Re: [ARSCLIST] George Bernard Shaw recording

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Don:

Thank you very much for this information.

Alas, it's apparently out of print.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Writers-Poets-Various/dp/B00004SEAZ

That's too bad.

-- Tom Fine


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] George Bernard Shaw recording


> 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
> > > doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Regards
> --
> Don Cox
> doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx