This was to be her last day alive. The renowned criminal psychologist Ira Samin prepared her suicide thoroughly. The death of her eldest daughter had weighed too heavily on her conscience for her to carry on and she yearned for one last drink to raise a toast to oblivion. Her morbid plans are interrupted and she is called in to negotiate a gruesome hostage situation at a radio station where a psychopath is playing a morbid game.
Dragnet was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history. The series gave millions of audience members a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real-life police work.
Actor and producer Jack Webb's aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting. He achieved both goals, and Dragnet remains a key influence on subsequent police dramas in many media.
My name is Simon. I’m 10 years old. I’m a serial killer. Robert Stern (Rupert Penry-Jones), a successful defense attorney, doesn’t know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. Stern is more than surprised, when his old love interest and professional nurse Carina (Emilia Fox) presents him a ten year old boy as his new client. Simon (Jack Boulter), a terminally ill child, who is convinced he has murdered many men in a previous life.
The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. The dignified calm of the Bellona Club is shattered when Lord Wimsey finds General Fentiman dead in his favourite chair. A straighforward death by natural causes? Perhaps... but why can no one remember seeing the general the day he died?
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery, starring Lyndsey Marshal, Geoffrey Whitehead and John Rowe. Ten guests travel to an island at the invitation of someone named U. N. Owen. All are strangers, but they have two things in common: they have all been responsible for someone's death, and none will leave the island alive.
The world-famous sleuth is back in this astounding 60-episode collection (many previously believed to have been lost) direct from the original radio broadcasts. Featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, this collection contains nearly 30 hours of Old Time Radio broadcasting at its best. Digitally remastered from the original broadcast recordings, this amazing set is a true collector's item for Sherlock Holmes fans everywhere!
Here are 12 acclaimed, exciting, fully dramatized performances of Conan Doyle classics. It's elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, 12 timeless tales performed as radio theater and linked by violin-music interludes.
On a sullen, cloudy July day ten years since 7/7, the happy, confident and optimistic British Prime Minister is visiting a charity in East London. It’s just two months after the general election which saw John Campbell's government returned to power with a clear majority, the economy is on the mend and the coalition is fast becoming a bad memory. Suddenly, a man appears out of the crowd and shoots him three times in the chest.
Criminal lawyer and all-time number-one mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote close to 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. His most popular books starred the incomparable attorney-sleuth Perry Mason. In The Case of the Curious Bride, a woman claiming not to be a bride consults Mason about her "friend", whose husband, long thought to have died in a plane crash, turns up alive.
Here is the classic 60-minute Lux Radio Theater adaptation of the 1930s movie hit, recreated with the original film stars and director! This Audio Archive feature presentation delivers William Powell and Myrna Loy, who reprise thei roles as Nick and Nora Charles, the sophisticated lovers at the heart of Dashiell Hammett's immortal romantic-mystery masterpiece, The Thin Man.
The Case of the Lucky Legs is the story of a confidence man who promoted fake beauty pageants in small California towns. Marjorie Clune was one of his winning victims, "The Girl with the Lucky Legs". She was promised a Hollywood movie contract, but the scam artist fled with the money. Marjorie fled too; left her hometown in shame to try and “prove” herself in Hollywood. Perry Mason is hired to track her down, but when the deceitful pageant promoter turns up murdered, Marjorie becomes the prime suspect in this “edge of your seat” murder mystery.
When copywriter Victor Dean falls to his death on the stairs of Pym's Advertising Agency, everyone assumes it was an unfortunate accident. His replacement doesn't think so and begins asking a lot of questions. The new man is something of a mystery to his colleagues, and he certainly dresses well considering his meagre writer's salary.
The year is 1964, and it's a week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Nazi Germany won the Second World War, Churchill is living in exile in Canada, Joseph Kennedy is President of the United States, and King Edward and Queen Wallis are puppet monarchs of the United Kingdom. In this dimension, history took a very different turn in 1942 to the one we are familiar with.
In The Case of the Howling Dog, Arthur Cartwright, an anxious man, goes to Perry Mason to have his neighbor arrested for his vindictive and noisy dog. He is under the belief that his howling is an indication that somebody has been murdered in the neighborhood. He demands that his will be written bequeathing the estate to the lady living at the neighbor's house. However, the will is mysteriously altered by an unknown person, and Cartwright goes missing, along with the lady.
Steely. Seasoned. Smart-alecky. The storied San Francisco snooper is back! Share the exciting exploits of Dashiell Hammett's famous gumshoe through this thrilling 6-hour collection. Featuring all of the episodes from both our Volume One and Volume Two collections, Howard Duff and Steve Dunne star as Sam Spade in 12 madcap capers from 1946 - 1951. As crass as he is charismatic, this dynamic detective attracts a curious clientele - gentlemen who tend to drop dead and ladies who are drop-dead gorgeous.
June Whitfield stars as the sharp-witted spinster sleuth in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation now available on audio. Miss Marple is totally shocked to receive a letter from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel, an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. The letter leaves instructions for Miss Marple, whom Mr Rafiel had recognised as a natural detective, to investigate a crime after his death.
Based on the Doubleday Crime Club book series, Crime Club burst onto the airways as a 30-minute murder mystery hosted by Barry Thompson. Each week's episode started with a phone ringing twice, then answered by Thompson in his eerie voice "I hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this is the Crime Club. I'm the librarian." These 29 commercial-free episodes represent the best of one of old-time radio's crime dramas.. Excellent stories, acting, and production values make for a great listen.
Hollywood's beloved song and dance man, Dick Powell, turned gumshoe in this 1945-era detective yarn. At once a tough-talking detective working with police to solve tough murder cases and yet an affable crooner who ended nearly every episode singing to his girlfriend in his rich baritone voice. Whether murder or music, Dick Powell beguiled radio audiences through 100+ episodes before the show moved to television and the role was eventually taken over by David Janssen, later the star of The Fugitive.
From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular serials. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats, a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case.
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the sharp-witted spinster sleuth. In the sleepy little English country village of St Mary Mead, all is not as it seems. Under a seemingly peaceful exterior lurks intrigue, guilt, deception - and murder. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner, is the most detested man in the village. Everyone, even the vicar, wishes he were dead. And very soon he is - shot in the head in the vicar's own study.
Krug osnovnyih idey romana «Prestuplenie i nakazanie» pisatel vyinashival dolgoe vremya, vozmozhno, esche s katorgi. Sotsialnyie motivyi poluchili v nem uglublennoe filosofskoe zvuchanie, neotdelimoe ot nravstvennoy dramyi Raskolnikova, «ubiytsyi-teoretika», sovremennogo Napoleona. Krah individualisticheskoy idei Raskolnikova, ego popyitki stat «vlastelinom sudbyi», podnyatsya nad «tvaryu drozhascheyu»
Dostoevsky contrived and wrote his novel The Idiot in Switzerland where the great enlightener Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born. The writer showed the imminent destruction of his protagonist facing the conflict with tragic reality. The striking and almost painfully outstanding story of poor Prince Myshkin, frantic Parfyon Rogozhin and desperate Nastassya Filippovna still has its dazzling magnetism for the reader.
Tsikl «Zapiski yunogo vracha» i drugie rasskazyi pisatelya, predstavlennyie v audioknige, imeli svoim materialom realnyie zhiznennyie obstoyatelstva - sluzhbu Bulgakova v kachestve zemskogo vracha v Smolenskoy gubernii. Rabota nad tsiklom, vidimo, stala perehodnoy ot trudov i dney zemskogo vracha k trudu literaturnomu.Tsikl rasskazov «Zapiski yunogo vracha» («Polotentse s petuhom», «Kreschenie povorotom»
Eigentlich hatte Harry geglaubt, er sei ein ganz normaler Junge. Zumindest bis zu seinem elften Geburtstag. Da erfährt er, dass er sich an der Schule für Hexerei und Zauberei einfinden soll. Und warum? Weil Harry ein Zauberer ist. Und so wird für Harry das erste Jahr in der Schule das spannendste, aufregendste und lustigste in seinem Leben. Er stürzt von einem Abenteuer in die nächste ungeheuerliche Geschichte, muss gegen Bestien, Mitschüler und Fabelwesen kämpfen.
Arkadiy Natanovich i Boris Natanovich Strugatskie - klassiki sovremennoy nauchnoy i sotsialnoy fantastiki. Proizvedeniya Strugatskih izdavalis v perevodah na 42 yazyikah v 33 stranah mira. Na russkom yazyike vyishlo chetyire polnyih sobraniya ih sochineniy.«Za milliard let do kontsa sveta»V zhizni astrofizika Dmitriya Malyanova i ego znakomyih proishodyat neob'yasnimyie i pugayuschie sobyitiya: byitovyie neuryaditsyi, nedorazumeniya s militsiey, stihiynyie bedstviya, neschastnyie sluchai.
V audioknigu voshli rasskazy Ivana Bunina, neprevzoydennogo mastera slova russkoy literatury, laureata Nobelevskoy premii. Rasskazy Bunina obladayut udivitel'noy, gipnoticheskoy siloy v pervuyu ochered' potomu, chto vse oni o lyubvi. Napolnennyye pechal'yu vospominaniy, rasskazannyye s polnoy iskrennost'yu i otkrovennost'yu eti istorii ostavlyayut chuvstvo radosti, vostorga i ochishcheniya.
Vo vsej mirovoj literature Dostoevskij po pravu priznan neprevzojdennym geniem psihologicheskoj dramy. «Unizhennye i oskorblennye» - pervyj ego roman, napisannyj posle katorgi.Uvlekatel'nyj sjuzhet, zahvatyvajushhie perepletenija sudeb i zhiznennyh istorij, nizost' i blagorodstvo, ljubov' i nenavist' - vse dovedeno do predela, do poslednej cherty. Cherez vse nemyslimoe kipenie strastej geroi prohodjat ispytanie na chelovechnost'.
Skazki A.S. PushkinaSoderzhanie:1. Skazka o rybake i rybke 2. Skazka o mertvoj carevne i o semi bogatyrjah 3. Skazka o Saltane 4. Skazka o pope i o rabotnike ego Balde.
Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the USA to drive cross-country and back on a 10-week trip, recording images of American life through the lens of a Leica camera and humorous impressions of America in their notebooks. When they returned home, they published their work in Russia's leading cultural magazines and later in their book. Filled with humorous observations and travel stories, this audiobook lets you experience this wonderful American road trip for yourself.
Alle Menschen in Bimmelburg fürchten den zweiköpfigen Drachen. Er lebt in einer Höhle und fliegt jeden Tag über das Königreich hinweg. Das macht den Menschen große Angst. Eines Tages macht sich ein kleiner Junge auf den Weg zur Höhle des Drachen, um ihn zu besiegen und Bimmelburg vom Schrecken zu befreien. Aber was der Junge durch seine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Drachen erreicht, ist viel schöner.
Otcy i deti - odin iz samyh sil'nyh romanov I. S. Turgeneva, ch'ya «problemnost'», aktual'naya esche v XIX veke, ne utratila svoej yarkosti i sejchas. Vechnyj konflikt mezhdu molodost'yu, trebuyuschej peremen, i konservativnost'yu zrelogo vozrasta... Vechnoe protivostoyanie illyuzij - i real'nosti, intellekta - i mocij. I nakonec, krajne neobychnyj, ostryj vzglyad na myatuschuyusya, zagadochnuyu dushu russkogo intelligenta - v ego krajnej, nigilisticheskoj forme duhovnoj zhizni...
Arkadiy Natanovich i Boris Natanovich Strugatskie - klassiki sovremennoy nauchnoy i sotsialnoy fantastiki. Proizvedeniya Strugatskih izdavalis v perevodah na 42 yazyikah v 33 stranah mira. Na russkom yazyike vyishlo chetyire polnyih sobraniya ih sochineniy.Yunyiy vakuum-svarschik Yura Borodin otstal ot svoey gruppyi, kotoraya otpravilas rabotat na odin iz sputnikov Saturna. Chtobyi popast na Saturn, Yura stanovitsya stazhYorom na fotonnom kosmicheskom korable «Tahmasib».
1994-2014: Va' dove ti porta il cuore compie vent'anni. Continua a conquistare i lettori la lunga lettera-diario di Olga alla nipote ribelle ma molto amata, l'ultima occasione per raccontarle le verità nascoste della sua vita e incitarla a seguire sempre la voce del cuore. Il bestseller di Susanna Tamaro, una delle scrittrici italiane più note all'estero, è stato inserito tra i 150 "Grandi libri" che hanno segnato la storia d'Italia in occasione delle celebrazioni per l'unità nazionale al Salone del Libro di Torino 2011.
These are short stories of one of the greatest writers in the world, Anton Chekhov. For more than 100 years, his humor and philosophy have surprised readers by their depth and brightness. These stories are for Russia and Russians, as much today as they were 100 years ago.
Odesskiy yumor - yavlenie unikalnoe. Eto osobyiy zhanr - blestyaschee ostroumie, aforistichnost i estestvennost, nepodrazhaemyiy stil i samobyitnyiy yazyik, zhivaya intonatsiya i udivitelnaya legkost vyirazheniya.V sbornike predstavlenyi rasskazyi, feletonyi, parodii, zarisovki, tak ili inache svyazannyie s Odessoy.
«Dyadyushkin son» (1859) Komicheskaya povest o starike-volokite, edakom «oblomke aristokratii». Perchatki, galstuki, zhiletyi i duhi ne v sostoyanii prevratit «mertvetsa na pruzhinah» v yunoshu …«Krokodil» (1865) - pervonachalnoe nazvanie - «O muzhe, s'edennom krokodilom» -ostrokomicheskaya, grotesknaya situatsiya rasskaza napomnit slushatelyu izvestnoe proizvedenie Gogolya «Nos».
Oblomov is one of the great Russian classics. Controversial and original, the novel is considered both a model of critical realism work and a bald satire. The critics unanimously agree that Oblomov is a brilliant and timeless example of Russian prose.
"Brat'ya Karamazovy" - posledniy roman Dostoevskogo, kotoryy avtor pisal dva goda. Roman zadumyvalsya kak pervaya chast' ehpicheskogo proizvedeniya "Istoriya Velikogo greshnika". Proizvedenie bylo okoncheno v noyabre 1880 goda. Roman "Brat'ya Karamazovy" vklyuchaet v sebya slozhnuyu, otlichno vystroennuyu i psihologicheski vyverennuyu detektivnuyu istoriyu, pri ehtom v kanve detektivnogo syuzheta obyknovennoe (na pervyy vzglyad) ugolovnoe proisshestvie ne tol'ko spletaetsya s istoriey lyubovnogo sopernichestva, no i vstraivaetsya v obshchuyu kartinu sovremennogo Dostoevskomu obshchestva.
Bimmelburg Kralligi’nda yasayan halkin tümü Iki Basli Ejderha’dan korkar. Iki Basli Ejderha kralligin yakinindaki bir magarada yasar ve her gün ülkenin üzerinde uçar. Bu sekilde orada yasayan iyi kalpli insanlara korku ve dehset salar. Bir gün küçük bir çocuk Iki Basli Ejderha’yi yenmek ve Bimmelburg halkini onun dehsetinden kurtarmak için magaraya gitmeye karar verir. Ancak genç çocugun ejderha ile giristigi bu savas, onu tahmininin ötesinde çok daha güzel bir sonuca sürükleyecektir.
Es sind Sommerferien und wieder einmal sitzt Harry bei den unmöglichen Dursleys im Ligusterweg fest. Doch diesmal treibt ihn größere Unruhe denn je - Warum schreiben seine Freunde Ron und Hermine nur so rätselhafte Briefe? Und vor allem: Warum erfährt er nichts über die dunklen Mächte, die inzwischen neu erstanden sind und sich unaufhaltsam über Harrys Welt verbreiten? Noch ahnt er nicht, was der geheimnisvolle Orden des Phönix gegen Voldemort ausrichten kann...
Wie ein Stones-Konzert NENA zu einem Vorzeigesong der Neuen Deutschen Welle und der Friedensbewegung der 80er Jahre inspiriert.
Dieser Titel ist Teil des Pop-Splits "99 Luftballons - 21 Geschichten aus Deutschland."
Dieser Popsplit handelt von dem Beatles-Song "I want to hold your hand" und davon, wie Bob Dylan den Beatles das Kiffen beibrachte...
Der Titel ist Teil des Pop-Splits "The Fab Four - 21 Geschichten der Beatles".
The king of Hameleen / Was once so mean / That he made life one bad dream / He would stomp his feet and frown / He would yell and throw down his crown / With his desserts, he would take careful aim / And have his subjects ducking cupcakes, as fast as they came / Until one day little Ned / Took aim at the king's big, big head.
Dieser Pop-Split erzählt, wie eine Gedichtzeile zu einem musikalischen Liebesbekenntnis und damit zu einem der berühmtesten Country-Songs wurde.
Der Titel ist Teil des Pop-Splits "Always on my mind -- 21 Geschichten aus Liebe".