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Great Classic Stories: 22 Unabridged Classics

4 reviews
Derek Jacobi, Rosalind Ayres, ...

BBC Audiobooks America, 2006

A real listening pleasure
I enjoy the varied readers of these English and American Gothic masterpieces.The readers have achieved a fine balance between dramatization and plain reading. Although some of the British authors are new to me, especially the wickedly witty, Saki, I have not read several of the old Gothic American stories since high school English class, so they return as a surprise to me when heard in a more ...

Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls: an Audio Melodrama in Three Despicable Acts

2 reviews
Yuri Rasovsky

Blackstone Audio Inc., 2007

Delightful, ghoulish audio theatre!
This is audio theatre at its best! AudioFile rates it as one of the best new releases - "A blackly humorous melodrama." Most people know the tale of the murderous barber and his partner in crime, Mrs Lovett, the local meat pie producer. This is a delightful retelling of the tale based on the original Victorian "Penny Dreadful" - stories released in serial form in a London rag. This ...

An Ideal Husband (Audio Theatre Series)

16 reviews
Miriam Margolyes

L. A. Theatre Works, 1997

Chiltern: "You prefer to be natural?"
Chevely: "Sometimes. But it is such a difficult pose to keep up." Perhaps not so well known as "The Importance of Being Earnest," this has all the same banter, manners, and sharp-eyed look at the crumbling edge of the upper crust in Vistorian England. It pleases the attentive listener at many levels. Considered only as a stream of one-liners and clever quips, it delivers all you could ask for. ...

A Pocket Full of Rye: A Miss Marple Mystery

1 review
Agatha Christie, Rosalind Ayres

BBC Audiobooks America, 2007

Top Notch, Dame Agatha!
I immensely enjoyed this audiobook. I bought it in the cassette version, and it performed perfectly. My daughter also enjoyed it. Full of Dame Agatha's interesting characters, and in classic Christie style, it kept me guessing 'who done it' right up to the end. Miss Marple was the initial Christie character that got me interested in her mysteries; not the performances of Joan Hixson(I have never ...

Betrayal

10 reviews
Harold Pinter

L.A. Theatre Works, 2002

One of the best plays ever written
One of the best plays I've read, if not the best. I've spent three months directing this play, and I wouldn't have invested that time if it hadn't meant a lot to me. Let me add that I could not have asked for a better run. We blew away at least some of the audience every night -- had the whole audience leaning forward on the edge of their seats (never seen that before in a theatre!), had ...

Nemesis: A Miss Marple Mystery
Agatha Christie

BBC Audiobooks, 2008

A Pocket Full of Rye
Agatha Christie

Audio Editions, 2007

A Miss Marple unabridged mystery. After wealthy financier Rex Fortescues sudden death, grains of rye are inexplicably found in his pocket. The coroners verdict is death by poisoning, yet only one of the dead mans relatives seems upset. The others all have motives to want the old man dead. When two more members of the Fortescue household are murdered, Miss Marple enters the case. But is one bizarre clue the pocket full of rye enough to solve ...

Mary Stuart

3 reviews
Frederich von Schiller author; Peter Oswald-translator; Rosalind Ayres- director

L.A. Theatre Works, 2007

The "Mary, Queen Of Scots" Play Used In "Anne Of Avonlea"
This is the play that was used in the 1987 (?) movie, "Anne of Avonlea." It's really neat!

The Code Of Woosters

35 reviews
P. G. Wodehouse

L a Theatre Works, 1998

The funniest series in the world.
Believe it or not, I am 74 years old and had never read about the trials and tribulations Jeeves put up with Bertie Wooster. I have never laughed so much in my life. I am now going to get my hands on every word P.G. Wodehouse ever wrote. I truly would have loved to meet the man.

Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls
Yuri Rasovsky

Blackstone Audio Inc., 2007

According to legend, Sweeney Todd had his barber shop at number 186 Fleet Street, next door to St. Dunstan's Church, just a few blocks away from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, they say, he robbed and murdered more than 150 customers. To dispose of their remains, he carried them through underground tunnels to the bakery of one Mrs. Lovett a few blocks away, where they supplied the stuffing for her meat pies, the favorite mid-day ...

Classic Stories of the New and Old Testament (Religion)

CSA WORD, 2001

Blithe Spirit - starring Shirley Knight, Ian Ogilvy, Judy Geeson, Rosalind Ayres (Audio Theatre Series)

3 reviews
Noel Coward, L.A. Theatre Works, ...

L.A. Theatre Works, 2000

Plenty of laughs.
The performances are top-notch in this hilarious British comedy. When the ghost of a dead wife is unleashed on his household by a wacky clairvoyant a man must struggle to meet the demands of all wives, both dead and alive. Noel Coward's comedy is fill with plenty of laughs. The sound quality of this cassette is excellent. If you like books on tape you should try all that L.A. Theatre Works has ...

A Caribbean Mystery: A Miss Marple Mystery

1 review

BBC Audiobooks America, 2006

Ok late Miss Marple Mystery
This novel was written late in Agatha Christie's career when she was already well into her seventies. So, not too surprisingly, it's not as good as the novels written during her prime from the late 1920s through the mid-1940s. The book is a little short, at about 220 pages and somewhat sketchily written. Christie was never a great one for extensive descriptions of her settings, but here she ...

Classic Irish Short Stories

CSA WORD, 2002

Frozen

3 reviews
Bryony Lavery

La Theatre Works, 2006

Strange and Haunting
Overal, this play is really good. It's written in a poetic and experimental form that makes it hard to understand in the beginning, but pretty soon the pieces start to come together. The play looks into the mind of a serial killer. You get the view of the mother of the victim, and the view of the professional pyschologist, as well as the killer himself.. who kind of suffers from a handicap, ...

Checkmate

1 review
Jeffrey Archer

DH Audio, 1992

Exciting!
Jeffrey Archer, in his usual incomparable style, writes a stggering tale of how sexual desire can drive a man to embarassment. In this story, a man meets a gogreous woman in a chess club of which he is a member. The woman, who stole the thunder out of most men in the club, seems a poor chess player to the man. He then offers to drop her home. But when he reaches hs own house, he pleads her to ...

The Essential King James Bible: Complete Stories from the Old and New Testaments

2 reviews

Audio Partners, 2002

Wonderful, Wonderful!
I cannot tell you how delighted I am with this CD set. It is amazing how many stories they were able to put on six CD's. They were selective, of course, but each story is complete in itself and doesn't "leave you wanting more." All of my favorites were here, including some I thought a bit obscure, like "Jacob's Ladder" and Nathan's "Parable of the Ewe Lamb" (following, of course, "David and ...

Classic Stories of the New Testament

CSA WORD, 2001

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