Abridgd... Too Far!

Abridgd... Too Far!

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Fast, furious, funny and frequently infuriating to the aficionado, we present the literature’s most renowned and best-loved books in just 1,337 seconds. Leaving a hell of a lot out, making stark narrative choices, chucking in a fair amount of jokes and using audio to its maximum potential, this is a breakneck comic canter through the classics. So...like an Afternoon Play running to catch a train, the classics will be boiled down, stripped back and sped up for the enjoyment of those listeners w...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Abridgd Too Far

Jul 11th, 2025 11:51 AM

World-renowned and very clever Professor of Short Books, Douglas Ullard...along with his Twenty-Two Minute and Seventeen Second Classic Literature Audio Armchair Theatre Company (or TTMASSCLAATC for short) brings you Robert Louis Stevenson's "Gothic Classic" in just...well...1,337 seconds.  So if you're wanting to get a real sense of the schizophrenic gothic monster within a doctor...then read "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde "...if you need to get this book done and dusted in less than half an hour...then sit back and listen and impress all your friends with your new-found knowledge of a literary classic. Because we can guarantee that your friends haven't read it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Farewell To Arms - Abridgd Too Far

Jun 26th, 2025 1:21 PM

World-renowned and very clever Professor of Short Books, Douglas Ullard...along with his Twenty-Two Minute and Seventeen Second Classic Literature Audio Armchair Theatre Company (or TTMASSCLAATC for short) brings you Ernest Hemingway's "American Classic" in just...well...1,337 seconds.  So if you're wanting to get a real sense of who Papa really was...then read "For Whom the Bell Tolls"...if you need to get this book done and dusted in less than half an hour...then sit back and listen and impress all your friends with your new-found knowledge of a literary classic. Because we can guarantee that your friends haven't read it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moby Dick - Abridgd Too Far

Jun 12th, 2025 12:00 AM

World-renowned and very clever Professor of Short Books, Douglas Ullard...along with his Twenty-Two Minute and Seventeen Second Classic Literature Audio Armchair Theatre Company (or TTMASSCLAATC for short) brings you Herman Melville's "Great American Novel" in just...well...1,337 seconds.  So if you're interested in whales, wails or Wales...or need a study guide for any exam about fish, fishing or boats..then sit back and listen and impress all your friends with your new-found knowledge of a literary classic. Because we can guarantee that your friends haven't read it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dracula - Abridgd Too Far

May 29th, 2025 3:18 PM

World-renowned and very clever Professor of Short Books, Douglas Ullard...along with his Twenty-Two Minute and Seventeen Second Classic Literature Audio Armchair Theatre Company (or TTMASSCLAATC for short) brings you Bram Stoker's gothic "masterpiece" in just...well...1,337 seconds.  So if you're studying for any exam about goths, gothic, gotham or any other word that starts with "goth"...then sit back and listen and impress all your friends with your new-found knowledge of a literary classic. Because we can guarantee that your friends haven't read it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pride & Prejudice - Abridgd Too Far

Jan 1st, 2025 10:27 AM

World-renowned and very clever Professor of Short Books, Douglas Ullard...along with his Twenty-Two Minute and Seventeen Second Classic Literature Audio Armchair Theatre Company (or TTMASSCLAATC for short) brings you Jane Austen's beloved classic "masterpiece" in just...well...1,337 seconds. So, this Christmas, if you’re trying to impress your English Literature graduate friends with knowledge of one of the world's most filmed classics ever...then we. have your back. Way back!So sit back and listen to this romantic tale of class and love in a way you've never read it...or heard it...before!Cast:Jane Arden as Mrs Bennett and othersJulien Ball as Mr Bennett and othersEliza Horn as Elizabeth and othersSamuel James as Darcy and othersGenevieve Lorenzo Martin as Jane and othersCharlotte McBurney as Lydia and othersChristopher Ragland as Bingley and othersWith a special introduction by the Professor himself, Douglas Ullard.Written by David SpicerDirected by John Schwab and David SpicerAudio Production by John Schwab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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