Christopher Hitchens Authors@Google

Here's a discussion and Q&A from 2007 featuring Christopher Hitchens. It took place at the Google Headquarters. Google invites many people of note and popularity to come and visit their HQ and speak there.

The Brides Of Dracula

Here's a nice little horror pastiche involving a trio of vamps. I'll have more Dracula and vampire material up and coming in the forthcoming weeks. For now, sink your audio-fangs into this one.

1 File. MP3 Format.

The Brides Of Dracula

Richard Dawkins Rap - Beware the Believers

One of the most intelligent and well-done videos I've seen on YouTube. Some people say the message of the video can be taken either way, whether pro-science or pro-religion. I, personally, think it goes to the scientist as a nice way of addressing the desparate on-going religious attempts to make their faith-based beliefs legit and somehow tested and rounded as science. However, I guess you can see it how you want. Besides, seeing Hitchens and Dawkins in this manner is great and hilarious. As a few Ozzies say, "Good Gear!"

Shirley Jackson's The Lottery OTR

Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is most likely her most well-read and influential piece of fiction. It has inspired and psychologically creeped out many readers and writers through the recent decades. Most notably, prolific horror-meister Stephen King. Mr. King wrote a made-for-TV miniseries called The Storm Of The Century in 1999. Its story is basically a modern retelling of The Lottery with King's own small twists and his home state of Maine thrown into the mix.


The Lottery (short story)

http://www.mediafire.com/?3mmtnmdjnkm

John Buchan's The 39 Steps (dramatized)

British author John Buchan wrote a thriller in 1915 called The Thirty-Nine Steps. It's been made into various formats, most notably in 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock.

Here are two separate versions of the story dramatized by the BBC.

2 Files. MP3 Format.

The 39 Steps (1989 version)

The 39 Steps (2001 version)

Boris Karloff in two OTR programs

All right audiophiles, here are two OTR programs featuring the iconic Boris Karloff.

2 Files. MP3 Format.

Karloff - The Tell-Tale Heart (1941)

Karloff - The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

Contact movie score by Alan Silvestri

Here's a great movie score to a great, underappreciated film from the 1990s called Contact. The movie was based off a Carl Sagan science fiction novel of the same name. If your into science and astronomy, and you've never seen the film, I suggest it for a viewing. For a major-studio film, it has many intelligent facets to it. Not perfect, but far more intelligent than 90 percent of the films pumped out per year by the movie system. Jodie Foster gives a very good performance and the surrounding cast is good too. Also of note, this movie score was composed by Alan Silvestri who made other great music for such films as Back To The Future and Predator.

Contact movie score (folder link)

The Raven read by Basil Rathbone

Another Poe selection, and his most famous opus too.
Read by the inimitable Basil Rathbone.

1 File. MP3 Format.

EA Poe's The Raven

This is a radio documentary on the life and works of writer Howard Philip Lovecraft. Provides insight into Lovecraft's personal traits, small defects, and what made him unique and long-lasting.

1 File. MP3 File Format.

HPL - The Young Man Of Providence

Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes OTR 3 Episodes

Here's 3 episodes of the 1940's Sherlock Holmes OTR show starring Basil Rathbone.

3 separate files. MP3 File Format.

The Copper Beeches

The Cardboard Box

The Speckled Band

Priceless Jazz Collection Sampler # 3

This is a jazz sampler album I bought back in the mid-1990s. Very good mix of classic jazz musicians. (sorry if there are any skips)

14 Files. MP3 File Format. (192K Constant Joint-Stereo)

Alice Coltrane - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 04 - Blue Nile.mp3
Alice Coltrane - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 10 - Gospel Trane.mp3
Billie Holiday - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 02 - Baby Get Lost.mp3
Billie Holiday - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 07 - As Time Goes By.mp3
Billie Holiday - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 12 - On the Sunny Side of the Street.mp3
Ella Fitzgerald - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 03 - Black Coffee.mp3
Ella Fitzgerald - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 06 - Hard Hearted Hannah.mp3
Ella Fitzgerald - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 11 - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.mp3
John Coltrane - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 01 - The Inch Worm.mp3
John Coltrane - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 08 - Soul Eyes.mp3
Louis Armstrong - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 05 - Lazy River.mp3
Louis Armstrong - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 09 - I Surrender Dear.mp3
Louis Armstrong - Priceless Jazz Sampler 3 - 13 - That Luck Old Sun.mp3

Priceless Jazz Sampler # 3 Album (link to folder)

The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie

Up for your listening pleasure, a reading of Agatha Christie's lesser known mystery called The Sittaford Mystery. The story takes place in the barren, remote English lands of Dartmoor in the 1930s.

8 Files. MP3 File Format.

The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie

Treasure Island (dramatized)

Here's a classic story from the imagination of Robert Louis Stevenson. This version of Treasure Island was done by the BBC.

Two Files. MP3 File Format.

Treasure Island Part 01

Treasure Island Part 02

Christopher Hitchens debates Dinesh D'Souza @ Kings College

Here are segments taken from a debate that Christopher Hitchens and Dinesh D'Souza had concerning atheism and faith. The debate took place at King's College.

3 files. MP3 File Format.


The Hitchens vs. D'Souza Debate On Faith and Atheism

On The Trail Of The Templars (BBC documentary)

Here is a documentary that the BBC did on the Knights Templar. It looks into their history and all the what-if conspiracy stories that arose because of their power, stature, and quick fall from power. And yes, it addresses some of the Da Vinci Code stuff too made popular through Dan Brown's page-turners.

One file. MP3 File Format

BBC Documentary - On The Trail Of The Templars

Sherlock Holmes and The Murder Of Cardinal Tosca

Here's some OTR Sherlock Holmes for you audiophiles. From what I gather, this was done by the CBC in the 1970s. It's called Sherlock Holmes and the Murder Of Cardinal Tosca.

3 files. MP3 File Format.

SH Murder Of Cardinal Tosca Part 01

SH Murder Of Cardinal Tosca Part 02

SH Murder Of Cardinal Tosca Part 03

Sherlock Holmes The Mazarin Stone

There are many versions of Sherlock Holmes throughout media history. Everyone who is a fan of Holmes has his or her ideal choice of who is the quintessential Holmes. However, I have to admit, there's no contest within my mind, Clive Merrison is Sherlock Holmes and no one else comes close to his status. Rathbone and Brett had their unique, praiseworthy facets, but Merrison is simply it to a tee. Even though he only voice-acted the role on the BBC, he amazingly looks like a Holmes. Trivia note: Merrison is the only person to star in all of the original 60 canon Holmes stories in any format (movies, TV, radio).

I plan to post more of the Clive Merrison Sherlock Holmes audio plays in the future. It will, hopefully, become a standard common thread. And now, for the first entry...

One file. MP3 File Format.

The Casebook Of Sherlock Holmes: The Mazarin Stone

3 Pieces By Edgar Allan Poe

Here's a few Edgar Allan Poe stories for your audio enjoyment.


3 separate files. MP3 File Format.


El Dorado (read by Basil Rathbone)

For Annie (read by Gavin Friday)

The Tell-Tale Heart (read by Iggy Pop)

HP Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness

A nice, yet relatively short, dramatized version of H. P. Lovecraft's novella At The Mountains Of Madness. Set in the barren, frozen wastelands of Antartica. Lovecraft was inspired by Poe's own story set in this area of th world. This story also qualifies as part of the Cthulhu Mythos.



One File. MP3 File Format.

HP Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness

George Orwell's Down and Out In Paris and London (BBC dramatized)

This work by Orwell is somewhat autobiographical in nature. Orwell lived in Paris and parts of London in a down and out nature, meaning, dirt poor and barely existing at the end of the day. He worked as a kitchen dishwasher and was an itinerant hobo in the London area. When Orwell talked about the working class and the poor, he really knew what he was spouting about in his commentary and essays.

As always, the BBC does a great job of making the written word come to life.

Two parts. MP3 file format.

Orwell Down and Out Part 01

Orwell Down and Out Part 02

Initial Test Post

Just testing to see how this looks and responds online. I'm planning to get things started soon. Come back later and enjoy the audio bounty. Take care.

Here's a test video from YouTube of Big Trouble In Little China's movie trailer.