SUNDAY 19th July

Noon & 8pm & 4am
PLAYS/DRAMA
Citizen Racecar presents Electromagnetic Theatre – eclectic, whacky and wonderful – a kind of theatre of alchemy.  It’s an experience and maybe a movement.  We have 4 episodes back to back:  The Alligator, The Vision, The Punchline and You Can Thank Me Later.  All executive produced by David Hoffman – for further details go to http://citizenracecar.com/

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with JOHN BARTH

Today John Barth whose novels include Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera; The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor and two short story collections are On with the Story and Lost in the Funhouse.  Mr. Barth has written, “We tell stories and listen to them because we live stories and live in them. Narrative equals language equals life: To cease to narrate…is to die.” Mr. Barth, who is professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, received the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 and after his readings he talks to Michael Silverblatt.

2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETS & POETRY featuring JORIE GRAHAM

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.

Jorie Graham was born in New York City and spent her childhood in France and Italy. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Swarm, The Errancy, The Dream of the Unified Field, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and The End of Beauty. Ms. Graham, who has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, teaches at Harvard University. Here she recites her poetry followed by an interview with critic Michael Silverblatt

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with MICHAEL MOORE

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 Michael Moore a documentary filmmaker and satirist whose debut documentary was the award winning Roger & Me, based in his native Flint, Michigan and chronicling his attempts to interview the CEO of General Motors Roger Smith about why he closed down local factories and moved to Mexico.  Oscar winning Bowling for Columbine looked at the US’s gun culture and Fahrenheit 9/11, made post 9/11, examined at the Bush administration.  He has made numerous other films and documentaries and remains a left wing activist.

4pm & Midnight & 8am

THEATRE ROYAL

The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence – and it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier these big name productions – also including the acting talents of Sir John Gielgud, Orson Welles and Robert Morley – were based on works by the world’s leading authors – Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov and Robert Louis Stevenson are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping.  Today we raise the curtain on a play by Max Beerbohm’s The Happy Hypocrite introduced by SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER and featuring SIR JOHN GIELGUD as Lord George Hell.

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES featuring BASIL RATHBONE and NIGEL BRUCE in more of these timeless classic adventures.

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 are GLS Entertainment Services CEO, Gina Smith and award winning voice narrator and entrepreneur, Andi Arndt.

6pm & 2am & 10am

HOLLYWOOD STAGE with Smilin’ Through

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 CECIL B DE MILLE introduces  Smilin’ Through starring JEANETTE McDONALD and GENE RAYMOND.

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – WHARTON & JEROME

ROMAN FEVER BY EDITH WHARTON.  READ BY EVE KARPF

This elegant story centres on the relationship of two women who dining out on the terrace of a Roman restaurant with a view of the Forum, Colosseum, and other sights arrange to remain until evening so as to continue to enjoy the splendid view.  Wharton wrote the story in the omniscient third-person so she is able to reveal the thoughts of the two main characters magnificently well and together with a surprise ending this story is a must to listen to. 

THE MINOR POET BY JEROME K JEROME.  READ BY JAMES TAYLOR

This is a forgotten gem of a story by British writer and humorist Jerome K Jerome and available as a download http://www.amazon.com/Jerome-K-Short-Stories/dp/B005J9QC6S/ref=sr_1_1? or ebook http://www.amazon.com/The-Short-Stories-Of-Jerome/dp/1780005911

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MONDAY 20th July

Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA
Firesign Theatre Goes Mad, While We Wait for the Electrician
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 via Radio Drama Revival license to broadcast this terrific stuff. We also take time to shout out for the National Audio Theatre Festivals.OK
Also, Captain Radio reviews audio titles including the L Ron Hubbard Tales from the Golden Age collection.

1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION….. JOHN SAYLES

John Sayles is an award winning screenwriter, director and author.  Besides numerous awards and nominations for his film work and screenwriting including a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Writer’s Guild of America, literary recognition for Sayles has come in the form of an O. Henry Award for his first published story and nominations for both a National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award for the novel Union Dues. In 1985 he received a MacArthur Fellowship for his work in both film and writing.  Here Sayles reads extracts of his writing and is then interviewed by fellow author, Francisco Goldman.

 2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETS & POETRY….ARTHUR SZE
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.
Poet Arthur Sze, reads a range of his poetry, courtesy of the Lannan Founation where he received a Literary Award for Poetry. His work is informed by his interest in Native American culture, Eastern philosophies, and the nature of scientific inquiry and is himself a second generation Chinese American born in New York City in 1950.

3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with JAYATI GHOSH

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 Jayati Ghosh relating the grim news from India as a Covid wave is sweeping the country, inflicting widespread misery and deaths. Government figures of Covid-related fatalities are widely seen as very much underreported and analysts say that the country wasn’t prepared to handle the surge. Hospitals have been overwhelmed and there are acute shortages of oxygen, medicine and vaccines. The country is ruled by Narendra Modi who has come under wide criticism for his handling of the crisis.

4pm & Midnight & 8am

RADIO CITY PLAYHOUSE

The West Coast had Hollywood but New York had somewhere just as special.  1260, 6th Ave.  The home of Radio City Playhouse – a glittering, star filled top of the range series featuring the best of acting and writing talent available.

The stories were based not on who you were but what you wrote.  It was a tough test.  If it passed the audition it ‘aired’. And now it does again with Episode 1 – Long Distance and Ground Floor Window

 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 which I love, but knowing the guests of this first episode there might also be slurping, slinking, slipping & sliding as they are slamming.  It’s the And I Thought Ladies, a collective of women spearheaded by Wilnona Marie & Jade Dee who are Authors, producers, the founders of literary Magazines, TV show creators, speakers, radio hosts, podcasters and pop poets,  These ladies are a force to be reckoned with as your about to find out.

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 The Hollywood director and producer IRVING CUMMINS unveils The Day the Earth Stood Still starring MICHAEL RENNIE and JEAN PETERS

7pm & 3am & 11am

SHORT STORIES – LOVECRAFT, FORD & HAWTHORNE

The Outsider by H P Lovecraft combines horror, fantasy, and gothic fiction to create a nightmarish story, exploring loneliness, the abhuman, and the afterlife.

The Scaremonger by Ford Maddox Ford was published shortly after the outbreak of World War I and satirised a violently anti German writer.  Ford, Anglo-German himself was ordered to leave the country and suspected it was due to this story although the order was revoked.

The Devil In Manuscript by Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of Hawthorne’s best known short stories and explores literary failure with a cynical wry eye and comes to a dramatic conclusion.