Radio Books

Peggy Webber directed and wrote this outstanding adaptation of Lewis Carroll's "ALICE IN WONDERLAND" for

California Artists Radio Theatre. The beautiful, gentle piano score is composed by David Pinto.

The production is perfectly cast. Roddy McDowall is ideal as Lewis Carroll (The Narrator) and The March Hare. Samantha Eggar is excellent as Alice. Henry Kaplin is wonderfully neurotic as the White Rabbit. Kathleen Freeman and Jeanette Nolan are featured as the Duchess and The Queen Of Hearts, respectively.

Three characters from the sequel "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS". Tweedledee and Tweeledum (great character actors William Windom and Parley Baer) and The White Knight (John Astin) are also included here. In this version, Alice meets them just after the celebrated Mad Tea Party. After these encounters, the story continues in the Queen's garden, with the croquet game and crazy trial, as in Carroll's book. Like Alice's adventures, the production passes by all too quickly in a breezy 90 minutes. But we can always listen to it over again. The production comes in both two cassettes and two CD formats. This is an absolutely essential purchase for any fans of Lewis Carroll and "ALICE." From Oasis Audio. www.oasisaudio.com

A must for any serious amateur radio operator. My husband was thrilled to get this.

This is the inspirational story of the life of holocaust survivor Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Throughout an early life of adversity, Dr. Ruth keeps on soldering through without a hint of self-pity.

At the age of eight, Dr. Ruth was evacuated, with hundreds of other children, from Germany to Switzerland. She lived in an orphanage for Jewish children, and did heavy house-cleaning for half the day and attended school for the other half. She never saw her parents or grandmother again.

At 17 Dr. Ruth emigrated to Israel to live on a Kibbutz, where she was exploited. Living in a tent, her job was cleaning full-time, and no one suggested forther schooling. After a year she left the Kibbutz and supported herself in various jobs and attended school.

The account of her years in France and her early years in the US is riviting. Dr. Ruth's strong spirit shining through every situation is inspirational.

I just love this book if you are a fan of High School Musical this book ids for you.

This is a very good book on UMTS concepts. Although the title emphasizes air interface techniques, this book pay attention both on UTRAN and core network as well. There is good enough detail on core network also. There are many good diagrams which help to understand. This book is rich in mathematics and covers theory also in some details. It is not for pure academic studies but perhaps this book could be more suitable for engineers rather than managers and marketing people. There are good books in the market on UMTS explaining how it works (Kaaranen and Korhonen). But if you were an engineer and if you wanted to know why it works that way and what is behind it then perhaps this book is the most suitable one for you. Warmly recommended.

I bought this as a gift for my Grandmother. She said it was a blast from the past and wants to give it as gifts to her friends.

There are so few analog AM stereo stations broadcasting these days, however the technology does exist! This book describes the four competing systems in use in the mid-1980's. It also covers MTS television stereo. Very informative from Meduci.

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I have only heard tell of Rex Jameson's outrageous act as a female impersonator with the moniker of "Mrs Shufflewick", a cockney barfly in a ratty fur stole and little old lady hat askew on her head . A true original , he carved his own career path in the margins in mid century Britains dance halls and hippodromes. A glimpse of a by gone era , this was sketchy show biz - but indeed from the sound of it "Shuff" as he was later called, outrageous and blue as can be- had people in stitches with his naughty vulgar character of Mrs Shufflewick. He may have offended some, but I doubt a single soul was harmed and many many more given a laugh riot. I wish the book could have been more complete but so little is known of this singular sensation.Thank you author for this fine tribute.

"If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!" --Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Many people use the word "propaganda" in a blatantly pejorative sense. For those utterly convinced they know the Truth, any counter argument is by definition wrong and therefore nothing but propaganda. It reminds me of an old World War II film in which a GI is shocked to hear that the Germans consider him "the enemy." After all, he reasoned, he was one of the Good Guys.

Nevertheless, from the moment that news of Pearl Harbor came over the airwaves back on December 7, 1941, we were the Good Guys, those "Nazis" and those "Japs" were the Bad Guys; and the propaganda machines got rolling to reinforce that message in every possible way.

For those who did not experience those days--and (alas) those years that followed December 7--one only has to think back to last September 11 to imagine how our United States reacted to the news over the radio and later in the papers and even later still at the movies where they could actually see the results of the "day that will live in infamy." But history has this funny trick of repeating itself; and for a marvelous example of that fact, it would be a very good thing to get a copy of "America at War" from Radio Spirits.

Here we have 20 tapes (there is also a CD version)of original broadcasts spanning the decade from12-7-41 to 4-4-49 that were designed to keep our hope up during the conflict and give us a positive view of things after it.

In the past, the sets from Radio Spirits that contain 20 tapes have given us 60 hours in all with 1.5 hours on each tape. There has also always been included a wonderfully prepared booklet with lots of illustrations and background information. Therefore I was a little surprised when "America at War" arrived with only an hour on each of the 20 tapes and no booklet at all. However, a few moments' consideration (and an e-mail inquiry to the publicity person) made things clear. The events of September 11 prompted the company to compile and release as soon as was possible this collection of shows related to World War II--and the message therein bears a frightful resemblance to what we are being told at present. Back then, however, there was a lot more poetry, purple prose, and (in short) style.

Among the many shows offered in this set are 7 Lux Radio Theatre dramatizations of then current war films: "Wake Island," "The War Against Mrs. Hadley," "The Navy Comes Through," "Air Force," "So Proudly We Hail," "Salute to the Marines," and "Pride of the Marines." There are 2 from the "Cavalcade of America" series, 4 from "Command Performance," and some miscellaneous dramatic presentations, two of which benefit greatly by the commanding voice of Orson Welles. From the great pool of "team" shows, there is only a "Fibber McGee and Molly" and a "Vic and Sade."

Some of the shows go a little too far for modern tastes in their highly poetic passages and idealized "typical" bits of Americana, no matter how sincere they might have been. Only in the opening "Gulf Screen Guild Theatre" episode and in one other is there even a hint that not everything is absolutely perfect in our country. However, it is the essential message is that our way was still the best in the world, mostly because of the great diversity of our population. I recommend you play tape 11, "New York: a Tapestry for Radio" as your first selection as a great example of what great cities were like (or people wished they were like) before the rage for hyphenated identifications began.

The last side of the 20th tape gives us the most important broadcasts of all: Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy," John W. Vandercook's "Announcing VE Day," "Churchill's "Blood, Tears," on-the-spot reactions to VE Day in New York and Los Angeles, "Bob Trout's "WWII is Over," and MacArthur's "Japanese Surrender." There isn't a social studies teacher in this country that could not use this tape alone for a fantastic unit about life in those times.

The cover carries a warning that "the content of these programs reflects certain racial and ethnic stereotypes that were prevalent during that era." I winced when a character playing a motorcyclist in one of the shows said that he passed "a Jap" and maybe he should have run him over! But that kind of moronic thinking has been repeated quite recently by those who are mindlessly advocating "killing the whole bunch of them," meaning members of a certain religion. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I hope the Radio Spirits people do eventually come up with a booklet for this one; but do not wait until then. You need this set now, especially in the schools.