Walter 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.
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of The Rose Tattoo, which tells the story of Serafina Delle Rose, an Italian-American widow in Mississippi who has withdrawn from the world after her husband's death and expects her daughter to do the same.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.
Lance 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
XPS 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
A 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
Carl Amari, an American film and television producer, actor, director and syndicated radio host, creator of "When Radio Was" has spent his 40+ year career dedicated to preserving and licensing original radio shows. His syndicated nostalgia radio show, Hollywood 360, airs on hundreds of radio stations in the U.S. and in 168 countries via American Forces Radio. Amari is producer/director of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas and the curator of the Classic Radio Club, where fans of original radio shows can collect them directly from the master source material.
Ziv's entire private collection of over 10,000 transcription discs (which have been stored in a controlled environment) has been exclusively licensed to Carl Amari.
I was contacted by Doug Hopkinson who will be transfering and handling the digitalization of the Transcription Discs. There will be a Kickstarter in the future to help with the cost of this process.
Bold Venture, which has NEVER been available as a complete series before, is only one of 41 different radio series that can be found in the private collection of Frederic W. Ziv.
Ziv produced a total of 78 programs of the Bold Venture radio series. All 78 programs will be consistent in audio quality, due to the condition of these archival discs, due to the hi-tech ultrasonic wash system that will be employed and due to the array of styli widths that will be available for use. All programs will be digitally recorded and saved in raw 16 bit wav files. At least 18 of these programs have not been heard in 70 years since they were last broadcast over radio.
If this Bold Venture Kickstarter proves successful, there will be future Kickstarters for other vintage radio series from this private collection of un-played discs. These other COMPLETE radio series include Boston Blackie, The Cisco Kid, I Was A Communist for the FBI, Philo Vance, Favorite Story and Mr. District Attorney just to name a few...
When I have more information on this project, I will pass on the details for anyone that may be interested. September 23 is the projected date.
Robert
Love in a Cold Climate is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1949. The title is a direct quotation from George Orwell's novel "Keep The Aspidistra Flying" (1936).
Dramatised by Claire Luckham in 1999 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the novel's publication.
An invitation to a grand party at Hampton, home of the fabulously wealthy Montdores and their beautiful daughter Polly, brings Fanny straight into the world of the aristocracy, and in and out of love when the temperature drops...
One episode of approximately 90 minutes.
With:
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Amanda Root (Fanny)
Barbara Jefford (Lady Montdore)
Teresa Gallagher (Polly)
Tessa Worsley (Aunt Sadie)
William Hope (Cedric)
Jenny Howe (Veronica Chaddesley-Corbett)
Ifan Meredith (Uncle Matthew)
Sara-Jane Holm (Jassy)
Patience Tomlinson (Aunt Emily)
John Strickland (Uncle Davie)
Tilly Gaunt (Victoria)
Stephen Crichlow (Boy Dougdale)
Tom Beard (Alfred)
Directed by Marion Nancarrow.
Love in a Cold Climate.mp3
The unexpected arrival of a new apprentice jockey at his father's racing stables heralds the beginning of a series of dark happenings for Neil Griffon.
First, his father suffers a grisly accident, then Neil is brutally assaulted and abducted. The price for his freedom will mean the betrayal and deception of those who trust Griffon most. But, he has no choice: a no-compromise crime czar has made an ultimatum - that his own eighteen-year-old son be hired by Griffon's stables to ride the superstar horse, Archangel, in the Derby.
And, the young man must be trained to win. Or else...
One episode of approx 90 minutes.
With:
Frances Matthews
Caroline Blakison
Mark Colleano.
In Jamaica Inn, at the heart of the bleak Bodmin Moor, young Mary Yellen soon discovers mysterious goings-on in the dead of night. But worse is yet to come as Mary finds herself helplessly ensnared in the deadly activities taking place around her.
Evocative, atmospheric and chilling, this adaptation of Jamaica Inn has all the hallmarks of a great adventure classic. A full-cast radio dramatisation of the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Dame Daphne du Maurier DBE (13 May 1907 - 19 April 1989) was a famous British novelist best known for her short story "The Birds" and her classic novel Rebecca, published in 1938. Both were adapted into films by Alfred Hitchcock and Rebecca was an Oscar-winning film.
Daphne du Maurier is often mistakenly categorised as a "romantic novelist", but she was in fact a major force in post-war horror and science fiction. The BBC is celebrating the centenary of her birth with an airing of all of her material in it's archives. Four episodes of approx one hour each in high quality MP3.
Episode 1: ---------- Cornwall, 1810. A coach slowly navigates the mire. Inside, Mary trembles at the fate that is taking her to Jamaica Inn.
Episode 2: ---------- Mary is now at her aunt and uncle's inn. Its brooding power gradually ensnares her in the dark schemes enacted behind its walls.
Episode 3: ---------- Forced to watch as another ship is lured to its doom by her uncle's gang, Mary is more determined than ever to exact revenge.
Episode 4: ---------- In the final part of Daphne du Maurier's novel, there's spying to be done on the conspirators and their dark schemes.
Country Music is a documentary miniseries created and directed by Ken Burns and written by Dayton Duncan that premiered on PBS on September 15, 2019.
The TV series presented country music from its earliest stars, such as the Carter Family, and Jimmie Rodgers, followed by influential singers of the likes of Hank Williams, through to notable acts of the second half of the 20th century such as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton, finishing in the 1990s.
Ken Burns Country music 1 & 2.mp4
Ken Burns Country music 3 & 4.mp4
Ken Burns Country music 5 & 6.mp4
On the night of 15 September, Starvel House burnt to the ground and its three inmates perished in the flames. An inquest brought in a verdict of accidental death, but Inspector French thinks differently!
by Freeman Wills Crofts, adapted by Alan Downer
Director: David Johnston
Inspector French: Edward De Souza
Detective Constable Tanner: Jonathan Tafler
Pierce Whymper: Gary Cady
Chief Inspector Mitchell: Reginald Marsh
Sgt Kent: Alan Downer
Dr Philpot: Michael Deacon
Ruth Averill: Zelah Clarke
Mrs Oxley: Joan Matheson
Mrs Palmer-Gore: Diana Olsson
Mr Dashwood: John Baddeley
Jeweller: William Simons
Manager at Thomas Cook's: Alan Dudley
Landlord: Michael Tudor Barnes
First Broadcast December 1987 on BBC Radio 4
In 1964, about a decade after The Shadow's final radio broadcast, this pair of all-new adventures were recorded with members of the original cast, including Bret Morrison as The Shadow and Grace Matthews as Margo Lane. While never broadcast, the new dramas ended up being released by Leo the Lion Records (a division of MGM Records) as an LP titled The Official Adventures of The Shadow. It was the first time the phantom avenger ever appeared on record. Produced and directed by Herb Gale, written by John Fleming, and featuring supporting turns from Santos Ortega, Mandel Kramer, Ken Roberts, Bob Dryden, Lawson Zerbe.
Napoleonic seafaring adventure starring Michael Troughton and Nigel Anthony.
1/6 Captain Jack Aubrey awaits the verdict in his court martial for the loss of his ship.
2/6 Jack tests the Sophie, and Stephen's romantic notions of naval life are tarnished.
3/6 The discipline of HMS Sophie's crew is tested and found to be wanting.
4/6 Money is shown to be the root of all evil, and Captain Jack divides the men from the goats
5/6 A difficult decision as the life of a member of the crew is weighed against prize money.
6/6 The loss of the Sophie is finally revealed. Will Aubrey survive his court martial?
“Las Vegas, was it better off when it was run by the mob.”
Anyone who has spent time in Las Vegas has probably heard it before, and residents of Las Vegas hear it all the time. But was the city really better when organized crime had a stranglehold on its biggest business, its lifeblood? When the Las Vegas Strip was mobbed up, and crime families from all over the country had a tight grip on the flow of cash from many of its casinos?
Season 1 of Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas is an 11-part true-crime podcast series produced by the Las Vegas Review-Journal in partnership with The Mob Museum, chronicling the mob’s rise and fall in Las Vegas through the eyes of those who lived it: ex-mobsters, law enforcement officials, politicians and journalists.
From back alleys to bank vaults, dimly lit basements to the neon glow of the Las Vegas Strip, Mobbed Up will transport you to the 20th-century criminal underworlds of Chicago, Kansas City and of course, Las Vegas.
ADULT CONTENT
The KCRW Production "Mean Streets USA" is a collection of short crime fiction stories, a highly-produced series, recorded and produced at KCRW. It features detective stories by contemporary and classic mystery writers like Walter Mosley, Sue Grafton and Michael Connelly, read by Stacy Keach, Sharon Lawrence, Meschach Taylor, Tony Plana and others.
These were recorded off the internet, but the quality is decent.
MS 1 The Angry Man by Ross Macdonald read by Stacy Keach part 1
MS 2 The Angry Man by Ross Macdonald read by Stacy Keach part 2
MS 3 Silver Lining by Walter Mosley read by Meshach Taylor
MS 4 Serpents Dance by Jim Fusilli read by Tate Donovan
MS 5 The Parker Shotgun by Sue Grafton read by Harriet Harris
MS 6 The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us by George P. Pelecanos read by Tony Plana
MS 7 Cielo Azul by Michael Connelly read by John Michael Higgins
A series of true stories of the unceasing search for enemy spies in War Time, based on the memoirs of Lieutenant Oreste Cornel Pinto of the Allied Counter Intelligence service Oreste Pinto was a Dutch Intelligence Officer whom General Eisenhower called "the greatest living expert in security." The radio program, Spy Catcher, was based on Pinto's work in the Allied Counter intelligence Service.
Each episode has Pinto interrogating a political refugee or seeming Allied Serviceman. Using all the psychological and verbal tricks at his command, Pinto tries to prove that the subject is a Nazi Spy. Spy Catcher was penned by Robert Barr, and starred Bernard Archard as Pinto. Barr went on to write twenty six episodes for Radio, with Archard continuing his role.
Festus Haggen (Ken Curtis (born Curtis Wain Gates July 2, 1916) was Marshal Matt Dillon's only official deputy on the CBS television series Gunsmoke. He came to Dodge City in an episode titled "Us Haggens" to avenge the death of his twin brother, Fergus. Played by Ken Curtis, he first appeared in 1962 and was showcased full-time from 1964 until 1975. One of Festus's most well-known attributes was his simple vocabulary and demeanor (which hid a sharp eye and considerable native intelligence), thus ending up being interpreted by viewers as "lovable," and kept Curtis on the series as a full-time cast member.Fergus joined their outlaw uncle—Black Jack Haggen—and was wounded trying to escape a posse. When Jack's horse came up lame, he made Fergus take the lame horse and left Fergus for dead. Fergus, however, made it back to the Haggen place and told Festus what happened. Festus rode out after Jack, who had come to the attention of Marshal Matt Dillon when he killed a local farmer and stole his wagon. Festus joined Matt Dillon and they apprehended Jack, who was shot by the marshal in an escape attempt.Festus decided to stick around Dodge. He can frequently be seen arguing with Doc Adams, or trying to get someone to buy him a beer at the Long Branch. Although originally distrusted by Matt and the townspeople, Festus was eventually accepted by them and became the only full-time official deputy marshal of Gunsmoke. In episodes such as Deadman's Law, he was in charge of the town. Little is known of his past life except that he was a trapper and also a laborer on the transcontinental railroad and cannot read. In a record titled "Gunsmoke's Festus Haggen Calls Out Ken Curtis" it is revealed that he served in the Confederate army, which also explains why he called his mule Ruth.Some famous sayings of Festus were, "Golly Bill!" or "You ornery ole scutter." He called Marshal Dillon, "Math-HEW"!
Curtis died on April 28, 1991, in his sleep of a heart attack in Fresno, California. He was cremated, and his ashes were scattered in the Colorado flatlands.
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, his works have spawned several Oscar-winning films and been translated and performed worldwide.
Collected here are some of the 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 is introduced by Williams’ biographer, John Lahr, and stars Anastasia Hille, George MacKay, Patsy Ferran and Sope Dirisu.
Next up is his masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire. With an introduction by author Sarah Churchwell, 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.
First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2006, Tennessee’s Women comprises five one-act plays: This Property is Condemned, Something Unspoken, The Long Goodbye, Portrait of a Madonna and 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Among the casts are Maria Watton-Graham, Barbara Jefford, Elizabeth McGovern, Nick Sayce, Eleanor Bron and Gerard Murphy.
01 – The Glass Menagerie
02 – A Streetcar Named Desire
03 – Spring Storm
04 – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
05 – The Rose Tattoo
