Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

RETRO ACTIVE ANTI-TERROR BY ALEX IRVINE

One of the HorrorScope radio plays from the ‘Nightmares on Congress Street collection, “Retroactice Anti-Terror,” by Alex Irvine, is a science fiction story that presents a very real futuristic political horror.

THE WIND BY RAY BRADBURY

Classic Ray Bradbury…Meteorologist John Colt travels to the Valley of the Winds and finds the place where the winds gather to plan their destruction. When the winds realize he knows too much, they come after him in his home and seek to absorb him and add their voice to those of all the others they have killed

AT SEA BY STEPHEN R. SMITH

Two lovers decide whether they will stay together in this short play.

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with DAVID MITCHELL

David Mitchell’s novels include Utopia Avenue, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, a historical epic about a Dutch accountant’s adventures in feudal Japan, and Number9Dream, described as “an intoxicating ride through Tokyo’s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams.” Mitchell’s celebrated Cloud Atlas, which erases the boundaries of genre and language with six interconnected stories that take the reader from the 19th century in the remote South Pacific to a post-apocalyptic distant future, was described as a “Nabokovian delight in word play” by The Washington

2pm & 10pm & 6am                 

POETRY & POETS featuring NATHALIE HANDAL

Nathalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, writer, and a cultural and literary activist. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. Her most recent poetry collections include Love and Strange Horses, winner of the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award, and Poet in Andalucía, described as “a unique recreation, in reverse, of Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York.” Alice Walker lauds Handal’s work as “poems of depth and weight and the sorrowing song of longing and resolve.” She is also the editor of the ground-breaking The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology and co-editor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond.

 3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with DAVE ZIRIN

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 Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine and host of Edge of Sports Podcast. He is the author of many books including The John Carlos Story, What’s My Name, Fool?, A People’s History of Sports in the United States, Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down and Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics and the Future of Democracy. His writing earned him Press Action’s Sportswriter of the Year Award.

 4pm & Midnight & 8am

SHERLOCK HOLMES

Greg Wagland superbly narrates The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle

5pm & 1am & 9am

SPARK LONDON

The concept is stand out simple. Real people telling real stories. Today’s are Words by Joanna Yates and Adventures in the Underworld by Daniel Simpson.

A WORD IN YOUR EAR

Word in Your Ear are a Bath based collective of writers who gather to tell their stories. They liked the way our ancestors enjoyed stories – by listening to them. We totally agree with them so let’s have a listen to: No Animals Were Hurt in the Writing of This Story by Clare Reddaway and The Day War Broke Out by Doc Watson.

TAKE FIVE with NADEEM ASLAM

We asked the same five questions to a range of writers – today NADEEM ASLAM, thoughtful, impressionistic author whose latest book Blind Man’s Garden received great acclaim.

 6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with This Gun for Hire

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 This Gun for Hire featuring ALAN LADD

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – POE & MILNE

THE BLACK CAT BY EDGAR ALLAN POE. READ BY RICHARD GRIFFITHS.

The nameless narrator begins his horrifying tale by informing his readers that he is about to relate a “series of mere household events.” He then wonders if, in the future, when his morbid tale is discussed by others considering his case, they will find it to be “nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects.”

INTO THE SUN BY ROBERT DUNCAN MILNE. READ BY NICKY HENSON.

In Robert Duncan Milne, science fiction historian Sam Moskowitz unearthed a remarkable-and yet forgotten-master of the genre. During the twenty years prior to 1900, astonishingly Milne published at least sixty stories of sci-fi and fantasy, and may well have been the field’s first full-time contributor.