Títulos em Apresentadores e Celebridades

Back in print in an all-new edition is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the "Queen of Mystery". Fans of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and readers of John Curran’s fascinating biographies Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making will be spellbound by the compelling, authoritative account of one of the world’s most influential and fascinating novelists, told in her own words and inimitable style - and here in her own voice. These audio excerpts were dictated by Agatha Christie herself.

The intense relationships between Robert Schumann, his wife Clara, and Johannes Brahms are brought to vivid life through music and excerpts from their passionate writings. With the arrival of the young, dynamic Brahms into their household, the Schumanns’ fragile marriage is threatened by the deepening bond between Clara and their gifted guest.

Join Rick Reynolds as he guides you through the foibles, fumbles and pratfalls of his own life beginning with his bizarre childhood. From the drowning of his father at a family picnic, to a bank-robbing stepfather, to his mother's 3 marriages and innumerable affairs, Reynolds portrays a striking picture of the lengths people will go for love and the human connection.

Would you believe that one man championed the cause of Native Americans with Leonard Peltier, helped migrant farm workers with Cesar Chavez, traveled to Nepal, hiked the Himalayas, explored Africa and founded The Paris Review? It's true, and it's the life of Peter Matthiessen. Listen to entrancing travel tales and real life anecdotes from this author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord and the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard.

In one year Julia Sweeney got a divorce (amicable), bought a small bungalow in Hollywood, and looked forward to a life that said, "Here dwells a happily single young woman!" But then the axe fell. Her younger brother, Mike, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and moved in with her. Her parents came to be with Mike and moved in with her, too. Julia was now on seriously intimate terms with the people she had spent half a lifetime growing up away from.

Clean, intelligent comedy. "I'm a monologist," says Andrew Norelli. "A monologist tells their thoughts and opinions on their life and the world around them."

Andrew has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, Comedy.TV, Entertainment Studios with Byron Allen, and Comics Unleashed, where he was also a staff joke writer.

 In his theatrical debut, comedian Mike Birbiglia takes the audience on a hysterically funny and intensely personal journey through his struggles with sleepwalking and his reluctance to confront his fears of love, honesty, and growing up. Sleepwalk with Me is the rare collision of comedy and theatre that touches your funny bone and tickles your heart. 

Volume two of gems from the life of one of the most influential figures in American music! Listen to intimate, never-before-heard recordings of the beloved civil rights icon and environmentalist.

Pete Seeger: The Storm King audio collection presents Pete Seeger's spoken words as he captivatingly recounts his most engaging stories, narratives, and poems - set to new music created by over 70 musicians from traditions as diverse as African Music, Blues, Bluegrass, Celtic Music, Classical Guitar, Folk, Israeli Music, Jazz, Native American Music, and Tuvan Throat Singing - taking Pete's wisdom and stories out to new audiences and into a new technological age.

Storyteller Maggi Peirce delivers a delightful collection of Irish jokes, folktales, and childhood stories from Belfast, Ireland. Peirce, who was born and raised in Belfast and came to the States in 1964, gives a spirited and engaging performance that will have you looking for leprechauns - when you aren't laughing fit to split. Included are "Bali Slot Guthery," "Finn McCool," "The Bishop and the Wee Codger," "The Wise Washer Women of Mongret," "Redmond O'Hanlon," "Strength in Unity," "A Friend of My Father's," and "The Large Stuffed Rabbit."

Après avoir fait paraître Marius, Frémeaux & Associés poursuit l'édition sonore de Marcel Pagnol en mettant à la disposition du public le second volet de la Trilogie : Fanny.

Marcel Pagnol a procédé à une véritable transformation du film en livre audio dans une version où l'auteur fait office de narrateur entre les scènes et les dialogues. Cet audio présente également une archive inédite dans laquelle Pagnol se confie sur la préparation du tournage de "César".

Aujourd'hui, pour la première fois, Frémeaux & Associés, les Editions de la Treille et la succession Marcel Pagnol ont restauré les enregistrements sonores du film de 1931 (adaptation de la pièce de 1929) en utilisant les technologies les plus récentes afin de présenter au public la version historique de Marius incluant le texte de liaison interprété par Marcel Pagnol lui-même en 1960 rendant l'œuvre parfaitement adaptée au support audio.

Micky has become one of the hottest new comics to break through to national fame.

Two very different women, the much married Mary Queen of Scots and the Virgin Queen of England had one fundamental thing in common, one thing that would change the course of history: Each believed in her God given right to sit on the throne of England. The lives - and deaths - of these royal cousins were bound together in a tangled web of bloodlines, courtly intrigue, and political manoeuvring. This dramatisation is based on historical documents, letters, reported speech and contemporaneous accounts.

Né d'un instituteur, Franz Schubert a pour premiers professeurs son père pour le violon et son frère pour le piano. Il reçoit également l'enseignement du maître de chapelle de la paroisse, qui lui transmet l'art du chant et les techniques de l'orgue. Puis, il rentre sur concours au "Stadkonvikt" où il reçoit l'enseignement de Salieri.

Mozart n'a vécu que trente-cinq ans, il nous a pourtant laissé plus de 600 œuvres. Découvrez la vie fascinante et tragique de ce génial compositeur, confronté à des déceptions sentimentales, à des échecs professionnels, à des soucis d'argent. Nous le suivons à travers l'Europe du XVIIIème siècle, de Salzbourg à Paris en passant par Rome et Vienne. Voici l'histoire de sa vie et de son œuvre. Les dialogues sont imaginaires, tous les faits historiquement exacts.

Que sait-on de Molière, l'auteur de théâtre le plus joué dans le monde ? Que ses œuvres ont traversé les siècles, grâce à la justesse des personnages qu'il a créés ? Qu'il sait déceler nos défauts d'hier et d'aujourd'hui avec humour ? Tour à tour auteur de farces, de comédies, puis jugé subversif par les dévots et la bonne société, n'oublions pas que le génial Molière est aussi un homme, avec ses souffrances, ses erreurs, ses doutes, confronté aux soucis de tout homme.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), en français Jean-Sébastien Bach, est né dans une illustre famille de musiciens allemands. Orphelin à 10 ans, Bach est un compositeur et un musicien reconnu comme étant l'un des plus grands compositeurs de tous les temps, par des hommes tels que Mozart et Beethoven.