Expect a summer festival with a difference as some of the nation's favourite comics turn curators and host a virtual festival featuring their favourite performers from the worlds of comedy, literature and spoken word.They'll be in control of everything (even the weather) as we're taken along for the ride to not only hear some great performances but also to get an insight into the cultural radars of our celebrity hosts.The six episodes are hosted in turn by Miles Jup...

What does it mean to advocate - in translation, for translation, through translation? What does advocacy look like, for those who do the translating or for those whose work is translated? To what extent is translation itself a form of advocacy? These 'what' questions are the driving force behind this collection.Translation as Advocacy highlights the innovative ways in which translator-academics in seven different fields discuss their practice in relation to their understan...

First published in 2004. Civility might appear the last and least likely term to mobilise attention in the non- adjacent fields to performance. This issue recognises an expanded political vocabulary in concept of ‘sly civility’ located at the heart of the recent work drawing on a set of previously dis-colonising imagination.

This volume contains three classic articles on the subject of church organs which primarily deal with 'registration' and general technique. They include: “The Organ – Its Total Structure and Registration, by Cecil Clutton”, “The Organ Student's Gradus ad Parnassum – Book I. The Elements of Interpretation, by Casper Koch”, and “The Technique and Art of Organ Playing, by Clarence Dickinson”. This volume contains a great deal of information pertaining to the technical side of organ playing, a...

The golden age of radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars voicing fiction’s most famous gumshoes. This collection includes Dick Powell as suave detective Richard Diamond, Vincent Price as the Saint, Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday on Dragnet, Richard Kollmar as “enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend” on Boston Blacki...

This collection contains sixteen of the greatest shows ever broadcast during the Golden Age of Radio—including episodes of The Jack Benny Program, The Abbott & Costello Show, Burns & Allen, Gunsmoke, The Amos ’n’ Andy Show, Philip Marlowe, Gang Busters, Suspense, X Minus One, Our Miss Brooks, Sherlock Holmes and many others. Relive the best radio shows from yesterday and the legendary stars t...

The golden age of radio had incredible Western shows that kept Americans glued to their sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear Western heroes catch the bad guys and save ladies in distress. This collection includes Gregory Peck in an hour-long episode of The Gunfighter on the Screen Director’s Playhouse; James Stewart as Brit Ponset, a.k.a. “the Six-Shooter”; William Holden in The Virginian on General Electric Theater; William Bo...

The golden age of radio had incredible comedy shows that kept Americans in stitches for decades. Families gathered around their living room radios to be entertained by the greatest names in Hollywood each and every day. This collection includes Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Eve Arden as Connie Brooks on Our Miss Brooks, Jim & Marian Jordan in Fibber McGee & Molly, William Bendix as Chester A. Riley on The Life of Riley, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Bing Crosb...

These twelve exciting episodes take you to the San Francisco waterfront as you follow Pat Novak as he solves some shady crimes.Pat Novak, for Hire is set on the San Francisco waterfront and depicts the city as a dark, tough-as-nails jungle where the main goal is survival. Not a detective by trade, Novak owns a boat shop on Pier 19 where he rents out boats and does odd jobs to earn money while dishing out sarcasm and colorful metaphors.The set up begins with an unkn...

This collection contains twelve of the greatest detective shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio. You'll hear Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolfe, Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Edmond O'Brien as Johnny Dollar, and Les Tremayne as Nick Charles, a.k.a. "The Thin Man"—plus many more gumshoes, including Boston Blackie, Philip Marlowe, The Fat Man, and others. With this incredible collection, ...

From the show called “the best of the best of radio’s golden age” come these six suspenseful episodes of Johnny Dollar’s far-flung private investigations, starring Bob Bailey in thirty quarter-hour episodes.First heard on network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar chronicled the adventures of freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, “the man with the action-packed expense account.” For fifteen years, it was one of the most popular detective shows on the air, ...

This collection contains twelve of the greatest radio shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio. You’ll hear Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll in Amos ’n’ Andy; Bob Bailey in Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; Jim and Marian Jordan in Fibber McGee and Molly; William Bendix as Chester A. Riley in The Life of Riley; Eve Arden as Connie Brooks in Our Miss Brooks; William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke; Edward G. Robinson in ...