Audible Studios Releases Christmas Eve, 1914
2014年12月18日 - 11:00PM
ビジネスワイヤ(英語)
Original One-Hour Dramatization, Including
Full Cast, Elaborate Sound Design and Music Score, Commemorates
100th Anniversary of World War I Christmas Eve
Truce
Available as a Free Download at
Audible.com
Audible, Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of
downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word content, today
announced the release of an original, one-hour audio drama that
vividly imagines and reenacts the famous, impromptu Christmas Eve
truce declared by rank-and-file British and German soldiers in
1914. Written exclusively for Audible by two-time Emmy
Award-winning screenwriter and journalist Charles Olivier,
Christmas Eve, 1914 features a full cast of accomplished actors
including Xander Berkeley, Damon Herriman, Cody Fern, Nate Jones
and Cameron Daddo. Christmas Eve, 1914 is available as a free
download at www.audible.com/christmas.
“The Christmas Eve truce of 1914 remains an incredibly poignant
and inspiring moment in our collective history, when men even in
the midst of battle agreed to stop fighting for a few hours,” said
Audible EVP and Publisher Beth Anderson. “The performance by this
talented ensemble of actors takes listeners right into the
trenches, bringing this remarkable story to life for a new
generation. We’re happy to make this transporting, beautifully
produced recording available free.”
“You wouldn’t think that a story from WWI would be either joyous
or tender. And yet, it was here that one of the most remarkable
moments in human history occurred,” said Olivier. “It’s one of
those events that defy a writer’s imagination, and having the
opportunity to tell a bit of this story has been a gift.”
Olivier added, “We created audio cinema with our story—this is a
movie for your imagination.” Olivier and his films have been
recognized at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival
and the Tribeca Film Festival, among others. Christmas Eve, 1914
was produced for Audible Studios by Dawn Prestwich, most recently
executive producer of AMC’s The Killing.
Christmas Eve, 1914 also features a bonus track at the end of
the story, the traditional French carol “Il est Né” performed by
Tom Tom Club.
Other original works recently released by Audible include New
York Times best-selling author Jeffery Deaver’s audio drama The
Starling Project, performed by Alfred Molina and a full cast; The
Child, a multicast dramatization based on an internationally
best-selling thriller by German crime writer Sebastian Fitzek; and
The Pillars of Reality, the first in a six-book epic fantasy series
by New York Times best-selling author Jack Campbell.
Among the acclaimed actors who have performed works of
literature for Audible are Dan Stevens, Dustin Hoffman, Jake
Gyllenhaal, Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins. In 2013,
Audible Studios won its first Grammy Award, for its production of
Janis Ian’s memoir Society’s Child, and also won the Audie Award
for Audiobook of the Year, for Colin Firth’s performance of Graham
Greene’s The End of the Affair.
Audible invented and commercialized the first digital audio
player in 1997, and has since been at the forefront of the
explosively growing audiobook download segment. In 2013, Audible
members downloaded an average of more than 17 books over the course
of a year, the equivalent of close to 600 million listening
hours.
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary
(NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken
audio information and entertainment on the Internet, offering
customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives every day.
Audible’s mission is to establish literate listening as a core tool
for anyone seeking to be more productive, better informed, or more
thoughtfully entertained. Audible content includes more than
180,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers,
broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and
business information providers. Audible is also the preeminent
provider of spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes®
Store.
Audible.comMatthew Thornton,
973-820-0402mthornton@audible.com
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