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Title Great speeches in history.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Naxos AudioBooks, [1996]
℗1996

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  CDBOOK 808.85 GRE c.2  Check Shelf
Description 2 audio discs (159 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 011908 011925
Note Naxos AudioBooks: NA208312, NA208322.
Performer Read by Norman Rodway, Samuel West, Elizabeth Bell, Peter Marinker.
Note Selected by Gary Mead and Duncan Steen ; produced by Neville Jason.
Compact disc (DDD).
Program notes by Gary Mead inserted in container.
Summary "From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln-here are [historical figures with speeches associated with them]. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech, and sometimes even for their own lives, these orators demonstrate the ... resources of language in the service of the ... issues of their day."--Container.
Contents CD1. Socrates - 399BC (11:47) -- Demosthenes - 330 BC (14:08) -- Cicero - 63 BC (11:13) -- William of Normandy - 1066 (3:09) -- John Ball - 1381 (2:25) -- Martin Luther - 1521 (6:09) -- Sir Thomas More - 1535 (7:14) -- Queen Elizabeth I - 1588 (3:24) -- Queen Elizabeth I - 1601 (6:10) -- King Charles I - 1649 (7:00) -- Oliver Cromwell - 1653 (2:23) -- William Pitt the Elder - 1741 (4:01) -- CD2. Edmund Burke - 1774 (6:22) -- Patrick Henry - 1775 (7:08) -- Samuel Adams - 1776 (4:46) -- William Pitt the Younger - 1792 (4:15) -- Thomas Erskine - 1792 (6:32) -- Georges Danton - 1793 (4:10) -- Charles James Fox - 1795 (7:45) -- George Canning - 1798 (2:52) -- Robert Emmett - 1802 (4:19) -- Lord Macaulay - 1831 (3:55) -- John Bright - 1855 (6:52) -- Abraham Lincoln - 1863 (3:20) -- Emile Zola - 1898 (8:42) -- Emmeline Pankhurst - 1912 (8:20).
Note GMD: sound recording.
Subject Speeches, addresses, etc.
Oratory.
Added Author Rodway, Norman, 1929-2001.
West, Samuel, 1966-
Bell, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Anne)
Marinker, Peter.
ISBN 9626340835
9789626340837
Music No. NA208312 Naxos AudioBooks
NA208322 Naxos AudioBooks
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