A great science fiction short story from the age of the digest size sci-fi magazines in the burgeoning science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s by one of the masters of the genre. (from Wikipedia)
Henry Slesar (June 12, 1927 - April 2, 2002) was an American author, playwright, and copywriter. He is...
"Christianity is an idealistic insanity, quite unworkable in a sane, practical world...."
"As a young man, I was having a crisis of faith. I was very fond of Jesus, but I thought that God was rough, harsh, capricious and vindictive."
"I hear sermons in which the diagnosis of the world's ills is...
"What an incalculable sum of gifts and virtues went to make up the monster's daily meal." So observes American expatriate painter John Campton, whose only son is conscripted to military service in France at the beginning of WWI. In Edith Wharton's saga, A Son at the Front, we share the character's a...
Lost Man's Lane By Anna Katharine Green
Narrated by Terah Tucker
This second installment of the Amelia Butterworth series by Anna Katharine Green is full of mystery and fun. Proper (and somewhat nosy) Miss Amelia has found herself enticed by Mr. Gryce, the famous detective, to leave her comforta...
France's master of the short story was prolific, producing 13 volumes of tales of everyday life. Volumes I to V are now available on Audible for listening. Volume VI contains the following stories:
A radio play by Arthur Charlesworth
Presented by The Online Stage
Cutting Room is set in the "Town Welfare Department" of a town in the Midlands, Burtonwood, during public sector cuts. Four characters (David, Lucy, Ian, and an intern, Anne) have to take calls from members of the public complaini...
The story is set in London and is about David, a child of various ages from new born baby to a boy of about six, his mother, Mary, and the author. A tale of fantasy and whimsy with dark and sombre overtones. A tale of Kensington Gardens, where we are introduced to Peter Pan. How the gardens transfor...
The Moods of Ginger Mick By C.J.Dennis
Narrated by Denis Daly and Sarah Bacaller
This is is the second of the verse novels by C.J. Dennis and was published in 1916. It describes the adventures of Ginger Mick, a rough and ready associate of Bill, the major character of The Songs of a Sentimental...
A radio play by Josh Bourne
Presented by Voices of Today
Ten years after a tragic incident on the lake, an AA meeting in a small, religious town in the deep south of the USA descends into bitterness and chaos when a flood hits. Trapped within the local church, tempers escalate and well-buried se...
The Little Nugget By P.G. Wodehouse
Narrated by Graham Scott
Pudgy, scowling Ogden Ford, spoiled child of divorced parents with far more money than is good for them, is "the Little Nugget" - the El Dorado of the American kidnapping industry.
When Ogden's father sends him to an isolated English...
The Yin Chih Wen, or Tract of the Quiet Way, is a religio-ethical tract which was very popular in the Middle Kingdom, but never attained the celebrity of similar texts, such as the Tao Te Ching.
This recording is of the first known English translation, which was made by the eminent Buddhist schola...
