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IN CONVERSATION

2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETRY

3pm & 11pm & 7am
ALTERNATIVE RADIO 

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5pm & 1am & 9am
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY/TAKE FIVE OR
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6pm & 2am & 10am
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AudioBookRadio.net is the first and foremost spoken word Internet radio station. We broadcast compelling content for your pleasure, whether you’re at work or play, indoors or out, 24/7.

Deadtree Publishing has joined us to offer their exciting content which has the best and most comprehensive collection of classic short stories and poetry on audio in the world.  They cover all the writers and poets you know but have dug deeper to unearth equally brilliant writers and poets who have been sorely neglected due to their gender, race and sexuality.  We are able to offer all our listeners 50% off your first purchase with the code ABR50 so click on their logo now.

EDITOR'S PICK

Black Voices Matter - Poets From The 18th Century To The Harlem Renaissance

Many poets featured are, and were, rarely heard and have been painfully neglected. To be of colour was deemed at best to be second class so few of our poets had the privileges most of us take for granted or a means to market. Down the ages they illuminate the stain on our humanity and its ever-repeating cycle.

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Bram Stoker - Dracula, Read By Christopher Lee

Fast paced and nightmarishly vivid, this greatest of Gothic tales propels the reader into the heart of darkness from its opening pages.

The Femme Fatales Of Horror

Women, so often referred to as the gentler sex, in this volume at least, is an unfounded and unlikely description. From their minds and pens comes a series of macabre, twisted, tales that are anything but gentle.

London, A City In Words

London, A City In Words - Every country has its capital, its centre for governance and culture. Only a few capitals can lay claim to being known the world over. Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, William Blake, Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Rudyard Kipling & others.

Edgar Allan Poe - 4 Tales Of Terror

Poe is expert at having you, the audience, involved ratcheting up the tension till the final unmentionable moments.

MONDAY 18th March

Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

A KINGDOM FOR A STAGE PART I BY TONY DIGGLE

We are delighted to be broadcasting the radio premiere of A Kingdom for a Stage, originally performed at the Chelsea Theatre.  It celebrates and commemorates the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birthday and death on 23rd April.

In Part I Ben Jonson discovered Shakespeare in the heavens in a catatonic state.  Literary luminaries explained that he had made an unauthorised visit to the world and was horrified that mankind had not progressed so decided to torment them.  Placated by his contemporaries reminding him of his own flawed life Shakespeare returns to the heavens to write his 38th play!

1pm & 9pm & 5am                 

IN CONVERSATION with MARY OLIVER

Mary Oliver’s poetry, with her lyrical connection to the natural world, has firmly established her in the highest realm of American poets. She is renowned for her evocative and precise imagery, which brings nature into clear focus, transforming the everyday world into a place of magic and discovery. Her recent books include Owls and Other Fantasies, Why I Wake Early, and New and Selected Poems, Volume Two. As poet Stanley Kunitz has said, “Mary Oliver’s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing.” Oliver lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETRY & POETS with MICHAEL ONDAATJE

Michael Ondaatje, poet, novelist, and noted editor and film maker, was born in Sri Lanka in 1943, spent his teenage years in England, and moved to Canada in 1962 where he graduated from the University of Toronto and then Queen’s University, Ontario. He taught English Literature at York University, Toronto, from 1971 to 1990. While mostly known and admired as a novelist, due in part to the worldwide success of The English Patient that was awarded the Booker Prize in 1992 and was later made into the Academy Award-winning film, Ondaatje first won critical acclaim as a poet. Numerous collections include The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems (1970), There’s a Trick With a Knife I’m Learning To Do: Poems, 1963-1978 (1979), both of which won the Canadian Governor General’s award; The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (1989); and Handwriting (1998).

 3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with LAVERNE COX

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 by Laverne Cox, an actor starring in Orange is the New Black, documentary film producer and LGBTQ advocate. She talks about Transgender Visibility and whether Trump might revoke recent gains for the LGBTQ community.

 4pm & Midnight & 8am

SHERLOCK HOLMES CLASSICS

ABR is proud to present two classic episodes, once again starring Tom Conway as Holmes. ‘The Reigate Puzzle’ is followed by ‘A Scandal in Bohemia.’

We close the hour with an author interview from KOBO and today’s guest is HIROSHI MIKITANI.

 5pm & 1am & 9am

TAKE FIVE with CHLOE ESPOSITO & Audiobook Extract from BAD

We asked the same five questions to a range of writers – today CHLOE ESPOSITO,  the author of the trilogy Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know which prompted a Hollywood bidding war.  This is followed by an extract of the audiobook, Bad.

TAKE FIVE with JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI

We then move to the award winning Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khermiri who is the author of four novels, six plays, and a collection of essays, short stories – some of his work has already been translated into more than 25 languages and I’m pretty sure that number will continue to grow especially for the brilliant Everything I Needed to Know

TAKE FIVE with MAX PORTER

Finally we top the hour with Max Porter, poet and writer.  His works include Grief is the Thing With Feathers which won the Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award the Books Are My Bag Readers’ Award for fiction and the International Dylan Thomas Prize.

 6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE

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 Seven Keys To Baldpate featuring JACK BENNY.

 7pm & 3am & 11am               

SHORT STORIES –  HARDY & JEROME

This comes to you courtesy of Deadtree Publishing who have an excellent range of quality short stories from the masters of the craft.  Do search for Miniature Masterpieces at any digital store for further information or at https://www.deadtreepublishing.com/  This hour opens with The Grave by the Handpost by Thomas Hardy read by Jake Urry followed by The Cost of Kindness by Jerome K Jerome read by James Taylor .

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