The Real Dr. Strangelove

The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Jay Solomon
• Narrated By Rob Shapiro
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This is a book rife with revelations, from the secret communications between the Obama administration and the Iranian government to dispatches from the front lines of the new field of financial warfare. For listeners of Steve Coll's Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower, The Iran Wars exposes the hidden history of a conflict most Americans don't even realize is being fought but whose outcome could have far-reaching geopolitical implications.

The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 55 mins)
• By Peter Goodchild
• Narrated By Edward Asner, Bill Brochtrup, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, and others

The Scopes trial, over the right to teach evolution in public schools, reaffirmed the importance of intellectual freedom as codified in the Bill of Rights. The trial, in a small-town Tennessee courtroom in 1925, set the stage for ongoing national debates over the separation of church and state in a democratic society - debates that continue to this day.

Breaking the Code

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Hugh Whitemore
• Narrated By Sheelagh Cullen, Ken Danziger, full cast

Simon Templeman stars as brilliant mathematician Alan Turing, the man who cracked the German Enigma code and enabled the Allies to win World War II. But Turing was to find that the country he saved cared less about his genius and more about his sexual orientation.

8

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Dustin Lance Black
• Narrated By George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, and others

This play is a powerful account of the case filed by the American Federation for Equal Rights (AFER) in the U.S. District Court in 2010 to overturn Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that eliminated the rights of same-sex couples to marry in the state of California. Framed around the trial's historic closing arguments in June 2010, 8 provides an intimate look at what unfolded when the issue of same-sex marriage was on trial.

The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained

• ORIGINAL (13 hrs and 20 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Michael E. Wysession

To better put into perspective the various issues surrounding energy in the 21st century, you need to understand the essential science behind how energy works. And you need a reliable source whose focus is on giving you the facts you need to form your own educated opinions.

The Life of Galileo

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 59 mins)
• By Bertolt Brecht
• Narrated By Stacy Keach, Emily Bergl, Jessica Chastain, and others

Unrelenting in his search for "simple truth" Galileo Galilei shatters beliefs held sacred for two thousand years. But, under threat of torture by the Holy Inquisition, his scientific and personal integrity are put to the test as he argues for his very life in a passionate debate over science, politics, religion and ethics that resonates to this day.

Includes an interview with Dr. E.C. Krupp, Director of the Griffith Observatory.

The Forgotten Soldier

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Guy Sajer
• Narrated By Derek Perkins
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When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he quickly finds that for the foot soldier the glory of military success hides a much harsher reality of hunger, fatigue, and constant deprivation. Posted to the elite Grosse Deutschland division, he enters a violent and remorseless world where all youthful hope is gradually ground down, and all that matters is the brute will to survive.

In the Name of Security: Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and J. Robert Oppenheimer

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Peter Goodchild
• Narrated By David Hyde Pierce, Amy Pietz, John de Lancie, and others

In the Name of Security re-opens three famous spy cases that rocked America between 1948 and 1954: Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. Each hour-long program combines dramatic re-enactments based on original trial transcripts, archival material, new evidence, the latest assessments of American historians and scientists, and the commentaries of relatives and friends of the accused.

Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
• Narrated By Bret Baier, Danny Campbell
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In this debut history from one of America's most influential political journalists, Bret Baier casts the three days between Dwight Eisenhower's prophetic "farewell address" on the evening of January 17, 1961, and his successor John F. Kennedy's inauguration on the afternoon of January 20 as the final mission of one of modern America's greatest leaders.

The Dispatcher

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 19 mins)
• By John Scalzi
• Narrated By Zachary Quinto
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Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.

The Shadow - The Complete Radio Show Collection - Including more than 250 Shows

• ORIGINAL (106 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Orson Welles
• Narrated By Orson Welles

The Shadow was long believed to have debuted on radio as a program in its own right on September 26, 1937, on the Mutual Broadcasting System. But the character actually premiered in September 1931, on CBS, as part of the hourlong The Blue Coal Radio Revue (named for the show's sponsor), featuring Frank Readick - The Shadow announcer of Detective Stories - as The Shadow, and playing Sundays at 5:30 p.m. Eastern standard time.

Copenhagen

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Michael Frayn
• Narrated By Alfred Molina, David Krumholtz, Shannon Cochran

How different would the world have looked had the Nazis been the first to build an atomic bomb? Werner Heisenberg, one of Hitler's lead nuclear scientists, famously and mysteriously met in Copenhagen with his colleague and mentor, Niels Bohr, one of the founders of the Manhattan Project. Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning drama imagines their reunion. Joined by Niels' wife, Margrethe, these three brilliant minds converge for an encounter of atomic proportions.