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Icons Radio Hour

ps.wkmzjdvh.170x170-75.jpgFrom 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.

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I posted all 50 episodes here   http://ppl.ug/2Lp0bQ8vKxM/

This is truly a collection to keep !!!!

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John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

11032208872?profile=original1992 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

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Saturday Drama - JB Priestley - An Inspector Calls

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Saturday Drama
By J. B. Priestley

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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.

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Lawrence of Arabia (1965)

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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.

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Couple of War Dramas

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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

11032207873?profile=originalGunter 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.

Günter Grass - The Tin Drum - 2 of 2 - BBC 1999-03-14

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Arcadia - 1993 play by Tom Stoppard

180px-Arcadia_book.jpgArcadia 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

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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

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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

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Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

11032207876?profile=originalAnne 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.

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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.

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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.

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11032207274?profile=originalBeatles fans and musicians gather to re-experience The Beatles' top-selling album. The two-album set was officially called THE BEATLES, but it became known forever after as The White Album. It was the top-selling of all The Beatles' albums and ranks #11 on the all-time album sales list.

The Beatles' White Album was a wildly diverse collection that included instant classics ("Back in the U.S.S.R", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Dear Prudence", "Blackbird"), gentle ballads ("Mother Nature's Son", "I Will", "Julia"), raucous electric rock ("Helter Skelter", "Yer Blues") amusing ditties ("Honey Pie", "Savoy Truffle", "Rocky Raccoon"), and surprising experimental tracks ("Revolution #9"). The writing and performing styles of the four individual Beatles became distinct. Many Beatle fans and historians point to the White Album as the beginning of the break-up of the Beatles. In little over a year, the band would be dissolved.

The White Album - Revisiting The Beatles' Top-Seller

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Everything Was Right - The Beatles' Revolver

11032206879?profile=originalWhat made Revolver one of the top rock albums of all time? Host Paul Ingles presents Everything Was Right: The Beatles' "Revolver". Ingles explores the landmark album's story and influence in depth, talking with historians, musicians, music critics, and fans and spotlighting each Revolver track (along with the 1966 single "Paperback Writer and Rain") The Beatles experimented with new sounds and subject matter on Revolver, pioneering psychedelic rock on some tracks and exhibiting extraordinary song-craft on others. Listeners learn about the sources for the tunes, the studio experiments The Beatles used to get their ground-breaking sounds, and the lasting impact of the collection on the pop/rock music scene.

Everything Was Right - The Beatles' Revolver

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Guilty Party (BBC)


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"Guilty Party" is a problem in Crime detection in which you are invited to match your wits with a panel of experts - John Arlott, F.R. Buckley and Robert Fabian. So began a typical episode of the long running panel show. It was written by Edward J. Mason and produced by Tony Shryane.

The shows started with a dramatised crime play, the panel then decided on a line of investigation and cross examined the suspects, who gave unscripted answers to their questions. This cross examination should then lead the panel to the Guilty Party!

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The Beatles In America - 1964

11032208474?profile=originalWhen The Beatles arrived in the United States in February of 1964, no one could have anticipated the tremendous impact the band would have on the development of American popular music and pop culture. Paul Ingles hosts The Beatles in America - 1964 and takes listeners back to when The Beatles and America first got to know one another. This lively two-hour montage features rarely heard archival audio, concert recordings, and new interviews with fans and reporters who were swept into The Beatles frenzy. Some of the recordings featured in this program haven't been played publicly in 40 years. (2 Hours)

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The Beatles: Rare and Unseen

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A one-hour radio special that tells the unique story of the Beatles through the colourful collection of eyewitnesses, classic songs and many of the Beatles' inner circle of friends and colleagues. From the group's beginnings as The Quarrymen through some of their most difficult moments, The Beatles: Rare and Unseen is a collection of stories and eyewitness accounts from the people who were there. Interviews with Collin Hanton (Quarrymen drummer), Phil Collins, Tony Barrow and more.

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Zero Hour, The



The Zero Hour (aka Hollywood Radio Theater) was a 1973-74 radio drama anthology series hosted by Rod Serling. With tales of mystery, adventure and suspense, the program aired in stereo for two seasons. Some of the scripts were written by Serling.[2]
Syndicated by the Mutual Broadcasting System, the series debuted September 3, 1973. The original format featured five-part dramas broadcast Monday through Friday with the story coming to a conclusion on Friday. Including commercials, each part was approximately 30 minutes long. Since Mutual affiliates could broadcast the programs at convenient timeslots on any suitable dates, the series did not begin in certain areas until late fall or early winter of 1973.
In 1974, still airing five days a week, the program changed to a full story in a single 30-minute installment with the same actor starring throughout the week in all five programs. That format was employed from late April 1974 to the end of the series on July 26, 1974.
Producer J.M. Kholos was a Los Angeles advertising man who acquired the rights to suspense novels, including Tony Hillerman's The Blessing Way, for radio adaptations. In some cases, the titles were changed. For example, the five-part "Desperate Witness" was an adaptation of The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing. To create a strong package, Kholos followed through by lining up top actors, including John Astin, Edgar Bergen, Joseph Campanella, Richard Crenna, John Dehner, Howard Duff, Patty Duke, Nina Foch, George Maharis, Susan Oliver, Brock Peters and Lurene Tuttle.
The opening theme music was by Ferrante & Teicher. Don Hill produced the series for StudioHouse, which also produced the Salvation Army's Heartbeat Theatre. Counting each five-part show as five episodes, there were a total of 130 episodes. It failed to find a large audience due to the initial weekly serial format and the lack of promotion. According to director Elliott Lewis, "They wanted as much name value as possible to help with sales. They forgot they had to sell it. Everybody sat in the office and waited for someone to call them up and buy the show." (Wikipedia)




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Hola currently Unblocks only a selected list of sites, with many more coming soon. Check from within the Hola application or extension to see which sites can be Unblocked. Note that the Windows version Unblocks more sites than the extension does, but I recommend using the Firefox or Chrome browser extension for a quick look. It unblocks HULU, CBS, FOX, NETFLIX, PANDORA and ITV

You can find all the information and give it a try at hola.org

Give it a try and post your feedback here for others to review.

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