"Oliver Twist" via audio.

I asked this woman if she liked Dickens, and she slapped me.

Dickens was widely disapproved of by the moneyed classes, as he exposed some of the ugliness of the time. Sub plots like Joe, the road sweeper, who died of an illness he would have survived if he'd only had a proper diet and place to call home.

bluegoatwoods said:

With 'yours truly' as narrator.

I'm not up to professional audio standards. But I'm not bad.

If anyone would like to listen along, then write to me. Perhaps private message is the way to go. I'll send chapters, one or two at a time.

This work is definitely in the public domain. I can't imagine copyright issues.

Be warned, though. Dickens requires concentration. But he also pays your investment back very well.

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you have a pleasant voice BTW. I did some similar stuff back in 2002 (4 shows called "Alien Futures" purely amateur stuff - reading with a little voice acting and sound effects and background music (used Gold Wave - back then Audacity was not really a functioning program). The guy that runs Librivox wanted me to do some volunteer reading work for all the great stuff over there - but my endless 1920's home remodeling took over my fre time and never helped the guy out. still feel bad about that. his site is reall kewl - great stuff over there (they are a partner with gutenburg project BTW). www.librivox.org

I love OTR and New-timeRadioplays -there are still many small companies and just folks like me that did personal hobby projects --- you can find their work over at http://www.audiodramatalk.com/

My show was similar in "type" to the great but now forgotten show by Robert Hanson called Mindwebs:

a kind soul cleaned up all of existing shows and uploaded them to Interent Archive (far better than the older ones I had these last 7 yrs ---now I got the cleaner ones ;-)..)

https://archive.org/details/MindWebs_201410

-- if you like them, I suggest that you copy them before they disappear!!....the older set was removed (around 2008) for three years by some anonymous "suit" - for trillion year old copyright violations of one form or another.

aslo this is another great Radioplay: X-Minus One - a product of McMasters and and another guy named Rattcliff - who got clean reel-to-reel sources and encoded them to 64-bit mp3's back in 1998 - where I found them via the Usenet binaries back then. it is the same set IA has and that XM/Sirous uses over their stations.

https://archive.org/details/XMinus1_A

I've not been there in years (audiodramatalk) - need to check them out myself - had my shows posted via Rapidshare years ago, but those links long dead and rapidshare is gone or soon will be as an entity.

I'd like to upload some great movies that Chuck Dacon shared via his ABC Movie of the Week/70's tv movie channel - I got all 93 of them before the "suits" closed his YT channel down. but I only have piss poor DSL and upload speeds make this impossible. Maybe I could upload my humble and meager amateur Audioplay/readings sometime though.

We'll see ;-/.

yes the sound quality is decent on the links to shows above. I used to play X-Minus One, Dim-X, Gunsmoke, Beyond Midnight (South African 60's horror show) - 15 or others on my "pirate" low watt FM station I had in the late 90's early 00's.

I got the equipment for analog TV last year - only now gathering programing (good stuff never shown on crappy Cable TV today (but used to be decades ago - some of the shows at least) obscure stuff I discovered on Youtube and bough DVD sets of. Callan, Sandbaggers, Secret Army, Colditz, U.F.O., etc............so much great stuff out there (including Foreign Movies - which not only TV channels never show, theaters don't either!) -which my 30 watt setup will give anyone within a mile or two and rabbit ears - to disscover.
I have to set up an antenna still.............prob another year or so.