Weird Stories; If Fog Could Sing
The shorter fiction, dramas, and poems of Charlie Price, read/performed by Charlie and Robert Price. Dark, surreal, comic, and peculiar stories of life, human nature, and the shadows within.
The Dwarfs by Harold Pinter
The radio play by Harold Pinter
Performed and edited by Charlie Price
MUSIC:
Georg Friedrich Haas- ............, for viola and six voices
Leonard Bernstein- Symphony No. 1, "Jeremiah", final movement
The Collection by Harold Pinter
Performed, abridged, and edited by Charlie Price
MUSIC:
"Embraceable You"- Bird and Miles, 1948
"My Funny Valentine", Miles, (live), 1964
Janacek- String Quartet "The Kreutzer Sonata"
Des Canyons aux Etoiles, (From the Canyons to the Stars)- Olivier Messiaen
Content Warning:
Menace, One use of racist language
Luck
A monologue by Charlie Price
MUSIC:
Prelude for Solo Clarinet- K. Penderecki
Content Warning:
Strong lanuguage
The Escort
Monologue by Charlie Price
Music:
Kodaly: Sonata for Solo Cello, Mv. II
Content Warning:
Strong sex references
The Baby
A monologue
Music:
Mahler- Symphony No. II: Mv. I, Mv. IV, Mv. V
Content Warning:
Menace
Blissful Space
Music:
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14: III. "The Suicide" ("Three Lilies")
Malcom Arnold: Symphony No. 5, Mv. II
Content Warning:
Mental illness theme, Sex references
Neighbours
Music:
Webern: Six Little Pieces for Cello and Piano
(Sample) Messaien: Messe de Pentecote
Content Warning:
Menace
Monologue
Music:
Schubert: "Fruglinstraum" from Wintereisse
Franck: Prelude, Fugue, et Variation Op. 18
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, Mv. III
Haydn: "Little" Sonata in G minor, Mv. I
Butterworth: "Is My Team Ploughing" from Six Songs from a Shropshire Lad
Content Warning:
Sex/Rape References
Heart
Music:
Telephone Call from Istanbul- Tom Waits
"I got a telephone call from Istanbul
My baby's coming home today
Sell me one of those if I shave my head
Get me out of town is what Fireball said
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat
Never drive a car when you're dead"
Content Warning:
Strong language
The Blue Folder
Content Warning:
Suicide References/Paedophilia References
Impromptu
Music:
Beethoven, String Quartet No. 13, Mvs. IV and V
Bartok, String Quartet No. 5, Mv. II
Content Warning:
Death/Injury References/ Horror
Leaves
A Tennis Fairy Tale
Music:
Scheherazade- Rimsky-Korsakov
Chichester Psalms, Mv. II: Adonai-Roi ("The Lord is My Shepherd")- Leonard Bernstein
Content Warning:
Explicit Sex References, Strong Language, Homicide/Infanticide References
The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
Performed, realised, and edited by Charlie Price
(Copyright Pinter Estate)
A Slight Ache by Harold Pinter
Realised and edited by Charlie Price
EDWARD: Charlie Price
FLORA: Elizabeth Kuti
(Copyright Pinter Estate)
Five Revue Sketches by Harold Pinter
1) That's Your Trouble
2) Trouble in the Works- (N.B. As published in Pinter: Plays II, this sketch ends on the line "Trouble". When asked by FIBBS "What do they want to make in its place?", WILLS replies, in line with the title, theme, and metaphorical conceit of the sketch, "Trouble" but, if memory serves, Pinter changed the last line in certain performances and screen interpretations of this sketch. The BBC, for example, released an animated version of the sketch in the 70s in which WILLS answers that the factory workers don't wish to make trouble, they wish...
The Last Train
Music:
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte Pavane for a dead princess
(played at the piano by the composer)
Content Warning:
Strong language, mental illness theme, xenophobia
Cyril and Paul
Performed by Charlie and Robin Price
Written and edited by Charlie Price
Penalty
Music:
Franz Schmidt: Prelude and Fugue in D major "Hallelujah" (for organ)
Jean Langlais: Chant de Paix
Content Warning:
Strong language, mental illness theme, disturbing scenes, obesity references
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
A sound production (no pun intended!) of the classic play.
Directed, realised, and edited by Charlie Price
Performed by Charlie Price (as Tom, Laura, and Jim) and Elizabeth Kuti (as Amanda)
MUSIC (not in chronological order):
R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Traditional: Jamaica, or The Jovial Broom Man, or a Kent Soldier's Exact Relation of All His Travels in Every Nation · The City Waites, How the World Wags: Social Music for a 17th-Century Englishman
Bryzgi Shampanskovo (Splashes Of Champaigne) Tango - Orkiestr pod upravlenijem Luisi (Orchestra dir. by L...
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
A rhapsody of monologue, dramatic sketches, phone calls, and soundscapes.
A speaker-set with a bizarre defect, a concerning voicemail, an ultra-competitive game of chess, a worrying barber, communication difficulties...
Enjoy...
Written, performed, realised, and edited by Charlie Price
(Also featuring Liz Kuti)
MUSIC (non-chronological):
Miles Davis: All Blues from Kind of Blue
Holst: First Suite in E flat for Wind Orchestra
Wood: C...
Victoria Station by Harold Pinter
Short Play by Harold Pinter
Performed and edited by Charlie Price
Content Warning:
Strong Language
The Picture
Music:
Honegger: Pastorale d'ete
Honegger: from Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique"
Footsteps and Chat
An Audio Play by Charlie Price (written, performed, edited)
Content Warning:
Strong Language, Drugs, Mental Health, Fear
The Evangelist
Music:
Nunc Dimittis, Michael Tippet
Testing
Music:
Cinnamon Horses from Wild God (2024)- Nick Cave
Content Warning:
Fetish/Sex references/language
But a Whimper
"This is how the world will end
Not with a bang, but a whimper"
The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot
Anger Management
Content Warning:
Strong language, upsetting references
An Australian Clown
Monologue written, performed, edited by Charlie Price
Content Warning:
Strong language, homophobia, references some viewers may find offensive
The Wildlife Photography Competition
Content Warning:
Strong language, horror
Sufficient Battle
MUSIC:
The Beatles, Wild Honey Pie (The White Album)
Nick Drake, Riverman
Nick Drake, Man In a Shed
Content Warning: (This episode is particularly disturbing. Please proceed with caution. Though its strongest content is tongue-in-cheek and metaphorically suggestive rather than realist in tone, some may still find it objectionable)
Holocaust theme, content some listeners may find offensive (particularly as it pertains to aging and veganism themes), cannibalism theme, strong...
Angela
Rewritten and rerecorded
Content Warning:
References to rape, language
Make Me an Instrument
Rewritten and rerecorded
MUSIC: Poulenc Magnum Mysterium
from four Christmas motets
Content Warning:
Strong language, strong sex, infant mortality
The Therapy Pony
Rewritten and rerecorded.
MUSIC:
Leo Ornstein Piano Sonata No. 4, Mv. II
Content Warning:
Sex references, injury detail
Dry Humour
Music List:
"Harbour Reflections" from Southwold Sonatina by James Rae
Mv. II: Andante from Poulenc's Sonata for Two Clarinets
Ligeti, Requiem, Mv. II: Kyrie
Berio Sequenza III for Female Voice
Content Warning:
Mental Illness, Suicide Theme, Menace
The Little Snowman
Music:
Adam Lay Y Bounden- Boris Ord
In the Bleak Midwinter- Holst
While Shepherd's Watched Their Flocks by Night
Away In a Manger arr. Cleobury
The Shepherd's Farewell- Berlioz
Content Warning:
Mental illness theme
Just like? It was
"It started to snow
And you said it was like Christmas.
But you were wrong,
It wasn't like Christmas at all"
Just Like Christmas, Low
Content Warning:
Menace
Voicemail
Play for single actor and mobile phone device
Panic
Trigger Warning:
This episode contains references to trigger warnings
Content Warning:
This episode contains references to rape and animal cruelty. Also infrequent strong language.
Choices
Three More Strings
Three.
Enjoy.
Written, performed, and edited by Charlie Price
Content Warning:
Suicide references, creepy mood
