Dandelion Wine

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: full cast

Ray Bradbury's endearing, lyrical tale of boyhood and an idyllic Midwestern summer is presented here as a full-cast audio dramatization by The Colonial Theatre on the Air, complete with sound effects and a brilliant musical score.

Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole world that lies beyond. It is a pair of new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley bell on a hazy afternoon. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals that hold time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future.

©1988 Ray Bradbury (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc.

Critic reviews

"I've just played for the second time your production of Dandelion Wine, and it's fabulous. I'm so very proud of it. In fact, it made me weep. In your own way, you've told me that I have a chance of part of me living beyond the day that I leave this earth. This production is simply incredible." (Ray Bradbury)

heartbreaking

Dandelion Wine is a story of the death of innocence. The death of love. The futility of life and the beauty of hope. Sadness is the overwhelmingly ambrosial scent of melancholy distilled, bottled, and delicately sipped by this reader.  Life is not pointless,  life is the point.

Wonderful radio play

The book is much better than this radio adaptation, the book is very good and worth the time. I enjoy the old Ray Bradbury novels. I guess thus shows my age.

this rocked..

i had never listened to bradbury before. he's now one of my favorite authors!

Drink Up

This is a lavish production that will bring Bradbury's pleasantly nostalgic (if occasionally too sentimental) mix of reminiscence and imagination to your mind's eye.

Bradbury is the best.

Loved the audio. Excellent story and performance. We should have all grown up in Green town!