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images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRuXHuFjteAcFRo2ERx2hWN-LxzXnv_e6MDaFta_Wtt2VhQ-R76&profile=RESIZE_400xTravelin' Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall is a 2022 documentary film directed by Bob Smeaton. The film documents the origins of the American swamp rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival and their 1970 European tour, culminating in an April 14, 1970, performance at London's Royal Albert Hall. The movie takes its name from the band's song "Travelin' Band".

A 40-minute history narrated by actor Jeff Bridges documents the band's formation in El Cerrito, California, their early efforts under as Tommy Fogerty & the Blue Velvets and The Golliwogs, and their signing by Fantasy Records.[2] At the time they toured Europe, the Beatles broke up, leaving Creedence as, as Bridges puts it, "the biggest group in the world."

Travelin' Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall

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Big Ben Calling (1935)

Radio_Pirates_film_Opening_titles_%281935%29.png?profile=RESIZE_400xBig Ben Calling is a 1935 British musical drama film. It features Leslie French, Mary Lawson, Warren Jenkins, and Enid Stamp-Taylor.

A music composer, disheartened by the failure of BBC radio to play any of his compositions, decides to set up his own pirate radio station.

Directed by Ivar Campbell and starring Leslie French, Mary Lawson and Enid Stamp-Taylor. It was written by Donovan Pedelty, with music and lyrics by Mark Lubbock, and made at Shepperton Studios

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

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A multi-cast audio adaptation of Agatha Christie’s debut novel, THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES, starring Peter Dinklage as the legendary Hercule Poirot.

England, 1914. The world is at war. Captain Hastings, injured and shaken, is invited to Styles Court to recover. It’s a grand old country house - the family home of his old friend - and a perfect haven. Or so it seems. But in the blistering summer heat, trouble is afoot. Simmering tensions are tearing the family apart, and it all comes to a head in the most horrifying way. Emily Inglethorp, the wealthy matriarch of the family, is brutally murdered in the middle of the night. And nobody at Styles is above suspicion. Anyone could have killed Emily - from her ambitious American husband to her distinguished but troubled sons John and Lawrence, her old friend Evie Howard and young ward Cynthia Murdoch.

Captain Hastings is desperate to solve the mystery and protect the family from the terrible speculation of the press. And he knows just the man they need: a brilliant Detective Hastings once knew, who just happens to be staying in the village. His insight and method are exceptional - and his suit is flawless. He goes by the name of Hercule Poirot.

Peter Dinklage as Hercule Poirot
Himesh Patel as Arthur Hastings
Harriet Walter as Emily Inglethorp
Jessica Gunning as Evie Howard
Rob Delaney as Alfred Inglethorp
Phil Dunster as John Cavendish
Patsy Ferran as Mary Cavendish
John Bradley as Lawrence Cavendish
Vivian Oparah as Cynthia Murdoch
And a full ensemble

The adaptation was written by Anna Lea, directed by Alice Lowe and produced by Claire Broughton. Produced in Dolby Atmos, the production features an original score by Johnny Flynn.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Puffer Live TV (FREE)

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Stream live TV in your browser. There's no charge. You can watch U.S. TV stations affiliated with the NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, Fox, and CW networks.

Puffer works in the Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera browsers, on a computer or an Android phone or tablet. Puffer does not work on iPhones or iPads or in Safari.

 

If you are using a Firestick or Fire TV device, the Silk Browser can be easily installed from the Amazon App Store. With the Amazon Silk Browser on your device will play any live stream you choose from Puffer.

If you are using an NVIDIA SHIELD, MECOOL Box, Chromecast, ONN box or any device with the Android TV operating system, I suggest using the browser called JioSphere Web Browser and it works great on Android TV Boxes. Open Google Play on Android TV and Search for “jio”.

Also viewiing Times Past works great using the JioSphere Web Browser on your TV for listening to rasio shows and watching some of the movies and Tv series. It also allows you to download files easily.

Recommend the Onn 4K UHD Dolby Streaming Media Player with Google TV from Walmart  for its $50 price and performance.

  • Quad-core Cortex-A55 CPU, Mali-G31 MP3 GPU
  • 32GB of storage
  • 3GB RAM
  • Wi-Fi 6
  • Bluetooth
  • USB 3.0 port
  • 100Mbps ethernet port.00.

Also the thetvapp.to works great for even more free live TV channels from a browser.

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Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

440px-Miracle_on_34th_Street_%281947_film_poster%29.jpg?profile=RESIZE_400xMiracle on 34th Street (initially released as The Big Heart in the United Kingdom is a 1947 American Christmas comedy-drama film released by 20th Century-Fox, written and directed by George Seaton and based on a story by Valentine Davies. It stars Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, and Edmund Gwenn. The story takes place between Thanksgiving and Christmas in New York City, and focuses on the effect of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film has become a perennial Christmas favorite.

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Saturday Night Theatre

R.843d446e961769c9692e4041e565997c?rik=Ze7ZMLQc0hV%2fTA&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.saturday-night-theatre.co.uk%2fimages%2fMainMenu%2fSaturday-Night-Theatre-Banner.jpg&ehk=sKGpEQCuCi%2bi%2b%2fYFfVQzKnTk0vUBlbQnnMszSrL4bUU%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0&profile=RESIZE_584xSaturday Night Theatre was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4 and its predecessor, the BBC Home Service. The strand showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays on Saturday evenings for more than 50 years, having been launched in April 1943. The plays featured in the strand included stage plays, book adaptations and original dramatisations. For most of its history, programmes ran for 90 minutes and were largely entertainment-centred, such as thrillers, comedies and mysteries.

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Christmas Old Time Radio

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Abbott & Costello    
American Weekly    
Amos & Andy    
Archie Andrews    
Armed Forces Radio Service    
Authors Playhouse    
Benny Goodman    
Big Town    
Bing Crosby    
Blackadder    
Blondie & Dagwood    
Bob Hope    
Burns & Allen    
Calling All Detectives    
Campbell Playhouse    
CBC    
CBS RMT    
Chesterfield Show    
Christmas War & Historical    
Couple Next Door    
Damon Runyon Theater    
Dickens    
Duffy's Tavern    
Eddie Cantor    
Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy    
Ethel and Albert    
Eyes Aloft    
Family Hour Of Stars    
Father Knows Best    
Fibber McGee and Molly    
Fred Allen    
Gene Autry    
GI Christmas Present    
Globe Theater    
Great Gildersleeve    
Hallmark Hall Of Fame    
Hallmark Playhouse    
Hancock's Half Hour    
Hearts In Harmony    
Henry Morgan    
Honest Harold    
Hopalong Cassidy    
Hotpoint Holiday    
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again    
Jack Benny    
Jack Carson    
Jack Haley    
James Gleason    
James Melton    
Judy Canova    
Jump Jump    
Let George Do It    
Life of Riley    
Life with the Lyons    
Lights Out    
Lone Ranger    
Mayor of the Town    
Milton Berle    
Monitor    
My Favorite Husband    
My Friend Erma    
My Little Margie    
Nero Wolfe    
Nick Carter    
Night Beat    
One Mans Family    
Our Miss Brooks    
Ozzie & Harriet    
Phil Harris and Alice Faye    
Proudly We Hail    
Radio City Playhouse    
Red Ryder    
Red Skelton    
Ripley's Believe It Or Not    
Romance    
Roy Rogers    
Shadow    
Sherlock Holmes    
Stars Over Hollywood    
Tales of the Texas Rangers    
Tarzan    
The Bickersons    
The Fat Man    
The Saint    
The Whistler    
This is Your FBI    
Truth or Consequences    
Vic and Sade   -
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H.G. Wells: Radio Dramas

440px-H.G._Wells_by_Beresford.jpg?profile=RESIZE_400xHerbert George Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the "father of science fiction”.

In addition to his fame as a writer, he was prominent in his lifetime as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons and satellite television

  1. The Time Machine (45.8Mb)
  2. The Wonderful Visit (26.4Mb)
  3. The Island of Doctor Moreau (40.1Mb)
  4. The Invisible Man (64.3Mb)
  5. The War Of The Worlds (52Mb)
  6. Love and Mr Lewisham (74.9Mb)
  7. The First Men In The Moon (37.2Mb)
  8. Kipps (125.4Mb)
  9. Tono-Bungay (78.4Mb)
  10. Ann Veronica (52.2Mb)
  11. The History of Mr Polly (71.5Mb)
  12. In the Abyss (10.9Mb)
  13. The Sea Raiders (10.9Mb)
  14. A Dream of Armageddon (24.2Mb)
  15. The New Accelerator (12.1Mb)
  16. The Inexperienced Ghost (12.1Mb)
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Johnny Cash: Live at San Quentin Documentary

12865087267?profile=RESIZE_584xIt took Johnny Cash 12 years to record one of his live prison shows, but it wasn't easy. He was threatened against doing it, warned it would ruin his career, but Cash's instincts were dead on. He just went ahead and recorded at Folsom Prison in 1968 and never sounded so raw and alive. The live album was a huge hit, and followed by the even bigger "Johnny Cash at San Quentin" - his first #1 album on the pop charts.

In this hour we explore how Cash's concert at San Quentin came about, went down and the wake it left behind. Your listeners will hear Johnny Cash on the edge, plowing through well-known songs and premiering new ones that stated, "San Quentin, I hope you rot and burn in hell." Needless to say, he almost started a riot in a room full of very bad men. The program also features a few songs from the show not included on the original live album.

For an inside view, we'll hear about prison life from the prisoners and prison guards, taken from the documentary "Johnny Cash in San Quentin." The original producer, Bob Johnston, speaks about the excitement and fear, as does Jim Marshall, photographer of the famous "Johnny flipping the bird at San Quentin" photo. We'll also hear about Johnny Cash's views on the lock-up from bassist Marshall Grant, son John Carter Cash, singer/songwriter Larry Gatlin and music writer Anthony DeCurtis.

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Sherlock Holmes BBC Audiodramas

12863001456?profile=RESIZE_400xIn 1987 freelance writer Bert Coules approached the BBC with the proposal to dramatise Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was given the go-ahead as a two-part serial with Roger Rees and Crawford Logan as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.

Roger Rees and Crawford Logan as Holmes and Watson
The show went down well with the public and the press and Coules suggested doing two more of the novels. The BBC agreed but insisted on recasting, and Clive Merrison and Michael Williams were offered the roles.

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams as Holmes and Watson
When A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four were also a success, Coules proposed a six-part series of the best short adventures. The BBC though had other ideas: they would produce the entire canon of fifty-six short stories and four novels, the first time it had ever been done in any medium with the same two actors in the leads.

With Bert Coules as the head writer of a small and changing team, and with the same two producer-directors responsible for the entire remaining run of shows, the aim throughout was to go back to the original stories and characters and place the relationship between Holmes and Watson at the centre of the drama.

The project was launched in January 1991 and ran for the next nine years, attracting large audiences and guest stars of the calibre of Dame Judi Dench, Brian Blessed, Sir Donald Sinden and many others.

Four further series of brand new mysteries followed, with Andrew Sachs taking over as Watson after the untimely death of Michael Williams. The new shows were based on some of Conan Doyle's tantalising throwaway references to other cases which he never wrote up in full, culminating in one of the most famous, the strange affair of the politician, the lighthouse and the trained cormorant.

  1. Revenge (64.7Mb)
  2. The Country of the Saints (64.5Mb)
  3. Timbertoe (65.5Mb)
  4. The Great Agra Treasure (65.2Mb)
  5. The Powers of Evil (64.7Mb)
  6. Death on the Moor (64.7Mb)
  7. The Scowrers (65.2Mb)
  8. The Tragedy of Birlstone (65.3Mb)
  9. A Scandal in Bohemia (49.3Mb)
  10. The Red-headed League (50.9Mb)
  11. A Case of Identity (50.5Mb)
  12. The Boscombe Valley Mystery (50.4Mb)
  13. The Five Orange Pips (48.7Mb)
  14. The Man with the Twisted Lip (50.6Mb)
  15. The Blue Carbuncle (48.3Mb)
  16. The Speckled Band (50.8Mb)
  17. The Engineer's Thumb (49.6Mb)
  18. The Noble Bachelor (50.6Mb)
  19. The Beryl Coronet (50.6Mb)
  20. The Copper Beeches (50.6Mb)
  21. Silver Blaze (50.8Mb)
  22. The Yellow Face (50Mb)
  23. The Stockbroker's Clerk (49.8Mb)
  24. The Gloria Scott (50.3Mb)
  25. The Musgrave Ritual (50.1Mb)
  26. The Reigate Squires (50.4Mb)
  27. The Crooked Man (50.8Mb)
  28. The Resident Patient (47.8Mb)
  29. The Greek Interpreter (50Mb)
  30. The Naval Treaty (50.7Mb)
  31. The Final Problem (50.5Mb)
  32. The Empty House (50.9Mb)
  33. The Norwood Builder (50.6Mb)
  34. The Dancing Men (49.6Mb)
  35. The Solitary Cyclist (48.7Mb)
  36. The Priory School (50.5Mb)
  37. Black Peter (50.2Mb)
  38. Charles Augustus Milverton (50.6Mb)
  39. The Six Napoleons (49.2Mb)
  40. The Three Students (49.4Mb)
  41. The Golden Pince-nez (50.4Mb)
  42. The Missing Three-quarter (50.5Mb)
  43. The Abbey Grange (49.4Mb)
  44. The Second Stain (50.5Mb)
  45. Wisteria Lodge (50.6Mb)
  46. The Cardboard Box (50.7Mb)
  47. The Red Circle (50.6Mb)
  48. The Bruce Partington Plans (50.4Mb)
  49. The Dying Dectective (50.6Mb)
  50. The Disapperance of Lady Frances Carfax (49Mb)
  51. The Devil's Foot (50.8Mb)
  52. His Last Bow (50.5Mb)
  53. The Illustrious Client (48.7Mb)
  54. The Blanched Soldier (49.2Mb)
  55. The Mazarin Stone (49.4Mb)
  56. The Three Gables (50.5Mb)
  57. The Sussex Vampire (49.1Mb)
  58. The Three Garridebs (50.8Mb)
  59. The Problem of Thor Bridge (50.5Mb)
  60. The Creeping Man (50.9Mb)
  61. The Lion's Mane (50.9Mb)
  62. The Veiled Lodger (50.8Mb)
  63. Shoscombe Old Place (49.7Mb)
  64. The Retired Colourman (50.6Mb)
  65. The Madness of Colonel Warburton (40.3Mb)
  66. The Star of the Adelphi (40.1Mb)
  67. The Peculiar Persecution of Mr John Vincent Harden (39.9Mb)
  68. The Singular Inheritance of Miss Gloria Wilson (40Mb)
  69. The Saviour of Cripplegate Square (40.5Mb)
  70. The Abergavenny Murder (39.5Mb)
  71. The Shameful Betrayal of Miss Emily Smith (39.8Mb)
  72. The Tragedy of Hanbury Street (39.9Mb)
  73. The Determind Client (40Mb)
  74. The Striking Success of Miss Franny Blossom (39.8Mb)
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Bob Dylan Biography

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Patti Smith hosts four hours of music and conversation about Bob Dylan. His friends, early influences and collaborators discuss their close relationships with Dylan and the stories behind his greatest songs and other memorable moments of his career. Journalists and biographers add critical insights and provide historical contexts. Exclusive comments from current singer-songwriters detail how Dylan's art influenced their own lives and careers. We also hear Bob Dylan, himself, in rarely heard interview clips. Each episode focuses on on a distinct period of his life, and they are sequenced in chronological order.


DYLAN - BLOWIN' IN THE WIND 1-4

DYLAN - LIKE A ROLLING STONE 2-4

DYLAN - SHELTER FROM THE STORM 3-4

DYLAN - OH MERCY 4-4

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Waylon Jennings Nashville Rebel

440px-Waylon_Jennings_in_1976.jpg?profile=RESIZE_400xWaylon Jennings became a country star doing it Nashville's way. But he became a legend doing things his way. In the early 1970s, his and fellow Texan Willie Nelson's successful fight for creative control of their records launched country?s Outlaw movement. From a career that began in 1958 with a single produced by rock icon Buddy Holly until his death in 2002, Waylon created edgy, timeless, straight-talking music like "This Time," "Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)" and "Good Hearted Woman" (with Willie). WAYLON JENNINGS: NASHVILLE REBEL looks back on Waylon's whole career - from the first Holly-produced single (Jole Blon), a tune from his early ?60s days in Phoenix (Stop the World), his early RCA hits, all the Outlaw masterpieces, and "I Do Believe" as part of the Highhwaymen. Host Cowboy Jack Clement tells the story with help from Waylon's wife Jessi Colter, musicians and collaborators Kris Kristofferson, and Richie Albright, and writers Lenny Kaye and Anthony DeCurtis.

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The Sicilian Expedition by John Fletcher

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Almost 2500 years ago, a confident young general persuaded Athens to launch an attack on Sicily. Alcibiades was a member of the Athenian baby boomer generation, whose elders had fought to give their children a society of justice, wealth and education. The baby boomers explored every sexual avenue, took drugs to excess, and became the greatest consumers of the most exotic products in human history. Then it all went wrong. In the words of the author:

"Athens. The most extraordinary, the most beautiful, the most terrifying civilization of all time. The template we all live out. Effortlessly its drama, its art, its science and philosophy bestrode the world. But despite its superb democracy, all-powerful economy and a "shock-and-awe" military the envy of the world -- out of a clear blue sky came sudden, terrifying and total collapse. The Athenians had their very own Iraq War... The Sicilian Expedition.

With: ----- Socrates....James Laurenson Alcibiades....Julian Rhind-Tutt Callias....Richard Nichols Theodote....Mia Soteriou Nicias....Jonathan Nibbs Taureas....Matthew Morgan Agathon....Richard Mitchley Spartan Soldier....Nathan Sussex Bagoas....Brendan Charleson Mantitheus....Jonathan Floyd Mother....Christine Pritchard Music by John Hardy Director Kate McAll.


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The Adventures of Doc Savage

Doc_Savage_Magazine_-_March_1933.jpg?profile=RESIZE_400xDoc Savage is a physician, scientist, adventurer, detective, inventor, explorer, researcher, and, as revealed in The Polar Treasure, a musician. A team of scientists assembled by his father deliberately trained his mind and body to near-superhuman abilities almost from birth, giving him great strength and endurance, a photographic memory, a mastery of the martial arts, and vast knowledge of the sciences. Doc is also a master of disguise and an excellent imitator of voices.

In 1985, National Public Radio aired The Adventures of Doc Savage, as 13 half-hour episodes, based on the pulps and adapted by Will Murray and Roger Rittner. Daniel Chodos starred as Doc.

  1. Kidnapped (5.5Mb)
  2. The Hanging Man (5.4Mb)
  3. The Disappointing Parcel (5.4Mb)
  4. The Island of Death (5.2Mb)
  5. Terror Underground (4.9Mb)
  6. The Mysterious Weeds (5Mb)
  7. The Crawling Terror (5.5Mb)
  8. The Black Stick (5.8Mb)
  9. Three Black Sticks (6.3Mb)
  10. Flight Into Fear (6.2Mb)
  11. Pagoda of the Hands (5.8Mb)
  12. The Accursed City (5.6Mb)
  13. The Deadly Treasure (5.6Mb)
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Agatha Christie BBC Dramatisations

Agatha_Christie.png?profile=RESIZE_400xBBC radio have produced over 70 full cast adaptations of Agatha Christie’s beloved crime stories, including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Hercule Poirot is one of the most famous fictional characters of all time, known for his Belgian accent, waxed moustaches, perfectionism and “little grey cells”. Poirot would be the first to call himself a great man – he has never been known for his modesty – but with such success in his career, it is difficult to argue with him.

Miss Marple doesn’t look like a detective. But looks can be deceiving… this apparently unassuming woman from the small village of St Mary Mead is surprisingly worldly and uses the fact people underestimate her to full advantage when investigating.

  1. Mysterious Affair at Styles (unknown file size)
  2. Murder on the Links (39.3Mb)
  3. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (unknown file size)
  4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (unknown file size)
  5. The Mystery of the Blue Train (70.2Mb)
  6. Murder at the Vicarage (unknown file size)
  7. Giant's Bread (unknown file size)
  8. The Sittaford Mystery (67.2Mb)
  9. Peril at End House (unknown file size)
  10. Lord Edgware Dies (unknown file size)
  11. Murder on the Orient Express (unknown file size)
  12. Three Act Tragedy (unknown file size)
  13. Death in the Clouds (unknown file size)
  14. ABC Murders (unknown file size)
  15. Murder in Mesopotamia (62.4Mb)
  16. Cards on the Table (unknown file size)
  17. Dumb Witness (unknown file size)
  18. Death on the Nile (unknown file size)
  19. Appointment with Death (unknown file size)
  20. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (unknown file size)
  21. And Then There Were None (unknown file size)
  22. Sad Cypress (60.7Mb)
  23. One Two Buckle My Shoe (unknown file size)
  24. Evil Under the Sun (unknown file size)
  25. Body in the Library (unknown file size)
  26. Five Little Pigs (unknown file size)
  27. The Moving Finger (39.8Mb)
  28. Towards Zero (50.9Mb)
  29. Absent in the Spring (unknown file size)
  30. Sparkling Cyanide (38.6Mb)
  31. Taken at the Flood (unknown file size)
  32. The Rose and the Yew Tree (unknown file size)
  33. Crooked House (unknown file size)
  34. A Murder is Announced (63.7Mb)
  35. Mrs McGinty's Dead (unknown file size)
  36. They Do It With Mirrors (unknown file size)
  37. After the Funeral (unknown file size)
  38. A Pocketful of Rye (unknown file size)
  39. Dead Man's Folly (unknown file size)
  40. 4.50 from Paddington (unknown file size)
  41. Ordeal by Innocence (38.8Mb)
  42. Pale Horse (unknown file size)
  43. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (39.6Mb)
  44. Caribbean Mystery (unknown file size)
  45. At Bertram's Hotel (unknown file size)
  46. Endless Night (26.1Mb)
  47. Hallowe'en Night (40.2Mb)
  48. Elephants Can Remember (39.9Mb)
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BBC Walter Mosley Collection

R.4d66653c9485e1fc5debb1ee3ba67801?rik=h%2fN8JLzuyeeefw&riu=http%3a%2f%2fi2.cdn.turner.com%2fcnn%2f2011%2fimages%2f09%2f13%2ft1larg.walterm.jpg&ehk=iEcRte6UW1foD4hWMfMt1g%2beKMETYIjq06CgfVIgWZY%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0&profile=RESIZE_400xWalter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California; they are perhaps his most popular works.

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Tennessee Williams: BBC Radio Drama Collection

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams is one of the three most important American dramatists of the 20th century, alongside Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill. Acclaimed for their lyrical language, dark themes and vivid portrayal of the American South, Williams' works have spawned several Oscar-winning films and been translated and performed worldwide.


Collected here are some of his best, beginning with the play that launched Williams' career: The Glass Menagerie. Telling the story of a family in crisis in 1930s St Louis, it is one of his most autobiographical works, and a timeless evocation of lost love and loneliness. It stars Anastasia Hille, George MacKay, Patsy Ferran and Sope Dirisu.


Next up is his masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire. It stars Olivier Award-winning actress Anne-Marie Duff as damaged Southern belle Blanche Dubois, pushed to the brink of sanity by her explosive brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski (Matthew Needham).


It is followed by one of Williams' earliest plays, Spring Storm, about Heavenly Critchfield, a young woman forced to decide between a respectable suitor and a handsome, wild lover. Liz White stars as Heavenly, with Matthew Malarkey and Michael Thomson.


Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is set in the plantation home in the Mississippi Delta of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon; the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie "the Cat", Brick's wife. Joss Ackland stars as Big Daddy, with Gemma Jones as Big Mama, Elizabeth McGovern as Maggie, Marcus D'Amico as Brick, Alison Steadman as Mae and Roy Dotrice as Rev Tooker.


Also included is a recording of the 1966 revival of The Rose Tattoo, which tells the story of Serafina Delle Rose, an Italian-American widow in Mississippi who has withdrawn from the world after her husband's death and expects her daughter to do the same. It stars Maureen Stapleton as Serafina Delle Rose, Harry Guardino as Alvaro Mangiacavallo, Maria Tucci as Rosa Delle Rose, Barbara Townsend as Miss Yorke and Christopher Walken as Jack Hunter.

  1. The Glass Menagerie (92.4Mb)
  2. A Streetcar Named Desire (105.8Mb)
  3. Spring Storm (123Mb)
  4. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (108.7Mb)
  5. The Rose Tattoo (102.8Mb)
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The Rider Of Lost Creek

2309800268?profile=originalLance Kilkenny's gun is believed to be the fastest in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help.

 

After you listen to this book, the next one in series is "A Man Called Trent"

 

The Rider of Lost Creek-Part 01

The Rider of Lost Creek-Part 02

The Rider of Lost Creek-Part 03

The Rider of Lost Creek-Part 04

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XPS by Len Deighton

XPD%20-%203.jpg?cnt=0&profile=RESIZE_400xXPS by Len Deighton

The title of Len Deighton’s riveting thriller XPD stands for Expedient Demise.

An alleged secret meeting between Churchill and Hitler in 1940 is at the centre of the tangled plot; Whitehall, the Kremlin and the CIA - plus a ruthless secret group - we are all somewhat anxious of that historical conference. Will the so-called Hitler Minutes prove Churchill a traitor?

Deighton described his book as "faction", a blend of fact and fiction "so skilful you can't see the join".

Dramatised in 8-parts by Michael Bakewell.
Director: Peter King
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1985

CAST
Boyd Stuart ...... Trevor Nichols
Sydney Ryden ...... David Garth
Charles Stein ...... Bruce Boa
Max Breslow ...... Bernard Hepton
Willi Kleiber ...... Clifford Rose
Hitler Minutes ...... Colin Starkey
Prime Minister/Section Head ...... Bernard Brown
Jennifer ...... Jenny Funnell
Kitty ...... Melinda Walker
MacIver ...... Don Fellows
Billy Stein ...... Ian Tyler

01 A Small Killing in Hollywood.mp3
02 The House in Geneva.mp3
03 An Egg Farm in Norfolk.mp3
04 The Hitler Minutes.mp3
05 Operation Siegfried.mp3
 
06 A Safe House for Moscow.mp3
07 The Geneva Raid.mp3
08 Expedient Demise.mp3
 
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Frankenstein

frankenstein-monster.jpg?cnt=0&profile=RESIZE_584xA BBC Radio "Classic Serial" adaptation by Lucy Catherine, as part of their "Gothic Imagination" season, of Mary Shelley's classic novel.

Victor Frankenstein ... Jamie Parker
The Monster ... Shaun Dooley
Elizabeth ... Susie Riddell
Walton ... Alun Raglan
Henry Clerval ... Sam Alexander
Mother ... Christine Absalom
Professor Waldman ... Patrick Brennan
Justine/Agatha ... Emma Hook
Sailor/Felix ... Joe Sims
Father ... Robert Blythe
Lieutenant ... Don Gilet

Directed by Marc Beeby

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 28 October and 4 November 2012

Frankenstein 1-2

Frankenstein 2-2

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