[UPDATE: after all the audio problems earlier it should be fine now]
Librivox is an experiment initiated by Hugh McGuire from Montreal to see whether a bunch of interested volunteers can create collaboratively some totally free audiobooks in the public domain. We are taking texts from Project Gutenberg (one of the first resources I ever fell in love with on the internet in about 1992), reading them in chunks and distributing the files as podcasts.
The first project has been The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad and this is my contribution Chapter 7 (10.9MB, 30:52 mins) in which the Assistant Commissioner visits Sir Ethelred (a great personage of Parliament) to discuss progress on the investigation into a recent bombing in London, after which he takes a cab to Soho, planning to confront Verloc whom he strongly (and correctly) suspects of involvement in the anarchist outrage.
Plus ça change…
Note: unlike other material on this blog, which is released under a creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence, I am releasing this file into the public domain – you may do with it entirely as you wish.
tags: Joseph Conrad & The Secret Agent & London & audio book & librivox
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September 26, 2005 at 3:10 pm
Podchef
This was really quite tasty. Well done you. I hope you plan to do more chapters for Librivox, time allowing. Those acting courses from so long ago have not been forgotten.
September 26, 2005 at 5:58 pm
Lloyd
Thanks, I enjoyed doing it – I did try the steps of Scotland Yard, but it was too noisy and bloody cold.
I’d really like to do some more, I just have to keep an eye open for something juicy that doesn’t get immediately snapped up.