author results for Martin Jarvis

Twelfth Night

Shakespeare, William, Jarvis, Martin — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria, Viola assumes the role of a male page to Duke Orsino. The Duke sends Viola, now disguised as 'Cesario' to press his suit with the beautiful Olivia, who promptly falls in love with Cesario. Confusion reigns until the truth is untangled and true love triumphs. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2022. Adapted and directed by Martin Jarvis Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording starring: Rosalind Ayres as Maria Tara Lynne Barr as Olivia Chris Butler as Orsino JD Cullum as Antonio Sarah Drew as Viola Martin Jarvis as Sir Toby Belch Adhir Kalyan as Sir Andrew Aguecheek Stacy Keach as Feste, the Fool André Sogliuzzo as Fabian, Curio, Valentine and others Josh Stamberg as Malvolio Mark Jude Sullivan as Sebastian Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson Recording and Mixing Engineer: Charles Carroll Editing and Sound Design: David Wilson and Charles Carroll Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner Guitar Accompaniment by JD Cullum

The Best Bear in All the World

Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Four brand new stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends. Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet, meet a dragon, and then go on a quest to discover the "Sauce of the Nile"; all the animals rally around poor Eeyore when he thinks he sees another donkey eyeing his clover; a penguin arrives in the Hundred Acre Wood during the winter.

Shakespeare Retold

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Macbeth is the chef in a 3-star restaurant; Beatrice and Benedict are rival co-anchors; Titania and Bottom carouse in a tawdry theme resort; and Petruchio sets out to tame the conservative Kate in a politically incorrect marriage of convenience.

The Code of the Woosters

Wodehouse, P. G. — Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT

One of the best known of Wodehouse's Bertie and Jeeves series. Bertie's beloven Aunt Dahlia pressures him inton stealing a cow-shaped silver creamer much coveted by his uncle from his arch rival in silver collecting, Sir Watkyn Bassett. At the same time, Bertie attempts to patch up the shaky romance between Guisse Fink-Nottle, the newt expert, and Madeline Bassett, a four star drip. The results of Bertie's efforts are, as always, a financial disaster. He nearly gets lunched, arrested and engaged by mistake. As always, Jeeves is on hand with a last-minute brainstorm to set everything straight.

Macbeth

Shakespeare, William — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

"When General Macbeth is foretold by three witches that he will one day be King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth convinces him to get rid of anyone who could stand in his way--including committing regicide. As Macbeth ascends to the throne through bloody murder, he becomes a tyrant consumed by fear and paranoia."--Container.

Dick Francis's Bloodline

Francis, Felix — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

"When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a London hotel; or so it seems. Devastated and guilty over her death, Mark goes in search of answers. What had led Clare to take her own life? Or was it not suicide at all?"--Container.

My Father's Fortune

Frayn, Michael — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A clever lad, a roofing salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, even through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life.

101 Dalmatians

Smith, Dodie — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Pongo lives happily with his human pets Mr and Mrs Dearly in a large house in Regent's Park. When his wife Missis produces a litter of fifteen beautiful pups, life seems wonderfully complete. But the mysterious disappearance of the puppies suddenly throws everything into turmoil. Pongo, one of the keenest brains in Dogdom, quickly realises that he and Missis are the only hope for their youngsters' survival. And so the fearless pair set out on a bleak winter's journey into great dangers, helped along the way by the gallant Colonel, a sheepdog of the Old School. Dodie Smith's canine classic brought pleasure to millions as a Disney film. All its original charm and warmth are fully evident here in this full-cast dramatisation which stars Patricia Hodge as Cruella de Vil, along with Joan Sims, Brenda Blethyn, Nicky Henson and Polly James.

The Bunker

Sat, 31 Jan 1981 00:00:00 GMT

In the final days of World War II, Adolf Hitler and his closest advisers are sequestered in an underground bunker in Berlin.

United Passions

Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

The remarkable true story of the founding of the world's greatest sporting event, the FIFA World Cup. Through the decades, soccer has gone from backyard game to the Beautiful Game, a global sporting phenomenon. In United Passions, take a journey through the ages as three man overcome numerous obstacles and impossible odds to give birth to the most watched sporting event in the world.

The Chronicles of Narnia

Lewis, C. S. — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Between the lamppost and Cair Paravel on the eastern sea lies Narnia, a mystical land where animals hold the power of speech, woodland creatures conspire with men, and dark forces, bent on conquest, gather at the world's rim to wage war against the realm's rightful king. Into this enchanted world comes a group of unlikely travelers. These ordinary boys and girls, when faced with peril, learn extraordinary lessons in courage, self-sacrifice, friendship, and honor.

The 101 Dalmatians

Smith, Dodie — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The book that inspired the animated movie classic!
When Dearly's Dalmatians have their first litter of pups—fifteen in all—everyone is delighted. But their joy is shortlived, for the pups are kidnapped! Scotland Yard is baffled, but the keenest canine minds are on the case—and on the trail of Cruella de Vil, the most fiendish person to ever covet a fur coat.
Pongo and Missis would give everything they have to bring their puppies safely home... but will they succeed in rescuing them from the cluthes of the evil Cruella de Vil?
"A tale full to overflowing with those prime requisites of a good story—warmth and humor, imagination and suspense."—Chicago Sunday Tribune
"Superb reading. The puzzle of the hundred and one is delightful.... Highly recommended."—SLJ

Can You Hear Me

Anna Lyse Erikson — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Before Guglielmo Marconi came along, there was no practical way to transmit telegraphic messages without wires. But when he harnessed the power of radio waves to send signals over long distances, what had once seemed impossible became a world-changing reality. In this original L.A. Theatre Works commission, we'll get a firsthand, intimate view of the precocious Italian inventor, and what he had to overcome in his quest to revolutionize the way we communicate. Can You Hear Me is available as part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series of science-themed plays, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in April, 2024. Directed by Rosalind Ayres Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: Lucy DeVito as Degna Marconi Martin Jarvis as Mr. Preece, King Edward, Captain Smith Kurt Kanazawa as Alfonso Marconi, George Parkin Henri Lubatti as Giuseppe Marconi, Teddy Roosevelt Moira Quirk as Annie Jameson Darren Richardson as George Kemp, Jack Phillips André Sogliuzzo as Guglielmo Marconi and Older Marconi Mark Jude Sullivan as Luigi Solari, Harold Bride, Pagent Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden Recorded and edited by Neil Wogenson Designed by Neil Wogenson, Charles Carroll and Mark Holden, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Technical Advisor and Morse Code Performer: Mark Holden. Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin Foley Artist: Stacey Martinez Antique Morse Code and radio equipment provided by Ken Holden

Syndicate

Francis, Felix — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Chester Newton is a successful racehorse syndicate organiser and his company, Victrix Racing, is having its best year yet. When his prized horse, Potassium, wins the world-famous Epsom Derby, Chester is set to become the next big thing in British horse racing.
But one phone call changes everything.
Someone hiding behind a voice scrambler and an untraceable phone is demanding he fixes a race—and they're willing to go after Chester's family if he fails to comply.
Chester's business is the only thing in his life that isn't falling apart. With his marriage on the rocks and his children growing increasingly distant, he is not willing to let someone destroy the success he's spent his life building.
Then his daughter is kidnapped and, very suddenly, it's not just his livelihood that's on the line. Now Chester must discover just how far he will go to protect his family ...

Can You Hear Me

Erikson, Anna Lyse — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Can You Hear Me is available as part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series of science-themed plays, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in April, 2024.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:

Lucy DeVito as Degna Marconi

Martin Jarvis as Mr. Preece, King Edward, Captain Smith

Kurt Kanazawa as Alfonso Marconi, George Parkin

Henri Lubatti as Giuseppe Marconi, Teddy Roosevelt

Moira Quirk as Annie Jameson

Darren Richardson as George Kemp, Jack Phillips

André Sogliuzzo as Guglielmo Marconi and Older Marconi

Mark Jude Sullivan as Luigi Solari, Harold Bride, Pagent

Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson

Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden

Recorded and edited by Neil Wogenson

Designed by Neil Wogenson, Charles Carroll and Mark Holden, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.

Technical Advisor and Morse Code Performer: Mark Holden

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Foley Artist: Stacey Martinez

Antique Morse Code and radio equipment provided by Ken Holden

The Essential Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Over twenty unabridged selections of Rudyard Kipling's stories, poems and letters. FULL LISTING 1. PRELUDE - "To Departmental Dittiesâ€ (1885) read by Rupert Degas 2. TODS' from "Plain Tales from the Hillsâ€ read by Martin Jarvis 3. THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST (1889) read by Rupert Degas 4. KIDKNAPPED from "Plain Tales from the Hillsâ€ read by Martin Jarvis 5. THE SONG OF THE SONS read by Rupert Degas 6. THE SONG OF THE CITIES read by Rupert Degas 7. ENGLAND'S ANSWER read by Rupert Degas 8. THE THREE MUSKETEERS from "Plain Tales from the Hillsâ€ read by Martin Jarvis 9. THE ROUT OF THE WHITE HUSSARS from "Plain Tales of the Hillsâ€ read by Martin Jarvis 10. RECESSIONAL (1897) read by Rupert Degas ANIMAL STORIES 1. THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE from the "Second Jungle Bookâ€ read by Rupert Degas 2. MOWGLI'S BROTHERS from "The Jungle Bookâ€ read by Rupert Degas 3. THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES (1911) read by Rupert Degas 4. HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT from the "Just So Storiesâ€ read by Rupert Degas CHILDREN AND FAMILY 1. A SCHOOL SONG - prelude to "Stalky & Co.â€ read by Rupert Degas 2. THE PRODIGAL SON read by Rupert Degas 3. WEE WILLIE WINKIE, AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN read by Rupert Degas 4. THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF read by Liza Goddard 5. KIPLING'S LETTERS TO HIS CHILDREN, JOHN AND ELSIE read by Rupert Degas 6. MERROW DOWN read by Rupert Degas 7. IF read by Rupert Degas WAR AND OTHER 1. LETTERS BETWEEN KIPLING AND HIS SON JOHN Read by Rupert Degas 2. THE GARDENER Read by Rupert Degas 3. EPITAPHS OF THE WAR (1914 - 1918) Read by Rupert Degas 4. JUSTICE (October, 1918) Read by Rupert Degas 5. THE FIRES Read by Rupert Degas 6. THE MARK OF THE BEAST Read by Richard Pasco

Kidnapped

Kipling, Rudyard — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet born in Bombay, India. Educated in Britain, he later returned to Lahore, India, to work as a journalist. Kipling travelled widely and also lived in Vermont, having married Carrie Balestier, an American. Throughout his life, Kipling never stopped writing. He was greatly revered during his lifetime and received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature. Kidnapped examines Kipling's attitudes towards race, and inter-racial marriage in particular, with the amused observations of societal quirks characteristic of his writing.

Plain Tales From the Hills

Kipling, Rudyard — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Plain Tales from the Hills conjures up an intimate, evocative, often funny portrait of India. These unabridged observations of the British in India and Indian life were originally commissioned for The Civil and Military Gazette where Kipling worked as a journalist in the 1880s. Incredibly, Kipling wrote these famous and atmospheric pieces before he was twenty-two and they aptly illustrate his genius as a storyteller whose words and voice have stood the test of time. Stories included: The Other Man Three and an Extra The Rescue of Pluffles The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly Lispeth Venus Annodomini Yoked with an Unbeliever Consequences On the Strength of a Likeness In Error His Wedded Wife The Bisara of Pooree Watches of the Night Cupid's Arrows The Broken-Link Handicap A Bank Fraud Miss Yougal's Sais Thrown Away Beyond the Pale A Germ Destroyer The Taking of Lungtungpen In the House of Suddhoo The Bronckhorst Divorce False Dawn

Goodbye to All That

Graves, Robert — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Robert Graves' searing autobiography and an emotional firsthand account of life in the First World War trenches. A superb and graphic storyteller, Graves begins with the petty cruelties of his public school upbringing. Then, almost in 'fly-on-the wall' documentary style, he paints devastating portraits of war: of a young man's hell, of meaningless sacrifice, of everyday heroism, and of the idiocy of the military command. Even accomplishing some moments of humour, Goodbye to All That is an enthralling listen, bringing the listener into the midst of the battleground. It is widely recognised as one of the most powerful insights into the experience of war; of what it actually felt like to be there and to be a survivor.

Ring for Jeeves

Wodehouse, P. G. — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

We find ourselves in the austerity of the 1950s, when England's aristocracy was feeling the pinch. Bertie Wooster has gone to a residential self-help school to learn how to darn his socks. Until he re-emerges, Jeeves has signed up with Bill Rowcester (pronounced Roaster), an earl who is failing to make ends meet in trade, and yearning to sell his stately home, which has charm and damp in equal measure. In his new environment Jeeves is required to exert his mammoth brain to what would be breaking point for any normal intellect. Apart from the current economic crisis and his employer's complete ignorance of digging and delving, Jeeves has to duck and weave to preserve his temporary master from grievous injury at the hands of a) a very angry White Hunter, and b) a small but feisty fiance. If that wasn't enough, we also meet a rich American lady with addictions to a) psychic phenomena, and b) White Hunters, which have to be humoured by night as well as by day. Believe it or not, Jeeves flits across this minefield with all the grace and agility of an adagio dancer and makes it look easy, which is yet another indication of his truly Olympian stature.

A Pelican at Blandings

Wodehouse, P. G. — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

The usual suspects line up at Blandings castle for a typically hilarious Wodehouse caper which sees a cast of characters getting hot and bothered over a nude painting that everybody seems to want to get their hands on. This very British comedic pleasure will delight fans and newcomers alike.

Right Ho, Jeeves

Wodehouse, P. G. — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Right Ho, Jeeves sees Bertie Wooster blithely attempting to assume the role of Jeeves himself as a matters-of-the-heart adviser. Very unwise: from Gussie Fink-Nottle's romance with Madeline Bassett, to Tuppy Glossop and his stop/go engagement to Angela Travers, the young master succeeds only in making a bally mess of everyone's love-lives.Toss into the mixing-bowl hot-headed chef Anatole, perpetually resigning from, returning to and re-resigning from the employ of Bertie's long-suffering Aunt Dahlia; and, shimmering over all, the lateral-thinking genius that is Jeeves. Here is more from the wonderously engaging world of Wodehouse, where laughter and inspired idiocy whirl together in warm-hearted celebration of great comic writing.

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Brandreth, Gyles — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Born in Dublin in 1854 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was educated at Oxford where he achieved a double first. His reputation as a dramatist, poet, and novelist was established in only seven years; from his first short story The Happy Prince to The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895. He died in Paris in 1900 ruined by a notorious libel case and two years in Reading Gaol. On 18th February 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry left a visiting card at the Albemarle Club on which he had written: "To Oscar Wilde posing as a sodomite." The accusation led to a series of three trials and the imprisonment of Wilde. This compelling dramatic recreation has been carefully compiled from the original trial transcripts. Performed almost entirely by Martin Jarvis taking the parts of barristers, witnesses, judge, jury, and, of course, Oscar Wilde. It captures the flavor of the trials exactly.

Heavy Weather

Wodehouse, P. G. — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Part of the popular "Castle Blandingsâ€ series, Heavy Weather is as light as a feather. In this sparkling sequel to Summer Lightning a storm is brewing over Blandings Castle. But surely, the storm will conk out and the thunder grumble awayâ€¦â€¦

Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best

Wodehouse, P. G. — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

The Collected Blandings Short Stories. Blandings Castle is the home of Lord Emsworth, who likes nothing better than to potter at home in his enormous castle garden. But his rural idyll is once again set to be disturbed in these nine hilarious fables. No peace is possible when his sister Constance is let loose, and she is constantly trying to reorganise the household and its inhabitants! Without great success . . . The nieces are unhappy, McAllister leaves at a difficult time, and then The Empress of Blandings - Emsworth's prize pig - goes off her pig-food! Put all this against the continuing complicated love affairs of Freddie Threepwood, not to mention Lord Emsworth's own love interests, and the stage is once more set for classic Wodehouse hilarity!