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La Sirena, de Ray Bradbury

Con Kaled Pan interpretando a Johnny, e Ignacio Manzo interpretando a McDunn.

Producido por Ignacio Manzo para Un Terrenito en la Luna, Audio Narraciones.

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Grabado en Estudio Megafón.

Título original: The Fog Horn (1951), compilado en el libro The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953) (Las doradas manzanas del sol), publicado originalmente como The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (La bestia proveniente de 20 mil brazas) en The Saturday Evening Post en 1951.

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La Sirena, de Ray Bradbury

Tour De Force ✦ Pool Party (Feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore)

Coming straight out of New York's latest heat wave is the debut release from Brooklyn-based production duo Tour De Force (TDF). Featuring vocals by Jahdan Blakkamoore, "Pool Party" is TDF's tribute to the quintessential digital dancehall riddim—King Jammy's classic Sleng Teng —revamped to include elements of dub and bass music.

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Video teaser: http://youtu.be/m6_xQ8fDTJ0

Tour De Force ✦ Pool Party (Feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore)

DJ Maksy - Dance and Sound (Samba 51bpm) Idea. DJ Andre

ما لايعرفه الكثيرون عن الامبراطوريه هو طريقة تداول السلطه البشعه التي كانت تحدث من سلطان الى آخر 

تاريخ الاتراك البغيض .. دور حريم السلطان في قوة الامبراطوريه العثمانيه

الكتب المسموعة : كتاب الدولة الأموية لأحمد شلبي- الجزء الثاني
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الكتاب ده مكتوب على اساس انه يدافع عن دولة الخلافة الأموية و عن حكامها و عن سياساتهم , لكن اللي مايعرفوش انه فضح الخلافة وانها كلها عبارة عن دم وفرض السلطة بقوة السلاح على المخالفين 

أسرع طريقة لفهم الغير هو معرفتهم من الداخل , أحمد شلبي واحد من الإسبلاميين اللي بيدافع عنهم و كتابته فضحت تاريخهم .. نشكره جزيل الشكر

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بصوت :محمد عبد العاطي

الكتب المسموعة : كتاب الدولة الأموية لأحمد شلبي- الجزء الثاني

صفحات مجهولة من تاريخ الاخوان

Get ready to shake off the cobwebs on the old grey matter - whether it's a hefty hardback on mathematics or a fictional comedy that explores mental disabilities - this podcast is all about books that make you think.

The Penguin Podcast: Books To Make You Think feat. Dan Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett and Dick Swaab

The Oscars on Sunday evening marked the end of the film award season and we’ve come to the conclusion that the best films started their lives as books…Gone with the Wind, The Silence of the Lambs, Fight Club, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, ah we could go on and on!  Here at Penguin, we just love watching our stories unfold in front of our eyes on the silver screen and this year we’ve seen quite a few movie adaptations.  So we were quite surprised that Penguin didn’t get an invitation to walk down the read carpet - we certainly would have clapped our flippers together when Twelve Years a Slave won Best Picture. But as we sadly weren’t present we’ve chosen to celebrate with this humble podcast instead…

The Penguin Podcast: Meet the Books that Make the Movies - feat. Ralph Fiennes and Jojo Moyes

As winter is receding and blossoms are bursting, we’re thinking about the new beginnings and the changes that Spring brings.  

Perhaps it's the (slowly) rising temperatures or the sunsets pushing later into the evening, but the prospect of new possibilities seem endless. It might be going out to meet new people, starting a new job, picking up an unfinished project or reinventing something in the past for today. Yes, change can seem daunting, but we say embrace it.

But don't just take our word for it... we did our research and the people we know best (our lovely authors) can vouch for how funny, exciting and life-changing new beginnings can be.  It's a major theme in so many of their books - and... if you think about it... there wouldn't be much of a story if things stayed the same would there?!

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The Penguin Podcast: Changes & New Beginnings feat. Jennifer Saunders, Jane Fallon & John Steinbeck

Laline Paull discusses her new book THE BEES (HarperCollins, May 2014) with Erin Wicks, Producer @HarperAudio_US.

Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are assets. She is allowed to feed the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying alone and free to collect nectar and pollen. A feat of bravery grants her access to the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers mysteries about the hive that are both profound and ominous.

But when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all–daring to challenge the Queen's preeminence–enemies abound, from the fearsome fertility police who enforce the hive's strict social hierarchy to the high priestesses jealously wedded to power. Her deepest instincts to serve and sacrifice are now overshadowed by a greater power: a fierce maternal love that will bring her into conflict with her conscience, her heart, and her society–and lead her to perform unthinkable deeds.

Thrilling, suspenseful, and spectacularly imaginative, The Bees and its dazzling young heroine will forever change the way you look at the world outside your window.

THE BEES by Laline Paull

This episode of the Penguin podcast is exclusively concerned with mischief, skullduggery, ne’erdowells, and - occasionally - cold-blooded murder. Yes it’s a crime & espionage episode where we’ll be featuring master of intrigue and espionage John le Carré; listening from the man behind a new translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s seminal Crime and Punishment; and Barry Forshaw will be introducing us to two hotly-tipped new crime writers, M. J. Arlidge and Jake Woodhouse. We'll also be talking to the husband-wife crime-writing duo known as Karen Perry, hearing an extract from best-selling Chinese spy thriller Decoded and catching up with the adventures of the  legendary Inspector Maigret.  Never before has so much wretched corruption and villainy promised so much entertainment.

The Penguin Podcast: Crime & Espionage feat. John le Carré, Barry Forshaw & Karen Perry

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Testament of Mary, the powerful new novel by Colm Tóibín, read by Meryl Streep. 

From the author of Brooklyn, in a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change. 

As her life and her suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth, Mary struggles to break the silence surrounding what she knows to have happened. In her effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity, she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now as fully human.

Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary, told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the family.

Praise for The Testament of Mary:

'This is a short book, but it is as dense as a diamond. It is as tragic as a Spanish pieta, but it is completely heretical...Tóibín maintains all the dignity of Mary without subscribing to the myths that have accumulated around her'  Edmund White, Irish Times

'Depicting the harrowing losses and evasions that can go on between mothers and sons...Tóibín creates a reversed Pièta: he holds the mother in his arms'  Independent 

'A beautiful and daring work...it takes its power from the surprise of its language, its almost shocking characterization'  Mary Gordon, New York Times

Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels, including The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Brooklyn, which won the Costa Novel Award, and two collections of stories, Mothers and Sons and The Empty Family.

Colm Toibin: Testament Of Mary (Audiobook extract) read by Meryl Streep

Today we’ll be delving into the powerful, dangerous, empowering and crippling world of money.  It’s fair to say that, as a subject, we’re all obsessed with it.  From splashing out on an expensive holiday, to trying to save or just to make ends meet; from dreaming about what we’d do if we won the lottery to how to make a profit if we don’t. Whether you’re trying to feed your family on a tight budget, or capable of bringing down society just with your bonus, there’s something in today’s podcast for you. And there’s also some advice on tomatoes.

The Penguin Podcast: Money, money, money feat. Flash Boys, Nicholas Lovell and Jack Monroe

فلسفة تاريخ - محاضرة 2

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Eeny Meeny, the rocket-paced serial-killer thriller debut from M. J. Arlidge. Read by Elizabeth Bower, Nigel Pilkington, Lucy Gaskell and Annie Aldington.

The girl emerged from the woods, barely alive. Her story was beyond belief. But it was true. Every dreadful word of it.

Days later, another desperate escapee is found - and a pattern is emerging. Pairs of victims are being abducted, imprisoned then faced with a terrible choice: kill or be killed.

Would you rather lose your life or lose your mind?

Detective Inspector Helen Grace has faced down her own demons on her rise to the top. As she leads the investigation to hunt down this unseen monster, she learns that it may be the survivors - living calling cards - who hold the key to the case.

And unless she succeeds, more innocents will die . . .

Introducing M. J. Arlidge's Detective Inspector Helen Grace. Eeny Meeny is an electrifying debut, with the nerve-shredding intensity of Saw and Along Came a Spider. Fans of James Patterson and Mo Hayder should pay attention.

M. J. Arlidge has worked in television for the last fifteen years, specialising in high end drama production.  In the last five years Arlidge has produced a number of prime-time crime serials for ITV, including Torn, The Little House and most recently Undeniable, broadcast in spring 2014.  Currently writing for Silent Witness, Arlidge is also piloting original crime series for both UK and US networks. Debut thriller Eeny Meeny, which introduces Detective Inspector Helen Grace, has sold to publishers around the world. The follow up, Pop Goes the Weasel, is published by Penguin Books in September 2014.

M J Arlidge: Eeny Meeny (Audiobook extract) read by Lucy Gaskell

This episode of the Penguin Podcast explores great journeys.  Some journeys test the limits of physical endurance, whilst others lead to the discovery of tribal societies.  Sometimes circumstances force us to venture down a difficult path or a path may be used as an escape route.  These are just some of the types of journeys we'll be exploring in today's episode.  We also have an exclusive performance from Gruff Rhys (lead singer of the Super Furry Animals), whose book AMERICAN INTERIOR is also supported by an album, film and app. So sit back and allow us to take you on your own podcast journey.

The Penguin Podcast: Great Journeys feat. an exclusive Gruff Rhys performance & Fredrik Sjöberg

This May, Pelican’s back!
 
What was this iconically blue bird all about? What did it publish? And most importantly, why do we need it today? 
 
We have the imprint’s editor Laura Stickney to tell us why we’re bringing back Pelican. We speak to our in-house designer Matthew Young, who has been a part of bringing Pelicans alive on the page, in bookshops and online. And finally, we fly off to the Bristol Festival of Ideas, to hear the economist Ha-Joon Chang. Enjoy.
 
Pelicans are now in stores around the world. Visit pelicanbooks.com to read the first chapters of the first five titles for free.


The Penguin Podcast: Pelican Books

This episode of the Penguin Podcast focuses on one of literature’s favourite characters - the underdog.

The Penguin Podcast: Underdogs feat. Malcolm Gladwell, Matthew Frank & Elizabeth Fremantle

This summer we're hitting the road with #penguinjourneys, and the Penguin Podcast is coming along for the ride. The wonderful Clare Balding, author of My Animals and Other Family and new book Walking Home (out this autumn), introduces this jet-setting episode. 

We have also teamed up with our friends at Rough Guides to give you top travel tips for each continent along the way. Head over to http://www.roughguides.com/ for more summer travel inspiration and join us on Twitter for an #askapenguin #penguinjourneys special with the expert travel team at Rough Guides on the 8th August. 

Now settle down and listen to the amazing journeys and the audiobooks we've matched them to. Let us know where your #penguinjourneys are taking you this summer, and what books you're taking with you, over on Twitter and Facebook. 

You can pre-order Clare's new book, Walking Home here: http://www.clarebalding.co.uk/news/walking-home-my-family-and-other-rambles and you can buy all the books featured in the campaign over on iTunes (opens in iTunes): http://po.st/PenguinJourneysiTunes

Keep up with all our travels this summer and follow the #penguinjourneys board over on Pinterest: http://po.st/PJpins

Join the #penguinjourneys discussion on Penguin Facebook and Twitter:

https://www.facebook.com/penguinbooks

https://twitter.com/PenguinUKBooks

Happy travels listener!

The Penguin Podcast: Penguin Journeys feat. Clare Balding, Gruff Rhys and a Roald Dahl short story

Today marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War One and we wanted to share the stories we’ve come to know and love by our authors, about this momentous occasion in history.  From accounts by soldiers who lived in the trenches to fictional novels recreating the lives of people during that time, we’ll take you back a hundred years to give you a snapshot of those four long years at war.

The Penguin Podcast: Writing The First World War feat. Jeremy Paxman, Robert Graves and Pat Barker

This episode we’re focusing on the topic of art.  After all, Penguin has always had an upstanding reputation for brilliant, cutting edge book cover design and it’s something we take very seriously.  We have some fantastic interviews and clips lined up with arty people from Art Directors to video animators to critics to popular British artists. 

The Penguin Podcast: Art and Design feat. Grayson Perry, Lauren Child and Petra Börner

Shontelle - Impossible - rumba remix
2012. by Dj Mitya

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Shontelle - Impossible - rumba remix - (Dj Mitya)

To read Neil's blog - "Ray Bradbury" - from 2012.06.06, visit http://bit.ly/ngjRAY1
To read his blog - "Ray Bradbury: In Memoriam and In Green Town Illinois" - posted in the evening of 2012.06.06, visit http://bit.ly/ngjRAY2

This recording was released via the Kickstarter/fan-funded live album "An Evening With Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer" - additional info available at http://kck.st/pF2lMG
Recorded on 2011.11.08 in Portland, OR at the Aladdin Theater.

Written and Read by Neil Gaiman | @NeilHimself

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Jaron Luksa | @JaronSound
Original artwork by Cynthia von Buhler | @CynthVonBuhler
Microphones furnished by Ear Trumpet Labs 

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The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury

Excerpt from Jeff Goldsmith's Q&A with Ray Bradbury, recorded at Comic Con 2010. Discussion and other highlights here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/04/ray-bradbury-comic-con-interview/

Full audio here: http://www.theqandapodcast.com/2012/06/ray-bradbury-q.html

Ray Bradbury on (Not) Growing Up

An extract from the downloadable audiobook edition of Telling Stories, Tim Burgess's laceratingly frank and vivid memoir, read by the actor Craig Parkinson, star of the hit film Control.

The Charlatans have had three UK Number One albums and seventeen Top Thirty singles. But they've also had to face the imprisonment and death of keyboard player Rob Collins and an accountant who ran off with all their money. Not to mention the rock 'n' roll excesses of singer Tim Burgess.

In his startlingly revealing memoir, not ghosted but written by Burgess himself, he describes how they dealt with their crises, and what's gone right with the band as much as what's gone wrong. Brought up in a Cheshire village, he went on to front a band that has travelled the world and was at the forefront of the Madchester and Britpop movements.

Telling Stories is a tale of achievement and survival, via a fair bit of heartache, but told with humour. At the centre of it is Tim Burgess's own story: how someone with a passion for music got to fulfill his dreams. He doesn't flinch from the dark stuff - the lure of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, its sweet enticements - and he confesses in vivid detail how he had to pull himself back from the brink. But along the way he had a lot of good times and met some great people while making great music. It's all here in Telling Stories.

Tim Burgess: Telling Stories (Audiobook Extract) read by Craig Parkinson

A track from Rachel Bloom's album, "Please Love Me."

Fuck Me Ray Bradbury

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, including the 5 'missing pages' discovered by the Anne Frank Foundation in 2001. Insightfully read by the actress Helena Bonham Carter. 

The book is now also available digitally, watch the app trailer here: po.st/hTXSEh 

In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a 'secret annexe', fearing discovery. All that time, Anne kept a diary.

An intimate record of tension and struggle, adolescence and confinement, anger and heartbreak, Anne Frank's diary is one of those unique documents, famed throughout the world.It portrays innocence and humanity, suffering and survival in the starkest and most moving terms.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Saturday, 20th June 1942) read by Helena Bonham Carter

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Forgive Me, a compelling story of a daughter uncovering her mother's secret past from the No. 1 bestselling author, Lesley Pearse. Read by the actress Alison Dowling.

Cheltenham, 1991

When Eva Patterson returns home from work one day, a devastating scene awaits her. Her mother, Flora, lies dead in the bath. Beside her is a note saying only: 'Forgive Me'.

Eva is shocked to find out that her mother was once a successful artist back in the 1960s. When she visits her mother's old studio, she finds a collection of Flora's paintings and diaries. Searching for answers, Eva encounters a psychic who mysteriously warns her to beware of a 'sleeping serpent', which she soon discovers refers to a shocking crime in Flora's past.

Will discovering the truth destroy Eva's belief in everything she holds dear?
 

Lesley Pearse: 'Forgive Me' (audiobook extract) read by Alison Dowling

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Sylvia Day's Pride and Pleasure, a tale of ambition, love and lust. Read by the actress Imogen Church.

Pursued by fortune hunters, heiress Eliza Martin is the victim of diabolical scheming to get her to the altar. She won't be bullied, however, and she will get to the bottom of this plot. She needs a man to infiltrate her suitors and find the villain. Thief-taker Jasper Bond is entirely too devilish and too dangerous - who'd believe Eliza would be seduced by a man like him? But client satisfaction is a point of pride with Jasper and it's his pleasure to prove he's just the man - for all her needs.

Sylvia Day: 'Pride & Pleasure'  (audiobook extract) read by Imogen Church

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Mohsin Hamid's How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, read by the author himself.

The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, 'How To Get Filthy Rich in Asia' steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over 'rising Asia'. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on the most fluid and increasingly scarce of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises alongside his, their paths crossing and re-crossing in a love affair sparked and snuffed out again by the forces that careen their fates along.

The hero of the story could be any one of us, hungry for a different life. And ours too could be the fate that awaits him . . .

Fast-paced, vivid and emotionally absorbing, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change.

'This book is a self-help book. Its objective, as it says on the cover, is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia. And to do that it has to find you, huddled, shivering, on the packed earth under your mother's cot one cold dewy morning . . .'

This audiobook will be available to download from eMusic.com from 28th March.

How To get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid: (Audiobook Extract) read by the Author

Penguin Books publishes blockbusting, prize-winning, celebrated, controversial, heart-warming, thought-provoking and inspiring books by a range of authors from Ali Smith to Zadie Smith, Jeremy Clarkson to Jeremy Paxman and Jamie Oliver to Oliver Goldsmith.

The Penguin Podcast: Changes & New Beginnings feat. Jennifer Saunders, Jane Fallon & John Steinbeck

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