'I always thought it was a mistake, calling you Hamlet. I mean, what kind of name is that for a young boy?'Music: Henry Mancini, '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q7y0XWXacg" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Royal Blue</a>' (from The Pink Panther)

'I always thought it was a mistake, calling you Hamlet. I mean, what kind of name is that for a young boy?' Music: Henry Mancini, 'Royal Blue' (from The Pink Panther)

'I always thought it was a mistake, calling you Hamlet. I mean, what kind of name is that for a young boy?'Music: Henry Mancini, '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q7y0XWXacg" rel="noopener noreferrer">Royal Blue</a>' (from The Pink Panther)

#71: 'Gertrude Talks Back' by Margaret Atwood

Short stories, with music and sound effects.

"There is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in a novel – an intense awareness of human loneliness" (Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice, 1962).

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Short stories, with music and sound effects. "There is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in a novel – an intense awareness of human loneliness" (Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice, 1962).

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#71: 'Gertrude Talks Back' by Margaret Atwood