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  Immaculate Misconception An

  Carl Djerassi

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  Dr. Melanie Laidlaw is a scientist developing the first use of ICSI, short for intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Her collaborator, Dr. Felix Frankenthaler, turns out to have his own ideas about how to implement their new procedure. The wild card is Melanie’s new lover, Menachem Dvir, a fellow scientist. This darkly comic menage-a-tois plays out not only in bedrooms and labs, but also in test tubes and under the microscope. A Brave New World indeed!Includes an interview with Liza Mundy, a staff writer at the Washington Post and the author of "Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Men, Women, and the World".An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Philip Casnoff as Menachem DvirKevin Kilner as Dr. Felix FrankenthalerKendall Schmidt as AdamJobeth Williams as Dr. Melanie LaidlawDirected by Jenny Sullivan. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.An Immaculate Misconception is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

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  The Poetry of Dogs

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning,...

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  Man’s best friend. An always faithful ally. 
   
  Whether the dog is domesticated as a pet and there to enjoy life with a family or as a work-dog herding sheep, helping to hunt, police or guard, the dog has proved time and time again to have many invaluable uses.   
   
  They come in all shapes and sizes from sought after breeds to lowly mongrels each with an array of qualities that give them distinct personalities.   
   
  From earliest times dogs have been able to find a unique place fulfilling the needs of their keepers and often there is equal devotion from master to servant.  A dog’s life no longer has to have negative connotations as so many pooches are loved, extravagantly fed, groomed, petted and pawed over, all perhaps more than our fellow man.   
   
  Dogs were even worshipped as deities in Mesopotamian times and across several cultures and civilisations including Hindu, Chinese and Greek, they are the helpers, the watchers or guardians of sacred or sensitive sites.  
   
  Between then and now poets have written verse, both serious and humorous, in attempts to keep a poetic track both of feelings and as a tribute to our four-legged friends and their adventures. 
  1 - The Poetry of Dogs - An Introduction 
  2 - A Friendly Welcome by Lord Byron 
  3 - A Popular Personage At Home by Thomas Hardy 
  4 - The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kiping 
  5 - Verse for a Certain Dog by Dorothy Parker 
  6 - The Best Friend by Meribah Abbott 
  7 - The Joy of a Dog by Edgar Albert Guest 
  8 - Dog by Harold Munro 
  9 - My Comforter by Anonymous 
  10 - Four Feet. 'The Woman in His Life' by Rudyard Kipling 
  11 - The Dog and His Master by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
  12 - Little Lost Pup by Arthur Guiterman 
  13 - A Little Dog That Wags His Tail by Emily Dickinson 
  14 - The Hairy Dog by Herbert Asquith 
  15 - Dogs and Weather by Winifred Welles 
  16 - Incident. Charactristic of a Favourite Dog Which Belonged to a Friend of the Author by William Wordsworth 
  17 - Confessions of a Glutton by Don Marquis 
  18 - The Fable of the Shepherd and Wolf by John Gay 
  19 - On a Spaniel Called 'Beau', Killing a Young Bird by William Cowper 
  20 - Beau's Reply by William Cowper 
  21 - Contentment by Burges Johnson wav 
  22 - The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog by Anonymous 
  23 - The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat by Eugene Field 
  24 - How the Feud Started by Arthur Guiterman 
  25 - Tray by Robert Browning 
  26 - The Dog and the Water Lily. No Fable by William Cowper 
  27 - The Irish Greyhound by Katherine Phillips 
  28 - The Fable of the Mastiff by John Gay 
  29 - The Dog in the Manger by Aphra Behn 
  30 - Towser, A True Tale, 20th July 1806 by Robert Tannahill 
  31 - The Dog of St Bernard's by Caroline Fry Wilson 
  32 - Sonnet - To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 
  33 - Tobias's Dog by Mary Howitt 
  34 - I Started Early – Took my Dog  by Emily Dickinson 
  35 - Canis Major by Robert Frost 
  36 - Man and Dog by Edward Thomas 
  37 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 
  38 - So This Is How I Turned into a Dog by Vladamir Mayakovsky 
  39 - The Dogs by Arthur Symons 
  40 - To a Black Greyhound by Julian Grenfell 
  41 - An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith 
  42 - The Dog Tupman by Stella Benson 
  43 - Upon His Spaniel Tracy by Robert Herrick 
  44 - To Rollo by Kenneth Grahame 
  45 - Ruby by Edward Lear 
  46 - To Flush, My Dog by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  47 - Kaiser Dead by Matthew Arnold 
  48 - Epitaph to a Dog by Lord Byron 
  49 - Last Words To A Dumb Friend by Thomas Hardy

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  Casey at the Bat - A Poem

  Ernest Lawrence Thayer

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  Considered the greatest baseball poem of all time, "Casey at the Bat" is the beloved tale of the Mudville Nine, a hapless baseball club entering the ninth inning of a ballgame down two runs and with little hope of succeeding...unless their star slugger Casey can manage to get a turn at the plate. With two outs, the outlook is grim but...when the two players preceding Casey manage to get on base, the stage is set for a grand finale, giving the citizens of Mudville hope that their hero can save the day! Ernest Lawrence Thayer originally wrote this poem for the San Francisco Examiner and it would go on to become what Baseball Almanac called "the single most famous baseball poem ever written." It is here presented in its original and unabridged form and enhanced with music and sound effects to bring the listener right into the ballpark!

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  Buying Time

  Michael Weller

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  Based on a real-life event, a monied client at a progressive law firm pressures the partners to drop a pro bono case they passionately believe in. Will they choose the easy path to preserve their business or keep fighting for what they believe is right?An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring:Michael Gross as BennettSean Sinitski as Hal and othersBob Adrian as AbeNed Schmidtke as DelTony Mockus Jr. as Pete and othersScott Lowell as Carter and KyleGary Houston as Max and LairdSuzanne Petri as Margo and BeckyLisa Dodson as BethRengin Altay as ChristineScott Heckman as LaneDirected by Brian Russell and recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in Chicago. A co-production with Northlight Theatre.Sound Effects Artist, Scott Heckman. Production Stage Manager, Jan Watson. Recording Engineers, Larry Rock and Chris WIllis. Radio Producer, Robert Neuhaus.

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  Charminar

  Pranab Raha

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  Publisher’s Note:Two years ago, when we published Pranab Raha’s collection of essays ‘Akopat’, we promised the readers that we will bring more of his works in the future. Hence, we are pleased to bring you his second published audiobook ‘Charminar’.‘Charminar’ is a collection of four short and long stories by the author that are basically satirical in nature.In this book, he has brought out the subtle aspects of human character in a humorous approach. Like all his writings, these stories too, have an unspoken hidden message, that a sophisticated reader would have no difficulty in grasping.We hope that ‘Charminar’, like the author’s first book ‘Akopat’ published by us will be well received by the readers.Author’s Note:The intersection of time and technology has brought about some changes in the way people consume literature. Recognizing this change, I have published an audiobook of four stories, embracing this transformation.However, for enthusiastic readers, the printed hard copy of the book will also be made available very soon.Since the four stories are narrated by four different narrators in distinct styles, the stories do not possess the same qualities in all aspects.Nevertheless, if the stories provide an enjoyable listening experience, then the efforts and contributions of those involved in this endeavour, although somewhat limited, will be worthwhile.

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  A Song of a Young Lady to Her...

  John Wilmot

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover by John Wilmot. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 6th, 2009.

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