Audiobooks narrated by Jim Norton

The Dublin Trilogy & more: Six BBC Radio Full-Cast Productions including Shadow of a Gunman & Juno a

"An unparalleled collection of Full-Cast BBC Drama adaptations of Sean O’Casey’s powerful, poignant works One of Ireland’s foremost playwrights, Sean O’Casey is renowned for his groundbreaking plays depicting the lives of poor, working-class Dubliners struggling with social and political upheaval and revolutionary change. This is the first comprehensive audio collection of O'Casey's works, and includes the three masterpieces collectively known as the ‘Dublin Trilogy’, as well as the dark comic satire Cock-a-Doodle Dandy, the one-act Bedtime Story and the anti-war drama The Silver Tassie. The Shadow of a Gunman – Dublin, 1920. With the Irish War of Independence raging, poet Donal Davoren finds himself caught up in danger and violence when he is mistaken for an IRA gunman on the run. Bryan Murray, Alan Devlin and Marcella O’Riordan star in this Radio 4 production of Sean O’Casey’s breakthrough play. Juno and the Paycock – The slum-dwelling Boyle family are blighted by poverty, war and the alcoholism of its feckless patriarch 'Captain' Jack Boyle. Will a surprise legacy transform their lives? Adapted for Radio 3, O’Casey’s classic tragicomedy stars Sorcha Cusack and Stanley Townsend. The Plough and the Stars – Painting a stark portrait of a city and a nation in turmoil, this classic play tells the story of ordinary Dubliners during the Easter Rising of 1916. Introduced by the playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah and starring Elaine Cassidy, Padraic Delaney, Gabrielle Reidy, Finbar Lynch & Matthew McNulty. Cock-a-Doodle Dandy – Rich farmer Michael Marthraun tries to stamp out permissiveness in rural Ireland, but the appearance of a beautifully plumed rooster calls the villagers to love and liberty. Believing the bird to be demonic, Marthraun calls in the priest, Father Domineer… Joseph O’Conor, Stephen Brennan and T. P. McKenna star in this adaptation of O’Casey’s own favourite play. Bedtime Story – Pious young clerk John Joe Mulligan is known to be a pillar of the Church. So why has he invited the seductive Angela back to his room? A concise exploration of morality and religious hypocrisy, this farcical comedy stars John Lynch, Sorcha Cusack and Angela Dearden. The Silver Tassie – A tale of love and the bitter heroics of war, O’Casey’s moving Expressionist play follows young athlete Harry Heegan (Jim Norton) as he leaves the football field for the Western Front. Text copyright © Sean O’Casey 1923 (The Shadow of a Gunman), 1924 (Juno and the Paycock), 1926 (The Plough and the Stars), 1927 (The Silver Tassie), 1949 (Cock-a-Doodle Dandy), 1951 (Bedtime Story) Production credits Written by Sean O’Casey The Shadow of a Gunman Juno and the Paycock The Plough and the Stars Cock-a-Doodle Dandy Bedtime Story The Silver Tassie © 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd"

Sean O'Casey (Author), Elaine Cassidy, Elizabeth Morgan, Finbar Lynch, Full Cast, Geoffrey Matthews, Jim Norton, John Hollis, John Kavanagh, John Lynch, Mary O'Farrell, Sorcha Cusack (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - Christmas

"01 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Christmas - An Introduction02 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce03 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce04 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky05 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott06 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry07 - The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson08 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov09 - Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs10 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather11 - Snap-Dragon by Lames Hain Friswell12 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe"

O Henry (Author), Jim Norton (Narrator)

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3 Christmas Stories - Set at Christmas Celebrations

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears."

James Hain Friswell, James Joyce, Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Jim Norton, Michael Lyons (Narrator)

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Stories Exploring Morality

"The concept of right and wrong, of good and bad, is taught to us from childhood. It’s a guiding principle as we journey through the decades of life. Easy to keep to? Sometimes it’s easier not to. Authors of the talent of Franz Kafka, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others create characters and circumstances that test their capacity for morality to the limit.1 - Stories Exploring Morality - An Introduction2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce4 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka5 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne6 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson7 - Benediction by F Scott Fitzgerald8 - The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne9 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant10 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy11 - The Hoodoo by Martha Gruening12 - The Coup de Grace by Ambrose Bierce13 - Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa14 - A Tale of Negative Gravity by Frank R Stockton15 - Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce16 - The Four Fists by F Scott Fitzgerald17 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne18 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne"

Ambrose Bierce, F Scott Fitzgerald, Frank R Stockton, Franz Kafka, Guy De Maupassant, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Martha Gruening, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Jim Norton, Warren Keyes (Narrator)

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Short Stories About Guilt

"Guilt can be a loathsome word. It riddles us with its blend of torment and despair in various hues. Whether we call it a guilty secret or we have really done an act to inspire such a feeling, it is an emotion difficult to escape. In this volume of classic stories our authors examine and explore all types of guilt. From Katherine Mansfield, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce and a host of other literary talents, flow works with dark shadows that reveal the true nature of man. 1 - Short Stories about Guilt 2 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 3 - Eveline by James Joyce 4 - Roger Malvin's Burial by Nathaniel Hawthorne 5 - The Three Sisters by W W Jacobs 6 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson 7 - The Lady's Maid by Katherine Mansfield 8 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 9 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson 10 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 11 - In The Dark by Edith Nesbit 12 - God Sees The Truth But Waits by Leo Tolstoy 13 - The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce 14 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs 15 - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe 16 - A Painful Case by James Joyce 17 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne"

Katherine Mansfield (Author), Jim Norton (Narrator)

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Short Stories Set in Winter & The Cold

"1 - Short Stories Set in Winter - The Cold - An Introduction 2 - An Odyssey of the North - Part 1 by Jack London 3 - An Odyssey of the North - Part 2 by Jack London 4 - The Blizzard by Alexander Pushkin 5 - The Ice Palace by F Scott Fitzgerald 6 - Misery by Anton Chekhov 7 - The White Silence by Jack London 8 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce 9 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce 10 - The Snow by Hugh Walpole 11 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather 12 - The Prediction - Part 1 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey 13 - The Prediction - Part 2 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey 14 - The Metropolitian Emigrant by John Galt 15 - One Autumn Night by Maxim Gorky 16 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov 17 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 18 - In a Far Country by Jack London 19 - The Snowstorm - Part 1 by Leo Tolstoy 20 - The Snowstorm - Part 2 by Leo Tolstoy"

Alexander Pushkin, Amelia B. Edwards, Anton Chekhov, F Scott Fitzgerald, Hugh Walpole, Jack London, James Joyce, John Galt, Leo Tolstoy, Mary Diana Dods, Maxim Gorky, Willa Cather (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Jim Norton, William Dufris (Narrator)

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Stories with Epiphanies

"1 - Short Stories with Epiphanies - An Introduction 2 - Araby by James Joyce 3 - The Four Fists by F Scott Fitzgerald 4 - A Painful Case by James Joyce 5 - The Strength of God by Sherwood Anderson 6 - Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield 7 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin 8 - A Little Cloud by James Joyce 9 - Captain Rogers by W W Jacobs 10 - The Student by Anton Chekhov 11 - Eveline by James Joyce 12 - The Ice Palace by F Scott Fitzgerald 13 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce 14 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce"

Anton Chekhov, F Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Sherwood Anderson, W W Jacobs (Author), Eric Meyers, Jim Norton, Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1910's - The Europeans

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume we examine a decade of tumult and upheaval for the continent and its Empires as both countries and social classes tense under insoluble issues. All at once Europe is engulfed in slaughter and overwhelmed by fighting. Its authors use their pens both to help enlighten and to provide some scant strands of escape in these most demanding of times. 1 - The Top 10 - The 1910's - The Europeans - An Introduction 2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce 3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce 4 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 5 - Sicilian Limes by Luigi Pirandello 6 - The Garden of the Holy Virgin by Alexander Kuprin 7 - The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle 8 - Son by Ivan Bunin 9 - The Marseillaise by Leonid Andreyev 10 - Dethroned by I N Potapenko 11 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 12 - The Testament of Magdalen Blair - Part 1 by Aleister Crowley 13 - The Testament of Magdalen Blair - Part 2 by Aleister Crowley"

Aleister Crowley, Alexander Kuprin, Franz Kafka, I N Potapenko, Ivan Bunin, James Joyce, Leonid Andreyev, Luigi Pirandello, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Jim Norton, Lisa Bowerman (Narrator)

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Modernist Short Stories

"Grouping together works by various authors into a theme should be relatively simple. Choose a theme, choose an author, choose a story. But some themes can be a little baffling. Modernism is a lovely bright term that should do exactly what it says on the cover. Yet the authors and stories themselves can be baffling in some respects or streamlined and clean lined words in another. Definitions of what is Modernism can seem arbitrary or blurred. In essence we can agree on some but not on others: 01 - Modernist Short Stories - An Introduction02 - Eveline by James Joyce03 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman04 - A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield05 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker06 - The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf07 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence08 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein09 - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield10 - The Defense of Strikerville by Damon Runyon11 - Araby by James Joyce12 - Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield13 - The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner14 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf15 - Speed by Sinclair Lewis16 - Ariel's Triumph by Booth Tarkington17 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield18 - White Bread by Zona Gale19 - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield20 - A Cullenden of Virginia by Thomas Wolfe21 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce22 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce"

James Joyce, Virginia Woolf (Author), Jim Norton, Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - Love

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this volume our classic authors turn their pens to the immortal quest for love. What they find and what they reveal are, of course, illuminating, beguiling and the best of magical literature.01 - The Top 10 - Love - An Introduction02 - Araby by James Joyce03 - A Modern Lover - Part 1 by D H Lawrence04 - A Modern Lover - Part 2 by D H Lawrence05 - The Fullness of Life by Edith Wharton06 - About Love by Anton Chekhov07 - Mr and Mrs Dove by Katherine Mansfield08 - The Blizzard by Alexander Pushkin09 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather10 - Madame Rose Hanie by Khalil Gibran11 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry12 - The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde"

Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence, Edith Wharton, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Khalil Gibran, O Henry, Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Jim Norton, Kelly O'doherty (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The Modernists

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this volume our authors show that Modernism was once cutting edge. A way to explore, create, show and share in new ways. Decades may have passed but their words still seem fresh and new and cutting edge. Genius in every name.01 - The Top 10 - The Modernists - An Introduction02 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce03 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce04 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf05 - The Defense of Strikerville by Damon Runyon06 - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield07 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman08 - Youth - Part 1 by Joseph Conrad09 - Youth - Part 2 by Joseph Conrad10 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein11 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker12 - Speed by Sinclair Lewis13 - Ariel's Triumph by Booth Tarkington"

Booth Tarkington, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Damon Runyon, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Katherine Mansfield, Sinclair Lewis, Virginia Woolf (Author), Eve Karpf, Jim Norton, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Unrequited Love - Short Stories

"Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all. In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. Love is perhaps the most difficult rejection of all. They are the one you want to be with. Its so obvious. You exist. But the reality is that for them, you are not the one. Every protestation, every effort, every act of love is rebuffed at worse, or kindly set aside at best. This union was clearly never meant to be.1 - Unrequited Love - Short Stories - An Introduction2 - Araby by James Joyce3 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton4 - The Border Line by D H Lawrence5 - Her Lover by Maxim Gorky6 - Winter Dreams by F Scott Fitzgerald7 - An Imaginative Woman by Thomas Hardy8 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather9 - Psychology by Katherine Mansfield10 - The Daughter of Lilith by Anatole France11 - Apple Blossom in Brittany by Ernest Dowson12 - The Muse's Tragedy by Edith Wharton13 - A Painful Case by James Joyce14 - The Old Adam by D H Lawrence"

Anatole France, F Scott Fitzgerald (Author), Janet Maw, Jim Norton (Narrator)

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