good humor prevail in this most appealing of Trollope's comedies.

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A+ Audio Guide: The Sun Also Rises

Author : Robert Murray

Performed By : Frank Dwyer

Publisher : Hachette Audio

Runtime : 1 hour

Categories : Classic Literature
Self Help

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A+ Audio 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 .



Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises



Audio contains:



Introduction to Hemingway's Europe

Detailed Narrative Guide to the Novel

Dramatic Readings

Critical Analysis



PDF Booklet includes:



Character List

Scene-by-Scene Synopsis

Glossary of Terms

Sample Test and Review Questions

Study Reference for Books, Music, Film



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Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto De Aranjuez

 

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Disorder Peculiar to the Country, A

Author : Ken Kalfus

Performed By : James Boles

Publisher : Audio Evolution LLC

Runtime : 8 hours 36 minutes

Categories : Fiction
Arts & Drama
Crime & Thrillers
Contemporary

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Joyce and Marshall Harriman are in the midst of a contentious divorce, but still sharing a cramped, overmortgaged Brooklyn apartment with their two children.

On the morning of September 11, Joyce departs for Newark to catch a flight to San Francisco, and Marshall, after dropping the kids at daycare, heads for his office in the World Trade Center.

She misses her flight and he's late for work, but on that grim day, in the devastated city, among millions seized by fear and grief, each thinks the other is dead, and each is secretly, shamefully, gloriously happy. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, foreign wars, and the stock market collapse, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time.

In this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation's public calamities have encroached upon our most private illusions.

Ken Kalfus is the author of a novel, The Commissariat of Enlightenment, and the short story collections, Thirst, which won the Salon Book Award, and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. A Disorder Peculiar to the Country was a National Book Award finalist for 2006.

Reviews:

"Kalfus is an endlessly ingenious writer….Features some of the best fiction writing yet about September 11….A brilliant comedy of manners…about the way a conflict takes on a logic and momentum of its own."—Salon.com

"My inner idealist hopes Kalfus' novel joins the ranks of Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 on the required reading lists."—Philadelphia Magazine

"Kalfus' new novel [is] like a fever dream of recent events…Through the interbleeding of public and private story lines and his lampooning approach, Kalfus [is] freeing the way we think about September 11….If hyperbole can be weaponized anywhere in literature, it is here."—Los Angeles Times Book Review

Read by James Boles, Direction, Mastering and Original Music by Peter Pantelis.