Product Description

This two-CD set features historic recordings from the British Library Sound Archive of some of the most famous and influential people active from the early days of sound recording to the middle of the twentieth century. Forty speakers are represented, covering politics, women's rights, commerce and economics, royalty, religion and society. Starting with a rare 1988 recording of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, the politicians include Lloyd-George, Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill, together with major international figures such as Vladimir Ilich Lenin and Franklin D Roosevelt. Other notable recordings include suffragette Christabel Pankhurst and the first sitting woman MP, Nancy Astor; legendary industrialist Andrew Carnegie; the historic abdication broadcast of Edward VIII; Mahatma Gandhi on Hinduism and Aga Khan III on Islam; William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, and philosopher Bertrand Russell, pondering the extinction of the human race.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. To Edison from Colonel Gouraud, Introducing Mr. Gladstone - The ... - Williams Ewart Gladstone
2. Speech on the Budget - Herbert Henry Asquith
3. Speech on the Budget - David Lloyd George
4. Labour - Thomas Woodrow Wilson
5. In Memory of Comrade Yakov Mikhailovich, Chairman of the ... - Vladimir Ilich Lenin
6. Saint Patrick's Day Address - Eamon DeValera
7. Labour Party 1929 Election. Pt. 1 Unemployment - James Ramsay MacDonald
8. Address by the Prime Minister at the Empire Rally of Youth - Stanley Baldwin
9. Speech to the Mexican People - Leon Trotsky
10. Speech in Königsberg - Adolf Hitler
11. Prime Minister's Speech at Heston Airport on His Return from ... - Arthur Neville Chamberlain
12. This Was Their Finest Hour - Winston Churchill
13. Radio Broadcast to the Soviet People - Joseph Stalin
14. Address to the Congress of the Us - Franklin D. Roosevelt,
15. Speech at the Opening Assembly of the United Nations - Clement Richard Attlee
16. Suffrage of Women - Christabel Harriette Pankhurst
17. Politics and the Home - Margaret Wintringham
18. Woman's Opportunity - Margaret Grace Bondfield
19. New Outlook for Women - Katharine Ramsey
20. Nancy Astor Lays Foundation Stone/Women Against the War/Women ... - Nancy Witcher Astor
21. Women Demand Equal Compensation/Close-Up of Edith Summerskill - Edith Clara Summerskill

Disc 2:

1. Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie
2. Land and Labour - Josiah Wedgwood
3. Future of Brithiash Industry - Thomas James Macnamara
4. Return to Prospoerity and How the League of Nations Is Helpinf - James Arthur Salter
5. Message to the Empire - George V.
6. Abdication Speech - Edward VIII
7. Broadcast Message to Children - Princess Elizabeth
8. Message Broadcastr on D-Day 6th Jone 1944 - George VI
9. Speech on Education - Francis Bourne
10. Jewish Homeland - Herbert "Louis" Samuel
11. Relevance of Christianity - Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard
12. His Spiritual Message to the World - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
13. My Message to the World of Islam - Aga Khan III
14. In Aid of the Light Brigade Relief Fund - Florence Nightingale
15. Don't Forgety - William Booth
16. Address to Boy Scouts - Roberto Baden-Powell
17. Social and Humanitarian Work of the League of Nations - Rachel Eleanor Crowdy
18. Toc H Festival Speech - Philip Thomas Byard Clayton
19. Speech at European Congress on Nuclear Disarment - Bertrand Russell

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22512 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-11
• Released on: 2005-11-14
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Audiobook, Compilation, Import
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Audio CD
• 145 pages

Customer Reviews

Must own this!!
I bought this CDs recently and I listened every speech now, and I personally this this is amazing. The sound clarity and sound is just good as normal CD track, however you do get some noises, but this is because they were recorded 100s of years ago... All those who are interested in History you must buy this. It is so GOOD.