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The Cavalcade of America, Vol. 2 Audiobook

The Cavalcade of America dramatized the greatest events in American history and featured the biggest names in Hollywood! ?In 1935, the DuPont Company chose to enhance its image by dramatizing great events in American history to an audience of millions each week on The Cavalcade of America. The dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation. One of the most prestigious series in all of radio, The Cavalcade of America shed light on little-known incidents in the lives of the pioneers of this great nation. The best talent in Hollywood stepped before the CBS microphones to star, including Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Helen Hayes, Basil Rathbone, Orson Welles, Bette Davis, and Henry Fonda. Stories were by Arthur Miller, Carl Sandburg, Steven Vincent Benet, and many others. The series enjoyed a twenty-year radio run, lasting until 1953 and making a transition to television from 1952 until 1957. Enjoy sixteen of the greatest episodes from this award-winning drama series. 1/14/46 - "Venture in Silk Hat" with Francot Tone 1/21/46 - "The Camels Are Coming" with Joel McCrea and Lorane Day 5/20/46 - "The Petticoat Jury" with Jeanne Arthur 9/23/46 - "The Old Fall River Line" with Brian Donlevy 12/16/46 - "That Powell Girl" with Peggy Ann Garner 12/30/46 - "Rain Fakers" with Burgess Meredith 1/20/47 - "Builder of the Soo" with William Holden and Marcia Hunt 2/10/47 - "The Voice of the Wizard" with Dane Clark and Donna Reed 11/24/47 - "Us Pilgrims" with George Tobias, Ralph Bell, and Mercedes McCambridge 12/29/47 - "Powhatan's Daughter" with Joan Caulfield 2/2/48 - "Good Morning, Miss Tyckman" with Helen Hayes 6/28/48 - "The Common Glory" with Basil Rathbone 2/7/49 - "The Store that Winked Out" with Zachary Scott 6/20/49 - "Ridin' Shotgun" with Ralph Bellamy 6/27/49 - "The Homecoming of Sou Chan" with Kenny Delmar 2/7/50 - "The Thinking Heart" with Raymond Massey and Beatrice Pearson

Black Eye Entertainment (Author), A Full Cast (Narrator)

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The CBS Radio Workshop, Collection 1

The CBS Radio Workshopaired from January 27, 1956, through September 22, 1957, and was a revival of the prestigious Columbia Workshop which aired from 1936 to 1943. Creator William Froug launched the series with the powerhouse two-part adaptation of Brave New Worldand booked author Aldous Huxley to narrate his famous novel. "We'll never get a sponsor anyway," CBS vice president Howard Barnes explained to Time, "so we might as well try anything." The CBS Workshopregularly featured the works of the world's greatest writers including Ray Bradbury, Archibald MacLeish, William Saroyan, Aldous Huxley, Lord Dunsany, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Wolfe and Ambrose Bierce. Music was composed by Bernard Herrman, Jerry Goldsmith and others. Enjoy 12 of the greatest episodes from this award-winning drama series. 4-7-57 Noh Plays of Japan 4-28-57 Lightship 5-12-57 The Long Way Home 7-7-57 You Could Look It Up 7-28-57 Never Bet the Devil Your Head 8-4-57 The Heart of Man 8-11-57 Malahini Magic 8-18-57 The Celestrial Omnibus 8-25-57 Sweet Cherries in Charleston 9-1-57 Grief Drives a Black Sedan 9-8-57 People Are No Good 9-15-57 Time Found Again

Black Eye Entertainment (Author), Full Cast (Narrator)

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The CBS Radio Workshop, Collection 2

The CBS Radio Workshop aired from January 27, 1956 through September 22, 1957 and was a revival of the prestigious Columbia Workshop which aired from 1936 to 1943. Creator William Froug launched the series with the powerhouse two-part adaptation of 'Brave New World' and booked author Aldous Huxley to narrate his famous novel. 'We'll never get a sponsor anyway…,' CBS vice president Howard Barnes explained to Time, '…so we might as well try anything.' The CBS Workshop regularly featured the works of the world's greatest writers including Ray Bradbury, Archibald MacLeish, William Saroyan, Aldous Huxley, Lord Dunsany, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Wolfe and Ambrose Bierce. Music was composed by Bernard Herrman, Jerry Goldsmith and others. Enjoy 12 of the greatest episodes from this award-winning drama series. 5/25/56 'The Little Prince' w/ Raymond Burr and Dick Beals 6/8/56 'Bring on the Angels' w/ Mason Adams and Louis Van Rooten 6/29/56 'The Eternal Joan' w/ Elspeth Eric and Ed Prentiss 7/13/56 'The Case of the White Kitten' w/ Kenny Delmar and Mason Adams 7/27/56 'Star Boy: The Blackfoot Indian Legend of the Two Morning Stars' 8/10/56 'Only Johnny Knows: An Appraisal of the Three Ages of Child Raising' 8/17/56 'Colloquy No. 2: A Dissertation on Love, or Boy Meets Girl' w/ Frank Baxter 8/24/56 'The Billion Dollar Failure of Figger Fallup' w/ Joseph Julian 8/31/56 'Colloquy No. 3: An Analysis of Satire' w/ Stan Freberg and Alan Reed 9/7/56 'The Hither and Thither of Danny Dither' 10/5/56 'Roughing It' w/ Samuel Clemens, Louis Van Rooten and Daws Butler 10/12/56 'A Writer at Work' w/ William Conrad and Hector Chevigny

Black Eye Entertainment (Author), Full Cast (Narrator)

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The CBS Radio Workshop, Vol. 2

The CBS Radio Workshop aired from January 27, 1956, through September 22, 1957, and was a revival of the prestigious Columbia Workshop from the 1930s and 1940s. Creator William Froug launched the series with a powerhouse two-part adaptation of Brave New World and booked author Aldous Huxley to narrate his famous novel. "We'll never get a sponsor anyway," CBS vice president Howard Barnes explained to Time, "so we might as well try anything." The CBS Workshop regularly featured the works of the world's greatest writers, including Ray Bradbury, Archibald MacLeish, William Saroyan, Aldous Huxley, Lord Dunsany, and Ambrose Bierce. This collection contains sixteen dramas starring Alexander Scourby, William Conrad, Parley Baer, Mary Jane Croft, Stacy Harris, Alan Reed, Daws Butler, Virginia Gregg, Ben Wright, Howard McNear, Edgar Barrier, June Foray, Hans Conried, Joseph Kearns, and Jeanette Nolan. 5/4/56 - "The Toledo War"6/1/56 - "A Matter of Logic"6/15/56 - "The Stronger"6/22/56 - "Another Point of View, or Hamlet Revisited"7/6/56 - "Portrait of Paris"7/20/56 - "Portrait of London"8/3/56 - "Subways Are for Sleeping"9/21/56 - "The Oedipus Story"10/26/56 - "When the Mountain Fell"11/2/56 - "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue"11/9/56 - "Colloquy No. 4" - Joe Miller's Joke Book11/11/56 - "Report on the Weans"11/18/56 - "Sounds of a Nation"11/25/56 - "The King of Cats"12/9/56 - "I Was the Duke"12/16/56 - "The Big Event"

Black Eye Entertainment (Author), A Full Cast (Narrator)

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The Cherry Orchard

Chekhov’s masterful last play, The Cherry Orchard, is a work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family and their struggle to maintain their status in a changing world. Alternately touching and farcical, this subtle, intelligent play stars the incomparable Marsha Mason. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring: Marsha Mason as Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranyevskaya Hector Elizondo as Leonid Andreyevich Gayev Michael Cristofer as Yermolay Alekseyevich Lopakhin Jennifer Tilly as Dunyasha (Avdotya Fyodorovna) Joey Slotnick as Semyon Panteleyevich Yepikhodov Christy Keefe as Anya Ranyevskaya Amy Pietz as Varya Ranyevskaya Jordan Baker as Charlotta Ivanovna Jeffrey Jones as Boris Borisovich Semyonov-Pischick Charles Durning as Feers John Chardiet as Yasha Tim DeKay as Pyotr Sergeyevich Trofimov John Chardiet as Passer-By Translated and adapted by Frank Dwyer and Nicholas Saunders. Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

Anton Chekhov (Author), Amy Pietz, Charles Durning, Christy Keefe, Hector Elizondo, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Tilly, Joey Slotnick, Jon Chardiet, Jordan Baker, Marsha Mason, Michael Cristofer, Tim Dekay, Various Performers (Narrator)

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The Cherry Orchard

Madame Ranyevskaya and her daughter Anya have returned home from Paris to discover that their family estate which includes their beloved cherry orchard has to be sold to cover the family's debts. They believe a miracle can save their orchard. But will their stubborn pride and fond, childhood memories be enough? Chekhov's tragic-comedy is about the passing of an era and is a timeless study of a Russian aristocratic family desperately clinging to the past. Among the star cast in this 1974 production are Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Sinéad Cusack, Anna Massey, Patricia Routledge and Andrew Sachs.

Anton Chekhov (Author), , Andrew Sachs, Anna Massey, Full Cast, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Patricia Routledge, Sinead Cusack (Narrator)

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The Chicago Conspiracy Trial

Reality is stranger than fiction when seven 1960’s radicals refuse to behave in Judge Julius Hoffman’s courtroom. Based on actual trial transcripts and starring a cast of top Chicago actors, this play centers on events following the protests and riots during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Tom Amandes, George Czarnecki, Christine Dunford, Richard Fire, Kevin Gudahl, Gary Houston, Tony Mockus, George Murdock, Mike Nussbaum, Peggy Roeder, David Schwimmer, Jeff Still, Ron West, Ed Wheeler and Andrew White.

Peter Goodchild (Author), Various Performers (Narrator)

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The Children's Classic Collection, Vol. 2

A Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre Production This enticing ensemble of children's classic stories with sound effects and original songs features a full cast of voice actors, including multi-award-winning voice talent Barbara Rosenblat and ATC Seneca Award nominee Georgia Lee Schultz. Included in the collection are Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, and International Radio Festival winner Scourge of the Desert. An engaging listening experience for the young and the young at heart!

Charles Perrault, Diane Vanden Hoven, George Zarr, Lewis Carroll, The Brothers Grimm (Author), A Full Cast (Narrator)

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The Choephori

Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here continued when Agamemnon's son Orestes avenges his father's death by killing Clytemnestra. It is not until the third and final play, Eumenides, that peace is restored to the family of the Atreidae. The introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean 'Orestes' tradition in literature and art, as well as the place of Choephori within the Oresteia, its imagery and dramatic structure, the questions of staging the play, and the manuscript tradition.

Aeschylus (Author), Mark Bowen (Narrator)

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The Christmas Journey

Don J. Snyder (Author), Chris Reilly (Narrator)

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The Christmas That Almost Never Was: A Classic Radio Play by the Voice of Yogi Bear

It is Christmas Eve at the North Pole when Santa Claus loses his “remembery” and only a child who has been good for 365 days can save Christmas! Producer Joe Bevilacqua has unearthed this vintage 1940s recording of the charming Yuletide children's radio play, written and starring Daws Butler, the voice and Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, and most of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. Also heard in this old time radio show is Don Messick (Boo Boo Bear, Ranger Smith, Scooby Doo).

Charles Dawson Butler, Daws Butler (Author), Daws Butler, Don Messick, Marian Richmond (Narrator)

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The Cid (Le Cid) by Pierre Corneille: Studio Cast Album Recording - English Adaptation

David Serero, Pierre Corneille (Author), David Mohr, David Serero, Lawrence Neals, Lisa Monde, Ron Barba (Narrator)

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