Publication date: 2005-03-21
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.41
Review Classic Poems / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 2004-10-04
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.59
Review Poetry Please!: Anniversary Edition (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-06-12
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.73
Review Betjeman's Britain: Poems from the BBC Archives (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-04-02
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.61
Review Under Milk Wood (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobble streets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloe black, slow, black, crow black fishing boat-bobbing sea. [. ] And all the people of the lulled and dumbfounded town are sleeping now. Subtitled "A Play for Voices", Dylan Thomas's best known work, Under Milk Wood, carries the double legacy of the author's extensive work for radio-a medium for which, like the very different Samuel Beckett, he had an almost intuitive grasp-and his skill and ability as a poet. A polyphonic evocation of a day in the life of an imaginary small Welsh seaside town, Thomas's play-"a green leaved sermon on the innocence of men"-visits in turn the inhabitants of Llareggub (read it backwards for the joke) while they sleep, when they wake and go about their daily activities, as the night falls. Balancing a rhythmic, densely poetic language with a nuanced ear for the musical cadences of speech, the play's gentle, affectionate charm and humour resonate to create a deeply textured portrait of a community responding almost mythically to the awakening of spring. The introduction to this new edition details the book's slow genesis and reveals a more serious aspect of Thomas's creation-it was composed in part as a response to the terrible inheritance of World War II-in which the affirmative, redemptive cast of the play carries a moral dimension, an imaginative, lyrical empathy for the regenerative innocence of the average human being and their capacity for grace. Llareggub becomes a space in which eccentricity is tolerated, sin is forgiven and love is nurtured-or at least dreamt about and possible. [+]Thomas has a democratic compassion for the small dramas of the everyday and a belief that what is commonplace unites us, all underscored by the transformative power of the language he bestows on each inhabitant. His characters-Captain Cat, Myfanwy Price, Organ Morgan, Willy Nilly the Postman, Polly Garter, Dai Bread, and others-generously animated and blessed by their author, have entered many people's affection and literary memory. In this light, it is easy to see why Under Milk Wood has remained one of the best-loved works of the 20th century and one of the great plays for radio. -Burhan Tufail.
Creator: Sarah Woodward
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-02-28
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.29
Review Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Etc. (Poetry) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-02-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.85
Review The Essential Dylan Thomas / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Toby Stephens
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-07-30
Dewey code: 873.01
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.49
Review The Aeneid / Naxos AudioBooks:
Authors
- Maureen Hanke
- Helen MacGregor
Publication date: 2002-10-31
Dewey code: 781
RRP: £24.99
Price: £17.99
Review Music Express: Year 2: Lesson Plans, Recordings, Activities and Photocopiables (Music Express) / A & C Black Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-09-03
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.04
Review Ladies of Letters Say No (BBC Audio) / C Hayman & L Wakefield:
Publication date: 2000-11-06
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.50
Review Telling Tales (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-06-12
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.73
Review Under Milk Wood (2003 Production) (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-04-02
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.61
Review Alan Bennett, Triple Bill / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-02-16
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.75
Review Dylan Thomas Reading His Poetry: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Anna Massey
Publication date: 2005-10-03
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.50
Review Talking Heads: No. 1 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:Alan Bennett's award-winning series of six television monologues, Talking Heads, may have been first aired in 1988, but over a decade later it is still impossible to read these deeply moving and affectionate scripts without hearing the voices of the actors who played them. Maggie Smith as the alcoholic vicar's wife finding a semblance of happiness in an affair with an Indian shop owner, Patricia Routledge as the poisonous neighbour, Julie Walters as the over-the-hill dolly bird auditioning for a porn film and of course Thora Hird as Doris, the old lady alone in her home having fallen and broken her hip. All great performances and all made possible by Bennett's wonderfully observant and poignant scripts. Bennett rightly notes in his introduction to the pieces that, maybe apart from Doris, his narrators are artless in that they "don't quite know what they are saying and are telling a story to the meaning of which they are not entirely privy". But through their artlessnes they reveal more about Britain today and the stresses and strains placed upon ordinary people, than any number of docu-soaps that now claim to show us real life. -Nick Wroe.
Creator: Helen MacGregor
Publication date: 2002-08-30
Dewey code: 781
RRP: £24.99
Price: £12.98
Review Music Express: Year 4: Lesson Plans, Recordings, Activities and Photocopiables (Music Express) / A & C Black Publishers Ltd:
Authors
- Helen MacGregor
- Maureen Hanke
Dewey code: 781
RRP: £24.99
Price: £14.79
Review Music Express: Lesson Plans, Recordings, Activities and Photocopiables: Year 1 (Classroom Music) / A & C Black Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-09-03
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.94
Review Revolting People: Series 1 (BBC Audio) / Andy Hamilton:
Creator: Emma Fielding
Publication date: 1998-01-19
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.61
Review The Nation's Favourite Poems (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-10-10
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.59
Review Untold Stories - Part 1: Stories: The Stories Pt. 1 / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Toby Stephens
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-07-31
Dewey code: 792.102908
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.15
Review King Lear (Naxos Audio) / Naxos AudioBooks:
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Classic Poems, Poetry Please!: Anniversary Edition (Radio Collection), Betjeman's Britain: Poems from the BBC Archives (BBC Audio), Under Milk Wood (BBC Radio Collection), Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Etc. (Poetry), The Essential Dylan Thomas, The Aeneid, Music Express: Year 2: Lesson Plans, Recordings, Activities and Photocopiables (Music Express), Ladies of Letters Say No (BBC Audio), Telling Tales (Radio Collection), Under Milk Wood (2003 Production) (BBC Audio), Alan Bennett, Triple Bill, Dylan Thomas Reading His Poetry: Complete & Unabridged, Talking Heads: No. 1 (BBC Radio Collection), Music Express: Year 4: Lesson Plans, Recordings, Activities and Photocopiables (Music Express), Music Express: Lesson Plans, Recordings, Activities and Photocopiables: Year 1 (Classroom Music), Revolting People: Series 1 (BBC Audio), The Nation's Favourite Poems (BBC Radio Collection), Untold Stories - Part 1: Stories: The Stories Pt. 1, King Lear (Naxos Audio)Top headlines: 6 wackiest museums in the U.S.: Not every museum is devoted to fine art. 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