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Psmith in the City – Chapters 4-6

Posted on November 23, 2005 by | Posted in Blog, Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on Psmith in the City – Chapters 4-6

Psmith continues his adventures … read by our favourite audio gourmet, podchef (by the way check out his freely-available & beautiful pdf cookbook – I made the chili jam & it was really really good):

Psmith in the City – Chapters 4-6
mp3 audio file: Psmith in the City, Chapters 4-6
Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
Read by: Neal the Podchef
Bit rate: 64 kbps
Psmith in the Cithy LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Thursday): Chapters 7-9, read by our catalogger extraordinaire kara.

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Psmith in the City – Chapters 1-3

Posted on November 22, 2005 by | Posted in Blog, Podcast | Comments: 1 Comment on Psmith in the City – Chapters 1-3

This week, it’s P.G. Wodehouse. From wikipedia:

Described by Sean O’Casey as “English literature’s performing flea”, Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English prose admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers like Salman Rushdie, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.

Best-known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented lyricist who worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song “Bill” in Show Boat.

I didn’t know he was a lyricist!… anyway, “Psmith in the City” was published in 1910, and remains a comic classic. Here’s Kristen with Chapters 1-3.

Psmith in the City – Chapters 1-3
mp3 audio file: Psmith in the City, Chapters 1-3
Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
Read by: Kristen McQuillin
Bit rate: 64 kbps
Call of the Wild LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Wednesday): Chapters 4-6, read by the podchef.

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The Raven – by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on November 21, 2005 by | Posted in Blog, Podcast | Comments: 2 Comments on The Raven – by Edgar Allan Poe

We’ve finished our podcast of “Call of the Wild,” and will be starting “Psmith in the City” tomorrow.

And note that we’ll be moving to a podcast every day of the week, Monday-Friday (mostly for longer works), and Sundays will be a random pick of a reader from the weekly poem project.

But today we’ll take another poetry break, Chris reads … Caw-CAW-CAWWW!: Edgar Allan Poe’s Raven.

The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe

Here it is:
mp3 audio file: The Raven
Written by: Edgar Allan Poe
Read by: Chris Goringe
Bit rate: 64 kbps
File size: 4.6 MB
The Raven, LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Tomorrow, some Wodehouse: Psmith in the City!

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Voice of the Ancient Bard, by William Blake

Posted on November 20, 2005 by | Posted in Podcast | Comments: 2 Comments on Voice of the Ancient Bard, by William Blake

Last week we tried an experiment, that we’ll continue: every week someone will choose a public domain poem (not too long) and post it on the forum under Readers Wanted/Weekly Poetry, and everyone is encouraged to record a version of it.

This past week we chose:
Voice of the Ancient Bard, by William Blake

Youth of delight, come hither,
And see the opening morn,
Image of truth new born.
Doubt is fled, & clouds of reason,
Dark disputes & artful teazing.
Folly is an endless maze,
Tangled roots perplex her ways.
How many have fallen there!
They stumble all night over bones of the dead,
And feel they know not what but care,
And wish to lead others, when they should be led.

And here is the randomly-chosen weekly poetry podcast, from among the six readers:
mtl3p reads: Voice of the Ancient Bard.

For the other five versions, see: here. (Note: I’ll try to clean this all up this week). And for some explanation of the poem, see: here.

Kara will be choosing and posting the new poem for this week, check the forum.

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