Voice On Record

57. Listener's Choice

2010-12-07T21:12:00.000Z

Broadcast on 7th December 2010

details coming soon...

56. Aldous Huxley - Visionary Experience

2010-11-30T23:21:00.002Z

Broadcast on 30th November 2010

The author of Brave New World, The Perennial Philosophy, The Doors of Perception, The Devils of Loudon and more delivers a superb lecture to an audience at Los Alamos laboratories, effortlessly drawing on art, science and mysticism to express his ideas with tremendous eloquence.

Speaking Personally... Aldous Huxley
Lansdowne, 1975

Here's a short extract from this wonderfully recorded album released on Lansdowne as a taster of Huxley's voice and engaging charm as a speaker.

Aldous Huxley, Visionary Experience
A series of talks on The Human Situation, Recorded Live from The Lecture Hall
Volume Two.
Laura Archera Huxley/ Gifford Associates, undated but suggested as 1969.

This is the entire lecture. Check out the back of the sleeve for his notes for this lecture.

55. Ludwig Koch

2010-11-22T20:52:00.002Z

Broadcast on 23 November 2010

Ludwig Koch was the first person to record the voice of an animal, recording an Indian Sharma bird in 1889 on an Edison Cylinder. His interest in sound recording led him to make some of the most amazing field recordings over many decades, and we present excerpts of two records in which he is interviewed and some of his recordings are played and remarked upon.

A Salute To Ludwig Koch and a selection of some of his finest recordings
BBC Wildlife Series No. 1
BBC Records,

Adapted from a BBC programme "The Best of Ludwig Koch" originally broadcast on 11th November 1968 in "The World Of Sound" series in honour of his 87th birthday.

Ludwig Koch - recollections and recordings The pioneer of nature recordings looks back over his life. With a further selection of his unique recordings.
BBC Wildlife Series No. 6
BBC Records,

A longer version of a BBC programme produced by John Burton and originally broadcast on 14th November 1969 in the Radio 4 series "listen" to mark Ludwig Koch's 88th birthday.

54. JB Priestley and Gerard Hoffnung

2010-11-22T20:12:00.002Z

Broadcast on 16th November 2010

The warm Bradford tones of Priestley reading from Delights, finished off with the effusively rumbunctious mirthfulness of the inimitable Gerard Hoffnung.

An Informal Hour with J.B.Priestley
DELIGHT
Spoken Arts, undated

Introduction
Fountains
Orchestral Conductors
Smell of Tahiti
Smoking in a Hot Bath
Not Going
Blossom
Wood

No School Report
Long Trousers
Pleasure and Gratitude of Children
The Mineral Water in Bedrooms of Foreign Hotels
Orchestras Tuning Up
The Delight That Never Was
But This is Where We Came In

Hoffnung
BBC Records, 1973

Two excerpts:
The Film Fan recorded in 1955 and broadcast originally on "Talking About Films".
My Life recorded in 1953 and originally broadcast on "Woman's Hour" thus earning it, in my humble opinion, clearly the best ever Woman's Hour broadcast honours.

53. Sherlock Holmes and the Redheaded League

2010-11-12T11:54:00.000Z

Broadcast on 9th November 2010.

Here is an entire Sherlock Holmes story along with a selection of Aesop's Fables read by Boris Karloff.

Stories of Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone
The Redheaded League
Caedmon, 1963

Aesop's Fables - read by Boris Karloff
Wing, 1967

52. Science Fiction - Science Fact

2010-10-31T20:29:00.001Z

Broadcast on 2nd November 2010

A story from the pen of Ursula Le Guin read by the author, the dulcet and infinitely reassuring tones of Peter Jones as the Book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and a comprehensive account of the theory or relativity by Dr Edward Teller - easy reading for your ears!

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

I have loved the work of Douglas Adams since I watched the very first episode of the BBC TV production of Hitchhikers Guide as a small boy. Peter Jones' voice is one those very special voices that send a tingle up the spine when I hear them. I wish I could play more of this.

The Size And Nature Of The Universe. Relativity Dr. Edward Teller
Spoken Arts/General Dynamics Corporation, New York, c1957

This time we hear all about Relativity. If you're not interested in Relativity then marvel in the germanic accent that Dr Teller rolls around his tongue. Informative and entertaining! Notably this record was also directed by the fabled Arthur Luce Klein who was responsible for most of the Spoken Arts recordings, many of which we have played on the show.

Gwilan's Harp and Intracon read by the author Ursula K. Le Guin
Caedmon, 1977

Here's an author I'm not that familiar with, but since finding this record in a junk shop in Portland round the corner from Matty and Kimberley's place, I will be looking out for some of her novels. The sleeve notes to this record are priceless and written with true wit and style. I will try to scan them or get a good quality photo and will post them here at some point soon.

51. Comedy and Comedians

2010-10-31T20:14:00.000Z

Broadcast on 26th October 2010

Ooops, left it a bit late to update this page and can't remember the strapline or running order, so below is subject to change or correction.

Several comedians and comic actors at work.

Steptoe And Son
Pye Golden Guinea, 1962

Wilfred Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Harold in this excerpt from The Diploma entitled The Gentle Art Of Totting. Vintage double act from the BBC series, music by Ron Grainer of Doctor Who theme-tune fame.

Scott Dobson's Larn Yersel' Geordie with George Russel and Mike Neville.
MWM Records, undated.

Should have been a double header with Teach Thissen Tyke but I only just found this at the car boot sale last week. Hello to Bennett Hogg and all at the Toon Uni.

Watch Out For The Bits! The explosive exploits of Blaster Bates volume four.
Big Ben, 1971

Blaster tells the tale of the Butterless Butty and dispenses other pearls of northern wisdom. Sorry about the swearing but it's all good fun.

Barry Humphries by permission of Dame Edna Everage PROUDLY PRESENTS Housewife Superstar!

Actually, we don't hear from Dame Edna herself but the fellow who introduces her show with a warm act of his own as his capacity as the Australian Cultural Attache to the Court of St James, Les Patterson.

50. Betjeman and Larkin

2010-10-22T10:41:00.000+01:00

Broadcast on 19th October 2010

Welcome to our landmark fiftieth show. Standing back for a moment that suddenly seems like an awful lot of broadcasting and all the effort that has gone into the show has, I hope you will agree, been absolutely worthwhile.

I am delighted to present two wonderful recordings of the late poet Laureate John Betjeman and the late refused-Poet Laureate Philip Larkin, together with Michael Hordern reading Kipling and the weird world of Arthur Lipsett.

John Betjeman reads selected poetry
Argo, 1959

Directed by Arthur Luce Klein, recorded by Spoken Arts but released in the UK by Argo, with a photo on the cover by Cecil Beaton. Also features Betjeman introducing each poem and providing some rare and illuminating extra details.

Philip Larkin, reading his own poems, soon to be released on Trunk Records but at the moment I have no further information...

Arthur Lipsett, Soundtracks

Globala Records, 2003
This is a reissue but from an undated original, and I played the track Very nice, very nice. I guess strictly speaking, it's music, but since there is so much spoken word in it I thought it would be very nice to play it for you. Seems to originate from the National Film Board of Canada - if you listen carefully you can hear someone say "aboot". Sadly the sleeve has almost no information on it at all.

Just So Stories vol.2
Readers, Michael Hordern, Barbara Jefford, Richard Johnson.

Argo, 1973
This is a double album box set but I played only one side, so more later...
We played you La Crabbe qui jouait avec le mer in about episode 12 in the show on Musique Concrète, and here is the original English version read by (Sir) Michael Hordern.

49. Scotland

2010-10-12T11:24:00.000+01:00

Having made three shows each on Wales and Ireland, and one on English dialect through the ages, it is only fitting that we should make a show about Scotland, especially given that the show is written, recorded and produced in Edinburgh. Some might say that the Shetland episode counts as a Scottish episode and some might take umbrage at such an outrageous suggestion. Nevertheless, here it is. Scotland.

Paisley's Own WILLIE McCULLOCH "The Story Teller" OOR WILLIE "The Man With Many Voices"
a product of S.M.D.Recording Studios, Paisley.
Scotia, 1973

Originally recorded in 1947 and transferred from 78s in 1973, produced by Reta McColl, engineered by J.B.Wallace.
I found this in the car boot sale last week. It absolutely reeks of stale fags giving that authentic Glasgow experience, and you can see the encroachment of tar and nicotine around the edges of what used to be the white sleeve. I know nothing about the man himself, but this must be one of the very few records from the 1940s that we've played on Voice On Record, and it's a good document of attitudes and humour north of the border in the mid 20th Century.

English With A Dialect - and Irish, Scottish and Welsh Accents
BBC Records, 1971

Examples from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, and Ayrshire.

William Shakespeare Macbeth
The Shakespeare Recording Society
Caedmon, 1960

The final part of the Scottish Play.

48. Planes, Trains and Wes Harrison

2010-10-02T16:12:00.001+01:00

Broadcast on 5th October 2010

I came across this record in Amsterdam whilst doing a short intro at STEIM. My interest in sound design was the reason for buying it and I was amazed when I got it home and listened through to it. Despite the questionable taste of some of his jokes, Wes manages to recreate certain sounds with an amazing aptitude for detail, and there are many lessons here for sound designers in any medium.

Also on today's show is the third part of our four part serialisation of Macbeth.

The World Of Steam Steam locomotives heard at work on railways in Britain, Germany, Spain and Turkey.
Argo, 1970

Salute In Sound Aircraft of the RAF, specially recorded in Stereo, introduced by Group Capt. Douglas Bader CBE, DSO, DFC.
Music For Pleasure, 1968

You Won't Believe Your Ears Wes Harrison
The Comedy And Sound Effects Of America's Funniest Man.
Philips, undated

I just played side 2 of this record - The Duck Hunt.

William Shakespeare Macbeth
The Shakespeare Recording Society
Caedmon, 1960

With a cast including Robert Hardy as Duncan, Ian Holm as Malcolm, Stanley Holloway as the Porter, Jill Balcon as Lady Macduff and Anthony Quayle in the lead role. Another cracking production under the direction of Howard Sackler on Caedmon.

47. Work

2010-09-26T14:22:00.003+01:00

Broadcast 28th September 2010

Three perspectives on work including the radio premiere of Sarah Roberts' piece The Bloody Avant-Garde delivered in Sarah's own inimitable style - think Matthew Collings meets Les Dawson and you're a quarter of the way there!

The second half of the show is the second part of our four-part serialisation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
The Dialect of the Black American
Western Electric, 1970

Interesting linguistics record which presents different (staged) examples of African American dialect (as well as some cod-Scottish) and presents the linguists' perspective that such dialects are simply different and not inferior.

The Bloody Avant-Garde written and performed by the artist and cleaner Sarah Roberts.
http://www.sarahroberts.net
A witty and incisive investigation of art as a job of work from the perspective of someone with a far deeper insight than the subjects of her monologue. Great stuff!

Cotswold Craftsmen
Saydisc, 1973

Totally absorbing accounts of crafts and occupations, most of which have now died out, at least in their pre-industrial form. Voices from a different era, interspersed with questions from a very BBC-voiced interviewer, which conjure visions of a very different world.

William Shakespeare Macbeth
The Shakespeare Recording Society
Caedmon, 1960

With a cast including Robert Hardy as Duncan, Ian Holm as Malcolm, Stanley Holloway as the Porter, Jill Balcon as Lady Macduff and Anthony Quayle in the lead role. Another cracking production under the direction of Howard Sackler on Caedmon.

46. Shetland with Christine De Luca

2010-09-20T10:06:00.002+01:00

Broadcast 21st September 2010

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 child growing up in Shetland.

Also, to stick with a broadly Scottish theme, we begin our four part serialisation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Eftir Da Hümin Words and Music of Shetland
Presented by the Shetland Folk Society
Waverley, undated (post 1945)

North End Of Eden
Christine De Luca
(2010) Luath Press Ltd., Edinburgh
recorded for the show by Sean Williams

For more information please visit Christine's website www.christinedeluca.co.uk

William Shakespeare Macbeth
The Shakespeare Recording Society
Caedmon, 1960

With a cast including Robert Hardy as Duncan, Ian Holm as Malcolm, Stanley Holloway as the Porter, Jill Balcon as Lady Macduff and Anthony Quayle in the lead role. Another cracking production under the direction of Howard Sackler on Caedmon.

45. Sherlock Holmes 1

2010-09-16T10:17:00.000+01:00

Broadcast on 14th September 2010
Two stories featuring the famous resident of 221b Baker Street read by Basil Rathbone. I picked up two of these records in Millenium Music in Portland Oregon. This is a shop I've spent many hours in over the past 10 years and has changed with the times but still manages to stock a load of cool second hand vinyl and CDs as well as staying on the pulse of current releases. And it's open til 10 o'clock at night!

Stories of Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Final Problem
Caedmon, 1963

Alec Guinness, A Personal Choice
RCA Victor, 1965

44. Voice of the Theatre

2010-09-08T10:47:00.001+01:00

Broadcast on 27th July 2010
Voices of incredible actors talking about the craft of the theatre.

talking about Theatre
Noël Coward, Albert Finney, Peter Hall, Sean Kenny, Siobhan McKenna, Harold Pinter, Sybil Thorndike, Kenneth Tynan, Peter Ustinov.
Argo, 1962

43. Rime of the Ancient Mariner

2010-09-08T10:46:00.003+01:00

Broadcast on 20th July 2010
Richard Burton's reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, read by Richard Burton with John Neville and Robert Hardy
An Argo recording, Spoken Arts, undated

Animal Sounds - Fishes
Commentary by Peter Scott, script by Cathy Jarman.
Produced for Purnell's Encyclopedia of Animal Life and MacDonald Junior Reference Library by Procaudio Ltd.
BPC, 1970

42. John Arlott

2010-09-08T10:45:00.001+01:00

Broadcast on 13th July 2010
My favorite voice ever to grace the airwaves, and a great friend of Dylan Thomas, John Arlott was the quintessential cricket commentator, bringing a poet's mastery of the
English language to elevate the wonderful game to new heights of aesthetic pleasure. Sit back and marvel in John's consummate skill.

John Arlott talks Cricket
Charisma, 1982

1. Early Memories
2. May's Bounty
3. Mead/Brown/Tennyson/Strudwick
4. The Golden Days
5. Laker/Hobbs/Sutcliffe/Fry

The Lord's Taverners: Best of Test Match Special featuring Brian Johnstone, John Arlott, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Fred Trueman and Trevor Bailey.
Haven Records, 1984

41. Wales part 3. Land of My Fathers.

2010-09-08T10:41:00.003+01:00

Broadcast on 29th June 2010
Rounding off our Welsh trilogy with another tale from the Mabinogion, more Dylan Thomas, and finally, Oliver Postgate's famous creation, Ivor The Engine.

The Mabinogion extracts from the four branches.
read by Gwyn Jones
A Welsh Arts Council Oriel Record, 1976

Pryderi Lost and Found
The Sorrows of Branwen
Catching a Mouse
Lleu and the Flower-Bride

Poets of Wales John Ormond, Raymond Garlick
Argo, 1971

Some more Raymond Garlick poems.

Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas with Richard Burton and all Welsh cast in the original BBC production.
Argo, 1954

Quite possibly the finest spoken word recording of all time. If you don't already own this it can be purchased on CD and should be a part of your collection.

R.S.Thomas reading his own poems, recorded at the poet's home, July 1976
Welsh Arts Council Oriel, 1976

Ivor the Engine reading his own poems, recorded at the poet's home, July 1976
Trunk Records, 2006

With music lovingly composed by Vernon Eliot, who also plays the bassoon which is Ivor's voice. This always brings tears to the eyes. Oliver Postgate's amazing work continues to make so many people so happy. We love you Oliver.

And another thing that always brings tears to the eyes, especially during the Six Nations is Land Of My Fathers despite not being at all Welsh.This is one of the truly magnificent songs. You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of audio experiences in the same league as this song sung by a stadium full of Welsh voices or a small church choir.

40. Wales part 2

2010-09-08T10:40:00.001+01:00

Broadcast on 22nd June 2010
Welsh poets including three Thomas'

Poets of Wales Dannie Abse, Leslie Norris
Argo, 1971

Some of Leslie Norris' poems including Skulls, A Girl's Song, Ransomes for Edward Thomas.

R.S.Thomas reading his own poems, recorded at the poet's home, July 1976
Welsh Arts Council Oriel, 1976

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, read by Richard Burton with John Neville and Robert Hardy
An Argo recording, Spoken Arts, undated

Richard Burton reads Frost at Midnight from this record.

The World of Dylan Thomas in Poetry and Prose with excerpts from Under Milkwood. Richard Burton, Emlyn Williams and other readers.
Argo, 1971

The Hunchback in the Park and Fern Hill read by Richard Burton, and In My Craft Or Sullen Art read by Richard Bebb.

This is followed by more poems by Dannie Abse and Leslie Norris.

39. Wales part 1

2010-09-08T10:39:00.003+01:00

Broadcast on 15th June 2010
The first in our Welsh trilogy - a land that hasn't featured too much yet but which we will now address.

Children Talking

English With A Dialect - and Irish, Scottish and Welsh Accents
BBC Records, 1971

The Mabinogion extracts from the four branches.
read by Gwyn Jones
A Welsh Arts Council Oriel Record, 1976

Pryderi Lost and Found
The Sorrows of Branwen
Catching a Mouse
Lleu and the Flower-Bride

Not all these stories are played in this episode but I'll work out which was and update this page eventually.

Poets of Wales John Ormond, Raymond Garlick
Argo, 1971

I played some of the Raymond Garlick poems only from this disk.

38. Peter Scott part 3.

2010-09-08T10:38:00.001+01:00

Broadcast on 8th June 2010
Probably the last Peter Scott programme based on a collection of 7" singles that accompanied a children's encyclopedia.

Animal Sounds
Commentary by Peter Scott, script by Cathy Jarman.
Produced for Purnell's Encyclopedia of Animal Life and MacDonald Junior Reference Library by Procaudio Ltd.
BPC, 1970

5 7" records
Birds
Insects
Amphibians and Reptiles
Mammals
Fishes (see episode 43 for this record after the Ancient Mariner)

37. Wildlife In Danger

2010-09-08T10:36:00.001+01:00

Broadcast on 1st June 2010
Voices from the conservation bodies as well as recordings by some of the greats such as Ludwig Koch, Eric Simms and the like of many species which were endangered in the 20th Century, some of which are doubtless now extinct.

Wildlife In Danger BBC Wildlifre Series No.8
BBC Records, 1971

One of the excellent records in the BBC Wildlife Series produced by Eric Simms.

36. Peter Scott part 2 - Sounds of the Serengeti

2010-09-08T10:34:00.002+01:00

Broadcast on 18th May 2010

Grahame Dangerfeild brings you Sounds of the Serengeti Incredible live recordings of wild life from the heart of Africa. Narration by Peter Scott.
Music For Pleasure, 1970

35. Peter Scott part 1

2010-09-08T10:33:00.001+01:00

Broadcast on 11th May 2010.
The first of three, possibly four programmes featuring the voice of Peter Scott and many of his colleagues and feathered friends. I can heartily recommend his autobiography The Eye of the Wind Hodder, Stoughton & Brockhampton, London, Leicester 1961-77.

Sounds of My Life Peter Scott talks about his eventful life.

34. Horror 3 Arch Obelor presents...

2010-09-08T10:24:00.002+01:00

Broadcast on 4th May 2010
Arch Obelor presents two weird 50s horror/terror stories that take you right back to the 1950s and the fear of total atomic destruction so characteristic of the period.

Arch Obelor's Lights Out Everybody
Nostalgia Lane Inc, 1978

Oxychloride X (The Ultimate Hole).
Rocket From Manhattan (The play that anticipated the Sputnik).

33. Horror 2 Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre

2010-09-08T10:19:00.002+01:00

Broadcast on 27th April 2010

Suspense Bela Lugosi, with narrative introduction by Bela Lugosi jr.
Mark56, 1973

Peter Lorre, Master of mystery and suspense
The Queen of Spades
Nostalgia Lane Inc, 1978

32. Horror part 1

2010-09-08T10:17:00.003+01:00

Broadcast on 20th April 2010.
The voice of Horror, Bill Mitchell reads two tales by Edgar Allan Poe and introduces Christopher Lee as Dracula.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe read by Bill Mitchell.
Argo, 1977

The Telltale Heart
The Case Of Amontillado

Hammer presents Dracula with Christopher Lee
A HORRIFYING STORY OF VAMPIRISM with spine chilling sounds and music.
Music by James Bernard
EMI Studio 2 Stereo, Hammer City Records Ltd., 1974

31. Tolkein 2

2010-09-08T10:12:00.000+01:00

Broadcast on 13th April 2010
Part 2 of the Tolkein shows, this week featuring Tolkein reading from The Two Towers and Return of The King plus a little bit of Seamus Heaney reading his own translation of Beowulf, just to give some context to Tolkein's Riders of Rohan.

J.R.R.Tolkein reads and sings his THE LORD OF THE RINGS, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.
Caedmon, 1975

Beowulf Seamus Heaney. A New Translation
Penguin, 2000

30. Tolkein 1

2010-09-08T10:03:00.000+01:00

Broadcast on 6th april 2010.
Recordings of Tolkein reading from The Hobbit and also from Fellowship of the Ring, before having found a publisher!

J.R.R.Tolkein reads and sings his THE HOBBIT and The Fellowship of the Ring
Caedmon, 1975

29. Dougal and the Blue Cat

2010-09-08T09:45:00.000+01:00

Broadcast on 30th March 2010.
Well, this show is entirely made up of the fantastic adventures of Dougal and the Magic Roundabout cast and their encounters with Buxton the Blue Cat. I edited out a lot of the songs so as to fit the whole piece into the show so I urge anybody interested to track down the original to get the full benefit of the whole piece.

Rest assured that this has nothing to do with the dire version voiced by Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue.

All your friends from THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT present DOUGAL and the BLUE CAT. Original soundtrack of the film.
Music For Pleasure, 1972

28. Spring

2010-09-08T09:37:00.000+01:00

Broadcast on 23rd March 2010.
To celebrate the changing seasons I have put together a show about Spring, although my methodology is a little suspect since I have mainly gone through a stack of poetry records and looked for poems with the word Spring in the title.

Most of these items are from the following records:
Birds and Other Sounds of the Countryside Recorded and Produced by Eric Simms.
BBC Sound Effects No. 17
BBC Records, 1977

Victorian Poetry read by Max Adrian, Claire Bloom and Alan Howard.
Caedmon, 1971

the poetry of Blake read by Ralph Richardson.
Caedmon, 1958

plus a couple from:
Alec Guinness, A Personal Choice
RCA Victor, 1965

Lambs and rooks.

Ogden Nash Reads Ogden Nash.
Caedmon, 1953

Spring

Dante Gabriel Rosetti

William Blake

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Lowland broadleaved woodlands

e.e.cummings spring

Alec Guinness Springtime

Blackbirds and Sparrows

e.e.cummings when faces called flowers read by the author

e.e.cummings when faces called flowers read by the Alec Guinness

Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover
Lowland Broadleaved Woodlands.
Frogs and toads.

T.S.Eliot reads The Wasteland.

27. Nabokov and Russians

2010-09-06T16:50:00.000+01:00

Broadcast on 16th March 2010.
Primarily Vladimir Nabokov reading from Lolita and other works but also fragments of a strange Russian record I found, and which I can't decipher at all, although it may be people reading Pushkin...

Lolita read by Vladimir Nabokov, produced by Arthur Luce Klein.
Spoken Arts

Russian Record I don't have Russian script on my computer and don't know how to translate this so please see for yourself. Any translation help would be much appreciated.

26. Gold and Guinness

2010-09-06T16:41:00.001+01:00

The second and final part of Treasure of Sierra Madre and some poems and readings from Alec Guinness.

Treasure of Sierra Madre Original Radio Broadcast, a George Garabedian Production.
Mark56,

Alec Guinness, A Personal Choice
RCA Victor, 1965

25. Gold

2010-09-06T16:40:00.000+01:00

Gold, cash and money in general, with a very special featurette produced by Glasgow's very own Stephen Gilmour about the national gold panning championships in England in 2007 plus Ogden Nash's individual and highly resonant take on bankers.

Hoffnung at The Oxford Union Gerard Hoffnung.
Decca, 1960

Hoffnung's comments on arts funding and life in general.

Ogden Nash Reads Ogden Nash.
Caedmon, 1953

Nash on bankers - the filthy swine!

Stories From The Fireside told by Éamon Kelly
Argo, 1967

A repeat of The Gobaun Saorbecause I like it a lot and it's about money.

Stephen Gilmour
Gold
Radio documentary made in 2007 about the UK gold panning championships. Details to follow...

Treasure of Sierra Madre Original Radio Broadcast, a George Garabedian Production.
Mark56,

John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt in a struggle for gold that leads to guess what?

24. Nonsense part 3 - BBC etc.

2010-09-06T16:34:00.000+01:00

Nonsense verse in all its true glory as written by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear and presented in fine style by Stanley Holloway - rapidly becoming a favorite of Voice On Record - Beatrice Lillie and Cyril Ritchard. But we start with some BBC comedy including the Two Ronnies, Derek and Clive, and various others.
Broadcast 23 February 2010
The last Nonsense programme with some classic Lear and Carroll plus odd bits of BBC stuff such as the Two Ronnies, Derek and Clive etc.

More Fun At One
BBC Records, 1980

OK, so this has some truly awful stuff on it such as Jasper Carrott's The Nutter On The Bus sketch which comes across as a really offensive attack on the victims of the lack of mental health care in Britain in the 1970s and 80s. However, there are good things too.

Nonsense Verse of Carroll and Lear read by Beatrice Lillie, Cyril Ritchard and Stanley Holloway.
Caedmon, 1957

The Jumblies, The Pobble Who Has No Toes, and the Dong With The Luminous Nose are all characters that feature in The Quangle Wangle's Hat which is a remarkable book, beautifully illustrated by Helen Oxenbury.

23. Nonsense part 2 - Hoffnung and Nash

2010-09-06T15:58:00.000+01:00

Broadcast 16th February 2010
Not really nonsense per se but two extraordinary performances, one by Gerard Hoffnung at the Oxford Union and another by Ogden Nash reading his own verse that both contain so much observation about human nature and the sheer hilarity of existence that they are hard to resist.

Hoffnung at The Oxford Union Gerard Hoffnung.
Decca, 1960

Gerard Hoffnung's address to the Oxford Union in 1958 on 10" vinyl continues to make me laugh til I cry, especially given the knowledge that he died so soon after the recording at such a young age.

Ogden Nash Reads Ogden Nash.
Caedmon, 1953

Beautiful mangling of the English language to twist and tickle in a manner not unlike Flann O'Brien, delivered in a strange type of American accent and sounding just as relevant as if it had only been written yesterday and not 80 years ago. Recorded in New York, February 25th 1953.

22. Nonsense part 1 - Peter Sellers and Kenneth Williams

2010-09-06T15:44:00.000+01:00

Broadcast: 9 February 2010
More nonsense from two of England's finest, although I am the first to admit that there are much finer examples of Kenneth Williams' waspish humour than those presented here.

The Best Of Sellers Peter Sellers, with music directed by Ron Goodwin.
Parlophone, 1958

10" album on the label that released the Goons' Ying Tong Song amongst many other novelty records produced by the one and only George Martin. This record is famous for The Trumpet Volunteer and Balham, Gateway To The South, presumably written before Balham went all nappy-valley and was still a remote suburb of London...

Willo The Wisp 12 Stories from the BBC TV Series, Narrated by Kenneth Williams.
BBC Records, 1981

The World Of Kenneth Williams
Decca, 1970

If only this album lived up to its name! Sadly there is a lot of mediocre stuff on here and far better material can be found in any of the Carry On films.

The Goon Show Classics
more info to follow...

21. Rabelais and Carroll

2010-08-20T01:56:00.001+01:00

Broadcast: 2 February 2010
Hot off the press from France, 1534 by way of translation by Sir Thomas Urquart in 1653 we have some bawdy tales of filthy and bad behaviour with the longest list of alternative names for the male member known to humanity. Yes, François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel read by Hilton Edwards.

Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, read by Hilton Edwards and presented by Arthur Luce Klein.
Spoken Arts, 1962

Nonsense Verse of Carroll and Lear read by Beatrice Lillie, Cyril Ritchard and Stanley Holloway.
Caedmon, 1957

Two pieces both read by Stanley Holloway: The Pig-Tale and The Red Knight's Song. Marvelous stuff.

20. Hamlet with Desmond Leslie

2010-08-20T01:54:00.000+01:00

Broadcast: 26 January 2010
Here's one of the many Living Shakespeare records doing the rounds from 1962 featuring " Musique Concrete and Sound Patterns composed and recorded by Desmond Leslie."
For those of you unfamiliar with Desmond's work check out Music Of The Future on Trunk Records website. Also have a look at Desmond confronting Bernard Levin:

Hamlet Living Shakespeare.
Oldham Books Ltd, 1962

19. Ireland part 3

2010-08-20T01:48:00.001+01:00

Broadcast: 19 January 2010
The final part of our Ireland trilogy focuses entirely on James Joyce.

Expanding Cinema presents passages from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake
Grove Press Division, 1968

Speaking Personally... Aldous Huxley
Lansdowne, 1975

Huxley talks about meeting Joyce in Paris and what a strange man he was - no kidding! What is particularly interesting is Huxley's description of Joyce's magical interest in words.

Ulysses The Original Film Soundtrack of The Walter Reade Jr / Joseph Strick Production,
Caedmon, 1967

The Proteus episode, particularly suited to radio since it features Stephen Daedelus walking across the strand with his eyes closed.

Ulysses Soliloquies of Molly and Leopold Bloom, read by Siobhan McKenna and E.G. Marshall.
Caedmon, undated

This needed a bit of editing but hopefully you get some of the idea. The very sharp listener with the right associations may notice the sample used by Simon Posford in his tune Shamanix from about 15 years ago!

James Joyce ReadingUlysses and Finnegan's Wake
Caedmon, no date

What to say about this one? Well, there's a great story to the original recording of these passages on the sleeve notes but to cut a long story short the Ulysses was done in Paris in 192 by HMV, rather badly, and the Finnegan's Wake in Cambridge rather well by C.K.Ogden who had boasted to Sylvia Beach of having "the two biggest recording machines in the world at his Cambridge Studio." I love that. And what a cracking recording it is too with some wonderful resonance and tone.

Murder In The Cathedral TS Eliot
Caedmon, no date

The fourth and final installment. Incredibly detailed and subtle atmospheres and sound design in this great box-set.

18. Ireland part 2

2010-08-20T01:44:00.000+01:00

Broadcast: 15 December 2009
The second in our Ireland trilogy starts with some Irish language and then settles down by the fireside to listen to the shanachees.

Gael Linn
Argo, 1966

Micháel MacLiammóir introducing Ireland's Poets, Wits and Revolutionaries in an entertainment I Must Be Talking to my Friends.
Argo, 1966

Irreverent stuff from MacLiammóir.

Stories From The Fireside told by Éamon Kelly
Argo, 1967

Two stories from this record with more to come in future episodes: The Gobaun Saor and The Long Night.

The Poems Of William Butler Yeats read by Williams Butler Yeats, Siobhan McKenna, and Micháel MacLiammóir.
Spoken Arts, undated

MacLiammóir reading Yeats' The Wild Swans At Coole.

Murder In The Cathedral TS Eliot
Caedmon, no date

The third of four installments. Incredibly detailed and subtle atmospheres and sound design in this great box-set.

17. Christmas Special

2010-08-20T01:40:00.000+01:00

Broadcast: 22 December 2009
Featuring voices of the Kings and Queen of England throughout the 20th Century and probably the most momentous Christmas message ever transmitted.

More details to follow...

16. Ireland part 1

2010-08-20T01:38:00.001+01:00

Broadcast: 15 December 2009
The first in our Ireland trilogy featuring WB Yeats, Seamus Heaney (it's the island of Ireland) and Sean O'Casey.

Yeats read by Chris Curran, Jim Morton, Arthur O'Sullivan and Sheila Manahan.
Argo, 1966

More importantly, this record has some great recordings of Yeats himself both speaking about his poems and reading them. These date from 1936 and 1937 and relate really well to what Eliot says about the value of hearing authors read their own works.

The Poems Of William Butler Yeats read by Williams Butler Yeats, Siobhan McKenna, and Micháel MacLiammóir.
Spoken Arts, undated

The Poet Speaks. Hugh MacDiarmid, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith, Austin Clarke, Louis MacNiece, Seamus Heaney
Argo, 1967

The Caedmon treasury of modern poets reading their own poetry
Caedmon, undated

This is in here for one reading by Robert Frost of After Apple Picking. Heaney mentions it in the excerpt so I found two different recordings of Frost reading the poem and played them side by side. See below for the other version.

Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems On long playing records, RECORD 2.
National Council Of The Teachers Of English, Illinois, 1944 (10")

Sean O'Casey volume 1, reading from Juno and The Paycock, Pictures In The Hallway, Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well.
Caedmon, 1952

On the label is printed: "Recorded at his home in Totnes, Devon on November 12, 1952" which is exactly the sort of information I love to find since it locates the act of recording and the events recorded specifically in time and space.
The excerpt played is "The Death of Mrs Casside" from Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well.
Murder In The Cathedral TS Eliot
Caedmon, no date

The second of four installments. Incredibly detailed and subtle atmospheres and sound design in this great box-set.

15. Smorgasbord

2010-08-20T01:36:00.001+01:00

Broadcast: 8 December 2009
Bits and bobs that fell through the net, plus our inaugural competition to win a copy of Speaking Personally... Aldous Huxley. Listen to the show to find out the details and names will be drawn out of a hat before Christmas.

Willo The Wisp 12 Stories from the BBC TV Series, Narrated by Kenneth Williams.
BBC Records, 1981

Joyce Grenfell
EMI, 1964

The World Of Stanley Holloway
Argo, 1971

Watch Out For The Bits! The explosive exploits of Blaster Bates volume four.
Big Ben, 1971

Murder In The Cathedral TS Eliot
Caedmon, no date

14. Elephants and Heffalumps

2010-08-20T01:35:00.001+01:00

Broadcast: 1 December 2009
Minimum/Maximum - i.e. a minimal number of records but which contain stories about large things, namely heffalumps and elephants. These two records are from two of my favourite labels, Argo and Caedmon, who together, have put out the most astonishing array of the highest quality material. I strongly urge you to go and seek out anything they have released and buy it!

Winnie The Pooh by AA Milne, read by Norman Shelley
Argo,

Toomai Of The Elephants From Kipling's Jungle Books - Told By Boris Karloff
Caedmon, no date
What a great voice, oh best beloved, and the story of Shiv and the Grasshopper just sneaked in at the end there too.

13. Yorkshire, with apologies

2010-08-20T01:33:00.000+01:00

Broadcast: 24 November 2009
A complete survival guide to Yorkshire.

Teach Thissen Tyke (English Translation - Teach yourself Yorkshire), Austin Mitchell and others.
York Records, 1971

Sleeve notes advise the following: Handlin' Instructions. Pick up only with greasy chip paper as this record has been specially treated with best Wombwell Whippet Oil.

English WIth A Dialect
BBC Records, 1971

Once again, our old favourite.

The Lord's Taverners Best Of Test Match Special
Haven Records, 1984

Featuring the voices of Fred Trueman, Brian Johnston, Trevor Bailey, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and the most wonderful voice ever to have graced the airwaves, John Arlott.

The World Of Stanley Holloway
Argo, 1971

This is new to me, and hearing Brahn Boots for the first time was a very moving experience. The icing on this particular cake is the piano accompaniment by Michael Garrick.

Children Talking from the famous BBC TV series.
Music For Pleasure, 1968

Monty Python Live At Drury Lane
The Famous Charisma Label, 1974

Can't really argue with this one.

12. The Voice in Musique Concrete and Electronic Music

2010-08-20T00:32:00.000+01:00

Broadcast: 17 November 2009
A history of the use of the human voice in tape and other electronic composition.

Rotatey Diskers With Unwin Stanley Unwin.
Marble Arch, 1961

Featuring Hi-De-Fido, The Pidey Pipeload Of Hamling, Goldyloppers And The Three Bearloaders and more.

Electronic Music / Musique Concrete. A Panorama Of Experimental Music Vol.1
Mercury, 1960/1?

Fantastic selection of work by Xenakis, Boucourechliev, Ferrari, Kagel, Ligeti etc.

Extended Voices New pieces for chorus and for voices altered electronically by sound synthesizer and vocoder
Odyssey, 1967+

Electronic Music
Vox/Turnabout, 1967

Killer album of three seminal early electronic pieces: Mimaroglu's Agony, Cage's Fontana Mix and Berio's Visage with the awesome Cathy Berberian.

Le Crabe Qui Jouait Avec La Mer by Rudyard Kipling, with Musique Concrete by Philippe Arthuys.
BAM, 1955

10" vinyl considered by many as the very first record of Musique Concrete, certainly the first issue from the Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrete de la R.T.F. which later became the Group Recherche Musicale, or GRM in Paris.

Magic Egg Barrow Poets
Argo, 1972

I really should know more about the Barrow Poets, but for now, this is the record with the wonderful recital by Edwin Morgan of his poem The Loch Ness Monster's Song.

11. Children's Records

2010-08-20T00:28:00.001+01:00

Broadcast: 10 November 2009
Records for kids but also for adults really.

Willo The Wisp 12 Stories from the BBC TV Series, Narrated by Kenneth Williams.
BBC Records, 1981

You don't want to use the word "genius" too often, so I won't, but Kenneth Williams is absolutely marvelous in general, but especially on this record.

All your friends from THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT present Dougal and the Blue Cat. Original Soundtrack of the film
Music For Pleasure, 1972

My first record really, and nice and worn and scratched it is too!

Winnie The Pooh By A.A. Milne, read by Alan Bennett
BBC Records, 1984

Nobody does Eeyore quite like Alan Bennett, and this version brings tears to the eyes.

Camberwick Green
BBC Records, 1972

Just So Stories Vol.2 by Rudyard Kipling, read by Michael Hordern, Barbara Jefford and Richard Johnson.
Argo, 1973

The Saga Of Noggin The Nog - Noggin and the Birds
EMI, 1963

Read by Oliver Postgate and available as a red vinyl 7" 45rpm!

And finally, here's one I couldn't play since I don't have a 78 machine: The Story Of Sleeping Beauty.
Just imagine what a tricky job it would have been to have kept this record out of kids mouths and away from sticky fingers! It's a wonder it's still in one piece.

10. Wildlife Recordings and Recordists

2010-08-19T21:42:00.001+01:00

Broadcast: 3 November 2009
Some of the key figures in the pioneering of early wildlife and field recordings.

A Salute To Ludwig Koch and a selection of some of his finest recordings.
BBC Wildlife Series, no date

Wildlife Of Wales
BBC Wildlife Series, 1971

Bird Song On record with pictures and text By Ludwig Koch, illustrator Richard Taylor.
Talking Book Company Ltd., no date

Dawn Chorus and Nightingale A Shell Nature Record, British Bird Series
Discourses, 1969

GRAHAME DANGERFIELD brings you Sounds Of The Serengeti Incredible live recordings of wildlife from the heart of Africa. Narration by Peter Scott.
Music For Pleasure, 1970

Jammy Smears Ivor Cutler
Virgin, 1974

9. English Dialect

2010-08-19T21:36:00.000+01:00

Broadcast: 27 October 2009
British English dialects from across the UK and going back through the Middle Ages to the Old English language.

Dialect - Cockney
BBC, 1957

Beautiful culture clash of 50s BBC English with 50s East End London.
Stay Young With Eileen Fowler Based on BBC Woman's Hour
BBC Radio Enterprises, 1968

English With A Dialect - and Irish, Scottish and Welsh Accents
BBC Records, 1971

Cotswold Craftsmen
Saydisc, 1973

The sleeve of this record was printed by Senol Printing Ltd. - I used them to print Mystery School Ensemble sleeves for Artifact Records in 2000.
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Wife Of Bath Read By Dame Peggy Ashcroft
Caedmon, 1960

Geoffrey Chaucer - The Wife Of Bath's Tale read in Middle English by Prunella Scales
Caedmon, 1973

Beowulf Seamus Heaney. A New Translation
Penguin, 2000

I had the great pleasure of attending Faber & Faber's 80th birthday at the Royal Festival Hall recently and hearing Seamus Heaney reading Ted Hughes was one of the most spellbinding experiences I have ever had.
Caedmon's Hymn & Other Poems read in Old English by J.B.Bessinger Jr. including Beowulf
Caedmon, no date

Beowulf Read in Old English by Kemp Malone
Caedmon, 1967

J.R.R.Tolkein - The HobbitNicol Williamson
Argo, no date

J.R.R.Tolkein reads and sings his THE HOBBIT and Fellowship of the Ring
Caedmon, 1975 (recorded 1952)

8. Help!

2010-08-19T21:31:00.001+01:00

Broadcast: 20 October 2009
Self-help and instruction from a number of qualified and sometimes dubious sources.

Test Record For Setting Up Stereo Equipment
Deutsche Grammophon, no date
Wishing you many happy hours of listening in "Steer-io"! Oh and it's impressive hearing somebody say "Pilot" without the "l".
Stay Young With Eileen Fowler Based on BBC Woman's Hour
BBC Radio Enterprises, 1968

Shape Up And Dance with Felicity Kendal Look Good! Have Fun! Feel Fit!
Micrometro Ltd, 1981

So the cover doesn't look very 80's but whoa, look at the insert and it gets all freaky all of sudden with loads of make-up and stretch-costumes!

Jane Fonda's Workout Record With instructions by Jane Fonda.
CBS, 1981

Night Moves The Professional Approach To Disco Dance Instruction
K-TEL, 1979

This is great. It is two records with a book and everything! There are some cool colour pics of discos as well as shots of Deney Terrio, host of TV's Dance Fever, training John Travolta for Saturday Night Fever. There are loads of illustrations and photos to help you learn all the moves too!

Nagamuma's Practical Japanese Basic Course
Columbia, 1959(?)

This is a sweet little 10" that cost somebody ¥800 when it was released.

Phonetic Pronunciation | A Mozart Opera Victor Borge
Philips, no date

This was very odd - I was DJing with Stephen Deazley's Brewhouse Band on tour in Peebles, and did the charity shops in the afternoon between setting up and playing the gig. I found two copies of this in two different shops along with a nice George Formby, some Bartok, and a whistling record. Brilliant!

How To Give Yourself A Stereo Check-out
Decca, 1967

Ah, my very first stereo test record, and what a cracker: "And now I'm on the right hand side with a metronome and a very pretty girl!"

Hahneman Medi-disc Number One - 1966 SeriesPrevention and Treatment Of Infectious Diseases
Medi-disc Inc, 1966

7 Days To Better Bowling A new approach to the "Mental Side" of bowling which improves your game by developing relaxation, confidence, concentration, coordination.
Audio-Dynamics Corporation, 1961

Got this in Portland Oregon and I reckon you could seriously improve your game by using this record as instructed. I don't know how many Neuro-Linguistic-Programming bowling records were ever made, but this is a great one.

How To Lose Weight Devised by a Medical Practitioner
Medi Disc, 1970

Hold Down A Chord Folk Guitar For Beginners
BBC, 1967

Thanks to Jules Rawlinson for this record.

7. Machines

2010-08-19T21:30:00.001+01:00

Broadcast: 13 October 2009
Marvel at the sound of the 27 litre V12 Rolls Royce Merlin engine, the V16 Maserati, the Flying Scotsman, and tales of Blaster Bates' rocket powered motorcycle hill-climb attempt!

The World Of Steam Steam locomotives heard at work on railways in Britain, Germany, Spain and Turkey.
Argo, 1970

The West Highland Line Recordings made on the West Highland Line of the former North British Railway, now Scottish Region B.R.
Argo, London, 1961

Sound Stories: No. 4472 Flying Scotsman The story of this famous locomotive. Explanatory narration by Alan Pegler.
Stanley Schofield Productions Ltd.

TNT For Two The Explosive Exploits of Blaster Bates Volume Three.
Big Ben Records, 1969

Vintage Sports Cars In Stereo Commentary by David Scott-Moncrieff
Riverside, New York, 1958

Salute In Sound Aircraft of the RAF, specially recordeed in Stereo, introduced by Group Capt. Douglas Bader CBE, DSO, DFC.
Music For Pleasure, 1968

6. Space

2010-08-19T21:29:00.001+01:00

A lot of this show is taken from the Time Life record since it is actually six records and comes with a large book. It's a beautiful thing with stacks of original recordings and some very creative and top quality period sound design, like the sound of punch-card readers and phasing noise etc.
The other records also have lovely images on the covers and it's surprising how many of these records were released at the time. Well worth picking up if you can find them.
To The Moon the dramatic story of man's boldest venture told in the voices of those who achieved it
Time Life Records, 1969

Apollo 8 Man's first journey to the moon.
Sperry Rand Corporation, 1969

Apollo 11 - Man On The Moon Blast off to Splash Down.
MCA Records, London, 1969

We Came In Peace For All Mankind The history of space exploration including the triumphant Apoll 11 lunar landing.
Philips, 1969

5. India

2010-08-19T21:28:00.000+01:00

Broadcast: 29 September 2009
Information is a bit thin on the ground for this show since some of the reecords are in plain white covers and are not even dated.
Gandhi: His Life And Philosophy as told by Gandhi himself and those closely connected with him.
BBC Recordings, 1983

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Love, and The Untapped Source Of Power That Lies Within
Liberty Records, 1967

Boris Karloff Reading Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories And Other Tales
Caedmon, no date

Listening In On India - A Friendship Recording
Friendship Press, distributed by the National Council of Churches (USA)

4. Thinkers part 2

2010-08-19T21:12:00.001+01:00

Broadcast: 22 September 2009
The Medium Is The Massage with Marshall McLuhan, written by Marshall McLuhan, Quention Fiore, Jerome Agel.
Columbia, 1968

Winnie The Pooh read by Alan Bennett
BBC Records

Sir Michael Redgrave reads

Tunings R. Buckminster Fuller
Tanam Press, New York: 1979

Kentucky Skank Lee &Scratch& Perry
Mojo magazine free record

Speaking Personally... Aldous Huxley
Lansdowne, 1975

Sir Michael Redgrave reads &Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard& Thomas Gray

A Discourse On Action Without Conflict J. Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti Writings Inc., Ojai, California. No date.

A Personal Anthology Richard Burton

3. Thinkers part 1

2010-08-19T21:11:00.001+01:00

Broadcast: 15 September 2009

Here History Began "Son et Lumiere" Pyramids and Sphinx
Soc. Industrielle Moharrem Press, Alexandria, 1961

The Size And Nature Of The Universe. Relativity Dr. Edward Teller
Spoken Arts/General Dynamics Corporation, New York, c1957

Tunings R. Buckminster Fuller
Tanam Press, New York: 1979

English With A Dialect - and Irish, Scottish and Welsh Accents
BBC Records, 1971

A Discourse On Action Without Conflict J. Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti Writings Inc., Ojai, California. No date.

The Medium Is The Massage with Marshall McLuhan, written by Marshall McLuhan, Quention Fiore, Jerome Agel.
Columbia, 1968

2. American Modernists

2010-08-19T21:10:00.001+01:00

Broadcast: 8 September 2009

Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems
The National Council Of Teachers Of English, 1949(?)

e.e.cummings Reads His Poetry
Caedmon, 1953

six nonlectures 3 - e.e.cummings
Caedmon, 1953

FAULKNER Reads From His Works
Caedmon 1954

Ezra Pound reads his translations of The Confucian Odes
Spoken Arts, 1970

The Wasteland and Other Poems read by T.S. Eliot
Caedmon, 1971

Gertrude Stein Reads From Her Works
Caedmon, 1956

Sounds of Carnival - The Midway Merry-Go-Round Music
Folkways, 1955

1. Introduction

2010-08-19T21:09:00.000+01:00

Broadcast: 1 September 2009

An Exercise In Relaxation - The Reverend George Bennett
No date - private pressing

English With A Dialect - and Irish, Scottish and Welsh Accents
BBC Records, 1971

Aesop's Fables - read by Boris Karloff
Wing, 1967

The Poetry Of Blake - read by Ralph Richardson
Caedmon, 1958

Some Of Me Poems And Songs - Pam Ayers
Galaxy, 1967

Laughter With A Bang - The explosive exploits of Blaster Bates volume one
Big Ben, 1967

Speaking Personally... Aldous Huxley
Lansdowne, 1975

Wildfowl Calling - Peter Scott
HMV, 1962

Voice On Record Playlists

2010-08-19T20:42:00.000+01:00

So here's where I hope to publish all the Voice On Record playlists from my Resonance FM weekly show.

The show is currently having a break and will return on September 16th.