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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. 

War of the Worlds 75th Anniversary Documentary

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.

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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.

The BBC Trust has approved proposals from the BBC Executive to offer BBC radio content for download starting in 2014. More info here -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/services/radio/other/radio_drm.html

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)

Compact Discoveries 213 Oscar-Winning Songs

Beatles 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

What 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

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts & Ronnie Wood take you on an hour long overview of their career, including their 2 new songs found on "Grrrr."

The Rolling Stones Celebrate 50 Years

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• Guilty Party 60-02-24 (01) The Gamblers.mp3
• Guilty Party 60-03-02 (02) Woman in a Ditch.mp3
• Guilty Party 60-03-09 (03) The Diving Statue.mp3
• Guilty Party 60-03-23 (05) Slippery Sam.mp3
• Guilty Party 60-03-30 (06) Bullet in a Bull.mp3
• Guilty Party 60-05-11 (12) Left-Hand Threat.mp3
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• Guilty Party 62-07-24 (04) The Case of the Empty Chimney.mp3
• Guilty Party 62-08-07 (06) The Rembrandt Touch.mp3
• Guilty Party 62-08-14 (07) Poison in the Afternoon.mp3
• Guilty Party 62-08-21 (08) Action for Libel.mp3
• Guilty Party 62-08-28 (09) Murder in the Mediterranean.mp3

When 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)

The Beatles In America - 1964 1-2

The Beatles In America - 1964 2-2

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.

The Beatles Rare and Unseen

Broadcast logs in Adobe Acrobat pdf format for
Jeff Regan, Investigator
and
Rogers of the Gazette
are available at:
http://www.old-time.com/otrlogs2/index.html


Broadcast logs for other Old-Time Radio series are in the works

and will be posted by the end of the year.

Content services (music, video, sport) often require that you be a resident of a certain country to use them, and attempt to enforce this with geographical blocking according to your device's IP. The Hola Unblocker enables watching native content from anywhere in the world -- available as a Chrome/Firefox extension or as a Windows client install that works with any browser.

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.

Boy is it cold here.  No snow yet but windy and COLD!

Have you ever wanted to create your own television series? Kathryn O'Sullivan and her husband Paul Awad did just that—only they aired their Western soap online. The award-nominated series is called Thurston, and it’s one of many new independent productions in the emerging genre of web television.

 “Thurston” is a Western drama about the residents of a remote mining town and their struggle for survival in the 1880’s Kansas Ozarks. Some residents are fleeing troubled pasts. Others are pursuing dreams. All keep carefully guarded secrets. As outside forces move in, the residents must decide who amongst them is friend and who is foe as they fight to save their lives and the place they now call home. “Thurston” seeks to retell the American story of the West and its peoples for the new frontier of online television.

You can catch up with season one on their web site or on vimeo. 

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. As part of this program, the NEA produced several half-hour audio documentaries.

• Housekeeping

  Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping audio guide features Susan Balée, Annette Bening, Dana Gioia, Pico Iyer, Bret Lott, Aimee Mann, Marilynne Robinson, and Jim White. This program features exceprts from the book Housekeeping, copyright Marilynne Robinson 1980. The complete, unabridged audio book of Housekeeping is available from Macmillan Audio.

• Love Medicine

  Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine audio guide is narrated by Josephine Reed and features Irene Bedard, Kimberly Blaeser, Louise Erdrich, Tony Fitzpatrick, Amy Tan, Anton Treuer, and Laura Waterman Wittstock.

• The Shawl

  The Shawl radio show features Peter Black, Dana Gioia, Anne Fadiman, Marion Ross, Diane Thiel, Elie Wiesel, Ruth Wisse, and author Cynthia Ozick.

• The Things They Carried

  The Things They Carried radio show features Andrew Carroll, Lan Samantha Chang, Richard Currey, Max Paul Friedman, David Kipen, Alice McDermott, E. Ethelbert Miller, Craig Mullaney, Tim O'Brien and Bradley Whitford.

• The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

  The Poetry of Emily Dickinson radio show features a program written and narrated by John Barr with poetry readings by Mary Jo Salter. All poems cited are from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition, edited by R. W. Franklin (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1998, 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.) Copyright 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

• In the Time of the Butterflies

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies. This episode features Neko Case, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz, Max Paul Friedman, Ana Menendez, and Ilan Stavans, with readings by Adriana Sananes.

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. This episode features Martin Amis, Susan Bal�e, James H. Billington, Dana Gioia, Olga Grushin, Alfred Molina, N. Scott Momaday, Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, Cynthia Ozick and Jay Parini.

• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima. This episode features the author himself along with Charles Carrillo, Dana Gioia, Tony Hillerman, Margarite Fern�ndez Olmos, Ishmael Reed, Diane Thiel, Maclovia B. Sanchez de Zamora, and readings from the novel by actor Cheech Marin.

• Sun, Stone, and Shadows - Part Two

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about the short story "Chac-Mool" by Carlos Fuentes, read by the author and narrated by Dana Gioia. This is part two of a two-part podcast featuring stories from Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories, a volume published especially for The Big Read.

• Sun, Stone, and Shadows - Part One

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about the short story "My Life with the Wave" by Octavio Paz, read by Tony Plana and narrated by Dana Gioia. This is part one of a two-part podcast featuring stories from Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories, a volume published especially for The Big Read.

• The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This episode features Dana Gioia, Martin Goldsmith, Bill O'Brien, Deirdre Levinson and Josephine Reed.

• The Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about The Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. This episode focuses on The Fall of the House of Usher and features Louis Bayard, Eavan Boland, Sam Elliott, Dana Gioia, Daniel Handler, Daniel Hoffman, Charles Keating, Laura Lippman, Camille Paglia, Stanley Plumly, Marian Seldes, Richard Wilbur and Arthur Yorinks.

• Washington Square by Henry James

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Washington Square by Henry James. This episode features Dana Gioia, Olivia de Havilland, Colin Meloy, Cynthia Ozick, Anne-Imelda M. Radice, Colm Toibin, Gore Vidal, and readings from the novel by Annette Bening.

• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, featuring Russell Banks, Maureen Fiedler, Q'orianka Kilcher, J. D. McClatchy, Penelope Niven, Josephine Reed, Marian Seldes, Sam Waterston, Tappan Wilder, and historical footage of Thornton Wilder himself reading from the novel.

• The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about the poetry of Robinson Jeffers, featuring Dana Gioia and radio host and producer Robert Aubry Davis reading select poems.

• The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Naguib Mahfouz's The Thief and the Dogs featuring Trevor Le Gassick, Gamal al-Ghitani, Dana Gioia, Nadine Gordimer, Tara McKelvey, Adrian McKinty, Mohamed Salmawy and Raymond Stock.

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby featuring Matthew J. Bruccoli, Maureen Corrigan, Dana Gioia, Andrew Sean Greer, Gish Jen, Robert Redford and Sam Waterston.

• Old School by Tobias Wolff

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Tobias Wolff's Old School featuring T.C. Boyle, David Dougherty, Dana Gioia, Jackson Hille, Jonathan Lethem, Lorrie Moore, Zach Rogue, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Tobias Wolff.

• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, featuring Orson Scott Card, Michael Chabon, Michael Dirda, Pico Iyer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kelly Link, Walter Mosley, KenYatta Rogers and R.L. Stine.

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, featuring Susan F. Beegel, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Andrew Carroll, David Ives, Stephen Lang, Bobbie Ann Mason, Alice McDermott, Ken Panda and Tobias Wolff.

• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying, featuring Burl Cain, Ruby Dee, Ernest Gaines, Ash Green, Romulus Linney, Sister Helen Prejean, Ken Yatta Rogers and Cicely Tyson.

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, featuring Louis Auchincloss, Jay Cocks, Stephanie Copeland, David Ives, Alfred Molina, P. J. O'Rourke, Elizabeth Spencer, and Amy Tan.

• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, featuring Matthew J. Bruccoli, Maureen Corrigan, Joe Gores, Diane Johnson, David Kipen, Adrian McKinty, Walter Mosley, Julie Rivett and Scott Simon.

• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features Blake Hazard, E. Ethelbert Miller, P.J. O'Rourke, Mary-Louise Parker, Gore Vidal, and Jim White.

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features Ken Burns, Anne Fadiman, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, David Ives, P.J. O'Rourke, Ron Powers, Richard Rodriguez, and readings by Sam Elliott.

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Jack London's The Call of the Wild. This episode is narrated by narrated by Dana Gioia and features Susan Balee, Yvon Chouinard, Sara S. Hodson, Cheri Lucas, Robert Redford, Richard Rodriguez and Kevin Starr.

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. This episode is narrated by David Kipen and features Ruby Dee, Robert Hemenway, Carla Kaplan, Bret Lott, Azar Nafisi, Jerry Pinkney and Alice Walker.

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features David Baker, Robert Duvall, Horton Foote, Charles J. Shields, Curtis Sittenfeld, Elizabeth Spencer, Anne Twomey, and Sandra Day O'Connor.

• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features Molly Giles, James McBride, Carolyn See, Charles J. Shields, Amy Tan, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Lijun Wang and Ming-Na.

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about John Steinbeck's timeless classic, The Grapes of Wrath. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features Ed Harris, Jay Parini, Bill Ramsey, Richard Rodriguez, Susan Shillinglaw, Kevin Starr, Thom Steinbeck, Susan Straight, Rick Wartzman, and the music of Woody Guthrie.

• My Antonia by Willa Cather

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Willa Cather's novel My Antonia. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features Kurt Andersen, Garrison Keillor, Ted Kooser, Betty Kort, James McBride, Sharon O'Brien, Colin Powell, Kevin Starr, and Antonette Turner.

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about the classic Science Fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features Ray Bradbury, Orson Scott Card, John Crowley, Paquito D'Rivera, Hector Elizondo, Nat Hentoff, Ursula K. Le Guin, Azar Nafisi, Luis Alberto Urrea and Sam Weller.

I like the idea of electronic books because they could be downloaded onto tablets, right? I could not find 'Electronic Book group post in The Little Red Schoolhouse group', so I'm posting here.

I like the idea of electronic books because they could be downloaded onto tablets, right? I could not find 'Electronic Book group post in The Little Red Schoolhouse group', so I'm posting here.

I hope everyone has a happy and SAFE New Year's celebration.