PLAYS/DRAMA
ON BLAZING WINGS BY L. RON HUBBARD Part 1
Fans of classic Golden Age dramas will not be disappointed with this story and whilst possibly more serious than some of his other many stories, it’s a cracking good adventure about American David Duane whose business is war, regardless of its politics. Duane’s cold-edged neutrality takes him to Finland but then he finds himself in an elusive netherworld where he discovers his true destiny, one that he half-remembers but must struggle to reject in order to save the woman he loves—a woman who happens to be an officer . . . in the Russian ranks.
1pm & 9pm & 5am
IN CONVERSATION – DAVID MITCHELL
GREENLIGHT BOOKSTORE….
If you love books you probably have a favourite bookstore where you can go and know that not only will there be shelves of a wide variety of books where you can immerse yourselves but also knowledge, tips and conversation all around you. Brooklyn has one such store that recorded a range of interviews with bestselling authors. Today’s episode originally aired on 1st October, 2014 features the mighty DAVID MITCHELL (Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream) on his new novel, The Bone Clocks, his illicit dreams of Amsterdam, and why Optimism is probably the best choice – in conversation with John Freeman (How to Read a Novelist). Also a reviews of selected books released that week.
POETS & POETRY
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.
Today, thanks to the Scottish Poetry Library, we bring you the work of award winning poet Shara McCullum, who was born in Jamaica and moved to the US at the age of nine. She currently lives in Pennsylvania and teaches and directs at the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bicknell University.
Further information on the Scottish Poetry Library can be found on their website,
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
ALTERNATIVE RADIO with Chalmers Johnson on Blowback
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
Chalmers Johnson, a distinguished political scientist, was professor emeritus at the University of California, and the author of Blowback, Sorrows of Empire, Nemesis and Dismantling the Empire. The CIA coined the term “blowback” to describe the unintended results of U.S. covert operations abroad. The United States today has hundreds of military bases around the world. It’s a form of domination that greatly expanded under the Bush Administration’s post-9/11 so-called War on Terror. Supporting a far-flung military empire generates large profits for many U.S. corporations. It’s terrific for weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing and Northrop Grumman and for contractors like Halliburton, DynCorp and Fluor. Not surprisingly, many people from Iraq to Japan are angry with having to live with Uncle Sam in uniform in their backyard.
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 All Horse Players Die Broke and The Hottest Guy in the World
5pm & 1am & 9am
NEW VOICES with Adam Copeland
Today’s strand features Adam Copeland, an American author from Vancouver, Washington State. He is the author of the historical fantasy and Arthurian-esque Tales of Avalon series as well as the co-founder of Northwest Independent Writers Association. Now, he has written the pulp-thriller Midnight in Silverton: American Gothic, recently turned into a spine-tingling audiobook with Canadian voice talent Scarlett Quinn. Midnight is a story of the search for a killer, and of self, which is part Fight Club and part Dandelion Wine. We get to hear extracts from this audiobook and talk to Adam about his work.
6pm & 2am & 10am
HOLLYWOOD STAGE – Moby Dick
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 classic story of Moby Dick, starring Henry Hull, a much undervalued actor.
7pm & 3am & 11am
SHORT STORIES
The Ransom of Red Chief by O’Henry
The story and its main idea have become a part of popular culture, with many children’s television programs depicting versions of the story as one of their episodes. It has also been often used as a classic example of two ultimate comic ironies – a supposed “hostage” actually liking his abductors and enjoying being captured, and his captors getting their just deserts by having the tables turned on them, and being compelled to pay to be rid of him. Read by Christopher Ragland
The Bride Came to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
The story’s protagonist is a Texas marshal named Jack Potter, who is returning to the town of Yellow Sky with his eastern bride. Potter’s nemesis, the gunslinger Scratchy Wilson, drunkenly plans to accost the sheriff after he disembarks the train, but he changes his mind upon seeing the unarmed man with his bride. The short story inspired a 1967 opera of the same name by Roger Nixon, and the 1952 film Face to Face. Read by Christopher Ragland