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  Greatest Detective Shows Volume...

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  OASIS AUDIO CLASSIC RADIO SHOWCASE SERIES   Oasis Audio has gone into the vaults and dusted off the very earliest form of audio book, old time radio shows, for our listeners. Introduced episode by episode by Jim Engel, old time radio authority and board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, this series of classic radio shows is sure to have something for everyone. Celebrity casts and top-notch writers made the 1920s through the early 1950s, the golden era of radio. The series features seven exciting themes with 100 episodes in each. That is 700 classic radio programs in all.   Greatest Detective Shows   Thrill to the hardboiled adventures of Ellery Queen, Philip Marlow, Dragnet, The Man called X, Philo Vance, Rocky Fortune and so many more as heroes fight the bad guys. 100 great Detective classics in ten volumes. Volume 3 Boston Blackie 1946_09_10 The Backstage MurderBoston Blackie 1947_04_15 The Phonograph MurderBoston Blackie 1946_08_06 Jerry Williams Fixed Court CaseBoston Blackie 1946_10_22 Faraday ShotBox Thirteen 1947_10_17 The First LetterBox Thirteen 1947_10_24 The Insurance Swindle Adventure (1)Box Thirteen 1947_10_31 Blackmail is MurderBox Thirteen 1947_11_07 Actor’s AlibiBroadway Is My Beat 1950_02_17 Dion Harley CaseBroadway Is My Beat 1950_03_31 Hope Anderson Case

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  Class Struggle in Hollywood...

  Gerald Horne

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  “A taut narrative in elegant prose . . . Horne has unearthed a vitally important and mostly forgotten aspect of Hollywood and labor history.” —Publishers Weekly   As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946. This labor unrest unleashed a fury of Red-baiting that allowed studio moguls to crush the union and seize control of the production process, with far-reaching consequences.   This engrossing book probes the motives and actions of all the players to reveal the full story of the CSU strike and the resulting lockout of 1946. Gerald Horne draws extensively on primary materials and oral histories to document how limited a “threat” the Communist party actually posed in Hollywood, even as studio moguls successfully used the Red scare to undermine union clout, prevent film stars from supporting labor, and prove the moguls’ own patriotism. Horne also discloses that, unnoticed amid the turmoil, organized crime entrenched itself in management and labor, gaining considerable control over both the “product” and the profits of Hollywood. This research demonstrates that the CSU strike and lockout were a pivotal moment in Hollywood history, with consequences for everything from production values, to the kinds of stories told in films, to permanent shifts in the centers of power.

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  The Incomplete History of Secret...

  Joe Tracz, Neil Patrick Harris

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  This mysterious illustrated tie-in to Netflix's award-winning A Series of Unfortunate Events — featuring an introduction by Count Olaf's legal representative, Neil Patrick Harris — shares insider secrets about the Baudelaire family and the making of the show.In every library, there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind....In this collector's companion, you will discover never-before-seen photographs, never-before-told stories, and never-before-revealed secrets spanning all three seasons of the hilariously twisted, critically acclaimed hit series. You will encounter original concept art, annotated script excerpts, and interviews with the creative team and all-star cast, as well as glossaries, recipes, lyric sheets, hidden Easter eggs, shocking backstories, and suspicious pages from the titular tome, unredacted and revealed here for the first time.Featuring interviews with:Tony HaleDaniel HandlerAasif MandviSara RueBarry SonnenfeldPatrick WarburtonBo WelchAlfre WoodardAnd morePerhaps you are wondering how a noble person such as yourself might become a member of a secret organization. Like so many things in life, it starts by picking up the right book. So go ahead, listen at your own risk.

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  Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

  Mary Shelley, Kate McAll

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  The 1815 eruption of Indonesia’s Tambora volcano had a catastrophic effect on climate around the world. In North America and Europe, the following twelve months became known as “the year without summer.” Confined indoors by the relentless rain and cold, a group of friends, including 18-year old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and poet Lord Byron, began writing ghost stories to pass the time. Shelley’s tale “Frankenstein” remains, over 200 years later, a work of timeless imagination and power.Includes a post-play conversation with Leslie S. Klinger, author of The New Annotated Frankenstein.Original music by John Biddle.Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in February 2020.Adapted by Kate McAllDirector: Anna Lyse EriksonProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergAn L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance featuring:Seamus Dever as Captain WaltonAdhir Kalyan as Victor FrankensteinStacy Keach as The CreatureCerris Morgan-Moyer as Elizabeth Lavenza, Justine MoritzMike McShane as Mr. Davy, Father, DonaldDarren Richardson as Henry Clerval, Judge, Old Man, HamishAssociate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse EriksonRecording Engineer and Sound Designer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinFoley Artist: Brian DeShazorProduction Manager: Erica R. ChristensenEditor and Mixing Engineer: Charles Carroll

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  Conversations with Miller...

  Mel Gussow

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  New York Times drama critic Mel Gussow first met Arthur Miller in 1963 during rehearsals of After the Fall, the play inspired by Miller's marriage to Marilyn Monroe. They then met regularly over the following forty years.
  Conversations with Miller records what was discussed at more than a dozen of these meetings. In the book, the author of Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge and The Crucible is astonishingly candid about everything from the personal to the political: his successes and disappointments in theatre, his role as an advocate of human rights, his staunch resistance to the United States Congressional witch hunts of the 1950s. He also speaks forthrightly about his relationship with Monroe.
  Personal, wise and often very funny, the result is a revealing self-portrait of one of the giants of twentieth-century literature, who was both a 'regular guy' and a fiercely original writer and thinker.
  Published to mark the centenary of Arthur Miller's birth, this new edition of Conversations of Miller features a new Foreword by Richard Eyre, former Artistic Director of the National Theatre, and an Afterword by publisher Nick Hern, in which both reflect on their own conversations with America's greatest playwright.

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  The Wake-Up Call

  Mark Adams, Julia Dawn

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  "God, I need to be bereaved. I could do with losing a few pounds". Jon, Keren and Grub accompany Alice to the funeral of a uni friend called Boris.Jon wants to know how good a friend the deceased was; Alice wants to know how he died.Will their respective quests for knowledge end in tears or laughter?Written by Mark Adams. Directed by Dexter O'Neill.  THE CAST; ALICE Ayesha Antoine; JON Andrew Hayden-Smith; KEREN Helen Oakleigh; GRUB Daniel King; VARIOUS VOICES Sean Connolly & Cliff Chapman with HAPPY AZIZ Neil D’Souza.  Recorded at Orpheus Studios. Theme Tune by Manike Music. Additional Music by James Dunlop. Post Production by Robbie Dunlop. A Fantom Films Production 2011.  Warning some scenes contain strong language and themes of a sexual nature.

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