Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

Firesign Theatre’s Don’t Crush That Dwarf, and More Mad Motors

Courtesy of Radio Drama Revival we hear the antics of The Firesign Theatre, the legendary multi-trackin’, sound embellishing, sterephonic surrealistic psychedelic merry band of Phil Austin, Peter Bergmen, David Ossman and Philip Proctor.

While best known for their studio albums (such as Waiting for the Electrician Or Someone Like Him, which we hear today), the troupe had hundreds of hours of live radio experience, and had a particularly special era of a program called “Dear Friends.”

A boxed set contains all of this material – a whopping 80+ hours – along with beautiful art and hilarious anecdotes. Listen to the show for samples, or check out the Duke of Madness Motors boxed set and buy it today!

Huge thanks to Phil Proctor for giving us license via Radio Drama Revival to broadcast this terrific stuff. We also take time to shout out for the National Audio Theatre Festivals.

Also, Captain Radio reviews audio titles including Voices in the Wind from Canada, whose latest production is “Every Now and Then.”

BLESS ‘EM ALL by Simon Taylor

The eponymous George Formby song is reprised in a play set during the war.

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION….SANDRA STEINBERGER

Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., is an ecologist, author, and cancer survivor and an internationally recognized authority on the environmental links to cancer and human health. Her acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment presents her research on, and personal experience with, environmental pollution and cancer. Originally published in 1997, with a second edition in 2010, it has been adapted into a documentary. She has also written Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood and recently, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETRY

Poets come in all styles and voices.  Here on audiobookradio.net we’re very pleased to encourage and lend your ears to a wide range of talents.  Published or unpublished, known or unknown, on the road or on the case.   If that sounds like it could be you then let us know and see if we can showcase you and your recordings.  But whilst much of this slot is the poets recording themselves how you sound is a big part of gaining an audience.  So we need to make an allowance for some of the technical quality.  In real life everyone’s a pupil. Ok, here we go.

We begin with Anne Morgan, an American who lives in France. Anne studied Poetry at Penn State and then gained a diploma at Trinity College, Dublin in Anglo-Irish literature. That ground work reveals itself in each of her three books, currently available at Amazon, as well as these recordings.

After we feature Carmina Masoliver and her Poetry Tease.  Carmina is a Londoner who graduated in English Literature from University of East Anglia and then an MA.   She is the founder of She Grrrowls, a night showcasing women in the arts and the editor of Poetry & Paint which explores the relationship between words and visual arts.  Carmina is also a member of the Burn After Reading community and is in a collective called Kid Glove.  Currently she is published by Nasty Little Press & you can get more info from their website or hers carmina.masoliver.com.

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with ANGELA DAVIS & RUTH WILSON GILMORE

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 Angela Davis, one of the iconic figures of Black Power who was acquitted on conspiracy charges in 1970 after one of the most famous trials in U.S. history.  She went on to become an internationally renowned writer, scholar and lecturer and is the author of many books, including Women, Race and Class, Abolition Democracy, and The Meaning of Freedom.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and a professor of geography at the City University of New York as well as the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. The American Sociological Association honored her with its Angela Davis Award. She is the recipient of the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.  Their talk is entitled Radical Lessons: Then and Now

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 Blood Pressure and Old Em’s Kentucky Home

 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 guests, as last week, are Nor Kin4Life and Butterfly Feels who are two Atlanta Hip Hop and R&B artists in part 2 of their fascinating talk that goes wat beyond Georgia and music.

 6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE – The Naked Jungle

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 Naked Jungle starring Charlton Heston who reprises his film role as Christopher Leiningen, a cold and remote plantation boss in South America.

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES

CATTLE KING FOR A DAY by L RON HUBBARD

This week and next, we take a departure from our traditional short story slot to bring a longer story from L Ron Hubbard who was a prolific writer before founding Scientology.   In this one we meet Chinook Shannon who is as tough as they come—as steely-eyed and tall in the saddle as Randolph Scott.  He’s on a quest to find his grandfather’s killer and secure his inheritance but it is soon apparent that Chinook has only one ally—his trusted Colt Peacemaker!