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Author(s): Not Applicable, na
Reader(s): Bell, Elizabeth; Marinker, Peter; Rodway, Norman; West, Samuel
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: History
Catalogue No: NA208312
Barcode: 0730099008327
Release Date: 05/1996
Great Speeches in History
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.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Not Applicable, na - Author
Rodway, Norman (Reader)
West, Samuel (Reader)
Bell, Elizabeth (Reader)
Marinker, Peter (Reader)
West, Samuel (Reader)
Bell, Elizabeth (Reader)
Marinker, Peter (Reader)
|  | 1 | Socrates - 399 BC | 11:47 |
Rodway, Norman (Reader)
| | 2 | Demosthenes - 330 BC | 14:08 |
Rodway, Norman (Reader)
| | 3 | Cicero - 63BC | 11:12 |
Rodway, Norman (Reader)
| | 4 | William Of Normandy - 1066 | 03:10 |
West, Samuel (Reader)
| | 5 | John Ball - 1381 | 02:25 |
Rodway, Norman (Reader)
| | 6 | Martin Luther - 1521 | 06:09 |
West, Samuel (Reader)
| | 7 | Sir Thomas More - 1535 | 07:14 |
Rodway, Norman (Reader)
| | 8 | Queen Elizabeth I - 1588 | 03:24 |
Bell, Elizabeth (Reader)
| | 9 | Queen Elizabeth I - 1601 | 06:09 |
Bell, Elizabeth (Reader)
| | 10 | King Charles I - 1649 | 07:01 |
West, Samuel (Reader)
| | 11 | Oliver Cromwell - 1653 | 02:23 |
Rodway, Norman (Reader)
| | 12 | William Pitt The Elder - 1741 | 04:03 |
West, Samuel (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | Edmund Burke - 1744 | 06:22 |
Rodway, Norman (Reader)
| | 2 | Patrick Henry - 1775 | 07:08 |
Marinker, Peter (Reader)
| | 3 | Samuel Adams - 1776 | 04:46 |
Marinker, Peter (Reader)
| | 4 | William Pitt The Younger - 1792 | 04:14 |
West, Samuel (Reader)
| | 5 | Thomas Erskine - 1792 | 06:32 |
Rodway, Norman (Reader)
| | 6 | Georges Danton - 1793 | 04:10 |
West, Samuel (Reader)
| | 7 | Charles James Fox - 1795 | 07:44 |
Rodway, Norman (Reader)
| | 8 | George Canning - 1798 | 02:53 |
West, Samuel (Reader)
| | 9 | Robert Emmett - 1802 | 04:19 |
West, Samuel (Reader)
| | 10 | Lord Macaulay - 1831 | 03:55 |
West, Samuel (Reader)
| | 11 | John Bright - 1855 | 06:55 |
Rodway, Norman (Reader)
| | 12 | Abraham Lincoln - 1863 | 03:20 |
Marinker, Peter (Reader)
| | 13 | Emile Zola - 1898 | 08:42 |
Rodway, Norman (Reader)
| | 14 | Emmeline Pankhurst - 1912 | 08:22 |
Bell, Elizabeth (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 02:38:27