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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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Librivox Community Podcast #66
Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #66 [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_66.mp3]
Duration 51:26
Our Host this week is Sean McGaughey with Jim Mowatt and D.E. Wittkower
1) Sean and Jim talk about Jim’s new podcast Historyzine.
2) Podcasting Howtos: Using WordPress with Podpress to publish podcasts.
3) A surprise visit from D.E. Wittkower
4) Creative Commons announces CC+ and CC0 licenses.
5) A discussion of philosophy, free culture, librivox, and a partridge in a pear tree.
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Past and present Librivox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot in Archive.org
Archived shownotes for the Librivox Community Podcast can be found at
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/
and the rss feed for those shownotes is:
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