Limelight America

LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED More Hopkins this episode. What has been the happiest year of my life so far? Do I do anything well? Have I ever demonstrated courage"self-analysis Limelight America coming attractions: The Dream Warriors a one hour weekly Clear Channel radio broadcast about American business pioneers - The Nod Squad a weekly podcast dedicated to over 40 million Americans with sleep disorders New! The Curist an original novel and audio book about the discovery of a cure for cancer New! Outside The Box a docudrama and audio book about the academic entrepreneurial movement in America

LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED Reuben Pettaway's rampage! "When I was just a boy, the bay was my faithful friend, and the sails on the horizon, made me dream of where they'd been" - a lucky boy 1960 - Coming soon - Unsuspecting Friends, the story of a Sweet Gum tree that was taken to a lumber mill in Grayling, Michigan when he was just thirteen. After being sawed and turned into planks he was transformed into a picnic table, ending up at Lake Windjammer. For thirty years Sweet Gum encountered people of all ages as they came to picnic and play, often sitting on him and sometimes carving their initials in him. Now, his time has come, and he invites us to share his memories

HOPKINS Continues LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED "You're a circle of light on my wall, coming from somewhere outside, returning night after night, searching for someplace to hide" - From "Wherever You Are" US20 Records  

Limelight America became a formal business in the late 1980’s, but the idea was born in 1979 with the release of a commemorative record album titled The Flight Of Apollo Eleven. That 33 1/3 rpm vinyl marked the 10th Anniversary of the first lunar landing and was the brainchild of radio producer Michael Drew Shaw. “The Big Fitz” is just one more of the fascinating journeys we will be sharing from our growing library of Limelight America podcasts

LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED “Tanbark, my fellow acorn was partly in his cup while we were both inside … until we met our fate.” - Chinkapin, roasting on an open fire  

LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED Hopkins continues. Many more far-ranging profiles coming soon including Starbucks, the Pepsi generation and Bat Masterson. Plus, Billy Joel and what people really think entrepreneur means.  

LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED I’ve been hurt so bad it’s hard to care, I need to try but do I dare, all alone is where I’ve been, please show me how to care again. Excerpt from "I Need a Place to Hide" - US 20 Records 

LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED The Hopkins audiobook continues ... 

LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED “Roots are opportunists. They go wherever they find the best feeding and drinking. A particularly happy-looking ivy on the walls of Magdalen College in Oxford once got into the cellar and drank a whole barrel of port!” - tai-haku

The Hopkins audiobook continues LISTENER DICRETION ADVISED this is a Limelight America exclusive in partnership with American Retro Publishing and Weldwood Studios

LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED "Now I’m uncertain of my future. I’m longing for my past and missing where I used to be. Hopefully, this emptiness inside me will soon be behind me" Sweet Gum, formerly a tree and for a very long time a picnic table.

LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED Today we continue our journey into the bizarre story of Rubin and Imo as they join up to fight both the pill factories and the airline industry. 

LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED “I did not inherit the dignity in my family. I inherited the looks. My wood is superlative, and my smoke goes up like incense from the barbecue pit.”- I. M. hickory  

In this episode the Hopkins audiobook continues LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED

“Even in the dead of the year there are stirrings of swelling buds and eccentric bushes with winter flowers.” - Malus Baccata, Siberia  

Now, another excerpt from the new audiobook  Hopkins. LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED Jim Henson who began his world-famous Muppets as a last-minute guest on a morning TV talk show when he hastily created his firsthand puppet using two ping pong balls, and

LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED "If I stayed away for long, would you know me. If I used your eyes to see, would you still want me ...  Don't mean to burden you, I'm just passing thru another Hard Time" Tommy Paul and White Plains, US20 Records - > Today we will share another instalment of an exciting new audiobook titled Hopkins LISENER DISCRETION ADVISED a four-part series that takes a behind the scenes look at the pharmaceutical industry as seen through the eyes of two unlikely partners as they play a terrifying game of revenge!