The Bill of Rights
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4 minutes, 27 seconds
Unabridged Reading of a Historical Document
1789 / 1791
The ten original amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America--passed by Congress September 25,1789 and ratified December 15, 1791. This recording may be freely shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.
Read by Alex Wilson.
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Posted by alex at 5:27 PM
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53 minutes, 1 second
Unabridged Speech on Technology and Business Issues
2004
On June 17, 2004, science fiction author and EFF spokesman Cory Doctorow talked to Microsoft Research Group and other interested parties about Digital Rights Management (DRM), copyright, and the technology that cleaves them together and apart. In five parts, Doctorow covers everything from DVD region coding and the player piano to the Apple iTunes Music Store and why Sony didn't create the digital successor to its once-ubiquitous Walkman. Everything you ever wanted to know about DRM, but were afraid to tell Microsoft.
20% of all revenues from the sale of this recording will be donated to the Cory Doctorow's charity of choice, which--to nobody's surprise--is the Electronic Frontier Frontier Foundation. This is in addition to the 1% of all Telltale Weekly revenues donates to the EFF. See the Mission page for details.
Read by Alex Wilson. The text of this speech is freely available online [new window].
Continue reading "Microsoft Research DRM Talk"
Posted by alex at 12:48 AM
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1 hour, 19 minutes
Unabridged Lyrical Poetry Collection
1907
Thirty-four accessible, adventurous poems including the famous narrative oft-memorized poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee." This collection has also been published as "Songs of a Sourdough."
Read by Craig R Currier. Complete audiobook collection includes:
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The Land God Forgot The Spell of the Yukon The Heart of the Sourdough The Three Voices The Law of the Yukon The Parson's Son The Call of the Wild The Lone Trail The Pines The Lure of Little Voices The Song of the Wage Slave Grin The Shooting of Dan McGrew The Cremation of Sam McGee My Madonna Unforgotten |
The Reckoning Quatrains The Men that Don't Fit In Music in the Bush The Rhyme of the Remittance Man The Low-Down White The Little Old Log Cabin The Younger Son The March of the Dead Fighting Mac The Woman and the Angel The Rhyme of the Restless Ones New Year's Eve Comfort The Harpy Premonition The Tramps L'Envoi |
Continue reading "The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses"
Posted by alex at 12:13 AM
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1 hour, 1 minutee
Full Cast Science Fiction/Horror Radio Drama
1978
The National Radio Theater of Chicago presents a full cast adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic SF/Horror novel. Produced in 1977 at DB Studios in Chicago and first aired in 1978. Dramatized for radio, produced, and directed by Grammy Award Winner Yuri Rasovsky (director of the bestselling mystery/comedy Murder at Woodside Village).
Cast & Crew:
FRANKENSTEIN: Ned Schmidtke
THE CREATURE: Byrne Piven
WALTON: Nick Rudall
CLERVAL: William Munchow
ELIZABETH: Elizabeth Waldman
with Tom Alderman, James Deuter, Herb Doroshow, Victor Power, Joe Rodgers, and Gita Tanner
ENGINEER: Barry Radman
CO-PRODUCER: Michelle M. Faith
Continue reading "Frankenstein"
Posted by alex at 12:09 AM
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1 hour, 26 minutes
Unabridged Horror Story
1819
Irving's most famous story about Ichabod Crane--a timid schoolmaster and superstitious outsider in the the haunted Dutch community of Tarry Town--and his fateful encounter with the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier: the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Posted by alex at 12:01 AM
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18 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Horror Fiction
1843
"You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me."
The Master of the Macabre's most famous horror story. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Posted by alex at 12:01 AM
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1 hour, 20 minutes
Unabridged Essay
1849
Originally entitled "Resistance to Civil Government," the classic libertarian essay on self-reliance advocating the active refusal to disobey unjust laws. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Civil Disobedience"
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18 minutes, 34 seconds
Unabridged Fairy Tale
1901
"You haven't a penny in the world, but you have a kingdom. There are many rich women who would be glad to give their wealth in exchange for a queen's coronet--even if the king is but a child. So we have decided to advertise that the one who bids the highest shall become the queen of Quok."
This humourous story by the author of the Wizard of Oz series involves a young, broke king and the quest by his advisors to replenish the treasury. It was published in 1901 with eleven other fantastical stories in a volume entitled American Fairy Tales. In his introduction to the second publication of these stories in 1908, Baum wrote:
My friends, the children, will find these stories quite as astonishing as if they had been written hundreds of years ago, for ours is the age of astonishing things. They are not too serious in purpose, but aim to amuse and entertain, yet I trust the more thoughtful of my readers will find a wholesome lesson hidden beneath each extravagant notion and humorous incident.This is the unabridged short story, read by J. Winter Collins.
Continue reading "The Queen of Quok"
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15 minutes, 4 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1961
On January 20, 1961, Kennedy called on Americans to be active in their citizenship. This recording is in the public domain.
Continue reading "Inaugural Address 1961"
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2 hours, 40 minutes
Unabridged Formal Verse Poetry
1609
A complete reading of Shakespeare's 154 timeless sonnets, composed between 1593 and 1601. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Complete Sonnets"
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3 hours, 2 minutes
Unabridged Science Fiction Novel
1895
An amateur scientist discovers that just as he may travel around in the three physical dimensions, he may also travel through the fourth--time. These are his adventures and discoveries through time. Read by James Spencer.
"There's a slightly old-fashioned quality to his speech that compliments Wells' old-fashioned brand of science fiction ... rises above the source material, making these audio editions a great way to experience these two classics." - John Joseph Adams, Locus
As James Patrick Kelly writes in this month's (September 2004 issue) Asimov's Science Fiction, "What makes this the first science fiction time travel story is that the Time Traveler actually builds his machine." Previous fictitious time travelers (like Ebeneezer Scrooge or the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) didn't have a choice in the matter.
Continue reading "The Time Machine"
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2 minutes, 21 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1798
A poem by one of the founders of the Romantic Movement.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Dungeon"
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14 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1906
O. Henry's most famous and most beloved story about a young couple trying to make ends meet around Christmas time. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Gift of the Magi"
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5 minutes, 30 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1798
A quiet, conversational poem by one of the founders of the Romantic Movement. The frost is both harsh like reality and comforting like the speaker's imagination, and the poem deals with the juxtaposition of being present and of longing.
The University of Alberta offers an in-depth examination of this poem as a joint project between the Department of Psychology and Department of English. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Frost at Midnight"
Posted by alex at 9:43 PM
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32 minutes, 53 seconds
Unabridged Speech
1861, 1865
1861
President Lincoln's thoughtful and passionate (but ultimately unsuccessful) plea to keep southern states from seceding from the Union and to avoid the coming Civil War, delivered as he entered office during the most divisive time in U.S. history.
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."Delivered March 4, 1861, just two weeks after Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the president of the Confederacy.
1865
"With malice toward none, with charity for all..." The end of the Civil War in sight, Lincoln took the oath of office a second time and gave one of the most America's most famous speeches, and the shortest inaugural address in U.S. history.
This speech is inscribed, along with the The Gettysburg Address, in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. In many ways, Lincoln's second inaugural address was a sequel to the address at Gettysburg, honoring the fallen and reflecting on the guilt and loss of a nation.
Delivered March 4, 1865, a month and 10 days before his assassination.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Inaugural Addresses 1861 & 1865"
Posted by alex at 9:35 PM
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15 minutes
Unabridged Fairy Tale
1901
"An accomplished wizard once lived on the top floor of a tenement house and passed his time in thoughtful study and studious thought. What he didn't know about wizardry was hardly worth knowing, for he possessed all the books and recipes of all the wizards who had lived before him; and, moreover, he had invented several wizardments himself. "
This humourous story by the author of the Wizard of Oz series, involves a wizard, a glass-blower and a lady of high-society. It was published in 1901 with eleven other fantastical stories in a volume entitled American Fairy Tales. In his introduction to the second publication of these stories in 1908, Baum wrote:
My friends, the children, will find these stories quite as astonishing as if they had been written hundreds of years ago, for ours is the age of astonishing things. They are not too serious in purpose, but aim to amuse and entertain, yet I trust the more thoughtful of my readers will find a wholesome lesson hidden beneath each extravagant notion and humorous incident.This is the unabridged short story, read by J. Winter Collins.
Continue reading "The Glass Dog"
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44 minutes, 30 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1892
Sherlock Holmes and Watson investigate the matter of a mysterious, deformed man, a more mysterious animal, and an even (wait for it) more mysterious murder in a locked room. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Sherlock Holmes: The Crooked Man"
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55 minutes, 41 seconds
Episodic Science Fiction/Fantasy Radio Drama
2004
EPISODE FOUR: FALLING FACADES. Elias Vath is hunted in his own lands but is saved by a faux-fop, the prince chases the pirate and the spies leave aSpruce to his punishment, as Amaryllis prepares for her own quest.
"Once vast estates battled..." starts the narrator amid a haunting theme as he describes a faery world before time knew fear. But evil intruded and great lovers and magicians are turned on one another . Within moments, the entire realm is engulfed in fire and flood...
Full cast science fiction radio drama. Music by Richard A Musk. Created by Michael and Copper Calhoun.
Continue reading "Amaryllis Radio Ep 4: Falling Facades"
Posted by alex at 9:19 PM
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12 minutes, 35 seconds
Unabridged Historical Document
1776
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation..." The United States Declaration of Independence. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Declaration of Independence"
Posted by alex at 9:18 PM
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1 hour, 6 minutes
Full Cast Mystery/Comedy Radio Drama
2001
"Well, the decision has been made to go ahead with the killing. To tell you the truth, I'm kinda looking forward to it."
Retired cops in a Florida community seek out "The Wizard" whenever they need a smart guy to get them out of a jam. Now they come to him for help murdering Big Wally, who's cheated 'em out of their share of lottery winnings. Wiz's Plan A involves Woodside Village's resident prostitute, Secondhand Rose. Plan B is a diabolocal softball game. And Plan C---?
Full cast mystery/comedy radio drama. J. Carrol Enterprises presents the Hollywood Theatre of the Ear production. Taped before a live studio audience at the Museum of Television and Radio.
Cast & Crew:
ANNOUNCER: Ralph Votrian
WIZARD: Terry Kiser
VINCENZO: Larry Brandenburg
MARILYN: Janet Carroll
HERMAN: Cliff Norton
TOM THE CRAZY GREEK: Michael Saad
SAM: George Eric Brown
RICCIO: J. J. Johnston
SECONDHAND ROSE: Melissa Greenspan
BIG WALLY: Jack Wallace
BAD LEROY: Tom Towles
SEX KITTEN: Lorna Raver
Original Music: Ken Stange
Sound Director: Warren Dewey
Foly Walkers: David L. Krebs, Tony Palermo
Executive Producers: Janet Carroll and Mike Patton
Produced, directed, and written for audio by Yuri Rasovsky, based on a story by William H. Patton.
Continue reading "Murder at Woodside Village"
Posted by alex at 9:16 PM
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1 hour, 18 minutes
Unabridged Taoist Classic
400 BC
Translation by James Legge. The classic Taoist text and th