On 31/01/08, Tom Fine wrote:
Hi Don:
Catalog number? Searching "Writers and Poets" or EMI writers poets on
Amazon yields nothing.
Catalogue number 077778 97882 4
Writers on the three (not 2 as I said) CDs are:
James Agate
James Joyce
A E W Mason
A A Milne
J B Priestley
Bernard Shaw
J R R Tolkien (in a sample dialogue on a Linguaphone disc, not reading
his work)
Edgar Wallace
Rebecca West
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Cecil Day Lewis
Walter de la Mare
Stephen Spender
Virginia Woolf
T S Eliot
Sir Henry Newbolt
Vita Sackville West
Leo Tolstoy
W B Yeats
George Bernard Shaw made a 2-disk 78 set in 1927 as part of the
Linguaphone series called "Spoken English and Broken English." Kurt
Nauck had a copy up for auction:
http://www.78rpm.com/images/auction/4172_BShawLinguiphon.gif as part
of this lot:
http://www.78rpm.com/auction/highs.htm
Was this album ever released in a modern format, either an LP or CD?
-- Tom Fine
Yes, it is on the EMI 2-CD set "Writers and Poets", released in 1994.
Regards
--
Don Cox
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Regards
--
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx