Classic Movies

Das ist die Geschichte von Viktor Frankenstein, einem klugen Mann, der ein riesengroßes Wesen erschuf. Doch als Viktor sein Wesen sah, wusste er nicht, wie er sich darum kümmern sollte. Erlebe ein Abenteuer mit Micky, Donald und ihren Freunden, die in einer humorvollen Erzählung der klassischen Frankenstein-Geschichte auftreten, spannend vorgetragen, mit Soundeffekten, Musik und den Stimmen der beliebten Charaktere in einem eindrucksvollen Audio-Format.

Als König Dagobert von Entenhausen England verlässt, um Verwandte im Ausland zu besuchen, übernimmt Prinz John den Thron. Der neue Herrscher ist gierig und fest entschlossen, mit seiner neuen Macht Geld zu verdienen. Deshalb beginnt er zusammen mit dem Sheriff, die Armen aus allem herauszupressen, was sie besitzen. Der mutige Micky und seine Freunde wollen jedoch diese Ungerechtigkeit nicht weiterhin dulden. Mit Pfeil und Bogen versuchen sie, von den Reichen zu stehlen und es den Armen zu geben!

Country girl Denise Baudu arrives in Paris hoping for a position in her uncle's clothing shop. However, her uncle's shop, along with other small shops in the area, is doing poorly. This is due to the large store across the street - The Ladies' Paradise - which is swallowing up the small specialty stores by offering 'one-stop shopping' at discounted prices. 19th Century Paris is experiencing the dawn of the department store. Despite her loyalty to her uncle, Denise is drawn to the progressive Ladies' Paradise and it's owner, the driven but charismatic Monsieur Mouret.

We'll Always Have Casablanca is celebrated film historian Noah Isenberg's rich account of this most beloved movie's origins. Through extensive research and interviews with filmmakers, film critics, family members of the cast and crew, and diehard fans, Isenberg reveals the myths and realities behind Casablanca's production, exploring the transformation of the unproduced stage play into the classic screenplay, the controversial casting decisions, and the effect of the war's progress on the movie's reception.

Ein junger Lehrer entschließt sich zu einem ungewöhnlichen Experiment: Er möchte seinen Schülern beweisen, dass wir alle immer und überall anfällig sind für faschistoides Handeln und Denken. Doch die "Bewegung", die er auslöst, droht ihn und sein Vorhaben zu überrollen: Das Experiment gerät außer Kontrolle. Morton Rhues packender Roman beruht auf dem realen Experiment, das der Lehrer Ron Jones 1967 im kalifornischen Palo Alto mit einer Highschoolklasse durchführte.

The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. Scripted by major 20th-century writers, including Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Alfred Hitchcock and Dennis Potter, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richly evocative, atmospheric soundtracks.

Paul W. Fairman (1916-1977) was the author of not one - but two stories for science fiction magazines that were later purchased and transformed into classic 1950s drive-in theater horror fare. Oddly both tales were published in the same year, 1953, two months apart. The first, "Deadly City" appeared in the March 1953 issue of Worlds of If, under Fairman's "Ivar Jorgensen" pseudonym; and was filmed as Target Earth (1954).

Franz Kafka's profound and disturbing novella Metamorphosis was first published in German in 1915. In this recent translation by David Wyllie, Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman, wakes to find himself "transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin". How he, his family, and others deal with this untoward situation is subsequently revealed.

The St. Charles Players present a unique telling of Henry James' classic tale of relationships and their imperfections, in a new multi-cast dramatization performed in exciting Radio Theatre style.

Anne Elliot ist bereits siebenundzwanzig – und unverheiratet. Aus Standesdünkel riet ihre Familie ihr vor acht Jahren dazu, den Heiratsantrag von Annes großer Liebe, dem bürgerlichen und mittellosen Frederick Wentworth, abzulehnen. Allerdings langweilt der Alltag in den Kreisen des Landadels die kluge und unkonventionelle Anne und auch ihren Verlust scheint sie nie überwunden zu haben. Als sie eines Tages unverhofft erneut auf den mittlerweile wohlhabenden und geachteten Captain Wentworth trifft, erweckt diese Begegnung tiefe Gefühle in Anne.

The Great Gatsby is a book by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story is told by Nick Carraway, a man who moves to Long Island, New York, from the Midwest. The area that they live in is called eggs, due to the oval shaped houses in the region. There are two 'eggs' West Egg and East Egg. The 'old rich' live in East Egg, while the 'New Rich' reside in West Egg. Nick lives in a small house in West Egg. Nick's next-door neighbor is Jay Gatsby. Jay is in love with Nick's cousin, Daisy. But, Daisy is married to a man named Tom. The novel is about Jay and his hope that he can steal Daisy from Tom.

Das Hörbuch zum Film David Copperfield - Einmal Reichtum und zurück. Der große autobiographische Bildungsroman des 19. Jahrhunderts, der aus der Weltliteratur nicht wegzudenken ist: Charles Dickens erzählt das Aufwachsen des Waisenjungen David Copperfield in den harschen und oft brutalen Umständen der Großstadt London. David flieht zu seiner Tante Betsey und schafft es schließlich, Anwaltslehrling, dann Parlamentsreporter und letztendlich Schriftsteller zu werden.

Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts wachsen die vier March-Schwestern in New England auf. Sie alle träumen vom großen Glück. Doch in einer Gesellschaft, die starr an traditionellen Geschlechterrollen festhält, ist der Weg dahin nicht einfach. Und auch die Liebe der Schwestern zueinander wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Louisa May Alcotts weltberühmte Familiensaga - berührend, spannend und humorvoll!

Some of the cast and production team are interviewed about their roles and the making of the 1997 hit film The Full Monty. Interviews with Hugo Speer, Simon Beaufoy, Petter Cattaneo, Ulberto Pasolini and Jill Taylor. Listen to find out about the cast's first reaction to the script, first auditions, how the script developed before filming and where the idea for the film actually came from. Includes many more fascinating facts and insights from such a funny, successful and widely known film!

"Loving a ghost is painful, improbable, and lonely." Peter took me to his world and Pan left me in mine. Now I'll do anything to get back to Neverland, to take back what was stolen from me. But nothing is what it seems. My friends are dying. My enemies expect me to trust them. And my heart...It's more confused than ever.

On the far northwest coast of Tasmania at Cape Grimm lies the isolated and idiosyncratic community of Skye, which practises a religion that reveres the imagination. One clear evening in 1992 all the inhabitants enter the church hall, where they are locked in and burned alive. They have been persuaded to do this by a young man called Caleb Mean - also known as El Nino, the Christ Child.

Hopalong Cassidy is an iconic western cowboy hero conceived by Clarence Mulford, but immortalized in a series of films starring William Boyd from 1935-1948. A tough-talking and violent character in the print novels, Cassidy was remade into a clean-cut hero who traveled the West with his sidekicks fighting villains who took advantage of the weak.

Clarence E. Mulford takes you back to the beginning by relating the stories (as told to him by Red and the boys of the BAR-20) of how Buck Peters started the BAR-20 ranch.

Dracula, Wolfman, The Mummy, Frankenstein. You've lived with the stories your whole life. You've read the tales. You've watched the films. But what if the stories were different? What if the things you read about these monsters were warped and twisted? Here lie stories you may not have heard. Stories both weird and shocking. Bizarre and grotesque. Alternate versions of your favorite classic monsters you've never read and never will again. Featuring 13 stories by Jonathan Moon, The Sisters of Slaughter, Tom Lucas and more!

Es ist Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Kaspar Brandner, ein rüstiger Vierundsiebzigjähriger, lebt als Schlosser und Büchsenmacher am Tegernsee. Seine Frau ist bereits verstorben, seine beiden Söhne dienen als Soldaten in einem bayerischen Artillerieregiment. Eines Abends erscheint ihm der Boandlkramer (der Tod). Der hat den Auftrag den Brandner Kaspar abzuholen und ins Jenseits zu begleiten. Doch der Brandner fühlt sich noch "gesund wie ein Fisch im Wasser" und kann sich nicht vorstellen, seine geliebte Heimat zu verlassen.

J. M. Barrie's classic "Peter Pan" is about a mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up. Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Indians, fairies and pirates, and from time to time meeting ordinary children from the world outside.