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Six episodes from Colonial Radio Theatre's long running comedy series, The New Dibble Show. Join Dibble and the gang from Mayham for lots of laughs and good clean comedy for the entire family. Episodes include: "Bragging Jake Part 1" - Jake tells his Aunt and Uncle from Peoria that he is the star of his own radio show. The trouble begins when they arrive in Mayham and attend the show! "Bragging Jake Part 2" - Dibble and the gang perform their version of Robin Hood, with Jake as Robin Hood and Dibble as Little John.

The nightmare of generations has finally come true: A huge comet is on collision course with Earth, a holocaust is imminent. But from the Comet come a million copper tentacles that snatch up gorgeous, feral news reporter Kate Spencer and intergalactic bank robbers Jimmy and Henry. Escaping from the most improbable prison-cell in the universe, these three must destroy the brain of the Comet before the day is out, or Earth and several thousand alien species will die.

The entire Gospel of John presented from the ESV New Testament Bible. Marquis Laughlin has performed seven books of the Bible live, including the Gospel of John. He brings amazing emotional and theological insights to this presenation of the gospel.

Over the years, this has proven to be one of Tim’s consistently best-selling audios. This material was recorded on tour in 1992, and Pumping Irony was the first release on Tim’s own record label. The first nine stories were recorded at the University of Maine in Machias; the rest was captured while Tim was touring “out west”, specifically at The Lebanon (N. H.) Opera House. This recording includes the first mention of Tim’s real-life band from the 1970s, The Dubious Brothers.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarried to the murderer, his uncle. This is widely regarded as the definitive performance of Hamlet, starring Sir John Gielgud and Pamela Brown.

In Neat, writer/performer Charlayne Woodard shares her memories of growing up black in America in the '60s and '70s. The play focuses around the life of Woodard's Aunt Beneatha, Neat, who was mistakenly fed camphor oil as a baby, resulting in permanent brain damage. Stories of family and of time spent with Neat are weaved together with touching results.

In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving and inspirational tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle, and triumph.

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character", is a tragic novel by British author Thomas Hardy. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). This dramatic performance is by the NBC University Theatre.

Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy “Slash” Braddock and Melvin “Pecos Kid” Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to make an honest go of it. They’ve managed to safely deliver a church organ to a mountain parish when their sometime employer—Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. “Bleed-’m-So” Bledsoe—recruits them for a job only fools would take.

Come and envision Old Jacob Marley appearing before his sinister old partner Scrooge to foretell of the things to happen which fate has set forward. Feel the presence of the ghosts as they take Scrooge one by one from the past to the future. Feel the warmth and the laughter and even the sorrow of Tiny Tim and the Crachit Family. Come listen and envision as the townspeople laugh without sorrow of the passing of Old Scrooge and the barter with the pawnbroker over the simplest things he left behind. Envision what happened to Scrooge as the last phantom shows him the things of yet to come.

Alexandra wird von ihrem Stiefvater missbraucht. Als ob das nicht schon schlimm genug wäre, richten sich auch noch ihr Zwillingsbruder und seine Freunde gegen sie. Therapiesitzungen bei einer Psychologin sollen helfen - und machen doch alles nur noch schlimmer, bis die Situation schließlich eskaliert. Das mehrfach ausgezeichnete Werk erscheint hier erstmals in einer Mischform aus Hörbuch und Hörspiel, bei dem in Rückblenden die Ereignisse aufgerollt werden.

Oregon, Sommer 1983 - eine Serie mysteriöser Todesfälle rüttelt das kleine Küstenstädtchen Harmony Bay aus seinem friedlichen Schlaf. Und Sheriff Cody, den es nach dem Tod seiner Frau dorthin verschlagen hat, wird bereits kurz nach seiner Ankunft zur Pflicht gerufen, denn es geschehen merkwürdige Dinge: Ein Gefangenentransport zerschellt an einer Klippe - die beiden Fahrer liegen tot im Führerhaus, von dem Gefangenen fehlt jede Spur. Ein Mann, der vorgibt, von der Regierung zu sein, übernimmt den Fall. Gleichzeitig klopft ein mysteriöser Fremder an die Türen der Einwohner und verteilt Kugelschreiber. Und als Doc Schulz zwei weitere Todesfälle untersucht, macht er eine schreckliche Entdeckung. Bald wird klar: Hinter der idyllischen Fassade der kleinen Stadt - lauert etwas Böses...

The fascinating life of storyteller and humorist Mark Twain is revealed in this one-man performance based on Twain's writings. The early years of Samuel Clemens, the Mississippi River experiences, and his move to the silver mining area of Nevada are portrayed by exuberant actor McAvoy Layne; some of the most famous tales, from "The Blue Jay Yarn" to "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" are woven into the history of this most colorful author.

Der bekannte altbayerische Schriftsteller Ludwig Thoma erzählt in "Tante Frieda" neue Lausbubengeschichten, als Hörspiel eingerichtet von Peter Folken.

Matti is the 14-year-old son of a traditional Sami family living in Lapland, living 250 miles inside the Arctic Circle. Matti is a modern boy, who loves messing about with computers and hates pollution, drugs and Ginger Spice. By the author of Billy Elliott. Performed by Ben Tibber. Written by Lee Hall.

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.

A rare phenomenon to say the least, Simon King is the kind of comic that comes along maybe once in a generation. Every performance is an onslaught, an unrelenting attack on the senses. He pushes his audience to keep up with him as his mind jumps around from the topical to the absurd with lightning speed and intensity. Never sure what will happen next, the audience is forced to hold on tight and be prepared for anything.

Die Erde steht nicht im Mittelpunkt des Universums. Diese aufsehenerregende These kann der geniale Physiker und Naturforscher Galileo Galilei im Italien des 17. Jahrhunderts mit der Erfindung eines neuen Fernrohrs beweisen und zieht damit den Zorn der Kirche auf sich. Diese befürchtet mit der Abwendung vom ptolemäischen Weltbild einen gesellschaftlichen Umsturz. Verfolgt von der Inquisition und aus Angst vor Folter verleugnet Galilei schließlich seine Entdeckung. Als alter Mann kann er sich diesen Verrat an seiner Überzeugung nicht verzeihen und lässt eine Schrift über seine Entdeckung außer Landes schmuggeln.

Drei seltsame Gestalten ziehen durch das Dickicht des schottischen Hochlands - die Hexen sind auf der Suche nach Macbeth und Banquo. Sie wollen Duncans Kronvasallen eine folgenschwere Prophezeiung überbringen: Auf Macbeth warte die Krone, aber nur Banquo werde einen königlichen Nachkommen zeugen. Die beiden Freunde versuchen, die Prophezeiung abzutun, bis Macbeths schöne Frau Skena ihrem Gemahl einflüstert, dass er - und nur er allein - ein Anrecht auf den Thron habe.