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Great Speeches in History

Read by Norman Rodway, Samuel West, Elizabeth Bell & Peter Marinker

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From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln – here are some of history’s most significant figures with their most important speeches. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech, and sometimes even for their own lives, these orators demonstrate the finest resources of language in the service of the most dramatic issues of their day.

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Running Time: 2 h 39 m

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ISBN:	978-962-634-083-7
Digital ISBN:	978-962-954-717-2
Cat. no.:	NA208312
Download size:	39 MB
BISAC:	LCO018000
Released:	December 1999

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Norman Rodway

Norman Rodway is an Associate Artist of the RSC, where his many roles have included Richard III, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and Gloucester in King Lear. He has also worked for the Royal National Theatre in The Seagull and Hedda Gabler, and other major theatres nationwide. His TV credits include Rumpole of the Bailey and A Month in the Country and he also reads Great Speeches in History for Naxos AudioBooks.

Titles read by Norman Rodway

Titles read by Norman Rodway: Great Speeches in History (compilation); Romeo and Juliet (unabridged)

Samuel West

Samuel West has played Hamlet and Richard II for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Jeffrey Skilling in Enron in the West End and the voice of Pongo in Disney’s 101 Dalmations II. His television credits include W1A (BBC), Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (BBC), Cambridge Spies (BBC) and four series of Mr Selfridge (ITV). He also narrated The Nazis: A Warning from History (BBC). His films include Darkest Hour, On Chesil Beach, Suffragette, Van Helsing and Notting Hill. He was nominated for a BAFTA for Howards End. As a reciter, West was soloist in Walton’s Henry V at the 2002 Last Night of the Proms. Sam has recorded over seventy audiobooks, receiving nine AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration. He is an Associate Artist of the RSC, a trustee of Belarus Free Theatre and Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts.

Titles read by Samuel West

Titles read by Samuel West: Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady, Volume 1 (unabridged); Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady, Volume 2 (unabridged); Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady, Volume 3 (unabridged); Faust (abridged); Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age (unabridged); Great Speeches in History (compilation); Henry V (unabridged); The Great Poets – John Keats (selections); Lady Windermere’s Fan (unabridged); Peter Pan (abridged); Realms of Gold (unabridged); A Shropshire Lad (unabridged)

Elizabeth Bell

Elizabeth Bell’s vast stage experience includes the roles of Donna Elvira in Don Juanand Julie Danton in Danton’s Death at the Royal National Theatre. She has also toured extensively with the RSC as Gertrude in Hamlet. She has worked for the Royal Court, Almeida, Bush and Stephen Joseph theatres and her many TV credits include Hedda Gabler, The Diary of Anne Frank and Unfinished Business.

Titles read by Elizabeth Bell

Titles read by Elizabeth Bell: Great Speeches in History (compilation)

Peter Marinker

Peter Marinker was performing Beckett’s poetry, in the west of Ireland for publisher, John Calder in 2002 when they decided to form The Godot Company. He played Vladimir in their production of Waiting for Godot, Mr. Rooney in All That Fall at BAC, A Piece of Monologue at the Traverse, Edinburgh. Other roles include: Hickey in O’Neil’s The Iceman Cometh, The Man in Edward Bond’s Have I None and Sleen in Howard Barker’s Early hours of a Reviled Man. Film work includes Flight 93, Love Actually, Event Horizon, Judge Dredd, and The Emerald Forest.

Titles read by Peter Marinker

Titles read by Peter Marinker: The Essential Abraham Lincoln (selections); Great Speeches in History (compilation); The Great Poets – Oliver Wendell Holmes (selections); The House of the Seven Gables (abridged); Krapp’s Last Tape (unabridged)

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I thoroughly recommend this all-too-short compilation of some of the most memorable speeches on record. There are all the obvious ones – Socrates after his sentence of death, Elizabeth I at Tilbury, the Gettysburg Address. Martin Luther, Danton, Emmeline Pankhurst, Burke and Fox are also here, but for me the highlight is Charles I from the scaffold. He famously wore two shirts so that if he trembled people wouldn’t think it was from fear. But listening to his long, rambling, repetitive, clearly nervous words you wonder how many of those onlookers were fooled.

Rachel Redford, The Observer

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