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  Oscar Wilde: The Importance of...

  Oscar Wilde

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  This is a solo recording of the play, meaning that all parts including stage directions are performed by one person, me, who incidentally enjoyed doing it immensely. Little needs to be said about the play itself, a sparkling example of Wilde's amazing ability to poke fun at almost everyone while making you laugh out loud at the witty sayings sprinkled throughout the acts. As to the plot, if you don't know it already, let me just say that it involves two young English men who fall madly and instantly in love with two young English women who of course love them back mainly because their name is Earnest. Unfortunately, that is not their names and there are many bumps and crashes on the road to the happy wedding bells. Listen and enjoy !

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  15 Minutes Of Love Poems -...

  Ben Jonson, Miraibai, Edward...

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  Love. What is love? 
   
  The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. 
   
  Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt. 
   
  Our own experiences are unique and personal to ourselves and of little help defining it for another. 
   
  Love is perhaps best expressed through poetry. As Plato said 2500 years ago “At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet”. Writing a love poem for ones’ partner is seen as the most romantic of gestures. It opens our hearts to another's. Lovers love. 
   
  Here, in this volume history’s greatest poets convey thoughts, feelings and sentiments of love to you in quick (or bite-size) conversations of verse that can slip into your day and your partner's heart. 
   
  01 - Fifteen Minutes of Love - Volume 6 - The Owl & The Pussycat & Other Poems 
  02 - The Owl And The Pussycat by Edward Lear 
  03 - The Flea by John Donne 
  04 - Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  05 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 
  06 - To Celia by Ben Jonson 
  07 - Courtship by Alexander Brome 
  08 - Gloire De Dijon by D H Lawrence 
  09 - Love's Harvest by Alfred Austin 
  10 - Sonnet XXXVII - The Love Moon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  11 - The Beloved Comes Home by Miraibai 
  12 - Love's Deity by John Donne

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  One Hundred Verses from Old Japan

  Teika no Fujiwara

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  In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prized poetry. At one point in his life he compiled the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (often known simply as the Hyakunin Isshu), which means “A Hundred Poems by A Hundred Poets” (literally “A hundred people, one poem [each]”).    This collection of a hundred poems is known to almost all Japanese, and over the years it has been translated by many different people. One of the early translators of the collection was William Porter. His translation, first published in 1909, was titled “A Hundred Verses from Old Japan”.    (Summary by Kevin Steinbach)

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  Damon Runyon Theater - Tobias...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  Fifty Shades of January - 50 of...

  William Shakespeare, William...

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  The year reaches its end with the Twelfth month.  The landscape may be bleak, a sculpture of lines, monochrome dominates.  The air carries the sounds of winter; wind, storms, silence.   
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of January - An Introduction 
  2 - Month of January by Hilaire Belloc 
  3 - Ode Written on 1st of January by Robert Southey 
  4 - Written January 1st, 1832 by Henry Alford 
  5 - January Cold Desolate by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  6 - January 1st, 1828 by Nathaniel Parker Willis 
  7 - Written January 1st, 1792 by Janet Little 
  8 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
  9 - Birds at Winter Nightfall (Triolet) by Thomas Hardy 
  10 - The Winters Are So Short by Emily Dickinson 
  11 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird 
  12 - Winter Dusk by Sara Teasdale 
  13 - Winter Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell 
  14 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan 
  15 - Sunset by Ann Radcliffe 
  16 - Winter Song by Katherine Mansfield 
  17 - Winter Nightfall by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  18 - A Winter Night by Sara Teasdale 
  19 - Written During an Aurora Borealis January 7th, 1831 by Henry Alford 
  20 - Spellbound by Emily Bronte 
  21 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith 
  22 - The Mirror For Magistrates - The Induction by Thomas Sackville 
  23 - Winter Stores By Charlotte Bronte 
  24 - Winter Violets by Alfred Austin 
  25 - To the Snow Drop by Charlotte Smith 
  26 - Sonnet 2 - When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow by William Shakespeare 
  27 - A Calender of Sonnets - January by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  28 - Work Without Hope by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  29 - January 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson 
  30 - I Who All the Winter Through by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  31 - Winter by Khalil Gibran 
  32 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire 
  33 - A Winter's Sad Retreat by Daniel Sheehan 
  34 - Sonnet 97 - How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been by William Shakespeare 
  35 - At Castle Wood by Emily Bronte 
  36 - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost 
  37 - The Divine Lullaby by Eugene Field 
  38 - A Tale Founded on a Fact Which Happened in January 1779 by William Cowper 
  39 - To Winter By William Blake 
  40 - Winter by Anne Bradstreet 
  41 - A Sonnet Occasioned by the Bad Weather Which Hindered the Sports at Newmarket in January 1616 by William Drummond 
  42 - A Shropshire Lad XVII - Twice a Week the Winter Through by A E Housman 
  43 - On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, January the 14th 1807 by Joel Barlow 
  44 - The Battle of the Cowpens January 18th, 1781 by Thomas Dunn 
  45 - On My Thirty Third Birthday, January 22nd, 1821 by Lord Byron 
  46 - A Song For January 26th, 1824 by Charles Tompson 
  47 - Ode on the Present Time, 27th January, 1795 by Amelia Opie 
  48 - Arm the First Rifle Ballad, January 1852 by Martin Farquar Tupper 
  49 - January by Alice Carey 
  50 - Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  51 - As You Like It  Act II Sc VII - Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare

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  Miss Julie & Creditors (NHB...

  August Strindberg

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  August Strindberg's classic portrayals of secrets and lies, seduction and power – both written in the summer of 1888 – in brilliant new versions by Howard Brenton.
  Miss Julie begins as a flirtatious game between the daughter of a wealthy landowner and her father's manservant, and gradually descends, over the course of a long and sultry Midsummer's Eve, into a savage fight for survival.
  In Creditors, young artist Adolf is deeply in love with his new wife Tekla – but a chance meeting with a suave stranger shakes his devotion to the core. Passionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, Strindberg considered this wickedly enjoyable black comedy his masterpiece.
  Both plays premiered in co-productions between Jermyn Street Theatre, London, and Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, directed by Jermyn Street's Artistic Director Tom Littler.
  'Riveting... as real and sensational now as ever and as socially and politically pertinent' - Guardian on Miss Julie
  'Superlative… an unexpected treat of the highest order' - Evening Standard (Best Productions of 2017) on Miss Julie

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