Lit Between the Ears

L.A. Theatre Works: The Doctor’s Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw on Saturday 4 August July 30, 2007

Saturday, August 4 from 10 pm – midnight on 89.3 KPCC, L.A. Theatre Works’ The Play’s the Thing continues its new Relativity science series with The Doctor’s Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw, starring Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvis, Jane Carr, Jennifer Dundas, Ken Danziger and Paxton Whitehead. The blow-hards, the know-it-alls, the scrupulous, and the impecunious are all targets for Shaw’s incisive wit in his classic satire of the medical profession.  Thanks to a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the first broadcast each month of The Play’s The Thing is a science-themed play. Each play in the Relativity series is available for podcasting at
http://www.kpcc.org/
for three months following the broadcast. The program includes an interview with Dr. Neil Wenger, Director of the UCLA Healthcare Ethics Center.

Where to listen

The series can also be heard on 89.1 KUOR in Redlands; 94.1 KPFA in Northern California; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; 93.5 FM  KRTS Marfa Public Radio (Texas); 89.7 WGBH in Boston; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 88.9 FM KUNM in Albuquerque; as well as on many other public radio stations nationwide and XM Satellite Radio. Selected programs from LATW are also heard internationally over BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Eirann (Ireland), Radio Hong Kong, and Radio New Zealand. The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in bookstores, libraries, through their catalog, digitally on itunes, overdrive.com, audible.com, and on the L.A. Theatre Works website at
http://www.latw.org/
.

Entire schedule

To get a full schedule, go to the L.A. Theatre Works website at
http://www.latw.org/
and follow the link through the “Radio Theatre Series” heading and then “Episode Guide” or go directly to
http://www.scpr.org/
for KPCC.

Additional support

Additional support for the series is provided by AudioFile Magazine.  Listeners can visit their website at
http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/
to view 65 reviews of LATW plays and hear sound clips from them.  The Beverly Hilton hotel is the official hotel for The Play’s the Thing.

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X-Viper Hour: Ford and James Family aired Monday 23 July 2007 July 29, 2007

On Monday 23 July, Phillip J. Hoying, Executive Director of X-Viper Hour (XVH), hosted the audio theater premiers of Amy James, Bob Ford, Jake Ford, and Chloe Ford better known as the Ford and James Family.

Contemporary audio theatre . . .

Joined by standard XVH members, they performed Elaine A. Power’s The Ransom of Red Chief and “The Hex” from Conversations with Dudley Dewlap during the first half hour of the show. Powers is a member and officer of Hunterdon Radio Theatre (
http://www.hrtonline.org/
 ) in Clinton, New Jersey.

. . . Plus classic radio drama . . .

The latter half of the program included a live reproduction of “The Housekeeper” from Father Knows Best written by Ed James and originally aired over the NBC network on June 22, 1950.

. . . Equals . . .

“It was a night of family fun and laughs,” said Hoying. He then added, “Recordings of The Ransom of Red Chief and The Housekeeper may be found online through XVH
http://www.xviperhour.org/ransom.aspx
and
http://www.xviperhour.org/thehousekeeper.aspx
respectively.”

Contact details

To learn more about the X-Viper Hour, please visit
http://www.xviperhour.org/
.  Or, send a letter to:

Mr. Phillip J. Hoying
Executive Director
X-Viper Hour
Hamilton College Student Activities
198 College Hill Rd.
Clinton, NY 13323

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L.A. Theatre Works: Tonight, Saturday 28 July, Alan Ayckbourn’s comic trilogy “The Norman Conquests” Part 3: Round and Round the Garden July 29, 2007

Saturday, July 28 – tonight! – from 10 pm – midnight on 89.3 KPCC, L.A. Theatre Works’ The Play’s the Thing completes its broadcast of Alan Ayckbourn’s comic trilogy, “The Norman Conquests,” with Part 3: Round and Round the Garden starring Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres, Carolyn Seymour, Ken Danzinger, Jane Leeves and Christopher Neame.  The third installment returns us to the same weekend in the country, but this time to the quiet setting of Mother’s overgrown English country garden.  Something more troublesome than brambles is lurking among the roses in the form of Norman, the assistant librarian whose conquests, unlike those of the warrior race to whom he presumably owes his name, are amorous rather than military.  Heavily laced with lunacy, Ayckbourn examines the foibles of the English middle class, mixing hilarity with pointed social comment.  The broadcast includes an interview with Alan Ayckbourn.

Where to listen

The series can also be heard on 89.1 KUOR in Redlands; 94.1 KPFA in Northern California; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; 93.5 FM  KRTS Marfa Public Radio (Texas); 89.7 WGBH in Boston; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 88.9 FM KUNM in Albuquerque; as well as on many other public radio stations nationwide and XM Satellite Radio. Selected programs from LATW are also heard internationally over BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Eirann (Ireland), Radio Hong Kong, and Radio New Zealand. The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in bookstores, libraries, through their catalog, digitally on itunes, overdrive.com, audible.com, and on the L.A. Theatre Works website at
http://www.latw.org/
.

Entire schedule

To get a full schedule, go to the L.A. Theatre Works website at
http://www.latw.org/
and follow the link through the “Radio Theatre Series” heading and then “Episode Guide” or go directly to
http://www.scpr.org/
for KPCC.

Additional support

Additional support for the series is provided by AudioFile Magazine.  Listeners can visit their website at
http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/
to view 65 reviews of LATW plays and hear sound clips from them.  The Beverly Hilton hotel is the official hotel for The Play’s the Thing.

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