Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

CHOCOLATE ORANGE BISCUITS by LISA PARRY

Indulge yourself with this selection of four short plays that all feature, at some point, chocolate, oranges or biscuits!

FERRY LIGHTS by CLAUDIA WARD

Some people can lighten their load on a ferry as you will hear in this revealing drama.

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with SALMAN RUSHDIE

Salman Rushdie is an award winning novelist who has received countless honours for many of his books including Midnight’s Children.  He is equally known for the Fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini over his publication of Satanic Verses and the controversy over freedom to offend religious believers.  His books continue to be widely read and have been translated in 40 languages.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETS & POETRY featuring KAY RYAN

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 Kay Ryan was appointed the Library of Congress’s 16th Poet Laureate in 2008. She has published several collections of poetry, and it has been said that “Her poems are compact, exhilarating, strange affairs, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph Cornell boxes. She is an anomaly in today’s literary culture: as intense and elliptical as Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as Frost.”  Here, courtesy of the Lanan foundation she reads a range of poems and talks about them –  Here’s Kay Ryan ‘springing into…’

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with KEEANGA YAMAHTTA TAYLOR

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 Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor talking on the current discrimination in the US for African Americans including the rise of mass incarceration, Jim Crow and housing.   Dr. Taylor is currently a professor at the department of African American Studies at Princeton.  She was the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois and received her PhD from the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University in 2013.

4pm & Midnight & 8am

THEATRE ROYAL

The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence – and it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier these big name productions – also including the acting talents of Sir John Gielgud, Orson Welles and Robert Morley – were based on works by the world’s leading authors – Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov and Robert Louis Stevenson are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping.  Today we raise the curtain on a play by H.G.Wells called The Man Who Could Work Miracles introduced by SIR RALPH RICHARDSON and featuring ALEC GUINESS as both hero and narrator.

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES featuring BASIL RATHBONE and NIGEL BRUCE in more of these timeless classic adventures.

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 Marcel Post a young Writer, Director, and Actor, residing in the ’new Hollywood mecca’ better known as Atlanta. He can be described as bold, brash, and at times controversial. However, his goal is to continue to create great stories bringing people of different ethnic groups to the forefront.

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with The Phantom Lady

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 CECIL B DE MILLE introduces  The Phantom Lady, based on the EDGAR ALLAN POE story starring  BRIAN AHERNE, ELLA RAINES & ALAN CURTIS.

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – DICKENS & MOORE

THE SIGNALMAN BY CHARLES DICKENS. READ BY GARARD GREEN

A classic Dickens eerie encounter between two men, the anonymous narrator of the story and a railway signalman. The signalman confides to the narrator that he has seen some disturbing sights that he believes are ghostly apparitions. The story reflects the narrator’s initial scepticism, which turns to horrified belief at the conclusion.

HOME SICKNESS BY GEORGE MOORE. READ BY T.P. McKENNA

James Bryden, an Irish immigrant suffering from blood poisoning, is advised by his doctor to take a long sea voyage to recover his health. He decides that he would like to see Ireland again, and the doctor agrees that a long visit to Bryden’s native Irish village of Duncannon will speed his convalescence. Bryden enjoys his return home. The cosy village is so different from his life in the Bowery of New York City, where he has a job in a bar room. As he grows stronger, he begins to appreciate the slow, deliberate rhythms of village life.

Noon & 8pm & 4am
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Citizen Racecar presents Electromagnetic Theatre – eclectic, whacky and wonderful – a kind of theatre of alchemy.  It’s an experience and maybe a movement.  We have 4 episodes back to back:  The Alligator, The Vision, The Punchline and You Can Thank Me Later.  All executive produced by David Hoffman – for further details go to http://citizenracecar.com/

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with JOHN BARTH

Today John Barth whose novels include Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera; The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor and two short story collections are On with the Story and Lost in the Funhouse.  Mr. Barth has written, “We tell stories and listen to them because we live stories and live in them. Narrative equals language equals life: To cease to narrate…is to die.” Mr. Barth, who is professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, received the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 and after his readings he talks to Michael Silverblatt.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETS & POETRY featuring JORIE GRAHAM

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.

Jorie Graham was born in New York City and spent her childhood in France and Italy. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Swarm, The Errancy, The Dream of the Unified Field, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and The End of Beauty. Ms. Graham, who has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, teaches at Harvard University. Here she recites her poetry followed by an interview with critic Michael Silverblatt

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with MICHAEL MOORE

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 Michael Moore a documentary filmmaker and satirist whose debut documentary was the award winning Roger & Me, based in his native Flint, Michigan and chronicling his attempts to interview the CEO of General Motors Roger Smith about why he closed down local factories and moved to Mexico.  Oscar winning Bowling for Columbine looked at the US’s gun culture and Fahrenheit 9/11, made post 9/11, examined at the Bush administration.  He has made numerous other films and documentaries and remains a left wing activist.

4pm & Midnight & 8am

THEATRE ROYAL

The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence – and it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier these big name productions – also including the acting talents of Sir John Gielgud, Orson Welles and Robert Morley – were based on works by the world’s leading authors – Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov and Robert Louis Stevenson are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping.  Today we raise the curtain on a play by Max Beerbohm’s The Happy Hypocrite introduced by SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER and featuring SIR JOHN GIELGUD as Lord George Hell.

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES featuring BASIL RATHBONE and NIGEL BRUCE in more of these timeless classic adventures.

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 guests are GLS Entertainment Services CEO, Gina Smith and award winning voice narrator and entrepreneur, Andi Arndt.

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with Smilin’ Through

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 CECIL B DE MILLE introduces  Smilin’ Through starring JEANETTE McDONALD and GENE RAYMOND.

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – WHARTON & JEROME

ROMAN FEVER BY EDITH WHARTON.  READ BY EVE KARPF

This elegant story centres on the relationship of two women who dining out on the terrace of a Roman restaurant with a view of the Forum, Colosseum, and other sights arrange to remain until evening so as to continue to enjoy the splendid view.  Wharton wrote the story in the omniscient third-person so she is able to reveal the thoughts of the two main characters magnificently well and together with a surprise ending this story is a must to listen to. 

THE MINOR POET BY JEROME K JEROME.  READ BY JAMES TAYLOR

This is a forgotten gem of a story by British writer and humorist Jerome K Jerome and available as a download http://www.amazon.com/Jerome-K-Short-Stories/dp/B005J9QC6S/ref=sr_1_1? or ebook http://www.amazon.com/The-Short-Stories-Of-Jerome/dp/1780005911

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.

Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

FLO’S DOMAIN BY JOAN MOFFAT

Flo’s Domain is her launderette. Flo provides a community service with open ears, wise counsel and a good heart. But the launderette is under threat and her little world and livelihood are at risk.

THE BUS JOURNEY BY COLIN LEWISOHN

This very short radio play is a testament to Rosa Parks and the continuing success of the American civil rights movement at the moment that Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44^th President of the United States of America.

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION….ELMORE LEONARD & LAWRENCE WESCHLER

From 1989 we have the late great Elmore Leonard being interviewed by Michael Silverblatt for Bookworm followed by Lawrence Weschler who was for over twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies.  Both these gems are courtesy of the Lannan Foundation who have a host of wonderful media on their site www.lannan.org

 2pm & 10pm & 6am                 

POETS & POETRY….PHILIP LEVINE

Philip Levine is known for his original style and voice. Readers of American poetry recognize him as the pre-eminent American poet living and writing in the U.S. Among his many awards are the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1987), a National Book Award for Poetry (1991), the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry (1991), and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1995). He reads some of his poem and is then interviewed by poet Kate Daniels.

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO….JAMES BALDWIN’S LEGACY

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 Eddie Glaude and Cornel West on James Baldwin who was one of the most significant figures of the 20th century. In this moment of racial reckoning, his life and work are being discovered and rediscovered as amongst his many achievements, he wrote insightfully about the white power structure, systemic racism, police brutality, sexism, homophobia, inequality and predatory capitalism

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 2 – Of Unsound Mind & Whistle Daughter Whistle

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 C.J. Critt, an actress, director, poet, playwright, and performance artist.

 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 ALIBI IKE featuring JOE E BROWN, HELEN CHANDLER and ROSCOE KAIRNS with guests BABE RUTH and his wife.

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – NEVINSON & ORCZY

The Aristocrat of Labour by Henry W. Nevinson who was a socialist and advocate for social reform and lived in London’s East End where this story is set, part of Neighbours of Ours published in 1895.

The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad by Baroness Emmuska Orczy is a story that centres around an affluent young woman who is found poisoned on a London underground train.  The police’s search for the murderer is on the wrong track but young intrepid reporter, Polly Burton, proves her powers of observation and detection.

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.

Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

THE YOUTH OF OLD AGE BY STUART PRICE

Wickedly acerbic new writing ‘The Youth Of Old Age’ shows Prunella Scales at her ‘dragon tongued’ best as the matriarch determined her heir should not marry ‘out of sorts’  Performed by The Wireless Theatre Company.

1pm & 9pm & 5am
IN CONVERSATION… TRIBUTE TO DAVID FOSTER WALLACE PART 1
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) was one of the most acclaimed and influential American writers of his generation. A gifted novelist, essayist and humorist, he is best known for his 1996 opus, the novel Infinite Jest. Courtesy of the Lannan Foundation this recording celebrates his life and work with writers David Lipsky, Rick Moody, and Joanna Scott who read some of their favourite selections from Wallace’s writings including Pale King, published posthumously. Michael Silverblatt, host of the radio interview program, Bookworm introduces and moderates the proceedings.

2pm & 10pm & 6am                 

POETRY

Classic American Poetry followed by W.S. MERWIN, poet, translator, and environmental activist who has become one of the most widely read poets in America, with a career spanning five decades. The son of a Presbyterian minister, for whom he began writing hymns at the age of five, Merwin went to Europe as a young man and developed a love of languages that led to work as a literary translator. He served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2010 to 2011.

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with NOAM CHOMSKY on the Consequences of Capitalism

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 the extraordinary MIT professor, Noam Chomsky who by one index is ranked as the eighth most cited person in history, right up there with Aristotle and Shakespeare.  He consequences of capitalism during the pandemic have revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities. It’s a highly unstable economic system, careening from crisis to crisis. For a handful, it produces unparalleled levels of wealth. But for the many, if they even have a job, it’s a paycheck to paycheck existence. What are the priorities? The U.S. spends close to a trillion on the military. That’s more than the next ten countries combined. Compare that with the less than $50 billion allotted to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. With robust funding it’s very likely the US would have been better prepared for the pandemic and would not be the world leader in deaths. The future? We will move toward a more humane and decent society or continue on our present destructive path.

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 4 – Betrayal & King of the Moon

20pm & 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 Kevin E. West, Hollywood veteran television actor and a bad-ass keynote speaker

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 How Green Was My Valley, based in a mining village in Wales at the turn of the 19th century and starring Walter Pidgeon

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES

The Lady’s Maid by Katherine Mansfield is as insightful as it is entertaining.  This first person narrative story touches on so many universal themes and emotions including disappointment, control and guilt, as her Lady’s maid has devoted her life to serving her ladyship and in doing so sacrificed her own.

The Death Room by Edgar Wallace features Detective Inspector John Gillette of Scotland Yard and a female journalist who is aware of the detective’s interest in spiritualism as the plot unravels and intrigues.

The Danger of Lying in Bed by Mark Twain is a wonderfully witty and typical Twain story told in the first person that makes you suspect that the I is indeed Mark Twain himself convincing the purchase of insurance to one and all!

Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

ABR are proud to present Radio Drama Revival, Crazy Dog Audio Theatre‘s “The Salmon of Blackpool.”

This ranks as one of producer Fred Greenhalgh’s top five dramas of all time, so it gets a little special treatment. Johnny Gallagher is a world famous movie star from Cork, Ireland, but a cranky despot of a man and not taking well to life with a debilitating, fatal disorder. Richie has been hired by some big movie producers to make a ‘feel good’ biopic, but what is there to ‘feel good’ about in the life of this dark figure?

 1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION… TRIBUTE TO DAVID FOSTER WALLACE PART 2

David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) was one of the most acclaimed and influential American writers of his generation. A gifted novelist, essayist and humorist, he is best known for his 1996 opus, the novel Infinite Jest. Courtesy of the Lannan Foundation this recording celebrates his life and work with writers David Lipsky, Rick Moody, and Joanna Scott who read some of their favourite selections from Wallace’s writings including Pale King, published posthumously. Michael Silverblatt, host of the radio interview program, Bookworm introduces and moderates the proceedings.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETS & POETRY

Frank X Walker is the author of five collections of poetry including Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York (2003), which won the Lillian Smith Book Award; Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride (2010); and his most recent collection, Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers (2013). He is a co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets and the editor of Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture. A recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, Walker is the 2013-2014 poet laureate of Kentucky and an associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky.  He reads a range of poems and takes questions from the audience assembled at the Lannan Foundation.

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with Robert Hackett 

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 Robert Hackett, a professor for more than three decades in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He is co-author of Journalism and Climate Crisis and an activist in the community-based struggle against the Trans Mountain pipeline.

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 Tobias the Terrible and      Little Miss Marker

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 multi-hyphenated creative, Meg Messmer who chats about upcoming co-production, Intersection, a series which takes a closer look into the social experiences of gentrification.

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 producer William Keighley unveils Miracle on 34th Street starring MAUREEN O’HARA, JOHN PAYNE & EDMUND GWEN.

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – LOVECRAFT & BRADDON

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 their website https://www.deadtreepublishing.com for further information.  This hour opens with The Picture In The House by H P Lovecraft, the master of horror followed by The Face in the Glass by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a mistress of horror to be reckoned with.  Both stories might unsettle…you have been warned!