Arts and
Drama Audio Books
We are pleased to present the following Arts and Drama Audio
Book titles,
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Classic Drama: Thirty-Nine Steps, The
Tom Baker stars as Sir Walter Bullivant with David Robb as man of
action Richard Hannay in a thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast
dramatisation of this classic tale of wartime espionage.
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Classic Women's Short Stories
Five stories from women writers of the 19th century and the first
decades of the 20th.
- Cockney's
Kipling, A
Ten enduring Kipling poems recited in the wonderful Cockney
lilt.
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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A
Shows what can happen when two very different societies come
together.
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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A
A Yankee mechanic, knocked out in a fight, awakens at Camelot in
A.D. 528. He saves himself from prison and death by posing as a
magician and becoming minister to King Arthur. But when he attempts
to help out the peasants, he meets opposition.
- Coriolanus
Samuel West and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's great tragedy
of power and pride.
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Cricket on the Hearth
Another Charles Dickens holiday classic brimming with holiday
charm.
- Crome
Yellow
Aldous Huxley here introduces us to an amiable group of artists and
intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking talk imaginable.
Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian painting are just
a few of the subjects for discussion among the eccentrics drawn
together at Crome, an...
- Crucible,
The
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A community stands accused of
witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recrimination that quickly
develops men denounce their neighbours...
- Cuculian
Trilogy, The
Cuculian, 'The Hound of Ulster', is the champion of Ireland and is
best remembered for his single-handed defense of Ulster. This is
the first time Cuculian’s story has been available in audio.
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories, The: by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
This collection of stories, originally published in 1922, is the
basis for an upcoming major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and
Cate Blanchett.
- Curse
of Dracula, The
Full-cast, very modern update of the classic Bram Stoker novel.
- Cymbeline
One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso
theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage
imperiled by mistrust and rebuilt in the context of international
confllict.
- Daisy
Miller
Frederick Winterbourne, an American expatriate visiting at Vevey,
Switzerland, meets commonplace, newly rich Mrs. Miller from
Schenectady, New York, her mischievous small son and her daughter,
Daisy, an “inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.” The
Millers have no perception of the...
- Daniel
Deronda
In Daniel Deronda, George Eliot left behind the world of the
Victorian middle classes that she explored so well in Middlemarch.
Eliot, with her hero Deronda, attempts to come to terms with the
English Jews, a society within a society, which the people of her
time seemed either oblivious to or...
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Dante: Inferno, from The Divine Comedy
Dante's Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western
literature. An allegory for his and future ages, it is, at the same
time, an account of terrifying realism.
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David Rintoul Interview
Actor David Rintoul discusses his work as a reader for
audiobooks.
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Day of the Triffids, The
John Wyndham's classic novel of man's struggle in a besieged world
is dramatised by Giles Cooper in this classic 1968 recording.
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Dead Body's A Deal Breaker, A
Hear LA sleuth Mark Markheim solve crime all whilst adroitly
enunciating elaborate alliterations
- Death
of Arthur, The
The glorious but tragic story of King Arthur and the Knights of the
Round Table.
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The
One of the greatest texts in the English language.
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Part II, The
Gibbon's work occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of
historical masterpieces.
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DELISA: DErivative LIfe SApien
When the U.S. Supreme Court determines the fate of genetically
engineered beings - whether they're humans or animals - humanity
learns that the law is truly a double edged sword...
- Depth
Perception
Lush imagery and the mellifluous voice of the poet imbued with
music and sounddesign.
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