First published in 1930, As I Lay Dying traces the Bundren family's difficult journey to fulfill the wish of their dying matriarch, Addie. Told through a sequence of interior monologues, the novel unfolds in multiple voices, revealing conflicting motives, private grief, and the uneasy bond that holds the family together. Faulkner's style-fragmented, intimate, and unguarded-captures the texture of thought itself, shifting between dark humor and quiet despair. The result is a work t...

As the 1950s dawned America was a colossus militarily, economically and culturally. It bestrode a globe it was doing so much to shape in its own image. But it had concerns; the threat of communism. And for the Movies and Radio there was another concern: the emerging rise of Television.For Radio, still in its golden age of mass audiences and star filled programmes, they had a handy solution with ‘The Big Show’. Its premise was simple but effective. Take 90 minutes of air-time and fi...