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Ten essential plays by Neil Simon, one of the world’s most celebrated, translated, and widely performed playwrights, including Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and more.

Frank Skinner hosts series 3 of the panel game based on what we all sit down and do at least once a day – shop online and leave a review, as an all-star panel celebrate the good, the bad & the baffling Everyone has an online life, and when the great British public put pen to keyboard to leave...

The Write Stuff is the book-based panel show that takes a witty and whimsical look at well-known authors and their work. Host James Walton challenges the erudite contestants with tricky literary teasers, which they endeavour to answer using a combination of knowledge and guesswork.

For centuries, one man’s predictions of doom, disaster, and destiny have captivated the world. Nostradamus, who has become a legend, inscribed cryptic verses shrouded in mystery, interpreted across the ages that may have all come true: wars, sieges, the fall of nations, the collapse of Europe, the rise of AI, apocalyptic floods, firestorms, and the rise of a third Antichrist who would bring about World War III. Are these the final days of humanity, or can we change our fate?

Benedict Cumberbatch, Greta Scacchi and Simon Russell Beale star in Michael Frayn's award-winning play about the controversial 1941 meeting between physicists Bohr and Heisenberg. Copenhagen, Autumn 1941. The two presiding geniuses of quantum physics, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg meet for...

Stand-up fans rejoice—this cracking collection contains a whole seven series of top-drawer comedy, recorded live at London and Manchester's legendary Comedy Store and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Enjoy more than 11 hours of laughs from some of the biggest and best stand-ups on the circuit, hosted by three fantastically funny compères: Simon Bligh, Ross Noble and Adam Hills.

At this extraordinary national moment, with the country in lockdown, Audible teams up with some of our country's biggest stars, as they invite you in to their own homes for some uplifting chat.

After the mysterious events at Coal Hill School, the British government has created the Counter-Measures group, a specialist team that investigates strange phenomena and dangerous technology. Their first missions will involve a haunted warehouse, a groundbreaking artificial intelligence, a mysterious new town and a threat to the future of the country.... Four full-cast audio dramas plus a behind- the-scenes documentary.

Here is Neil Simon’s acclaimed semi-autobiographical Eugene Trilogy, including Brighton Beach Memoirs. In the first installment of the trilogy, 14-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin. Biloxi Blues, The second hilarious installment of the Eugene Trilogy follows our naïve hero and his sadistic drill sergeant through boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi.

14 November, 2012 marks the 90th anniversary of the BBC's first-ever broadcast and the beginning of the British love affair with radio. This fascinating book takes as its starting point those early, tentative programmes broadcast from Marconi House on the Strand, and follows the story of those magical radio voices through the years of economic depression, war and austerity, to the swinging 60s and up to the digital era. Above all, it celebrates the great, the forgotten and the notorious voices of radio from the last nine decades, and the programmes they made famous.

Chaired by Simon Brett (author of the hugely popular Charles Paris series), this intriguing, interactive panel show challenges professional crime novelists to put their experience and expertise to the test as they try to unravel various mind-bending mysteries. Each episode features a death and a denouement - with various red herrings and misdirections along the way. As the murder scenario is described and the clues laid out, our writer-detectives take turns cross-examining the suspects.

Here are six extraordinary adventures, never revealed before, starring Simon Callow as Sherlock Holmes and Nicky Henson as Dr Watson, written by John Taylor...

Philip Simon zieht sich regelmäßig in einen Spind zurück, der für die WDR-Fernsehsendung "Mitternachtsspitzen" auf die Bühne geschoben wird, und den der Künstler dann zur Formulierung einiger besonders klarer Sätze verlässt. Das macht er seit 2018 - es ist also Zeit, die vielen großartigen Nummern in einem Best-of zusammenzufügen. Philip Simon kommt hierfür aus seinem Spind, direkt ins Aufnahmestudio und gibt seine Nummern zum Besten - dabei blickt er auf die Entstehungszeit zurück und stellt neue und aktuelle Zusammenhänge her.

Annie has learned quite a bit about her new friend Gemma: she's from Bristol, she used to work in a pharmacy, and she's never forgiven herself for the suicide of her teenage son. She also died ten years ago and doesn't know why she's come back through that door. Perhaps it has something to do...

The wonderful history-cum-guide answers these and many other questions about the irreplaceable world of Radio 4. Released to mark the station's 40th anniversary it's essential listening for every devotee.

Founded in 1922, over the last century the BBC has become Britain’s most influential broadcaster. Its programs have been part of everyday life in the UK and around the world, from Its That Man Again to Life on Earth, Doctor Who, and Eastenders, reflecting social change and reshaping our culture. However, the BBC now faces significant challenges, which may even jeopardize its continued existence. This new book draws out these issues and looks at how similar threats—including hostile governments, management failures, and new technologies—were met and overcome in the past.

Shakespeare's lighthearted comedy of mistaken identity, tangled lovers, meddling fairies, and bumbling amateur actors set in a wood on Midsummer Night is vividly retold in this special live radio performance first broadcast on the Bard's birthday, April 23, 1994, on WBAI-FM in New York City. This enchanting reinterpretation will delight both those who know and love the works of Shakespeare and those who have yet to discover them.

The Portrait is a satirical comedy revolving around an upper-crust dinner party, where a family's young bohemians "duel" their snobbish elder East Side counterparts over ownership of a rich ancestral portrait. This play, written by Sarah Levine Simon, was first performed at Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium and was later broadcast in 1993 on WBAI-FM in New York City.

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"Il podcast precedentemente conosciuto come 'In compagnia di Simon Domenico Migliorini' Interpretazioni, interviste e produzioni radiofoniche di Simon Domenico Migliorini.𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶 𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗩𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗮:📻 "𝗟𝗔 𝗣𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗘" 𝗱𝗶 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼 𝗟𝘂𝘇𝗶(Monologo in due parti trasmesso il Venerdì Santo 2024 in due parti).🎭 "𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗗𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗜𝗡" 𝗱𝗶 𝗔𝗹𝗺𝗮 𝗗𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼Radiodramma a due voci con ...