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The Spoken Word - Short Stories written by Various Famous English and Irish Authors performed by Various Famous English and Irish Authors on Audio CD (Abridged)

The Spoken Word - Short Stories written by Various Famous English and Irish Authors performed by Various Famous English and Irish Authors on Audio CD (Abridged)£19.99  -  £29.99

In the years after the Second World War the BBC invited some of the leading British and Irish writers of short stories to read selected works of their own on the radio. For the first time this unrivalled archive of recordings is now being made available for wider distribution. This 3-CD set includes a wide range of...

The Spoken Word - Writers written by Various World Authors performed by George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells on CD (Abridged)

The Spoken Word - Writers written by Various World Authors performed by George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells on CD (Abridged)
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 The Spoken Word - Writers written by Various World Authors performed by George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells on CD (Abridged)The Spoken Word - Writers written by Various World Authors performed by George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells on CD (Abridged) 
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ISBN:  9780712305167
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Literary
Duration:  60 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Various World Authors
Narrator 1:  George Bernard Shaw
Narrator 2:  Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator 3:  Rudyard Kipling
Narrator 4:  H.G. Wells

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Very few recordings survive of the great writers of the first half of the 20th century. This 70-minute CD brings together many historic items from the British Library Sound Archive to provide a survey of the earliest generation of English-language writers whose voices have survived. Among the rarities are an extract from one of P.G. Wodehouse's wartime broadcasts from Berlin and a private recording of Vita Sackville-West reading an unpublished passage from her personal manuscript copy of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando". From radio broadcasts come an extract from the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf herself, and rare recordings of Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, G.K. Chesterton, John Buchan and Agatha Christie. All the writers represented were born before 1900. The other voices include Arthur Conan Doyle, Max Beerbohm, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Compton Mackenzie; J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley and J.B. Priestley.

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