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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626767 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Action: The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game Author: Bassim El-Wakil, Robert McKee Narrator: Robert McKee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the master of Story, Dialogue, and Character, ACTION offers writers the keys to propulsive storytelling.   ACTION explores the ways that a modern-day writer can successfully tell an action story that not only stands apart, but wins the war on clichés. Teaming up with the former co-host of The Story Toolkit, Bassim El-Wakil, legendary story lecturer Robert McKee guides writers to award-winning originality by deconstructing the action genre, illuminating the challenges, and, more importantly, demonstrating how to master the demands of plot with surprising beats of innovation and ingenuity. Topics include:  - Understanding the Four Core Elements of Action - Creating the Action Cast - Hook, Hold, Pay Off: Design in Action - The Action Macguffin - Action Set Pieces - The Sixteen Action Subgenres A must-add to the McKee storytelling library, ACTION illustrates the principles of narrative drive with precision and clarity by referencing the most popular action movies of our time including: Die Hard, The Star Wars Saga, Dark Knight, The Matrix, and Avengers: Endgame.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Old Harry’s Game: The Complete Series of the Award-Winning BBC Radio 4 Comedy Author: Andy Hamilton Narrator: James Grout, Jimmy Mulville, David Swift, Robert Duncan, Andy Hamilton, Full Cast, Annette Crosbie, Timothy West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: All seven series of Andy Hamilton's fiendishly funny award-winning comedy set in Hell. 'Satirical, philosophical - and devilishly funny' Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph Welcome to Hell - where nobody can ever quite catch the barman's eye. In this collection, which contains all seven series of Old Harry's Game, get ready for some wicked one-liners and scorching satire. Satan is fed up after a millennia in charge of Hell, especially given the prospect of an eternity still running the damned place. Although he does enjoy playing pranks on the world of the living and devising wry torments for the souls in his keeping, he often wistfully recalls his past as an archangel... Over the course of the series, we meet various famous figures now languishing in Hell, including a foul-mouthed Jane Austen, a mindless Helen of Troy and a less-than-heroic Samson. Satan takes Hell resident Thomas on a tour of his life, his assistant Scumspawn has trouble with a pushy computer, and love drives The Professor to extreme action. Satan and The Professor find a huge, empty space in Hell (when they enter Scumspawn's brain), a Health and Safety officer notes that the lighting is inadequate, and Satan punishes a feng shui expert. And then Edith arrives... Seven series of the Sony Award-winning comedy (plus the Christmas and Olympic specials) starring Andy Hamilton as Satan and a regular cast of acclaimed actors including Annette Crosbie as Edith, Timothy West as God, James Grout as The Professor, Jimmy Mulville as Thomas and Robert Duncan as Scumspawn. Production credits Written by Andy Hamilton Produced by Paul Mayhew-Archer First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 23 November - 28 December 1995 (Series 1), 7 April - 12 May 1998 (Series 2), 24 March - 28 April 1999 (Series 3), 29 March - 3 May 2001 (Series 4), 31 December 2002 - 1 January 2003 (2002 Christmas Special), 20 September - 11 October 2005 (Series 5), 27 September - 1 November 2007 (Series 6), 19 February - 26 March 2009 (Series 7), 23 December - 30 December 2010 (2010 Christmas Special), 12 July - 19 July 2012 (Olympic Special). ©2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Little History of Art Series: Part of Little Histories Author: Charlotte Mullins Narrator: Rachael Beresford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Charlotte Mullins brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and, importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a more diverse and exciting landscape of art. She shows how art can help us see the world differently and understand our place in it, how it helps us express ourselves, fuels our creativity, and contributes to our overall wellbeing and positive mental health. Why did our ancestors make art? What did art mean to them and what does their art mean for us today? Why is art even important at all? Mullins introduces listeners to the Terracotta Army and Nok sculptures, Renaissance artists such as Giotto and Michelangelo, trailblazers including Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and contemporary artists who create art as resistance, such as Ai Weiwei and Shirin Neshat. She also restores forgotten artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola, Guan Daosheng, and Jacob Lawrence, and travels to the Niger valley, Peru, Java, Rapa Nui, and Australia, to broaden our understanding of what art is and should be. This extraordinary journey through 100,000 years celebrates art's crucial place in understanding our collective culture and history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life Author: Roxana Robinson Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships—with family, friends, and especially with fellow artist Alfred Stieglitz. Her extraordinary accomplishments, such as the often eroticized flowers, bones, stones, skulls, and pelvises that she painted with such command, are all the more remarkable when seen in the context of the struggle she waged between the rigorous demands of love and work. When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This new edition features a new foreword by the author, setting O’Keefe in an artistic context over the last thirty years since the book was first published, as well as previously unpublished letters of the young O’Keeffe to her lover, Arthur MacMahon. This book also relates the story of Robinson’s own encounter with the artist. As interest in O’Keeffe continues to grow among museum-goers and scholars alike, this book remains indispensable for understanding her life and art.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615585 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lawrence Sweeney Mix: A BBC Radio 4 Improv Comedy Show Author: Jim Sweeney, Josie Lawrence Narrator: Jim Sweeney, Josie Lawrence Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Improv masters Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney perform hilarious off-the-cuff sketches based entirely on audience suggestions No script, no props and living by their wit - in this side-splitting series, two of the funniest stars of The Comedy Store Players and Whose Line Is It Anyway? join together to create sketches from ideas shouted out by a live studio audience. Making it up as they go along, Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney riff on topics ranging from a room full of kittens to something you might find beneath the sofa; from an unexpected moon expedition to a mishap involving a Portaloo; and from an unusual gathering with the neighbours to a meet-cute involving electrolysis. Best friends and longtime collaborators, the duo keep the laughter flowing with their quickfire quips and affectionate banter, as they bounce off each other, throw one another curveballs - and try to catch each other out... Chaotic, inventive and full of crazy characters and surreal skits, The Lawrence Sweeney Mix is sure to have you in stitches. Production credits Starring Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney Produced by Dawn Ellis First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates: 27 February - 20 March 2007 (Series 1) 29 January - 19 February 2008 (Series 2) © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God of Sperm: Cappy Rothman's Life in Conception Author: Joe Donnelly Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: God of Sperm tells the remarkable story of Dr. Cappy Miles Rothman, the son of notorious gangster Norman 'Roughhouse' Rothman, who went on to become a trailblazer in the field of reproductive medicine. Rothman started the California Cryobank, one of the world's largest repositories of reproductive genetic material and cord-blood stem cells. Among other achievements, Rothman also pioneered the use of microsurgery in urological procedures, postmortem sperm retrieval techniques, and was one of the first practitioners of andrology, a specialty dealing with male reproductive biology and medicine. How Cappy Rothman went from Mafia scion and man-about-town during the postwar Miami Beach–Havana era of gangster chic to one of the most consequential figures in modern medicine is an epic, only-in-America tale and also a fine reminder of the broad horizons and wild possibilities life in the US can offer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost of the Hardy Boys: The Writer Behind the World's Most Famous Boy Detectives Author: Leslie Mcfarlane Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In 1926, twenty-three-year-old cub newspaper reporter Leslie McFarlane responded to an ad: 'Experienced Fiction Writer Wanted.' The ad was signed by Edward Stratemeyer, whose syndicate effectively invented mass-market children's book publishing in America. McFarlane, who had a few published adventure stories to his name, was hired and his first job was to write Dave Fearless Under the Ocean as Roy Rockwood—for a flat fee of $100, no royalties. His pay increased to $125 when Stratemeyer proposed a new series of detective stories for kids involving two high school aged brothers who would solve mysteries. The title of the series was The Hardy Boys. McFarlane's pseudonym would be Franklin W. Dixon. McFarlane went on to write twenty-one Hardy Boys adventures. McFarlane kept his ghostwriting gig secret until late in life when his son urged him to share the story of being the real Franklin W. Dixon. By the time McFarlane died in 1977, unofficial sales estimates of The Hardy Boys series already topped fifty million copies. Ghost of the Hardy Boys is a fascinating, funny, and always charming look back at a vanished era of journalism, writing, and book publishing. It is for anyone who's curious about solving the mystery of the fascinating man behind one of the most widely read and enduring children's book series in history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance Author: Joseph Luzzi Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A true historical “detective story” full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced it Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all one hundred cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished. Botticelli declined into poverty and obscurity, and his illustrations went missing for four hundred years. The nineteenth-century rediscovery of Botticelli’s Dante drawings brought scholars to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissance had come to mean. Today, Botticelli’s Primavera adorns household objects of every kind. This book is essential to explain not only how and why this artist became iconic but why we still need his work―and the spirit of the Renaissance―today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth Author: Nigel Jones Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A revised edition of the candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke revealing the very different reality behind the golden-boy façade of an English literary icon Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27. All England mourned his passing. But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who was bisexual, misogynistic, anti-Semitic – and sometimes alarmingly unstable. This revised edition of Nigel Jones's admired biography, including an account of a previously unknown affair of Brooke's, reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth. - Nigel Jones is an author, a former editor at History Today and BBC history magazines, and has been a TV and radio broadcaster. He is the author of several histories and biographies, including 'The War Walk: A Journey along the Western Front', 'Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth' and 'Sir Oswald Mosley'.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622821 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Head On: A Memoir Author: Larry Csonka Narrator: Phil Thron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Larry Csonka ran the football with audacity and authority. He lived his off-the-field life with equal abandon. As part of the NFL's 100th Anniversary, he and his undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins teammates were named the best team in NFL history. In Head On, Csonka shares how they achieved their legendary Perfect Season. From quitting football at a young age, to his often-combative relationship with Coach Don Shula, to brazen exploits with his NFL pals, Csonka narrates a life that is colorful, unbridled, and thrilling. Csonka found himself hanging out with Burt Reynolds, Dick Butkus, Lee Majors, Joe Namath, and Elvis Presley during his football years. But his moments outside the spotlight reveal the most about this larger-than-life figure—raising critters and a little hell in his formative years on an Ohio dirt farm, early run-ins with the law, confronting thieves with a sawed-off shotgun, taking sniper fire on a USO tour of Vietnam, and being adrift at night on the Bering Sea with gale-force winds raging. Csonka's Head On is a captivating account of grit, grace, and gumption told by an iconic Hall of Famer who continues to gain ground—figuratively, literally, and unapologetically—every day.