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.