The Blockade Runners

Name: The Blockade Runners
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jerry Robbins
ISBN: 9781469208770

Author: Jerry Robbins

Narrator: Jerry Robbins, The Colonial Radio Players

Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: The Colonial Radio Theatre on Brilliance Audio

Published: 09/05/2012

Categories: Fiction, Drama

Synopsis

From Jules Verne comes this radio production about an English Blockade Runner in the American Civil War and its attempt to free a prisoner held by the Confederates. A full music score, thousands of sound effects and the award winning Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air bring this classic adventure to life before your very ears.

About Jerry Robbins

Jerry Robbins, co-founder of the Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air has written and produced over 350 radio plays, including Ticonderoga, Captain Blood, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Gettysburg, Treasure Island, Yankee Clipper, Powder River, and Little Big Horn. In 2006 he started a collaboration with legendary author Ray Bradbury, producing Dandelion Wine, followed by Something Wicked This Way Comes, and wrote the script for, and produced The Halloween Tree; all award winning productions that garnered high praise from the master himself. He is currently working on a fourth collaboration with Mr. Bradbury, a radio dramatization of The Martian Chronicles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mimi on June 20, 2017

Exciting adventure, and sweet romance. One of Verne's better novellas. Definately worth a read!......more

Goodreads review by Thom on January 07, 2013

Never underestimate the persuasive powers of a beautiful woman! The Blockade Runners isn't exactly a story most people would attribute to Jules Verne. This short story is about James Playfair and his exploits in breaking the Union blockade around Charleston Harbor. He proposes to his uncle Vince Pla......more

Goodreads review by Julien L. on March 13, 2024

Un bon 3,5/5 pour cette longue nouvelle d’une centaine de pages. 11ème opus des aventures extraordinaires de Verne, cette nouvelle nous embarque avec un forceur de blocus, le Delphin, qui part des côtes anglaises pour faire commerce avec l’Amérique du Nord en pleine guerre de sécession. Tout bon négoc......more

Goodreads review by Deity World on January 01, 2023

Not as good as previous book A Floating City......more

Goodreads review by D on July 08, 2020

Verne, as always, is an expert at adventure stories. I found this particular novelette too bland to annotate, but it greatly preserves timely discourse on American civil conflict and the weaponization of anti-racism.......more