The Chronicles of Narnia - The Silver Chair February 26, 2008
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The Silver Cair by C.S. Lewis is a part of The Chronicles of Narnia.
Deep underground, a web of evil magic holds a prince in captivity.
Narnia … where owls speak, where evil weaves a spell … where sorcery enslaves the land.
Narnia is in peril, and only Eustace and Jill can help. Along with Puddleglum, a gloomy but valiant Marsh-wiggle, they are sent by the mighty lion Aslan to find Prince Rilian, heir to the throne. Their quest leads them past hungry people-eating Giants, and deep into the dark underground. But the true test for this noble band of friends comes when they face an evil witch and her deadly enchantments.
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A Full Cast Production - King Lear February 23, 2008
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King Lear, perhaps Shakespeare’s most profoundly searching and disturbing tragedy, is the story of a foolish and self-indulgent king who learns, late in life and after terrible suffering, the value of self-knowledge. The play asks the ancient questions about God and the meaning of pain with uncompromising directness, but provides no reassuring answers…
King Lear, probably dating from 1605, was first printed in a quarto version in 1608 and in a different form in the First Folio of 1623. It is the third In Shakespeare’s great sequence of four tragedies: Hamlet (1600-01) and Othello (1602-1604) precede it, and Macbeth (1606) follows. It possesses the widest emotional and thematic reach of them all, occupying a space which achieves an almost abstract, symbolic quality while at the same time offering a painful concreteness of experience: it is both intensely personal and impressively universal, tackling the great questions of suffering and morality (’is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?’) within the context of a social conscience CO! I have ta’en too little care of this’) and an anguished questioning of God (or the gods, who, it seems, ‘kill us for their sport’).
C.S. Lewis - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader February 20, 2008
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Listen to The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis - Publisher: Harper Collins UK and read by Derek Jacobi
“Stop it!” cried Eustace. “It’s some silly trick you are playing! Ow!” A great cold salt splash had broken right out of the frame and they were breathless from the smack of it, as well as being wet through.
Lucy and Edmund, stuck with their awful cousin Eustace, suddenly find themselves in a picture of a sailing ship – the Dawn Treader – and realise they have been drawn back into the land of Narnia. They are reunited with old friends, the young King Caspian and Reepicheep the mouse on a voyage of discovery to the End of the World…
As You Like It - Comedy by William Shakespeare February 20, 2008
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As You Like It is quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown, lovers, disguises, rifts and reconciliations, and all within the atmospheric confines of the enchanted Forest of Arden. As the title suggests, As You Like It is a play in which everyone gets their way, where sinners are redeemed and where love holds sway over all. And because it is Shakespeare, even so light a comedy contains a wealth of keen observations about humanity in general, and in particular about the age-old tension between so-called civilized society and the state of nature from which it evolved. No less poetically-accomplished than Shakespeare’s more serious works, As You Like It is a stimulating literary pleasure from start to finish.
Shakespeare - The World as a Stage February 4, 2008
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Shakespeare’s life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and scholars, is still a thicket of myths and traditions, some preposterous, some conflicting, arranged around the few scant facts known about the Bard – from his birth in Stratford to the bequest of his second best bed to his wife when he died.
Following his international bestsellers ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ and ‘The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid’, Bill Bryson has written a short biography of William Shakespeare for the Eminent Lives series – which seeks to pair great subjects with writers known for their strong sensibilities and sharp, lively points of view.
Reviews
Praise for ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ (HB):
‘A modern classic.’ The New York Times
‘It represents a wonderful education, and all schools would be better places if it were the core science reader on the curriculum.’ Times Literary Supplement
Praise for ‘The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid’:
‘Outlandishly and improbably entertaining…inevitably [I] would
be reduced to body-racking, tear-inducing, de-couching laughter.’ New York Times
‘Always witty and sometimes hilarious…wonderfully funny and
touching.’ Literary Review
Classic Literature - A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare January 13, 2008
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s best early works, an airy, romantic romp in the woods among bumbling rustics, temporarily star-crossed lovers, and the charming fairies who bewitch them all. Drawing on a popular English folk legend and annual holiday, Shakespeare weaves a chaotic and comical tale of misunderstanding, mischief and magic in which, like the dream-state it mimics, no harm is permanent and all is pleasantly resolved by the play’s end. A joyous celebration of love, language, and life itself, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Shakespeare at his lyrical best.
Listen To Classic Literature Today January 11, 2008
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How about selecting from hundreds good classic literature - and then start listen to them today?
Just now I have 209 classic audio titles for download. How about Rudyard Kipling - Classic sea-faring, coming of age story enjoyed by all ages… or C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnie… or do you prefer to listen to a classic drama: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Mark Twain’s classic novel of adventure, loyalty and responsibility.
This is just a few examples you can download and listen to when you visit my audio book store with over 5.000 titles - you can even find some free examples to download
- Goran Thisell
Classic Literature - quotes January 3, 2008
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read, but nobody wants to read. Mark Twain Now in 2008 you don’t need to read - you could listen to all classic insted. In my audiobook store you find a lot of audiobooks by William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Hans Christian Andersen, Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, C. S. Lewis, Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway and many more. Go to CIRCUM Online Audio Books - browse category select Arts & Drama and then select Classic Literature -Goran |
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 1599 December 9, 2007
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An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature.
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he sees, and who he works with as he invests in the new Globe Theatre and creates four of his most famous plays—Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet.
James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599: sending off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathering an Armada threat from Spain, gambling on a fledgling East India Company, and waiting to see who will succeed their aging and childless Queen.
This book brings the news and intrigue of the times together with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.
This audio includes a selection of scenes from Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and Hamlet featuring performances by Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, and many more.
James Sharpiro, a professor at Columbia University in New York, is the author of Rival Playwrights, Shakespeare and the Jews, and Oherammergau: The Troubling Story of the World’s Most Famous Passion Play.
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King Lear - William Shakespeare December 6, 2007
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King Lear by Wlliam Shakespeare is a bitter tragedy of loyalty, power and politics. Colin Redgrave stars as Lear with Geraldine James as Goneril in Shakespeare’s bitter tragedyof loyalty, power and politics.
BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard.
Some of the most stirring scenes Shakespeare ever wrote vibrate with powerful resonance in this grippingly dramatic radio production. Tortured madness, pure evil and the fatal struggle for power grip the listener until the final, shockingly tragic conclusion.
The play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre, and the accompanying booklet includes a scene-by-scene synopsis, full character analysis, brief biographies of the leading actors and of Shakespeare himself, as well as an essay from the producer on their interpretation of the play.
Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the new millennium.
Written By
William Shakespeare
FIRST KNOWN PERFORMANCE
1606
FIRST BBC RADIO BROADCAST
2LO
11 September 1928
FIRST BROADCAST OF THIS PRODUCTION
BBC Radio 3
16 September 2001
RECORDED AT
On location at the Chapel at Lincoln’s Inn Fields and at BBC Maida Vale London W9
