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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

"Although intended for children, this version of the Just So Stories should appeal to all listenrs who have the childlike spirit lurking within their souls." Radio Drama Reviews Online

Have you ever wondered how it is that the moon pulls the tides (instead of a crab who was taller than the smoke of three volcanoes), or the reason why the elephant’s nose is so long? Find out as Rudyard Kipling’s classic children’s stories are brought to vivid life in this enchanting  production first performed at the Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh in August 2011 and 2013. The perfect show for children aged 4+ and for adults of all ages. 

In this all-new audio adaptation of the smash-hit theatre show, legendary actor DAVID WARNER lends his voice to five of Kipling's finest fare, while the Red Table Theatre cast perform five of their unique songs from the live show (in all-new recordings made especially for Spokenworld Audio).

Download the full audiobook at www.spokenworldaudio.com

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The Just So Stories - audiobook excerpt

MIna Loy's awesome 1914 statement of poetic possibility

Aphorisms on Futurism by Mina Loy

Revolting Rhymes

Soldiers in the trenches in World War One took this hymn tune and wrote their own words for it, to express how they felt about the war.  

When This Lousy War Is Over

GOING PUBLIC #JIAM AUDIOPALOOZA - JUNE 25TH
"New Year's Night" and 'Mystery," by D. H. Lawrence - a poetry mash-up
Collaboration with Robin Sachs

Several weeks back, I decided I wanted to offer a fresh Going Public piece every day of Audiobook Week, in celebration of JIAM. But what to do? How could I present something a little "beyond" as part of the effort?

I threw this question to a reviewer extraordinaire (and dear friend) Kelli at The Oddiophile (http://www.theoddiophile.com), who immediately came back with the most wonderful idea: more dual narration - which she followed up with the idea of poetry pairing, with alternating narration.

And like THAT! the flame was lit, the call went out to the ever gracious and phenomenal Robin Sachs, and a plan was hatched.

Robin and I worked together previously on The Answers, by Stephen Dunn (http://snd.sc/LUB1YC). Since then, I've been looking for just the right project for a second collaboration and was thrilled that he was willing to join me for this very special week of Going Public. But what to choose - what to CHOOSE? Well, that's simple really, isn't it? Sachs's voice offers such depth, sensuality and power, and together...well...how could we not do Lawrence?

Oh David Herbert...such a love/hate/love relationship I have with you, just like, well, a lover I suppose - there is no middle, no even path with Lawrence. He inspires such heights and depths - rage, passion, disgust, longing. There is nothing that escapes his mark of sensuality and morbidity, usually tied inextricably together. But really, isn't that life itself - the sensual and the morbid, sex and death and sacrifice and grief pressed against each other until all the lines blur?

This first mash-up, featuring the poems "New Year's Night" and "Mystery," merging sensual with sacrificial imagery, meshed so perfectly together that the result was almost startling.

And I guarantee that you will never hear "falcon" quite the same way again...

"New Year's Night" / "Mystery" - Poetry Mash-Up, by D. H. Lawrence (read by Robin Sachs & Xe Sands)

Containing the first chapter of 'The Hobbit', 'The Lord of the Rings trilogy which include 'The Fellowship of the Ring', 'The Two Towers', & 'The Return of the King'. 
There's also the first chapter available of 'The Silmarillion', 'Children of Hurin', and samples taken from the gorgeous short stories of 'Tales from the Perilous Realm' and 'Mr Bliss'.

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Read by Rob Inglis

Do You Hear the People Sing

This is a poem from Wright's 1976 collection, DIMENSIONS OF HISTORY.

"What Is Beautiful" by Jay Wright, read by Dante Micheaux

Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas read by Mark Johnson

GOING PUBLIC 5.3.13 - "Vernal Equinox," by Amy Lowell

Although I do feel pretty exuberant about this time of year, what with my yard exploding into foliage song and the birds demanding that I rejoice, I also often still feel a pull of something else, something...I don't know what - melancholy, perhaps?

So Lowell is the perfect choice this week. Well, she's also very succinct, which was a must this week...

"Vernal Equinox," by Amy Lowell (read by Xe Sands)

The Colonel by Carolyn Forché read by Gary Zmolek

The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently by Thomas Lux read by Gary Zmolek

A poem by me, Neil William Holland a.k.a. Soloneili.
Does anything ring a bell?

A Road More Travelled.  written-n-read by Neil William Holland (Soloneili)

The Art of Storm-Riding by Yahia Lababidi read by Gary Zmolek

I love all things creative, from art, music, theatre, cinema, animation, literature as well as history and archaeology. I attempt to write, short stories and, what might or might not turn into a novel. I just love words!

Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas read by Mark Johnson

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