Great speeches in history [sound recording].

Title:

ISBN:

9789626340837

Publication Information:

[Place of publication not identified] : Naxos AudioBooks, [1996]

℗1996

Physical Description:

2 sound discs (2 hr., 39 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Naxos AudioBooks: NA208312, NA208322.

Compact disc (DDD).

Program notes by Gary Mead inserted in container.

Contents:

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).

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.

Subject Term:

Speeches, addresses, etc.

Oratory

Genre:

Audiobooks

Added Author:

Rodway, Norman, 1929-2001

West, Samuel, 1966-

Bell, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Anne)

Marinker, Peter

Performer:

Read by Norman Rodway, Samuel West, Elizabeth Bell, Peter Marinker.