Arts

Podcast shows
120 – 140

The African Imaginary Podcast

Podcast · The African Imaginary
The African Imaginary is a platform of contemporary culture spotlighting creativity born and raised on the continent. This is the home of our podcast. The African Imaginary Podcast seeks to discover, through conversations with Africa’s top creators, how being born and raised on African soil affects our imagination and creativity…
25 Mar 3 episodes English Arts · Society & Culture

The Archers

Podcast · BBC
Contemporary drama in a rural setting from the world's longest running soap opera. Follow the residents of the fictional farming community of Ambridge. Original programmes broadcast 1900 hrs Sunday - Friday. Episodes added daily (except Saturdays).
5 May 2025 2PM 48 episodes English Arts

The Artist's Tavern

Podcast · Neal Strydom
Come and sit with us at The Artist's Tavern. We're a place where you can have real chats about art, but also get some helpful advice about making a living from it. We want to celebrate your creativity and help you build a successful career. So, join us for honest…
26 Apr 2025 2 episodes English Explicit Arts · Business

The Awakening

Book · Librivox
Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. While on vacation at Grand Isle, an island in the Gulf of Mexico, Edna befriends the talented pianist Mlle. Reisz and the sympathetic Robert Lebrun, both of whom…
12 Sep 2014 8 episodes English Read by Elizabeth Klett Arts

The Beautiful Pursuit

Podcast · The Beautiful Pursuit
Hosted by Ant McDonald, The Beautiful Pursuit is a podcast for the passionate ones. The ones who feel a fire in their bones, and the ones who wish they did. Originally dreamt up as a worship podcast (for worship leaders and musicians), The Beautiful Pursuit is more like a falling…
20 Nov 2020 13 episodes English Christianity · Arts

The Comedy of Errors

Book · Librivox
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, believed to have been written between 1592 and 1594. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word…
28 Oct 2014 6 episodes English Read by Various Readers Comedy · Arts

The Divine Comedy

Book · Librivox
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened “Divina” by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, the last great work of literature of the Middle Ages and the first great work of the Renaissance…
25 Jan 2013 19 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts

The First Page

Podcast · The First Page
The First Page offers poetry for the everyday. This is not a lesson or a lecture—we're here to carve out a small space for delight, for reflection, for good attention. Each episode, writer and poet Hailey Gaunt chooses a poem to read and explore, drawing listeners further into a poem…
2 Feb 12 episodes English Arts · Society & Culture

The Hidden Lives of Writers

Podcast · Solid Gold Podcasts #BeHeard
How and why writers write. Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel are working writers - and their favourite people are writers. Join them as they dive deep into HOW and WHY successful writers write. Mail us at hiddenlivesofwriters@gmail.com
23 Mar 65 episodes English Books · Arts

The Importance of Being Earnest

Book · Librivox
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People," and has proved immensely popular since its first performance in 1895. The play certainly has its farcical and comic elements, such as the witty banter exchanged by the characters and the flippant attitude towards love…
23 Oct 2012 3 episodes English Read by Various Readers Language Learning · Arts

The Invisible Man

Book · Librivox
Terrifically popular science fiction novel by renowned writer HG Wells, about a scientist discovering how to achieve invisibility. But, in his case, being out of sight evidently does NOT mean out of mind. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)
13 Aug 2014 12 episodes English Read by Cate Barratt Sports · Sports · Arts

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Book · Librivox
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820. It was based on a German folktale set in the Dutch culture of Post-Revolutionary…
24 Oct 2012 2 episodes English Read by Bob Neufeld Arts · Arts

The Metamorphosis

Book · Librivox
"The Metamorphosis" is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915 and one of his best known works. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a horrible verminous creature. Terrifying in its banal simplicity, it became one of the seminal works…
5 Jan 2014 6 episodes English Read by David Richardson Arts

The Monthly Review

Podcast · TimesLIVE Podcasts
Every month, Mark Gevisser writes an in-depth essay for Business Day about new literature, art, theatre or culture. Gevisser then hosts a public discussion about the issues the essay raises to which he invites some of South Africa's most interesting thinkers. This podcast is a recording of those discussions. The…
18 Oct 2019 3 episodes English Arts · Society & Culture

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Book · Librivox
Dorian Gray, a young man of wealth and stature in late 1800's London, meets Lord Henry Wotton while posing for a portrait by his friend Basil Hallward. Once the painting is complete, Dorian realizes that it will always be young and attractive, while he will be forced to age and…
21 Aug 2014 13 episodes English Read by John Gonzalez Arts

The Prince

Book · Librivox
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after…
18 Jan 2013 14 episodes English Read by Paul Adams Arts

The Scene

Series · News Talk 94.1
The Upper Cumberland is home to artists, painters, craftsmen, musicians, and performers. Playhouses, performance halls, outdoor venues, gallery showings, craft centers... our community has many talented people and events happening and we take you to meet these performers and artists who are on The Scene with your host Jane Ellen.
8 May 2018 5 episodes English Arts · Kids & Family

The Scene

Podcast · News Talk 94.1
Spotlight a growing and vibrant arts community in the Upper Cumberland with The Scene on Lite Rock 95.9. Host Laura Holloway interviews local artists, performers, and more to learn what goes into their craft and why. Find out where their ideas and talents originate, while also keeping a pulse on…
22 Mar 287 episodes English Arts · Society & Culture

The Secret Agent

Book · Librivox
The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th Century. The novel centers on Verloc, a shop-owner, phony-anarchist and double-agent, who becomes embroiled in an ambitious terrorist plan to…
9 May 2014 13 episodes English Read by Various Readers Arts
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