Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

THE CARNIVAL OF DEATH PART I BY L. RON HUBBARD

Fans of classic Golden Age dramas will not be disappointed with this story of undercover narcotics agent Detective Bob Clark investigating the discovery of headless bodies in the seamy side of L.A.

 1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with SEBSTIAN BARRY

Dublin born Sebastian Barry is a novelist, poet, and playwright. His book Days without End the New York Times calls  “a dreamlike Western with a different kind of hero.” He is “an orphan, a refugee from Ireland’s Great Famine, a crack shot, a cross-dresser and a halfhearted soldier, but mostly he’s in love with a young man.” In the novel Barry writes, “A man’s memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can’t do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards.” Days without End won the 2017 Costa Book of the Year Award, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the Independent Bookseller’s Award.  Barry reads from his work and answers questions posed by journalist Daniel Mendelsohn.

 2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETRY

Classic American Poetry followed by MARK STRAND

Mark Strand was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1934, and was raised and educated in the United States. Described as a “poet of mood, of integrated fragments, of twilit landscape, and of longing,” Mr. Strand has said, “I think the reality of the poem is a very ghostly one. It doesn’t try for the kind of concreteness that fiction tries for. It doesn’t ask you to imagine a place in detail; it suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.”

His nine poetry books include Blizzard of One, which won the Pulitzer Prize; Dark Harbor; The Continuous Life; and Reasons for Moving. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.

 3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO – The South, Slavery & the Lost Cause

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 Jeffery Robinson who is the deputy legal director and the director of the ACLU Trone Center for Justice and Equality and concerns how we can’t continue to mythologize the past.

 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 A Nice Price and The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown

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 Alex Czuleger, talent Manager and founder of The Green Room Talent Management Company who talks candidly about the harsh realities of creative business, humanity, and the importance of community engagement.

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with Stage Door

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 Stage Door featuring GINGER ROGERS, ALOLPHE MENJOU & ROSALIND RUSSELL.

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – SAPPER & 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 check out their website for further miniature masterpieces at https://www.deadtreepublishing.com/ or any digital store for further information.  This hour opens with Spud Trevor of the Red Hussars by Sapper read by Jake Urry followed by The Man Who Went Wrong by Jerome K Jerome read by James Taylor (Vol 23).