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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: M.D.|The Confession of Henry Jekyll Author: David Rambo Narrator: Venk Potula, Laila Ayad, André Sogliuzzo, Seamus Dever, Matthew Hancock, Edita Brychta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 35 minutes Release date: December 31, 1969 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: On the last night of his life, Henry Jekyll records the harrowing story of his years-long struggle to maintain his reputation as a physician and philanthropist - while secretly suppressing the voracious beast he had long felt lurking within. Playwright David Rambo drew on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson for inspiration to create this original L.A. Theatre Works commission. Includes a conversation with playwright David Rambo and horror expert Leslie S. Klinger. Recorded before an audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in April 2023. Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring: Laila Ayad as Iris Bravo and others Edita Brychta as Dr. Semerenko and others Seamus Dever as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Robert Hyde Matthew Hancock as Nick Underwood Venk Potula as Tyler Poole and others André Sogliuzzo as the Priest, Bouncer, Rookie Cop and others Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood Recording Engineer and Sound Designer: Mark Holden Editor and Mixing Engineer: Charles Carroll Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin Foley Artist: Brian Wallace

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719088 to listen full audiobooks. Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author and America’s top psychic, Matt Fraser presents an immersive guide to intentional living and discovering what life is really all about before reaching the pearly gates. New York Times bestselling author Matt Fraser knows a lot about life… from the dead. We’ve all heard there is a mystical moment that occurs just before you die—or right after you get to Heaven—in which your life flashes before your eyes in vivid detail. The chronicle of your achievements, your failures, your loves, your losses, your daily rituals, your lifelong friendships invites a new perspective through which to view your life. But what if you did not need to wait until your death bed or the pearly gates to experience this phenomenon? What if you could examine your life right now, while there is time to make changes, heal relationships, manifest your goals and the life you truly want to live? In Don’t Wait Till Your Dead Matt distills the lessons, stories, and heavenly truths he’s learned from his gift of connecting with souls on the other side. Readers will be able to learn lifetimes of secrets to happiness, fulfillment, and gratitude from loved ones that are no longer with us. Practical, inspirational, and downright heavenly, Don’t Wait Till Your Dead will wake readers up to the joys of life, and assure us that those we love never truly leave us. Title: Don't Wait Till You're Dead: Spirits' Advice from the Afterlife Author: Matt Fraser Narrator: Matt Fraser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716711 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lives of Lee Miller: Now a Major Motion Picture starring Kate Winslet Author: Antony Penrose Narrator: Adam Grayson, Esther Wane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE WINSLET Lee Miller, 1927 - New York: A classically beautiful young woman, she is discovered by Condé Nast, hits the cover of Vogue and is immortalized by Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene, Horst and other famous photographers. Lee Miller, 1929 - Paris: Protégé and lover of Man Ray, she invents with him the solarization technique of photography, develops into a brilliant Surrealist photographer, and plays the statue in Cocteau's film Blood of a Poet. Lee Miller, 1939-45 - Europe: Living at times with her future husband, the painter Roland Penrose, she becomes a US war correspondent and covers the siege of St Malo and the liberation of Paris. Her photographs of Dachau concentration camp shock the world. These are but three of the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded here by her son, Antony Penrose. Featuring a selection of her finest work, including portraits of her friends Picasso, Ernst and Miró, Penrose's tribute to his mother brings to life a uniquely talented woman and the turbulent times in which she lived. “A fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit.” - Sunday Times

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People Author: Alisa Karmel, Ian Karmel Narrator: Alisa Karmel, Ian Karmel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Comedian Ian Karmel, with help from his sister, Dr. Alisa Karmel, opens up about the daily humiliations of being fat and why it’s so hard to talk about something so visible. “As charming and funny as it is poignant and thoughtful.”—Roxane Gay, author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Ian Karmel has weighed eight pounds and he has weighed 420 pounds and right now he’s almost exactly in between the two, but this book is not a weight-loss book. It’s about being a fat person in a skinny world. It’s about gym class and football practice, about chicken wings and juice cleanses, about airplane seats and roller coasters, about fat jokes and Jabba the Hutt, about crying in the Big and Tall section and the joys of being a sneakerhead, about prediabetes and gout, and about realizing that you actually don’t want to eat yourself to death and hoping it’s not too late. This book also includes a “What Now?” section from Ian’s sister, Alisa, who herself cycled through so many fad diets that she eventually pursued a master’s in nutrition and a doctorate in psychology with the goal of changing the contemporary narrative around fatness. Ian and Alisa Karmel grew up fat. As kids, they never talked about it. They were too busy fighting over the last SnackWell’s Devil’s Food cookie. Now, decades later, having both turned into fat adults who eventually figured out how to get their health under control, they are finally ready to unpack the impact that their weight has had on them. For them, the T-Shirt Swim Club is meant to be a place of support for anyone who struggles with weight issues. A place of care and candor, free of shame. A place to not deny or avoid the emotions you feel, the experiences you go through, the embarrassment, the anger, the resentment. T-Shirt Swim Club is about being a fat person and how the world treats fat people—but also an acknowledgment that maybe it doesn’t always have to feel quite so lonely.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll Author: Alan Edwards Narrator: Alan Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: I Was There is a memoir by Alan Edwards, the godfather of modern music PR, whose stellar list of clients has ranged over the years from the Rolling Stones to the Spice Girls via the Stranglers, Blondie, Prince, Britney Spears, Robbie Williams, Amy Winehouse and, outside of music, David Beckham and Naomi Campbell. Edwards describes getting his break in the mid 1970s as a scruffy, stoned 20 year old just back from the hippy trail; his encounter with London’s thriving punk scene, which inspired him to set up his own PR company; finding success and broadening his horizons as his work with the likes of Blondie and Bowie takes him to the US and beyond. He brings the reader up to the present day through a series of vivid, funny, always insightful behind the scenes vignettes, whether it’s playing a spontaneous game of football with Bob Marley, listening to Prince discuss the future of civilisation in a nightclub VIP area, or being used as a pawn in the power struggle between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Along the way, we’re treated to all the entertaining tales of debauchery and rock-star antics you might expect, but more uniquely we’re privy to Edwards’ fascinating observations about the brilliant artists he has worked with, and what makes them tick. We also get a front-row seat to the rise of PR as a major force in British society, from the seven-figure media deal Edwards brokered for the Beckhams’ wedding, to the role of spin in the New Labour government.   Even as Edwards grows into the consummate PR, playing a crucial background role in the lives and careers of some of the world’s biggest stars, he retains a powerful sense of being an outsider – never forgetting how lucky he is to look back on decades of music and culture and say, ‘I was there’.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Willie, Waylon, and the Boys: How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever Author: Brian Fairbanks Narrator: Tyler Darby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The tragic and inspiring story of the leaders of Outlaw country and their influence on today’s Alt-County and Americana superstars, tracing a path from Waylon Jennings’ survival on the Day the Music Died through to the Highwaymen and on to the current creative and commercial explosion of Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Zach Bryan, Jason Isbell, and the Highwomen.   On February 2, 1959, Waylon Jennings, bassist for his best friend, the rock star Buddy Holly, gave up his seat on a charter flight. Jennings joked that he hoped the plane, leaving without him, would crash. When it did, killing all aboard, on "the Day the Music Died," he was devastated and never fully recovered.   Jennings switched to playing country, creating the Outlaw movement and later forming the Highwaymen supergroup, the first in country music, with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. The foursome battled addiction, record companies, ex-wives, violent fans, and the I.R.S. and D.E.A., en route to unprecedented mainstream success. Today, their acolytes Kacey Musgraves, Ryan Bingham, Sturgill Simpson, and Taylor Swift outsell all challengers, and country is the most popular of all genres.   In this fascinating new book, Brian Fairbanks draws a line from Buddy Holly through the Outlaw stars of the 60s and 70s, all the way to the country headliners and more diverse, up-and-coming Nashville rebels of today, bringing the reader deep into the worlds of not only Cash, Nelson, Kristofferson, and Jennings but artists like Chris Stapleton, Simpson, Bingham, and Isbell, stadium-filling masters whose stories have not been told in book form, as well as new, diverse artists like the Highwomen, Brittney Spencer, and Allison Russell. Thought-provoking and meticulously researched, Willie, Waylon, and the Boys ultimately shows how a twenty-one-year-old bass-playing plane crash survivor helped changed the course of American music.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion Author: Julie Satow Narrator: Karen Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza. • 'Ms. Satow’s carefully researched book is compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel. She portrays the women with verve; we get a glimpse into their lives, as well as a sense of what it was like at each of these retail meccas.' —The Wall Street Journal The twentieth century American department store: a palace of consumption where every wish could be met under one roof – afternoon tea, a stroll through the latest fashions, a wedding (or funeral) planned. It was a place where women, shopper and shopgirl alike, could stake out a newfound independence. Whether in New York or Chicago or on Main Street, USA, men owned the buildings, but inside, women ruled. In this hothouse atmosphere, three women rose to the top. In the 1930s, Hortense Odlum of Bonwit Teller came to her husband's department store as a housewife tasked with attracting more shoppers like herself, and wound up running the company. Dorothy Shaver of Lord & Taylor championed American designers during World War II--before which US fashions were almost exclusively Parisian copies--becoming the first businesswoman to earn a $1 million salary. And in the 1960s Geraldine Stutz of Henri Bendel re-invented the look of the modern department store. With a preternatural sense for trends, she inspired a devoted following of ultra-chic shoppers as well as decades of copycats. In When Women Ran Fifth Avenue, journalist Julie Satow draws back the curtain on three visionaries who took great risks, forging new paths for the women who followed in their footsteps. This stylish account, rich with personal drama and trade secrets, captures the department store in all its glitz, decadence, and fun, and showcases the women who made that beautifully curated world go round.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland Author: Steven Hyden Narrator: Steven Hyden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.—a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of all time. An instant classic, Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. would prove itself to be a landmark not only for the man who made it, but rock music in general and even the larger American culture over the next 40 years.   In There Was Nothing You Could Do, veteran rock critic Steven Hyden shows exactly how this record became such a pivotal part of the American tapestry. Alternating between insightful criticism, meticulous journalism, and personal anecdotes, Hyden delves into the songs that made—and didn’t make—the final cut, including the tracks that wound up on its sister album, 1982’s Nebraska. He also investigates the myriad reasons why Springsteen ran from and then embraced the success of his most popular (and most misunderstood) LP, as he carefully toed the line between balancing his commercial ambitions and being co-opted by the machine. But the book doesn’t stop there. Beyond Springsteen’s own career, Hyden explores the role the album played in a greater historical context, documenting not just where the country was in the tumultuous aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, but offering a dream of what it might become—and a perceptive forecast of what it turned into decades later. As Springsteen himself reluctantly conceded, many of the working-class middle American progressives Springsteen wrote about in 1984 had turned into resentful and scorned Trump voters by the 2010s. And though it wasn’t the future he dreamed of, the cautionary warnings tucked within Springsteen’s heartfelt lyrics prove that the chaotic turmoil of our current moment has been a long time coming. How did we lose Springsteen’s heartland? And what can listening to this prescient album teach us about the decline of our country? In There Was Nothing You Could Do, Hyden takes readers on a journey to find out.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718646 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War Author: James Shapiro Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in four) Americans, two thirds of whom had never seen a play before. At its helm was an unassuming theater professor, Hallie Flanagan. It employed, at its peak, over twelve thousand struggling artists, some of whom, like Orson Welles and Arthur Miller, would soon be famous, but most of whom were just ordinary people eager to work again at their craft. It was the product of a moment when the arts, no less than industry and agriculture, were thought to be vital to the health of the republic, bringing Shakespeare to the public, alongside modern plays that confronted the pressing issues of the day—from slum housing and public health to racism and the rising threat of fascism.  The Playbook takes us through some of its most remarkable productions, including a groundbreaking Black production of Macbeth in Harlem and an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s anti-fascist novel It Can’t Happen Here that opened simultaneously in 18 cities, underscoring the Federal Theatre’s incredible range and vitality. But this once thriving Works Progress Administration relief program did not survive and has left little trace. For the Federal Theatre was the first New Deal project to be attacked and ended on the grounds that it promoted “un-American” activity, sowing the seeds not only for the McCarthyism of the 1950s but also for our own era of merciless polarization. It was targeted by the first House un-American Affairs Committee, and its demise was a turning point in American cultural life—for, as Shapiro brilliantly argues, “the health of democracy and theater, twin born in ancient Greece, have always been mutually dependent.” A defining legacy of this culture war was how the strategies used to undermine and ultimately destroy the Federal Theatre were assembled by a charismatic and cunning congressman from East Texas, the now largely forgotten Martin Dies, who in doing so pioneered the right-wing political playbook now so prevalent that it seems eternal.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What a Fool Believes: A Memoir Author: Michael Mcdonald, Paul Reiser Narrator: Michael Mcdonald, Paul Reiser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award–winning, platinum selling singer-songwriter Michael McDonald, written with his friend, Emmy Award–nominated actor, comedian, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Paul Reiser. Doobie Brothers. Steely Dan. Chart topping soloist. Across a half-century of American music, Michael McDonald’s unmistakably smooth baritone voice defined an era of rock and R&B with hit records like “What A Fool Believes,” “Takin’ It to the Streets,” “I Keep Forgettin’,” “Peg,” “It Keeps You Running,” “You Belong to Me,” and “Yah Mo B There.” In his candid, freewheeling memoir, written with his friend, the Emmy Award-nominated actor and comedian Paul Reiser, Michael tells the story of his life and music. A high school dropout from Ferguson, Missouri, Michael chased his dreams in 1970’s California, a heady moment of rock opportunity and excess. As a rising session musician and backing vocalist, a series of encounters would send him on a wild ride around the world and to the heights of rock stardom—from joining Steely Dan and becoming a defining member of The Doobie Brothers to forging a path as a breakout solo R&B artist. Interwoven with the unforgettable tales of the music, Michael tells a deeply affecting story of losing and finding himself as a man. He reckons with the unshakeable insecurities that drove him, the drug and alcohol addictions that plagued him, and the highs and lows of popularity. Along the way he relays the lessons he’s learned, and that if he’s learned anything at all it’s that there’s often little correlation between what you get and what you deserve. Filled with unbelievable stories and a matchless cast of music greats including James Taylor, Ray Charles, Carly Simon, and Quincy Jones, What a Fool Believes is a moving and entertaining memoir that is sure to be a classic.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704646 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks Author: Charlamagne Tha God Narrator: Elliot Connie, Landon Woodson, Charlamagne Tha God Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Charlamagne Tha God, host of the morning radio phenomenon The Breakfast Club, and founder and CEO of iHeartRadio’s Black Effect Podcast Network, a rundown on how small talk from small minds have taken over our world, and the BIG conversations needed to climb our way back. For over a decade, Charlamagne Tha God has cohosted iHeartRadio’s nationally syndicated morning radio show The Breakfast Club and has proven his power as a culture mover and thought leader, by being his completely authentic self on-air. From his famous “You ain't black” moment with President Biden, to heartfelt chats with cultural icons like Sean “Jay-Z” Carter and Judy Blume, to viral classics with Kamala Harris and Soulja Boy, his incredible reach and impact on American culture continues to grow. In Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks, Charlamagne takes full command of his new perch, broadening his scope and embracing his life roles as a cultural curator, social commentator, job-creator, mental health advocate, and Girl Dad in ways we’ve never seen before. In his signature irreverent style, he looks at the world through his own lens, concluding that many of our divisions, our unhappiness, and our dissatisfactions stem from our failure to have meaningful conversations with each other. With lessons pulled from his past, and an eye on the future, Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks makes us laugh, cry, and think as Charlamagne shares his thoughts on growth, empowerment, and evolution in our fast-changing world. In short—it’s time to stop lying to each other, and ourselves. Fame, money, social media, politics, hip-hop culture, and fatherhood, he takes it all on here. This master of seeing through the BS even calls it on himself, as he delivers his most insightful and heartfelt work yet—his call to stop the insanity while we still can.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712478 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rise of a Killah Author: Ghostface Killah Narrator: Landon Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding members Dennis Coles—aka Ghostface Killah—is a cofounder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip-hop group that established itself by breaking all the rules, taking their music to the streets during the genre's golden era on a decade-long wave of releasing anthem after classic anthem, and serving as the foundation of modern hip-hop. Rise of a Killah is Ghost’s autobiography, focusing on the people, places and events that mean the most to him as he enters his fourth decade writing and performing. It’s a beautiful and intense book, going back to the creative ferment that led to Ghost’s first handwritten rhymes. Dive into Ghost’s defining personal moments, his battles with his personal demons, his journey to Africa, his religious viewpoints, his childhood in Staten Island, and his commitment to his family (including his two brothers with muscular dystrophy), from the Clan’s early successes to the pinnacle of Ghost’s career touring and spreading his wings as a solo artist, fashion icon, and trendsetter. Rise of a Killah gives a “real feel” narrative of Ghost’s life as he sees it, a one of a kind holy grail for Wu-Tang and Ghost fans alike. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts) Author: Serj Tankian Narrator: Serj Tankian Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System Of A Down, Serj Tankian.    Serj Tankian will be the first to admit that his band, System Of A Down, was “unlikely a chart-topper as had ever existed in modern music history: a band of Armenian-Americans playing a practically unclassifiable clash of wildly aggressive metal riffs, unconventional tempo-twisting rhythms, and Armenian folk melodies, with me alternately growling, screaming, and crooning lyrics that could pivot from avant-garde silliness to raging socio-political rants in the space of a single line.” After all, as Serj concedes, “it’s not easy listening.”   Even so, there’s no doubt that System’s music had struck a chord with millions of listeners across the globe ever since they burst on the scene in the mid-1990s. With nearly 40 million album sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, and a devoted legion of fans, the band dominated the alt-rock and metal scenes just as the world hurtled into a new millennium, redefining the very idea of what rockstars could and couldn’t talk about, could and couldn’t do, could and couldn’t represent.    In DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM, Serj presents readers with a memoir that is far more than just a rock 'n' roll fable. It's an immigrant's tale, it’s an activist's awakening, and it's a spiritual journey from darkness toward light. And all of this comes down to the fact that Serj himself has had the chance to live an extraordinary life—thanks to a combination of luck, circumstance, struggle, talent, and spiritual awakening. Born to Armenian parents in Beirut, Serj grows up hearing bombs drop outside his childhood home during the country’s civil war, before moving to Los Angeles at the age of seven. As a young man, he is immersed in the SoCal community of “Little Armenia,” learning more and more about the brutal genocide faced by his ancestors while helping his parents adapt to the constraints and contradictions of the American Dream. Then, during a pivotal drive home from an LSAT class, Serj decides to turn away from a promising future in business and law to make music instead—a decision that leads him to touring five continents as the lead singer of a hugely popular rock band, hitting number #1 on the Billboard album charts the morning of 9/11, and then having the hit single from the same album banned from radio two days later. In the years that follow, his uniquely singular story continues, as he evades glass bottles hurled at a cancelled show by angry Slayer fans, teams up with Tom Morello to push social justice causes on unsuspecting metalheads, argues with LAPD officers over the best way to quell rioting fans, and defines new sounds and singing tactics with Rick Rubin.    Braiding together Serj’s thought-provoking insight with heartfelt and poetic prose, DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM retraces Serj’s remarkable and unlikely journey, and explores what it’s taught him—about music, about art, about activism, and about himself. It’s an unforgettable ride that will leave you breathless—and an absolute delight for new fans and old ones alike.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708737 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America Author: Larry Tye Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet. This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth-century America. Duke Ellington, the grandson of slaves who was christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, was a man whose story is as layered and nuanced as his name suggests and whose music transcended category. Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in a New Orleans slum so tough it was called The Battlefield and, at age seven, got his first musical instrument, a ten-cent tin horn that drew buyers to his rag-peddling wagon and set him on the road to elevating jazz into a pulsating force for spontaneity and freedom. William James Basie, too, grew up in a world unfamiliar to white fans—the son of a coachman and laundress who dreamed of escaping every time the traveling carnival swept into town, and who finally engineered his getaway with help from Fats Waller. What is far less known about these groundbreakers is that they were bound not just by their music or even the discrimination that they, like nearly all Black performers of their day, routinely encountered. Each defied and ultimately overcame racial boundaries by opening America’s eyes and souls to the magnificence of their music. In the process they wrote the soundtrack for the civil rights movement. Based on more than 250 interviews, this exhaustively researched book brings alive the history of Black America in the early-to-mid 1900s through the singular lens of the country’s most gifted, engaging, and enduring African-American musicians. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719202 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Mama, Cass: A Memoir Author: Owen Elliot-Kugell Narrator: Owen Elliot-Kugell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “Mama” Cass Elliot To the rest of the world, Cass Elliot was a rock star; A charismatic, wisecracking singer from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted band, The Mamas & The Papas; A legend of Laurel Canyon, decked out in her custom-made Muumuus, glittering designer jewelry, blessed with a powerful, instantly identifiable singing voice which helped define the sound of the 1960s counterculture movement. But to Owen Elliot-Kugell, she was just Mom.   In the nearly 50 years since Cass Elliot’s untimely death at the age of 32, rumors and myths have swirled about, shading nearly every aspect of her life. In her long-awaited memoir, Owen Elliot-Kugell shares the groundbreaking story of her mom as only a daughter can tell it.   In My Mama, Cass, Owen pulls back the curtains of her mother’s life from the sold-out theaters to behind the closed doors of her infamous California abode. Born Ellen Naomi Cohen, the woman who was known to the world as Cass Elliot was decades ahead of her time: an independently minded, outspoken woman who broke through a male-dominated business, a forward-thinking feminist, and a single parent who embraced motherhood from the moment Owen entered the world. From the closely guarded secret of Owen’s paternity to Cass’s lifelong struggles with self-esteem and weight, to rumors surrounding her mother’s death, Owen illuminates the complex truths of her mother’s life, sharing interviews with the high-profile figures who orbited Cass, as well as never-before-heard tales of her mother and this legendary period of American history.   Featuring intimate family and archival photos as well as interviews and memories from famous friends, fans, and colleagues who loved and respected Cass, this book is both a love story and a mystery, a tale of self-discovery and a daughter’s devotion. At its core, My Mama, Cass is a beautifully crafted testament befitting of Cass Elliot’s enduring cultural impact and legacy, written by the person who knew and loved her best.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Navy Lark: Series 1 and 2: The Classic BBC Radio Sitcom Series: Part of The Navy Lark Author: Laurie Wyman Narrator: Pamela Buck, Richard Caldicot, Dennis Price, June Tobin, Michael Bates, Heather Chasen, Stephen Murray, Jon Pertwee, Tenniel Evans, Leslie Phillips, Ronnie Barker, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The first two series of the vintage seafaring comedy – plus Special The Wrens’ Reunion One of BBC Radio’s most popular and long-running sitcoms, The Navy Lark sailed the airwaves for an impressive 15 series between 1959 and 1977. Included here are the complete Series 1 and 2, featuring the madcap escapades of the merry crew of HMS Troutbridge, a Royal Navy frigate based on an unnamed island just off Portsmouth. Also featured is a special episode, The Wrens’ Reunion, recorded at the Royal Festival Hall to celebrate 21 years of the Women's Royal Naval Service. It’s laughs ahoy as we meet conniving Chief Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips, put-upon Commander ‘Thunderguts’ Povey (Richard Caldicot) and the constantly bemused 'Number One' (Dennis Price in Series 1 and Stephen Murray in Series 2). Below decks Ronnie Barker is just about working his passage as (Un)Able Seaman 'Fatso' Johnson, while Tenniel Evans and Michael Bates are making mischief in a variety of roles – and keeping them all on their toes is Wren Heather Chasen. Superbly remastered and restored, these 43 classic shows are as hilarious as when they were first broadcast – so jump on deck and enjoy the maritime mirth, mayhem and misadventure! NB: Some of the language on this recording reflects the era in which it was first broadcast, and due to the age of the source material, the sound quality may vary Production credits Scripted by Lawrie Wyman Produced by Alastair Scott Johnston Starring: Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee, Dennis Price (Series 1), Stephen Murray (Series 2), Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates, Heather Chasen, Ronnie Barker and Tenniel Evans With Pamela Buck and June Tobin Remastered by Ted Kendall Thanks to Andrew Pixley Note: none of the episodes were originally given titles. The ones here have been adopted for easy reference and are in line with previous commercial releases For more information on the programme, contact: The Navy Lark Appreciation Society Honeysuckle Cottage Little Street Yoxford Suffolk IP7 3JQ Episode guide First broadcast on BBC Light Programme on the following dates: Series 1 The Missing Jeep 29 March 1959 Operation Fag End 5 April 1959 Number One’s Chair 12 April 1959 The Fairground Lights 19 April 1959 The Comfort Fund 26 April 1959 Stuck up the Inlet 3 May 1959 The Admiral’s Party 10 May 1959 The Hank of Heather 17 May 1959 The Multiple Mines 24 May 1959 The Gun Mechanism Test 31 May 1959 The Whittlesea Bay Yacht Regatta 7 June 1959 The Psychology Test 14 June 1959 A Watch on the Initiative Test 21 June 1959 An Exercise in Filming 28 June 1959 The Smuggling Spy 5 July 1959 The Whittlesea Carnival and Fête 12 July 1959 Series 2 New at the Helm 16 October 1959 Fatso's Box Brownie 23 October 1959 Bringing Back the Barge 30 October 1959 The Mock Action 6 November 1959 Going Dutch 13 November 1959 The Figurehead 20 November 1959 Gunboat to Gumba 27 November 1959 Johnson Finds Treasure 4 December 1959 The Charter Trip to Antarctica 11 December 1959 Cementing Relations 18 December 1959 Strike Up the Band 25 December 1959 The Route March 1 January 1960 A Trip up the Thames 15 January 1960 Radar Talk Down System 15 January 1960 A Crisp Romance 22 January 1960 The Lighthouse Lark 29 January 1960 Pertwee Posted to Portsmouth 5 February 1960 Johnson's Diet 12 February 1960 Tug of War 19 February 1960 Return to Potarneyland 26 February 1960 The Cross Country Run 4 March 1960 The Morning After 11 March 1960 The Admiral's Present 18 March 1960 Secret Mission to Calais 25 March 1960 Mr Murray Goes Sick 1 April 1960 The Potarneyland Fishing Limit 8 April 1960 Special: The Wrens’ Reunion Recorded 5 November 1960 © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Navy Lark: Series 6 and 7: The Classic BBC Radio Sitcom Series: Part of The Navy Lark Author: Laurie Wyman Narrator: Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates, Heather Chasen, Stephen Murray, Jon Pertwee, Tenniel Evans, Leslie Phillips, Ronnie Barker, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The sixth and seventh series of the much-loved comedy, plus the 1965 Christmas Special All aboard HMS Troutbridge for maritime mishaps and merriment, as the crew return from eventful leave and sail into more trouble. This collection contains the complete Series Six and Seven of the long-running sitcom, in which Pertwee becomes embroiled in various money-making schemes, Povey has a few domestic difficulties, 'Fatso' Johnson's literary and culinary efforts cause havoc - and there's romantic rivalry between Mr Phillips and Mr Murray for Wren Chasen's affections... Also included is a short festive episode 'Hitting the Ice Floe', aired on Christmas Day 1965 as part of an Overseas Service Broadcast to the British Antartic Survey Teams. Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips and Stephen Murray star in these 33 laugh-out-loud episodes, alongside regulars Ronnie Barker, Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates, Tenniel Evans and Heather Chasen, and guest stars including Amanda Murray, Jan Waters and writer Lawrie Wyman. NB: Some of the language on this recording reflects the era in which it was first broadcast, and due to the age of the source material, the sound quality may vary Production credits Scripted by Lawrie Wyman Produced by Alastair Scott Johnston Starring: Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee, Stephen Murray, Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates, Heather Chasen, Ronnie Barker and Tenniel Evans With Lawrie Wyman (uncredited), Amanda Murray and Jan Waters Remastered by Ted Kendall Thanks to Keith Wickham Note: none of the episodes were originally given titles. The ones here have been adopted for easy reference and are in line with previous commercial releases For more information on the programme, contact: The Navy Lark Appreciation Society Honeysuckle Cottage Little Street Yoxford Suffolk IP7 3JQ Episode guide First broadcast on BBC Light Programme on the following dates: Series 6 Wren Chasen Returns 27 September 1963 On the Carpet 4 October 1963 The Bungalese Spies 11 October 1963 Troutbridge's Party 18 October 1963 Rescuing Admirals 25 October 1963 Demise of the Depth Charges 1 November 1963 The Struggle for Promotion 8 November 1963 Navigation by Computer 15 November 1963 Stormy Weather 22 November 1963 Chasing the Kepeac 29 November 1963 The Submerged Island 6 December 1963 The Sicilian Secret Agent 13 December 1963 Germany's Troutbridge 20 December 1963 Confirming Povey's Rank 27 December 1963 The Calais Dock Strike 3 January 1964 Johnson's Memoirs 10 January 1964 The Emperor of Tratvia 17 January 1964 Open Day 24 January 1964 Stuck on a Sandbank 31 January 1964 Series 7 Taking Some Liberties 11 July 1965 Smugglers in the Solent 18 July 1965 Mr Murray is Victimised 25 July 1965 The Poveys Move House 1 August 1965 Captain Povey Reports Sick 8 August 1965 Admiral Pertwee's Fleet 15 August 1965 Let Loose with a Chopper 22 August 1965 Making a Right Pig's Breakfast 29 August 1965 The Mysterious Pudding Mine 5 September 1965 The Hovercraft Training Course 12 September 1965 Sabotaged Floggle-Toggle Box 19 September 1965 The Potarneyland Training Exercise 26 September 1965 Going on Leave to Croydon 3 October 1965 Christmas Special Hitting the Ice Floe 25 December 1965 © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Navy Lark: Series 10 and 11: The Classic BBC Radio Sitcom Series: Part of The Navy Lark Author: Laurie Wyman Narrator: Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates, Heather Chasen, Stephen Murray, Jon Pertwee, Tenniel Evans, Leslie Phillips, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The tenth and eleventh series of the side-splitting Senior Service spoof Left hand down a bit! The clueless crew of HMS Troutbridge have returned to port after months at sea, and are soon getting into more hilarious scrapes... Included here are the complete Series Ten and Eleven of the fondly-remembered show, remastered and restored for your listening pleasure. In these 34 vintage episodes, Troutbridge is assigned a new Captain, the seasick Commander Trotter; Povey prepares for a visit from Prime Minister Harold Wilson; the ship is hijacked by Forbodian spies; and Murray is promoted - and gets hitched to the Admiral's daughter... With a starring cast of Stephen Murray, Leslie Phillips and Jon Pertwee, ably supported by Richard Caldicot, Heather Chasen, Tenniel Evans and Michael Bates, The Navy Lark remains buoyant after all these years. NB: Some of the language on this recording reflects the era in which it was first broadcast, and due to the age of the source material, the sound quality may vary Production credits Scripted by Lawrie Wyman Produced by Alastair Scott Johnston Starring: Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee, Stephen Murray, Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates, Heather Chasen and Tenniel Evans With Lawrie Wyman, Nigel Graham, Alan Reeve-Jones, Amanda Murray, Elizabeth Morgan and Frank Thornton Remastered by Ted Kendall Thanks to Keith Wickham Note: none of the episodes were originally given titles. The ones here have been adopted for easy reference and are in line with previous commercial releases For more information on the programme, contact: The Navy Lark Appreciation Society Honeysuckle Cottage Little Street Yoxford Suffolk IP7 3JQ Episode guide First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on the following dates: Series 10 Troutbridge Electrifies Portsmouth 13 October 1968 The Redundancy Drive 20 October 1968 The Smugglers Return 27 October 1968 Commander Trotter Takes Charge 3 November 1968 The Anti-Submarine Missile 10 November 1968 Sub-Conductor Phillips 17 November 1968 The South Kawowan Summit 24 November 1968 Pertwee's Enlistment Expires 1 December 1968 Captain Povey Takes Over 8 December 1968 Sir Willoughby Goes to Kawowa 15 December 1968 The Padre's Birthday 22 December 1968 The Portsmouth Kiosk 29 December 1968 The Radio Beacon 5 January 1969 Mr Phillips' Wrong Uniform 12 January 1969 Harold Wilson Reviews the Fleet 19 January 1969 The Relief of the Weather Ship 26 January 1969 Bunging Up 2 February 1969 The Brick Smugglers 9 February 1969 Series 11 Commander Murray and the Squatters 28 December 1969 What is the SSE? 4 January 1970 Pertwee Climbs Up the Promotion Ladder 11 January 1970 Stranded 18 January 1970 Sir Willoughby's Party 25 January 1970 The Fleet Initiative Test 1 February 1970 CPO Pertwee's Long Service Medal 8 February 1970 The Phenomenal Pertwee Tug 15 February 1970 The Security Clampdown 22 February 1970 The Anniversary and the Washing 1 March 1970 The Forbodians Hijack Troutbridge 8 March 1970 Number One Gets Married 15 March 1970 The Honeymooners Return 22 March 1970 CPO Pertwee and the Lead Half Crowns 29 March 1970 Sub Lt Phillips to Leave for Dartmouth 5 April 1970 The Mark 31 Radar 12 April 1970 © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Navy Lark: Series 8 and 9: The Classic BBC Radio Sitcom Series: Part of The Navy Lark Author: Laurie Wyman Narrator: Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates, Heather Chasen, Stephen Murray, Jon Pertwee, Tenniel Evans, Leslie Phillips, Ronnie Barker, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The eighth and ninth series of the vintage comedy about life aboard a Royal Navy frigate There's more fun on the ocean waves in these 33 hilarious episodes, as the hapless Captain Povey and his reluctant subordinates are caught up in more comic capers. Contained here are the complete Series Eight and Nine of the popular show, which sees Murray courting Heather, Phillips pursuing the new Wren and Pertwee planning some special commemorative gifts for Troutbridge's 25th anniversary. Plus, the crew embark on a top secret mission, participate in a joint forces exercise and prepare to take two VIPs from The Embassy Lark to Tratvia for a trade festival. All at sea in the Senior Service are Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee, Stephen Murray and a supporting cast including Ronnie Barker, Tenniel Evans. Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates and Heather Chasen. Among the guest stars are Derek Francis, Frank Thornton and Amanda Murray. NB: Some of the language on this recording reflects the era in which it was first broadcast, and due to the age of the source material, the sound quality may vary Production credits Scripted by Lawrie Wyman Produced by Alastair Scott Johnston Starring: Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee, Stephen Murray, Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates, Heather Chasen, Ronnie Barker and Tenniel Evans With Derek Francis, Frank Thornton and Amanda Murray Remastered by Ted Kendall Thanks to Keith Wickham Note: none of the episodes were originally given titles. The ones here have been adopted for easy reference and are in line with previous commercial releases For more information on the programme, contact: The Navy Lark Appreciation Society Honeysuckle Cottage Little Street Yoxford Suffolk IP7 3JQ Episode guide First broadcast on BBC Light Programme on the following dates: Series 8 Where is Troutbridge? 4 September 1966 The Float a Peddle Fiddle 11 September 1966 A Sticky Business 18 September 1966 Buoys Will Be Buoys 25 September 1966 Steamship Day 2 October 1966 Farewell to HMS Varsity 9 October 1966 The Army Lark 16 October 1966 Just the Ticket 23 October 1966 Mr Phillips' Promotion 30 October 1966 Pertwee and the Tratvian Beer 6 November 1966 The PM Papa 13 November 1966 Getting Rid of Pertwee 20 November 1966 Off to Sea at Last 27 November 1966 Series 9 Back from the Antarctic 2 July 1967 Fishing off the Faroes 9 July 1967 A Filthy Ferryboat 16 July 1967 Jigsaws and Jemmies 23 July 1967 The Naval Review 30 July 1967 The Curious Caravan Case 6 August 1967 Frenchmen in J.41 13 August 1967 The Police Drop In 20 August 1967 Mr Murray's Endurance Course 27 August 1967 Women in the Wardroom 27 August 1967 Troutbridge's Silver Jubilee Party 10 September 1967 CECIL the Navigation Computer 17 September 1967 A Russian Rendezvous 24 September 1967 The Bugged and Burgled Beer 1 October 1967 Picking up the Poppadom 8 October 1967 Cuthbert Joins the Navy 15 October 1967 The Flying Machine 22 October 1967 When Sub Lt Phillips was at Dartmouth 29 October 1967 A Fishy Business 5 November 1967 Troutbridge in Quarantine 12 November 1967 © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702606 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Navy Lark: Series 12 and 13: The Classic BBC Radio Sitcom Series: Part of The Navy Lark Author: Laurie Wyman Narrator: Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates, Heather Chasen, Stephen Murray, Jon Pertwee, Tenniel Evans, Leslie Phillips, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The twelfth and thirteenth series of the long-running nautical comedy, plus bonus documentary Radio Lives: Jon Pertwee Everybody down! Prepare for more navigational blunders and maritime misadventures as radio's favourite frigate puts to sea once more. Collected here are the complete Series Twelve and Thirteen of the much loved show - including the 200th episode, 'Sir Willoughby at Shanghai', in which Troutbridge takes the Governor and his wife on a trip to China - only to find itself under attack... Plus, Lieutenant-Commander Murray and his wife Rita celebrate their first anniversary and move out to married quarters, the crew lock horns with evil, world-dominating Oriental mastermind the Master, and Sub-Lieutenant Phillips is up for promotion: but will his Lord Nelson fantasy help or hinder? Stephen Murray, Leslie Phillips and Jon Pertwee star in these 23 hilarious episodes, with a supporting cast including Richard Caldicot, Heather Chasen, Tenniel Evans and Michael Bates, and guest stars including Norma Ronald, June Whitfield and Elizabeth Morgan. Also included is a special episode of Radio Lives, looking back at the life and career of Doctor Who, Worzel Gummidge and The Navy Lark star Jon Pertwee. NB: Some of the language on this recording reflects the era in which it was first broadcast, and due to the age of the source material, the sound quality may vary Production credits Scripted by Lawrie Wyman and George Evans Produced by Alastair Scott Johnston Starring: Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee, Stephen Murray, Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates, Heather Chasen and Tenniel Evans With Lawrie Wyman, Norma Ronald, June Whitfield, Elizabeth Morgan Remastered by Ted Kendall Thanks to Keith Wickham Note: none of the episodes were originally given titles. The ones here have been adopted for easy reference and are in line with previous commercial releases For more information on the programme, contact: The Navy Lark Appreciation Society Honeysuckle Cottage Little Street Yoxford Suffolk IP7 3JQ Episode guide First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on the following dates: Series 12 The Put-A-Horse-Out-To-Graze Fund 16 May 1971 Impressions For Survival 23 May 1971 The Beard-Growing Race 30 May 1971 The Mysterious Radio Signals 6 June 1971 Operation Recovery 13 June 1971 The Slogan Contest 20 June 1971 Sir Willoughby At Shanghai 27 June 1971 Operation Cowes Barge 4 July 1971 Number One's Anniversary 11 July 1971 The Loch Ness Monster 18 July 1971 Series 13 The TV Documentary 26 March 1972 The POW Escape Exercise 2 April 1972 Number One's Married Quarters 9 April 1972 The Newhaven-Dieppe Smuggling Run 16 April 1972 The Bumble Spit Lighthouse Affair 23 April 1972 The Tonipouhaha Treasure 30 April 1972 The USA Navigator Swap 7 May 1972 Son Of A Sea Lord 14 May 1972 Hypnotising Ramona 21 May 1972 The Master Of Sardinia 28 May 1972 Opportunity Knockers 4 June 1972 Friday The 13th 11 June 1972 The New NAAFI 18 June 1972 Radio Lives: Jon Pertwee first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 31 October 1996 © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Navy Lark: Series 3, 4 and 5: The Classic BBC Radio Sitcom, Plus Episodes From The TV Lark Series: Part of The Navy Lark Author: Laurie Wyman Narrator: Robin Boyle, Richard Caldicot, June Tobin, Michael Bates, Janet Brown, Heather Chasen, Stephen Murray, Jon Pertwee, Laurie Wyman, Tenniel Evans, Leslie Phillips, Ronnie Barker, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The third, fourth and fifth series of the nautical comedy, plus Christmas Special and The TV Lark The Navy Lark gang are back for more seafaring shenanigans… Collected here are the complete Series 3, 4 and 5 of the much-loved show, including the long-lost episode ‘The Cornish Exercise’. Also featured is the Christmas Special ‘Calling the Antarctic’. Plus, Troutbridge’s crew drop anchor at a television studio in all nine existing episodes of spin-off series The TV Lark. NB: Some of the language on this recording reflects the era in which it was first broadcast, and due to the age of the source material, the sound quality may vary. Production credits Scripted by Lawrie Wyman Produced by Alastair Scott Johnston Starring: Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee, Stephen Murray, Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates, Heather Chasen, Ronnie Barker, Tenniel Evans, Judy Cornwell, Janet Brown and Robin Boyle With Richard Murdoch, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ted Ray, Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Kenneth Williams, June Tobin, Lawrie Wyman and Dennis Price Remastered by Ted Kendall Thanks to Andrew Pixley Note: none of the episodes were originally given titles. The ones here have been adopted for easy reference and are in line with previous commercial releases For more information on the programme, contact: The Navy Lark Appreciation Society Honeysuckle Cottage Little Street Yoxford Suffolk IP7 3JQ Series 3 (2 Nov 1960 to 15 Mar 1961) In Portsmouth for a Re-Fit Refitting Ebeneezer Pertwee Sea Trials of the Poppadom Mutiny Aboard Troutbridge The Exploding Biscuits Sir Willoughby Takes Over the Island Mount Rumpus Atoll The 50th Show: Mr Murray's Houseboat Johnson's Birthday Povey's Unexpected Leave, also known as Povey’s Enforced Leave Families' Day Falmouth Ghost Ship Onabushkan Flu The Efficiency Expert The Floggle Grummit Missile The Hitch-Hiking Counterfeiter Commodore Goldstein Mr Phillips Has Navigation Tuition CPO Pertwee and the Laundry The Surprise Wedding Series 4 (15 Sep 1961 to 9 Mar 1962) Returning from Leave Captain Povey's Spy The Secret of Nessie's Youth The Northampton Hunt Ball Hijacked! Admiral Troutbridge Relatives and Reservations Humgrummits on the High Seas Are Captain and Mrs Povey Married? Cine Cameras at Sea The Citizen Adjustment Course A Hole Lieutenant Spy Catching in Casablanca Mount Pot Erupts Captain Povey's Shop Leading Seaman Goldstein's Party The Invitation The Cornish Exercise A Strange Hobby Mr Phillips Get Engaged The Sinking of the Bubble Car Long Jonathan Pertwee The Admiral's Accident Report Over the Sea to Rosyth The Return of Sir Frederick Flatley The Ship's Concert Christmas Special (25 Dec 1962) Calling the Antarctic The TV Lark (25 Jan 1963 to 29 Mar 1963) Opening Night The Prestige Show Z Ambulances House of Commons Back to Portsmouth On Safari Ship Ahoy! The Potarneyland Election Back in the Navy Series 5 (5 Apr 1962 to 10 May 1963) First Day out of Dock The New Barmaid A Deliberate Bashing Whittlesea Regatta HMS Troutbridge Gets a Rocket The Ghost Ship © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702607 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Navy Lark: Series 14 and 15: The Classic BBC Radio Sitcom Series: Part of The Navy Lark Author: Laurie Wyman Narrator: Stephen Murray, Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The final two series of the fondly remembered comedy - plus the Silver Jubilee Special and the 2008 reunion show It's all aboard for more entertaining escapades, as the classic comedy sets sail for its last two series. Included here are all 24 episodes from Series Fourteen and Fifteen, starring Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray. In these hilarious shows, HMS Troutbridge joins a flotilla travelling round the world on a Navy goodwill mission - but en route, the crew are ensnared in the revolutionary plans of El Godmother and the Raffia, and come up against The Master and his female associate The Mistress. They also have an explosive encounter with a talpinium shell, attempt to get to grips with NANA, and form their own lobby group, An Officer and a Gentleman's Liberation Movement... Also included is 1977's The Jubilee Navy Lark and The Reunion, in which presenter Sue McGregor interviews some of the stars of the seafaring show, including June Whitfield, Leslie Phillips, George Evans, Heather Chasen and Tenniel Evans. NB: Some of the language on this recording reflects the era in which it was first broadcast, and due to the age of the source material, the sound quality may vary Production credits Scripted by Lawrie Wyman and George Evans Produced by Alastair Scott Johnston Starring: Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee, Stephen Murray, Richard Caldicot, Michael Bates, Heather Chasen and Tenniel Evans With Miriam Margolyes, Chic Murray, Elizabeth Morgan, June Whitfield, Gretta Gouriet, April Walker, Pete Murray Remastered by Ted Kendall Thanks to Keith Wickham Note: none of the episodes were originally given titles. The ones here have been adopted for easy reference and are in line with previous commercial releases For more information on the programme, contact: The Navy Lark Appreciation Society Honeysuckle Cottage Little Street Yoxford Suffolk IP7 3JQ Episode guide First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on the following dates: Series 14 The Montezula Revolution 29 July 1973 The Island Swordfish 5 August 1973 Bunged in the Battle 12 August 1973 Kangaroo Polka 19 August 1973 The Digital Isles Go Unstable 26 August 1973 Egbert Hitches a Ride 2 September 1973 Povey - An Admiral at Last 9 September 1973 The Bergholm Horse Trials 16 September 1973 Captain Povey's Wig 23 September 1973 The Brain Pill 30 September 1973 Operation Showcase 7 October 1973 CPO Pertwee - Yachtmonger 14 October 1973 The Talpinium Shell 21 October 1973 Series 15 Sequel to The Talpinium Shell 9 November 1975 NANA 16 November 1975 Helen, The New Wren 23 November 1975 Relief for Station 150 30 November 1975 Black is Beautiful 7 December 1975 Sidney and the Stamp 14 December 1975 Commander Murray Becomes a Showjumper 21 December 1975 Horrible Horace 28 December 1975 Officers and Gents' Lib 4 January 1976 The Case of the HGM Mark 5 11 January 1976 Captain Wilberforce Pertwee 18 January 1976 The Jubilee Navy Lark 16 July 1977 The Navy Lark: The Reunion 31 August 2008 Presented by Sue McGregor With June Whitfield, Leslie Phillips, George Evans, Heather Chasen and Tenniel Evans © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters Author: Robert Gordon Narrator: Keb' Mo' Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “A biography that crackles with as much energy as the great bluesman’s songs.” —Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters—who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, invented electric blues, and created the template for the rock-and- roll band and its wild lifestyle—is chronicled with rare vividness in Robert Gordon’s widely praised biography.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999 Author: Tom Maxwell Narrator: Tom Maxwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut Zippers   North Carolina has always produced extraordinary music of every description. But the indie-rock boom of the late 1980s and early ‘90s brought the state most fully into the public consciousness, while the subsequent post-Grunge free-for-all bestowed its greatest commercial successes. In addition to the creation of legacy label Merge Records and a slate of excellent indie bands like Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, and Polvo, this was the decade when other North Carolina artists broke Billboard’s Top 200 and sold millions of records―several million of which were issued by another indie label based in Carrboro, Chapel Hill’s smaller next-door neighbor. It’s time to take a closer look at exactly what happened. A Really Strange and Wonderful Time features a representative cross-section of what was being created in and around Chapel Hill between 1989 and 1999. In addition to the aforementioned indie bands, it documents―through firsthand accounts―other local notables like Ben Folds Five, Dillon Fence, Flat Duo Jets, Small, Southern Culture on the Skids, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Veldt, and Whiskeytown. At the same time, it describes the nurturing infrastructure which engendered and encouraged this marvelous diversity. In essence, A Really Strange and Wonderful Time is proof of the genius of community.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future Author: Alice Randall Narrator: Alice Randall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Alice Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood’s “XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)”. Randall found inspiration and comfort in the sounds and history of the first family of Black country music: DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries who, together, made up a community of Black Americans rising through hard times to create simple beauty, true joy, and sometimes profound eccentricity. What emerges in My Black Country is “a delightful, inspirational story of persistence, resistance, and sheer love” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of this most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture. As country music goes through a fresh renaissance today, with a new wave of Black artists enjoying success, My Black Country is the perfect gift for longtime country fans and a vibrant introduction to a new generation of listeners who previously were not invited to give the genre a chance.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories Author: Elijah Wald Narrator: Mela Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, Elijah Wald takes readers on a journey into the hidden and censored world of early blues and jazz, guided by the legendary New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton. Morton became nationally famous as a composer and bandleader in the 1920s, but got his start twenty years earlier, entertaining customers in the city’s famous bordellos and singing rough blues in Gulf Coast honky-tonks. He recorded an oral history of that time in 1938, but the most distinctive songs were hidden away for over fifty years, because the language and themes were as wild and raunchy as anything in gangsta rap.  Those songs inspired Wald to explore how much other history had been locked away and censored, and this book is the result of that quest. Full of previously unpublished lyrics and stories, it paints a new and surprising picture of the dawn of American popular music, when jazz and blues were still the private, after-hours music of the Black "sporting world." It gives new insight into familiar figures like Buddy Bolden and Louis Armstrong, and introduces forgotten characters like Ready Money, the New Orleans sex worker and pickpocket who ended up owning one of the largest Black hotels on the West Coast. Revelatory and fascinating, these songs and stories provide an alternate view of Black culture at the turn of the twentieth century, when a new generation was shaping lives their parents could not have imagined and art that transformed popular culture around the world—the birth of a joyous, angry, desperate, loving, and ferociously funny tradition that resurfaced in hip-hop and continues to inspire young artists in a new millennium.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story Author: The Blind Boys Of Alabama Narrator: Phil Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues. The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel vocal group, and the longest-running musical institution in America. Their story intersects with pivotal moments and issues in American history and is an ideal prism through which to trace music, culture, history, and race in America. Spirit of the Century invites readers to follow along the Blind Boys’ eight-decade journey together from a segregated trade school, through the rough and tumble indie record game and grinding tour schedule of the golden age of gospel, to starring in an iconic Broadway musical, performing at the White House for three presidents twice, collaborating with Tom Petty, Lou Reed, and Ben Harper, among others, singing the theme song for “The Wire,” and winning five Grammys.  More than just a story of the Blind Boys' illustrious career, Spirit of the Century also sheds new light on the larger world of African American gospel music, its origins, and the colorful characters at its center.  Though there have been several iterations of the group over the decades, Spirit of the Century rounds up all surviving members of the group as contributors to the telling of their own story, and a result, the book offers a unique and intimate perspective on the group's enduring success. Current drummer and road manager Rickie McKinney has been with the group throughout its renaissance, while guitarist Joey Williams, the group’s sighted member, has been the eyes of the Blind Boys since 1992. Octogenarian Jimmy Lee Carter has a fascinating history, as a fellow student of the original but deceased Blind Boys Clarence Fountain, George Scott, Olice Thomas, Johnny Fields, J.T. Hutton, and Velma Traylor at the Talladega school. Carter is one of a few performers who have been in both the Blind Boys of Alabama and Mississippi. He fronts the Alabama group today as a classic quartet leader and fiery preacher. Along with extensive interviews of Fountain, these legendary musicians provide this book with the voice, firsthand perspective, and authenticity that bring their story the same inspirational power that you hear in their songs. Thought-provoking, heartfelt, and deeply inspiring, Spirit of the Century is a fascinating and one-of-a-kind read that you won't be able to put down.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cloverfield: Creatures and Catastrophes in Post-9/11 Cinema Author: Steffen Hantke Narrator: Phil Thron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Upon its release in 2008, Matt Reeves's Cloverfield revitalized the giant creature, a cinematic trope that had languished for over a decade. The film addressed the attacks of September 11, 2001, trading the jingoistic rhetoric of retributive military aggression for serious engagement with personal and collective trauma. It applied the horror genre's fascination with personal stories captured by found footage to the grand violence of history. Innovative and intense, Cloverfield represented blockbuster filmmaking at its best. Cloverfield's franchising followed the path of high-profile Hollywood properties. This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the franchise. Author Steffen Hantke examines how, in the broader context of postmillennial Hollywood, the Cloverfield franchise remains both a harbinger of the way Hollywood does business and a test case for the cinematic fantasies of apocalyptic disaster that continue to dominate global box office. As an inspiration for the next stage of blockbuster filmmaking, in which franchises have replaced the singular cinematic masterpiece and marketing plays to fans as critics and scholars, Cloverfield remains as relevant today as when it first unleashed its giant creature onto New York City over a decade ago.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain's First Female Rock Band Author: Sylvia Saunders, Mary Mcglory Narrator: Sylvia Wiggins, Mary Mcglory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: For readers of Sheila Weller’s Girls Like Us comes a fiercely feminist, heartwarming story of friendship and music about The Liverbirds, Britain’s first all-female rock group. The idea for Britain’s first female rock band, The Liverbirds, started one evening in 1962, when Mary McGlory, then age 16, saw The Beatles play live at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, the nightclub famously known as the “cradle of British pop music.” Then and there, she decided she was going to be just like them—and be the first girl to do it.   Joining ranks in 1963 with three other working-class girls from Liverpool—drummer Sylvia Saunders and guitarists Valerie Gell and Pamela Birch, also self-taught musicians determined to “break the male monopoly of the beat world”—The Liverbirds went on to tour alongside the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and Chuck Berry, and were on track to hit international stardom—until life intervened, and the group was forced to disband just five years after forming in 1968.   Now, Mary and Sylvia, the band’s two surviving members, are ready to tell their stories. From that fateful night in 1962, when Mary, who once aspired to become a nun, decided to provide for her family by becoming a rich-and-famous rocker, to the circumstances that led to the band splitting up—Sylvia’s dangerously complicated pregnancy, and the tragic accident that paralyzed Valerie’s beau—The Liverbirds tackles family, friendship, addiction, aging, and the forces—even destiny—that initially brought the four women together.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700719 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir Author: Rupaul Narrator: Rupaul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.77 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 9 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: ***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!*** From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag. Central to RuPaul’s success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world’s largest television franchises, RuPaul’s ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and supermogul. Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known. In The House of Hidden Meanings, RuPaul strips away all artifice and recounts the story of his life with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography life-story, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history. Here in RuPaul’s singular and extraordinary story is a manual for living—a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different, and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly. A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag. “I've always loved to view the world with analytical eyes, examining what lies beneath the surface. Here, the focus is on my own life—as RuPaul Andre Charles,” says RuPaul. If we’re all born naked and the rest is drag, then this is RuPaul totally out of drag. This is RuPaul stripped bare.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Small World of Dominic Holland: The Complete BBC Radio Comedy Series, plus Holland’s Shorts Author: Dominic Holland Narrator: Dominic Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 9 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Two series of stand-up comedy and sketches from the hilarious, award-winning comic Dominic Holland “A comedian who makes you feel glad to be alive” The Guardian “The UK master of observational comedy” The Sunday Times Since winning the Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993, Dominic Holland has gone on to become one of the UK’s best loved comedians. He’s worked with Armando Iannucci, Rob Brydon and supported Eddie Izzard on tour. He is also the father of Tom Holland (best known for starring in the blockbuster Spider-man movies) and made the brilliant 2017 Dominic Holland Eclipsed Edinburgh Fringe show out of the experience of being a superhero’s dad. The Small World of Dominic Holland will have you laughing out loud as the comedian points out the pitfalls of growing up, becoming an adult and having children. He shares his thoughts in a series of stand-up routines and sketches illustrating the minutiae of life - from what we do with our leisure time and how we shop, to exploring fear and pain and the perils of domesticity. Holland’s unique powers of observation make for hilariously addictive listening. In Holland’s Shorts Dominic shares the varied contents of his mind in a series of rapid-fire monologues. He uses a pay-and-display car park, ponders the mysteries of airport shopping, considers the Theory of Evolution, deliberates TV chefs, cereal manufacturers and teachers, discusses the perils of the kidney bean and ponders how to steal a cash machine. And wonders, perhaps most pressingly of all, is there really anything tastier than chicken? Enjoy these two series, available together as a download for the first time. Credits: The Small World of Dominic Holland Written and presented by Dominic Holland Produced by Maria Esposito with Simon Greenall, Sally Grace and Dave Lamb First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 15 August – 19 September 2000 Holland’s Shorts Written and presented by Dominic Holland Produced by Victoria Lloyd Music by Jim Howard with Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Martin Hyder and Ed Weeks First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 24 August – 28 September 2006 ©2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mitch Benn’s Crimes Against Music: The Complete Series 1-3: A BBC Radio Comedy Series Author: Mitch Benn, Robin Ince Narrator: Mitch Benn, Robin Ince, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 1, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Music, mayhem and madness from Mitch Benn and Robin Ince There can be only one parody musical master, and Mitch Benn thinks it’s him. Although Richard Stilgoe may have something to say about that… Laugh out loud as Mitch sets out on a musical journey through the showbiz glitz and backstage litter of pop music. Teaming up with Mitch is comedian Robin Ince, and between them they delve into the world of super fans, the glamorous trappings and excesses of pop-star life and its highs and lows. Along with special guest presenters, they wonder if you really can manufacture greatness, why pop stars need fans, and the art of self-promotion. Can death revive a rock star's career? How many people does it take to make something a music 'scene'? And is heavy metal getting soft? Mitch’s music-master credentials are tested in every episode as he performs a newly written song, hoping to prove he is indeed the world’s greatest musical satirist. Robin Ince’s trademark cynicism and occasional appearances as Satan make this a fast-paced, hilarious show full of musical mastery, mayhem and laughs. When, in search of global superstardom, the duo try and take their show on a world tour, things only get funnier. Mitch Benn has been a regular voice on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and has toured extensively as a comedian in the UK and internationally. Co-writer Robin Ince is a comedian and radio presenter, perhaps best known for his comedy science radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage, which he presents with Professor Brian Cox. If you’re a fan of Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section or Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better, you’ll love this anarchic mix of music and comedy. Listen for the first time to all three series – you won’t be able to resist tapping your foot to the beat… Written by Mitch Ben and Robin Ince Produced by Adam Bromley Featuring: Mitch Benn Robert Ince Alfie Joey Tash Baylis Kirsty Newton Jane Perry Craig Campbell Tom Price Lloyd Langford Steven Kynman Brendon Burns With special guest: Richard Stilgoe First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 19 February 2004 – 4 July 2006 ©2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ferocious Ambition: Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom Author: Robert Dance Narrator: Greg D. Barnett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Joan Crawford's remarkable forty-five-year motion picture career is one of the industry's longest. Signing her first contract in 1925, she was crowned an MGM star four years later and by the mid-1930s was the most popular actress in America. In the early 1940s, Crawford's risky decision to move to Warner Bros. was rewarded with an Oscar for Mildred Pierce. This triumph launched a series of film noir classics. She teamed with rival Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, proving that Crawford, whose career had begun by defining big-screen glamour, had matured into a superb dramatic actress. Her last film was released in 1970, and two years later she made a final television appearance, forty-seven years after walking through the MGM gate for the first time. Crawford made a successful transition into business during her later years, notably in her association with Pepsi-Cola. Overlooked in previous biographies has been Crawford's fierce resolve in creating and then maintaining her star persona. She let neither her age nor the passing of time block her unrivaled ambition, and she continually reimagined herself, noting once that, for the right part, she would play Wally Beery's grandmother. But she was always the consummate star, and at the time of her death in 1977, she was a motion picture legend and a twentieth-century icon.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716003 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years Author: Barbara Leaming Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 29 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Barbara Leaming answers the question: What was it like to be Mrs. John F. Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of the Kennedy presidency? Here for the first time is the full story of the extravagant interplay of sex and politics that constitutes one of modern history's most spectacular dramas. Drawing from recently declassified top-secret material, as well as revelatory eyewitness accounts, Secret Service records, and Jacqueline Kennedy's personal letters, bestselling biographer Barbara Leaming answers the question: what was it like to be Mrs. John F. Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of the Kennedy presidency? Brilliantly researched, Leaming's poignant and powerful chronicle illuminates the tumultuous day-to-day life of a woman who entered the White House at age thirty-one, seven years into a complex and troubled marriage, and left at thirty-four after her husband's assassination. Revealing the full story of the interplay of sex and politics in Washington, Mrs. Kennedy will indelibly challenge our vision of this fascinating woman, and bring a new perspective to her crucial role in the Kennedy presidency.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705768 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer Author: Lorraine Byrne Bodley Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert's complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific—Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked. In this major new biography, Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, from his early years at the Stadtkonvikt to the harrowing battle with syphilis that led to his death at the age of thirty-one. Drawing on extensive archival research in Vienna and the Czech Republic, and reconsidering the meaning of some of his best-known works, Bodley provides a fuller account than ever before of Schubert's extraordinary achievement and incredible courage. This is a compelling new portrait of one of the most beloved composers of the nineteenth century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Coppola Became Cage Author: Zach Schonfeld Narrator: Matt Godfrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 46 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In 1982, a gangly teenager named Nicolas Coppola made his film debut and changed his name to Nicolas Cage. Once he achieved stardom as the rebel hunk of 1983's Valley Girl, Cage began a career defined by unorthodox risks and left turns. How Coppola Became Cage takes listeners behind the scenes of the beloved cult movies that transformed this unknown actor into an eccentric and uncompromising screen icon with a wild-eyed gift for portraying weirdos, outsiders, criminals-and even a romantic capable of seducing Cher. Author Zach Schonfeld traces Cage's rise through the world of independent cinema and chronicles the stories behind his career-making early performances. Drawing on more than 100 new interviews with Cage's key collaborators, How Coppola Became Cage offers a revealing portrait of Cage's wildly intense devotion to his performances behind the scenes and his creative self-discovery as he drew on influences as far-flung as silent cinema and German Expressionism. Brimming with previously untold stories and insights, How Coppola Became Cage both revels in and demystifies Cage's onscreen eccentricities. No other modern actor has explored such profound creative extremes while bending the boundaries of good taste. Here is the origin story of an actor who truly is wild at heart and weird on top.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714350 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the One I Love the Best Author: Ludwig Bemelmans Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A witty and charming account of the wildly entertaining Elsie de Wolfe in 1950s Hollywood, recounted by her dear friend, the beloved creator of Madeline. Ludwig Bemelmans's charming intergenerational friendship with the late-in-life 'First Lady of Interior Decoration' provides an enormously enjoyable nostalgia trip to the sun-soaked glamour of Los Angeles, where de Wolfe surrounded herself with classic movie stars and a luminous parade of life's oddities. With hilarity and mischief that de Wolfe would no doubt approve, To the One I Love the Best lifts the curtain on 1950s Hollywood—a bygone world of extravagance and eccentricity, where the parties are held in circus tents and populated by movie stars. Bemelmans, who was working at MGM, had originally come to the California home of de Wolfe just for cocktails, but by the end of the night, he was firmly established as a member of the family: given a bedroom in their sumptuous house, invitations to the most outrageous parties in Hollywood, and the friendship of the larger-than-life woman known to her closest friends simply as 'Mother.' To the One I Love the Best is a touching tribute to a fabulously funny woman and an American icon.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fortune and Folly: The Weird and Wonderful Life of the South's Most Eccentric Millionaire Author: Sara A. H. Butler Narrator: Tiffany Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Briarcliff Mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its 'Briarcliff Campus.' Fortune and Folly, in part, illuminates the largely lost story of how the mansion, and the entire surrounding neighborhood, got its name. But in order to understand the mansion, we have to understand the man who built it. Briarcliff Mansion once belonged to a man named Asa Candler, Jr.—also known as Buddie. The second son and namesake of Coca-Cola founder Asa Griggs Candler, Buddie was a wealthy real estate developer of great successes and greater failures. A man of big vision and bigger adventures, and a socialite whose boisterous, unapologetic personality made him both beloved and reviled in the Atlanta community. But after he passed away in 1953, his stories faded from memory, either tangled up with or overshadowed by his father. It's no mystery why Briarcliff garners attention. It's self-consciously grandiose, built to display maximum grandeur to the neighborhood. It towers over the landscape, set far back from the road behind a filled-in, overgrown pool. Its face is stitched together where a music hall was added two years after the main house was completed, and the bricks don't quite match up. This book offers a deep-dive into the life of Asa Candler, Jr. to excavate a piece—and place—of Atlanta history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712970 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island Author: Gisèle Gordon, Kent Monkman Narrator: Gail Maurice Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America. For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years in films and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear her story, in her own words. And, in doing so, to hear the whole history of Turtle Island anew. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island is a genre-demolishing work of genius, the imagined history of a legendary figure through which profound truths emerge—a deeply Cree and gloriously queer understanding of our shared world, its past, its present, and its possibilities. Volume One, which covers the period from the creation of the universe to the confederation of Canada, follows Miss Chief as she moves through time, from a complex lived experience of Cree cosmology to the arrival of European settlers, many of whom will be familiar to students of history. An open-hearted being, she tries to live among those settlers, and guide them to a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of all beings and the world itself. As their numbers grow, though, so does conflict, and Miss Chief begins to understand that the challenges posed by the hordes of newly arrived Europeans will mean ever greater danger for her, her people, and, by extension, all of the world she cherishes. Blending history, fiction, and memoir in bold new ways, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle are unlike anything published before. And in their power to reshape our shared understanding, they promise to change the way we see everything that lies ahead.   This audiobook features two versions of the The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island, Volume One. The memoirs are read by Gail Maurice, Cree/Michif translator, actor, writer, filmmaker, director, and one of the inspirations for Miss Chief Eagle, with the introduction read by the authors. The first version is read as the abridged standalone memoirs, excluding endnotes. It is immediately followed by the second version which includes the full unabridged book, including endnotes inserted in situ, read by co-author Gisèle Gordon. This audiobook comes with a supplemental PDF which includes images of the paintings included in the physical book, as well as a note on the use of Cree in the text, and a Cree glossary.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chaplin: The True Story of the Life & Time of the Comic Genius Charlie Chaplin Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Interested in learning more about Charlie Chaplin but short on time for lengthy biographies? Join The History Journals for a concise, hourly history tour of his life. Charlie Chaplin's enduring legacy is etched in the timeless films that continue to bring laughter to audiences of all generations, transcending language barriers. As you delve deeper into the life of the man behind the beloved Tramp persona, you'll gain a newfound appreciation for the undisputed King of silent comedy. This journal takes you on a journey through his remarkable life. You'll discover: - Charlie's birthplace and early life in slums, including time in workhouses - His parents' struggle with poverty and alcoholism, the stigma of state assistance - His mother's battle with insanity, her commitment, and his early stage experiences - The pivotal role of Mack Sennett, his debut in movies, and the rise of the Tramp character - The million-dollar contract, his time with Essenay Films, and tumultuous marriages - His meeting with Oona Chaplin, ostracism, and move to Switzerland, as well as awards and legacy Embark on this fascinating tour to uncover the life and times of Charlie Chaplin, the iconic figure in silent comedy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism Author: Anka Muhlstein Narrator: Christine Rendel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac's Omelette, an engaging new work on the life of 'the father of Impressionism' and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity. The celebrated painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) occupied a central place in the artistic scene of his time: a founding member of the new school of French painting, he was a close friend of Monet, a longtime associate in Degas's and Mary Cassatt's experimental work, a support to Cézanne and Gauguin, and a comfort to Van Gogh, and was backed by the great Parisian art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel throughout his career. Nevertheless, he felt a persistent sense of being set apart, different, and hard to classify. Settled in France from the age of twenty-five but born in the Caribbean, he was not French and what is more he was Jewish. Although a resolute atheist who never interjected political or religious messages in his art, he was fully aware of the consequences of his lineage. Drawing on Pissarro's considerable body of work and a vast collection of letters that show his unrestrained thoughts, Anka Muhlstein offers a nuanced, intimate portrait of the artist whose independent spirit fostered an environment of freedom and autonomy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths Author: Matthew Lamb Narrator: Matthew Lamb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 'My writing allows me flight from society through solitude while permitting me to rejoin society on some of my own terms through the trading of the finished work with the society. My imaginative narrative gives me relief from prevaility and strident ideologies by allowing me the heresy of decadence (as in erotica). Namely, revenge against normality, reversal of normality and regression from normality. My imaginative narrative is relief from prevailing self by allowing the potential self, the discarded self, the rejected self and the non-self to have play. My imaginative narrative is relief from privacy by allowing exposure of self and the network of self.' ~ Frank Moorhouse, 1985, private telex Frank Moorhouse was legendary in Australian literary and cultural life, the author of a huge and diverse body of work - essays, short stories, journalism, scripts, the iconic Edith Trilogy - an unapologetic activist, intellectual, libertarian and champion of freedom of speech and sexual self determination. Though he lived his life publicly, his private stories have not been shared, the many paths he forged left unexamined, until now. Matthew Lamb shared many a luncheon table with Moorhouse and immersed himself in the archived life and cultural ephemera of Frank's world. This landmark study, from Moorhouse's own publisher, the first in a projected two volumes, is the fascinating and comprehensive story of how one of Australia's most original writers and pioneer of the discontinuous narrative came to be. Fearless, sardonic and utterly dedicated to his creative life, his relationships with friends, other writers and lovers were complex and long-lasting. Lamb shares the strange paths that Frank traversed and gives us a cultural history of the times that shaped Moorhouse and which Moorhouse himself helped to shape

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island Author: Gisèle Gordon, Kent Monkman Narrator: Gail Maurice Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America. For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years in films and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear her story, in her own words. And, in doing so, to hear the whole history of Turtle Island anew. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island is a genre-demolishing work of genius, the imagined history of a legendary figure through which profound truths emerge—a deeply Cree and gloriously queer understanding of our shared world, its past, its present, and its possibilities. Volume One, which covers the period from the creation of the universe to the confederation of Canada, follows Miss Chief as she moves through time, from a complex lived experience of Cree cosmology to the arrival of European settlers, many of whom will be familiar to students of history. An open-hearted being, she tries to live among those settlers, and guide them to a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of all beings and the world itself. As their numbers grow, though, so does conflict, and Miss Chief begins to understand that the challenges posed by the hordes of newly arrived Europeans will mean ever greater danger for her, her people, and, by extension, all of the world she cherishes. Blending history, fiction, and memoir in bold new ways, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle are unlike anything published before. And in their power to reshape our shared understanding, they promise to change the way we see everything that lies ahead.   This audiobook features two versions of the The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island, Volume Two. The memoirs are read by Gail Maurice, Cree/Michif translator, actor, writer, filmmaker, director, and one of the inspirations for Miss Chief Eagle, with the introduction read by the authors. The first version is read as the abridged standalone memoirs, excluding endnotes. It is immediately followed by the second version which includes the full unabridged book, including endnotes inserted in situ, read by co-author Gisèle Gordon. This audiobook comes with a supplemental PDF which includes images of the paintings included in the physical book, as well as a note on the use of Cree in the text, and a Cree glossary.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women Author: Alicia Malone Narrator: Brigid Lohrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: With the success of the Wonder Woman movies and the results following the outcry of the #MeToo movement, now is the time to highlight the female influences in film history previously left unheard! The voices of powerful women in old Hollywood—told. You may have heard the term 'male gaze,' coined in the 1970s, about how art and entertainment have been influenced by the male's perspective. What about the opposite? Women have been making movies since the very beginning of cinema. In The Female Gaze, Alicia Malone explores the ideas, thoughts, and views we learn from women from behind the scenes. What does the world look like through the 'female gaze'? Learn about women who changed the world. Discover brilliantly talented and accomplished women directors, both world renowned and obscure, who have shaped the film industry in ways rarely fully acknowledged. Find mini-essays written by women like Alicia Malone and other diverse female film critics. Featuring past and present films, this behind-the-scenes guidebook is perfect for the Hollywood history fan in your life. If you liked Women in Art or Camera Man, you'll adore the powerful women in history found in Alicia Malone's The Female Gaze.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Biografías breves - Mercedes Sosa Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 31 minutes Release date: November 21, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Mercedes Sosa está entre las voces más potentes de toda América Latina. Cantó las versiones más reconocidas del folklore: tantos temas de Atahualpa Yupanqui, Violeta Parra y otros quedaron asociados para siempre a sus interpretaciones memorables. Sus inicios en Tucumán. Su irrupción en el Festival de Cosquín, con diecinueve años. Los años del exilio en Francia, que la hicieron famosa en Europa. La vuelta a Argentina, donde amplió su repertorio a otros clásicos del rock y la bossa nova. La voz de Mercedes brotó de lo profundo de una época, de varios pueblos, y mucho antes de su muerte ya se había vuelto universal. Este audiolibro está narrado en español latino - -

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707686 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical Author: Laurie Winer Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 21, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: You know his work—Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I. But you don't really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the man who, more than anyone else, invented the American musical. Among the most commercially successful artists of his time, he was a fighter for social justice who constantly prodded his audiences to be better than they were. Diving deep into Hammerstein's life, examining his papers and his lyrics, critic Laurie Winer shows how he orchestrated a collective reimagining of America, urging it forward with a subtly progressive vision of the relationship between country and city, rich and poor, America and the rest of the world. His rejection of bitterness, his openness to strangers, and his optimistic humor shaped not only the musical but the American dream itself. His vision can continue to be a touchstone to this day.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Biografías breves - Julio Cortázar Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 31 minutes Release date: November 21, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Sobre la tumba de Julio Cortázar en París alguien dejó un graffiti: 'Cronopio'. Pocos escritores pueden jactarse de haber introducido palabras que repiquen así en el imaginario colectivo. Cortázar fue, entre tantas cosas, el autor de 'Rayuela', una novela que marcó a fuego a la juventud latinoamericana y española a principios de los ´60 y ha sido traducida a más de treinta idiomas. Su prosa inconfundible estaba empapada del amor por el jazz –que inmortalizó en cuentos como 'El perseguidor'–. Ya en su madurez asumió un compromiso político sorprendente para quienes lo habían conocido antes. Cultivó amistades con figuras tan dispares como Gabriel García Márquez, Alejandra Pizarnik, Ernesto Cardenal y Mario Vargas Llosa. Conocidos y desconocidos amaron a uno de los hombres que más en serio se tomó a la literatura como un juego. Este audiolibro está narrado en español latino -

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710760 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened Author: Steve Kozak Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 15, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is a peerlessly cringeworthy pop-culture artifact. George Lucas, who completely disowned the production, reportedly has said, 'If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.' Just how on earth did this thing ever see the light of day? To answer that question, as Steven Kozak shows in this fascinating and often hilarious inside look into the making of the Special, you have to understand the cultural moment in which it appeared—a long, long time ago when cheesy variety shows were a staple of network television and Star Wars was not yet the billion-dollar multimedia behemoth that it is today. Kozak explains how the Special was one piece of a PR blitz undertaken by Lucas and his colleagues as they sought to protect the emerging franchise from hostile studio executives. He shows how, despite the involvement of some of the most talented people in the business, creative differences between movie and television writers led to a wildly uneven product. Packed with memorable anecdotes, drawing on new interviews with countless people involved in the production, and told with mingled affection and bewilderment, this never-before-told story gives a fascinating look at a strange moment in pop-culture history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No One to Meet: Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan Author: Raphael Falco Narrator: Paul Bellantoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The literary establishment tends to regard Bob Dylan as an intriguing, if baffling, outsider. That changed overnight when Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, challenging us to think of him as an integral part of our national and international literary heritage. No One to Meet places Dylan the artist within a long tradition of literary production and offers an innovative way of understanding his unique, and often controversial, methods of composition. In lucid prose, Raphael Falco demonstrates the similarity between what Renaissance writers called imitatio and the way Dylan borrows, digests, and transforms traditional songs. Although Dylan's lyrical postures might suggest a post-Romantic, 'avant-garde' consciousness, No One to Meet shows that Dylan's creative process borrows from and expands the methods used by classical and Renaissance authors. Drawing on numerous examples, including Dylan's previously unseen manuscript excerpts and archival materials, Falco illuminates how the ancient process of poetic imitation, handed down from Greco-Roman antiquity, allows us to make sense of Dylan's musical and lyrical technique. By placing Dylan firmly in the context of an age-old poetic practice, No One to Meet deepens our appreciation of Dylan's songs and allows us to celebrate him as what he truly is: a great writer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700439 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nick Drake: The Life Author: Richard Morton Jack Narrator: Richard Morton Jack, Gabrielle Drake Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Experience the only memoir of one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the twentieth century with this eye-opening book featuring a foreword by Gabrielle Drake. In 1968, Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product of a loving, creative family and a privileged background, he was not only a handsome and popular Cambridge undergraduate, but also a new signing to the UK’s hippest record label, Island.   Three years later, however—having made three well reviewed but low-selling albums—Nick had been overwhelmed by a mysterious mental illness. He returned to live in his family home in rural Warwickshire in 1971, and died in obscurity in 1974, aged just 26.   In the decades since, Nick has become the subject of ever-growing fascination and speculation. Combined sales of his records now stand in the millions, his songs are frequently heard on TV and in films, and he has become one of the most widely known and admired singer-songwriters of his generation.   Nick Drake: The Life is the only biography of Nick to be written with the blessing and involvement of his sister and estate. Drawing on copious original research and new interviews with his family, friends, and musical collaborators, as well as deeply personal archive material unavailable to previous writers—including his father’s diaries, his essays, and private correspondence—this is the most comprehensive and authoritative account possible of Nick’s short and enigmatic life.