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Mark Macauley, an Anglo-Irish debut author whose book House of Slamming Doors has received rave reviews from a range of publications from the Times Literary Supplement to the Sun by way of the Guardian. We also get to hear a couple of chapters from the audiobook that he has produced himself with ambient sound effects that enhance the cracking good story as it unfolds apace with a cast of characters that he has successfully voiced himself….not so surprising as he trained as an actor and it shows! Stephen Fry says it’s “A marvellous achievement. It’s a Tubular Bells for the podcast and audiobook market.” Available on Audible.
Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words. The English language has well over a million and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one. But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition. Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our eyes and ears to very personal feelings.
Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to school textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today. In this hour we feature DH Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, Amy Lowell and others.
This comes to you courtesy of Miniature Masterpieces who have an excellent range of quality short stories from the masters of the craft. Do search for them and many more on https://www.deadtreepublishing.com/
This hour opens with Rudyard Kipling’s ‘My Own True Ghost Story.’ Then we hear the dark humour of Saki in Tobermory read by Richard Mitchley followed by Daniel Defoe’s story entitled The Apparition of Mrs Veal read by Ghizela Rowe.
Noon & 8pm & 4am
PLAYS/DRAMA
Firesign Theatre Goes Mad, While We Wait for the Electrician
Courtesy of Radio Drama Revival we hear the antics of The Firesign Theatre, the legendary multi-trackin’, sound embellishing, sterephonic surrealistic psychedelic merry band of Phil Austin, Peter Bergmen, David Ossman and Philip Proctor.
While best known for their studio albums (such as Waiting for the Electrician Or Someone Like Him, which we hear today), the troupe had hundreds of hours of live radio experience, and had a particularly special era of a program called “Dear Friends.”
A boxed set contains all of this material – a whopping 80+ hours – along with beautiful art and hilarious anecdotes. Listen to the show for samples, or check out the Duke of Madness Motors boxed set and buy it today!
Huge thanks to Phil Proctor for giving us via Radio Drama Revival license to broadcast this terrific stuff. We also take time to shout out for the National Audio Theatre Festivals.
Also, Captain Radio reviews audio titles including the L Ron Hubbard Tales from the Golden Age collection.
1pm & 9pm & 5am
IN CONVERSATION….. JOHN SAYLES
John Sayles is an award winning screenwriter, director and author. Besides numerous awards and nominations for his film work and screenwriting including a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Writer’s Guild of America, literary recognition for Sayles has come in the form of an O. Henry Award for his first published story and nominations for both a National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award for the novel Union Dues. In 1985 he received a MacArthur Fellowship for his work in both film and writing. Here Sayles reads extracts of his writing and is then interviewed by fellow author, Francisco Goldman.
2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETS & POETRY….ARTHUR SZE
Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words. The English language has well over a million and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one. But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition. Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our eyes and ears to very personal feelings.
Poet Arthur Sze, reads a range of his poetry, courtesy of the Lannan Founation where he received a Literary Award for Poetry. His work is informed by his interest in Native American culture, Eastern philosophies, and the nature of scientific inquiry and is himself a second generation Chinese American born in New York City in 1950.
3pm & 11pm & 7am
ALTERNATIVE RADIO with JAYATI GHOSH
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 we have Jayati Ghosh relating the grim news from India as a Covid wave is sweeping the country, inflicting widespread misery and deaths. Government figures of Covid-related fatalities are widely seen as very much underreported and analysts say that the country wasn’t prepared to handle the surge. Hospitals have been overwhelmed and there are acute shortages of oxygen, medicine and vaccines. The country is ruled by Narendra Modi who has come under wide criticism for his handling of the crisis.
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 1 – Long Distance and Ground Floor Window
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 which I love, but knowing the guests of this first episode there might also be slurping, slinking, slipping & sliding as they are slamming. It’s the And I Thought Ladies, a collective of women spearheaded by Wilnona Marie & Jade Dee who are Authors, producers, the founders of literary Magazines, TV show creators, speakers, radio hosts, podcasters and pop poets, These ladies are a force to be reckoned with as your about to find out.
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 director and producer IRVING CUMMINS unveils The Day the Earth Stood Still starring MICHAEL RENNIE and JEAN PETERS
7pm & 3am & 11am
SHORT STORIES – LOVECRAFT, FORD & HAWTHORNE
The Outsider by H P Lovecraft combines horror, fantasy, and gothic fiction to create a nightmarish story, exploring loneliness, the abhuman, and the afterlife.
The Scaremonger by Ford Maddox Ford was published shortly after the outbreak of World War I and satirised a violently anti German writer. Ford, Anglo-German himself was ordered to leave the country and suspected it was due to this story although the order was revoked.
The Devil In Manuscript by Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of Hawthorne’s best known short stories and explores literary failure with a cynical wry eye and comes to a dramatic conclusion.