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AudioBookRadio are currently archiving many of the programmes we have broadcast. We know it’s not always convenient to listen at a particular time so we’re aiming for everyone to be able to choose from a selection of programmes when you want to as we are sure this is a choice you’d like to have.
The launch of any feature is usually easier said than done but we are looking to add materials on a weekly basis. If there are particular programmes or themes you’d like to hear again then please let us know.
As the archive builds, themes and pockets of interest will develop so you’ll be able to choose more of what you want to hear when you want to hear it.
There are other materials we plan to include here too. Some are what you might call ‘vintage’ or ‘historical’ or just plain old but we hope they’ll still be of interest. You’ll find them here.
Other programmes might just be too specialised to broadcast. Yes, that sounds like a euphemism for boring but it’s probably because they are odd lengths, too niche, a bit long winded by which we mean ‘slow to the boil’. Sometimes we just can’t get broadcast rights but we can deliver them on a one to one basis by streaming. If everything was logical it wouldn’t be as interesting!
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Radio Archive featuring Hollywood Stage, Take Five with Peter James & Kobo interviews with Margaret Atwood & Roddy Doyle
Prunella Scales Dandruff Hits The Turtleneck By John Mayfield. Read by Prunella Scales From the moment pub landlord and keen amateur entomologist, Arnold Matson, arrives in Blinkington-on-the-Treacle to take over his new hostelry, the listener is guided superbly by one of Britain’s best-loved actresses, Prunella Scales, as she introduces local characters and intimately narrates her way through a colourful collection of vignettes and poignant flashbacks that are both comically funny and disturbingly familiar.
Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney was born in April 1939, the eldest member of a family which would eventually contain nine children. Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, uses all aspects of Irish culture, history, folklore, song, myth, and religion to write poetry that not only describes the Irish experience to the reader, but also allows the reader to feel the experience and emotions of the Irish people. He received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1990.
Gore Vidal Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and the critically lauded, Palimpsest: A Memoir. Vidal’s United States (Essays 1952-1992) won the 1993 National Book Award. In its “American Masters” series PBS said “Vidal’s lineage in American literature may be traced back to Henry James, the sophisticated American from the upper echelons of society who mingles with European sophisticates, and Mark Twain, the raw humorist and critic of American empire.”
Noon & 8pm & 4am
PLAYS/DRAMA
MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS Part 1
Brought to us by Radio Drama Revival and introduced by Fred Greenhalgh who provides background to this excellent drama recorded in India and providing a unique and insightful take on Dickens’ classic. A must listen with forthcoming parts tomorrow and the day after, always at this time.
1pm & 9pm & 5am
IN CONVERSATION with NAOMI KLEIN
Naomi Klein’s intelligence and perception provides a radical view on the world that finds great favour among many. As a teenager she lived her life in shopping malls and maybe somewhere between the two lies the real Naomi Klein.
2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETRY & POETS featuring DEREK WALCOTT
Derek Walcott, is a hugely talented poet, playwright and visual artist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. Here he reads some of his work and then is interviewed by Glyn Maxwell.
3pm & 11pm & 7am
ALTERNATIVE RADIO with EDUARDO GALEANO
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 Eduardo Galeano the essayist, journalist, historian, and activist, as well as one of Latin America’s most beloved literary figures. An outspoken critic of the increasingly dehumanizing effects of globalization on modern society, Galeano has remained a passionate advocate for human rights and justice.
4pm & Midnight & 8am
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Greg Wagland superbly narrates The Priory School by Arthur Conan Doyle
5pm & 1am & 9am
SPARK LONDON
The concept is stand out simple. Real people telling real stories. Today’s are A Grand Gesture by Jess Brownrigg and The Open Window by Harsh Agarwal.
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 Wherever I Lay My Hat by Julie Green and Venus by Clare Reddaway.
TAKE FIVE with PETER JAMES
We asked the same five questions to a range of writers – today PETER JAMES, Brighton charmer, film producer and international best seller of crime thriller fiction.
6pm & 2am & 10am
HOLLYWOOD STAGE with Sunset Boulevard
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 to unveil the classic Sunset Boulevard featuring WILLIAM HOLDEN and GLORIA SWANSON
7pm & 3am & 11am
SHORT STORIES – TWAIN & SHELLEY
GHOST STORY BY MARK TWAIN READ BY STUART MILLIGAN
Humourist Mark Twain’s take on horror is surprisingly convincing at creating an atmosphere of terror as our narrator endures a haunting of gigantic proportions. Ultimately Twain’s characteristic style prevails.
THE DREAM BY MARY SHELLEY READ BY GHIZELA ROWE
The dream of this short story occurs to the young and beautiful Constance, the Countess of Villeneuve whose grief for the death of her father and brothers is so great that she passes ‘many a day of tears and many a night of restless misery.’ The king, Henry IV of France orders her to marry so her immense estate will be upheld but she would rather remain isolated and see no one. However, the dream changes her life forever. (Vol 10)