An extract from The Make Believe World of Daphne du Maurier.
FYI-Daphne du Maurier was born 106 years ago today!
Voices from the Grave #69: An Extract from ‘The Make Believe World of Daphne du Maurier’
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Category Archives: Voices from the Grave
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 #67: Gertrude Stein Home Movie
There are no voices here, just 86-year-old moving images. A frayed, preserved receipt from a beautiful and warm world long gone. Memories turned to history.
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZZgs46t9Z0
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 #61: John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Speech
John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize speech.
Voices from the Grave #60: A Look at the World of James Herriot, in His Son’s Words
A look at the home of James Herriot.
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