Garrick Hagon
"Beneath the deceptive elegance of these stories, land mines lurk, and Theroux detonates them with gusto." — O, the Oprah Magazine
A family watches their patriarch transform into the singing, wisecracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector publicly...
Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce – why is that window boarded up? – and a reflective moment in the life of a woman without children, forced to look after children, to classic short stories by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. There is even an elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans. Read with sensitivity
...The United States themselves are, essentially, the greatest poem, said Walt Whitman. Here are the much-loved examples of the free spirit of America in all its glory.
100 poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman.
Music: American music including Virgil Thompson and Aaron Copland
10) Elstree 1976
11) A Leopard's Kiss
"There may be no more important listen regarding the fate of the nation's democracy than this historical record."- AudioFile
This program is read by the author and full cast, includes actual audio clips from historical and political figures, and has actors narrating the entire undelivered speeches throughout.
A fascinating insight into notable speeches that were never delivered, showing what could have been if history