Noon & 8pm & 4am
PLAYS/DRAMA
THE CARNIVAL OF DEATH PART II 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…SANDRA CISNEROS
Sandra Cisneros, the author of The House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, is a poet and fiction writer. Self described as a “terrorist,” “anarchist,” and a “Chicana feminist,” she has said, “I’m trying to write stories that haven’t been told. I feel like a cartographer. I’m determined to fill a literary void.” Ms. Cisneros, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, read the story “Eleven” and from work in progress on October 8, 1996. Ms. Cisernos was interviewed by poet, novelist, and essayist Dorothy Allison.
2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETS & POETRY
LOUISE GLUCK was appointed the 2003 Poet Laureate of the U.S. and received a Pulitzer Prize for her work in 1993. In this program, she reads three new unpublished poems as well as a selection of poems from previous volumes, before joining in conversation with fellow poet, James Longenbach.
3pm & 11pm & 7am
ALTERNATIVE RADIO – Pandemics, Democracies & Dictatorships
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 Nader Hashemi, the Director of the Centre for Middle East Studies and teacher of Middle East and Islamic politics at the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. The coronavirus pandemic has led to many thousands of deaths and tremendous economic dislocation. In this climate of fear, authoritarian regimes from Saudi Arabia to Hungary, from Russia to Turkey, from Iran to the Philippines use the crisis as a pretext to curtail civil liberties, expand police power and surveillance, silence their opponents, settle old scores, muzzle the press and jail dissidents. How can people in democratic societies effectively respond to the current crisis?
4pm & Midnight & 8am
The Damon Runyan 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 Touching for a Pal and Princess O’Hara.
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 BZ Cullins, a highly sought-after voice talent, actor, producer, narrator, director, and voice coach. His voice can be heard endorsing numerous familiar brands from McDonalds to Coca Cola and he chats about walking in purpose, passion, and patience.
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 director and producer Irving Cummings unveils Mrs Miniver starring GREER GARSON who shows why she deserved an Oscar nomination for her title role in this moving war story.
7pm & 3am & 11am
SHORT STORIES
PSYCHOLOGY BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD. READ BY LIZA ROSS
New Zealand’s most famous writer, who was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Mansfield’s creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, alienation – all this reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle-class characters. Her short stories are also notable for their use of stream of consciousness. Like the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, Mansfield depicted trivial events and subtle changes in human behaviour. This work first appeared in 1920. In this short story, a male and a female artist are so painfully self-conscious of the ebb and flow of their relationship that they cannot get together.
WHERE WAS WYCH STREET BY STACY AUMONIER. READ BY RICHARD MITCHLEY
Stacy Aumonier was born near Regent’s Park, London on 31st March 1877 and came from a family with a strong and sustained tradition in the visual arts; sculptors and painters. On leaving school it seemed the family tradition would also be his career path as his early talents were that of a landscape painter and he exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in the early years of the twentieth century. However, later Aumonier began a career in a second branch of the arts at which he enjoyed a short but outstanding success—as a stage performer writing and performing his own sketches and of course, publishing short stories. This one is a wonderful social satire and features his hallmark wit and perceptive observations on human nature.
THE MYSTERY OF THE SEMI DETACHED BY EDITH NESBIT READ BY GHIZELA ROWE
Edith Nesbit is more famously known as a writer of children’s stories but also for ghost stories. Born in 1858 in Kennington, then part of Surrey and now London. Her early life was one of constant house changes before meeting, age 17, Hubert Bland who she was to marry three years later – whilst she was 7 months pregnant. Additionally, Bland kept his affair with another woman going throughout. The two children of this relationship were raised by Edith as her own as well as their own three. They founded the Fabian Society in 1884. Nesbit mastered the Victorian ghost story and this one is a brilliant example which offers a glimpse into a misanthropic and incomprehensible cosmos – hostile and cruelly indifferent to the efforts of human diligence. This report is called “The Mystery of the Semi-Detached,” and it is no misnomer because unanswered questions and unoffered explanation fuel the heat of the revulsion this sketch engenders. Grim, cynical, and inexplicable, the vision of the semi-detached is perhaps more atrocious to the unwitting, helpless seer than to its slaughtered victim – Michael Kellermeyer (Vol 24)