CD audiobook

Great speeches in history [sound recording] / [selected by Gary Mead and Duncan Steen].

Mead, Gary. (Added Author). Steen, Duncan. (Added Author). Rodway, Norman, 1929-2001 (Added Author). West, Samuel, 1966- (Added Author). Bell, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Anne) (Added Author). Marinker, Peter. (Added Author).

Summary:

"From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln-here are [historical figures with speeches associated with them]. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech, and sometimes even for their own lives, these orators demonstrate the ... resources of language in the service of the ... issues of their day."--Container.

Record details

ISBN: 9626340835
ISBN: 9789626340837
Physical Description: 2 sound discs (2 hr., 38 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: [Franklin, Tenn.] : Naxos AudioBooks, p1996.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	CD1. Socrates - 399BC (11:47) -- Demosthenes - 330 BC (14:08) -- Cicero - 63 BC (11:13) -- William of Normandy - 1066 (3:09) -- John Ball - 1381 (2:25) -- Martin Luther - 1521 (6:09) -- Sir Thomas More - 1535 (7:14) -- Queen Elizabeth I - 1588 (3:24) -- Queen Elizabeth I - 1601 (6:10) -- King Charles I - 1649 (7:00) -- Oliver Cromwell - 1653 (2:23) -- William Pitt the Elder - 1741 (4:01) -- CD2. Edmund Burke - 1774 (6:22) -- Patrick Henry - 1775 (7:08) -- Samuel Adams - 1776 (4:46) -- William Pitt the Younger - 1792 (4:15) -- Thomas Erskine - 1792 (6:32) -- Georges Danton - 1793 (4:10) -- Charles James Fox - 1795 (7:45) -- George Canning - 1798 (2:52) -- Robert Emmett - 1802 (4:19) -- Lord Macaulay - 1831 (3:55) -- John Bright - 1855 (6:52) -- Abraham Lincoln - 1863 (3:20) -- Emile Zola - 1898 (8:42) -- Emmeline Pankhurst - 1912 (8:20).
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Norman Rodway, Samuel West, Elizabeth Bell, Peter Marinker.
System Details Note:	Compact discs.