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2 MP3s: Kurt Vonnegut reads from Breakfast Of Champions and Philip K. Dick hates it!

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The 92nd Street YThe 92nd Street Y in New York City has a podcast! To honor the passing of Kurt Vonnegut they’ve released special podcast of Vonnegut’s first public reading from Breakfast Of Champions. This funny passage was recorded three years before it was published, on May 4, 1970 at the 92nd Street Y.

Download |MP3| 11 Minutes 42 Seconds

To subscribe to the 92nd Street Y podcast, plug this feed into your podcatcher:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/92YPodcasts

But that’s not the end of this post, oh no, we’ve got more timely Kurt Vonnegut talk…

Rare audio in which Philip K. Dick sends Vonnegut to the proctologist over his novel Breakfast Of Champions.

“Disgusting and an abomination, I think the book is an incredible drying up of the liquid sap of life in the veins of a person … like a dead tree. That’s what I think, I really do. I also love Vonnegut.”

Download |MP3| 5 Minutes 30 Seconds

posted by Jesse Willis

The Time Traveler Show podcasts a FREE Kurt Vonnegut Tale: 2BR02B

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Podcast - The Time Traveler ShowThe Time Traveler will be materializing on April 21st 2007 at PenguiCon in Troy, MI where he will be recording an interview with SF author Tobias Buckell. Buckell will also be reading a story for the show! Can’t wait? Hop in the time machine! Or, pass the time by listening to the latest TTS, which contains an early Kurt Vonnegut story: 2BR02B.

To read the complete show notes for podcast #16 click HERE or download the show in the MP3 format directly by clicking HERE.

2BR02b by Kurt Vonnegut2BR02B
By Kurt Vonnegut; Read by William Coelius
1 MP3 – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: The Time Traveler Show
Podcast: April 14th 2007
In the not so distant future an over-populated planet requires that every birth be balanced by a death. When Edward K. Whelig, Jr.’s wife births triplets he needs to find three people willing to enter a local suicide booth and give him the receipt…

To keep the shows automatically downloading, subscribe to The Time Traveler Show podcast feed:

http://www.timetravelershow.com/shows/feed.xml

posted by Jesse Willis

BBC Radio 7 and The 7th Dimension

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BBC 7's The 7th DimensionMore BBC Radio 7 audio of interest starts this weekend…

Thanasphere
By Kurt Vonnegut; Read by Kerry Shale
Approx 30 Minutes
Broadcaster: BBC7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Monday April 10th at 6pm and 12am UK TIME.
An astronaut encounters dead souls in space.

Also ahead on BBC 7, starting Monday the four dramatizations of The Chronicles of Narnia broadcast at Christmas will be rebroadcast over Easter holidays. Actors include David Suchet and Paul Scofield.

The Magician’s Nephew
By C.S. Lewis; Performed by a FULL CAST
3 Part Dramatization – Approx 2 Hours [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC7
Broadcast: Monday April 10th to Wednesday April 12th at 10am, 9pm and 2am UK TIME.
Young Digory and his friend Polly are persuaded to help a sinister magician with an experiment, that goes awry when they are sent to a mystical world inhabited by an evil Queen.

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
By C.S. Lewis; Performed by a FULL CAST
3 Part Dramatization – Approx 2 Hours [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC7
Broadcast: Thursday 13th, Friday 14th and Monday the 17th at 10am, 9pm and 2am UK TIME.
Four children are transported to Narnia where they meet talking animals and an evil white witch.

Presumably the subsequent two adaptations in the series will start airing on Tuesday the 18th.

NOTE: Those outside the UK can use the BBC7 Listen Again service to catch it for 6 days following the broadcasts.

posted by Jesse Willis