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Explore the vibrant tapestry of ambition, creativity, and the pursuit of recognition in the engaging podcast "Big Drum." This rotating collection delves into the complexities of human desire and the...
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Explore the vibrant tapestry of ambition, creativity, and the pursuit of recognition in the engaging podcast "Big Drum." This rotating collection delves into the complexities of human desire and the often ironic nature of success, inviting listeners to reflect on the motivations that drive us. Each episode features a new complete audiobook that examines the fine line between aspiration and authenticity, blending sharp satire with poignant commentary. As characters navigate their dreams and struggles, you'll encounter a multitude of perspectives that challenge conventional notions of fame and fulfillment. This is not a single story but a series of unique explorations, each designed to provoke thought and inspire dialogue. Join us as you discover a new book with every episode, enriching your understanding of the human experience and the rhythms of ambition that echo through our lives.
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26 AUG 2026 · Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! " - Summary by ToddHW NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file. Cast list: Philip Mackworth: Nemo Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW Bertram Filson (his son): Tomas Peter Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens Collingham Green: Larry Wilson Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): Shashank Jakhmola Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): Son of the Exiles Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): Steven Fellows Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): KevinS John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): Devorah Allen Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis Lady Filson: Sonia Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): Availle Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Edited By: ToddHW
25 AUG 2026 · Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! " - Summary by ToddHW NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file. Cast list: Philip Mackworth: Nemo Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW Bertram Filson (his son): Tomas Peter Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens Collingham Green: Larry Wilson Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): Shashank Jakhmola Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): Son of the Exiles Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): Steven Fellows Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): KevinS John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): Devorah Allen Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis Lady Filson: Sonia Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): Availle Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Edited By: ToddHW
24 AUG 2026 · Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! " - Summary by ToddHW NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file. Cast list: Philip Mackworth: Nemo Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW Bertram Filson (his son): Tomas Peter Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens Collingham Green: Larry Wilson Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): Shashank Jakhmola Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): Son of the Exiles Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): Steven Fellows Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): KevinS John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): Devorah Allen Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis Lady Filson: Sonia Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): Availle Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Edited By: ToddHW
23 AUG 2026 · Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! " - Summary by ToddHW NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file. Cast list: Philip Mackworth: Nemo Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW Bertram Filson (his son): Tomas Peter Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens Collingham Green: Larry Wilson Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): Shashank Jakhmola Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): Son of the Exiles Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): Steven Fellows Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): KevinS John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): Devorah Allen Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis Lady Filson: Sonia Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): Availle Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Edited By: ToddHW
22 AUG 2026 · Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! " - Summary by ToddHW NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file. Cast list: Philip Mackworth: Nemo Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW Bertram Filson (his son): Tomas Peter Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens Collingham Green: Larry Wilson Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): Shashank Jakhmola Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): Son of the Exiles Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): Steven Fellows Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): KevinS John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): Devorah Allen Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis Lady Filson: Sonia Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): Availle Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Edited By: ToddHW
21 AUG 2026 · Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! " - Summary by ToddHW NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file. Cast list: Philip Mackworth: Nemo Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW Bertram Filson (his son): Tomas Peter Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens Collingham Green: Larry Wilson Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): Shashank Jakhmola Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): Son of the Exiles Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): Steven Fellows Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): KevinS John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): Devorah Allen Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis Lady Filson: Sonia Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): Availle Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Edited By: ToddHW
20 AUG 2026 · Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! " - Summary by ToddHW NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file. Cast list: Philip Mackworth: Nemo Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW Bertram Filson (his son): Tomas Peter Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens Collingham Green: Larry Wilson Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): Shashank Jakhmola Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): Son of the Exiles Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): Steven Fellows Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): KevinS John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): Devorah Allen Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis Lady Filson: Sonia Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): Availle Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Edited By: ToddHW
19 AUG 2026 · Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! " - Summary by ToddHW NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file. Cast list: Philip Mackworth: Nemo Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW Bertram Filson (his son): Tomas Peter Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens Collingham Green: Larry Wilson Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): Shashank Jakhmola Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): Son of the Exiles Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): Steven Fellows Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): KevinS John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): Devorah Allen Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis Lady Filson: Sonia Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): Availle Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Edited By: ToddHW
18 AUG 2026 · Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! " - Summary by ToddHW NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file. Cast list: Philip Mackworth: Nemo Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW Bertram Filson (his son): Tomas Peter Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens Collingham Green: Larry Wilson Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): Shashank Jakhmola Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): Son of the Exiles Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): Steven Fellows Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): KevinS John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): Devorah Allen Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis Lady Filson: Sonia Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): Availle Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Edited By: ToddHW
17 AUG 2026 · Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! " - Summary by ToddHW NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file. Cast list: Philip Mackworth: Nemo Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW Bertram Filson (his son): Tomas Peter Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens Collingham Green: Larry Wilson Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): Shashank Jakhmola Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): Son of the Exiles Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): Steven Fellows Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): KevinS John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): Devorah Allen Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis Lady Filson: Sonia Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): Availle Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Edited By: ToddHW
Explore the vibrant tapestry of ambition, creativity, and the pursuit of recognition in the engaging podcast "Big Drum." This rotating collection delves into the complexities of human desire and the...
show more
Explore the vibrant tapestry of ambition, creativity, and the pursuit of recognition in the engaging podcast "Big Drum." This rotating collection delves into the complexities of human desire and the often ironic nature of success, inviting listeners to reflect on the motivations that drive us. Each episode features a new complete audiobook that examines the fine line between aspiration and authenticity, blending sharp satire with poignant commentary. As characters navigate their dreams and struggles, you'll encounter a multitude of perspectives that challenge conventional notions of fame and fulfillment. This is not a single story but a series of unique explorations, each designed to provoke thought and inspire dialogue. Join us as you discover a new book with every episode, enriching your understanding of the human experience and the rhythms of ambition that echo through our lives.
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