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By "assembling" some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were conducted like any other talk show but featured prominent influencers from bygone generations—not just philosophers and politicians, but poets, playwrights, and presidents.

Pursuing literary glory, Edward Gunther gives up his job as a copywriter, sells everything he owns, and moves with his wife and three children from Chicago to Venice. But success does not come as quickly or as painlessly as Edward had hoped. During his first month in Italy, he struggles to get his essays published, argues with his wife about the family finances, and embarks on an unsteady affair with Nina Callahan, an American poet who insists on keeping him at arm's length.

Amateurs and professionals studying birds at the end of the 19th century were a contentious, passionate group with goals that intersected, collided, and occasionally merged in their writings and organizations. Driven by a desire to advance science, as well as by ego, pride, honor, insecurity, religion and other clashing sensibilities, they struggled to absorb the implications of evolution after Darwin. In the process, they dramatically reshaped the study of birds. Daniel Lewis here explores the professionalization of ornithology through one of its key figures: Robert Ridgway, the Smithsonian Institution’s first curator of birds.

After getting kicked out of the police academy, Alfred Robles rose to become one of the hottest young comedians in the country. Two years into his comedy career, Alfred was featured on the hit shows Loco Comedy Jam and the Latino Laugh Festival.

Liebe, Macht und Wahnsinn - darum drehen sich die großen Tragödien von William Shakespeare. Anlässlich seines 450. Geburtstages erscheinen nun die vier wichtigsten Shakespeare-Stücke in grandiosen Hörspieladaptionen. Sie versammeln die großen Stimmen der 60er bis 80er Jahre: Zu hören sind unter vielen anderen Bernhard Minetti in der Rolle des König Lear und Christiane Hörbiger als Hamlets Mutter.

Juan Quezada, one of Mexico's most famous potters, used his creative gifts to transform his impoverished village of laborers into a thriving artists' community.

Nile Nightingale is on the run. Fleeing across the border to rural Quebec, he seeks refuge at an abandoned church when his junked-up, overstimulated mind takes in that he has just witnessed a body drop - in a bloody sack tied with Christmas ribbon. The contents, unconscious but still alive, turn out to be 15-year-old Cleste Jonqures, who has been beaten and slashed, like wild game, to slowly bleed out. From his hideout, as he nurses his patient back from the brink and begins to face his own life, he pieces together what he has stumbled into.

Melinda Soto, aged 64, vacationing in Mexico, is murdered by a fellow American tourist. Back in her hometown of Reno, Nevada, she leaves behind her adopted son, Jeremy, whom she rescued from war-torn Guatamala when he was a toddler - just one of her many causes over the years. And she leaves behind a circle of friends: Veronique, the academic stuck in a teaching job from which she can't retire; Rosemary, who's losing her husband to Alzheimer's and who's trying to lose herself in volunteer work; Henrietta, the priest at Rosemary's and Melinda's church.

This radio dramatization of the classic movie is introduced by its director, Alfred Hitchcock, and features one of the original stars, Robert Montgomery. It aired on January 30, 1949.

In this short story, a traveling businessman settles into yet another motel room. This one just like every other one. Same dull curtains. Same faded wallpaper. Same stale stink. As the world moves on in a rush outside the motel door, he assesses his career and his life, asking, "Where am I?"

Sigismund, des Königssohn Polens sitzt im Turm, gefangen wegen einer Voraussage der Sterne. Diese sprachen gegen ihn und weissagten einen Tyrannen (Abwandlung Ödipus). Daraufhin ergreift der Vater Basilius eine Vorsichtsmaßnahme, hier kein Aussetzen in einer anderen Gegend, sondern er sperrt ihn ein und produziert so aus Angst vor der Zukunft die Vorhersage; die Prophezeiung wurde selbst erfüllt, wie die vom König gewünschte Bewährungsprobe zeigte. Betäubt aus dem Turm, hingesetzt in den edelsten Prunk und erwachend aus einem Traum, sitzt Sigismund auf den Thron und soll zeigen wer er ist. Das tut er: Er missachtet seinen Vater, nimmt sich die Macht und erfüllt so das Orakel.

On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service.

Sie haben schon Hunderte von Büchern über Erfolg gelesen? Dann wird dieses Hörbuch Ihnen den "Aha-Effekt" geben...

Moving Bodies is a chronicle of the brilliant life of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Richard Feynman. From his role in the development of the atomic bomb to his controversial testimony at the investigation of the Challenger disaster, Feynman casts a long shadow across the worlds of physics and mathematics. Through playwright Arthur Giron's eyes, we see how Feynman became one of the most important scientists of our time.

Set in the mythical Wild West, an aging cowboy deals with the passage of time while recalling a life-defining moment with a woman of his youth. Alfred C. Martino is the author of the novels Perfected by Girls, Pinned, and Over The End Line as well as,the short stories "Quiet Desperation" and "Grad School Daydreams." A resident of Jersey City, New Jersey, he is a graduate of Duke University and the Marshall Graduate School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Along with historical narrative, hear rare recordings of some of the most iconic people in history, including Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Edward Gladston, Guiglielmo Marconi, Willaim McKinley, Leo Tolstoy, William Booth, Pope Leo XIII, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Dr. Frederick Cook, and William E. Peary.

Alfred Dorfer (*1961) beginnt nach seinem Studium der Theaterwissenschaft und Germanistik ein Schauspielstudium bei Herwig Seeböck und Reinhard Tötschinger. Nach ersten, großen Erfolgen mit der Gruppe Schlabarett ist Dorfer ab 1993 auch solo zu sehen. Stets mit dabei die Musiker Peter Herrmann, Günther Paal und Lothar Scherpe, mit denen er eine eigenständige Kabarett-Theater-Form entwickelt.

Nachdem Pinocchio einer räuberischen Katze und einem Gaunerfuchs in die Hände gefallen war, nahm ihn der weiße Falke Ritter Falk von Weißenschwingen mit hoch in die Lüfte und brachte den Jungen in das Schloß einer Fee.

Sie fahren auf der Autobahn, und anstatt sich des Lebens zu freuen, ärgern Sie sich - über wen oder was auch immer...

Können Sie sich vorstellen, dass Sie auf Ihrer Fahrt in den Urlaub alle hundert Kilometer einen Anhalter mitnehmen...