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GIRL ON THE TORTURE WHEEL By JEFFERSON AMES
This 1940s detective story is an old fashioned pastiche but amusing critique of the war time American private eye genre. It is not politically correct nor dose it shun from being controversial about how the author, chose to write at the time. So, if you can listen with an open ear you might find it a humorous snapshots on times gone by.
Narrated by Malcolm Clarke
Recorded and produced by Nigel Killick
Please click the Music link to hear more music from Dazie Mae:
Artist: Dazie Mae
Malcolm also narrated an Englishman in Brazil
Malcolm Clarke is an English actor who has married a Brazilian and moved to a small city called Curitiba which is the capital city of the Brazilian state of Paraná, located in southern Brazil. In his narration Malcolm gives a vivid impression of his new life and surroundings. Painting a colourful picture of his new city and the people. Giving us an insight into an Englishman's impression of the rich and diverse cultures of Brazil.
Malcolm sent us more of his observations and thoughts about his new adopted country.An Englishman in Brazil by Malcolm Clark Part 1
An Englishman in Brazil by Malcolm Clark Part 2
An Englishman in Brazil by Malcolm Clark Part 3
An Englishman in Brazil by Malcolm Clark Part 3
An Englishman in Brazil by Malcolm Clark Part 4
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Fear by Achmed Abdullah narrated by Malcolm Clarke Recorded
and produced by Nigel Killick
THE fact that the man whom he feared had died ten years earlier did not in the least lessen Stuart McGregor’s obsession of horror, of a certain grim expectancy, every time he recalled that final scene, just before Farragut Hutchison disappeared in to the African jungle to his death. McGregor stood, spectrally motionless, waiting for the screams to come from the jungle.
http://peopletalk.libsyn.com/fear-by-achmed-abdullah
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THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER
by Washington Irving (1783-1859) New England
The morality play is a genre of Medieval and early Tudor theatrical entertainment.
In their own time, these plays were known as interludes, a broader term given to dramas with or without a moral. Morality plays have a type of hidden meaning, in which the main human character is met by the devil in various disguises who tempts and entices the mortal and tricks him into selling his soul to the Devil in return for worldly goods and therefore choosing an evil life over a Godly path.
THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER follows in the long tradition of variety plays.
This is a peopletalk audio production©2015.
Narrated by Pipp Hamilton
Recorded & Produced by Nigel Killick
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About Pipp Hamilton
Pipe Hamilton started recording in 2013 with National Talking Newspapers and Magazines on a weekly basis with the material ranging from Saga to the Morning Star, later to become RNIB Newsagent. Then, in 2014, he went on a day's basic voiceover course with the intention of picking up some pointers to improve his listeners' experience.
To his surprise, because he had not heard his own recorded voice in that way before, he was encouraged to return in March 2015 to record a narrative and a commercial reel.
In the meantime, he had agreed to be one of the narrators in a local amateur dramatics production, set in the First World War. The piece he was given was Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. On the last night, he was approached and asked to record the piece to be used in training potential officer material in the British Army.
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You can buy the Music used in this production at:
Kosta T: 5-Exaltations
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kosta_T/5-Exaltations
Kai Engel: The Scope
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/The_Scope/
Pipp Hamilton photo by Rebecca Byford
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It’s a true story of intrigue, victory and betrayal, a story of industrial espionage and corporate greed, counterfeiting and corporate wrongdoing.
It’s the story of an audio invention that revolutionised the world music business; a story that could have come straight out of the pages of a thriller novel. It is not fiction, but a true story told by Marie Louise Killick's daughter Cynthia Killick.
In 1957, our mother Marie Louise Killick’s long legal fight was vindicated by the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, against Pye Radio. The court upheld her claims that Pye had infringed her patent rights covering a gramophone record stylus worth ten’s of millions of pounds. After her victory, Pye insured themselves for £2,500,000 with the Prudential Insurance Company to protect their retailers from possible claims for selling their counterfeit stylus around Britain.
Pye had lost, but in 1959 Marie was manoeuvred into bankruptcy. She began a three year battle with the Official Receiver in an attempt to prevent him from taking over her damages claim against Pye Radio and settling for the derisory sum of £4,300, when she was owed millions. Marie never received a penny in damages.
Her stylus was a revolution in sound reproduction quality. The gemstone was ground to a flat at its tip and this rode on the sides of the record groove, dramatically reducing distortion, surface noise and wear and tear to the gramophone record. Decca declared ’Sapphox’ to be the best thing on the market and offered her £750,000 in 1945 for her British patent rights.
In the late 1940s Pye Radio realised that the patent rights protecting her invention were not for sale. They then swamped the market with a counterfeit product, squeezing her business out of its growing profits.
Marie would not give up the fight even when she was ’kidnapped’ off the street and locked away in a mental asylum.
Marie paid a heavy price for her passion to bring to music lovers superb sound reproduction, and the world benefited enormously from her invention.
Introduction narration by Nick Wyard
Book narration by Teresa Critchley
Produced by Nigel Killick
You can buy Cynthia Killick’s book at this link: “A Sound Revolution”
at lulu.com.
Or search for….
“A Sound Revolution”
in Lulu search box or the Book ISBN 9781291468304
Music: Attribution-NonCommercial-No 3 United States
Music from: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/MIT_Symphony_Orchestra/
“La Traviata, Brindisi (Verdi)” (by MIT Symphony Orchestra)
“Manon Lescaut, Intermezzo (Puccini)” (by MIT Symphony Orchestra)
“Chopin: Three Mazurkas, Op. 59” (by Jonathan Biss)
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Fear by Achmed Abdullah
THE fact that the man whom he feared had died ten years earlier did not in the least lessen Stuart McGregor’s obsession of horror, of a certain grim expectancy, every time he recalled that final scene, just before Farragut Hutchison disappeared in to the African jungle to his death. McGregor stood, spectrally motionless, waiting for the screams to come from the jungle.
Fear by Achmed Abdullah
Narrated by Malcolm Clark and Produced by Nigel Killick
A peopletalk short audio story production© copyright 2015.
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A Will to Kill For by Emil Petaja. This short fictional story is in the long tradition of pulp fiction. It's a story of greed and murder but with a good twist at the end.
Narrated by Tim Danko and produced by Nigel Killick with music by Benjamin Orth
About Tim Danko.
After a successful career in technology and management consulting, Tim has returned to the work he so loved in college – voiceover. During college, this meant working in both commercial and public radio, now it means audiobooks and long-form narration.
Tim focuses on contemporary mysteries, science fiction, faith and spirituality, and business. Currently, he works mostly with independent authors and publishers. He has studied with the highly respected coaches, directors, and voice actors Patrick Fraley, Scott Brick, and Paul Alan Ruben. His voice has been described as warm and engendering trust.
Tim lives in Pennsylvania in the United States with his wife, Sally.
Here is a link to the music on ccmixter.org by Benjamin Orth, featuring Jacinda Espinosa.
http://ccmixter.org/files/Benjamin_Orth/31696
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Recorded by Kay Barbour on an iPod, edited & produced by Nigel Killick
Here is an interview between Dorotha Miller 94 years old and her daughters
Kay Barbour about Dorotha early life and her Father who had to become was a Bootlegger and outlaw after the Great Depression of 1929. These were hard and dangerous times. It was also around the time of Bonnie and Clyde.Dorotha Miller was born in Huntington West Virginia in 1921 and will be 94 in May. Her family wasn't necessarily poor but what we call today as the "working poor". Sometimes her father had a job and sometimes he didn't. Bootlegging was what he did to make up the difference. It was easy money but it came with a risk and he spent some time in and out of jail as you will tell from her story.
Then after the stock market crash in 1929, bootlegging became a way to make money to put food on the table. She tells a story about her aunt getting arrested for bootlegging during the depression after her husband died. Her aunt ( her fathers sister) lived way up in the hills of West Virginia and had five kids to feed and no way to get a job. Not only did she not have any skills but even able bodied men could not get a job.
There was no such thing as Social Security or Welfare or any other "safety net" for people in this situation. So she started bootlegging; selling whiskey out of her home out of desperation to provide for her children. She got busted by the police and went to jail for a year. She was afraid the authorities would try to take her children away and put them in orphanages so she asked my mother's mother(my grandmother) to go get the children and try to find homes for them till she got out of jail.
Times were hard and lots of people did not have jobs so she knew that one family could not take all five children. So the children were split up among cousins, grandparents and aunts & uncles. One of the older girls stayed in my mother's home. And a year later when she got out of jail she got her children and went right back to bootlegging! What else was she going to do? But this time she was smarter and knew what to do to not get busted again!
The point is that a lot of bootlegging and moonshining was done during the depression as a way to make money when people were out of jobs.
Dorotha Miller also says that there was a famous Irish bootlegger, who's made his money this way. Dorotha talks about this with great indignation in her voice! Her father spent time in jail and was looked down on for what he did but other people, well connected people made millions during the Depression time and are looked upon a respectable members in the American society today!
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Episode Six Final Episode– Last Boat to Misahualli
“There's something about saying the word 'jungle' which immediately invites the thoughts of danger and intense curiosity: a secret Utopia which only the boldest of spirits will dare to venture into. So I decided to pack my bag, and go it alone…..well, sort of."
In the last instalment of Sal Bolton’s six part Amazonian adventure story, we follow Sal in her most boldest odyssey yet….deciding to pack her bag and curiously head into the oddities and untamed mystery of the jungle alone, adhering to the call of the wild on her first solo expedition to further explore Ecuador’s Amazonia.
Having safely left her tenacious - mannered new found piglet after a series of disappearing acts back at the reserve; she embarks on a very wet early morning venture to the nearby jungle villageport of Misahualli. After securing a ride on a motor canoe with her native driver Miguel, we are carried along on a journey, deeper into the sacred and mysterious heart of the rainforest and the fleeting river side life.
Upon reaching a remote area of the forest further up river, Sal meets quirky jungle tour guide and translator Elibar which she soon realises she may have got more than she bargained for when she discovers he doesn’t speak a word of English!
Together lost in translation and armed with machetes, the pair head into the unpredictable cocoon of the jungle on a whirlwind adventure; revealing the extraordinary secrets and sometimes unnerving surprises of the rainforest, meeting an indigenous shaman offering to spiritually ‘cleanse’ their souls and a playful game of tree vine swinging nearly going horribly wrong!
It is here the final curtain comes to a close as Sal’s exotic frontier comes to an end, bidding farewell to this magnificent and unforgettable special place on earth which has not only captured her imagination but a piece of her heart – echoing in the calm waters of Amazonia on the last boat back to Misahualli….
Episode One: In Dr Jones Footsteps
Episode Two: Into The Amazon
Episode Three: Welcome To The Jungle
Episode Four: The Enchanted Forest
Episode Five: Finding Miss Piggy
Episode Six: Last Boat to MisahualliWritten and Narrated by Sal Bolton
Directed and Produced by Nigel KillickPlease Buy an Acre for £25 from The Rainforest Foundation UK
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/Protect_an_acre_of_rainforest
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My interview today is with BJ Harrison who is the award-winning audiobook narrator and producer of the critically acclaimed Classic Tales Podcast. His work has received over 700 five-star ratings at the iTunes Music Store and Audible.com. Through his distinctive character voices, incredible range of accents, and detailed understanding of the written word, he has gained a reputation for generating a unique and dynamic audiobook experience.
Why not check out BJ Harrison's audiobooks on audible.com below
Audible.comThe Classic Tales Audiobooks
BJ Harrison website at
www.thebestaudiobooks.com.BJ Harrison latest latest release:
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu, by Sax Rohmer (Unabridged mp3 audiobook) -
For those who enjoyed listening to Sal Bolton's
'The Call of Africa', you are invited to follow her on another adventure, this time into the rain forests of Ecuador, South America.
Sal, inspired by her childhood film hero, Indiana Jones, and with only a basic school-girl knowledge of Spanish, attempts her own adventure into the Amazon, one of the most mysterious and formidable bio-diverse ecosystems on the planet; a place that has drawn explorers and travellers for generations into its dark and sacred heart.
Episode Five - Finding Miss Piggy
'Letter's from the Amazon' This amusing and enlightening story is told in in six short audio episodes.
In this latest instalment of Sal's exotic South American adventure, we find ourselves following the pages of her journal notes during her isolation in Ecuador's remote deepest darkest Amazon Rainforest for well over a month later.
Having been initially enchanted by the whirlwind of the jungles bewitching charm, she soon begins to feel the over whelming effects of 'jungle fever', the realism of wild seclusion in a foreign community and the occasional crippling pangs of alienation and looming loneliness....
Until one day, a curly tailed friend is about to turn her world upside down.....a piglet.
Armed with a $50 note and a new found spring in her step, Sal embarks on a road trip adventure with native ranger Sergio to the local jungle town of Tena in search of a little 'chanchita' as a new addition to the Jatun Sacha reserve. Failing to find one at the market, they begin tenaciously scouring the dusty back streets of Tena searching for clues - sending them in hot pursuit of 'Senor Rodriguez' to the neighbouring town of Cotundo in their quest of finding Miss Piggy....
Episode One: In Dr Jones Footsteps
Episode Two: Into The Amazon
Episode Three: Welcome To The Jungle
Episode Four: The Enchanted Forest
Episode Five: Finding Miss PiggyComing soon......
Episode Six: Last Boat to Misahualli
Written and Narrated by Sal Bolton
Directed and Produced by Nigel KillickPlease Buy an Acre for £25 from The Rainforest Foundation UK
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J.J. HENSLEY is a former police officer and Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service who has drawn upon his experiences in law enforcement to write stories full of suspense and insight. Hensley graduated from Penn State University with a B.S. in Administration of Justice and has a M.S. degree in Criminal Justice Administration from Columbia Southern University. The author is currently a training supervisor with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and lives with his beautiful wife, daughter, and two dogs near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Hensley’s novel RESOLVE was named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2013 by Suspense Magazine and was named a finalist for Best First Novel by the International Thriller Writers organization.
He is a member of the International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime.Links to purchase Resolve:
Amazon (includes hardcover, Kindle, and Audible.com): http://www.amazon.com/Resolve-J-J-Hensley/dp/1579623131/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0
Barnes and Noble (includes hardcover and Nook versions): http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/resolve-j-j-hensley/1113453274?ean=2940016244785
Also available through iTunes and iBooks.
I also have a Kindle exclusive short story for purchase at: http://www.amazon.com/Vehemence-bonus-stories-J-J-Hensley-ebook/dp/B00IWVDT1G/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0D0STMS45E2XX3ZQM12K
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For those who enjoyed listening to Sal Bolton's 'The Call of Africa', you are invited to follow her on another adventure, this time into the rain forests of Ecuador, South America.
Sal, inspired by her childhood film hero, Indiana Jones, and with only a basic school-girl knowledge of Spanish, attempts her own adventure into the Amazon, one of the most mysterious and formidable bio-diverse ecosystems on the planet; a place that has drawn explorers and travellers for generations into its dark and sacred heart.
'Letter's from the Amazon' This amusing and enlightening story is told in in six short audio episodes.
Episode Four
The Enchanted Forest
Come on in and listen closely.....to the hidden calls of the wild.....
Episode Four of Sal's South American adventure 'Letters From The Amazon' begins with her having survived a rather unpredictable (and itchy) first night in the jungle with all the strange, bewildering and somewhat seemingly frightening sounds that filled the dark night at the Jatun Sacha Reserve, as the dawning of a brand-new day awakens the heart of Ecuadors Amazon Rainforest and all the surprises that come with it.
The episode follows' Sal's letters from her first experience of the raw life in the wild - getting up close and personal with marauding jungle mosquitoes and the overwhelming charm and magic from the spell of 'Enchanted Forest' itself - revealing the secrets hidden away so protectively from the outside world, making it one of the most sacred places on earth.
Under the guidance of trusty and charismatic native station ranger Sergio; Sal is invited into experiencing the pure cocooned beauty and plight that is Amazonia. As daylight breathes new pulsating life into the 'Lungs of the Earth', it begins to revealing itself to her behind its intimidating myths and tales as an undisclosed Utopia of rare and wonderful flora and fauna, precious medicinal plants and ancient trees.
Despite becoming enchanted by the pureness of the Amazon, she soon discovers the harsh reality of the unforgiving elements of nature as her adventures find her being caught in the middle of a ferocious jungle thunderstorm....thirty metres above the canopy.
Episode One: In Dr Jones Footsteps
Episode Two: Into The Amazon
Episode Three: Welcome To The Jungle
Episode Four: The Enchanted Forest
Episode Five: Finding Miss PiggyComing soon......
Episode Five: Finding Miss Piggy
Episode Six: Last Boat to Misahualli
Written and Narrated by Sal Bolton
Directed and Produced by Nigel KillickPlease Buy an Acre for £25 from The Rainforest Foundation UK
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/Protect_an_acre_of_rainforestJatun Sacha Reserve
http://www.jatunsacha.org/ingles/
World Land Trust
http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/buy-acre
Sky Rainforest Rescue
https://rainforestrescue.sky.com/amazon-rainforest
Read more from Sal's online blog about The Amazon
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My interview today is with Basil Sands who has written a new novel called Ice Hammer. In the interview, we talk about his military history and his experience in surviving in extreme Arctic winters in Alaska. How he became a writer and what it has taken for him to become an author.
Synopsis of the book.
Ice Hammer is a three book fiction series seen through the eyes of a family ripped apart by invasion and the ensuing war that consumes the North American continent, including their home state of Alaska. It is not about the bigger political game that stands behind all war, but it is about the lives, the loves and the bitter struggles of those trying to survive to see another day.
· 2013: NSA spy scandal lost the US many of its friends.
· 2016: The US government defaults on its debts. With the collapse of the American Empire the few remaining US allies turn their backs as well.
· 2017: Massive drought and crop failures spread across Eurasia threatening both China and the former Soviet states with starvation.
· 2018: The decision is made. America will pay its debts.
In a sweeping measure to collect what they are owed, guarantee ample food supplies and take fertile land for their own people, China and the newly re-Sovietized Russia combine forces and invade North America.
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Basil Sands has been weaving stories for anyone who would listen since he was a child. From humble beginnings over 40 years ago on a rural homestead in interior Alaska and his school years among the cornfields of Ohio he grew to become one of the most popular new audio book talents on the web.
He nearly became a professional stand-up comedian but the big break came too late. He had already enlisted in the US Marines. After only six months though he broke his ankle and found himself out of a job. Unsure of what to do he worked in a wide variety of fields (many simultaneously) including restaurant manager for the National Security Agency (chef to the spies), owned a computer shop, worked as a carpenter, farmer, stage actor, lumberjack, tv voice, Wilderness Medic, network manager, Boy Scout leader, university teacher, IT training specialist, radio talk show host, computer forensics technician, and youth minister.Please visit Basil Sands web site at: www.basilsands.com
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'Letter's from the Amazon' This amusing and enlightening story is told in in six short audio episodes.
For those who enjoyed listening to Sal Bolton's 'The Call of Africa', you are invited to follow her on another adventure, this time into the rain forests of Ecuador, South America.
Sal, inspired by her childhood film hero, Indiana Jones, and with only a basic school-girl knowledge of Spanish, attempts her own adventure into the Amazon, one of the most mysterious and formidable bio-diverse ecosystems on the planet; a place that has drawn explorers and travellers for generations into its dark and sacred heart.
Episode 3. Welcome to the Jungle.
Part Three of 'Letters From The Amazon' In this third instalment of Sal's exotic South American adventure, we continue to follow the story of the 'English Gringa's' unpredictable mishaps, as she persists in meeting the challenge of reaching the Jatun Sacha Biological Reserve, in the Orient Region of Ecuador's Amazon Rainforest.
Sal finds herself stranded and confused, standing by the roadside in the Jungle town of Tena. Clutching a bus ticket with the name 'SARL' written on it, she struggles to decide what to do next: Divine intervention and a little help from the Spanish locals gets her on the right jungle bus towards Ahuano, where the next stage of her journey unfolds. Struggling with the unfamiliar customs and etiquette (and odours) that come with being crushed in with the commuting jungle natives, as she heads away from the familiarity of civilisation and into the wild isolation of the jungle – all made bearable by her unquenchable appetite for foreign adventure.
Finally Sal reaches the Jatun Sacha Reserve and she begins to settle into her new, bizarre and mysterious home in Amazonia....along with those strange things that go 'bump' in the jungle night....
Episode One: In Dr Jones Footsteps
Episode Two: Into The Amazon
Episode Three: Welcome To The Jungle
Episode Four: The Enchanted Forest
Episode Five: Finding Miss PiggyComing soon......
Episode Six: Last Boat to Misahualli
Written and Narrated by Sal Bolton
Directed and Produced by Nigel KillickPlease Buy an Acre for £25 from The Rainforest Foundation UK
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/Protect_an_acre_of_rainforestJatun Sacha Reserve
http://www.jatunsacha.org/ingles/
World Land Trust
http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/buy-acre
Sky Rainforest Rescue
https://rainforestrescue.sky.com/amazon-rainforest
Read more from Sal's online blog about The Amazon
http://lettersfromtheamazon.travellerspoint.com/9/Direct download: LFTA_Episode_2.mp3
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For those who enjoyed listening to Sal Bolton's 'The Call of Africa', you are invited to follow her on another adventure, this time into the rain forests of Ecuador, South America.
Sal, inspired by her childhood film hero, Indiana Jones, and with only a basic school-girl knowledge of Spanish, attempts her own adventure into the Amazon, one of the most mysterious and formidable bio-diverse ecosystems on the planet; a place that has drawn explorers and travellers for generations into its dark and sacred heart.
Episode Two - Into the Amazon
Part Two of 'Letters From The Amazon' sees the exotic adventure begin to unravel, as Sal begins to embark on a cross country bus ride, setting off from the concrete jungle of Ecuador's valley capital Quito and into the fantasia of the real wild jungle of the Amazon.....by herself.
Left to follow instructions on a piece of paper and stuck on a South American bus for six hours whilst needing the desperate urge for a bathroom; we follow in her first steps of the journey on the road into the Amazon. Catching her first overwhelming glimpse of the mighty real Rainforest, she soon finds herself relying on the divine intervention of her guardian angel and the help of good natured rural natives as she becomes lost in translation and stranded in the jungle town of Tena......
Episode One: In Dr Jones Footsteps
Episode Two: Into The Amazon
Episode Three: Welcome To The Jungle
Episode Four: The Enchanted Forest
Episode Five: Finding Miss PiggyComing soon......
Episode Six: Last Boat to Misahualli
Written and Narrated by Sal Bolton
Directed and Produced by Nigel KillickPlease Buy an Acre for £25 from The Rainforest Foundation UK
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/Protect_an_acre_of_rainforestJatun Sacha Reserve
http://www.jatunsacha.org/ingles/
World Land Trust
http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/buy-acre
Sky Rainforest Rescue
https://rainforestrescue.sky.com/amazon-rainforest
Read more from Sal's online blog about The Amazon
http://lettersfromtheamazon.travellerspoint.com/9/ -
'Letter's from the Amazon' This amusing and enlightening story is told in in six short audio episodes.
For those who enjoyed listening to Sal Bolton's 'The Call of Africa', you are invited to follow her on another adventure, this time into the rain forests of Ecuador, South America.Sal, inspired by her childhood film hero, Indiana Jones, and with only a basic school-girl knowledge of Spanish, attempts her own adventure into the Amazon, one of the most mysterious and formidable bio-diverse ecosystems on the planet; a place that has drawn explorers and travellers for generations into its dark and sacred heart.
'Letters From The Amazon' hopes to unlock the reality for us of living and breathing something of this spell-binding cocooned world that is life in the Amazon; revealing, as the adventure unfolds, precious glimpses of rare wildlife, medicines and flora and fauna that are found hidden away in isolation. It should inspire in us the need to preserve and protect this unique, irreplaceable endangered eco-system.In her own words,
"Hola, welcome to the jungle. Come on in and listen closely to the hidden calls of the wild. There's something about saying the word 'jungle' which immediately invites the thoughts of danger and intense curiosity: a secret Utopia which only the boldest of spirits will dare to venture into. So I decided to pack my bag, and go it alone; well, sort of."
Based on Sal's journal, notes and letters whilst living in the rain forest, this series highlights some of her most unpredictable, amusing challenges and mishaps and adventures. Despite being lost among the indigenous jungle locals and their customs, she makes it to her destination “with”, as she puts it, “a little help from my inner guardian angel!”
The episodes follow the emotional highs and lows of the journey of an English 'Gringa', as she shares with us the reality of living in wild isolation. We discover the magic and sacredness of the rainforest as we are carried along on a canoe journey to a remote place upriver to visit an indigenous shaman.
Sal tells of the marauding, biting mosquitoes, jungle bus rides and of being caught in an Amazon thunderstorm. Her occasional pangs of frustration tell, in a humorous way, of her experiences of 'Jungle Fever', things that go 'bump' in the night and how her loneliness is healed by a curly tailed friend.Episode One: In Dr Jones Footsteps
Episode Two: Into The Amazon
Episode Three: Welcome To The Jungle
Episode Four: The Enchanted Forest
Episode Five: Finding Miss PiggyComing soon......
Episode Six: Last Boat to Misahualli
Written and Narrated by Sal Bolton
Directed and Produced by Nigel KillickPlease Buy an Acre for £25 from The Rainforest Foundation UK
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/Protect_an_acre_of_rainforestJatun Sacha Reserve
http://www.jatunsacha.org/ingles/
World Land Trust
http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/buy-acre
Sky Rainforest Rescue
https://rainforestrescue.sky.com/amazon-rainforest
Read more from Sal's online blog about The Amazon
http://lettersfromtheamazon.travellerspoint.com/9/ -
In my interview we talk about her characters, storyline and how she writes historical novels.
It’s a ripping story of a British Royal Navy Captain named James Blackwell, who commands a small third rates gunned British man-of-war frigate, that dose battle against the pride of a Spanish navy’s ship of the line. It’s the story of, what it was like to be on a British man-of-war of the times, fighting for old King George, combined with a romance between a hard-bitten English sea captain and a Spanish beauty.V.E. Ulett is a long time resident of California and is an avid reader as well as writer of historical fiction.
V.E. is a member of the National Books Critics Circle and an active member and reviewer for the Historical Novel Society.
Eighteenth and nineteenth century journals and letters inspired the writing of CAPTAIN BLACKWELL’S PRIZE. The sequel takes Captain Blackwell and Mercedes into the Pacific ocean and the world of early nineteenth century exploration. A world where betrayal and danger lurk round every coral atoll.http://www.veulett.com
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15773930-captain-blackwell-s-prize
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Peter Higginbotham is one of Britain's best known authors and researchers on the workhouse - a much detested institution which for almost three centuries provided shelter, in return for labour, for the nation's destitute.
In the course of his researches, Peter has visited every corner of the British Isles, from Cornwall to Shetland, and from Kent to Galway, in order to track down former workhouse buildings. His work on the workhouse, and the larger poor relief system of which it formed a pivotal part, has resulted in the highly regarded website www.workhouses.org.uk together with a number of books on the subject including The Workhouse Encyclopedia, Voices from the Workhouse, The Workhouse Cookbook and A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse.
Peter is also a frequent contributor to radio programmes such as BBC Radio 4's Making History and Tracing Your Roots, and TV shows such as Heir Hunters and Who Do Yo Think You Are?Track: Boy Don't Cry (ft. Scomber , Admiral Bob (admiralbob77)) 2013 Jeris Licensed to at: http://ccmixter.org
Jeris / CC BY-NC 3.0
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My interview today is with Eric Ryland, who In his youth worked in some very dangerous large industries in Wales, nearly being killed on a couple of occasions. After doing his compulsory military service in the British Army, at a time when the Suez Crisis hit the headlines and when Britain was preparing to go to war. He and his fellow conscripts waited anxiously as they boarded a military plane for Cyprus to go to Egypt and the war zone. Luckily, by the time his battalion reached the War area his battalion was quickly withdrawn back to Britain.
After being demobbed from the army he returned to his old job as a steam train fireman to find his job was under threat by the new diesel trains being adopted by British rail, so he changed careers yet again.
Being Welsh, Eric had a good singing voice and got involved with a group of young German musicians as the lead singer in a band, touring all around Britain's working men's clubs in the early 60s. The band later went on to tour Germany and other European countries.
Eric by this time had a small family and had to make some painful decisions, as he knew in his heart that the music scene was too precarious now that he was a family man. It was around this time that he decided to take his whole family and move thousands of miles across the world to live in South Africa, which at that time still have had apartheid and was a totally different from his experience in his own country.
Music track: Drunk in a Smoking Bar Drinking an Imperial Porter Mix by Lasswell.
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Our interview today is with the authors of Deadly Focus and Consequences novels by RC Bridgestock.
This husband and wife team from the fourth largest police force in England have swapped crime fighting for crime writing.
Bob Bridgestock, 60, a retired detective superintendent who took charge of numerous high profile murder and serious crime investigations in his 30 year career, and his wife Carol, 51, who was a civilian support worker with West Yorkshire Police for 17 years, draw upon their extensive knowledge of real life investigations.
Their experience has been invaluable on their path to becoming fully-fledged authors. The couple, who now live on the Isle of Wight, launched their first novel, ‘Deadly Focus’ (Caffeine Nights Publishing) in June, 2010. It is also available on kindle and this month it also came out as an Audio book. In April, 2012, ‘Consequences’, the sequel, was published: both novels are extremely popular with crime fiction readers throughout the world.
‘The greatest compliment we get is from police personnel who say the series is "just as it is and not over-dramatised".' The Dylan series explores the world of senior investigator DI Jack Dylan (loosely based on Bob), who goes from one drama to another in his professional and in his personal life, with his partner, Jen (loosely based on Carol).
‘You’ve probably heard the saying, "There’s a book in everyone," and for years Bob has had people laughing and crying with his tales,’ Carol said. ‘So you can imagine my surprise and delight when Bob enrolled us both on a writing course at the Isle of Wight College five years ago and as they say, "The rest is history".
The couple have written a further two novels in the series, which will be published next year, and are working on books 5 & 6 in the Dylan series for 2014.
Interviewer and producer Nigel Killick
Peopletalk literary editor Mr. Gareth Kenyon-Goldthorpe
www.rcbridgestock.com
Books/Kindle/Audio available from:-
http://www.caffeine-nights.com/book-store.html
Deadly Focus http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Focus-D-I-Dylan-Bridgestock/dp/1907565086/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1
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My interview today is with John Parry the author of a humourous but poignant book called “Not for Wimps”about men and the aging process published by the Book Guild UK.
John Parry was the BBC's first arts correspondent and left the corporation in the mid-90s after 12 years, he wrote a regular arts column for the Spectator before creating and editing Sculptors, the magazine of the Royal Society of British sculptors. He also wrote book reviews for the Mail on Sunday. He lives in Brighton with his wife, the actress and author, Judy Cornwell.
In this interview I talk to John about his prodigious career in the world of the Media and he reads a selection of extracts from his book and talks about what made him write this book?
An extracts from his book.
'The other evening, I walked into the theatre. With a dressy celebration party afterwards, I was wearing black tie, feeling sprightly and youthful. The occasion had all the promise of being great fun. At least it did until the moment I approached a small group of quite jolly young people gathered on the pavement -- and no mercifully, I was not about to be mugged. One of the girls simply shouted out, 'Oi, you looked like Winston Churchill.' Her friends yelled with laughter.
I was devastated. Not for a second was I deluded enough to think that she was saying I looked like a war hero, an inspiring orator, a Prime Minister who led the nations to victory. What she was saying, of course was I looked rather elderly and rotund with a pink and shiny face from the exertion of my brisk walk. It was crushing. I arrived at the theatre feeling rather less than sprightly and useful. Infuriatingly, my own friends thought it was a stoically funny when I told them the story and laughed as much as the crowd of young people had done.'
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Music: Chansons sans paroles (1989) op. 2 Valse-Scherzo
Album: Dry Fig Trees
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