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 & 5amOK

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.