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Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.

Alan Titchmarsh is known to millions through the popular BBC TV programmes Ground Force and Gardener's World. Now you can enjoy an amusing, informative, and entertaining evening with the Gardening Broadcaster of the Year. Alan talks about his life and career, tells hilarious behind-the-scenes anecdotes, reads some of his favourite stories and poems, and, of course, gives useful advice about gardening.

The fascinating life of storyteller and humorist Mark Twain is revealed in this one-man performance based on Twain's writings. The early years of Samuel Clemens, the Mississippi River experiences, and his move to the silver mining area of Nevada are portrayed by exuberant actor McAvoy Layne; some of the most famous tales, from "The Blue Jay Yarn" to "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" are woven into the history of this most colorful author.

Whether performing his original tales or retelling an old classic, Bill Harley is one of the liveliest acts going in storytelling for kids. You'll hear a story about a little girl named Sarah as well as Harley's take on what might happen if a kid stayed up all night (something he never got to do as a child) and his version of the old English folktale "Fox's Sack."

A Grammy-nominated recording artist, Bill Harley - songwriter, storyteller, author, playwright - is known as one of the finest family performers in the United States. His unique combination of song and story, silly and serious, has entertained families for 20 years, and led him to be called "the Mark Twain of contemporary children's music" by Entertainment Weekly.

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.

Alexandra Fuller (Scribbling the Cat and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight) and first-time author Wendy Kann (Casting with a Fragile Thread) discuss growing up in colonial Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. They tell many amusing and thoughtful anecdotes and reflect on their childhoods, revisiting a changed Africa as adults, the ties they have to the families and community that raised them in Africa, and the transition to living in the U.S.

Bloomsday on Broadway celebrates June 16, 1904, the most famous fictional date in literature, when Leopold Bloom walked around Dublin in the pages of James Joyce's Ulysses. Since 1981, hundreds of acclaimed actors have joined avid Joyceans, writers, critics, and scholars on stage at Symphony Space to read selections from the book that heralded the birth of modern literature.

In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving and inspirational tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle, and triumph.

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.

The Teachers' Lounge is Bill Harley's newest spoken word recording: a collection of hilarious and dead-on observations about life in elementary school. On this latest recording, two richly detailed and plotted stories of his school experiences ("The Teachers' Lounge" and "The Science Fair") are coupled with three poems.

In der Kultreihe des Süddeutschen Rundfunks aus den 1960 und 1970er Jahren sprechen die beiden Straßenkehrer Gottlob und Karle über ihren alltäglichen Sorgen und das Zeitgeschehen. Die Straßenkehrer 6 enthält folgende fünf Folgen: 1. "Gottlob macht auf vornehm/Geld verleihen/Müllers Tochter und Hund/Polizeicomputer/Ehefrauen/Träume/Aus dem Bett gefallen/Kollege im Krankenhaus", 2. "Der Höllentraum über Straßenreinigungsmaschinen", 3. "Über saure Kutteln/Image/Pornografie/Demonstration im Schlafzimmer", 4. "Das nächtliche Erlebnis oder der schiefe Haussegen", 5. "Die Gerichtsverhandlung - Anklage gegen Gottlob wegen Passantenbelästigung".

In der Kultreihe des Süddeutschen Rundfunks aus den 1960 und 1970er Jahren sprechen die beiden Straßenkehrer Gottlob und Karle über ihren alltäglichen Sorgen und das Zeitgeschehen. Die Straßenkehrer 5 enthält folgende fünf Folgen: 1. "Wetter und Arbeit/Über das Niveau/Der feine Herr/Herrenmagazin/Spätzle und Sauerkraut/Sauna/Verwechslung", 2. "Vorladung von Amtmann Bläderle", 3. "Personalabbau in der Verwaltung/Karle erfindet einen Straßenstaubsauger/Gottlob findet das Buch 'Bis zum letzten Pfiff'".

Ein literarischer Chansonabend mit Andreas Rebers und den Gitarristen André Matov und Samuel Halscheidt. Andreas Rebers bekommt als Kind Ende der 1960er Jahre an Weihnachten eine Schallplatte von Franz Josef Degenhardt geschenkt. Innerhalb einer Woche kann er alle Chansons auswendig. Degenhardt, der mit seinen Liedern die "Schreckenskammer der deutschen Provinz" beschreibt, wird zu seinem Komplizen, der besingt, was Andreas Rebers in seiner Kindheit im "Kleinen Kaukasus", in seiner Heimat und in seiner Familie, erlebt.

Come si dà voce ai personaggi di un audiolibro? Come si entra nello spirito di una trama? Sono alcune delle domande che rivolgiamo a chi gli audiolibri li scrive, li pubblica e, soprattutto, li legge - attrici, attori, doppiatori e speaker -, in questo podcast che ogni 15 giorni racconterà due titoli (una novità uscita da poco e un classico della letteratura, o uno dei libri che hanno appassionato di più gli ascoltatori negli ultimi anni).

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the stage production of David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show, starring actor-Writer-Monologist, David Dean Bottrell. In the newly revised 2019 version of the show, David Dean Bottrell performed his highly-acclaimed comic storytelling show...

Verna Gillis, 77, in live performance of her award-winning one older woman's Tales from Geriassic Park: On the Verge of Extinction. With humor throughout, she talks about childhood, the family, relationships, addiction, peeing, scones, and aging, which is her niche.

Der geniale Vorleser Harry Rowohlt mit der tiefergelegten Stimme parliert elegant über Gott und die Welt. Bzw. mehr über sich, denn wen interessiert schon Gott, wenn er etwas von Harry Rowohlt über Harry Rowohlt erfahren kann. Und als Erzähler schöner Abschweifungen kann ihm niemand das Wasser reichen.