Weird Stories; If Fog Could Sing

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Weird Stories; If Fog Could Sing

The shorter fiction, dramas, and poems of Charlie Price, read/performed by Charlie and Robert Price. Dark, surreal, comic, and peculiar stories of life, human nature, and the shadows within.

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    Penalty

    Music:Franz Schmidt: Prelude and Fugue in D major "Hallelujah" (for organ)Jean Langlais: Chant de PaixContent Warning:Strong language, mental illness theme, disturbing scenes, obesity references

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    The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

    A sound production (no pun intended!) of the classic play.Directed, realised, and edited by Charlie PricePerformed by Charlie Price (as Tom, Laura, and Jim) and Elizabeth Kuti (as Amanda)MUSIC (not in chronological order):R. Strauss: Ein HeldenlebenTraditional: Jamaica, or The Jovial Broom Man, or a Kent Soldier's Exact Relation of All His Travels in Every Nation · The City Waites, How the World Wags: Social Music for a 17th-Century EnglishmanBryzgi Shampanskovo (Splashes Of Champaigne) Tango - Orkiestr pod upravlenijem Luisi (Orchestra dir. by Lewis?) Noginskij Zavod, ca 1930 (USSR pressing)Jazz Age Ballroom Waltz of Unknown Name-  Anon. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major, mv. IIBorodin: String Quarter No. 2, mv. IIIButterworth: Loveliest of trees from A Shropshire LadElgar: Chanson de MatinElgar: Salut d'Amour"Nearer my God to Thee" sung by John McCormackTchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers from Nutcracker (Stokowski, 1926, as played on Grammar phone)Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2"Were you There?", spiritual sung by Paul Robeson"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen", spiritual sung by Marian Anderson"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", spiritual sung by Bessie Griffin"When Summer in Gone" (1920s foxtrot on Grammar phone) "Blow ye Winds, High-O", The Almanac Singers Debussy: La Fille Avec Les Cheveux de LinDebussy: Claire de Lune (music box version)Saint-Saens: Bassoon Sonata, Mv. IIIContent Warning:Infrequent uses of racist language

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    Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    A rhapsody of monologue, dramatic sketches, phone calls, and soundscapes.A speaker-set with a bizarre defect, a concerning voicemail, an ultra-competitive game of chess, a worrying barber, communication difficulties...Enjoy...Written, performed, realised, and edited by Charlie Price(Also featuring Liz Kuti)MUSIC (non-chronological):Miles Davis: All Blues from Kind of BlueHolst: First Suite in E flat for Wind OrchestraWood: Canticles, (Magnificat), in E flatSchumann: Dichterliebe (1)Messiaen: Le Banquet CelesteContent Warning:Some strong language, fear, loud noises/decibel levels

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    Victoria Station by Harold Pinter

    Short Play by Harold PinterPerformed and edited by Charlie PriceContent Warning:Strong Language

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    The Last Train

    Music:Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte  Pavane for a dead princess  (played at the piano by the composer) Content Warning:Strong language, mental illness theme, xenophobia

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    The Picture

    Music:Honegger: Pastorale d'eteHonegger: from Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique" 

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    The Evangelist

    Music:Nunc Dimittis, Michael Tippet

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    Testing

    Music:Cinnamon Horses from Wild God (2024)- Nick CaveContent Warning:Fetish/Sex references/language

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    But a Whimper

    "This is how the world will endNot with a bang, but a whimper"The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot

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    Anger Management

    Content Warning:Strong language, upsetting references

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    An Australian Clown

    Monologue written, performed, edited by Charlie PriceContent Warning:Strong language, homophobia, references some viewers may find offensive

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    The Wildlife Photography Competition

    Content Warning:Strong language, horror

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    Sufficient Battle

    MUSIC:The Beatles, Wild Honey Pie (The White Album)Nick Drake, RivermanNick Drake, Man In a ShedContent Warning:   (This episode is particularly disturbing. Please proceed with caution. Though its strongest content is tongue-in-cheek and metaphorically suggestive rather than realist in tone, some may still find it objectionable) Holocaust theme, content some listeners may find offensive (particularly as it pertains to aging and veganism themes), cannibalism theme, strong bloody horror  

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    Angela

    Rewritten and rerecordedContent Warning:References to rape, language

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    Make Me an Instrument

    Rewritten and rerecordedMUSIC: Poulenc  Magnum Mysterium from four Christmas motetsContent Warning:Strong language, strong sex, infant mortality

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    The Therapy Pony

    Rewritten and rerecorded.MUSIC:Leo Ornstein Piano Sonata No. 4, Mv. IIContent Warning:Sex references, injury detail

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    Dry Humour

    Music List:"Harbour Reflections" from Southwold Sonatina by James RaeMv. II: Andante from Poulenc's Sonata for Two ClarinetsLigeti, Requiem, Mv. II: KyrieBerio Sequenza III for Female VoiceContent Warning:Mental Illness, Suicide Theme, Menace

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    The Little Snowman

    Music:Adam Lay Y Bounden- Boris OrdIn the Bleak Midwinter- HolstWhile Shepherd's Watched Their Flocks by NightAway In a Manger arr. CleoburyThe Shepherd's Farewell- BerliozContent Warning:Mental illness theme

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    Just like? It was

    "It started to snowAnd you said it was like Christmas.But you were wrong,It wasn't like Christmas at all"Just Like Christmas, LowContent Warning:Menace

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    Voicemail

    Play for single actor and mobile phone device

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    Panic

    Trigger Warning:This episode contains references to trigger warningsContent Warning:This episode contains references to rape and animal cruelty. Also infrequent strong language. 

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    Three More Strings

    Three.Enjoy.Written, performed, and edited by Charlie Price Content Warning:Suicide references, creepy mood

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    Transference

    Transference is a psychological phenomenon where a person unconsciously redirects feelings, thoughts, and behaviors from one significant figure in their past to another, often a therapist. AI generated definition of TransferenceContent Warning:Threat

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    Help

    Music:Max Richter: Vivaldi's Four Seasons Recomposed, Winter; 3Charles Villiers Stanford; Organ Prelude in F majorVivaldi: Four Seasons, L'Inverno   Mv. II: LargoContent Warning:Mental Illness Theme

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    The Locksmith

    Music:"Give Me a Ticket to Heaven"Victorian/Edwardian Sentimental Parlour SongSung by Benjamin LuxonContent Warning:Strong sexual violence references, strong sex references, strong language 

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    Skeletons

    Victor Shortt (with three Ts)Fourth InstalmentAn Ambient Monologue Written, performed, edited by Charlie PriceContent Warning:Infrequent language, horror

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    Some Mahler

    Victor Shortt (With Three Ts)  Part III:"Some Mahler"Written, performed, edited by Charlie PriceMahler's 5th (excerpts)- performed by Klaus Makela and the Concertgebouw Orchestra at the BBC Proms Content Warning:Infrequent Strong Lanuguage

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    Murmurs

    New Year's SpecialSketches and Monologues (with ambience)Performers: Charlie Price and Elizabeth KutiWritten and edited by Charlie PriceMusic (including excerpts and loops)Sacrum Convivium- MessiaenLivre du Saint Sacrement- MessiaenLe Banquet Celeste- MessiaenDown in the Hole- Tom WaitsWhere Sheep May Safely Graze (organ)- BachThe Cherry Tree Carol/Sans Day Carol- (Carols from Kings 2012)Knee 5 from Einstein on the Beach- Phillip Glass/Robert WilsonPrelude in A minor- ChopinRockin' Around the Christmas Tree- Brenda LeeI Wonder Why- Dion and the BelmontsContent Warning:Threat, Strong Lanugage

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    Victor Shortt (With Three Ts)

    Content Warning:Strong language

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    The Vulture

    "A gentlemen came by and asked why I tolerated the vulture. "I'm helpless," I said. "He came and started hacking at me". "The Vulture, Franz Kafka"The short story is a cage looking for a bird."Franz KafkaContent Warning:Scenes some may find disturbing 

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    The Bicycle

    Music: O Fair Enough Are Sky and Plain-  Butterworth, lyrics Housman

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    Their 23rd

    Music:P. Duaks: The Sorcerer's ApprenticeA. Khachaturian: Masquerade WaltzContent Warning:Moderate threat

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    Messages

    Music:Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, Movement IIIContent Warning:Mental illness/disability theme

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    The Appointment

    "Our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, us banished children of Eve, to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning, and weeping from this veil of tears. O most gracious advocate..."Salve ReginaContent Warning:Strong sex/sex work References

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    Hatred

    A monologue.Content Warning:Disturbing content, xenophobia

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    Alcohol

    "Maybe you're the problem"Ava MaxContent Warning:Strong language/alcohol theme/threat

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    Mopes and Dreams

    Sonic sketches and meditationsWritten, composed, edited, arranged, and performed by Charlie PriceContent Warning:Occasional strong language/disturbing scenes

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    The Rope-Swing Men

    "They expect no payment"MeContent Warning:Abuse references, strong sex

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    The Diagnosis

    "Symmetry seems appropriate".Me, Autism Assessment, 2024

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    An Old Man

    "Hope there's someone to take care of me when I die"Anthony and the Johnsons

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    Rain's Fortieth

    "This little girl inside me is retreating to her favourite place.Go into the garden, under the ivy."Kate BushContent Warning:Moderate Sex References, Alcoholism Theme

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    Moans

    More peculiar sketches, situations, scrapes, and scapes.Written, composed, and edited by Charlie Price.Performers: Charlie Price and Elizabeth Kuti Content Warning:Strong language, threat, horror, injury detail

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    The Label Maker

    "Today, all day I had the feelingthe world was just an addressno better than alright.But here you are and what was just a world is a star..."West Side StoryContent Warning:Dark humour some may find troubling

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    Testament

    "For which I am an ambassador in chains: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak." Ephesians; 6:20  Content Warning:Strong injury detail, homicide theme

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    And More Poems

    Happy listening. Apologies for any background noise.

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    The Fall

    "My friend says I shut my eyes to God, that nothing else explainsMy aversion to reality. She says I'm like the child whoburies her head in the pillowso as not to see, the child who tells herselfthat light causes sadness. [...]In my dreams, my friend reproaches me.She's telling me that when you love the world you hear celestial music..."Celestial Music, Louise GluckMUSIC:Music for a While- Purcell/PluharContent Warning:Very strong language, strong sex references, abuse references, neurodivergent theme

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The shorter fiction, dramas, and poems of Charlie Price, read/performed by Charlie and Robert Price. Dark, surreal, comic, and peculiar stories of life, human nature, and the shadows within.

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