The shorter fiction of Charlie Price, read by Robert Price. Dark, surreal, comic, and peculiar stories of life, human nature, and the shadows within.
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"How very much I have loved you, how very much I have tried to give you the good life..." Jim Jones, 1978Oleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"You are my sister And I love you May all of your dreams come true We felt so differently then So similar over the years The way we laugh the way we experience pain" Anohni N.B. I apologise, there is one misleading error in the audio which I have not been able to successfully correct subsequently. In the scene where Geraldine is attempting to expla…
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"A heavy tramcar honking its gong slewed between." Ulysses, James JoyceOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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Bonus Episode: Words and Music by Samuel Beckett
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A Radio Piece by Samuel Beckett Performed and arranged by Charlie PriceOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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Bonus Episode: Samuel Beckett's Rough For Radio I
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A Radio-play by Samuel Beckett. HE: Charlie Price SHE: Elizabeth Kuti Composed, arranged, and edited by Charlie PriceOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy". St. Luke, 1, 44 Music List: Sleepwalk- Santo and Jonny Any Way You Want Me- Elvis- Sun Records- 1956 Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat, Mv. III: Andante Cantabile Content Warning: Sex references, language, rape references, misogyny…
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"Porn star Angela White opens up about having sex with fans" Daily Mail, 2023 Content Warning: Sex references, disturbing scenesOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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The latest farce in Howardworld... Music: Anton Webern- Six Bagatelles (No. 5) Content Warning: Dark humourOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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GOOD ANGEL: "O Faustus, lay that damned book aside!" Dr. Faustus, Christopher MarloweOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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A further chapter. Content Warning: Infrequent strong languageOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"Terrific. He'll have them on their feet! I can hear it from here." Catastrophe, Samuel Beckett Music: Brahms' Clarinet Quinet (Gervase de Payer, live, 1978) Content Warning: Morbidity, Dark Humour, Infrequent Sex ReferencesOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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A Political Farce Music: Boris Ord- Adam Lay y Bounden (Carols from Kings, Choir of Kings' College, Cambridge, 1997) Content Warning: Disturbing ScenesOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Richard III, William Shakespeare Content Warning: Strong Sex References, Disturbing ScenesOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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A Political Monologue Music: Beethoven- String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Mv. IIIOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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Glissandi 6.1: Six Soundplays; and Surreal Adverts
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A triangle of strange lovers on a beach at night, A nettle with traumatic roots attempts the English language, A bizarre dinner party where everyone speaks in sounds, A spooky other half, called Felicity, A confusing gull, An evil contrabassoon And, in addition, odd goods and services will be announced... Content Warning: Horror, Menace, Sex Refere…
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"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images..." The Decalogue Thumbnail Picture: Madonna of the Meadow- Raphael Music: Gerald Finzi: Et In Terra Pax Anton Webern: Five Canons (for Soprano, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet) 2. Dormi Jesu, Mater RidetOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down, sometimes I'm almost to the ground..." African-American Spiritual Content Warning: Strong LanguageOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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Five More Monologues (Religious Monologues with Music and Soundscapes)
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In the last five monologues we heard about a man who keeps seeing a set of instructions whenever he's on the brink of orgasm; a strange episode in a pizzeria involving a dwarf, an angel, and an old recently retired father who hasn't moved from the back office in a whole month; a scary party thrust upon a miserable university student; a priest who b…
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"Something grabs a hold of me tightly..." Vanilla Ice Content Warning: Infrequent Strong LanguageOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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Go look up the works of art I would urge... A poem sequence based on paintings/photographsOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"Spasmodic dysphonia is a voice disorder. It causes involuntary spasms in the muscles of the voice box or larynx. This causes the voice to break and have a tight, strained or strangled sound." Spasmodic Dysphonia, definition, courtesy of Johns Hopkins Medicine "...I'm trembling because of you." Translations, Brian Friel Content Warning: Strong sexu…
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5 Monologues (The Month Monologues)
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5 Monologues by Charlie Price. Take them or leave them; take two and leave three; leave or take them all...your choice. Happy listening... Content Warning: Strong language, strong sex references, horrorOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream" The Emperor of Ice Cream, Wallace Stevens Content Warning: Disturbing scenes, some of which listeners may find offensive. One use of racist language.Oleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"Last human tenant of these ruined walls" The Ruined Cottage, William Wordsworth Content Warning: Rape referenceOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red; Pestilence-stricken multitudes... Ode to the West Wind, Percy Byhsse ShellyOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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Bonus Episode: The Song of the Physician
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“Who hath dared to wound thee?” cried the Giant; “tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him.” “Nay!” answered the child; “but these are the wounds of Love.” The Selfish Giant, Oscar WildeOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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Inspired by true events... Content Warning: Disturbing Scenes, Language, AssaultOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out, e'en to the edge of doom". Shakespeare Content Warning: Strong sex references, paedophilia references, infrequent gory detail, depictions of transphobia…
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"All external marks of abuse are present on this defiant edifice—" The Fish, Marianne Moore Content Warning: Infrequent Sex ReferencesOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"Let's go fly a kite, up to the highest height... and send it so-ar-ing, Up! through the atmosphere, Up where the air is clear" Mary Poppins Content Warning: Strong language, sex references, threatOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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A Radio Play. Content Warning: Strong Language, MenaceOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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GEORGE GALLOWAY: You're not my judge, you're not fit to be my judge... JO COBURN: Well thank you very much... BBC, 2016 Content Warning: Brief violence references, humour of a religious nature which some may find offensiveOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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Bonus Episode: A Natural Accident
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A Radio Play by Yours Truly. Written, performed, edited by Charlie Price Content Warning: Strong Language, Sexual References, Threat. N.B. References also to war, violence, misogyny, and racism. I would also counsel, don't listen with volume too loud.Oleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"...we’re just monkeys… living in our own little monkey pods, driven by base instincts to create these hierarchies and hump each other. I thought I knew my father, you know? I only knew the part that he wanted me to see. He hid the monkey, and that screwed me up, Quinn." Mark Mossbacher, The White Lotus Content Warning: Strong Sex References, Crude…
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Part II Music: People Are Strange, The Doors, Jim Morrison, 1967Oleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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A novella, released in two parts "Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recover'd greennesse?" George HerbertOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Like New Orleans reflected on the water, And in all ears appropriate falsehood wakes..." For Sidney Bechet, Phillip Larkin Content Warning: Threat, Violence ReferencesOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"We hold in memory his blessed passion, his resurrection from the dead and his glorious ascension into heaven. And from your gifts bestowed on us we offer to your glory and majesty the pure victim, the holy victim, the perfect victim: the holy bread of eternal life and the chalice of everlasting salvation." From Eucharistic Prayer I, The Roman Cano…
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First Clown Who is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? Second Clown The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants. Act V, Scene I, Hamlet, Shakespeare Content Warning: Some Adult Content, Sex ReferencesOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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Bonus Christmas Episode: Snowman
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"One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow..." The Snowman, Wallace StevensOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willin…
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"How weakly understood Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave Thy wrath, and say, "I will be sorry for their childishness."" Toys, Coventry Patmore Content Warning: Infrequent Explicit Language and Scenes of an Adult NatureOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"Ch-ch-ch-changes, face the changes [...] Time may change me, but I can't change time" David Bowie N.B. I am proud to say that absolutely no content warning is necessary in the case of this, my first published story. I must apologise for some odd background noise, produced from a neighbouring room in the Exeter University apartment I take up my res…
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"All we hear is radio ga ga Radio blah blah Radio, what's new? Radio, someone still loves you" Queen Content Warning: Disturbing Scenes and Infrequent Uses of Language N.B. Apologies for quality this week. This is more of a bonus pre-release than the main item of the week. I don't have access to studio silence but wanted to release something as it'…
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An After-dinner's Sleep, As It Were
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"Thou hast not youth nor age- but as it were- an afterdinner's sleep, dreaming on both" Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare Content Warning: Infrequent Use of Language, Sex References, References to the OccultOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"The old order changeth, yielding place to new" from Morte d'Arthur, Alfred Lord Tennyson Content Warning: Tongue-in-cheek, satirical humour relating to class. Contains, also, references to conspiracy theories, and disturbing scenes.Oleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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A Poem by Charlie PriceOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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"Lean on me when you're not strong And I'll be you're friend..." Bill Withers Content Warning: Strong Language and References to Sexual Violence N.B. Author and reader are in different locations during academic term time...due to limited contact between us, a very small number of errors have crept into the spoken text. Apologies.…
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Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope, to thee, most gracious advocate, do we send up our sighs, mourning, and weeping from this vale of tears... Salve Regina Content Warning: Contains Strong Language (including Homophobic Language) and Risqué Humour of a Religious NatureOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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The Still Sad Music of Humanity
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"...of ample power to chasten and subdue..." from Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth Content Warning: Infrequent Use of Language, Scenes of Emotional DistressOleh Charlie Price and Robert Price
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