Noon & 8pm & 4am
PLAYS/DRAMA Part 2 of 2
Conclusion of Crazy Dog Audio Theatre‘s “The Salmon of Blackpool.”
Johnny Gallagher is a world famous movie star from Cork, Ireland, and he also dying slowly from a debilitating, fatal disorder. Richie has been tasked by some big movie producers to make a ‘feel good’ biopic of this man who is ‘unloved because he has never been loved.’ -But what is there to ‘feel good’ about in the life of this tormented man?
1pm & 9pm & 5am
IN CONVERSATION….ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright and author of the recent memoir, The Light of the World, a story of love and loss following the sudden death of her husband. Of the book, Joyce Carol Oates said, “Both a memoir and a portrait of marriage, The Light of the World, is as its title suggests, a bittersweet testament to love and the memory of love, one of the most compelling memoirs of loss that I have ever read.” She composed and delivered a poem, “Praise Song for the Day,” at the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009. Alexander has been contributing to ongoing conversations about race, immigration, and social justice throughout her career. She once remarked, “Poetry is not meant to cheer; rather, poetry challenges, and moves us towards transformation.”
2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETRY
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. READ BY SEAN BARRETT.
Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the story of the Romantic archetype, the Wanderer, the man with the mark of Cain, doomed to walk the earth alone and alienated from all others. What is presented to the reader is a theme of guilt and remorse, juxtaposed with the background joy of a wedding feast. The audience is unwilling, but is forced to hear the tale anyway. It seems that as a penance for what he has done, the Mariner is compelled to tell his story whenever the agony returns. This poem is part of Coleridge’s daemonic group of poems, which also includes Christabel and Kubla Khan, intending a reconciliation of the poet’s self-consciousness with a higher state of being, but only reaching purgatory.
THE RAVEN BY EDGAR ALLAN POE. READ BY DAVID SHAW-PARKER.
The Raven has become one of America’s most famous poems, partly as a result, of its easily remembered refrain, “Nevermore.” The speaker, a man who pines for his deceased love, Lenore, has been visited by a talking bird who knows only the word, “Nevermore.” The narrator feels so grieved over the loss of his love that he allows his imagination to transform the bird into a prophet bringing news that the lovers will “Nevermore” be reunited, not even in heaven.
THE POETRY OF OSCAR WILDE. READ BY SEAN BARRETT.
Although Wilde is more fondly remembered and celebrated for his undeniably brilliant plays, his poetry also provides us with another reminder of his genius.
3pm & 11pm & 7am
ALTERNATIVE RADIO – Media – Monetizing Anger
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 Matt Taibbi, an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and is on the media as people go to their favorite media outlet as if it were comfort food where their views are validated and reinforced and their anger finds a home – Argu-tainment.
4pm & Midnight & 8am
The Damon Runyan 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 Romance in the Roaring Forties and The Lemon Drop Kid.
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 Sue Sheridan of Opaque Artists’ Talent Manager (UK) who has a candid discussion of life behind the scenes of the entertainment industry. This is followed by an extract of “If Only I Were ME” by Wilnona Marie and Jade Dee.
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 producer WILLIAM KEIGHLEY unveils… KEY LARGO starring EDWARD G ROBINSON, CLAIRE TREVOR and EDMUND O’BRIEN
7pm & 3am & 11am
SHORT STORIES – JOYCE & STOCKTON
ARABY BY JAMES JOYCE. READ BY T.P. MCKENNA.
Taken from Joyce’s 1914 collection ‘Dubliners,’ the author is immersed at the start of the story in the drab life that people live on North Richmond Street, Dublin, which seems to be illuminated only by the verve and imagination of the children who, despite the growing darkness that comes during the winter months, insist on playing “until their bodies glowed.” Even though the conditions of this neighbourhood leave much to be desired, the children’s play is infused with their almost magical way of perceiving the world.
A TALE OF NEGATIVE GRAVITY BY FRANK R. STOCKTON. READ BY NICKY HENSON.
A retired middle-aged gentleman and his wife take a long walk, arm-in-arm, many miles, up hills, across fields, with a laden knapsack and a heavy picnic basket, and yet they are completely at ease because of the gentleman’s invention, a negative gravity device, which they carry to lighten their weight. He realizes the invention has tremendous financial potential. However, this invention gets him into a humorous predicament and causes a problem for his family, which he resolves in an unexpected way. This short story was first published in 1886.