These are archive recordings taken from long-unheard BBC broadcasts and recording from the Charleston Trust, many of them published here for the first time. They come in a two-CD boxed set, accompanied by a sixteen page explanatory booklet. Contributors to the Virginia Woolf Internet discussion group often comment on how astonishing it is to hear these voices from the past - and how remarkable their accents seem to us now. Remember that Woolf began writing over a hundred years ago, and her father married Thackeray's daughter - so these recordings carry with them direct links back as far as the Victorian era... Read more >>
20 January 2010
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