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 is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on […]
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 […]
Basil Rathbone reads the Adventures of the Speckled Band and the Final Problem. Originally broadcast on 14th September 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. […]
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 is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of […]
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 is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. […]
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 is […]
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 is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of […]
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 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. […]
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 is […]
“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 is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each […]
