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PLAYS/DRAMA
Pandora’s Boxes by Denise O’Leary.
Pandora has everything – a loving husband, a beautiful baby and a home surrounded by nature. That is until the “Real Life Box” arrives and entices her into the pernicious world of television and consumerism. Her naïve values and motherly instincts vanish as she is seduced into buying more and more “Boxes” until eventually she finds her world is on the brink of collapse.
This is award winning playwright Denise O’Leary’s fourth play and has already been hailed as a remarkable modern day fable. Denise has also written for film & TV and is a poet so after you hear the play we are delighted to have Denise reading some of her poems to take us to the top of the hour.
1pm & 9pm & 5am
IN CONVERSATION….TEJU COLE
Teju Cole, writer, art historian, photographer and photography critic of The New York Times Magazine, is the author of the novella Every Day is for the Thief, named as book of the year by The New York Times. Of his novel Open City, Time Magazine said, “A powerful and unnerving inquiry into the human soul. Cole has earned flattering comparisons to literary heavyweights like J.M. Coetzee, W.G. Sebald and Henry James, but Open City merits higher praise: it’s a profoundly original work, intellectually stimulating and possessing of a style both engaging and seductive.” After a reading Teju is interviewed by writer and journalist Amitava Kumar
2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETRY & POETS featuring TED KOOSER and JIM HARRISON
The author of ten collections of poetry, Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa, in 1939. In 2000, Kooser published Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison. His second collaboration with his friend is Braided Creek. He is a visiting professor in the English Department of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Jim Harrison has published thirteen collections of poetry, including The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems; After Ikkyu; The Theory and Practice of Rivers; Natural World: A Bestiary; Returning to Earth; and Locations. He has worked as a screenwriter, book reviewer, literary critic, food columnist, sportswriter, and conservationist.
3pm & 11pm & 7am
ALTERNATIVE RADIO – MALCOLM X & THE POLITICS OF RACE
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 Michael Eric Dyson, a globally renowned scholar of race, religion and contemporary culture and is about Malcolm X’s life which represents an extraordinary evolution and transformation from street hustler and ex-con to an intellectual visionary with a coherent race and class analysis.
4pm & Midnight & 8am
RADIO CITY PLAYHOUSE
The West Coast had Hollywood but New York had somewhere just as special. 1260, 6th Ave. The home of Radio City Playhouse – a glittering, star filled top of the range series featuring the best of acting and writing talent available.
The stories were based not on who you were but what you wrote. It was a tough test. If it passed the audition it ‘aired’. And now it does again with Episode 3 – Special Delivery & Fanny
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 Bonne Barton, award winning director, screenwriter, and author of the newly released “Whispers” -a spine tingling thriller with a sharp satirical perspective.
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
7pm & 3am & 11am
SHORT STORIES
A MODERN LOVER BY D.H. LAWRENCE. READ BY DAVID SHAW-PARKER
After two years away in a big city, a man is drawn back to the familiar countryside he loves and the people he hopes he still has something in common with.
Noon & 8pm & 4am
PLAYS/DRAMA
Pandora’s Boxes by Denise O’Leary.
Pandora has everything – a loving husband, a beautiful baby and a home surrounded by nature. That is until the “Real Life Box” arrives and entices her into the pernicious world of television and consumerism. Her naïve values and motherly instincts vanish as she is seduced into buying more and more “Boxes” until eventually she finds her world is on the brink of collapse.
This is award winning playwright Denise O’Leary’s fourth play and has already been hailed as a remarkable modern day fable. Denise has also written for film & TV and is a poet so after you hear the play we are delighted to have Denise reading some of her poems to take us to the top of the hour.
1pm & 9pm & 5am
IN CONVERSATION….TEJU COLE
Teju Cole, writer, art historian, photographer and photography critic of The New York Times Magazine, is the author of the novella Every Day is for the Thief, named as book of the year by The New York Times. Of his novel Open City, Time Magazine said, “A powerful and unnerving inquiry into the human soul. Cole has earned flattering comparisons to literary heavyweights like J.M. Coetzee, W.G. Sebald and Henry James, but Open City merits higher praise: it’s a profoundly original work, intellectually stimulating and possessing of a style both engaging and seductive.” After a reading Teju is interviewed by writer and journalist Amitava Kumar
2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETRY & POETS featuring TED KOOSER and JIM HARRISON
The author of ten collections of poetry, Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa, in 1939. In 2000, Kooser published Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison. His second collaboration with his friend is Braided Creek. He is a visiting professor in the English Department of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Jim Harrison has published thirteen collections of poetry, including The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems; After Ikkyu; The Theory and Practice of Rivers; Natural World: A Bestiary; Returning to Earth; and Locations. He has worked as a screenwriter, book reviewer, literary critic, food columnist, sportswriter, and conservationist.
3pm & 11pm & 7am
ALTERNATIVE RADIO – MALCOLM X & THE POLITICS OF RACE
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 Michael Eric Dyson, a globally renowned scholar of race, religion and contemporary culture and is about Malcolm X’s life which represents an extraordinary evolution and transformation from street hustler and ex-con to an intellectual visionary with a coherent race and class analysis.
4pm & Midnight & 8am
RADIO CITY PLAYHOUSE
The West Coast had Hollywood but New York had somewhere just as special. 1260, 6th Ave. The home of Radio City Playhouse – a glittering, star filled top of the range series featuring the best of acting and writing talent available.
The stories were based not on who you were but what you wrote. It was a tough test. If it passed the audition it ‘aired’. And now it does again with Episode 3 – Special Delivery & Fanny
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 Bonne Barton, award winning director, screenwriter, and author of the newly released “Whispers” -a spine tingling thriller with a sharp satirical perspective.
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
7pm & 3am & 11am
SHORT STORIES
A MODERN LOVER BY D.H. LAWRENCE. READ BY DAVID SHAW-PARKER
After two years away in a big city, a man is drawn back to the familiar countryside he loves and the people he hopes he still has something in common with.