Podcast appearances and mentions of Mark Lawson

Montreal-based Basia Bulat has been nominated five times for Canada's prestigious Juno Awards, and is a three time finalist for the coveted Polaris Music Prize. She just released her seventh album, Basia's Palace (Secret City Records) (which she co-produced with Mark Lawson) mixed by Tucker Martine (Neko Case, The National), with string arrangements by Drew Jurecka. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music.  Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.   Record Store Day 2025 is April 12th. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, including The List, visit RecordStoreDay.com) Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends.  

Otega, Jax and BG have Oklahoma ties. Michael and Mark Lawson of the Cats Chat Pod stop by.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/cats-talk-wednesday--4693915/support.

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us to answer your questions about your treasures. Ray Graf hosts.

Episode 085: The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard Host: Douglas Schatz Guest: Mark Lawson Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We'll discuss the play's origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing. Tom Stoppard is renowned for his intellectual wit and playful dramatic form, both of which are certainly on show in The Real Thing, but the play also explores more personal emotional territory: on what constitutes the real thing in love, politics and art. As we record this episode, a new production of the play is on stage at the Old Vic theatre in London. My guest to help us navigate the romantic entanglements and structural twists in the play is the renowned arts journalist, Mark Lawson.

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us to answer your questions about your treasures. Ray Graf hosts.

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us today to answer your questions. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

Recorded live at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2023. Jeffery Deaver is the author of 42 novels, sold in 150 countries and translated into over 25 languages. He has sold over 150 million books worldwide. All very impressive but the numbers barely begin to tell the story of a storied career. Deaver is a maestro of suspense with precious few equals. From his debut Manhattan is My Beat through The Bone Collector to his latest, Hunting Time, he has created a succession of expertly plotted novels, each gripping and ingenious, each racing along fuelled by pace, originality, invention and heart. He has given his legion of readers a series of memorable protagonists including Lincoln Rhyme, Kathryn Dance and Colter Shaw. Each leap from the page, crafted at the fingertips of a master storyteller. Jeffery Deaver is interviewed by broadcaster and author Mark Lawson. Podcast music by Joseph McDade.

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us today to answer your questions. To join the conversation, give us a call at show time. 1-800-348-2551. Or e-mail us at VoxPop@wamc.org. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

Adrian and Dave are joined by Mark Lawson - YouTube's Marky Mark gone detecting. Plus all our usual highly polished and rehearsed claptrappery

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us today to answer your questions. To join the conversation, give us a call at show time. 1-800-348-2551. Or e-mail us at VoxPop@wamc.org. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us today to answer your questions. To join the conversation, give us a call at show time. 1-800-348-2551. Or you may e-mail us at VoxPop@wamc.org. WAMC's Sarah LaDuke hosts.

Ibsen referred to Emperor and Galilean as his "major work". The play describes the life of Julian, who ruled the Roman empire from AD361-363. Julian attempted to abolish the recently established state religion of Christianity and replace it with the worship of the ancient, pagan gods. The play is brimming with action and ideas, but is rarely performed. Rana Mitter discusses Ibsen's play and the history and religious ideas behind it with theatre critic and writer, Mark Lawson; historian and author of Pax, Tom Holland; Nicholas Baker-Brian, a theologian; and, Catherine Nixey, a journalist at the Economist and author of The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. Producer: Ruth Watts Emperor and Galilean will be broadcast as the Drama on 3 in July on BBC Radio 3 and available on BBC Sounds You can find another conversation about Ibsen's dramas available as an episode of Free Thinking and on BBC Sounds and a collection on the programme website exploring religious belief

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us today to answer your questions. To join the conversation, give us a call at show time. 1-800-348-2551. Or e-mail us at VoxPop@wamc.org. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us today to answer your questions. To join the conversation, give us a call at show time. 1-800-348-2551. Or you may e-mail us at VoxPop@wamc.org. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

Watch Australia's leading voice, Alan Jones, share his unique take on the events and issues facing the nation and abroad.  Watch ‘Alan Jones' live and on demand at ADH TV, Tuesdays and Wednesdays 8pm AEDT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A lifelong smasher of glass-ceilings, Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. As President of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale won global attention in finding the 2019 prorogation of Parliament to be unlawful. Yet that dramatic moment was merely the pinnacle of a career as a pioneering reformer, which saw her become the first woman and the youngest person to be appointed to the Law Commission; the first and only woman to become a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; and the first woman to serve on the newly created Supreme Court, serving as President from 2017 to 2020. She is interviewed live by Mark Lawson as part of Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us today to answer your questions. To join the conversation, give us a call at show time. 1-800-348-2551.

No one combines crime fiction, the gothic and the supernatural quite like John Connolly. He is the master of his trade, a scalpel in one hand and a bludgeon in the other, writing beautiful prose and brutal people. As well as several blistering standalones, Connolly's much-loved Charlie Parker series now runs to 19 novels, each more terrifying than the one before. His latest, The Nameless Ones, has a breathless international chase at its centre, starting with three butchered bodies arranged around the crucified remains of a fourth. John Connolly will be interviewed by journalist, broadcaster and author Mark Lawson.

Kathy Reichs, one of the most popular and biggest selling crime writers of the 21st century, is the creator of the Temperance Brennan series, which now numbers 22 books and has been translated into over 30 languages. A professor of forensic anthropology, Dr Reichs has taught FBI agents how to detect human remains, travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN tribunal on genocide, helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala, and helped recover body parts at the World Trade Center after 9/11. This incredible wealth of experience has made her the queen of forensic crime. Kathy Reichs is interviewed by journalist, broadcaster and author Mark Lawson.

Disillusionment with war and how you sue for peace are at the heart of Shaw's drama Arms and the Man, being staged in Richmond this autumn. Whilst in Bath a touring production of Mrs Warren's Profession stars Caroline Quentin and her daughter Rose Quentin as the former prostitute and her disapproving daughter. Anne McElvoy is joined by director Paul Miller, Professor Sos Eltis who has edited Shaw's work and theatre critic and writer Mark Lawson to look at Shaw's ability to construct arguments on stage and the resonances of his plays now. Arms and the Man runs at the Orange Tree Theatre in London directed by Paul Miller from 19 November 2022 – 14 January 2023 Mrs Warren's Profession directed by Anthony Banks runs at the Bath Theatre Royal from 9th - 19th November starring Caroline Quentin and her daughter Rose Quentin as Mrs Warren and her daughter Vivie. It then tours to the Richmond Theatre from 22nd November to 26th November 2022 and goes on to visit theatres including the Chichester Festival Theatre, the Hall for Cornwall, the Yvonne Arnaud in Guilford. My Fair Lady - a production from the Lincoln Centre directed by Bartlett Sher - is at the Cardiff Millennium Centre from November 8th to 26th and it then tours to Edinburgh, Southampton, Sunderland, Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester. Producer: Ruth Watts You can find other Free Thinking conversations about drama past and present including discussions about Moliere, Ibsen, the playwright Rona Munro, John McGrath's Scottish drama, in a collection called Prose, Poetry and Drama https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v6vh

Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler!!!Senior players on the Port Neches-Groves Indians state football champions--Jack Collazo, Gary Geoffroy, Andy Gilbert, Kirk Romero, Karl Segura, and Wilson Weber--recall those magical days of 1975.Hear their recollections about:Head Coach Doug Ethridge and his all star coaching staff;The 1974 Semifinalist season, and how that season impacted 1975;Their undefeated district campaign;Their playoff run, which culminated in their state championship victory over Odessa Permian at Texas Stadium;Their thoughts on various team mates and opponents;and much, much, more!!The podcast brings up a wide range of names from Port Neches and Groves, including Jack Collazo, Gary Geoffroy, Andy Gilbert, Kirk Romero, Karl Segura, Wilson Weber, Jeff Bergeron, Frank Cheek, Doug Ethridge, P. J. Granger, Bum Phillips Tim Nunez, Greg Davis, Paul Carswell, Bruce Bush, Ken Clearman, Butch Troy, Phil Vergara, Wayne Winn, David Fendley, Tip Durham, Matt Burnett, Richy Ethridge, Mike Giblin, Ricky Simpson, Dougald McDougald, Don Daspit, Gary Davis, Blake Green, Kyle Aguillard, Mark Buchanan, Anthony Garcia, Randy Johnson, Lisa Segura, Jeff Cooley, Jackie Havard, Von Robinson, Ricky Hagler, Carl Johnson, Mel Ransom, Ty Becker, Mike Boudreaux, Wade Terrell, Kelly Hall, Buck Miller, Lee Blackman, Jerry Plaia, Leo Goldburg, Carl Frey, Ronnie Giblin, Mark Lawson, Carl Griffith, Kevin Landry, Owen Schipplein, Kevin Hebert, Jeff Decuir, Ronnie Golman, Terry Guilbeaux, Tony Hollier, Carl Dautrieve, Phil Myer, Craig Guillory, Phillip Fuller, Donald Hilton, Bryan Landry, Howard Kern, Craig Romero, and many more! Other names mentioned in the podcast associated with that 1975 playoff run include Edgar Allan Poe, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Wes Hubert, Ronnie Thompson, Vic May, Charlie Behn, Joey Peno, Shawn Walker, Shawn Bruno, Tim Hammond, Leroy Leopold, Joe Washington, Weldon Cartwright, Don Clayton, Keith Gilchrist, Terry Medford, Jeff Corley, Terrence Grant, Jacob Green, Jay Lundschen, Mike Stone, Russell Wheatley, Kevin Steen, Mike Woodard, Billy Joe Dupree, Preston Pearson, Roger Staubach, Tony Fritsch, Burt Darden, Billy Kilmer, and more!   So don your purple and white, decorate your cars, and caravan with us...It's a victory trail with a state title destination!Right here on Down Trails of Victory podcast!

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us today to answer your questions. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts. To join the conversation, give us a call at show time. 1-800-348-2551. Or you may e-mail us at VoxPop@wamc.org

The individual versus the masses is at the heart of Enemy of the People. A bank manager speculating with his customers' money is the story told in John Gabriel Borkman. Lucinda Coxon and Steve Waters have written new versions of these Ibsen plays. They join Norwegian actor and director Kåre Conradi, theatre critic and writer Mark Lawson and presenter Anne McElvoy to explore the ways in which Ibsen's characters and dramas resonate now. John Gabriel Borkman starring Simon Russell Beale, Lia Williams and Clare Higgins runs at the Bridge Theatre, London September 24th to November 26th. Drama on 3 scripted by Steve Waters will be on air early in 2023. Kåre Conradi has established The Norwegian Ibsen Company which has brought productions to the Print Room at the Coronet Theatre in London. Conradi is an actor and a lifetime employee at The National Theatre of Norway. Mark Lawson is theatre critic for The Tablet and has written many radio dramas for BBC Radio 4. Producer: Ruth Watts On BBC Sounds and the Free Thinking programme website you can find previous discussions about Adapting Molière https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00138km John McGrath's Scottish drama https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017tzt Shakespeare https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06406hm Lorraine Hansbery https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tpdh3 and other key thinkers and writers on morality like Hannah Arendt/ Iris Murdoch/ Thomas Mann in our landmarks collection https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwn44

ARMM Inc. (OTCQB: ARMM) Co-founder & CEO Mark Lawson joins Global One Media for an exclusive interview where he shares their unique story of how they will be disrupting the firearms space, one-of-a-kind platforms that promote gun safety, an upcoming project with IBM, and more.

Dave Gray catches up with Mark Lawson at Sierra 57 Consult, and Shaun Champion at Talisman Plastics. Mark's recruitment agency to the plastics sector recently launched training modules, which Shaun's trade moulding business has been one of the first to take advantage of. In this episode, find out why employment in plastics and manufacturing is changing, what that means for the skills gap, how Talisman has responded to the Plastics Tax, and much more.  Listen to this episode via the player above, or listen and subscribe via the following channels: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3t0iJPF Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3MLa10n Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3sZ1teF Samsung Podcast App: Open the app and search 'Interplas Insights' Amazon Music/Audible: https://amzn.to/3LLMJWD TuneIn + Alexa: https://bit.ly/3yXKxsh Podbean: https://bit.ly/3PFLpI4 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/3Gf1b8B Player FM: https://bit.ly/3NAipzH Listen Notes: https://bit.ly/3sX6ynh Podchaser: https://bit.ly/3yWlN3K

The ghost of Mrs Thatcher walks through the Tory party despite the fact she left office in 1990 and died in 2013. Her spirit is evoked and some emulate her style of dress ..... but when David Freeman interviewed Mark Lawson about his collection of stories, attitudes were very different. At the time of the recording John Major was Prime Minister and Mark had written a book called Bloody Margaret. It's a satire. 

Chamber of Commerce president Mark Lawson joins us to talk about the role that the Chamber plays in business and economic development here in Cary.

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us today to answer your questions. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

Mark Lawson is CEO and President of the ECS Publishing Group located in St. Louis. Having served as a minister of music early in his career, Mark is highly knowledgeable the needs and challenges of church musicians today. Let's listen as we hear Mark and Randy discuss how, coming out of the pandemic months, we can work to rebuild and fortify our choral programs and music ministries.

Dasha and Mark Lawson tell us their dramatic story as they try to help family members evacuate Ukraine.

A native of Ukraine who lives in Apple Valley says her sister's family and mother were able to escape from the invading Russian troops and are now staying with a family in Poland. Paul and Jordana talk to Dasha and Mark Lawson who are trying to help get them to Minnesota.

Julian Worricker on: The diplomat Sir Crispin Tickell, who advised four prime ministers, and influenced international policy on climate change... The writer and performer, Barry Cryer, whose work spanned sixty years and involved scripts for most of the comedy greats... Darlene Hard, 21 times a Grand Slam tennis champion, described as one of the greatest doubles players of her generation... And the Brazilian singer, Elza Soares, who was a campaigner for women's rights and against racism. Producer: Neil George Interviewed guest: Oliver Tickell Interviewed guest: Euan Nisbit Interviewed guest: Sally Jones Interviewed guest: Virginia Wade Interviewed guest: Robin Denslow Archive clips used: BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs - Sir Crispin Tickell 15/04/1990; BBC One, Breakfast News - Gulf War 17/01/1991; United Nations, UN General Assembly Climate Change 08/11/1989; AP, Rio Earth Summit 12/06/1992; BBC Four, Mark Lawson talks to Barry Cryer 02/04/2008; BBC Radio 4, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 24/08/2015; YouTube, Darlene Hard vs Maria Bueno US Nationals 1960; BBC Archive, All England Championships Ladies Final 04/07/1960; BBC Archive, All England Championships Ladies Final TX 06/07/1957; BBC Four, Brasil, Brasil: Samba to Bossa 24/11/2007.

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us today to answer your questions. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

Mark Lawson- YouTube's Marky Mark gone detecting ( and Sid Perry) join Adrian and Dave on the BIG Detecting show

Mark Lawson of Albany's Mark Lawson Antiques, Jewelry, and Coin joins us today to discuss Irish antiques and a whole lot more! WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

On this week's Mental Health Download Podcast, Whitney Cipolla, the Association's advocacy specialist, interviews Republican Representative Josh West from Grove, Oklahoma who represents House District Five. Joining Rep. West is Democratic Senator Julia Kirt from Oklahoma City. She represents Senate District 30. Listen to hear why legislators launched the new bipartisan Mental Health Caucus to address our state's ongoing crisis. _______________ Founding members: State Rep. Josh West, R-Grove (Chair) State Sen. Julia Kirt, D-Oklahoma City (Chair) State Rep. Steve Bashore, R-Miami State Rep. Meloyde Blancett, D-Tulsa State Rep. Jeff Boatman, R-Tulsa State Rep. Ty Burns, R-Tulsa State Rep. Carol Bush, R-Tulsa State Rep. Jose Cruz, D-Oklahoma City State Rep. Shelia Dills, R-Tulsa State Rep. Mickey Dollens, D-Oklahoma City State Rep. Kyle Hilbert, R-Bristow State Rep. Chris Kannady, R-Oklahoma City State Rep. Mark Lawson, R-Sapulpa State Rep. Marcus McEntire, R-Duncan State Rep. Garry Mize, R-Guthrie State Rep. Cyndi Munson, D-Oklahoma City State Rep. Logan Phillips, R-Mounds State Rep. Randy Randleman, R-Eufaula State Rep. Eric Roberts, R-Oklahoma City State Rep. Collin Walke, D-Oklahoma City State Sen. Jo Anna Dossett, D-Tulsa State Sen. J.J. Dossett, D-Owasso State Sen. John Haste, R-Broken Arrow State Sen. Chris Kidd, R-Waurika State Sen. Greg McCortney, R-Ada State Sen. John Michael Montgomery, R-Lawton State Sen. Frank Simpson, R-Springer State Sen. Blake Stephens, R-Tahlequah State Sen. Roger Thompson, R-Okemah State Sen. George Young, D-Oklahoma City

Mississippi leaders recognize and honor the state's Veterans.Then, Mississippi Supreme Court justices are deliberate a case involving the Governor and Speaker of the House.Plus, after a Southern Remedy Health Minute, Vice President Elect Kamala Harris is a trailblazer for women of color. We hear from a regional leader of her sorority - Alpha Kappa Alpha.Segment 1:Today is Veterans Day, a day to honor the men and women who have served, and are currently serving, in the United States Armed Forces. It was first observed as Armistice Day following World War I. During a ceremony honoring veterans yesterday, Major General Janson Boyles of the Mississippi National Guard, remarked on the importance of a nation remembering its defenders. Speaker of the House Phillip Gunn was also on hand. He says its important to consider the sacrifices veterans make for the nation.Retired Veterans, like Mark Lawson, share the sentiment. Lawson, who serves as the Director of Veteran Cemeteries for the VA shares more about his experience, and how important recognition of service is with our Michael Guidry.Segment 2:A case to prevent Mississippi's governor from vetoing portions of appropriations bills is being deliberated by the State Supreme Court. Republican Governor Tate Reeves is challenging a lower court ruling that found he doesn't have the authority to veto sections of legislative budget bills. The issue before the Mississippi Supreme Court began In August, when House Speaker Philip Gunn and Speaker Pro Tempore Jason White both Republicans, sued the governor for vetoing portions of budget bills arguing it's unconstitutional.Segment 3:Southern Remedy Health MinuteSegment 4:Vice President Elect Kamala Harris is looked at by many as a trailblazer. Stepping into the second highest executive position in the country - she is the first woman, first Black American, first Carribean American and First Indian American to hold the office. She is also someone who followed the same path as many citizens of color - attending a historically black university, and pledging Alpha Kappa Alpha. For Mitzi Paige, the Southeastern Regional Director of AKA, the election serves to remind others glass ceilings can be broken. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Weekly messages from Queen City Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.

For some Rudolf Kastner is a hero, for others a traitor. Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of a story that began in Nazi occupied Hungary in 1944. At the time Kastner, a lawyer and a journalist, was deputy chairman of the Relief and Rescue Committee. He negotiated with Adolf Eichmann to save Jewish lives but did he pay for them with other Jewish lives? In this programme, Mark Lawson talks to those within Israel - including the playwright Motti Lerner, the Chief Historian of Yad Vashem Professor Dina Porat, and the literary critic Professor Dan Laor - who have all wrestled with Kastner's story and the issues it raises. Image: A Hungarian woman looks for her relatives names on the Hungarian Jewish holocaust victims memorial wall in Budapest, Credit AFP/Getty Images

Hugh Muir and guests discuss the relaunch of the iPlayer with more exclusive content – is it enough after the BBC3 closure?

Kirsty Lang talks to Annie Proulx about the opera of her novel Brokeback Mountain and artist Martin Creed about his retrospective at the Hayward Gallery; and hears from actress Juliet Stevenson about the challenges of acting in the Samuel Beckett play Happy Days; while Mark Lawson talks to Matthew McConaughey about losing 47lbs for his film Dallas Buyers Club and to Ralph Fiennes about directing his film The Invisible Woman. comedians Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker discuss the their series of The Last Leg on Channel 4.

Sian Williams & Richard Coles with classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes; Mark Lawson and JP Devlin breakfast in Dublin for Bloomsday; Julie Wassmer who discovered the daughter she'd given up for adoption by quite extraordinary coincidence; Dominic Walker, The Bishop of Monmouth, who conducts exorcisms; Susan Richards who was inspired by a damp June village fete to send a million books to Russia; there's a Dublin Crowdscape and former Chancellor Norman Lamont's Inheritance Tracks. Plus the first three parts of the landmark Radio 4 dramatization of James Joyce's Ulysses.Producer: Dixi Stewart.

English Diction is our topic this week, covering the texts to "The Roadside Fire" and the aria "Iris, hence away" from Händel's Semele with vocal coach Mark Lawson, contralto Rebecca Raffell and tenor Donald George. Our focus is on what to do with Rs, WH words, the crazy spelling in English and some differences between American Standard and British Received pronunciation. Some of the new phonetic symbols referred to on this episode are [ɝ] and [ɚ] (for those Rs in diphthongs and triphthongs) and [ɒ] (for the British open back rounded vowel). The Roadside Fire is the 11th poem in Robert Louis Stevenson's Songs of Travel and Other Verses (although most of us know it as the 3rd song in Ralph Vaughan Williams' song cycle Songs of Travel). Most of Stevenson's novels, poems and essays are in the public domain and available as free downloads at Project Gutenberg. Here is a libretto for Händel's Semele, for Juno's Aria, scroll down to Accompagnato Nr. 31 "Awake Saturnia from thy lethargy" and Air Nr. 34 "Iris, hence away", skipping over Iris' Recitative in the middle. iTunes University is a free way to "visit" university classes--they have topics ranging from all the classical to modern languages, history, Fine Arts, mathematics, humanities... pretty much anything that universities offer, there's a class on iTunes U for it. Just go to your iTunes Store and look across the top for the heading iTunes U. I also mention the term "Lingua franca" at the beginning of the podcast, and I learned that phrase from iTunes U! Just as a reminder, I refer quite a bit to the two main books on English Diction, Madeleine Marshall's The Singer's Manual of English Diction which has been the standard for many years, and Kathryn LaBouff's Singing and Communicating in English, which covers the differences between American Standard, British Received and the Mid-Atlantic Dialect in great detail. Feel free to contact me with questions, comments or suggestions here, at the Facebook page or directly at ellen@ellenrissinger.com

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo present a Wittertainment Christmas Special, recorded in front of an audience of 5 live listeners at the BBC Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House, London.Includes a festive film quiz featuring Mark's Mash-Ups, Tag Lines and Guess the Soundtrack, and special guests perform movie dialogue as you've never heard it before.Our team captains Jason Isaacs from the Harry Potter films and Toby Jones from Frost/Nixon and the voice of Dobby in Harry Potter.Also joining us, panellists Joanna Scanlan (from In The Loop and Girl With a Pearl Earring), Mark Lawson, presenter of Front Row on BBC Radio 4, and Dr Kermode's skiffle band The Dodge Brothers, who play live.There's also the UK box office Top Ten and films of the year reviewed by Mark, Simon and the audience, plus reviews of the week's new releases including The Way Back, Chat Room, Love and Other Drugs, and Little Fockers.