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Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander

p02d7gvn.jpgNapoleonic seafaring adventure starring Michael Troughton and Nigel Anthony.

1. The Question of Preferment

1/6 Captain Jack Aubrey awaits the verdict in his court martial for the loss of his ship.

2. The Question of Seamanship

2/6 Jack tests the Sophie, and Stephen's romantic notions of naval life are tarnished.

3. The Question of Loyalty

3/6 The discipline of HMS Sophie's crew is tested and found to be wanting.

4. The Question of Attraction

4/6 Money is shown to be the root of all evil, and Captain Jack divides the men from the goats

5. The Question of Principle

5/6 A difficult decision as the life of a member of the crew is weighed against prize money.

6. The Question of Dishonour

6/6 The loss of the Sophie is finally revealed. Will Aubrey survive his court martial?

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Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas

SMALLMOBBEDUP1withlogos_2__bi5ai.jpg?profile=RESIZE_400x“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.

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Spy Catcher

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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.

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Festus Talks About

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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.

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Humphrey Bogart Radio Collection

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Humphrey Bogart began his career on Broadway in the 1920s. This led to B-movie parts in 1930s Hollywood. Bogart's turning point came in the 1940s, with his legendary roles in The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. He married several times throughout his life, with his last wife being actress Lauren Bacall.
 
Bogart was born in New York City on December 25, 1899. Bogart, whose surname comes from the Dutch for "keeper of an orchard," was born into a wealthy and prominent New York family, descended directly from New York's first Dutch colonial settlers. His father, Belmont DeForest Bogart, was a respected and socially prominent heart surgeon. His mother, Maud Humphrey, was an accomplished painter and artistic director of The Delineator, a woman's fashion magazine. One of her drawings of Bogart as a baby was used in a national advertising campaign for Mellin's baby food and briefly turned the infant Bogart into a national sensation.
 
In 1956, while still in the prime of his career, Bogart was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Surgery failed to remove the cancerous growth, and Bogart died on January 14, 1957.
 
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Tennessee Williams 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, 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

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Best Country Songs

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MP3s of Best Country Songs from Top Country Music Videos

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Secret Agent X-9 by Dashiell Hammett

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It's 1934 and a New York warehouse is ablaze on the Lower East Side. A gang of gun-runners are holed-up until their supply of ammo explodes.

2. Carnage at Sea.mp3

Heroic agent X-9 takes on the law to pursue his arch enemy in the heart of 1930s New York.

3. The Powers That Be.mp3

The all-American hero battles to save gold bullion and solve Evelyn's disappearance.

4. You're the Top.mp3

The action hero finally confronts his nemesis at the top of a New York landmark. Stars Stuart Milligan and Connie Booth.

Starring Stuart Milligan and Connie Booth.

The heroic agent's adventure from the comic strip created by Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond. Syndicated by King Features, it ran from 1934 to 1996.

Dramatised in four parts by Mark Brisenden,

X-9 ...... Stuart Milligan
Grace Powers ...... Connie Booth
The Top ...... William Hootkins
Evelyn Powers ...... Rachel Power
Deacon ...... Peter Marinker
Matthew ...... Michael John Paliotti
Captain Brady ...... John Guerrasio
Jude ...... Bruce McGregor
Cop 1 ...... Clive Rowe

All other parts played by the cast.

Originally agent X-9 had no name, but opted to call himself "Dexter" in the opening tale.

Dashiell Hammett wrote The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, while Alex Raymond famously created sci-fi comic hero Flash Gordon.

Producer: Chris Wallis.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in January 1994.

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Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater

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Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater is a local, grassroots theater group founded in 1982 with the purpose of helping to revive and extend the American genre of Radio Mystery Theater. Through a series of original radio mysteries and thrillers set on Cape Cod, the group’s programs have been heard on more than 225 NPR stations and distributed nationally across bookstores, libraries and the Internet

 

 

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Dr Zhivago

Dr%20Zhivago.jpgJonathan Myerson's dramatisation of Boris Pasternak's epic tale spanning four decades of war, revolution, passion and terror.

Episode 1:
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Yuri and Lara are coming of age on different sides of Moscow. Their lives are parallel but on very different tracks.

Episode 2:
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An affluent childhood in Imperial Moscow has left Yuri Zhivago with a career as a doctor and an engagement to Tonya. But his life will change when he meets Lara.

Episode 3:
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Returning to Moscow, Yuri finds it hard to adjust to post-revolutionary family life. The city has become a dangerous place, and the only safety lies in leaving and going east. But Lara has also gone in that direction.

Episode 4:
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Yuri and his family have fled Moscow. Arriving in the remote Ural mountains, they find civil war raging and the mysterious Bolshevik general Strelnikov in charge of the nearest town, which happens to be where Lara is.

Episode 5:
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Kidnapped by Red partisan troops to serve as their doctor, Yuri has been a prisoner in the forest for two years. The waste of life sickens him, and he has no news of Tonya or Lara. At last the chance comes to escape back to Yuryatin.

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Even in the wilds of Siberia, Yuri, Lara and Pasha face death in Bolshevik purges. Komarovsky brings them an impossible choice. The revolutionary events which brought Yuri and Lara together are finally pulling them apart, but there is one more meeting to come.

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Voice....Ian McDiarmid
Yuri....Tom Goodman-Hill
Lara....Eve Best
Tonya....Clare Corbett
Komarovsky....Henry Goodman
Liberiy....Darrell D'Silva
Pamphil....Malcolm Storry
Kubarikha....Kathryn Hunter
Lidochka....Sam Dale
Sivobluy....John Lloyd Fillingham
Angelar....Anthony Glennon
Pelageya....Rachel Atkins
Agatha....Katy Cavanagh
Terenty....Lloyd Thomas
Seryozha....Gregg Sulkin
Pasha (Strelnikov)....Don Gilet
Misha....Carl Prekopp
Yevgraf....Stuart McQuarrie
Vassya....Alex Lanipekun
Markel....John Dougall
Marina....Anna Bengo
Lena....Joannah Tincey
Katya....Skye Bennett
Alexander....Alan David
Amalia....Annette Badland
Anna....Susan Jameson
Tishkyevitch....Jeremy Swift
Olya....Katy Cavanagh
Galliulin....Kulvinder Ghir
Mlle Fleury....Helen Schlesinger
Gintz....Paul Richard Biggin
Pritulyev....Ben Crowe
Voronyuk....Sean Baker

Poems translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater, Jonathan Myerson, Jon Stallworthy and Peter France. Cello played by Anna Edwards.

Directed and produced by Jonquil Panting.

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