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Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich

by Various

Armed with a hand-held digital recorder and the Penguin Book of English Verse, LibriVox’s UK Chapter set out one Sunday afternoon to capture some wonderful poems ‘on location’ – in the churchyard of St Nicholas’, Deptford, and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel.

(Summary by David Barnes).

CD booklet
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• Saint Nicholas’ Deptford
• Wikipedia – Greenwich Foot Tunnel
• LibriVox’s Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (7.8MB)
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Total running time: 0:16:05

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• 01 – Doctor Faustus (closing lines) by Christopher Marlowe – 00:01:18
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  Read by: Graham Redman
• 02 – Death be not Proud by John Donne – 00:01:42
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  Read by: Graham Redman
• 03 – Epitaph on M.H. by Charles Cotton – 00:01:48
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  Read by: Philippa
• 04 – Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning – 00:01:08
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  Read by: Cori Samuel
• 05 – Last night we had a thunderstorm in style… by Robert Louis Stevenson – 00:01:11
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  Read by: Hugh McGuire
• 06 – Futility by Wilfred Owen – 00:01:06
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  Read by: Carl Manchester
• 07 – In a London Drawingroom by George Eliot – 00:01:22
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  Read by: David Barnes
• 08 – Sweet Suffolk Owl by Anonymous – 00:00:49
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  Read by: Philippa
• 09 – Ulysses (closing lines) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson – 00:02:10
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  Read by: Graham Redman
• 10 – Another and another and another… by James Henry – 00:01:33
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  Read by: Cori Samuel
• 11 – A Fish Answers (part) by Leigh Hunt – 00:00:57
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  Read by: Carl Manchester
• 12 – Lines Written on a Window at the Leasowes… by William Shenstone – 00:01:01
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  Read by: David Barnes

Cataloged on May 25, 2008