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…

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…

"Something grabs a hold of me tightly..." Vanilla Ice Content Warning: Infrequent Strong Languageโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

Go look up the works of art I would urge... A poem sequence based on paintings/photographsโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"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…

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, horrorโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"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.โดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"Last human tenant of these ruined walls" The Ruined Cottage, William Wordsworth Content Warning: Rape referenceโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

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 Shellyโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

“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 Wildeโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

Inspired by true events... Content Warning: Disturbing Scenes, Language, Assaultโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"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…

"All external marks of abuse are present on this defiant edifice—" The Fish, Marianne Moore Content Warning: Infrequent Sex Referencesโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"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, threatโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

A Radio Play. Content Warning: Strong Language, Menaceโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

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 offensiveโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

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.โดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"...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…

Part II Music: People Are Strange, The Doors, Jim Morrison, 1967โดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

A novella, released in two parts "Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recover'd greennesse?" George Herbertโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"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 Referencesโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"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…

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 Referencesโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow..." The Snowman, Wallace Stevensโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

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…

"You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows... Can't live if living is withou you" Harry Nilsson Content Warning: Strong language, sex references, violence referencesโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"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 Natureโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"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…

"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'…

"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 Occultโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"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.โดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

A Poem by Charlie Priceโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"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.…

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 Natureโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"...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 Distressโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"So take a look at me now Oh, there's just an empty space And there's nothin' left here to remind me Just the memory of your face Ooh, take a look at me now" Phil Collins Content Warning: Disturbing Scenesโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies And she only reveals what she wants you to see She hides like a child But she's always a woman to me" Billy Joel Content Warning: Infrequent Strong Language, Moderate Sex Refrencesโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

Bonus Episode: This is not an original story but a one man performance of a beautiful radioplay for words and music by Samuel Beckett (1961). Words are by Samuel Beckett with original music by Charlie Price. Performed and edited by Charlie Price Clarinet played by Charlie Price EPISODE CONTENT: Cascando, a play for words and music by Samuel Beckett…

"I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all" Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett Content Warning: Infrequent Strong Language, Disturbing Scenes COPYRIGHT NOTICES, some content on this episode is not mine: Song excerpts Mr. Bojangles, Nine Simone- SME (on behalf of RCA Records Label); LatinAutorPerf, SOLAR Music Rights Management, Sony Music Publish…

"The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster." Elizabeth Bishop Content Warning: Graphic injury references and one very strong use of languageโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run Don't give the farmer his fun, fun, fun He'll get by without his rabbit pie So run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run" Noel Gay, Ralph Butler "Funny, how what makes you move is so simple and the field you must move in is so crowded." Rabbit Run, John Updike Content Warning: Strong Language and Disturbing Sc…

"If I take you by the hand And tell you I'm you're lover man And if I smile You know you're moving' me...." Clyde McPhatterโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you." Malvolio, Twelfth Night Content Warning: Contains Strong Violenceโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"From Cocoon forth a Butterfly As Lady from her Door Emerged- a Summer Afternoon- Repairing Everywhere" 354, Emily Dickenson Content Warning: Strong language and strong sex referencesโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"It stays as it was left... Shaped to the comfort of the last to go, as if to win them back... A joyous shot at how things ought to be, long fallen wide..." From Home is So Sad, Phillip Larkin Content Warning: Dark adult humour, references to violenceโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"Always hard on the man, now his part is over" Kate Bush Content Warning: Strong Sex Referencesโดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"There are moments that the words don't reach There is suffering too terrible to name You hold your child as tight as you can And push away the unimaginable The moments when you're in so deep It feels easier to just swim down" It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda. But what about downtown? Down and down and down and down... (Content Warni…

"Why does my heart feel so bad? Why does my soul feel so bad? He'll open doors." -Moby Well, someone might.... (Content Warning: Use of strong language)โดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

"Now he's in love with you, he's in love with you Love is like a high prison wall But you don't leave me standing so tall" -Gold, Spandau Ballet (Content Warning: Strong language, strong sex references, and emotional distress)โดย Charlie Price and Robert Price

No man is an island. Never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls. It tolls. (Content Warning: References to physical violence)โดย Charlie Price and Robert Price