There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece. Yet it is both a popular text to be studied at school and an enigma. The scene is a country road. There is a solitary tree. It is evening. Two tramp-like figures, Vladimir and Estragon, exchange words. Pull off boots. Munch a root vegetable. Two other curious characters enter. And a boy. Time passes. It is all strange yet familiar.

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

五代目古今亭志ん生の長女、十代目金原亭馬生、三代目古今亭志ん朝の姉でもある美濃部美津子氏が、娘の目から見た名人・志ん生のエピソードを歯切れの良い東京弁で語ります。貧乏な中でも信じてささえた母おりんさんの献身的な生活、努力家であった師匠、空襲下での師匠、満州での師匠、二人の名人の弟、名跡志ん生に対する思い、優しいおとうさんだったと言う娘が語る名人五代目古今亭志ん生の逸話をお楽しみ下さい。聞き手は塙宏氏 昭和37年入社以来志ん生、圓生を始めとして談志、円楽、志ん朝師らと数々の仕事を行い志ん生一家とも古い付き合いのある元ニッポン放送演芸担当プロデューサー。(C)2008サウンドマン

Here's what started the phenomenon: This book has been a best seller for over 15 years and has been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny, and candid look inside the movie business. Save the Cat is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying.

有名な古典を名古屋地方を中心に活動されているトップクラスのナレーター、榊原忠美氏が圧倒する表現力で「おくのほそ道」(奧の細道)を朗読。「夏草や 兵(つはもの)どもが 夢のあと」「閑さや岩にしみ入蝉の声」「五月雨を あつめて早し 最上川」・・・松尾芭蕉の俳句、いくつ覚えていますか? (C)アイ文庫 「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」