Voices of History
Hear the voices that made history! Forty speakers are represented, starting with a rare 1888 recording of Prime Minister Gladstone, as well as international figures such as Lenin and Roosevelt.
Listen to sample tracks using Windows Media Player:
William Ewart Gladstone
[1809-1898]
David Lloyd George
[1863-1945]
Leon Trotsky
[1879-1940]
Neville Chamberlain
[1869-1940]
Franklin D Roosevelt
[1882-1945]
Christabel Hariette Pankhurst
[1880-1958]
Nancy Astor
[1879-1964]
Princess Elizabeth
Born 1926
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
[1869-1948]
Florence Nightingale
[1820-1910]
Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. To Edison from Colonel Gouraud, introducing Mr. Gladstone - the phonograph's salutation - 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 All-Russia Central Executive Committee - 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 Munich, Sept. 30th, 1938 - 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 demand equal compensation - Nancy Witcher Astor
Disc 2
1. Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie
2. Land and Labour - Josiah Wedgwood
3. Future of British Industry - Thomas James Macnamara
4. Return to Prospoerity and How the League of Nations Is Helping - 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 Forget - William Booth
16. Address to Boy Scouts - Robert 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
Review
??awesome, an aural tapestry of the voices of great figures speaking so uncannily directly to us that time seems to vanish and we are in their presence.?
Times Online
