Re: [ARSCLIST] George Bernard Shaw recording

[Thomas Stern <sternth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is also a CD set of Shaw broadcasts available from the British Library
http://shop.bl.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/BritishLibrary/ISBN_0712305319%20/872
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Best wishes, Thomas.

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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
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Don Cox
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