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4) Crime club
Series
Publisher
Radio Spirits
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Take a seat. Get comfortable. And get set for a murderously entertaining evening at the Crime Club! Based on the famous series of mystery novels, here are sixteen cold-blooded excursions into the criminal mind, as originally broadcast in 1946-47!"--Container.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Digory and Polly discover a secret passage that links their homes, and they are taken into the World of Charn, where they wake up the evil Queen Jadis. There, they witness the creation of the Land of Narnia as it is sung into being by the Great Lion, Aslan. "--
Publisher
Distributed by BBC Audiobooks America]
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
Amos and Andy was the most popular series in the history of broadcasting. Created by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, the legendary series originated as radio's first dramatic serial, was later reborn as a situation comedy and finally as a disc jockey series. This collection features some of the most popular episodes. Listen to the classic misadventures of Amos Jones, Andy Brown, the Kingfish, Lightnin', Sapphire, Mama, Algonquin J. Calhoun, and...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
An explorer{u2019}s whereabouts keeps a queen in waiting; a faith healer{u2019}s illegal radio broadcasts give hope to an oppressed people; a president{u2019}s offer of ice cream surprises a prostitute expecting to cooperate fully {u2014} the three short fictions build into a vision of Cuba that is black-humored, brutal, and beautiful.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When her radio host mother finds the dead body of the station's programming director, it is up to Sophie Kimball to solve this crime that is linked to the past when fingerprints are found on the murder weapon belonging to a woman who passed away years ago.
Author
Publisher
Éditions Somme toute
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
"His unique voice, his outspokenness, his authenticity and his desire to push the boundaries of radio have made Robert Blondin one of Radio-Canada's most influential hosts and directors. For a whole generation, its programs have been essential and innovative, both in content and in terms of experimentation and technical development. However, Robert Blondin is much more than a radio man and his career sheds light on a whole section of Quebec's cultural...
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The latest collection of knee-slappers, toe-tappers and groaners from A Prairie Home Companion features the most recent Joke Shows plus the very best joke segments from recent seasons, all recorded live before doubled-over audiences in Minneapolis, St. Paul and New York.
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This collection contains twelve of the greatest comedy shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio. You'll hear Ozzie and Harriet Nelson in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as Amos 'n' Andy, Robert Young in Father Knows Best, Jim and Marian Jordan as Fibber McGee and Molly, William Bendix as Chester A. Riley in The Life of Riley, Lucille Ball in My Favorite Husband, Eve Arden as English teacher Connie...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Co
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Lady Wobegon has been Garrison Keillor's fictional home town and America's for almost 40 years. The Chatterbox Cafe, the Sidetrack Tap, the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, the Bunsens are places and people we know and love, thanks to Keillor's ability to weave a story. Never before collected, these expertly crafted tales are full of gentle humor, genuine emotion, and surprising insights into family, relationships, community, faith,...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Broadcast Hysteria, A. Brad Schwartz examines the history behind the infamous radio play. Did it really spawn a wave of mass hysteria? Schwartz is the first to examine the hundreds of letters sent directly to Welles after the broadcast. He draws upon them, and hundreds more sent to the FCC, to recapture the roiling emotions of a bygone era, and his findings challenge conventional wisdom. Relatively few listeners believed an actual attack was under...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the panic induced when listeners believed Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" to be news of an alien invasion, discussing the context in which the broadcast was aired and why it was so convincing.
20) Ghostwriter
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Barcelona, 1943. As a scriptwriter for a popular radio advice column, Laia is embroiled in the romantic entanglements of others. Each day, letters flood in from troubled wives and girlfriends recounting their partner's abuses, and Laia tries her best to counsel them. In contrast, her own life seems perfectly ordered, with a devoted husband and a baby on the way. But when the city is terrorized by a vengeful killer, who leaves behind cryptic messages...
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