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Austin Pendleton
About this listen
Starring (in alphabetical order):
Caroline Goodall as Joan Plowright
Glenne Headly as Vivien Leigh
Martin Jarvis as Laurence Olivier
Robert Machray as Orson Welles
Orlando Seale as Sean
Simon Templeman as Kenneth Tynan
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As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.
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Who Else Laughed, Cried, and Shuddered?
- By Jennifer Chichester on 09-16-22
By: Freida McFadden
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Starship Troopers
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.
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The definitive version!
- By Kristopher G. Hesson on 10-03-24
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Slayers: A Buffyverse Story
- By: Christopher Golden, Amber Benson
- Narrated by: Amber Benson, Charisma Carpenter, James Charles Leary, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new adventure about connections that never die—even if you bury them. A decade has passed since the epic final battle that concluded Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). The game-changing spell that gave power to all potential Slayers persists. With new Slayers constantly emerging, things are looking grim for the bad guys.
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A dream come true
- By Anonymous User on 10-12-23
By: Christopher Golden, and others
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- Gwynne O'Reagan
- 02-17-07
Fascinating!
A fine production of a play about actors and the artistic process. It covers the challenging effort to work together by two of the 20th Century's great stage talents--Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier--in the absurdist playwright Ionesco's "Rhinoceros." The actors do a wonderful job--I particularly enjoyed Martin Jarvis's fine reproduction of Olivier's voice and intonations. The only weak link is Gleane Headley's brave but essentially unsuccessful attempt to evoke Vivien Leigh, which I admit is an almost impossible task. Altogether, however, this production is a fine effort that is highly enjoyable. Movie and stage buffs (particularly of the 1940s thru '60s) will have the most fun.
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- DARBY KERN
- 02-08-23
A fun look at a couple legends
Sometimes it’s hard to hear your heroes behaving in such self destructive ways, but the show is a bit of a fantasia, so it works. I know Austin Pendleton as an actor, but he’s a dynamite script writer too. He weaves fact and fiction into a truly human look at two (or five) legends, magnificently portrayed by a wonderful cast.
If you’re interested in Welles and Olivier you will have a good time with this audio. And the price is a sweet deal too.
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- CaitlinsDadVP
- 10-24-22
Orson’s Shadow 👏👏👏👏👏
Aside from the late Glenn Headley I am unfamiliar with this cast but WOW. They are all brilliant. The performers playing Welles & Olivier capture them in their voices if not doing EXACT impressions. It’s flawless to me. The script is so smart, so spot on in its word choices & pacing. The actor playing Tynan does a great stutter. Headley’s Vivien Leigh is as charming as Scarlett O’Hara & just as devious while at the same time as fragile as Blanche Dubois. Stunning. God I miss her. It’s just a terrific show, I’d like to be able to see the scene of Welles trying to direct Olivier when he has the towel. There were a couple other things that I’d like to see but overall this works as an audio play thanks to the writing & performances.
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