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.