Posts Tagged ‘talk’

The Women’s Institute, Woman’s Hour and Interesting 2008

June 24th, 2008 by Steve Bowbrick

An experiment. Listen to the MP3 and, at the beginning, you’ll hear me, reading aloud the kind of words you might have read here. A lot of Speechification users don’t read our blog entries at all, you see. They just listen to the podcast. Adding an introduction to the MP3 means they can’t escape! It’s a bit of a pain to record the intro (adding about twenty minutes of fiddling around in Garageband in my case) but it might be fun to do. What do you think? MP3.

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A Literary Landscape: James Joyce

February 13th, 2008 by Steve Bowbrick

Here’s a little Irish jewel from before the tiger roared. Professor Denis Donoghue, a Joyce scholar (now at NYU), reading a talk about the author recorded in 1984 (the series was repeated last Summer). There’s something precious about this: it’s a fascinating talk but it preserves the fustiness and melancholy of Ireland in the decades between independence and the arrival of all that European money in the eighties. Like a time capsule from Dev’s Ireland (MP3).

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