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Lion, witches and audio

You can find an entire audio book reading of The Chronicles of Narnia online.

Located on a faith based U.S. web site, you can listen on-line or download the entire series to your computer. The books are read by an English academic, based in America, and the download web site offers you a chapter list, so that you can keep track if you use the site for on-line bed time stories.

This is another way to keep the Narnia stories fresh for another generation, or just a new way to revisit old favourites.

The Chronicles were written by the writer C. S. Lewis, between 1949 and 1954, developed as stories to portray Christian ideals to children. The stories have endured, however, for children of all faiths and ages. You can read more about C.S. Lewis here…

Whatever age you are, this is a great way to re-engage with Witch and the Wardrobe.

You can listen to a  sample opening chapter here… 

Get all the chapters as MP3 audio files here. 

Penn Sound – poets broadcast

phongraphPicThe University of Pennsylvania has a terrific archive of modern and contemporary poets available to hear on their PennSound pages.

Whether you are interested in hearing Paul Auster read from The Red Notebook from a few years ago, or to hear W.B. Yeats read The Lake Isle of Innisfree in 1932 – they are all here.

Across the whole A-Z of the catalogue there are some great and challenging recordings to be heard. Be confronted by Kathy Acker or mesmerised by the lilting musicality of Zhimin Li reading his Non-Presence works in his native tongue.

PennSound – a fantastic resource for lovers of poetry, history and the human voice.