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. |
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Compact disc (DDD). |
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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.
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Oratory.
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Added Author |
Rodway, Norman, 1929-2001.
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West, Samuel, 1966-
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Bell, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Anne)
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Marinker, Peter.
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ISBN |
9626340835 |
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9789626340837 |
Music No. |
NA208312 Naxos AudioBooks |
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NA208322 Naxos AudioBooks |
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