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Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr., written under the pen name Don A. Stuart. It was first published in the August 1938 Astounding Science-Fiction.
In 1973 the story was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the finest science fiction novellas ever written. It was published with the other top vote-getters in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two.
The novella has been adapted three times as a motion picture: the first in 1951 as The Thing from Another World; the second in 1982 as The Thing directed by John Carpenter; and most recently as a prequel to the Carpenter version, also titled The Thing, released in 2011.
The story concerns an Antarctic expedition undertaken by 37 men who now reside in a camp that affords little privacy. It opens with the men of the team gathered to discuss an unusual find: a 3-eyed alien creature encased in a block of ice that was retrieved nearby where a space ship was also discovered beneath the ice. Despite some initial misgivings, the camp’s doctor, Blair, proceeds to thaw out the creature so that he may examine it.
Who Goes There? by John W Campbell.mp3
BBC R4 [1996] Cinema 100 -- Val Gielgud & Holt Marvell - Death at Broadcasting House
A murder, done live and broadcast over the air? Unthinkable! The play is "Death at Broadcasting House", recreated from the 1934 film by Val Gielgud & Holt Marvell. This radio production, dramatized by Sue Rodwell, was first broadcast in 1996 and is part of Radio 4's Cinema 100 series.
This is radio-about-radio, with a wealth of detail and period atmosphere that recreates the live-radio world of the 1930s, from the low-tech special effects to the high-maintenance "stars" who read their roles on the air -- once. The concept of recording was new, and the very idea itself challenged both the technicians who made radio and the law.
Produced exactly where the play is set, at Broadcasting House in London, studio 6A.
Cast:
Julian: John Moffat
Rodney Fleming: Jeremy Clyde
Detective Inspector Spears: Peter Sallis
The General: Graham Crowden
Guy Bannister: Roger May
Leopold Dryden: William Nighy
Isabel Dryden: Diana Quick
Stewart Evans: Julian Glover
Detective Sergeant Ring: Nicky Henson
Topsy: Becky Hindley
Pat: Caroline Strong
Higgins: Gavin Muir
McDonald: David Holt
Police Surgeon: John Hartley
Produced by Glyn Dearman
Directed by Enid Williants
Kind: MPEG Audio File
Size: 45.3 MB
Bit Rate: 160 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.100kHz
Type : mp3
Channels: Stereo
Death At Broadcasting House pt 1 by Val Gielgud & Holt Marvel.mp3
Death At Broadcasting House pt 2 by Val Gielgud & Holt Marvel.mp3
In the 1930s, thousands of American farmers fled their drought-ridden and Depression-ravaged homelands of Oklahoma and Arkansas for California, where they hoped to find a better life. What they did find was exploitation and more misery, as memorably chronicled by John Steinbeck in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. Two young academics recorded the stories and music of these all-American refugees, and it is their first-hand accounts of events that can be heard in this program. Producer Jolyon Jenkins
The Archive Hour 051008 America's Barefoot Refugees.mp3
128kbps 57m
The Adalji Case. Radio dramatization starring Carleton Hobbs as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1972
Conan Doyle Investigates - The Adalji Case - 1972 - Carleton Hobbs.mp3
Conan Doyle Investigates - The Adalji Case - 1972 - Carleton Hobbs.mp4
From April of 2007 through October 2008 Icons Radio Hour from MODA Entertainment left us with 50 shows. It was hosted by writer/director John Mulholand. Each week, John interviewed those who know classic Hollywood best - actors, writers, directors, producers, and their colleagues, family and friends. The premiere show was co-hosted by Stephen Bogart, son of Hollywood legends Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall.
You will find the shows entertaining and full of nostalgia.
This is an update to the post. The website and shows do not exist online anymore, but I got them all before they disappeared a few years back. Here is the premiere show, co-hosted by Stephen Bogart, son of Hollywood legends Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall and writer/director & film historian, John Mulholland.
IRH01 - Steven Bogart son of actor HUMPHREY BOGART.mp3
I posted all 50 episodes here http://ppl.ug/2Lp0bQ8vKxM/
This is truly a collection to keep !!!!
1992 BBC radio play of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. This version also has the great Harry Towb.
BBC R4 - John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice And Men'
Adapted by Penny Leicester
Produced by Richard Wortley
Broadcast November 9, 1992
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
Faithful rendition of Steinbeck's tragic short story.
Cast
Kerry Shale - Lenny
Peter Whitman - George
Harry Towb
Eric Allan
Matthew Morgan
David Hope
Colin Mcfarlane
Nicholas Murchie
James Aubrey
Roberta Sawsville
JB Priestley - An Inspector Calls
Saturday Drama
By J. B. Priestley
(01:26:50)
The Birlings are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila when a police Inspector calls. Each member of the family is questioned about their relationship with a young woman, Eva Smith. And they each have to face up to their role in her tragic story.
Inspector Goole ... Toby Jones
Arthur Birling....David Calder
Sibyl Birling...Frances Barber
Sheila Birling ... Morvern Christie
Eric Birling ... Sam Alexander
Gerald Croft ...Geoffrey Streatfeild
Edna... Vineeta Rishi
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.
A group of passengers are marooned at a spooky, deserted station. Stars Adam Godley. Written by Dad's Army's Private Godfrey. 31 Dec 2012 (01:25}
Based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. Lawrence's experiences in the Arabian Peninsula during World War I, in particular his attacks on Aqaba and Damascus and his involvement in the Arab National Council. Its themes include Lawrence's emotional struggles with the personal violence inherent in war, his own identity, and his divided allegiance between his native Britain and its army and his newfound comrades within the Arabian desert tribes.
Lawrence of Arabia (1965) (1:45}
After a shell explodes on the Western Front, Adrien Fournier comes to in the mysterious silence of the Officers' Ward.
He understands little except that his life has been altered forever, as he begins an unprecedented journey to the remotest outposts of human experience, where heroism, friendship, pity and humor take unexpected new forms.
Saturday Play 09.11.2002 The Officers' Ward by Marc Dugain
Gunter Grass' classic novel of the rise and fall of Hitler as seen through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator, Oskar Matzerath. Not caring for the world he is growing up in, a small boy determines to remain a child. The epic sweep of Grass' novel satirises German nationalism and the rise and fall of the Nazi movement.
Episode 1: Germany, 1930. Hitler rises to power.Three-year-old Oskar decides to stop growing and talking. Instead, he plays his tin drum through the dark years of Nazism.
Günter Grass - The Tin Drum - 1 of 2 - BBC 1999-03-07
Episode 2: The Second World War is raging. Oskar, on the run, discovers sex, jazz and the black market. Soon his mad drumming will make him a star.
Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. It has been cited by many critics as the finest play from one of the most significant contemporary playwrights in the English language. wikipedia
Arcadia (1-5) Tom Stoppard.mp3
Arcadia (2-5) Tom Stoppard.mp3
Arcadia (3-5) Tom Stoppard.mp3
Arcadia (4-5) Tom Stoppard.mp3
Arcadia (5-5) Tom Stoppard.mp3
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Adapted for radio by M.J. Reid from Dale Wasserman's stage version of Ken Kesey's novel.
In the late 1950's Kesey volunteered to be a subject in experiments with hallucinogenic drugs, and at the end of those experiments he began working the night shift in a psychiatric unit. As a result he wrote what's now regarded as one of the great postwar American novels, following the fortunes of the rebellious and psychopathic Randall Patrick McMurphy in his feud with the disciplinarian Nurse Ratched.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 18th December 1995. Recorded from BBC7 in November 2008.
R.P. Mc Murphy : Bob Sherman
Nurse Ratched : Margaret Robertson
Harding : William Roberts
Billy : Kerry Shale
Cheswick : Matt Zimmerman
Martini : John Cassidy
Chief Bronden : William Hootkins
Doctor Spivey : Stuart Milligan
New documentary from R.H. Greene, "War of the Welles," telling the back-story of the production of "War of the Worlds", correcting many myths, and explaining why it works as a radio broadcast. The show is introduced by sci-fi icon George Takei, star of the "Star Trek" tv and film series.
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Original Full-Cast Drama Release: June 2003
BBC R7 - Young Classics - 5 April 2010 - 9 April 2010
Five episodes x 30 minutes
Synopsis
Marcy Kahan's dramatisation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel about an impetuous red-headed girl.
R7-YoungClassics-LucyMMontgomery-Anne of Green Gables 1-5
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1/5. A couple expect to adopt an orphan boy - not an impetuous red-headed girl.
2/5. The Cuthberts send the feisty girl off to school, but trouble lies ahead.
3/5. Anne meets a kindred spirit, gets cooking - and nearly kills herself.
4/5. Anne has a very bad hair day - and resolves never to be romantic again.
5/5. Anne goes away to college - but her heart is still in Avonlea.
About the Author L.M. Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery and publicly known as L.M. Montgomery, (30 November 1874–24 April 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Once published, Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character.
The novels became the basis for the highly acclaimed 1985 CBC television miniseries, Anne of Green Gables and several other television movies and programs, including Road to Avonlea, which ran in Canada and the U.S. from 1990-1996.
L.M. Montgomery worked as a teacher in various island schools. As well, beginning in 1897, she began to have her short stories published in various magazines and newspapers. A prolific talent, Montgomery had over 100 stories published from 1897 to 1907 inclusive.
In 1898 Montgomery moved back to Cavendish to live with her widowed grandmother. For a short time in 1901 and 1902 she worked in Halifax for the newspapers Chronicle and Echo. She returned to live with and care for her grandmother in 1902. Montgomery was inspired to write her first books during this time on Prince Edward Island.
In 1908, Montgomery published her first book, Anne of Green Gables. Three years later, shortly after her grandmother's death, she married Ewan (found in Montgomery's notes and letters as "Ewan") Macdonald (1870 - 1943), a Presbyterian Minister, and moved to Ontario where he had taken the position of minister of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Leaskdale in present-day Uxbridge Township, also affiliated with the congregation in nearby Zephyr.
Leaskdale manse, home of Lucy Maud Montgomery from 1911 to 1926 Montgomery had three sons: Chester Cameron Macdonald (July 7, 1912–1964); Hugh Alexander Macdonald, who was stillborn August 13, 1914 and inspired the death of Anne Shirley's first child, Joyce, in Anne's House of Dreams; and Ewan Stuart Macdonald (October 7, 1915–1982).
Montgomery wrote her next eleven books from the Leaskdale manse. The structure was subsequently sold by the congregation and is now the Lucy Maud Montgomery Leaskdale Manse Museum. In 1926, the family moved in to the Norval Presbyterian Charge, in present-day Halton Hills, Ontario, where today the Lucy Maud Montgomery Memorial Garden can be seen from Highway 7.
Compact Discoveries a series of one-hour radio programs produced, written, hosted, and edited by Fred Flaxman. Fred Flaxman introduces 14 Academy-Award-winning popular classics sung by Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Lionel Richie, and others. (59:00)
