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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?
By: Eric Bentley
Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson, Michael Canavan, Jake Gr...
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In the mid-1950’s, the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating the communist influence in the entertainment industry. This searing docudrama from actual transcripts of the hearings reveals how decent people were persuaded to “name names,” and the steep price paid by those who refused.
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance... Read more
It's That Man Again Volume 1
By: BBC
Narrated by: Tommy Handley
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
It's That Man Again is a giant in the history of radio comedy. As Mat Coward's book Classic Radio Comedy says, "Surely the most written-about radio series in history, it was successful to an extent which is hard to imagine today. Its international audience was measured in the tens of millions. Its star, Tommy Handley, was undoubtedly the most... Read more
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The Call of the Weird - Abridged
By: Louis Theroux
Narrated by: Louis Theroux
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America.
For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the... Read more
Never Better
By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
"It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town…." Each week, more than four million radio listeners hear these words, and settle in for some old-fashioned, up-to-the-minute storytelling.
During live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor takes us to "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve,"... Read more
The Making Of Modern Medicine
By: Andrew Cunningham
Narrated by: Andrew Cunningham
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond. ‘The Making of Modern Medicine’ covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and... Read more
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The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 16 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty-three great Sherlock Holmes mysteries as published in Strand Magazine. These stories have won over readers in the thousands and have helped make Sherlock Holmes the most popular and most famous detective of all times. Arthur Conan Doyle, was born in Scotland in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools in England and Austria. In 1881 he... Read more
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A Needle in the Right Hand of God
By: R. Howard Bloch
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The Bayeux Tapestry is the world's most famous textile—an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history's most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew the map of medieval Europe has inspired dreams of... Read more
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Paul Taylor - Extended Interview
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In this 2007 interview, dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor talks to Jeffrey Brown about his career. Read more
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The Chrysalids & Survival
By: John Wyndham
Narrated by: Full Cast, John Moffatt, Nicholas Courtney, Ste...
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Two classic tales from acclaimed British science fiction writer John Wyndham. In The Chrysalids, ten-year-old David is a happy, ordinary boy, untroubled except for occasional strange dreams about a mysterious city – until he befriends Sophie, who is unlike anybody he has met before: she has six toes. But, in the ultra-religious village of... Read more
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The Midwich Cuckoos
By: John Wyndham
Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Full Cast & Sarah Parish
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Driving back from a weekend in London, Richard and Janet Gayford are surprised to find the village of Midwich sealed off because of ‘army manoeuvres’. There are no birds singing, the air seems thick and there is a strange sort of music in the air. It soon becomes clear that there is an invisible wall around the village, and everyone within the... Read more
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The Al Read Show
By: Ronnie Taylor
Narrated by: Al Read
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Described by Radio Times as "a brilliant observer of the domestic scene, a master reporter of life as we know it", Al Read's weekly show drew audiences of 35 million during the 1950s and 60s.Born in Salford in 1909, Al started life as a sausage manufacturer, having inherited the family's meat-processing factory. His comedy developed from his... Read more
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Fresh Air: Stars
By: Terry Gross
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Terry Gross interviews eleven stage and screen personalities. Read more
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The Gross
By: Peter Bart
Narrated by: Stuart Langton
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
When movies cost hundreds of millions to make and market, the magnitude of the wagers is astonishing. Vast riches rain down on those who gamble wisely, and careers are made and lost in one weekend. But never is this box office race more feverish than during the summer blockbuster season, when the studios roll out their most expensive,... Read more
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Lives of the Artists, Vol. 1
By: Giorgio Vasari
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 18 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Georgio Vasari’s original vision of the arts was to see the artist as divinely inspired. This historical work describes the lives of forty-five artists, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, with striking immediacy conveyed through character sketches, anecdotes, and detailed... Read more
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Name Dropping
By: Barnaby Conrad
Narrated by: Barnaby Conrad
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
When El Matador opened in 1958, Bennett Cerf called it "the most attractive room in America." Part saloon, part salon, Barnaby Conrad's nightclub was nestled in the heart of San Francisco's cabaret and nightlife district. On any given night, one might find Noël Coward, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, or Tyrone Power... Read more
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Portrait of an Artist
By: Laurie Lisle
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the most original painters America has ever produced. Her vivid visual vocabulary—sensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earth—has had a profound and lasting influence on American art in this century.Renowned for her fierce independence, iron determination, and unique artistic vision, O'Keeffe had a... Read more
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How to Watch TV News
By: Neil Postman & Steve Powers
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
America is suffering from an information glut. Most Americans are no longer clear about what news is worth remembering or how any of it connects to anything else. Thus, Americans are rapidly becoming the least knowledgeable people in the industrial world.In How to Watch TV News, author and academic Neil Postman and television journalist Steve... Read more
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Michelangelo
By: George Bull
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 18 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Michelangelo was recognized during his lifetime as the greatest living artist, creator of a number of masterpieces in sculpture, fresco painting, and architecture. He impressed his contemporaries as a forceful personality, a divine genius endowed with intense emotional power. Often portrayed as a solitary and austere figure, he in fact enjoyed a... Read more
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Catching the Big Fish
By: David Lynch
Narrated by: David Lynch
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.
Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed... Read more
Digging for the Truth
By: Josh Bernstein
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Digging For the Truth: A Real-Life Adventurer Explores the World's Greatest Ancient Mysteries Josh Bernstein, host of The History Channel's hit series Digging for The Truth, takes readers beyond the cameras for an even closer look at his adventures through some of the most intriguing, remote, and physically challenging locations on the planet as... Read more
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King Richard the Second - Abridged
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud & Full Cast
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Richard the Second is a poet’s play, full of great speeches and fine writing rather than subtle character drawing and keen insight. Performed by Sir John Gielgud, Jeremy Brett, and a Full Cast. Read more
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The Real Animal House
By: Chris Miller
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The creator of Animal House at last tells the real story of the fraternity that inspired the iconic film-a story far more outrageous (and funny!) than any movie could ever capture. Animal House, the film adaptation of stories Chris Miller published in National Lampoon about his experiences at a Dartmouth fraternity, is among the most beloved and... Read more
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Essential Vonnegut Interviews
By: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Kurt Vonnegut
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to... Read more
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Walt Disney
By: Neal Gabler
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 33 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney.
Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with... Read more