Noon & 8pm & 4am
PLAYS/DRAMA
The Constant (Part 1 of 2) by Kenley Kristofferson
Courtesy of Radio Drama Revival we bring you The Constant a radio play about five friends and a new city. Two years earlier, life was easy in their rural town – everyone was who they were and life was simpler. At the nexus of life’s great turning points, people either grow together or grow apart. No one could have expected that their move to the big city would affect their lifelong relationships so much, or end one of their lives.
This original show by Kenley Kristofferson is a heartfelt, grown-up coming-of-age tale with a fresh youthful sound with an expansive soundtrack featuring bands, singers and songwriters located in the region of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Does the city change people, or do people become who they really are when they leave their small town? Does the anonymity of the city allow you to discover yourself away from the prying eyes of your hometown culture? Or does it corrupt you when you go outside the bounds of what you’ve known? We explore these issues in… “The Constant.”
1pm & 9pm & 5am
IN CONVERSATION
Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg. She is an indigenous rights activist, an environmentalist, an economist, and a writer, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation and for sustainable development. LaDuke talks about climate change and climate justice in the indigenous peoples’ communities, and is introduced by her colleague Mililani Trask. This talk was part of the In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series by the Lannan Foundation.
2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETS & POETRY Adrian Matejka
Adrian Matejka’s first collection of poems, The Devil’s Garden, was well received and his second collection, Mixology, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and a finalist for a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature – Poetry. His most recent book, The Big Smoke, was awarded the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. The Big Smoke was also finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He is a winner of many other awards and has fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Lannan Foundation. He teaches in the MFA program at Indiana University in Bloomington and is currently working on a new collection of poems and a graphic novel. Followed by an introduction by Dana Levin, Adrian reads a range of poems from Mixology and other volumes and takes questions from the audience assembled at the Lannan Foundation.
3pm & 11pm & 7am
ALTERNATIVE RADIO – Why Iowa Matters
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 Reverend William Barber who chairs NAACP’s Legislative Political Action Committee and serves as pastor at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina. What’s the matter with Iowa is what’s the matter with large portions of the U.S. economy: extreme poverty in the presence of extreme wealth.
4pm & Midnight & 8am
The Damon Runyon Theatre
New York has given rise to many authors who record and memorialise its streets and people. Damon Runyon is one such author who brings the New York story and its cast of characters to vibrant life. His tongue-in-cheek tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, gangsters and dolls appeal to our sense of what we think we know. Their colorful monikers; ‘Big Jule,’ ‘Harry the Horse Thief,’ ‘Good Time Charlie,’ or ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ immediately give life to his sparkling words. And life is bigger, exuberant; better.
The veteran Radio actor John Brown voices the recurring ‘Broadway’ character so central to every episode which today are Butch Minds the Baby and Breach of Promise.
5pm & 1am & 9am
THE PODCAST HOUR – THE JO SHOW
Audiobookradio is delighted to launch a new strand, namely the Podcast Hour. Our first podcast is the Jo Show presented by silky voiced Jo Sands and features a wide range of creatives with plenty to say….she calls it soul sipping maybe because her guests do some soul searching as Jo always gets to the parts that other interviewers don’t reach as you are about to find out. Today her guest is
Marlon Saunders is an American singer, actor, songwriter and record producer. Marlon toured with Stevie Wonder, Sam Smith, Bastille, Bobby McFerrin, Michael Jackson, Lauryn Hill, Billy Joel, Sting, Shania Twain and many more
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 the award winning How Green Was My Valley, based on a bestseller set in a mining village in Wales at the turn of the 19th century, How Green Was My Valley catches the impossible dilemmas that were created in society’s irreversible shift from pastoral to industrial through Huw, the youngest son of seven. Loyalty, education, economics and manhood are examined in this pre union tightly knit mining community in this moving account starring WALTER PIDGEON and MAUREEN O’HARA.
7pm & 3am & 11am
SHORT STORIES
SOLID OBJECTS BY VIRGINIA WOOLF. READ BY EVE KARPF.
Collecting becomes an obsession for a man who once had ambitions to a political career. English writer Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 and is considered one of the most innovative and influential literary figures of the twentieth century as a prolific author of essays, journals, letters, and long and short fiction.
HERE WE ARE BY DOROTHY PARKER. READ BY LIZA ROSS.
A newly married couple are traveling by train to New York City for the first night of their honeymoon but the situation between them is becoming increasingly tense. Parker’s short story was first published in Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1931.
OBTAINING SUPPLIES BY LOUISA MAY ALCOTT READ BY EVE KARPF.
Born in 1832 in Germantown Pennsylvania into a poor family Louisa May Alcott received part of her education from family friends such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne. These early influences on the young Louisa provided much of the material for her later short stories. This one is from later in her life and is indeed autobiographical, being the first chapter from Hospital Sketches. It is imbued with her figurative language and humour and very entertaining.