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LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Farewell of the Seal by Anonymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 30, 2025. ------ This Fortnightly Poem is taken from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine No. DXLIX (549); July, 1861, Vol XC (90). - Summary by David Lawrence

Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades. When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in heaven, Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays - on the sponsor's dime, of course. Classic films now become audiobooks, with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's A Farewell to Arms starring Clark Gable and Josephine Hutchinson.

Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s second Philip Marlowe mystery.Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily.In ‘Farewell My Lovely’, Marlowe has a chance encounter with a not-so-gentle giant outside Florian’s nightclub.

Steve Lemme & Kevin Heffernan are back with their 3rd stand-up special. They share laughs, chug beers, tell stories and reveal untold, private secrets about each other covering everything you want to know. The jokes come fast and furious in what could “potentially” be their last time on stage together!

Patrick Stewart stars as Raymond Chandler and Adrian Scarborough as Billy Wilder in BBC Radio 4's entertaining glimpse inside the Hollywood film industry. In 1944 Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder came together to work on a screen adaptation of James M. Cain's novel 'Double Indemnity'. Wilder...