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Waiting for Godot 159 reviews
Samuel Beckett
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2000
Masterpiece of Nothingness
Many parts of this play are comically driven - many are not. And, the majority are neither - or so Beckett may have said as part of his stylistic prank on the reader. Beckett had a target, and he would smile at his target as much as permitted. His dripping dialogue is often interpreted with misinterpretation, misidentification, miscue. That part of the play is resoundingly great.
To not have ...
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Blind Assassin374 reviews
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2004
Absolutely loved it!
All I need to say is I loved this book. I haven't read any of Atwood's other books but soon will. This was a book club choice and I read it over a weekend. I loved the intricate timelines, plot and suspense of it. Great book that I have since reccomended to friends.
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The Tragedy of King Lear 50 reviews
William Shakespeare
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 1999
Helpful
I have my degree in English... I like reading and teaching with this version as "help" not as a substitution. It gives a clearer understanding to Shakespeare for people who have difficulty with it.
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The Cherry Orchard 25 reviews
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2005
Quintessentially Chekov
This, Chekov's last play, is the story of Madame Ranyevskaya's family, which lost its wealth, and an estate that included a cherry orchard. The subtext carries the story and is about how not to deal with existentialist stasis -- a state of being immobilized by the fear of change, and the complexity of the denial that under lay this fear. It is this fear and the symbolism it invokes that makes the ...
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All's Well That Ends Well (Cbc Stratford Festival Reading Series)11 reviews
William Shakespeare
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2003
Fascinating and rich
All's Well has been unfairly treated. It's supposed to be one of Shakespeare's worst plays, but it is truly fascinating. It is subtle, and the conflicts are rich. Here, no one is purely good or bad, and perhaps it's the difficulty of feeling drawn to a variety of characters who are in conflict that makes people dislike this play. The female lead is bravely determined. The male lead is completely ...
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To the Lighthouse169 reviews
Virginia Woolf
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2002
An insightful, sensitive reading.
The idea of Virginia Woolf's fiction being read aloud effectively has struck me as an impossibility. The very interiority of Woolf's style seemed to suggest that readers hear the narrative voice within themselves. This reading proves me dead wrong. Virginia Leishman's reading--and interpretation--added much to my passion for a novel I have always loved. Readers--and listeners--new to Virigina ...
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The Importance of Being Ernest (Stratford Festival)16 reviews
Oscar Wilde
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2001
THE BEST EDITION OF THE PLAYS...
All you Wildeans take note: this is the only edition of the plays wherein the lines are properly numbered for specific citation and easy reference: very, very important!!
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Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will (Cbc Stratford Festival Reading Series)27 reviews
William Shakespeare
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2000
No surprises here...
What can I say? I love Shakespeare! Cliff's Complete is fabulous for those of us in a new love affair with Shakespeare. Commentary and side notes along the way make it very understandable. Kenneth Branaugh's film and BBC audio books lend subtle interpretation which is very helpful as well.
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The Red Badge of Courage (Stratford Festival)312 reviews
Stephen Crane
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2001
The Horrors of War engage the Innocence of Life
What can one truly say about an American Classic. It would be presumptuous on my part, at the very least, to analyze Mr. Crane's masterpiece after so many literary giants have already poked and prodded this novel of youth and war to ad nauseam. As a young boy in the early 1950s, I first read this novel and enjoyed the superficial battle narratives. Later as a college student in the 1960s, I ...
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Vinyl Cafe Stories 2 reviews
Stuart McLean
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2005
Everyone laughs
We heard Polly Anderson's Christmas Party first on a CD of Christmas music belonging to one of our college age daughters, then bought this out of curiosity. I loved it, my husband loved it, our daughters loved it, and my mother-in-law loved it. I even lent it to a co-worker who needed a good laugh and he loved it. Keep it in your car for a sure-fire mood-lifter on your way home from a hard day at ...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court132 reviews
Mark Twain
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2000
Always
I have always received the best service when I have placed an order from you. Outstanding!!!!!
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Arms and the Man12 reviews
Bernard Shaw
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 1999
A Drama That Looks At Things In A Different Perspective
One of the most important times,if not the most important,in English literature history was the 19th. century when a plethora of genres of fiction writing were flourishing with gay colours. Victorian literature was perceiving society and its swelling decay from various perspectives,stretching from Charles Dickens's depiction of destitutes and middle-class people to George Eliot's rustic ...
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Becoming Human: Massey Lecture8 reviews
Jean Vanier
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2006
creating a common good
Jean Vanier is my favorite philosopher and spiritual thinker, and although he's a Christian, his teachings have tremendous appeal to people of all religious or non-religious perspectives. What a wonderful, wonderful human being. God bless him! Growing up, I used to eagerly watch Jean Vanier's TV program where he talks about the importance of love and relationship with others, what he calls ...
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Hana's Suitcase17 reviews
Fumiko Ishioka, George Brady
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2004
amazing, magical story
I have read this book to my fourth grade class for the past two years. They are instantly drawn to Hana, Fumiko, and the story of the Holocaust. The minute they see the picture of Hana's Suitcase, they begin to ask all the questions that the children in Japan asked of Fumiko. They always want me to continue reading and they are so eager to find out about her story. This book has inspired so ...
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A Christmas Collection (Vinyl Cafe)2 reviews
Stuart McLean
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2006
A Christmas Collection (Vinyl Cafe)
A collection of past Christmas stories read on Radio show Vinyl Cafe by host Stuart Mclean. Most entertaining, and often hilarius stories of small town and family situations and misunderstanding.
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Robertson Davies 5th Business59 reviews
Robertson Davies
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2002
What took me so long?
This author was trustworthy from page one. The character he created, as small as he is, has a big voice and a story worthy of telling. I was so pleasantly surprised by this book, and so mad at myself for taking so long to read it. While the story is dated, specific to a time and a place, the themes are biblical. This is one of those books where I felt compelled to read passages aloud to whoever ...
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The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Massey Lecture)6 reviews
Thomas King
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2003
Master Storyteller
The Truth about Stories, a Native Narrative,
By Thomas King. U of Minn. Press
The Truth about Stories by Thomas King is the prestigious Massey Lectures on culture produced on Canada Broadcasting Corporation Radio. King is the writer of many of my favorite works including the very funny Medicine River that was made into a TV movie with Graham Greene.
This book is another honor added to ...
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Vinyl Cafe Coast to Coast Story Service4 reviews
Stuart McLean
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2005
Everything I hoped for
These "stories" are just as funny as I hoped. I heard one on CBC while in Canada, immediately went to look for them, and bought 2 sets. All are hilarious.
Highly recommended.
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The Vinyl Cafe: On Tour2 reviews
Stuart McLean
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2005
Fabulous, clean humor!
You will not believe how much you will just laugh out loud at this Vinyl Cafe CD (and all the others!). This is humorous story telling at its best. My whole family enjoys these CDs. I don't know of anyone who won't get lost in laughter with any of the Vinyl Cafe CDs.
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