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A Christmas Carol - Mercury Theatre on the Air
  By the later part of 1939, Orson Welles and his Mercury-Theatre-on-the-Air players were sponsored by Campbell Soup.  Their broadcasts, of various stories, were aired as features of the Campbell Playhouse. In this radio dramatization of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens - which aire...
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A Poison Tree, by William Blake - Audio
William Blake (1757-1827) was a young man, in his late teens, when he witnessed the "Gordon Riots" in London.  It was June, of 1780, and an angry mob burned buildings and engaged in massive disorderly conduct.  According to a Proclamation by King George III - issued on the 7th of June, 17...
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Abraham Lincoln - Mercury Theatre on the Air
  Abraham Lincoln - one of America's most-famous presidents - left behind many words, although no one today is able to hear his actual voice.  He died twelve years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph (the first-known voice-recording device). According to contemporary repor...
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Adventures of Huck Finn, by Mark Twain, Chapter 1 - Audio
Mark Twain published his famous book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in Britain (in December of 1884) and in America (in February of 1885).  The book has been popular, ever since. To make his tale about life along the Mississippi River more real, Twain used the vernacular to tell his story.&n...
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Adventures of Huck Finn, by Mark Twain, Chapter 2 - Audio
After he leaves the house, around midnight, Huck Finn joins his buddy, Tom Sawyer.  The two pals meet-up with some other friends and plan their gang. It would be a gang of extraordinary achievements.  Tom suggests that it be named ... after him!  Taking an oath, which was pretty swe...
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Adventures of Huck Finn, by Mark Twain, Chapter 3 - Audio
Huck Finn's father - whom his boy calls "Pap" - has not been in his son's life for awhile.  In light of the beatings he used to give Huck - even when he was sober - his absence is fine with the younger Finn. Still ... Huck wonders where his dad is.  People said that a drowned body, which ...
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Adventures of Huck Finn, by Mark Twain, Chapter 4 - Audio
Huck Finn is sceptical about many things, but he is also a realist.  When he sees footprints in the snow - bearing a mark he seems to recognize - he takes action. Worried that someone has arrived to demand his money - which Judge Thatcher is managing for him - Huck makes a deal with the Judge....
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Adventures of Huck Finn, by Mark Twain, Chapter 5 - Audio
Huck Finn has a father who beats him.  He has a father who doesn't want his son to get ahead in the world.  He has a father who tries to hold him back - to keep him out of school.  Drunk much of the time, the elder Finn has returned for one reason - just as his son feared.  He w...
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Apollo 13 - "We've Had a Problem"
On its mission to the Moon, Apollo 13 encountered a near-fatal situation.  The crew (in the space ship) first let the ground-control team (in Houston) know about the problem when they radioed this message. The time was 21:08 on the 13th of April, 1970.  The three crew members were 200,000...
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Assassination of JFK - A Radio Play
  Combining many different clips from the horror-filled day of November 22, 1963, Mike Swickey created this radio documentary about President Kennedy's assassination.  Originally airing via public radio, on the 22nd of November 1985, the work is now an open-source audio, thanks to the ge...
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