We have this in our archive on a 16 inch disc with a National Broadcasting Service label on it - D SERIES - Talk by Bernard Shaw. In this recording, Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw, gives a talk on his distaste for World War Two and its catastrophic effect on the psyche of society. He discusses the waste of life, the process of rebuilding, and ponders the future of conflict and civilisation. order disc file details 1 D931a sa-d-00931-s01-pm "Talk by Bernard Shaw" Part 1 2 D931b sa-d-00931-s02-pm "Talk by Bernard Shaw" Part 3 * Part 2 of this recording is not in the archive. Cheers Marie Marie O'Connell Analogue Tape Preservation Archivist Sound Archives/Nga Taonga Korero PO Box 1531 Radio New Zealand House Level 1, 51 Chester Street West Christchurch Phone +64 3 374 8443 Fax + 64 3 374 8448 www.soundarchives.co.nz >>> [log in to unmask] 30/01/2008 4:13 p.m. >>> BBC Enterprises put out some of his talks on an album called "Some Of His Talks", and Heritage (which evolved from either Audio Rarities or Audio Archives) had a ten-inch LP of a 1937 short wave broadcast, but I don't think the Linguaphone set has ever been reissued, except for a minute or so on a National Vocarium 78. I could be wrong. That Linguaphone set isn't that rare..I own a copy and I've seen it on auction several times. dl Steven Smolian wrote: > On LP on Audio Rarities, I think. There was other material spoken by > him on LP as well, on BBC, etc. > > Steve Smolian > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:15 PM > Subject: [ARSCLIST] George Bernard Shaw recording > > >> Hopefully someone follows the fate of spoken-word recordings ... >> >> George Bernard Shaw made a 2-disk 78 set in 1927 as part of the >> Linguaphone series called "Spoken English and Broken English." Kurt >> Nauck had a copy up for auction: >> http://www.78rpm.com/images/auction/4172_BShawLinguiphon.gif >> as part of this lot: >> http://www.78rpm.com/auction/highs.htm >> >> Was this album ever released in a modern format, either an LP or CD? >> >> -- Tom Fine > >