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H.G.wells Radio Broadcasts (2006)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 73 minutes), £9.95

This CD makes available for the first time all the surviving BBC radio broadcasts of H.G. Wells. The earliest dates from 1931, by which time Wells was already in his sixties and a renowned public figure,...

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Othello (1890 Audio)

Phonograph recording of excerpts from Othello spoken by American actor Edwin Thomas Booth (1833-1893).

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American Writers: The Spoken Word (2008)

Subject

Drama; English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 210 minutes), £19.50

This three-CD set includes recordings of 27 celebrated American writers, starting from the earliest generation whose voices survive. The majority of the recordings derive from BBC radio broadcasts, in which...

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Speaking for Ourselves (2007)

Subject

History; Social Studies; Social welfare

An oral history project consisting of 230 hours of audio and video recordings of people aged over 50 with cerebral palsy talking about their lives. The project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund which...

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Shakespeare’s Prophetic Soul (1944)

A sound recording of Harley Granville-Barker reading from his own essay ‘My Prophetic Soul’ from his book ‘Prefaces to Shakespeare’. Recorded for Harvard University, Department of English.

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Shakespeare Recording Project, The (1961 Audio)

Series

British Council Tapes

Sound recording. Director George Rylands is interviewed by Peter Orr about his project to record the complete works of Shakespeare with The Marlowe Society.

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All’s Well That Ends Well (1964 Audio)

Director

Val May

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Out of Distribution (2006), Audiocassette. 60 min., 1997 sale: £5.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A reading of an abridged version of All’s Well That Ends Well, with a cast including Dame Edith Evans, Vanessa Redgrave and Jeremy Brett, directed by Val May.

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Edith Sitwell: The Spoken Word (2008)

Subject

Drama; English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 71 minutes), £9.70

Edith Sitwell was the queen of twentieth-century English poetry, majestically attired in performance and distinctly regal in her delivery. Drawing on previously unpublished BBC broadcasts, this CD presents a...

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Contemporary Literature on Tape: Grace Nicols and Samuel Selvon (1995)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette), £5.99

A National Sound Archive recording of two Afro-Caribbean writers, Grace Nichols and Samuel Selvon. Both writers explore different aspects of Black experience through a wide range of language-forms, including...

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Shakespeare’s Language (2000 Audio)

A talk by Frank Kermode as part of the ‘Chapter and Verse:1000 years of English Literature at the British Library’ exhibition. Recorded at the British Library Auditorium (London). The talk was tied to...

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