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Gifted playwright George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan is based on the life and trials of Joan of Arc whose canonisation occurred shortly before he wrote this play. Based on both substantial information of her life in Medieval France and records of her trial, Shaw characterizes this unique woman caught between the forces of the Church and law in this classic production with a strong cast supporting Siobhan McKenna's fine interpretation of this tragic heroine.

The play Don Juan in Hell originated as Act 3, Scene 2, of Man and Superman and is a spirited debate between Heaven and Hell. It was written by Irish playwright and a master of social commentary George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950), who is probably most famous for Pygmalion amongst his 60 plays. This famous performance features Charles Boyer as Don Juan, Charles Laughton as the Devil, Cedric Hardwicke as the Commander, and Agnes Moorehead as Doña Ana.

Zhizn' puritanskoj sem'i amerikanskih kolonistov menjaetsja pod natiskom vojny za nezavisimost'. Nekotorye chleny sem'i eshhe pytajutsja zhit' po obychnym normam svoego sushhestvovanija, no politika uzhe vmeshalas' i vtjanula glavnogo geroja v paradoksal'nuju situaciju. No final jetoj istorii budet samym neozhidannym.

The play begins on a summer evening at Covent Garden in London. Suddenly, pouring torrential rain, takes pedestrians by surprise, forcing them to take refuge under the portal of the Cathedral of St. Paul. Among them are phonetics professor Henry Higgins and a researcher of Indian dialects, Colonel Pickering, who came specially from India to see the professor. The encounter delights them both.

Radiospektakl' "Smuglaja ledi sonetov" po odnoimennoj p'ese Bernarda Shou,irlandskogo dramaturga, pisatelja, romanista, laureata Nobelevskoj premii v oblasti literatury. Izyskannaja, ostroumnaja istoricheskaja komedija, raskryvajushhaja tajnu zagadochnoj krasavicy, kotoroj Shekspir posvjashhal svoi legendarnye stihi. Rech' idet o samom legendarnom pojete i dramaturge - o Uil'jame Shekspire. Kakim byl v zhizni jetot genial'nyj chelovek?

Schon zwölf Jahre hat Jimmy Veeder keinen Fuß mehr ins südkalifornische Imperial Valley gesetzt. Aber sein Vater Jack hat Krebs und nicht mehr lange zu leben. Deshalb kehrt Jimmy in seine alte Heimat zurück. Eigentlich will er mit Jack in der verbleibenden Zeit Spaß haben und in Erinnerungen schwelgen, aber der alte Mann hat andere Pläne. Jimmy soll über die Grenze nach Mexiko fahren und dort eine Prostituierte namens Yolanda aufspüren.

Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph - so why is it so little understood? Armed with a hungry curiosity and a willingness to self-experiment, author Barney Shaw goes in search of the hidden meanings of smells. Using plain words to describe what he finds, he investigates the chemistry, psychology, history and future of this underappreciated sense.

Jonathan Shaw's Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist is a surreal, multigenerational roller-coaster ride through the underbelly of modern culture, charting the course of a life measured by extremes and all the people, places, and events that shaped that life into a survivor's tale of epic proportions. In it, Shaw takes the listener deep, not only into the recesses of his extraordinary mind and adventures but also into the strange and magical process of memoir-writing itself.

Focusing for the first time on why attorney general Robert F. Kennedy wasn’t killed in 1963 instead of on why President John F. Kennedy was, Mark Shaw offers a stunning and provocative assassination theory that leads directly to the family patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy. Mining fresh information and more than 40 new interviews, Shaw weaves a spellbinding narrative involving Mafia don Carlos Marcello; Jack Ruby (Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer); Ruby’s attorney, Melvin Belli; and, ultimately, the Kennedy brothers and their father.

The Earth is doomed. A sinister alien race, disguised as giant rotary phones, is planning to blow up the world and sell whatever is left as collectibles! It’s up to our hero Lenny and his team of paranormal investigators - a ghost hunter, a psychic, a vampire, a werevole, and a pooka named Bob - to save the day. They must survive Yetis, vampire brides, a robot swami, and being shot into the depths of space. But they must succeed, or Earth will be no more!

In I Found Out: An Intimate Journey with Christ, Linda C. Shaw offers her listeners a fine meal - something to be savored. The appetizer is her lyrical style of poetry that meets you at first glance. The main course is her own emotional transparency, coupled with the wisdom of God that she weaves throughout each entry. And the dessert? Well, that's the fulfillment you will know after being led into an encounter with God's Spirit which can change your life instantly and completely.

Annie Acorn Audio is pleased to present Dark Tales from Gents' Pens, an anthology of works written by the authors of From Gents' Pens and narrated by Lee Foreman.

Where can you find all the suspense, thrills, blood, and gore that reflect the dark underbelly of our world? Where do murder and voodoo curses stand alongside innocents and little children? Where do the kinder, gentler things disappear?

Salvation can travel in mysterious ways, arriving through unlikely vessels...even while visiting a cemetery. As one extraordinary man's life ends, thousands of miles away a baby girl is born into a world of little promise. In time, this orphaned child of God will discover she has received a gift greater than life itself.

Travel back to 1958 with an angel on a mission to a Christmas Past, as we're shown a heart-rending story of a destitute family who happiness and Christmas had all but passed over. Do the impoverished deserve kindness, generosity, or love? Striving to survive life's frigid and bitter winds, a jilted mother and her four, young children will be tested like never before. Despite the crushing odds, will one boy's prayers be answered? Only time and an angel's story will tell.

Something deadly sinister is roaming the mountains of Southern Tennessee and Northern Georgia. A ravenous beast with a thirst for blood and carnage has law enforcement in two states baffled. From Native American Cherokee mythology, the beast has been named Uya, a malevolent evil spirit of the night. The rancorous creature has so far outwitted the best the law has to offer, and now the stakes have been raised, as farm animals no longer satisfy Uya's hunger.

Southern Brewed Poetry is Georgia author Ron Shaw's third publication of poems. The listener will find them to be unique, at times, quite literary, thought-provoking, and intriguing. As the title indicates, the author has tapped into his southern roots to brew an eclectic mixture of marvelous poetry certain to capture the imagination, whimsy, heart, and soul of the listener.

Warning: This is an extreme horror novel. There is gore. There is bad language. There are scenes of a sexual nature. But hidden underneath it all is also a chilling story. Please do not purchase....

For one Georgia family, Thanksgiving 2016 looms ominously. After their last Thanksgiving together, surviving this one may well depend on a force beyond their control.

At dusk, three, loud knocks at her front door scared the young, grief-stricken mother of four - the tale begins on Halloween's eve, continuing - Huddling around her in front of a solitary space heater, Ann's three children jumped, startling her even more. For a brief second, they shivered, fearing it was death itself that had come knocking.

Jen's life came crashing down around her when she found out her husband had been seeing another woman behind her back. She knew they had issues in their relationship but not enough to make him seek intimacy elsewhere and, yet, that was exactly what he had done. But why? The reason why he would throw everything away, instead of just talking to her, was the one question that was continually burning in the back of her mind and she knew there was only one way to get the answer.