Following the success of last year's 'Voices of History', the British Library is publishing a second volume of historic recordings of celebrated people, who were active from the early days of sound recording to the middle of the twentieth century.
This second volume covers four major areas of interest - the arts, the sciences, sport and exploration.
Rare or notable items include: a unique recording of the voice of Victorian physicist Lord Kelvin, which is being published for the first time; the authors Leo Tolstoy (speaking in English) and Arthur Conan Doyle; Malcolm Campbell on setting a new land speed record and Charles Lindbergh on flying across the Atlantic; and a series of eminent scientists talking about their work, including Thomas Alva Edison, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, and Francis Crick. Among the thirty-eight recordings selected are some of the earliest spoken recordings ever made, such as those by the explorer Henry Morton Stanley, the composer Arthur Sullivan and the American showman P.T. Barnum. Two CDs with this booklet explain the background and history of each item, together with translations where necessary. Includes an introductory booklet.
Track listing
DISC ONE 1. Maud: A Monodrama - final stanza from Part 1 - Alfred Tennyson 2. The greatest show on earth - Phineas T[aylor] Barnum 3. Thoughts from the book For Every Day - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 4. Extract from Shakespeare's Richard III Act 1 Scene 1 - Henry Irving 5. After dinner toast at Little Menlo - Arthur [Seymour] Sullivan 6. Extract from Racine's Phedre Act 2 Scene 5 - Sarah Bernhardt 7. Ophelia's mad scene from Shakespeare's Hamlet - [Alice] Ellen Terry 8. Conan Doyle Speaking - Arthur [Ignatius] Conan Doyle 9. Speech at banquet of Royal Institute of British Architects - Giles Gilbert Scott 10. My cricket record - John Berry Hobbs 11. Lawn tennis - Suzanne Lenglen 12. Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships - men's singles final, 1936 - [John] Frederick Perry 13. How I began - Stanley Matthews 14. The four minute mile - Roger [Gilbert] Bannister 15. On first cross-channel flight - Louis Bleriot 16. My world's record - Malcolm Campbell 17. To Australia and back in six minutes - Alan J. Cobham 18. How I flew round the World - Mildred Mary Petre 19. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's address before the Press Club at Washington D.C. - Charles A[ugustus] Lindbergh 20. The story of my flight - Amy Johnson
DISC TWO 1. On receiving freedom of City of London - Henry Morton Stanley 2. The Discovery of the North Pole - Robert E[dwin] Peary 3. How I reached the Pole - Frederick A[lbert] Cook 4. The tomb of Tutankhamen: the discovery of the tomb - Howard Carter 5. A description of the dash for the South Pole - Ernest H[enry] Shackleton 6. The voice of the telephone - Thomas A[ugustus] Watson 7. For the Luncheon at Olympia commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the Daily Mail - Alfred Charles William Harmsworth 8. First transatlantic message by wireless telegraphy - how he received the signal - Guglielmo Marconi 9. Inauguration of BBC Empire Service - John Charles Walsham Reith 10. An Attempt to Explain the Radioactivity of Radium - William Thomson 11. Electricity and progress - Thomas A[lva] Edison 12. Lecture 36: Time and Space - Oliver [Joseph] Lodge 13. Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud 14. Transmutation of the atom - Ernest Rutherford 15. The post-war world - Albert Einstein 16. Talk on Antibiotics from 1900-1950 - Alexander Fleming 17. First flight of the Gloster-Whittle E. 28 - Frank Whittle 18. Nobel Prize winners - Francis Harry Compton Crick
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