Poetry Please is a weekly radio program broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in which listeners request poems, which are then read by a cast of actors.The program has been on the air for more than 30 years and, in 2004, issued this set of recordings as a celebra
Read more…This is the complete Idylls of the King, narrated by Charlton Griffin.
He is a better prose reader (especially of the Roman historians) than he
is a verse reader but listeners will enjoy his strong narrative style.
I've added Basil Rathbone's The P
This is the Caedmon recording of Lancelot and Elaine read by Basil Rathbone in a pleasantly old fashioned rich baritone. Full of attractive pre-Raphaelite coloring, the story tells of the manner in which Elaine, a simple soul and self-conscious close
Read more…"Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson" was commissioned by the Tennyson Society based in Lincoln where the poet's manuscripts, letters and 4,000 volume library are held in the Tennyson Research Centre.
The readings are by Patrick O'Shaughnessy, a London born
A headlong plunge into the sea-narratives of Alfred Lord Tennyson, with sea-songs from the acclaimed a cappella trio Coope, Boyes and Simpson, centred around his most popular work Enoch Arden, written in the space of two weeks in 1864.
The Kraken, rea
Two versions of “Enoch Arden”
The first, with Andrew Sachs as narrator, was broadcast on Australian ABC.
The second, with Erik Rhodes, is of a vinyl recording made in 1950. Rhodes was best known for his appearance in several Fred Astaire movies and fo
This is the third tennyson thread.
Caedmon recorded Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in the evening of their careers. Sir Lewis was a prominent actor-manager and his wife Dame Sybil a mainstay of the Old Vic. (Shaw wrote St Joan expressly for her)
The
This is the first of nine threads on the work of Tennyson.
This is an audiobook, with commentary and biography interspersed with his poems.
This is the Penguin “Selected Poems,” well presented and excellently read by (amongst others) Derek Jacobi and
This was a series of documentaries by WNYC, from which the actual readings, interviews, music, and essays have been extracted, with little or no introductory material surviving.
The WNYC essay which begins the series is almost funny now, as dated as i
Venus and Adonis
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A performance of the poem with no adaptation or new writing, broadcast in the week of what is commonly held to have been Shakespeare's birthday.
The poem is Shakespeare's retelling of a myth made popular through contemp
This collection represents live performances by Ginsberg. Some are recorded at commercial venues and are reasonably good; others are home recordings and the quality is obviously lower. In any case, they capture the essence of Ginsberg performing his
Read more…WARNING - THIS MATERIAL IS DEFINITELY NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE OF TENDER SENSIBILITIES.
IT IS, HOWEVER, THE SEMINAL WORK OF BEAT POETRY AND ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.
There is an excellent discussion of the poem , its
WARNING - THIS MATERIAL IS DEFINITELY NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE OF TENDER SENSIBILITIES.
This is the complete boxed set of Ginsberg's work. It's four volumes.
Vol. 1 - Moloch!
Vol. 2 - Caw! Caw!
Vol. 3 - Ah!
Vol. 4 - Ashes & Blues
Note: I appear
WARNING - THIS MATERIAL IS DEFINITELY NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE OF TENDER SENSIBILITIES.
The Lion For Real by Allen Ginsberg features musical accompaniment by Bill Frisell, Philip Glass, Paul McCartney and others.
This is a more difficult work
This is an excellent collaboration between two of the giants of American poetry and music.
WARNING - THIS MATERIAL IS DEFINITELY NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE OF TENDER SENSIBILITIES.
Performed by Geraint Wyn Davies
https://timespast.ning.com/group/records/forum/topics/selected-stories-and-poems-of
Read more…This was a syndicated show that ran from 1954 to 1955. I have most fo the episodes (offered below) but would appreciate any of those that are missing.
I have 57 of the shows:
Anthology 54-02-28 (01) Theodore Sturgeon.mp3
Anthology 54-03-14 (03) Murder f
Rosanna mentioned Sylvia, too soon gone from us.
A selection of her work - I'll have the complete Bell Jar (read by Maggie Gyllenhall) later, when the tags are corrected
Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like The Rivers - Black Poets Read Their Work
2 CD's (in one zip file)
Read By Various
