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  Christmas Poetry and Hymn...

  Various Authors

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  This collection includes 40 different Christmas carols collected and read by Douglas D. Anderson, the creator of The Hymns and Carols of Christmas website, a public-domain collection of Christmas music containing over 2,600 hymns, carols and songs.

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  Kiss Me Quickstep (NHB Modern...

  Amanda Whittington

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  Dazzling and sequin-studded, Kiss Me Quickstep is a play about the world of ballroom dance, taking us behind the fixed smiles and fake tan to look at the real lives of those for whom ballroom dancing is everything.
  Justin and Jodie have finally made it to the national ballroom-dancing championships in Blackpool - via the motorway hard shoulder. Luka's come all the way from Russia. Nancy's been training for this since she was three. Lee and Samantha arrive on a wave of success.
  But what if your dance-floor dreams are turning into a nightmare? How do you stop dancing to other people's tunes? What can you do if your partner's secret could cost you the crown? And, even when the whole world's at your feet, it only takes one false step...
  Amanda Whittington's Kiss Me Quickstep premiered at New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, in 2016, in a co-production between the New Vic and Oldham Coliseum Theatre.

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  The African Queen - Adapted from...

  Mr Punch

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  Mr Punch Presents: THE AFRICAN QUEEN. Set in 1915 on the treacherous rivers of war-torn Africa. Humphrey Bogart plays the gin sodden river trader, Charlie Allnut, who reluctantly agrees to help the prim missionary Rose Sayer, played in this radio version by Greer Garson, to travel down river on a hazardous journey and destroy a German gun boat. Humphrey Bogart won the 1951 Oscar for Best Actor, and again plays the uncouth captain of the tramp steamer in this special radio production.   
   
  This high-quality audiobook has been re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast. 
   
  Also available as part of the Hollywood Playhouse BOX SET, a collection of 14 Oscar winning ear-movies, adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. 
   
   
  These radio dramas were….to become as popular as the movies themselves.  
  Hollywood Movie Memories 
   
  This is an excellent audio product that will appeal to the majority of audiobook listeners.  
  Talking Business 
   
  A lovely series to add to any film, audio or crime lovers’ collection.  
  Audio World

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  The Poetry of Isaac Rosenberg

  Isaac Rosenberg

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  Isaac Rosenberg was born on 25th November 1890 in Bristol.  As a child his family moved to the squalid streets of London’s Jewish Ghetto, and took any number of menial jobs to survive. 
  Isaac only attended school briefly at age 14. He began work as an engraver’s apprentice and to work in his spare time on his painting.  These talents in painting and other visual arts allowed him to go to a funded place at the Slade School of Art. 
  His early poetry was closely associated with the Romantic movement, especially the influences of Keats and Shelley. 
  His volume of poems ‘Youth’ was published in 1915 and then he enlisted to fight in the Great War. 
  He fought until 1918 and his death in the battle of Arras on 1st April  at the age of 28. 
  Within those few short years he found his own distinctive and clear voice. He is mainly remembered as a War Poet and on the horrific canvas that was to be The First World War he expressed himself as few others could.  ‘August 1914’ like many of his works is short but distilled to an essence with a clear and unquenchable voice. 
  This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  Earth Spirit

  Frank Wedekind

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  Earth Spirit (1895) (Erdgeist) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the second is Pandora's Box [1904]), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". Together with Pandora's Box, Wedekind's play formed the basis for the silent film Pandora's Box (1929) starring Louise Brooks and the opera Lulu by Alban Berg in 1935 (premiered posthumously in 1937). The eponymous "earth spirit" of this play is Lulu, who Wedekind described as a woman "created to stir up great disaster." Indeed, she is a purely sexual creature who scandalizes the community and drives men to ruin. The play has attracted a wide range of interpretations, from those who see it as misogynistic to those who claim Wedekind as a harbinger of women’s liberation. (Summary by Wikipedia and ChuckW) 
   
  CastLulu: Amanda FridayDr. Schon: Algy PugAlva Schon: Chuck WilliamsonDr. Goll/Schigolch: Alan MapstoneSchwartz: Aidan BrackPrince Escerny/Ferdinand: balaEscherich/Narrator/Prologue: Elizabeth KlettRodrigo: WupperhippoHugenberg: Charlotte DuckettCountess Geschwitz: Caprisha PageHenriette: Naomi ParkAudio edited by Chuck Williamson and Elizabeth KlettPronunciation guide by Karlsson

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  Kindertransport

  Diane Samuels

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  As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many Jews tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport, and is the title of Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets, and survival.Includes a conversation with Kindertransport survivor Hilda Fogelson.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Jane Kaczmarek as HelgaHugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/ Misc.Shannon Lee Clair as EvaAngela Paton as LilMolly Quinn as FaithSusan Sullivan as EvelynDirected by Jeanie Hackett. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.

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