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  My Family and Other Animals (NHB...

  Gerald Durrell

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  'The sky turns the colour of a jay's eye. The sea turns a deep royal purple. The mist lifts in quick, lithe ribbons, like a conjuring trick. Before us lies the island…'
  It's 1935, and an eccentric English family – four children, their widowed mother, and Roger the dog – arrives on the sun-soaked shores of Corfu to start a new life.
  For eleven-year-old Gerry Durrell, the extraordinary landscape provides the perfect playground. Its exotic fauna inspires a life-long fascination with the animal kingdom – and his much-loved memoir My Family and Other Animals.
  Janys Chambers' acclaimed stage adaptation was first seen at York Theatre Royal, and invites other theatre companies to make ingenious and inventive decisions, bringing to life all the inhabitants of Durrell's cherished island – whether they walk and talk, fly and squawk, crawl or swim or slither.
  'Simply a delight... The play's triumph is in the way it captures the exuberance of youth and the strangeness of the new culture that Gerald and his family find themselves in... it's there in Janys Chambers' adaptation, which keeps chunks of Durrell's evocative prose while adding some wonderfully funny embellishments' - The Stage
  'Durrell gets the revival he deserves... it fairly fizzes with life' - Daily Mail
  'Weaves the poetic, wide-eyed prose of Gerald Durrell's childhood memoir into a really charming and fun play' - Whatsonstage

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  While Gazing on the Moon's Light

  Thomas More

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of While Gazing on the Moon's Light by Thomas Moore. This was the weekly poetry project for May 10th, 2009.

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  For The Grace Of You Go I (NHB...

  Alan Harris

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  Jim's writing messages. In pepperoni. On top of pizzas.
  His life is going nowhere. But after watching the film I Hired A Contract Killer, Jim's found a solution – he'll just put out a hit on himself. What could possibly go wrong?
  Alan Harris's play For The Grace Of You Go I is a darkly funny, quick-witted, fast-moving comedy. It premiered at Theatr Clwyd, Mold, in June 2021, directed by James Grieve.

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  The Magicians of Scotland

  Ron Butlin

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  “A lively collection of poems that will entertain, move and frequently amuse.” —Alexander McCall Smith The author of The Magicians of Edinburgh returns with a new volume that celebrates and interrogates Scotland and its people at a crucial turning point in their history. Themes explored include the country’s past, present, and future, its landscape and its people, its myths and its politics—from Bannockburn, Flodden to Faslane, the Loch Ness Monster, wind farms, Hutton to Higgs, Bonnie Prince Charlie to Donald Trump. Accessible, serious yet entertaining, it reminds us that “Butlin is the best, the most productive Scottish poet of his generation” (Douglas Dunn).

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  Fifty Shades of Winter - 50 of...

  William Shakespeare, Henry...

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  Nature prepares her final work. She begins to strip her canvas of almost everything leaving only little pockets of colour, leaves and berry to cluster on the bleak structure of the land 
   
  Her command of colour rises to another understanding.  The shades of grey, the monochrome from white to black begin to solidify. Falling temperatures hold and freeze everything.  The days shorten. The nights lengthen, throwing moon and starlight across the glistening canvas. She dazzles with storm and blizzard. Rest for her will not be easy. 
   
  Our poets, who have seen this often, know it’s meaning.  Their verse evocatively relays their thoughts, their musings, their understanding of all that surrounds the closing of nature’s year. 
   
  In fifty poems we take you on their inspiring journey, reflecting on the miracle of winter. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Winter - An Introduction 
  02 - Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare 
  03 - Some Too Fragile For Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 
  04 - Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  05 - Winter by Khalil Gibran 
  06 - I Who All The Winter Through by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  07 - Winter Calls by Daniel Sheehan 
  08 - A Wife in London (December 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  09 - The December Rose by Edith Nesbit 
  10 - Sicily December 1908 by Henry Van Dyke 
  11 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay 
  12 - Ode Written on the First of December by Robert Southey 
  13 - A Calender of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  14 - The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For the Months - December by Wilfred Scawen Blunt 
  15 - The Winters Are So Short by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - December Matins by Alfred Austin 
  17 - Sonnet II - When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow by William Shakespeare 
  18 - In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
  19 - December by John Bannister Tabb 
  20 - Winters Naked Wood by Daniel Sheehan 
  21 - A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray 
  22 - Snow-Bound (The Sun That Brief December Day) by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  23 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  24 - Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  25 - January 1st 1828 by Nathaniel Parker Willis 
  26 - Written During An Aurora Borealis January 7th 1831 by Henry Alford 
  27 - Lines on Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  28 - February by Edith Nesbit 
  29 - Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  30 - February by Louisa Sarah Bevington 
  31 - February 3rd 1830 by Henry Alford 
  32 - In Febuary by Alice Meynell 
  33 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird 
  34 - In the Bleak Mid-Winter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  35 - The Farm Woman's Winter by Thomas Hardy 
  36 - Winter Stores by Charlotte Bronte 
  37 - Afternoon in Febuary by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  38 - February Twilight by Sara Teasdale 
  39 - To A Locomotive In Winter by Walt Whitman 
  40 - February Morning by Laurence Binyon 
  41 - A Valentines Song by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - To Susanna, February 1824 by Eliza Acton 
  43 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith 
  44 - Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  45 - February by Dollie Radford 
  46 - Winter - My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  47 - Winter Evening Hymn To My Fire by James Russell Lowell 
  48 - February by Arthur Christopher Benson 
  49 - Winter Violets by Alfred Austin 
  50 - Winter by Anne Bradstreet 
  51 - How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been (Sonnet 97) by William Shakespeare

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  Man of the Moment

  Alan Ayckbourn

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  The price of accidental fame is hashed out in this comedy about a famous bank robber and the clerk who foiled his biggest heist. Ayckbourn’s 1988 play anticipates the popularity - and absurdity - of reality TV. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Rosalind Ayres as Jill RillingtonJane Carr as Trudy ParksKenneth Danziger as Douglas BeecheyMartin Jarvis as Vic ParksIan Oglivy as Kenny CollinsYeardley Smith as Sharon GiffinDirected by Robert Robinson. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, CA in February, 1994.

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