Voices of Today
1,124 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago -Voices of Today provides services in audiobook narration and production.
The proprietors are Denis Daly and Sarah Bacaller who are professional audiobook narrators and producers.
Denis Daly has provided narration and editing services for many projects at Librivox.org and Legamus.eu. He is also a founding member of Rhapsodize, a group which promotes the performance and recording of classic poetry.
Currently, he has over 300 titles in the catalogue at Audible.com, and several more recordings are under production.
Sarah Bacaller has over forty titles in the catalogue at Audible.com, and has also contributed to projects at Librivox.org. In addition to her activities as a narrator she also provides services in audiobook cover design and is a published author.
The other administrators of Voices of Today are Jennifer Fournier, Susan Iannucci, Lee Ann Howlett and Amy Soakes, who are also professional narrators and whose recordings can be found at Audible.com.
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Episodes
Serge the Superman - 2 - Chapter 1
September 02, 2019 14:32 - 10 minutes - 14.2 MBSerge the Superman: A Russian Novel By Stephen Leacock Presented by The Online Stage It was inevitable that Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock would turn his critical attention to the Russian novel, a genre that became extremely popular early in the Twentieth Century. In the introduction he writes: "We may say with certainty that Serge the Superman is the most distinctly Russian thing produced in years. It is the directest, tersest, crudest thing we have ever seen." Narration by Shirl...
Serge the Superman - 3 - Chapter 2
September 02, 2019 14:32 - 7 minutes - 11.2 MBSerge the Superman: A Russian Novel By Stephen Leacock Presented by The Online Stage It was inevitable that Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock would turn his critical attention to the Russian novel, a genre that became extremely popular early in the Twentieth Century. In the introduction he writes: "We may say with certainty that Serge the Superman is the most distinctly Russian thing produced in years. It is the directest, tersest, crudest thing we have ever seen." Narration by Shirl...
Serge the Superman - 4 - Chapter 3
September 02, 2019 14:32 - 8 minutes - 11.6 MBSerge the Superman: A Russian Novel By Stephen Leacock Presented by The Online Stage It was inevitable that Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock would turn his critical attention to the Russian novel, a genre that became extremely popular early in the Twentieth Century. In the introduction he writes: "We may say with certainty that Serge the Superman is the most distinctly Russian thing produced in years. It is the directest, tersest, crudest thing we have ever seen." Narration by Shirl...
Serge the Superman - 5 - Chapter 4
September 02, 2019 14:32 - 9 minutes - 12.9 MBSerge the Superman: A Russian Novel By Stephen Leacock Presented by The Online Stage It was inevitable that Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock would turn his critical attention to the Russian novel, a genre that became extremely popular early in the Twentieth Century. In the introduction he writes: "We may say with certainty that Serge the Superman is the most distinctly Russian thing produced in years. It is the directest, tersest, crudest thing we have ever seen." Narration by Shirl...
Leave It To Psmith Sample
August 31, 2019 23:41 - 4 minutes - 3.93 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2ZLA12p Leave it To Psmith By P.G. Wodehouse Narrated by Graham Scott The immaculate Psmith - newly emancipated from an unwilling participation in the fish business - donates an umbrella (not his own) to a damsel in distress; and to further press his suit, he follows her to Blandings Castle - seat of that amiable and boneheaded peer, Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth - in the guise of an absconded Canadian poet. A...
Ten One-Act Plays sample
August 31, 2019 02:06 - 4 minutes - 4.37 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/34d4sBH Ten One-Act Plays By Alice Gerstenberg Presented by The Online Stage Alice Gerstenberg (1885-1972) was an American playwright, actress, and activist. She is best known for her many feminist plays, which often feature female lead characters and all-female casts (a rare occurrence at the time). This is a collection of ten one-act plays, which cover a wide range of topics -highlights include a lighthearted fa...
Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Sample
August 30, 2019 23:25 - 3 minutes - 3.26 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/32mxoWp Rosencrantz and Guildenstern By W. S. Gilbert This play is a hilarious spoof of the original Shakespeare tragedy. In the author's own words: King Claudius, when a young man, wrote a five-act tragedy which was damned, and all reference to it forbidden under penalty of death. The King has a son - Hamlet - whose tendency to soliloquize has so alarmed his mother, Queen Gertrude, that she has sent for Rosencr...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
August 28, 2019 14:22 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBThe Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Narrated by Tom Saer While serving a prison sentence at Reading Gaol, Wilde became familiar with the case of another prisoner, Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a Royal Horse Guards trooper, who had been sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. Wooldridge was executed at the gaol on 7th July, 1896. After his release from prison in 1897, Wilde moved to France, where the poem was written, and later published in 1898. The first published version ...
15 - 'The General Elliott'
August 21, 2019 21:57 - 1 minute - 2.5 MBWhipperginny By Robert Graves Narrated by Erin Louttit and Denis Daly This collection of fifty-three poems was written by Robert Graves between 1920 and 1923. Many of the pieces display a pastoral character and were composed in an effort by the poet to distance himself from the trauma of the First World War. The title, which is that of the first poem in the collection, refers to an obsolete card card game. Audio edited by Denis Daly This recording may be freely downloaded and distribute...
Oroastus
August 18, 2019 10:20 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBOroastus By Stephen Leacock Presented by The Online Stage Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944) was one of the most widely read authors in the English language in the early Twentieth Century. In his anthology, Over the Footlights and Other Fancies, he satirizes several dramatic genres, and one of his most hilarious sketches depicts a performance of a Greek play by university students. Cast Narrator - Marty Krz Oroastus - Alan Weyman Herald - Andy Harrington Chorus/Crowd - Sarah...
Cameos On Christian Identity Sample
August 09, 2019 00:45 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBThe complete recording is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2GVA593 Cameos on Christian Identity: G.R. Stirling's Purple Patches By Gordon Stirling, Sarah Bacaller Narrated by Sarah Bacaller "Christianity is an idealistic insanity, quite unworkable in a sane, practical world...." "As a young man, I was having a crisis of faith. I was very fond of Jesus, but I thought that God was rough, harsh, capricious and vindictive." "I hear sermons in which the diagnosis...
A Son At The Front Sample
August 07, 2019 23:34 - 4 minutes - 4.49 MBThe complete recording is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2Yy5F7C A Son at the Front By Edith Wharton, Peter Buitenhuis Narrated by Robin Siegerman "What an incalculable sum of gifts and virtues went to make up the monster's daily meal." So observes American expatriate painter John Campton, whose only son is conscripted to military service in France at the beginning of WWI. In Edith Wharton's saga, A Son at the Front, we share the character's anguish as thousands of ...
The Thirty-Nine Steps Sample
August 05, 2019 23:05 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2MFtvad The Thirty-Nine Steps By John Buchan Narrated by Graham Scott Richard Hannay, returned colonial mining engineer, is thoroughly bored with life in London, and only a day away from taking the next boat back to the Cape. But then he encounters mysterious American spy Franklin P. Scudder, on the run from foreign agents seeking to prevent him from revealing an assassination plot designed to throw Brita...
Lost Man's Lane Sample
August 05, 2019 23:00 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2KgoCD5 Lost Man's Lane By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Terah Tucker This second installment of the Amelia Butterworth series by Anna Katherine Green is full of mystery and fun. Proper (and somewhat nosy) Miss Amelia has found herself enticed by Mr Gryce, the famous detective, to leave her comfortable upper-class life and once again put her instinctive detective skills to work, this time in a small mo...
Soul Call - Chapter 1
August 04, 2019 12:53 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MBThe Soul Call By Stephen Leacock Presented by The Online Stage The author describes this dramatic episode as "an up-to-date Piffle-Play - In which a Woman and a Man, both trying to find themselves, find each other." He further explains: A production like this always deals, in one way or another, with "the problem of marriage." Let it be noted that marriage, which used to be a sacrament, became presently a contract, and now a problem. In art and literature it used to constitute the ...
Soul Call - Chapter 2
August 04, 2019 12:53 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MBThe Soul Call By Stephen Leacock Presented by The Online Stage The author describes this dramatic episode as "an up-to-date Piffle-Play - In which a Woman and a Man, both trying to find themselves, find each other." He further explains: A production like this always deals, in one way or another, with "the problem of marriage." Let it be noted that marriage, which used to be a sacrament, became presently a contract, and now a problem. In art and literature it used to constitute the ...
Piccadilly Jim Sample
July 30, 2019 02:49 - 4 minutes - 4.51 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/3132ul0 Piccadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse Narrated by Graham Scott James "Jimmy" Crocker - only son of a jobbing actor, former journalist, and now penitent playboy - returns to his native United States under an assumed name, after five years cutting a swathe through London Society on his rich stepmother's money. But far from picking up the threads of his peaceable pre-wealth life, instead Jimmy rapid...
Down With My Demons Sample
July 29, 2019 23:28 - 4 minutes - 4.34 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2OuwBQY Down With My Demons A radio play by Josh Bourne Presented by Voices of Today Ten years after a tragic incident on the lake, an AA meeting in a small, religious town in the deep south of the USA descends into bitterness and chaos when a flood hits. Trapped within the local church, tempers escalate and well-buried secrets begin to emerge. Personalities clash, reputations are dissected and questioned, and ...
Whose Body Sample
July 29, 2019 23:21 - 3 minutes - 3.06 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2YwjDpN Whose Body? By Dorothy L. Sayers Narrated by Graham Scott The great financier, Sir Reuben Levy, disappears from his Park Lane home on a November night, apparently without a stitch of clothing, or even his spectacles. On the same night in a suburban bathroom in Battersea, an unknown body bearing a superficial resemblance to Sir Reuben is discovered, reclining in the bath tub, unseasonably dres...
Cutting Room Sample
July 29, 2019 23:18 - 4 minutes - 4.38 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2MqMhSz Cutting Room A radio play by Arthur Charlesworth Presented by The Online Stage Cutting Room is set in the "Town Welfare Department" of a town in the Midlands, Burtonwood, during public sector cuts. Four characters (David, Lucy, Ian, and an intern, Anne) have to take calls from members of the public complaining about the loss of public services, with the boss Harry coming in occasionally to offer cheerfu...
The Moods of Ginger Mick sample
July 29, 2019 23:13 - 4 minutes - 4.31 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: The Moods of Ginger Mick By C.J.Dennis Narrated by Denis Daly and Sarah Bacaller This is is the second of the verse novels by C.J. Dennis and was published in 1916. It describes the adventures of Ginger Mick, a rough and ready associate of Bill, the major character of The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. After starting life on the criminal fringes of the dubious neighbourhood of Spadger's Lane, Mick signs up for service in ...
01 The Story of Peterloo
July 28, 2019 23:56 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
02 The Hampden Clubs
July 28, 2019 15:10 - 23 minutes - 33.5 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
03 The March of the Blanketeers
July 28, 2019 15:10 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
04 The Spinners' Strike
July 28, 2019 15:10 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
05 The Meeting Planned
July 28, 2019 15:10 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
06 The Drillings
July 28, 2019 15:09 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
07 The Processions
July 28, 2019 15:09 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
08 The Peterloo Massacre
July 28, 2019 15:09 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliament...
09 Memories of the Day: Bamford, Smith, Banks
July 28, 2019 15:09 - 47 minutes - 65.5 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
10 Memories of the Day: Stanley
July 28, 2019 15:09 - 48 minutes - 66.5 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
11 The Days After
July 28, 2019 15:09 - 35 minutes - 49 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
12 The Press
July 28, 2019 15:09 - 40 minutes - 55.6 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
13 The Reaction
July 28, 2019 15:09 - 34 minutes - 46.7 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
14 The Trial at York
July 28, 2019 15:09 - 1 hour - 92.8 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
15 In Memoriam
July 28, 2019 15:09 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MBThe Peterloo Massacre 1819: A bicentenary collection Presented by Voices of Today. This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre, told in the words of Francis A. Bruton, Harriett Martineau, Mrs. Isabella Banks and several observers who were present on the day, including Samuel Bamford, Archibald Prentice, John Benjamin Smith and Bishop Edward Stanley. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 workers and their families marched to St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to join a public meeting in support of parliamen...
Your Little Play sample
July 18, 2019 02:27 - 4 minutes - 4.21 MBThe complete recording is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2JB0WJ8 Your Little Play A radio play by Anna Myrmus Presented by Voices of Today Laura is an aspiring playwright and director. Living off sheer ambition and the odd bit of praise, she struggles more and more to justify her own life choices. After being accepted onto an accessibility scheme, she is given the opportunity to work with her hero, Louis Sherman, but what she encounters behind the scenes defines...
Floyd Dell: A Collection of Plays sample
July 17, 2019 23:59 - 4 minutes - 4.49 MBThe complete recording may be purchased at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2XLmOKw Floyd Dell: A Collection of Plays Presented by The Online Stage Floyd Dell has been called "one of the most flamboyant, versatile, and influential American Men of Letters of the first third of the 20th century". Though he was primarily a newspaper and magazine editor, most prominently of the radical left-wing magazine The Masses, he also published many best-selling feminist works. As a staunch advocate of femi...
Three Stories sample
July 17, 2019 23:56 - 4 minutes - 4.47 MBThe complete recording may be purchased at Audible: https://adbl.co/2Y3qUgA Three Stories By Robert E. Howard Narrated by Dean Delp Among the many characters created by Robert E. Howard, the most celebrated is the moody iconoclast Conan the Barbarian. These three stories depict some of his adventures involving encounters with his many enemies and unlikely allies. Queen of the Black Coast The Devil in Iron Shadows in the Moonlight
Heart Of Darkness Sample
July 17, 2019 23:54 - 4 minutes - 4.55 MBThe compete recording may be purchased at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2Z2Zncw Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad Narrated by Graham Scott "The horror! The horror!" In Conrad's haunting novella, narrator Marlow recounts his experiences in the Congo Free State, and his chilling and perilous quest upriver in search of visionary ivory trader, the enigmatic Mr Kurtz. His journey, culminating in his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrify and perplex Marlow, and lead him to question his ...
Doreen sample
July 17, 2019 23:51 - 4 minutes - 3.94 MBThe complete recording is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2XLUNmk Doreen By C.J. Dennis Narrated by Denis Daly and Sarah Bacaller Doreen is a verse-novel by renowned Australian poet, C.J. Dennis (1876-1938). As one of the sequels to the 1915 verse-novel, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, it continues to follow the family capers of Bill and Doreen along with their young son. Originally published in 1917, Doreen is a classic work of Australian poetry.
The Scarlet Letter Sample
July 17, 2019 23:47 - 4 minutes - 4.14 MBThe complete recording is available for purchase at Audible,com: https://adbl.co/2xTT6Ui The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne Presented by The Online Stage Scorned by her 17th century New England Puritan village, Hester Prynne struggles to raise her precocious daughter, Pearl, who is the result of an affair and whose father is unknown. Despite being forced to wear a scarlet letter A as a brand for her adultery, Hester tries to live a life of repentance and dignity. Pearl's father...
The Sub-Contractor
July 17, 2019 13:40 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBThe Sub-Contractor by Stephen Leacock As drama was one of the many genres used by Leacock as a basis for satire, it was only to be expected that the works of Ibsen would attract his attention. In this pithy parody Leacock successfully incorporates many of the standard elements in Iben's dramaturgy with remarkable economy. Cast Narrator - Denis Daly Slump - Marty Krz Vamp - Leanne Yau Dump - John Burlinson Simp - Anna Grace Audio edited by Denis Daly
The Tract Of The Quiet Way Sample
July 13, 2019 22:00 - 4 minutes - 4.07 MBThe complete recording is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2XKVt6j The Tract Of The Quiet Way Translated by D.T.Suzuki and Paul Carus Narrated by Leanne Yau The Yin Chih Wen, or Tract of the Quiet Way is a religio-ethical tract, which was very popular in the Middle Kingdom, but never attained the celebrity of similar texts , such as the Tao Te Ching. This recording is of the first known English translation, which was made by the eminent Buddhist scholars, D. T. ...
The Little Nugget Sample
July 13, 2019 00:50 - 3 minutes - 2.89 MBThe complete recording is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2JuKslP The Little Nugget By P.G. Wodehouse Narrated by Graham Scott Pudgy, scowling Ogden Ford, spoiled child of divorced parents with far more money than is good for them, is "the Little Nugget" - the El Dorado of the American kidnapping industry. When Ogden's father sends him to an isolated English preparatory school, Mr. Peter Burns, gentleman of leisure - persuaded by his brand new fiancee - beco...
Cut Them Loose Sample
July 10, 2019 00:09 - 4 minutes - 4.2 MBThe complete recording is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2L9PmGU Cut Them Loose A radio play by Michal Krenz Presented by The Online Stage Cole, an old sea captain, lives on a ship with his daughter and her immigrant husband. The trio prepares for a deluge, while Cole meets Daphne, a mermaid who seduces and tempts him. As tensions rise with the rolling tides, Cole must make a difficult choice: take a leap into the unknown, or stay on the safe side. This is a st...
Lyric Dramas - Six Plays From Japan Sample
July 10, 2019 00:06 - 4 minutes - 4.32 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/30nxw6U Lyric Dramas - Six Plays from Japan Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain Presented by The Online Stage These six plays are Japanese classics from the 14th century and are presented in the order of a traditional Nō programme. Nō, the Japanese word for "skill", is a form of Japanese musical drama that originated in the eighth century, and is the oldest major theatre art that still survives today. Alongs...
The Sufism Of The Rubaiyat Sample
July 09, 2019 00:42 - 4 minutes - 4.34 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2Jv2MtY The Sufism of the Rubaiyat Or the Secret of the Great Paradox By Norton F. Hazeldine Narrated by Denis Daly Little is known of Norton F. Hazeldine, whose version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was published in 1908. It is not stated whether this was an actual translation, although it appears to be an extensive reworking of the fourth or fifth edition of the translation by Edward Fitzgerald. In ...
Poems by Oscar Wilde sample
July 07, 2019 00:18 - 4 minutes - 3.94 MBThe complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2XvFQEx Poems By Oscar Wilde Narrated by Denis Daly Wilde's first collection of verse, published in 1881, contains many poems which had already been published individually. Among the 61 poems can be found four major works, "The Garden of Eros", "The Burden of Itys", "Charmides", and "Humanitad". Although the initial critical reaction was not particularly enthusiastic, Wilde's poetry aroused enough attention f...
Less Is More - Hegelian Fragments Sample
June 29, 2019 04:18 - 4 minutes - 4.27 MBThe complete recording is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2Xg9oG5 Less Is More: Hegelian Fragments By Stephen Curkpatrick Narrated by Sarah Bacaller Less Is More: Hegelian Fragments is a compilation of aphoristic fragments that explore philosophical aspects of human, and specifically Christian, identity. Engaging Hegel in particular, along with a selection of his precursors and recent interpreters, these fragments explore diverse aspects and tensions of human existen...