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'Welcome to Just a Minute! And as The Minute Waltz fades away...
please talk for 60 seconds on a random subject without repetition,
hesitation or deviation...' First broadcast in 1967, Just a Minute
is one of the longest-running radio comedy shows. A national
institution, it is also loved and listened to all around the world.
These four episodes find regulars Paul Merton, Graham Norton, Tony
Hawks and Julian Clary attempting to talk non-stop for sixty
seconds, along with special guests that include Stephen Fry, Sir
Terry Wogan, Gyles Brandreth, Ross Noble, Sue Perkins and Liza
Tarbuck. Among the subjects hilariously tackled are Dear Listener,
The Best Sort of Babysitter, The Dictionary, A Limerick, The
History of the World, How to Clean a Chandelier and On Valentine's
Day, I Received... Join host Nicholas Parsons and the distinguished
panellists, as they use their intellect, imagination and verbal
dexterity to beat the clock and win the points in these four
ferociously funny shows. 2 CDs. 1 hr 51 mins.
"Our Miss Brooks" was a highly popular radio sitcom that was
eventually adapted for both television and film. It starred
Hollywood film and New York stage veteran Eve Arden, who
specialized in playing the wisecracking friend. She often did it
better than anyone else, receiving an Oscar nomination for the 1945
film "Mildred Pierce." Since her skill with the wicked one-liner
was beginning to lead to typecasting, Arden signed on for the lead
in radio s "Our Miss Brooks "to find a new image.
The series centers on Connie Brooks, a sharp-witted, lovable
English teacher at fictional Madison High School. Between gentle
wisecracks, Miss Brooks dotes on nerdish student Walter Denton,
played by Richard Crenna, and frequently locks horns with crusty,
cranky Principal Osgood Conklin, played by Gale Gordon. Many plot
lines revolve around Miss Brooks longing for Philip Boynton, the
school s bashful biology teacher.
The radio series lasted until 1957, having already made a
successful jump to television in 1952 where Arden won a Primetime
Emmy for Best Female Star in a Regular Series."
Perfect for bedtime, car rides, and classrooms, these whimsical
tales will delight children of all ages.
This entertaining and educational collection features two
hundred stories by noted Spanish children s author Pedro Pablo
Sacristan. Translated into English and produced with full music and
sound effects, "The Complete Pedro s 200 Fables Master Collection"
also includes many never-before-released tales that will charm the
entire family.
Stories include: Searching for Stars, The Magic Tree, A Day of
Silence, The Ugly Fairy, The Hair Thief, The Lion s Roar, The
Ticklish Kid, The Grumpy Tree, The Mocking Tiger, The Queen s
Journey, and many more.
The Mercury Theatre was an independent repertory company founded
in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and producer John
Houseman, who is best known for his Oscar-winning performance as
Professor Charles Kingsfield in the "The Paper Chase." After a
series of acclaimed stage productions, Welles and his Mercury
Theatre were offered their own weekly hour-long radio program over
the CBS radio network. Here Welles along with Agnes Moorehead, Ray
Collins, Joseph Cotten, Alice Frost, Martin Gabel, and others
presented powerful adaptations of literary classics with Bernard
Herrman as composer and conductor.
Considered by many critics as the finest dramatic hour on radio,
"The Mercury Theatre on the Air" was without a sponsor until a
single broadcast changed all that: "The War of the Worlds.""
This study considers Angela Carter's work in media, a critically
neglected body of work comprising five radio plays, two film
adaptions and a television documentary, as well as two unrealized
screenplays, an operatic libretto and a stage play. Charlotte
Crofts undertakes detailed textual analysis of unpublished work,
including the poem Unicorn (1966) and The Holy Family Album (1991).
She refers extensively to exclusive interviews with directors and
producers with whom Carter collaborated. Included are the first
publication of photographs from the set of The Magic Toyshop
(1986), and excerpts from the script and storyboard of The Holy
Family Album.
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