Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #96 hosted by Andy Minter.
Duration 32:54
Doing the Voices – the Professionals
A podcast showing examples of how professional readers deal with things like cross-sex voices (that is, men reading women’s speech and vice versa), differentiating between characters, and using accents.
Please note this podcast is not in the [...]

Hey Librivox
I just wanted to express my gratitude to all those amazing people out there who have taken the trouble to record so many wonderful books. Whilst not everyone’s reading style is to my taste I respect the effort that they put in. I have downloaded many books from Librivox and have spent hours [...]

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast #95 hosted by Cori Samuel.
Duration 11:16
[Please note this is a repost from Thursday, as I got the URL wrong - apologies for the inconvenience. -- CS]
In order of being mentioned:
Gregg’s Weinbaum readings
Poe-m of the Week
The Multilingual Ravens
Mr Burns
My Wiki listing of short science fiction (beautifully organised [...]

Call for Contributions to Essay Collection on The Audiobook

This essay collection will consider the significance of the audiobook. The growing popularity of audiobooks over the last several decades means that literary critics may no longer be able to turn a deaf ear to the ways in which oral delivery influences the reception of literature. The [...]

Here are this week’s ideas for listening:
A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens
The Awful German Language by Mark Twain
The [...]

Every week or so, we will be selecting a number of recordings that we think you may enjoy, including classics and less well-known items.
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
Howards End by E. M. Forster
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume
A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 by [...]

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast #94 hosted by Cori Samuel.
Duration 18:19
This week Redaer, Great Plains and icyjumbo talk about their favourite audio of 2008, while Cloud Mountain wishes LibriVoxers well in 2009.
Mentioned titles include:
http://librivox.org/a-midsummer-nights-dream-by-william-shakespeare/
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13197 (Faust, in German, still needing readers)
http://librivox.org/captain-blood-by-rafael-sabatini/
http://librivox.org/elusive-isabel-by-jacques-futrelle/
http://podiobooks.com/title/singularity
http://podiobooks.com/title/the-immortals
http://podiobooks.com/podiobooks/search.php?keyword=solar+clipper
http://librivox.org/the-elusive-pimpernel-by-baroness-emmuska-orczy/
http://librivox.org/el-dorado-by-baroness-orczy/
http://librivox.org/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court-by-mark-twain-2/
The Bloopettes are Robinsgirl and TriciaG, with a jingle from Bosco, [...]