59oon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

The Constant (Part 2 of 2) by Kenley Kristofferson

The Constant is a radio play about five friends and a new city. Two years earlier, life was easy in their rural town – everyone was who they were and life was simpler. At the nexus of life’s great turning points, people either grow together or grow apart. No one could have expected that their move to the big city would affect their lifelong relationships so much, or end one of their lives.

This original show by Kenley Kristofferson is a heartfelt, grown-up coming-of-age tale with a fresh youthful sound with an expansive soundtrack featuring bands, singers and songwriters located in the region of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Does the city change people, or do people become who they really are when they leave their small town? Does the anonymity of the city allow you to discover yourself away from the prying eyes of your hometown culture? Or does it corrupt you when you go outside the bounds of what you’ve known? We explore these issues in… “The Constant.”

 1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION… TREVOR PAGLEN

Trevor Paglen is a photographer whose work deliberately blurs the lines between science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines in order to fashion painstaking and unbeknownst researched methods to decipher the world in which we live. His subjects include experimental geography, state secrecy, military symbology, and visuality. He is the author of many books,, the most recent of which is The Last Pictures which explores themes of Deep Time (the idea of geologic time), politics, and art in a collection of photographs. He is interviewed by writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETS & POETRY featuring SIMON ORTIZ

This edition of Poets & Poetry features one of Native America’s most important, influential and widely respected writers and poets, namely Simon Ortiz.  He was born in 1941 and is a member of the Eagle Clan and continues to have strong cultural ties to his family, people and land that forge his work with great significance and purpose.  He reads a few of his poems and talks about his work with David Barsamian, one of America’s most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists who is the creator of the regular radio show Alternative Radio which you can hear on Audiobookradio most Mondays and get lots more info from the website – alternativeradio.org.  But for now, listen to the wonderful poetry of Simon Ortiz.

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO – TARIQ ALI (Part 1)

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 Tariq Ali, the internationally renowned writer and activist, originally born in Pakistan but resident in London where he is an editor of New Left Review. A charismatic speaker, filmmaker, playwright, and novelist having written numerous books.

4pm & Midnight & 8am

The Damon Runyon 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 Dancing Dan’s Christmas and Pick A Winner

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 DC Gomez, USA Today best-selling author, public speaker, mentor and podcaster who has a quirky and at times dark sense of humour that can be seen across the many different genres she writes in.

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with It’s A Wonderful Life

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 It’s A Wonderful Life.  Reprising his film role in this memorable classic James Stewart has a perfect life. A loving wife, Mary (Donna Reed), four young children, and his own business, which he inherited from his father. Facing a financial crisis one Christmas Eve he contemplates suicide. This being Hollywood he is saved at the last moment by the intervention of his guardian angel who takes him on a tour of how the world would be without him. His friendly Main Street America town is sad, impoverished and bleak.

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES

MRS PACKLETIDE’S TIGER BY SAKI. READ BY BARBARA LEIGH-HUNT.

In ‘Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger,’ Saki (H.H. Munro) tackles the Victorian-Edwardian fascination with wild-game hunting, as well as the timeless drive to keep up with the Joneses. In this case, the person with whom Mrs. Packletide must ‘keep up’ is not named Jones, but Mrs. Bimberton. Mrs. Bimberton has recently traveled in one of those new-fangled contraptions, the airplane, piloted by an Algerian aviator. As a result, she has become the toast of British-occupied India.

THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT BY D.H. LAWRENCE. READ BY DAVID SHAW-PARKER.

When a teacher receives a gift just as he is about to leave his house for school, little else occupies his mind as he looks forward to his evening and the company he yearns for.