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IN CONVERSATION

2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETRY

3pm & 11pm & 7am
ALTERNATIVE RADIO 

4pm & Midnight & 8am
SHERLOCK HOLMES OR
THEATRE ROYAL

5pm & 1am & 9am
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY/TAKE FIVE OR
SPARK LONDON/A WORD IN YOUR EAR/TAKE FIVE

6pm & 2am & 10am
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SHORT STORIES OR
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AudioBookRadio.net is the first and foremost spoken word Internet radio station. We broadcast compelling content for your pleasure, whether you’re at work or play, indoors or out, 24/7.

Deadtree Publishing has joined us to offer their exciting content which has the best and most comprehensive collection of classic short stories and poetry on audio in the world.  They cover all the writers and poets you know but have dug deeper to unearth equally brilliant writers and poets who have been sorely neglected due to their gender, race and sexuality.  We are able to offer all our listeners 50% off your first purchase with the code ABR50 so click on their logo now.

EDITOR'S PICK

Black Voices Matter - Poets From The 18th Century To The Harlem Renaissance

Many poets featured are, and were, rarely heard and have been painfully neglected. To be of colour was deemed at best to be second class so few of our poets had the privileges most of us take for granted or a means to market. Down the ages they illuminate the stain on our humanity and its ever-repeating cycle.

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Bram Stoker - Dracula, Read By Christopher Lee

Fast paced and nightmarishly vivid, this greatest of Gothic tales propels the reader into the heart of darkness from its opening pages.

The Femme Fatales Of Horror

Women, so often referred to as the gentler sex, in this volume at least, is an unfounded and unlikely description. From their minds and pens comes a series of macabre, twisted, tales that are anything but gentle.

London, A City In Words

London, A City In Words - Every country has its capital, its centre for governance and culture. Only a few capitals can lay claim to being known the world over. Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, William Blake, Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Rudyard Kipling & others.

Edgar Allan Poe - 4 Tales Of Terror

Poe is expert at having you, the audience, involved ratcheting up the tension till the final unmentionable moments.

THURSDAY 28th March

16oon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

THE CLEANSED Episode 7 The Trial

Here at Audiobookradio.net we try to bring you audio dramas that are exciting, thought provoking, and downright entertaining.  And what could be more entertaining than the end of the world!

In the mid 21st century, fuel is running out, food is scarce, Acts of God – and humans – take down the grid and everything else. Civilisation grinds to a halt. 

And then things get really bad.

Society fractures into lawless groups.  But in rural Maine, USA, some have now spent years nurturing their society back to some kind of normality… but a second man made apocalypse comes calling – Welcome to The Cleansed!

The Production company, Final Rune, is centred on the award laden multi talented Fred Greenhalgh who not only writes, produces and directs “The Cleansed” but much else besides. Plus he has a cast and crew who put everything in so your ears are in for a treat.  Check everything out at FinalRune.com

46TH FLOOR

Citizen Racecar presents Electromagnetic Theatre – eclectic, whacky and wonderful – a kind of theatre of alchemy.  It’s an experience and maybe a movement. 

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with EDUARDO GALEANO

Eduardo Galeano, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1940 is an essayist, journalist, historian, and activist, as well as one of Latin America’s most beloved literary figures. Galeano’s books include the trilogy Memory of Fire; The Book of Embraces; We Say No;Walking Words; and Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. His newest book, Children of the Days (Los híjos de los días), is forthcoming in English in April 2013. An outspoken critic of the increasingly dehumanizing effects of globalization on modern society, Galeano has remained a passionate advocate for human rights and justice.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

THE POETRY HOUR featuring Shelley, Thomas Hood, L.E.L & more

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’ll be listening to poets of the quality and breadth of THOMAS HOOD, LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY & EDITH NESBIT amongst others. Vol 5

All of them are from a dedicated poetry publisher – Portable Poetry who believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other things can’t. Their range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a range of themes.  Check them out on your usual digital store such as Amazon or iTunes or at https://www.deadtreepublishing.com/  That’s Portable Poetry – poetry that carries you through!

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with GLENN GREENWALD

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 Glenn Greenwald, the author of With Liberty and Justice for Some and No Place to Hide. He is an award winning journalist and his exclusive interview with NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden was an international media sensation.

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 the comical piece THE OVERCOAT  by GOGOL introduced by SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER and starring MICHAEL REDGRAVE.

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 A.I.T.L. & TODD SHOW

Audiobookradio is excited to introduce a new podcast brought to us by the And I Thought Ladies a prolific collective of American women spearheaded by the multi-talented Wilnona Marie and Jade Dee.  It encompasses Tonya Todd’s 52 Love Podcast and a short drama called the Managers and we’ll be broadcasting it every day at this time for the next few weeks.  So stay tuned for Episode 6 and their take on Love, Life & Literature.

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with Little Women

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 WILLIAM KEIGHLEY unveils…Little Women featuring JUNE ALLYSON, PETER LAWFORD, MARGARET O’BRIEN & JANET LEIGH

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – WILDE & LONDON

LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME PART 2 by OSCAR WILDE Read by GARARD GREEN

In this brilliant satire Oscar Wilde targets the English aristocracy.  Lord Arthur Savile’s life is thrown into turmoil with the dire prophecy that he will commit murder.  His forthcoming marriage postponed, he sets about finding his victim…

A THOUSAND DEATHS by JACK LONDON Read by

Unusual Jack London subject of a scientist who kills off his son on multiple occasions in order to progress his obsessive experiment with the medical machines he has invented.  However, is does have London’s customary intense, lively prose.