Satire

Bob and Ray WOR 072 June 20, 1973


BNRToast


Wednesday, the last day of spring.  Bob & Ray discuss newsman Henry Gladstone’s musical ability.

The "Mind The Paint" Girl

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Arthur Wing Pinero


Another Pinero play from the early 1900s. With a social message about the effects of stardom on the star as well as those that love them. &q…

The Old Bachelor

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William Congreve


"In The Old Bachelor we have three or four concurrent plots, which become interwoven, indeed, at the end.... It is recorded that the s…

Peg O' My Heart

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John Hartley Manners


The Chichester family have just gone bankrupt due to bank failure. Their situation looks gloomy until Mrs. Chichester learns of the death of…

Back to Methuselah

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George Bernard Shaw


In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…

Zadig or The Book of Fate (Version 2)

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Voltaire


"there is no Evil under the Sun, but some Good proceeds from it:" -- this quote from this novel sums it up. One of Voltaire's most…

The Conscious Lovers

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Richard Steele


As early as 1720 Steele spoke in the Theatre of "a friend of mine" who was lately preparing a comedy according to the just laws of…

The Notary's Nose

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Edmond About


Ironic and Satirical: A successful Parisian notary, Alfred L’Ambert, is smitten with a fourteen-year-old ballet dancer. After a quarrel, his…

Cupid's Cyclopedia

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Oliver Herford


This 1910 short work is by the English-born American humorist, satirist, and illustrator Oliver Herford, aided by another caricaturist and i…

The Follies of a Day; OR, The Marriage of Figaro (English)

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Pierre Beaumarchais


This is Thomas Holcroft's English translation, obtained by attending Pierre Beaumarchais' French play nine times in Paris during its origina…

Prejudices, Second Series

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H. L. Mencken


Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure…

Ballad of the Canal

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Phoebe Cary


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Ballad of the Canal by Phoebe Cary. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 4, …

The Cabinet Minister

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Arthur Wing Pinero


Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exagge…

Nicholas Nickleby: A Farce in 2 Acts

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Edward Stirling


This stage adaptation of Dickens’ novel debuted in November of 1838 at the Adelphi Theater in London. Only eight installments of the story …

Bob and Ray WOR 789 March 16, 1976


BNRToast


Tuesday, March 16, 1976 Looking for Mary in a restaurant Next Episode: https://archive.org/details/BnR79003171976 0:00 Welcoming the listene…

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