The SBTA offers its repertory of radio productions for free download.
Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal and many others.
Each week a different radio comedy/drama will be podcast here.
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Production 3:
Village Wooing, by George Bernard Shaw (Comedy-Drama)
Starring George Backman and Gretchen Evans
[Playing Time: 50:18]
(Titanic [!?] battle of the sexes. The winner..? Naturally!)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist, novelist, socialist spokesman, art, theater, music and literary 
critic, was a major figure in 20th century theater. A few of his more than 50 plays: Arms and the Man, Candida, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion (on which the musical and the film “My Fair Lady” were based, the latter netting him an Oscar). In 1925, Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize “for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty.“ Shaw accepted the honor, but donated the prize money to fund an English translation of the plays of August Strindberg, a Swede who had never been recognized by his own country’s Nobel committee.
