Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

DREAM BY HELEN SHAY

Junior hospital consultant Miles has a guilty conscience. Road accident victim Emma is in a coma, hovering between life and death. This trauma has consequences that are wider than those for the two main protagonists. What is the impact of Emma’s life and potential death on Miles’ ambitious wife Ruth and Emma’s mother, June? Helen Shay’s surreal thriller explores a stream of complex human motivation and emotion and packs a real punch.

TABLE FOR FOUR BY BERNI BERTOLA

This comedy explores just how dangerous the mobile phone can be in the field of romance. Boy meets girl meets – well loads of people really.

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with MARLON JAMES

Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings was the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, making him the first Jamaican writer to receive the UK’s most prestigious literary award. The book presents an untold history of Jamaica in the 1970s, relayed through multiple narrators, with the climax centering on an attempted assassination of reggae legend Bob Marley.  After reading extracts of his writing he is interviewed by novelist Russell Banks.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETRY & POETS featuring BILLY COLLINS

Billy Collins‘ poetry books are Picnic, Lightning; The Art of Drowning; Questions about Angels, which was a National Poetry Series winner; and The Apple that Astonished Paris. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Mr. Collins, who lives in New York and teaches at Lehman College, has been the United States Poet Laureate.

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with CYNTHIA KAUFMAN on Getting Past Capitalism

Here at Audiobook Radio we are keen to provide a range of voices – very literally as well as in terms of opinions and views of the world. This strand created by Alternative Radio does just that. We will hear from some of the most informed minds and greatest social activists of our time whose take on justice and power does not chime with those that hold the power and don’t provide justice for all so we rarely get to hear from them in mainstream media. Different opinions always help inform our own and we are always eager to hear from listeners about this or any other strand. Contact us on the tab at www.audiobookradio.net.

Today’s talk is given by Cynthia Kaufman who is director of the Institute of Community and Civic Engagement at De Anza College in Cupertino, California, where she also teaches philosophy. She is the author of Getting Past Capitalism which is what she talks about here.

4pm & Midnight & 8am

SHERLOCK HOLMES

GREG WAGLAND superbly narrates The Red Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle

5pm & 1am & 9am

SPARK LONDON

The concept is stand out simple. Real people telling real stories. Today’s are

Keep Breathing by Catherine Semark and Brothers by Rob Lawrence.

A WORD IN YOUR EAR

Word in Your Ear are a Bath based collective of writers who gather to tell their stories. They liked the way our ancestors enjoyed stories – by listening to them. We totally agree with them so let’s have a listen to: Cleopatra’s Needled by Stephanie Weston, Prospects by Geoffrey Heptonstall and Brief Encounter by Stephanie Weston.

TAKE FIVE with OLIVIA LICHTENSTEIN

We asked the same five questions to a range of writers – today OLIVIA LICHTENSTEIN, BAFTA winning documentary maker and talented writer of page turner Mrs Zhivago of Queen’s Park and intriguing Things Your Mother Never Told You. Both as a visualist and wordsmith she is engaging and thoughtful with a viewpoint that’s both modern and mature.

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with Count of Monte Cristo

Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as a go to place for entertainment and has been for decades. We take you back in time as The Hollywood ringmaster himself, CECIL B DE MILLE unveils The Count of Monte Cristo featuring ROBERT MONTGOMERY.

 7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – POE & COLLINS

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH BY EDGAR ALLAN POE. READ BY WILLIAM DUFRIS.

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Red Death’’ was first published in 1842. In the original publication, the title was given the English spelling of “mask,’’ yet it was changed to “masque” in 1845. In this macabre tale, a Prince Prospero seals himself and a thousand of his friends into the abbey of a castle in order to protect them from a deadly pestilence—The Red Death—that is ravaging the country. But when the group indulge in a lavish costume ball in order to distract themselves from the suffering and death outside their walls, the Red Death, disguised as a costumed guest, enters and claims the lives of everyone present.

A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED BY WILKIE COLLINS. READ BY RICHARD MITCHLEY.

Charles Faulkner, a young American gambler in Paris, should have left the casino after striking it lucky. Why on earth did he accept to sleep in the casino’s guest bed? This was to be the most horrible night he had ever lived.