Book at Bedtime - Capturing America
As part of Radio 4's Capturing America series, Mark Lawson selects short pieces by five American authors
Book at Bedtime - Capturing America - David Mamet's Emotions, The Rehearsal Process, and The Play and the Scene
Playwright David Mamet has some typically terse advice for actors in his essays on Emotions, The Rehearsal Process, and The Play and the Scene.
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Book at Bedtime - Capturing America - Our Man at Harvard
By Norman Mailer. Our hero recalls the spring of his sophomore year, which he whiled away at the offices of the Harvard undergraduates' journal, The Advocate.
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Book at Bedtime - Capturing America - Starving Again
By Lorrie Moore. Dennis's wife has left him and his cynical, whisky-slugging friend Mave is trying to help him pick up the pieces.
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Book at Bedtime - Capturing America - The Astronomer
By John Updike. Walter's religious revival is at its height, so he is not looking forward to the arrival of his dinner guest, an imposing and revered scientist.
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Book at Bedtime - Capturing America - The Diaries of Tennessee Williams
The diaries of Tennessee Williams reveal a social butterfly whose gregariousness is tempered by self doubt. Read by Paul Birchard.
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