Category Archives: Voice On Record

Voices of people, animals and machines from poetry to field recordings, space exploration to fables.

Voice on Record: Episode 37 (Wildlife in Danger)

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)

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)

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)

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 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 33 (Horror – part 2/3)

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

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 32 (Horror – part 1/3)

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

Voice on Record: Episode 31 (Tolkien, part 2)

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

Voice on Record: Episode 30 (Tolkien, part 1)

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

Voice on Record: 29 (Dougal and the Blue Cat)

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.
http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php
Originally broadcast on 30th March 2010

Voice on Record: Episode 28 (Spring)

“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