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Voice on Record: Episode 57 (Listeners’ Choice)

liapod — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:04:19 +0000

Voices and recordings, ranging from William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance, more relevant than ever, through Tolkein’s Tom Bombadil, via Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier to Hugh MacDiarmid’s remarkable scots poetry and finishing up with the splendid and lovable Gerard Hoffnung.

Originally broadcast on 14th December 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.

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Voice on Record: Episode 56 (Aldous Huxley)

liapod — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:04:22 +0000

The author of Brave New World, The Perennial Philosophy, The Doors of Perception, The Devils of Loudon and more delivers a superb lecture to an audience at Los Alamos laboratories, effortlessly drawing on art, science and mysticism to express his ideas with tremendous eloquence.
Originally broadcast on 30th November 2010

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Voice on Record: Episode 57 (Ludwig Koch)

liapod — Mon, 30 May 2011 22:03:07 +0000

Ludwig Koch was the first person to record the voice of an animal, recording an Indian Shama bird in 1889 on an Edison Cylinder. His interest in sound recording led him to make some of the most amazing field recordings over many decades, and we present excerpts of two records in which he is interviewed and some of his recordings are played and remarked upon.
Originally broadcast on 23rd November 2010

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Voice on Record: Episode 54 (J.B. Priestley and Gerald Hoffnung)

liapod — Mon, 23 May 2011 22:10:12 +0000

The warm Bradford tones of Priestley reading from Delights, finished off with the effusively rumbunctious mirthfulness of the inimitable Gerard Hoffnung.
Originally broadcast on 16th November 2010

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Voice on Record – Episode 53 (Sherlock Holmes and the Red-Headed League)

liapod — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:07:57 +0000

Sherlock Holmes and the Red-headed League
Here is an entire Sherlock Holmes story along with a selection of Aesop’s Fables read by Boris Karloff.
Originally broadcast on 9th November 2010

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Voice on Record: Episode 52 (Science Fiction – Science Fact)

liapod — Mon, 09 May 2011 21:30:51 +0000

Science Fact – Science Fiction: a short story written and read by Ursula Le Guin, a short clip of Peter Jones as the voice of the book in Hitchhiker’s Guide and Dr Edward Teller explaining all about the theory of relativity.
Originally broadcast on 2nd November 2010

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Voice on Record: Episode 51 (Comedy)

liapod — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:04:32 +0000

Several comedians and comic actors at work:
Steptoe And Son – Wilfred Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Harold in this excerpt from The Diploma entitled The Gentle Art Of Totting. Vintage double act from the BBC series, music by Ron Grainer of Doctor Who theme-tune fame (Pye Golden Guinea, 1962). Also,
Scott Dobson’s Larn Yersel’ Geordie with George Russel and Mike Neville (MWM Records, undated);
Watch Out For The Bits! The explosive exploits of Blaster Bates volume four (Big Ben, 1971) and, Barry Humphries as Australian Cultural Attache to the Court of St James, Les Patterson.
Originally broadcast on 26th October 2010

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Voice on Record: Episode 50 (Betjeman, Larkin and Kipling)

liapod — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:03:33 +0000

John Betjeman reads some of his best known poems and talks about each one. We also have a preview of an extremely rare recording of Philip Larkin reading some of his own poems, soon to be released on Trunk Records, plus Arthur Lipsett and one pf Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories read by the voice of Paddington Bear – Michael Hordern.
Originally broadcast on 19th October 2010

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Voice on Record: Episode 49 (Scotland)

liapod — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:04:21 +0000

Voices from around the country, the final part of our Macbeth serialisation, and the weirdest record so far broadcast on Voice On Record, recorded in one of those very old cut-your-own-record-booths in a railway station somewhere.
Originally broadcast on 12th October 2010

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Presenter: Sean Williams

Voice on Record: Episode 48 (Planes, Trains and Wes Harrison)

liapod — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:05:06 +0000

The amazing vocal sound design of Wes Harrison and his famous “Duck Hunt” is made even more remarkable by comparison to real jet aircraft, narrated by Douglas Bader, and some classic Argo steam trains. All this plus the third part of our four part serialisation of “Macbeth”.

Originally broadcast on 5 October 2010

Website: http://voiceonrecord.blogspot.com
Presenter: Sean Williams

Voice on Record: Episode 47 (Work)

liapod — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:39:49 +0000

Featuring artists and cleaner Sarah Roberts, a Cotswold Shepherd and others, plus the second part of our four part serialisation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Originally broadcast on 28th September 2010

Voice on Record: Episode 46 (Shetland with Christine De Luca )

liapod — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:03:45 +0000

We welcome our very first studio guest to Voice On Record, the Shetland poet Christine De Luca. Christine reads some poems from North End Of Eden in English and in the Shetland dialect, and talks to me about a record I found in Orkney, a copy of which she hasn’t seen since she was a child growing up in Shetland. Also, to stick with a broadly Scottish theme, we begin our four part serialisation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Originally broadcast on Tue, 21 September 2010

Voice on Record: Episode 45 (Sherlock Holmes)

liapod — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:03:36 +0000

Basil Rathbone reads the Adventures of the Speckled Band and the Final Problem.
Originally broadcast on 14th September 2010

Voice on Record: Episode 44 (Voice of the Theatre)

liapod — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:03:44 +0000

Voices of incredible actors talking about the craft of the theatre.

Noël Coward, Albert Finney, Peter Hall, Sean Kenny, Siobhan McKenna, Harold Pinter, Sybil Thorndike, Kenneth Tynan, Peter Ustinov.
Argo, 1962
Originally Broadcast on 27th July 2010

Voice on Record: Episode 43 (Marine Creatures and Mariners)

liapod — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:04:40 +0000

Peter Scott introduces some remarkable sounds made by fish and Richard Burton reads Coleridge’s Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.
Originally broadcast on 20th July 2010 (Resonance FM, London)

Voice on Record: Episode 42 (John Arlott)

liapod — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:02:01 +0000

John Arlott

A show dedicated to one of the most poetic voices in radio and a man who could conjure up images in the most beautiful ways transcending the genre of sporting commentary and setting the bar unassailably high for all those who follow him.
Originally broadcast on 13th July 2010

Voice on Record: Episode 41 (Wales 3/3)

liapod — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:02:43 +0000

Wales – part 3/3. Land of My Fathers

Rounding off our Welsh trilogy with another tale from the Mabinogion, more Dylan Thomas, and finally, Oliver Postgate’s famous creation, Ivor The Engine.
Originally broadcast on 29th June 2010

Voice on Record: Episode 40 (Wales 2/3)

liapod — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:00:35 +0000

Wales part 2/3 – Welsh poets reading Welsh poems, and some English ones too including not one, not two, but three Thomas’!
Originally broadcast on 22nd June 2010

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Voice on Record: Episode 39 (Wales 1/3)

liapod — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:00:54 +0000

Wales, part 1/3 – ancestors and ancient tales. £100 a baby, 11th Century legends, Raymond Garlick and a couple of other Welsh folk kick off a mini series of recordings revolving around the only country in the world which is exactly the size of Wales.
Originally broadcast on 15th June 2010

Voice on Record: Episode 38 (Peter Scott 3/3)

liapod — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:00:29 +0000

“Animal Sounds” Our old friend Peter Scott presents an encyclopedic collection of birds mammals, amphibians and reptiles, from a 1970s series of 7″ discs.Some of these animal voices are spine tingling and some sound like electronic free improv.
Originally broadcast on 8th June 2010

Voice on Record: Episode 37 (Wildlife in Danger)

liapod — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:00:39 +0000

Wildlife In Danger: Eric Simms interviews several key figures in world wildlife conservation in 1971 and presents a host of recordings dating back to 1936 of many rare species, several of which are now extinct. Listen out for the sounds of the mating calls of the giant tortoises of the Galapagos!
Originally broadcast on 1st June 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

Voice on Record: Episode 36 (Peter Scott 2/3)

liapod — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:00:39 +0000

Peter Scott – 2/3
Sounds of the Serengeti

Peter Scott narrates Grahame Dangerfield’s documentary on the Serengeti, is interviewed by Eric Simms, and presents some of the wildfowl recordings from Slimbridge.
Originally broadcast on 25 May 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

Voice on Record: Episode 35 (Peter Scott part 1/3)

liapod — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:00:55 +0000

Peter Scott – 1/3
Sounds of My life – The first of three programmes about Peter Scott; naturalist, conservationist, artist and author.
Originally broadcast on 11th May 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

Voice on Record: Episode 34 (Horror – part 3/3_50s sci-fi)

liapod — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:00:46 +0000

Horror part 3 – “Well not really horror, more like 40s/50s sci-fi featuring two stories from the pen of Arch Obelor from the Lights Out series in the USA with introductions from the author”.
Originally broadcast on 4th May 2010

Voice on Record: Episode 33 (Horror – part 2/3)

liapod — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:00:25 +0000

Horror part 2: following on from Bill Mitchell and Christopher Lee, VOR is proud to present the resonant tones of Peter Lorre and Bela Lugosi starring in two tales of suspense.
Originally broadcast on 27 April 2010