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  • Author:
    Conroy, Pat
    Summary:

    How should we improve the state of South Carolina? That invitingly open-ended question served as the basis for the first annual South Carolina High School Writing Contest as the call went out in fall 2013 to juniors and seniors across the Palmetto State, encouraging them to take a stance through good, thought-provoking writing. The nearly 500 responses that resulted were as impressive in quality as they were in quantity. Young writers sounded off on issues of race relations, environmental conservation, economic imbalance, opportunities of infrastructure, substance and physical abuse, and the maladies of education. Most wrote on issues of education rooted in their own burgeoning awareness of its gifts and limitations in their lives. From that pool of contestants, 23 finalists rose to the top to have their initial entries and subsequent writing on a favorite book or place judged by best-selling author Pat Conroy. The insightful and often revelatory responses from those finalists — including the first-, second- and third-place winners by grade — are collected here in Writing South Carolina. In heartfelt essays, poems, short stories and drama, these diverse writers lay bare their attitudes and impressions of South Carolina as they have experienced it and as they hope to reshape it. The resulting anthology is a compelling portrait of the Palmetto State's potential as advocated by some of its best and brightest young writers. Editor Steven Lynn provides an introduction, and contest judge Pat Conroy provides a foreword to the collection.

  • Author:
    Cooper, Wyllis
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    A Winchester bottle is the exhibit in the Black Museum associated with the murder of a four-year-old girl. A set of mysterious fingerprints on the bottle cannot be identified. Scotland Yard decides to fingerprint the entire town of Blackbourne!

  • Author:
    Cooper, Wyllis
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    A woman's body is found covered with quicklime. Mrs. Hope Russell seems to have been murdered by her husband...but he was really killed by the Luftwaffe!

  • Author:
    Cooper, Wyllis
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    A magenta colored blotting paper is on exhibit in the Black Museum because of its involvement with a murder in Oxford. A foreign gentleman's poor sister has been killed.

  • Author:
    Cooper, Wyllis
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    A wireless set that was never intended to be operative is in the Black Museum because of its involvement with the murder of a bartender with strychnine.

  • Author:
    Cooper, Wyllis
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    A woman's body is found in an old trunk at the Charing Cross railroad station baggage claim. Who killed Mrs. Noami Fournier?

  • Author:
    Cooper, Wyllis
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    Thomas A'Becket Appleby has been murdered. His Wife Alma is arrested for the crime, but her young lover confesses to the crime.

  • Author:
    Cooper, Wyllis
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    A woman's stocking is kept in the Black Museum as a keepsake of a woman who was struck by a motorcar. However, the woman wasn't killed by the car, she was seen getting into a green van...with a shoe painted on the side.

  • Author:
    Cooper, Wyllis
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    A bottle of The Glenlivet in the Black Museum is the exhibit in a case of stolen uranium!

  • Author:
    Cooper, Wyllis
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    The first show of the series. A visit to the Black Museum and an exhibit of teacup fragments. A woman and her companion have been killed with a shotgun.

  • Author:
    Casanove, Susan
    Summary:

    In a small coastal city in Wales, members of an improvisational theater group try their hand at a radio drama. What could go wrong?

  • Author:
    Sacristán, Pedro Pablo, Henry, O., Butler, Daws
    Summary:

    This collection of stories with music and sound effects features holiday tales for both young and old.

  • Author:
    Beckett, Samuel
    Summary:

    There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece. Yet it is both a popular text to be studied at school and an enigma. The scene is a country road. There is a solitary tree. It is evening. Two tramp-like figures, Vladimir and Estragon, exchange words. Pull off boots. Munch a root vegetable. Two other curious characters enter. And a boy. Time passes. It is all strange yet familiar. Waiting for Godot casts its spell as powerfully in this audiobook recording as it does on stage.

  • Author:
    Thiessen, Vern
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    France, 1917. Four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge, waiting to find out where they'll be sent next: back home or back to the front. Along with a young nurse from Nova Scotia, they share their stories, reasons for fighting, and treasured memories. In Vimy, Governor General's Literary Award-winner Vern Thiessen brings us a classic play that is not about war, but a reflection of the everyday lives of soldiers-their hopes and their dreams-and how actions can define individuals and nations. In the brand-new piece Bluebirds, Thiessen brings to light the stories of three Canadian nurses who crossed oceans to take care of others in the war. Bonding over their duties and patients, the nurses keep up a positive atmosphere, even as the front line draws closer to their field hospital.

  • Author:
    Thomas, Dylan
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    Shakespeare, William
    Summary:

    The lovely Viola disguises herself as a young man and quickly falls in love with the Duke she serves. The Duke in turn sends the disguised Viola to woo his lady - the fiesty and impetuous Olivia. Olivia becomes smitten with the young man Viola impersonates, and all careens to a happy resolution by the play's end.

  • Author:
    Radio Archives
    Summary:

    Volume 4 of the Dangerous Assignment radio series! Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing, though. Trouble." In this opening line heard on various episodes, Steve Mitchell, special agent for an unnamed agency protecting America from foreign threats, describes Dangerous Assignment perfectly. Focused on Mitchell's adventures around the world, Dangerous Assignment capitalized on the desire of Americans at the time for patriotic, stalwart heroes to stand up for them. Mitchell, as portrayed by Brian Donlevy definitely fit that bill. Hard-boiled delivery and two-fisted intensity make Mitchell a fun hero to follow and fight beside! Restored to sparkling audio quality, the episodes in this collection are a great example of 1950s radio adventure!

  • Author:
    Price, Brian, Stearns, Jerry
    Summary:

    Mack Brown remembers all those old Tumbleweed Roundup movies he saw as a kid and wonders what happened to them; they don't show up on late-night television or in video stores anymore. Driven by nostalgia, he begins to search for the missing films.

  • Author:
    Tidler, Charles
    Summary:

    Four disparate people confront each other--their memory and their responsibility--at the emergency room of a hospital when brought together by the crisis of a teenager suffering a psychiatric episode. Tortoise Boy is a “chamber play,” four monologues, or mon-dialogues, if you will. Through these four voices, four instruments--a quartet--these characters confront numerous existential quandaries: Can we have a future without a past? Is there meaning to a past that has no future? When do our memories open doors, and when do they close them? What’s best forgotten? What’s indelible? The ancient Greeks believed that memory is the mother of the muses, and the words memory, muse, and music all share a common root.

    Praise for Tortoise Boy: "... gritty and profane, unabashedly poetic." (Adrian Chamberlain, Times Colonist) "Like reassembling a window from pieces of shattered glass … Tidler allows the audience to piece it all together." (Monday Magazine)

  • Author:
    Price, Stuart, Ekert, Paul
    Summary:

    The award-winning and critically acclaimed Wireless Theatre Company strives to keep radio theater alive and well. From the hilarious to the terrifying, this diverse collection features ten Wireless Theatre productions in a single volume.

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