A new weekly series of classic short stories as read by LibriVox volunteers from around the world. This podcast is designed for the daily commute —a convenient way to listen to great stories on the fly. There are currently 30 stories on queue, with a different story being added every week! All free, all in the public domain!
December, 2007
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Librivox Community Podcast #67
Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #67 [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_67.mp3]
Duration 39:08
Your invisible host this week is Sean McGaughey (ductapeguy).
1: Karen Savage: Oh Holy Night From Librivox Christmas Carols Collection 2006 PD
2: A Visit From Saint Nicholas by Clement C. Moore. Read by Alan Davis Drake in Librivox Christmas Short Works Collection 2007 PD
3: Dona Nobis Pacem by Traditional performed by SKVE Librivox Christmas Carols Collection 2006 PD
4: Ticktockman Introduces his Two Questions for 2008
If you could have any PD work (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or other) magically appear in the 2008 LV catalog, what would it be?
If you could have any LV reader that you’ve listened to magically produce a solo PD recording, who & what would you match up?
Ticktockman reads wishes from Karen Merline (kmerline) and Katie (kdgiboney)
5: Here We Come A-Wassailing by Traditional performed by Claire Goget from Librivox Christmas Carols Collection 2006 PD
6: PD Book Wish from delibab
7: PD Book Wish from caitlinteresa
8: PD Book Wish from ExEmGee: Andy Minter
9: PD Book Wish from kehinde
10: PD Book Wish from puffin1
11: Homeless Babe (written and Recorded by Sean McGaughey: http://ductapeguy.net) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
12: PD Book Wish from BearCreekMama
13: Reader Wishes from Puffin1
14: More Wishes from Andy Minter
15: Reader Wish from caitlinteresa
16: Reader wishes from Delibab. (If the BFG were PD, I’d SSSOOO grant your wish delibab– ductapeguy).
17: 2008 wishes from Anita
18: Good King Wenseslas by J.M. Neale – Performed by: Alan Drake & Irene Takiris with Friends. From Librivox Christmas Carols Collection 2006 PD
The background music throughout the show in the was all made available under Creative Commons Licenses
Ottmar Liebert: http://www.ssri.biz/index.php?c=66 From the Album Winter Rose: Creative Commons Sampling +
O Little Town of Bethlehem/City of Tijuana
Tchaikovsky’s famous piece from The Nutcracker
Away in a Manger/Fiesta
The Longest Night
O Holy Night/Jon’s Cello Bass
Brobdingnagian Bards: Greensleeves, Carol of the Bells: From Christmas in Brobdingnag, Vol. 1: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
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Librivox New Releases Podcast 6 • Oct 2007
LibriVox New Release Podcast for audiobooks released
in Oct. 2007 is now available from Archive.org.
Hosted by LibriVox volunteer Alan Drake.
To subscribe please use this FeedBurner link: 
or Right click HERE to download New Releases Podcast 006.
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The New Releases Podcast is a preview of the LibriVox.org newest free audiobooks. LibriVox is an online volunteer community dedicated to producing free public-domain audiobooks. The LibriVox New Releases Podcast is a relaxed, leisurely way to sample the newest LibriVox audiobooks without having to download a series of large, individual audio files.
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• New Releases Podcast 6 for October 2007
Host: Alan Drake
Length: 39:08
Size: 35:8 MB
Royalty Free Music: GarageBand’s Jaracanda Loop
Software: Created in GarageBand 4 on a 2.4 GHz Intel iMac
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00:00 • Welcome and comments about LibriVox
01:21 • New Fiction and Short Works
• Short Story Collection 19 – Various — Selected by LibriVox volunteers
• The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Molly Make-Believe – Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
——— Preview: 01:45
• Howards End – E.M. Forster
• Little Eve Egarton – Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
• Kim – Rudyard Kipling
• The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Sun – Augusta Groner
——— Preview: 04:17
• Murder at Bridge – Anne Austin
• Won by Crime – Frank Pinkerton
• Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Sea Hawk – Rafael Sabatini
• Star Born – Andre Norton
• Fanny Herself – by Edna Ferber
——— Preview at 08:01
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue – Edgar Allan Poe
——— Preview: 10:36
• Rudder Grange – Frank Stockton
——— Preview: 12:24
• An Antarctic Mystery or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields – Jules Verne
• The Shortstop – Zane Grey
14:46 • Samples of New Non-Fiction
• A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy – Ida Laura Pfeiffer
• The Loss of the S. S. Titanic – Lawrence Beesley
• Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 2 by Various Authors
• Democracy in America Vol. I by Alexis de Tocqueville
——— Preview: 16:05
• South! Shackleton’s Last Expedition – Ernest Shackleton
• Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers – John Burroughs
• This Country of Ours, Part 1 – H.E. Marshall
• The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters – Logan Marshall
——— Preview: 19:12
• The Fighting Governor : A Chronicle of Frontenac – Charles William Colby
• The Insurrection in Dublin – James Stephens
——— Preview: 21:38
• On the Elementary Electrical Charge – Robert Millikan
• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
• Eleven Theses on Feuerbach – Karl Marx
• Miscellaneous Essays – Thomas de Quincey
24:33 • Audiobooks for Children
• The Goody-Naughty Book – Sarah Cory Rippey
——— Preview: 24:41
• The House that Jack Built – Unknown
• The Burgess Bird Book for Children – Thornton W. Burgess
• Greylorn – Keith Laumer
29:38 • Samples of New Philosophy and Religion
• The Book of Lieh-Tzu by Lieh-Tzü
• The Revelation to Saint John – from the American Standard Version
30:44 • Samples of New Poetry
• Holy Sonnets – John Donne
——— Preview: 30:51
• Tender Buttons – Gertrude Stein
• Short Poetry Collections 050 & 051 – “The Wicked Zebra” & “The Owl”
——— Preview: 33:11
• October – Paul Laurence Dunbar
• The Ghosts’ Moonshine – Thomas Lovell Beddoes
• The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver – Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Sister Rosa: A Ballad – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• In a Garden – Amy Lowell
• The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman – Fay Inchfawn
36:18 • Audiobooks in a Language Other Than English
• Italian: Favole di Jean de La Fontaine, libro 12 – translated by Emilio de Marchi
36:52 • Dramatic Works
• Shakespeare Monologues, Volume 4 – William Shakespeare
——— Preview from Julius Caesar: 36:52
37:50 Closing remarks
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Listen now: [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/LibrivoxNewReleasesPodcast/lv_new_releases006_oct2007.mp3]
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