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PLAYS/DRAMA
The Great Detective by Roger Johnson
This play, by prominent Sherlock Holmes Society of London member Roger Johnson, offers the Holmesian another perspective on the beloved Canon. From a surrealist perspective, we find here a different and refreshing approach. We are transported to another time through the warmth of an English public house and immediately transfixed by the fascinating voices of those who contributed to the name Sherlock Holmes. This is a must listen for all those worshipers of the great detective.
1pm & 9pm & 5am
IN CONVERSATION…..JAMES HEFFERNAN
James Heffernan, Professor Emeritus from Dartmouth College, has written extensively on JAMES JOYCE, and particularly Ulysses. In this episode of In Conversation he focuses on the novel and in particular Leopold Bloom & his relationship with his adulterous wife Molly. Bloomsday is an actual day – 16th June in Dublin which is when and where the novel is set. So an obvious day where James Joyce is celebrated & commemorated & the events of the novel are re-lived.
2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETS & POETRY featuring Robert Hass
Robert Hass is a Pulitzer prize winning Poet Laureate born in San Francisco and raised by an alcoholic mother, both facts that feature in his concise and lyrical verse. He is one of the most celebrated contemporary American poets and also known for translations of the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and Japanese Haiku masters who he has paid tribute to for their inspiration. In the mid-1990s, Hass promoted ecoliterarcy through the River of Words, an organisation he co founded to provide a multidisciplinary, interactive curricula to young students. He currently teaches at Berkeley and lives in California with his wife the poet Brenda Hillman. Thanks to the Lannan Organisation we now bring you Robert Hass reading his own poems followed by his being interviewed by NY poet Jorie Graham.
3pm & 11pm & 7am
ALTERNATIVE RADIO with ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ on The Other Side of Thanksgiving
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. A distinguished scholar, she has been active in the international Indigenous movement for many years and is known for her commitment to social justice issues. She is the recipient of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. Her 1977 book The Great Sioux Nation was the fundamental document at the first UN conference on Indigenous peoples of the Americas. She is the author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, winner of the 2015 American Book Award, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, All the Real Indians Died Off and 20 Other Myths about Native Americans and Not a Nation of Immigrants.
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 Blonde Mink and Leopard’s Spots
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 Marcel Post a young Writer, Director, and Actor, residing in the ’new Hollywood mecca’ better known as Atlanta. He can be described as bold, brash, and at times controversial. However, his goal is to continue to create great stories bringing people of different ethnic groups to the forefront.
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 Irving Cummings unveils…KING SOLOMON’S MINES starring DEBORAH KERR and STEWART GRAINGER
7pm & 3am & 11am
SHORT STORIES
The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce read by Christopher Ragland
A gothic horror short story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in a 1907 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, illustrated by Charles B. Falls. This story is presented in three parts and relates the tale of the murder of Julia Hetman from the perspective of her son, a man who may be her husband, and Julia herself, through a medium.
A Thousand Deaths by Jack London read by Christopher Ragland
This is an 1899 short story by Jack London, his first work to be published. It is about the experimentally induced death and resuscitation/resurrection of the protagonist, by a mad scientist who uses multiple scientific methods for these experiments. The story was adapted to film in 1939.
12oon & 8pm & 4am
PLAYS/DRAMA
WAR OF THE WORLDS
War of the Worlds Returns with a BANG courtesy of Radio Drama Reivial.
This week we take a bow to radio drama history by clobbering Grover’s Mill New Jersey with a big ball of fire and pissed off laser-toting Martians. Yes, folks, it is the War of the Worlds – and one of the most exquisite re-creations of it ever produced, the 50th anniversary production by Otherworld Media released in 1988.
GRAMMY-nominated for Best Spoken Word production, digital sound design by Oscar-winner Randy Thom at George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch, an international broadcast event, this contemporary NPR/CNN version of the Orson Welles classic stars Jason Robards with Hector Elizondo, Steve Allen, CBS newsman Douglas Edwards and public radio personalities Scott Simon and Terry Gross.
1pm & 9pm & 5am
IN CONVERSATION…..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 15th August and features Tom Rachman (The Imperfectionists) who talks with Susan Kamil, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Random House and Dial Press, about his new novel, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, and why writing books is like flying with the Marx Brothers. Also: reviews of The Story of Land and Sea by Katie Simpson Smith and Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey and reviews of books released that week.
2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETRY featuring Ben Jonson, Rumi, Classic Women Poets and more
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.
Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to school textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today. In this hour we’ll be listening to poets of the quality and breadth of Ben Jonson, Rumi and themes including Hell and Classic Women Poets
All of them are from a dedicated poetry publisher – Portable Poetry who believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other things can’t. Their range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a range of themes. Check them out on your usual digital store such as Amazon or iTunes or at https://www.deadtreepublishing.com/ That’s Portable Poetry – poetry that carries you through!
3pm & 11pm & 7am
ALTERNATIVE RADIO with Maureen Webb on Hackers and Democracy
The digital age has given birth to hackers who carry out cyberattacks on our personal data, on pipelines, energy grids and meat processing plants. There are also other hackers who practice the sharing of software, open sourcing and the secure free flow of information. Maureen Webb says those hackers “are making some of the most important contributions to preserving our liberal deocratic tradition in the 21st century.”
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 Lonely Heart and Broadway Complex
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 Jaime Hinkson, Jamaican born, writer, producer, and musician, who when not in Miami creating his own music, travels the world as keyboardist for Julian Marley’s band.
6pm & 2am & 10am
HOLLYWOOD STAGE – Red River
In our Hollywood Stage presentation John Wayne reprises his role as Tom Dunston and his journey west to build a cattle empire. He adopts a young boy, Matthew, orphaned by an Indian raid. Returning from the Civil War Mathew helps his father on a massive cattle drive only for their relationship to completely fall apart as Father is pitted against Son.
7pm & 3am & 11am
SHORT STORIES
The Namesake by Willa Cather. Read by Christopher Ragland
Pullitzer Prize winning American author, Willa Cather sets her story, the Namesake, in the Paris studio of the great sculptor Lyon Hartwell at the turn of the 20th century. Seven young aspiring student artists who admire his work hear Hartwell relate aspects of his life in this well crafted story which is said to be inspired by Cather’s own unlce.
When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Read by Laurel Lefkow
This story, although not as well known as The Yellow Wallpaper is another fine example of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s early feminist short stories. It is a humorous fantasy about a woman that makes a deal with the devil to have her wishes come true and uses this power to shape the world.
12oon & 8pm & 4am
PLAYS/DRAMA
WAR OF THE WORLDS
War of the Worlds Returns with a BANG courtesy of Radio Drama Reivial.
This week we take a bow to radio drama history by clobbering Grover’s Mill New Jersey with a big ball of fire and pissed off laser-toting Martians. Yes, folks, it is the War of the Worlds – and one of the most exquisite re-creations of it ever produced, the 50th anniversary production by Otherworld Media released in 1988.
GRAMMY-nominated for Best Spoken Word production, digital sound design by Oscar-winner Randy Thom at George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch, an international broadcast event, this contemporary NPR/CNN version of the Orson Welles classic stars Jason Robards with Hector Elizondo, Steve Allen, CBS newsman Douglas Edwards and public radio personalities Scott Simon and Terry Gross.
1pm & 9pm & 5am
IN CONVERSATION…..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 15th August and features Tom Rachman (The Imperfectionists) who talks with Susan Kamil, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Random House and Dial Press, about his new novel, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, and why writing books is like flying with the Marx Brothers. Also: reviews of The Story of Land and Sea by Katie Simpson Smith and Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey and reviews of books released that week.
2pm & 10pm & 6am
POETRY featuring Ben Jonson, Rumi, Classic Women Poets and more
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.
Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to school textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today. In this hour we’ll be listening to poets of the quality and breadth of Ben Jonson, Rumi and themes including Hell and Classic Women Poets
All of them are from a dedicated poetry publisher – Portable Poetry who believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other things can’t. Their range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a range of themes. Check them out on your usual digital store such as Amazon or iTunes or at https://www.deadtreepublishing.com/ That’s Portable Poetry – poetry that carries you through!
3pm & 11pm & 7am
ALTERNATIVE RADIO with Maureen Webb on Hackers and Democracy
The digital age has given birth to hackers who carry out cyberattacks on our personal data, on pipelines, energy grids and meat processing plants. There are also other hackers who practice the sharing of software, open sourcing and the secure free flow of information. Maureen Webb says those hackers “are making some of the most important contributions to preserving our liberal deocratic tradition in the 21st century.”
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 Lonely Heart and Broadway Complex
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 Jaime Hinkson, Jamaican born, writer, producer, and musician, who when not in Miami creating his own music, travels the world as keyboardist for Julian Marley’s band.
6pm & 2am & 10am
HOLLYWOOD STAGE – Red River
In our Hollywood Stage presentation John Wayne reprises his role as Tom Dunston and his journey west to build a cattle empire. He adopts a young boy, Matthew, orphaned by an Indian raid. Returning from the Civil War Mathew helps his father on a massive cattle drive only for their relationship to completely fall apart as Father is pitted against Son.
7pm & 3am & 11am
SHORT STORIES
The Namesake by Willa Cather. Read by Christopher Ragland
Pullitzer Prize winning American author, Willa Cather sets her story, the Namesake, in the Paris studio of the great sculptor Lyon Hartwell at the turn of the 20th century. Seven young aspiring student artists who admire his work hear Hartwell relate aspects of his life in this well crafted story which is said to be inspired by Cather’s own unlce.
When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Read by Laurel Lefkow
This story, although not as well known as The Yellow Wallpaper is another fine example of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s early feminist short stories. It is a humorous fantasy about a woman that makes a deal with the devil to have her wishes come true and uses this power to shape the world.