Satire
The Cabinet Minister
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exagge…
Nicholas Nickleby: A Farce in 2 Acts
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Edward Stirling
This stage adaptation of Dickens’ novel debuted in November of 1838 at the Adelphi Theater in London. Only eight installments of the story …
Ballad of the Canal
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Phoebe Cary
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Ballad of the Canal by Phoebe Cary. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 4, …
Bob and Ray WOR 789 March 16, 1976
BNRToast
Tuesday, March 16, 1976 Looking for Mary in a restaurant Next Episode: https://archive.org/details/BnR79003171976 0:00 Welcoming the listene…
George Dandin: or The Abashed Husband
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Henri Van Laun and Molière
"The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle having been ratified ... and peace being assured ... Louis XIV resolved to give a festival in his favori…
Bob & Ray WOR #129 September 06, 1973
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Chester Hasbrook Frisby admits he is out of story ideas. Pat Buttram makes jokes Firemen putting out studio fire. Thursday, …
Bob & Ray WOR #134 September 13, 1973
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Mary Backstage - Following Fox hunt, ordering breakfast. Thursday, September 13, 1973
The World of Fashion
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John Oxenford
This Victorian-era dramedy was adapted by playwright/critic John Oxenford from Eugene Scribe and Ernst Legouvé’s “Les doigts de f&eac…
Bob and Ray WOR 783 March 08, 1976
Greybelt
"Monday, March 08, 1976", 0:00 Opening the big banner show with Webley, sounding a little blue over his handiwork, playing the org…
A Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers
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Charles Macklin
This "Afterpiece" - a short play to follow a main production - was first produced in 1746. It was based on Regnard's five-act com…
Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes
Read by Lisa Reichert
Edward Jenkins
In the second half of the 19th century, London was becoming a wealthy, industrialized city. It attracted many working class people from near…
Black No More
Read by Jim Locke
George Schuyler
Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)
Bob & Ray WOR #130 September 07, 1973
Unknown
Incomplete script, cast reads as Chester Hasbrook Frisby types the story. Friday, 09/07/1973Next week the cast arr…
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol 2 , No. 17, February, 1921
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W. H. Fawcett
"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue was packe…
The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Read by Nick Hillier
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
16 satires in verse of the celebrated classical poet of the 1st and 2nd Century translated into verse by John Dryden an English satirist of …
Bob & Ray WOR #121 August 27, 1973
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Mr and Mrs Broadway show, Third episode of starts. Morning Monday, 08/27/1973