Weird Stories; If Fog Could Sing

KIRSTY WARK: You call it "Art, truth and politics". I mean, that do you feel that as a writer you have a responsibility, no matter how oblique the political references are in your plays, to be more politically explicit, as it were, as a campaigner? HAROLD PINTER: My plays... (lick).... I've always dealt with erm political... matters, really. Erm. You say, "obliquely". Well...

"How very much I have loved you, how very much I have tried to give you the good life..." Jim Jones, 1978

A Radio Play by Harold Pinter Edited and Directed by Charlie Price VOICE I: Charlie Price VOICE II: Elizabeth Kuti VOICE III: Robert Price (As far as I am aware, this is the first performance of Family Voices by a family) Content Warning: Strong Language, Dark Humour

"A heavy tramcar honking its gong slewed between." Ulysses,  James Joyce

A Radio Piece by Samuel Beckett Performed and arranged by Charlie Price

"For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy". St. Luke, 1, 44 Music List: Sleepwalk- Santo and Jonny Any Way You Want Me- Elvis- Sun Records- 1956 Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat, Mv. III: Andante Cantabile Content Warning: Sex references, language, rape references, misogyny 

"Porn star Angela White opens up about having sex with fans" Daily Mail, 2023 Content Warning: Sex references, disturbing scenes

The latest farce in Howardworld... Music: Anton Webern- Six Bagatelles (No. 5) Content Warning: Dark humour

GOOD ANGEL: "O Faustus, lay that damned book aside!" Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe

 A further chapter. Content Warning: Infrequent strong language

"Terrific. He'll have them on their feet! I can hear it from here." Catastrophe, Samuel Beckett Music: Brahms' Clarinet Quinet (Gervase de Payer, live, 1978) Content Warning: Morbidity, Dark Humour, Infrequent Sex References

A Political Farce Music: Boris Ord- Adam Lay y Bounden (Carols from Kings, Choir of Kings' College, Cambridge, 1997) Content Warning: Disturbing Scenes

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Richard III, William Shakespeare Content Warning: Strong Sex References, Disturbing Scenes

A Political Monologue Music: Beethoven- String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Mv. III

A triangle of strange lovers on a beach at night, A nettle with traumatic roots attempts the English language, A bizarre dinner party where everyone speaks in sounds, A spooky other half, called Felicity, A confusing gull, An evil contrabassoon And, in addition, odd goods and services will be announced... Content Warning: Horror, Menace, Sex References, Language Written, composed, arranged, mixed,...

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images..." The Decalogue Thumbnail Picture: Madonna of the Meadow- Raphael Music: Gerald Finzi: Et In Terra Pax Anton Webern: Five Canons (for Soprano, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet) 2. Dormi Jesu, Mater Ridet

"Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down, sometimes I'm almost to the ground..." African-American Spiritual Content Warning: Strong Language

In the last five monologues we heard about a man who keeps seeing a set of instructions whenever he's on the brink of orgasm;  a strange episode in a pizzeria involving a dwarf, an angel, and an old recently retired father who hasn't moved from the back office in a whole month;  a scary party thrust upon a miserable university student;  a priest who becomes trapped in his confessional; ...

"Something grabs a hold of me tightly..." Vanilla Ice Content Warning: Infrequent Strong Language

Go look up the works of art I would urge... A poem sequence based on paintings/photographs

"Spasmodic dysphonia is a voice disorder. It causes involuntary spasms in the muscles of the voice box or larynx. This causes the voice to break and have a tight, strained or strangled sound." Spasmodic Dysphonia, definition, courtesy of Johns Hopkins Medicine "...I'm trembling because of you." Translations, Brian Friel  Content Warning: Strong sexual content, abuse

5 Monologues by Charlie Price. Take them or leave them; take two and leave three; leave or take them all...your choice. Happy listening... Content Warning: Strong language, strong sex references, horror

"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream" The Emperor of Ice Cream, Wallace Stevens Content Warning: Disturbing scenes, some of which listeners may find offensive. One use of racist language. 

"Last human tenant of these ruined walls" The Ruined Cottage, William Wordsworth Content Warning: Rape reference

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red; Pestilence-stricken multitudes... Ode to the West Wind, Percy Byhsse Shelly