Horror – part 1

Voice On Record brings you the voice of Bill Mitchell reading Tales Of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe and also introducing the unmistakable tones of Hammer House of Horror’s Christopher Lee as Dracula.
Originally broadcast on 20th April 2010

Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds. http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php

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Tolkien (part 2).
The Author reads from the Two Towers, Return of the King and the Fellowship of the Ring.
This episode ends with Seamus Heaney, reading from his translation of Beowulf.

Originally broadcast on 13th April 2010

Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds. http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php

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Tolkein – The Hobbit and Fellowship Of The Ring

JRR Tolkein recorded in 1952 reading an extract from The Hobbit and reading songs, poems and prose from The Lord Of The Rings – Fellowship Of The Ring.

Originally broadcast on 6th April 2010

Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds. http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php

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Dougal and the Blue Cat. Eric Thompson’s masterful 1972 performance of Dougal and the Blue Cat features all the characters from the Serge Danot’s Magic Roundabout plus Buxton the blue cat.
Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds.
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Originally broadcast on 30th March 2010

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“Seasons greetings brought to you from William Blake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, E.E.Cummings, Ogden Nash, T.S.Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, by way of Alec Guinness, E.E.Cummings, Alan Howard, and others.”

Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds.
http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php
Originally broadcast on 23rd March 2010

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Primarily Vladimir Nabokov reading from Lolita and other works but also fragments of a strange Russian record I found, and which I can’t decipher at all, although it may be people reading Pushkin…

Lolita read by Vladimir Nabokov, produced by Arthur Luce Klein.

Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds. http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php

Originally Broadcast on 16th March 2010.

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Lost and Found Treasure The second half of “The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre” and a sparkling collection of poems and verse chosen and read by Alec Guinness with a special appearance by Richard Burton.

Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds. http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php

Originally broadcast on 9th March 2010

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Gold

Well, gold, banks and money in general featuring Ogden Nash on banks – just as relevant today as it was when written 80 years ago – Hoffnung on funding for the arts, Humphrey Bogart on the Sierra Madre and a delightful documentary from Stephen Gilmour on a rather unlikely subject.

Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds. http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php

Originally broadcast on 2nd March 2010

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