Patrick Kavanagh reading The Hospital.
Voices from the Grave #70: Patrick Kavanagh Reading ‘The Hospital’
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Voices from the Grave #68: Virginia Woolf
The only extant recording of the great writer Virginia Woolf’s voice. From BBC Radio, 29th April 1937.
Voices from the Grave #66: Gertrude Stein Reading ‘If I Told Him a Completed Portrait of Picasso’
Gertrude Stein reading If I Told Him a Completed Portrait of Picasso
Voices from the Grave #65: Kurt Vonnegut Reading an Excerpt from ‘Breakfast of Champions’
Kurt Vonnegut reading an excerpt from Breakfast of Champions.
Voices from the Grave #64: Flannery O’Connor Reading ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’
An excerpt of Flannery O’Connor reading A Good Man is Hard to Find, 1959.
Her reading is brilliant.
Voices from the Grave #63: Edna St. Vincent Millay Reading ‘Recuerdo’
Edna St. Vincent Millay reading Recuerdo.
Voices from the Grave #62: Robert Benchley in Home Movies
Robert Benchley was a writer-humorist-actor who was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. In this clip, he proves (from the grave) that although the technology we use to document our daily lives has changed, not much else has.
Voices from the Grave #59: T.S. Eliot Reading ‘The Waste Land’
T.S. Eliot reading The Waste Land.
Voices from the Grave #58: Carl Sandburg Reading ‘How Six Pigeons Came Back to Hatrack the Horse After Many Accidents and Six Telegrams’
From Rootabaga Stories
This is thoroughly American.
Voices from the Grave #57: Robert Frost Reading ‘Birches’
