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  50 Oscar Nights - Iconic Stars &...

  Dave Karger

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  An exclusive look behind the scenes of the Academy Awards as top stars and filmmakers discuss their Oscar wins and tell never-before-told tales of Hollywood's biggest night, in a collection of original interviews with Turner Classic Movies host and entertainment media journalist Dave Karger. For almost a century, movie fans have been riveted by the Academy Awards and the stars who have won Oscars. 50 Oscar Nights takes readers behind the scenes of Hollywood’s most storied awards show through new and exclusive interviews with dozens of A-list actors, filmmakers, and craftspeople spanning sixty years of the Oscars. Here these artists reflect on their winning work and recount all the details of how they got ready, how they felt when they heard their name and got up on stage to accept their award, what they wore, how the entire experience impacted their life, and more. Some interviews bring to light fun stories like why Hilary Swank decided to celebrate her Academy Award at the Astro Burger in West Hollywood, or insight into the work as Elton John explains why he was convinced he won his Best Original Song award for the wrong tune. Other interviews illuminate why for some honorees, such as Julia Roberts, John Legend, and Octavia Spencer, the day remains a life highlight to be treasured, while for Marlee Matlin, Mira Sorvino, and Barry Jenkins, complex emotions cloud what most think would be a purely celebratory moment. Filled with more than 150 photos of red-carpet moments, emotional acceptances, and after-party play, 50 Oscar Nights is both a stunning record of cinema glamour and a must-read for any movie lover.  Full list of interviewees: Nicole Kidman, Elton John, Jennifer Hudson, Steven Spielberg, Jane Fonda, Barry Jenkins, Halle Berry, J. K. Simmons, Julia Roberts, John Legend, Rita Moreno, Martin Scorsese, Marlee Matlin, Dustin Hoffman, Hannah Beachler, Cameron Crowe, Mira Sorvino, Kevin O’Connell, Sally Field, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, Eddie Redmayne, Lee Grant, Louis Gossett Jr., Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Jessica Yu, Michael Douglas, Catherine Martin, Francis Ford Coppola, Allison Janney, Mel Brooks, Emma Thompson, Peter Jackson, Marcia Gay Harden, Mark Bridges, Sofia Coppola, Joel Grey, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, Olivia Colman, Rob Epstein, Whoopi Goldberg, Alan Menken, Melissa Etheridge, Sissy Spacek, Keith Carradine, Estelle Parsons, Geoffrey Fletcher, Octavia Spencer, Aaron Sorkin, Meryl Streep

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  Scripting Empire - Broadcasting...

  James Procter

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  Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty, late modernism, and mass migration to the metropole. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, a remarkable group of black Atlantic artists and intellectuals became producers, editors, and freelancers at the corporation. Operating at the interface of a range of literary and broadcast genres, this loose network of African Caribbean writers and thinkers prompt a reassessment of the aesthetic, formal, and political fallout of decolonization between the outbreak of World War II and the first airings of post-colonial independence. 
   
   
   
  Scripting Empire works comparatively across dozens of different programs spanning the General Overseas Service, Home Service, Light Program, and Third Program. Drawing upon a transnational archive of materials, including scripts, correspondence, periodicals, visual records, and sound recordings, it seeks to reposition the cultural contribution of West Indians and West Africans within a more pervasive and porous account of radio transmission, the legacy of which extends well beyond broadcasting.

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  The Eyes of Max Carrados - A Max...

  Mr Punch

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  Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a 'Thousand Thrills!', with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour. 
    
  Meet Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective who can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart. In The Eyes of Max Carrados, our hero discovers a story of murder, suicide and a desperate daughter’s quest to clear her father’s name. 
    
    
  “Bert Coules, Sherlock Holmes specialist, has adapted this story and is sensitive to the idiosyncratic Carrados with his instinctive sympathy for human weakness.”  Sunday Times – Gillian Reynolds Choice 
    
  “Atmospheric and Great Fun.” Daily Express  
    
    
  Also available as part of the THRILLER PLAYHOUSE BOX SET, eight episodes featuring Max Carrados, Norman Conquest and Ben from the popular BBC Drama series.  
    
    
  Cast 
  Simon Callow as Max Carrados 
  Lionel Jeffries as Parkinson 
  Philip Glenister as Frank 
  Teresa Gallagher as Madelaine Whitmarsh 
  Matthew Marsh as William Whitmarsh 
  Marianne Morley as Mrs Lawrence 
  Michael Beint as Lawyer 
  David Bannerman as Villain 
  & full supporting cast. 
    
  Based on a story by Ernest Bramah 
    
  Dramatisation: Bert Coules 
  Music: Robert Rigby 
  Director: Alan Drury 
  Producer: Stewart Richards & Michael Cameron 
    
  © & ℗ 2022 Mr Punch Audiobooks Ltd

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  The Imaginary Invalid

  Molière Molière, John Wood...

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  France's master comic playwright has a field day with the subjects of hypochondria and our blind obedience to doctors. Molière’s witty attack on the medical profession has more than a little resonance today. Translated by John Wood, adapted by Beth Milles.
   
  
   
  Recorded before a live audience at the Doubletree Guest Suites, Santa Monica in December 1997.
   
  
   
  Directed by Beth Milles
   
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
   
  
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
   
  
   
  The Actor’s Gang Theatre Company:
   
  Molly Bryant as Toinette
   
  Tom Fitzpatrick as Diaforirus
   
  Laurence O’Keefe as Cleante
   
  Dan Parker as Argan
   
  Evie Peck as Louison
   
  Dina Platias as Angelique
   
  Stephen M. Porter as Thomas
   
  Michael Rivkin as Purgon
   
  Dean Robinson as Beralde
   
  Patti Tippo as Berline
   
  Chris Wells as Fleurant
   
  
   
  Technical Director: Raymond Guarna
   
  Foley Artist and Stage Manager: John Lovick
   
  Associate Producer: Susan Raab Simonson
   
  Original Music by Laurence O’Keefe

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  The Pathology of Graphology

  David Milnes

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  At a lonely seaside bar, suicidal car valet, Geoff Osmah, gets rolled by ex-Radio 2 raconteur and celebrity graphologist, Fraser Davis. A crime which sets in motion the endgame for aging dj Pete Moran, whose health, art and wealth are crushed beneath a weight of circumstance he does not understand.The Times Literary Supplement described David Milnes' writing as 'bleak but impressive'. You have in your hands the bleakest and most impressive dark comedy you will listen to this year.

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  The Beatles Quiz Book - 1000...

  Mart Matthews

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  Mart Matthews is a prolific author of quizzes, having published 24 books on horseracing, football and music. This one follows the same pattern as the previous ones – 1,000 questions in 100 categories. How much do you really know about the four lads from Liverpool who transformed so many lives in the 1960s?
  You can find out by exploring the 1,000 questions set out in 100 categories that make up the Beatles Quiz Book.
  In most books on the Beatles you won't find references to the Marx Brothers, Kojak, Spike Milligan, Z-Cars, Star Trek, Alf Garnett or Regent's Park Zoo. In this one you will!
  Try these for size:
  1. Who pulled off a unique double by being on the cover of Sgt Pepper and in the lyrics of I Am the Walrus?
  2. Which five cities can be found in the lyrics of the Ballad of John and Yoko?
  3. Which is the only day of the week not mentioned in Lady Madonna?
  4. Which four Beatles songs have the word 'shoulder' in their lyrics?

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