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  The Virginian - Hollywood Stage

  Hollywood Stage Productions

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's The Virginian starring Gary Cooper & Charles Bickford.

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  Casablanca & The Maltese Falcon...

  Mr Punch

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  MR PUNCH PRESENTS Casablanca, perhaps the best loved and most watched of all Hollywood movies. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), the cynical owner of Rick’s Café Americain helps his former lover Ilse Lund (Ingrid Bergman) and her underground leader husband escape from the Nazis in this powerful love story, featuring the classic song As Time Goes By. The Maltese Falcon stars Humphrey Bogart as the private detective Sam Spade. In this compelling thriller, Sam Spade is entrusted with the safe-keeping of the much-coveted black falcon statuette as he becomes involved in a classic tale of greed and illusion.  “You played it for her, you can play it for me.” 
    
  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 Wilfred Owen

  Wilfred Owen

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  Widely regarded as one of the leading war poets, Owen's work is powerful and shocking, illustrating the true horror faced by soldiers during the First World War.

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  Ramona Tells Jim (NHB Modern Plays)

  Sophie Wu

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  A darkly comic debut play about confession and the gravity of young love.
  Ramona is fifteen, hates bananas, and she's totally cool. Honestly. She's completely cool.
  It's 1998, and Ramona, of Englandshire, is on a wet, midge-riddled geography field trip, deep in the Scottish Highlands. There she meets Jim, a local laddie obsessed with hermit crabs, rock erosion and spider plants.
  When Ramona falls for Jim's awkward charm, she gets caught in a scandal that will haunt her for years to come.
  Sophie Wu's Ramona Tells Jim was commissioned by and first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in September 2017.
  'Sophie Wu has a knack for nifty dialogue. Her debut play is an engaging, quirky 80-minute piece about the kinship of oddballs and the disruptiveness of innocence' - Guardian

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  Beastly Chronicles of Saki

  H. M. Munro

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  The Beastly Chronicles Of Saki.  The stories of HH Munro – better known by his pen name of Saki – have scarcely been out of print since they were first published nearly a century ago.  Yet it often seems that their particular delights are reserved for the private pleasure of his coterie of admirers.  It has to be admitted that a taste for Saki is something of an addiction.  And, like all addictions, once acquired, it is hard to shake off.  In the years since his tragically early death in the trenches at the hands of a German sniper, fellow addicts have included Graham Greene, Noel Coward and Tom Sharpe. All of us take a slightly wicked satisfaction from his biting wit and the subversive way in which he undermines the staid Edwardian Society he purports to observe.  But to a much greater extent than his near-contemporaries, Wilde and Kipling, there is something dark and menacing at the heart of Saki’s writing.  Behind the refined twinkle of tea cups on an Edwardian lawn can be heard the distant howling of a wolf.  Hidden among the shrubbery in a carefully manicured garden lurk all kinds of Beasts and Superbeasts, ready to wreak Nature’s revenge on an uncaring mankind with its arrogant belief in materialism, progress and the innate respectability of middle class values.  Where Kipling’s menagerie tends to simple analogues of human types, Saki’s animals can rise up with the full power of Pan himself.  This is not to ignore Saki’s ability to turn an aphorism with all the facility and wit of the divine Oscar at his best.  Nor does it forget his ability to prick the inflated egos of louche young men with too much time and money on their hands or deliciously dotty aunts and duchesses with their minds firmly fixed on Empire and Imperial responsibilities.  It would be easy to forget that Munro foresaw the imminent collapse of this society into the cataclysm of the Great War.  With his experience as a political journalist in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, he was probably more aware than most of the storm that was brewing.  But, essentially, he was an observer of his fellow-man.  And it is for the humour of his observations, for the dazzling twists and turns his tales take and for the fact that he makes us laugh inordinately that he is to be treasured and shared with those who have not yet acquired the addiction.

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  Amphitryon By Molière

  Molière Molière

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  Wilbur is at the peak of his form in this stellar translation of an unusual Molière play-populated with Greeks and Greco-Roman gods and flavored with the essences of vaudeville, fan-tasy, high comedy, farce, and even opera. Afterword by Richard Wilbur.

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