Folgen
-
A Truly Grand Tour!
Vivid first person accounts and Brilliant nature writing:
"A visit to Niagara Falls", by Fanny Trollope, from Domestic Manners of Americans, 1832
"The Approach to the Valley" and "The Ancient Yosemite Glaciers: How the Valley Was Formed," by John Muir, from The Yosemite. 1912
"The Grand Canyon" by Major John Wesley Powell, from Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its Tributaries. Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872 under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895
and
"A Curious Pleasure Excursion", by Mark Twain, An Advertisement published at the time of the "Comet Scare" 1874 -
Originally published in Harper’s Magazine, Christmas 1905, it is widely believed that "Eve's Diary, (with interpolated extracts from Adam's Diary)" is Mark Twain’s tribute to his late, beloved wife, Olivia Langdon Clemons.
BONUS: this episode includes a selection of the tender recollections of Elizabeth Scholl of Ukiah from "Mendocino County
Remembered". -
Fehlende Folgen?
-
Selections from the genius of
Edward Lear:
Limericks, A Book of Nonsense, 1846;
The Pobble Who has No Toes, Laughable Lyrics, 1877;
To Make An Amblongus Pie, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, 1871;
“How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!”
and
Lewis Carroll:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865;
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, 1871 -
Meet Kindred Spirits: Great fiction featuring Unusual allies, Surprising companions, and Unlikely friendships of wonderful fictional characters: from the novel The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim; Makes the Whole World Kin, a short story by O. Henry, and the poetry of archy & mehitiabel by Don Marquis.
Read for you by Linda Pack -
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Being a Ghost Story for Christmas, by Mr. Charles Dickens
Brought to life with music and special effects in an original, 1-hour Radio adaptation by R. Bobby, Michael Ducharme, and Linda Pack
This production was designed and directed by Linda Pack, and recorded by Alicia Bales at the KZYX Studio in Philo. The sound was mixed by Peter Temple at Peter Temple Studio in Albion.
CAST:
Ebenezer Scrooge, Peter Crachitt, Undertakers Man - R. Bobby
Mr. Dickens, Singing Child, Little Fan, Martha Crachitt, Charwoman. Maid - Linda Pack
Nephew Fred, First Gentleman, Bob Cratchitt, Marley's Ghost, Old Fezziwig, Ghost of Christmas Present, Old Joe - Lindy Peters
Second Gentleman, Ghost of Christmas Past, Belle, Mrs. Cratchitt, Tiny Tim, Lucy, Turkey Boy - Nichole Phillips -
Featuring works by Carl Sandburg and Willa Cather, and the true story of Helen Carpenter’s "Journey by Ox Cart to Potter Valley in 1856."
Read for you by Linda Pack and Special Guest Kate Magruder. Special Thanks to Judy Mayhan for her recording of "Everything Must Change". -
A literary feast about our greatest love,
Food! A veritable smorgasbord of stories
by Carl Sandburg, Saki (H.H. Munro) and O. Henry
accompanied by some tasty tidbits of culinary history.
-
This program features selections from Banned Books. Hear what many people, over centuries, have not wanted you to hear!
Featured authors include: Nicholas Copernicus, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain,George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, James Joyce
This program is in honor of Banned Books Week, an annual event sponsored each September by the American Library Association, celebrating the First Amendment and the Freedom to Read by spotlighting current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools and highlighting the value of free and open access to information. -
A tale from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction by one of the foremost creators of the classic mystery story, The Baroness Emma Orczy, and featuring The Old Man in the Corner, the first "armchair detective,” Intriguing, Entertaining, Ingenious!
-
Poems, memoirs, and short stories about Our Best Friends, featuring Rudyard Kipling’s "The Cat That Walked By Himself" and "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog", by O.Henry.
-
A selected condensation of Virginia Woolf’s luminous, thought-provoking masterwork. Beautiful, compassionate, and truly human. Read for you by Linda Pack.
-
In the 1970’s & 80’s, the spiritual, questing exodus of people seeking something other than the status quo created a unique constellation of talent and energy in Mendocino County. Lenny Laks, Bobby Markels, Antonia Lamb, Bonnie Sanger, Chester Anderson were among those artists in an extraordinary place, in an extraordinary time. This is some of their work.
For all selections, use was granted by gracious permission of The Author.
a selection from The Butterfly Kid, by Chester Anderson, 1967
a scene from The Greenhouse, by Antonia Lamb, 1966
an excerpt from her self-publlshed memoir, Conversations with Grandmother Redwood, by Bonnie Sanger, 2006
The Red Shoes, an environmental art piece, by Linda Pack, 2007
Kugel and the 200 Strats, an unpublished story by Lenny Laks, 2016
Like a Flower, Like a Fire, from Mendocino Malady by Bobby Markels, 1980 -
An unabashed appreciation of the joy of being literate!
Featuring the first few chapters of the 1907 novel “Parnassus on Wheels”a delightful story of that caravan of culture, the rural American Travelling Bookstore.
Read for you by Linda Pack and special guest Jamie Roberts.
-
Published in the California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 1941. (courtesy of The California Historical Society)
The saga of Lucy Young, a Wailaki Indian girl who in 1862, when she was 10 years old, fled from soldiers and from white men who trafficked in Indian children. In 1939, when Lucy was in her 90's, she told her story to her neighbor in Covelo, Edith Van Allen Murphey,
Lucy Young wanted the truth to be told.
Special Thanks to my friend Liz Helenchild for her excellent research on the remarkable life of Edith Van Allen Murphey.
BONUS: This episode includes a selection of the recollections of Elsie Allen, the great Pomo basketmaker, from Mendocino County
Remembered. -
A literary exploration of of sleep, wakefulness, and dreaming with works by Marcel Proust, Dorothy Parker, Shakespeare; along with the mesmerizing tale of Ceux and Alcyone by Ovid.
-
Stories from around the world to Celebrate the Return of the Light! The Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Roman Saturnalia, Norse and Celtic Yule feasts, the Jewish holiday of Hannukah, an Inuit tale of Raven, the Soyal Festival of Southwest Native Americans, and more! Share in the fortune telling tradition of the ancient Persian festival of Yalda Night with writings of the esteemed Persian poet, Hafiz. Read for you by Linda Pack, snd special guests, R. Bobby and Ricci Dedola.
-
Classical and Contemporary, Comforting, Funny, Epic, and Passionate
Read for you by Linda Pack, Kate Magruder and Nichole Phillips Rakes
with Special Thanks to Michael Ducharme for his expert and kind assistance.
FEATURED POETS: Edgar Lee Masters (from Spoon River Anthology), Devereaux Baker, Robert Frost, Charlotte Mew, Patricia Karch, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker (from Enough Rope), Lord Byron, Robert Service, Amy Lowell, Susan Maeder, C. L. Babcock, Robert Burns, Alfred Noyes, Walt Whitman (from Leaves of Grass).
Gracious permission to use special material was granted by Devereaux Baker, Patricia Karch, Susan Maeder, and C. L. Babcock.
-
THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER is from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 collection of classic Greek and Roman myths: A Wonder Book, telling the story of a kind old couple’s generosity rewarded by the gods. Read for you by Linda Pack.
-
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a revolutionary short story, written in 1892, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which will leave you wondering: “Does the narrator go mad or is she set free?” Read for you by Linda Pack
-
A special episode: From Pooh Corner: featuring selections from Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, plus the world premiere of a previously unknown Pooh poem, and the tender story surrounding its creation. Read for you by Linda Pack
- Mehr anzeigen
