Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

AL FRESCO BY CARL CHETTY featuring DEREK JACOBI

Once an affluent employee in a coffee bean corporation, redundant Al is now struggling to come to terms with homelessness on the streets of London. None of his army of old friends are remotely interested in his situation and, residing in an Optician’s doorway, he discovers that not many people want to know you when you’re down and out. However, The Crusty Young Gent, Marjorie and Hazel, a trio of compassionate passers-by, manage to lift Al’s spirits. In fact, it’s the beautiful red-haired Hazel who steals his heart and indirectly changes his life.

BIG SHAKEDOWN ON LITTLE EDDIE BY THEO CLARKE

A sandwich has been eaten and the authorities, aka Mum and Dad, think that 14 year old ‘Little Eddie’ did it. So they set about breaking his spirit, to get to the truth. No-one knows whether he did it or not, they just know that the kid ain’t talking. Set in a middle class Berkshire home, Eddie – Edward’s alter ego – strangely is like something out of the Bronx. And he’s not giving in for nobody!

SHADOW IN THE CORNER BY MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

Butler Skeggs requires a servant to assist. Bascom agrees but when Maria arrives she finds her bedroom leaves her with very unhappy thoughts. Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s classic ghost story thrills and entertains.

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with ROBERT COOVER

Robert Coover has been described by The New York Times as, “one of America’s quirkiest writers, if by ‘quirky’ we mean an unwillingness to abide by ordinary fictional rules and a conviction that a novel is primarily a verbal artefact unconvertible to other media.” His novel, The Public Burning, is a long and fantastic fictional account of the events surrounding the executions for espionage of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1952, whose principal narrator identifies himself as the then-Vice President of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon. His other publications includeSpanking the Maid, Gerald’s Party, Pinocchio in Venice, and Briar Rose.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETS & POETRY featuring DENNIS O’ DRISCOLL

Dennis O’ Driscoll was born in Co Tipperary, Ireland, in 1954, his nine books of poetry include New and Selected Poems (Anvil Press, 2004), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation, Reality Check (2007) and Dear Life (Anvil Press, 2012; Copper Canyon Press, 2013).  Among his other publications are Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams: Selected Prose Writings (Gallery Press, 2001) and Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (Faber and Faber, 2008).  Here he recites some of his poems followed by an interview with poet and critic Adam Kirsch.

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with GEOFFREY STONE

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 Geoffrey Stone, noted First Amendment and Constitutional law scholar and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is the award-winning author of many books including Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era, Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark and Speaking Out: Reflections of Law, Liberty and Justice.

4pm & Midnight & 8am

SHERLOCK HOLMES CLASSICS

ABR is proud to present two classic episodes starring Basil Rathbone. ‘The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot’ followed by ‘The Great Gandolpho.’

We close the hour with an author interview from KOBO and today’s guest is DENNIS LEHANE.

5pm & 1am & 9am                 

SPARK LONDON

The concept is stand out simple. Real people telling real stories.

Charley Harrison presents highlights from their second Best of Spark London night at the Canal Cafe Theatre. In this episode Francis Shire aspires to be ‘King of the Camden Goths’ – can his Swedish Cybergoth partner help him achieve his dream? Meanwhile, Robyn Jankel travels across China by train and introduces a new custom in the process.

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 Wading Not Drowning by Julie Green.

TAKE FIVE with STEPHANIE BOND

We asked the same five questions to a range of writers – today it’s STEPHANIE BOND, a prolific fiction writer of mystery and romance with four upcoming releases including 7 Brides for 7 Bodies, another instalment in the popular Body Movers series.

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

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 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon featuring JOHN WAYNE

7pm & 3am & 11am               

SHORT STORIES – SAKI, WELLS & MANSFIELD

THE REMOULDING OF GROBY LINGTON BY SAKI READ BY BARBARA LEIGH-HUNT

Saki’s world contrasts the effete conventions and hypocrisies of Edwardian England with the ruthless, but straightforward life-and-death struggles of nature. Nature generally wins in the end.

THE STOLEN BACILLUS BY H.G. WELLS. READ BY STEVE ARLOFF

In this short story an anarchist tries to steal cholera bacilli from a bacteriologist to poison London’s water supply, but by mistake is given a different one.

PSYCHOLOGY BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD. READ BY LIZA ROSS

New Zealand’s most famous writer, who was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Mansfield’s creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, alienation – all this reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle-class characters. Her short stories are also notable for their use of stream of consciousness. Like the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, Mansfield depicted trivial events and subtle changes in human behaviour. This work first appeared in 1920. In this short story, a male and a female artist are so painfully self-conscious of the ebb and flow of their relationship that they cannot get together.

Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

MESSENGER WITHOUT WEAPON BY EDDIE LAWLER

The story of Hamburg-born writer Wolfgang Borchert (1921-1947) and his untimely death as a result of the Second World War. The youthful Wolfgang cannot imagine that the Hitler regime has the intelligence to last long, when all the fashions in music and clothing are coming from the USA, Britain and France.  But he is swept into uniform and the horrors of war on the Eastern Front.

 1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with LOUISE ERDRICH

Native American novelist Louise Erdrich, much-admired for her novels and children’s books centred in her native North Dakota, here reads a short story, “The Plague of Doves”, before joining in conversation with her friend, Gail Caldwell, the Pulitzer Prize winning critic of The Boston Globe.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

THE POETRY HOUR Vol 18 featuring Edmund Spenser & 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 Edmund Spenser, The Poetry of Wind and Rain and Victorian Poetry Volume 3

 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 at https://www.deadtreepublishing.com/  That’s Portable Poetry – poetry that carries you through!

3pm & 11pm & 7am   

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with ARUN GUPTA

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 on Terrorism, Climate Change & Capitalism and given by Arun Gupta, journalist and activist who was a founding editor of The Indypendent and the Occupied Wall Street Journal. His articles appear in Alternet, Truthout, The Guardian and Z. He also appears on Democracy Now! and Al Jazeera.

4pm & Midnight & 8am

SHERLOCK HOLMES CLASSICS

ABR is proud to present two classic episodes starring Basil Rathbone. ‘The Problem of Thor Bridge’ followed by ‘The Adventure of Jasmine la Fleur.’

We close the hour with an author interview from KOBO and today’s guest is JAMES ROLLINS.

5pm & 1am & 9am                 

SPARK LONDON

The concept is stand out simple. Real people telling real stories.

A whopping 45 minutes-plus Spark London Special with a mixture of stories and songs. The theme for the evening was ‘Open Heart.’

TAKE FIVE with PAUL ‘SMILER’ ANDERSON

We asked the same five questions to a range of writers – today it’s…

PAUL ‘SMILER’ ANDERSON, a passionate mod revivalist and author of Mods, the New Religion. In his spare time he DJ’s and holds a full time job as a postman!

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with Captain Horatio Hornblower

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 CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER featuring GREGORY PECK

 7pm & 3am & 11am               

SHORT STORIES – LAWRENCE & WILDE

THE OLD ADAM BY D.H. LAWRENCE. READ BY DAVID SHAW-PARKER

David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley’s Lover are, of course, the most famous of Lawrence’s works.

THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET BY OSCAR WILDE. READ BY MARTIN JARVIS

Lady Alroy is enigmatic in everything she does – a lady with the mysterious allure of a sphinx. She captures the heart of Lord Murchison with this mystery, to the point that he follows her to find out her secret. When he sees her going into a small house in a poor part of town, he jumps to the reasonable conclusion that she has a secret lover.

Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

VALENTINE’S DAY BY DEREK WEBB

When Chris gives his wife Nicola a present of some saucy undies as well as a card on Valentine’s Day, it’s with the hope of spicing up their marriage. She is a successful advertising executive, whose career seems to be assuming more and more importance. In the post, she also gets another card from someone called Stuart who she doesn’t know. But he certainly seems to know her and isn’t content with just sending a card.

THE TREE BY ERIC YAFFEY

Gary and Jed have arrived to cut down The Tree as part of a road building programme. But this tree is special – it has a history that links it with humanity in general and Gary in particular. As the fates of The Tree and Gary are so linked what will the consequences be? This is a fine environmental allegory.

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with RICHARD POWERS

Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETRY HOUR – CAVE CANEM EVENING

Cave Canem Evening featuring Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Terrance Hayes, Patricia Smith, and Frank X Walker. Cave Canem (Beware of the Dog) is an organization committed to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry.  This celebratory poetry evening lasted for almost two and a half hours so we have included works from the first hour here. We will be broadcasting the second half of the show in the coming weeks.

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with WES JACKSON

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 Wes Jackson, a plant geneticist and a leading voice for agrarian reform away from domesticated agriculture. He is the author of New Roots for Agriculture and many books. He is founder of The Land Institute and a member of the World Future Council.

4pm & Midnight & 8am

SHERLOCK HOLMES CLASSICS

ABR is proud to present two classic episodes starring Basil Rathbone. ‘A Case of Identity’ followed by ‘The Adventure of Beggar Woman.’

We close the hour with an author interview from KOBO and today’s guest is KATE ATKINSON.

5pm & 1am & 9am

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY THE INTERVIEW HOUR

ABR welcomes Publisher’s Weekly, an authority on all things books & publishing for a delve into the archives to come up with a couple of great author interviews.  Today JOYCE CAROL OATES & GAY TALESE.  Their podcast, as always, is presented by Rose Fox and Mark Rotella.

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with Strawberry Blonde

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…Strawberry Blonde featuring RITA HAYWORTH.

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – MANSFIELD & LE FANU

THE GARDEN PARTY BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD. READ BY EVE KARPF.

Widely anthologized, ‘The Garden Party’ is considered Katherine Mansfield’s finest piece of short fiction. Such modernist authors as Virginia Woolf were profoundly influenced by Mansfield’s stream-of-consciousness and symbolic narrative style. ”The Garden Party” is a remarkably rich and innovative work that incorporates Mansfield’s defining themes: New Zealand, childhood, adulthood, social class, class conflict, innocence, and experience.

THE GHOST AND THE BONE SETTER BY JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU. READ BY T.P. MCKENNA.

Irish journalist, novelist, and short story writer, called the father of the modern ghost story. Although Le Fanu was one of the most popular writers of the Victorian era, he is not so widely read anymore. Le Fanu’s best-known works include Uncle Silas (1864), a suspense story, and The House by the Churchyard (1863), a murder mystery. His vampire story ‘Carmilla,’ which influenced Bram Stoker’s Dracula, has been filmed several times. ‘The Ghost and the Bone-Setter’ first appeared in the Dublin University Magazine in 1838.

Noon & 8pm & 4am

THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER BY H.P. LOVECRAFT

Harley Warren and his protégé Randolph Carter have trekked through long-abandoned woods in search of a fabulous and ancient treasure, but only Warren has the fortitude to descend into the ancient crypt they eventually find. At first, Carter is annoyed at being left on the surface, but as he hears his mentor’s tales through a military phone, he changes his mind.

MR HUMPHREYS AND HIS INHERITANCE BY M.R. JAMES

Mr. Humphreys is an academic, who unexpectedly inherits a large country house and fortune from an Uncle he never met. Moving into the house he is fascinated by a maze in the garden, built by an ancestor, and to which his Uncle had never allowed visitors to tread. Exploring the maze Mr. Humphreys discovers a mysterious globe in the centre…

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with MAX BLUMENTHAL

Max Blumenthal is an award-winning author and journalist with his articles appearing in a range of publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Huffington Post as well as appearances on radio and TV and being Senior Writer at Alternet.  His investigative video reports have been seen by millions of online viewers and rebroadcast by networks from the United States to Russia.  His books include Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party and Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETRY & POETS featuring KEVIN YOUNG

Kevin Young often finds meaning and inspiration for his poetry in African American music, particularly the blues. His seven collections include Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebellion(Knopf, 2011) and Dear Darkness. His Jelly Roll: A Blues, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. He is the editor of five volumes, including 2010’s The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing. His recent book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness won the 2010 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and combines essay, cultural criticism, and lyrical chorus to illustrate ways African American culture is American culture. “I don’t mean to taxonomize but to rhapsodize. Take it from me—mean mean mean to be free.”

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with AMIRI BARAKA

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

Amiri Baraka was a cultural icon and an iconoclast who rose to fame in the 1960s as LeRoi Jones. Later he became Amiri Baraka and was a central figure in the Black Arts movement. He was an award-winning playwright and poet and recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement.  His politics were uncompromisingly radical which you will hear in his talk entitled Real Politics, Real Poetry.

4pm & Midnight & 8am

SHERLOCK HOLMES CLASSICS

ABR is proud to present two classic episodes, this time starring Tom Conway as Holmes. ‘The Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipes’ is’ followed by ‘The Sussex Vampire.’

We close the hour with an author interview from KOBO and today’s guest is NICK SAUL.

5pm & 1am & 9am

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY THE INTERVIEW HOUR

ABR welcomes Publisher’s Weekly, an authority on all things books & publishing for a delve into the archives to come up with a couple of great author interviews.  Today it is KEVIN SESSUMS ‘I Left it on the Mountain’ and RUDY RASMUS ‘Love Period – When All Else Fails.’ Their podcast, as always, is presented by Rose Fox and Mark Rotella.

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with The Awful Truth

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…The Awful Truth featuring CARY GRANT and CLAUDETTE COLBERT.

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – GOLDSMITH, KIPLING & SAKI

ADVENTURES OF A STROLLING PLAYER BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH. READ BY T.P. MCKENNA.

In this uproarious story of a traveling player who likes to embellish things somewhat, Goldsmith explores the fickleness of fame.

THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF BY RUDYARD KIPLING. READ BY LIZA GODDARD.

Rudyard Kipling used to tell his daughter, Josephine, stories in which he invented funny answers for such questions as “How did the camel get his hump?” and “How did the leopard get his spots?”. In 1902 he compiled them into a book called Just So Stories, because his daughter insisted on them being told “just so”. The stories end in amusing poems that summarize the stories themselves. Another of the Just So Stories was called “The cat that walked by himself.” It tells us the reasons why many people prefer dogs to cats.

SREDNI VASHTAR BY SAKI. READ BY EVE KARPF.

The story of a ten-year-old boy called Conradin, who lives with his strict cousin and guardian, Mrs. De Ropp. Conradin rebels against her and invents a new religion for himself, which centres on idolising a polecat-ferret he calls Sredni Vashtar; a vengeful, merciless god. Conradin keeps the ferret hidden in a cage in the garden shed, and worships the idol in secret. The story comes to a climax when his cousin sets out to discover his god.

Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

FOR A FEW GALLONS MORE BY DENNIS ROOKARD

A gentle comedy that that reveals the truth behind the great fuel train robbery and the part played in it by a certain Mr Robin Hood. And all – so the authors claim, to have been very loosely based on a true event.

1pm & 9pm & 5am                 

IN CONVERSATION with TIMOTHY FERRIS

Timothy Ferris, called “the best popular science writer in the English language” by The Christian Science Monitor, is a former editor of Rolling Stone magazine and best selling author of books on astronomy, physics, and the history of philosophy of science.  He reads from his work followed by an interview with astronomer and Director of Griffith Observatory, Ed Krupp

2pm & 10pm & 6am

THE POETRY HOUR featuring Herman Melville, Robert Herrick& 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 Robert Herrick, The Lake Poets, Herman Melville Westminster Memorials – Volume 2 and William Shakespeare – A Tribute in Verse Vol 19

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 at https://www.deadtreepublishing.com/  That’s Portable Poetry – poetry that carries you through!

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with MANNING MARABLE

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 Manning Marable, a renowned scholar who was professor of public affairs, political science, history and African American studies at Columbia University. His syndicated column “Along the Color Line” appeared in over 400 newspapers and journals worldwide. He’s the author of many books including How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, Living Black History, and his masterwork Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Manning Marble died in New York in 2011.

4pm & Midnight & 8am

SHERLOCK HOLMES CLASSICS

ABR is proud to present two classic episodes starring Basil Rathbone. ‘The Adventure of the Missing Submarine Plans’ followed by ‘The Story of Colonel Warburton’s Madness.’

We close the hour with an author interview from KOBO and today’s guest is RODDY DOYLE.

5pm & 1am & 9am

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY THE INTERVIEW HOUR

ABR welcomes Publisher’s Weekly, an authority on all things books & publishing for a delve into the archives to come up with a couple of great author interviews.  Today it is CORY DOCTOROW & HELEN OYEYEMI.  Their podcast, as always, is presented by Rose Fox and Mark Rotella.

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with Arrowsmith

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 ARROWSMITH featuring SPENCER TRACY & FAY WRAY

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES vol 12 – TROLLOPE & FITZGERALD

MALACHI’S COVE BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE. READ BY EVE KARPF.

Mally, an orphan who lives with her grandfather Malachi, try’s to deal with her parent’s death on the beach in front of their home. Mally blames the town and her neighbours for their death, but the town blames it on her because of her lies and other things she’s done in the past.

FUN IN AN ARTIST’S STUDIO BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. READ BY RICHARD MITCHLEY.

Fun In An Artists Studio is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Pat Hobby series, written during his later years as a writer. Pat Hobby, a down-and-out Hollywood screenwriter, is bemused when a Romanian Princess takes an interest in him and asks him to pose for a painting.

Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

LAYING GHOSTS BY CLARE REDDAWAY

When Connie’s beloved husband Jack dies after 27 years of marriage, Connie hopes that her only son Gary will console her. Gary, however, finds that level of commitment a bit, well, too much of a commitment. Connie is left with interfering neighbour Val until Gary’s girlfriend Sandra rings with some unexpected news. This sets Connie on a journey from a village in the Midlands to Hackney and eventually to Ghana as she finds a way to come to terms with her grief and to forge new friendships and a new life.  Performed by The Wireless Theatre Company.

CHILLED WINE BY DOROTHY LAMBERT

Three girls are meeting in a pub. First to arrive are Louise and Charlotte and, while waiting, they share confidences and discuss Gemma’s shortcomings and promiscuous partner. But they are in for a surprise when Gemma finally arrives.  Performed by Pint Sized Plays.

1pm & 9pm & 5am                 

IN CONVERSATION with B.H. FAIRCHILD

B. H. Fairchild‘s poetry has appeared in The Paris Review,The New Yorker, and The Yale Review. He grew up in small towns in Texas, Oklahoma, and southwest Kansas. His books include The Arrival of the Future, The Art of the Lathe, and most recently, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems.He reads his poems and talks about his work.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETRY featuring JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA

Jimmy Santiago Baca is a poet, memoirist, activist, and native New Mexican. His books include a memoir, A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet, and the story collection, The Importance of a Piece of Paper. “Language placed my life experiences in a new context, freeing me for the moment to become with air as air, with clouds as clouds, from which new associations arose to engage me in present life in a more purposeful way.” His recent novel, A Glass of Water, tells the story of Casimiro and Nopal who carry with them the promise of a new beginning as young immigrants having made the nearly deadly journey across the border from Mexico. The Dallas Morning News says, “An insistent theme of redemption blends with an unexpected lyrical tenderness, confirming that even in the harsh landscape of his stories, Mr. Baca sees a horizon of hope.”

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with THOMAS FRANK

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 entitled The Country that Voted for Trump and is given by Thomas Frank who is a prominent political commentator and the founding editor of The Baffler magazine. He is the author of many books including One Market Under God, What’s the Matter with Kansas? The Wrecking Crew, Pity the Billionaire and Listen, Liberal.

 4pm & Midnight & 8am

SHERLOCK HOLMES CLASSICS

ABR is proud to present two classic episodes starring Basil Rathbone. ‘The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone’ followed by ‘An Incident from Six Napoleons.’

We close the hour with an author interview from KOBO and today’s guest is MALCOLM GLADWELL.

 5pm & 1am & 9am

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY INTERVIEW HOUR

ABR welcomes Publisher’s Weekly, an authority on all things books & publishing for author interviews from their well-stocked archive.  As always asking the questions are Rose Fox and Mark Rotella and the featured authors are Kabir Sehgal on his financial book Coined and Daniel Jose Elder with his latest book Half-Resurrection Blues.

 6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with Irene

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…Irene featuring JEANETTE MCDONALD

 7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – DOYLE, WALLACE & SAKI

THE DISINTEGRATION MACHINE BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. READ BY NICKY HENSON.

Professor Challenger is arguing with people who are persistently calling him on the telephone when his young friend Malone, a reporter for the Gazette, enters and requests Challenger accompany him to inspect the discovery of Theodore Nemor, who claims to have invented a machine capable of disintegrating objects. Sceptical of the invention, Challenger accepts Malone’s proposal and accompanies him to the house of Nemor.

THE MAN OF THE NIGHT BY EDGAR WALLACE. READ BY ROBIN BAILEY.

Born in 1875 the illegitimate son of an actress, Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was adopted by a Billingsgate fish-porter and grew up in the poorer streets of London. He wrote more than 170 books, mostly thrillers, and also plays and countless newspaper articles. This short story deals a repentant criminal and the paranormal…

THE UNREST CURE BY SAKI. READ BY RICHARD MITCHLEY.

Saki’s recurring hero Clovis Sangrail, a sly young man, overhears the complacent middle-aged Huddle complaining of his own addiction to routine and aversion to change. Huddle’s friend makes the wry suggestion of the need for an “unrest-cure” (the opposite of a rest cure) to be performed, if possible, in the home. Clovis takes it upon himself to “help” the man and his sister by involving them in an invented outrage that will be a “blot on the twentieth century.”

Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

CORMORANT BY SARAH HUTCHINGS and HIL COOKE

Unworldly John and injured sailor, McKinney wash up on an uninhabited island, the only survivors of a terrifying shipwreck. When the pair is finally rescued John isolates himself in an anonymous bed-sit owned by the grotesque Mrs Paskins. Haunted by the sounds of the island, he shies away from human contact communing only with the disturbing voices in his dreams. John’s new neighbour Crow sees life through a haze of delusional paranoia and finds it hard to respect John’s need for solitude. Edgy, secretive John is the perfect focus for Crow’s over-active imagination and he becomes obsessed with investigating John’s nocturnal rituals. However, his surveillance soon turns to clumsy overtures of friendship. Despite his protestations John is forced to turn to Crow for help when his ‘voices’ start to blur his sense of reality.

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with CHARLES SIMIC

Charles Simic has published over sixty books of poetry as well as many translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian poetry. He was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and moved with his family to the United States in 1953. His poetry first appeared in The Chicago Review .The poet Seamus Heaney described Simic’s work as, “Surrealist, and therefore comic, but with a specific gravity in his imagining that manages to avoid the surrealist penalty of weightlessness.”

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETRY featuring EAVAN BOLAND

Eavan Boland explores the relationship between gender, art, and national identity in her work. She was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1944 and educated in London, New York, and Dublin.

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with VANDANA SHIVA & DAVID SUZUKI

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 entitled The Pandemic Wake-up Call with Vandana Shiva, the physicist and internationally renowned voice for sustainable development and social justice. Joining her is David Suzuki the Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and leading environmentalist and science educator.

4pm & Midnight & 8am

SHERLOCK HOLMES CLASSICS

ABR is proud to present two classic episodes starring Basil Rathbone. ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’ followed by ‘The Bruce Partington Plans’

We close the hour with an author interview from KOBO and today’s guest is MARGARET ATWOOD.

 5pm & 1am & 9am

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY THE INTERVIEW HOUR

ABR welcomes Publisher’s Weekly, an authority on all things books & publishing for a delve into the archives to come up with a couple of great author interviews. Today it is Richard Lange with his book Sweet Nothing and Gabriel Weston with her Dirty Work.  Their podcast as always is presented by ROSE FOX and MARK ROTELLA who ask the questions.

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with Ruggles of Red Gap

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 Ruggles of Red Gap featuring CHARLES LAUGHTON

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – WHARTON, DICKENS & LAWRENCE

THE MUSE’S TRAGEDY BY EDITH WHARTON READ BY JANET MAW

This originally and innovatively structured story’s muse is Mary Anerton the subject of poet Victor Rendle’s best known works.  Her encouragement for our protagonist Danyers to write a book on the poet results in her own tragedy.

TESTATOR’S VISITATION BY CHARLES DICKENS. READ BY GARARD GREEN.

A short piece reminiscent of Pickwick, in which a poor man borrows some furniture without permission. The owner turns up months later, a drunken man who consumes all the man’s gin then disappears, a ghost.

A LESSON ON A TORTOISE BY D.H. LAWRENCE. READ BY DAVID SHAW-PARKER.

After another long week in school, it is the final lesson on Friday and a teacher has an idea which should lift the classroom spirits.