NPR Presents, A CANTICLE FOR LIEBOWITZ In 15 Parts

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NPR Presents, A CANTICLE FOR LIEBOWITZ In 15 Parts

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From NPR now complete in 15 parts... This post-Apocalyptic award-winning tale of Catholic Monks who preserve learning to rise from the Dark Ages when society's survivors blame education and kill anyone having to do with technology and nuclear science in particular, is perhaps the best narrated of all audiobooks with multiple narraters and sound effects. A monk novice, Brother Frances discoveries a fall-out shelter 600 years old, containing the tooth and skeleton of the wife of the Blessed Liebowitz, the founder of the order who taught his monks to collect books and  memorize them and or pass them along AKA  Bookleggers. Blessed Liebowitz had been a nuclear  engineer who sought refuge in Holy Mother Church.  He is later betrayed by a friend and was martyred. Hope is carried by the bookleggar monks but the ending is cyclically chilling but hopeful in the stars. This may be the best-produced audiobook dramatization of a novel in the English language--and if not the best, none excels and few come close. Professionally produced by  Karl  Schmidt  who was an Emeritus Professor at University of Wisconsin. RE: This radio adaptation by NPR: The radio drama adaptation by John Reed, and produced at WHA by Carl Schmidt and Marv Nunn. The play was directed by Karl Schmidt, engineered by Marv Nunn with special effects by Vic Marsh. Narrator - Carol Collins and includes Fred Coffin, Bart Hayman, Herb Hartig and Russel Horton. Music was by Greg Fish and Bob Budney and the Edgewood College Chant Group.