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The Complete Sherlock Holmes CD Set
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
To think of Sherlock Holmes conjures up an image of a gas-lit room, filled with tobacco smoke from the sleuth’s pipe, and the gentle clip-clop of a Hansom Cab passing outside beneath the grimy fog-ridden window of No.221b Baker Street.
More than a century since his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes remains the epitome of the private detective and the stories are as thrilling now as when they were originally written.
Naxos Audiobooks have released this sixty-CD set, with over eighty hours of the great detective stories. Featuring all sixty of Conan Doyle’s tales – 56 short stories and four novels – this boxed set gives Sherlock Holmes fans an opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of their hero.
The set includes such episodes as The Adventure of the Final Problem, in which Holmes dies at the Reichenbach Falls, and his shock reappearance a few years later, much to Watson’s surprise, in The Adventure of the Empty House. Conan Doyle’s favourite story was The Adventure of the Speckled Band, an early Holmes adventure, featuring the villainous Dr Grimesby Roylott.
Actor David Timson reads the entire canon, and has created over 150 voices, from the leading characters of Holmes and Watson, to smaller characters such as the spinster and beggar girl.
PRICE: £150-00 (inc p&p – available in the UK only).
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The War at Sea 1939-1945
An evocative double-disc set, The War at Sea covers all aspects of the naval war against the Axis powers, including operations by surface vessels and submarines, as well as aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm and Coastal Command. These authentic wartime recordings include the vital Battle of the Atlantic, operations against German U-boats, the Arctic Convoys to northern Russia, MTB patrols, D-Day, and eyewitness accounts of the famous actions against the German raiders Graf Spee, Bismark and Scharnhorst.
Notable naval vessels featured include HMS Jervis Bay, SS San Demetrio, HMS Norfolk, HMS King George V, HMS Eagle, HMS Onslow, HMS Vimy, HMS Duke of York, HMS Starling and the famous X-craft midget submarine. Aircraft types include the Short Sunderland flying boat, and the Swordfish biplane torpedo bomber. Three Victoria Cross actions are also described. Featured personnel include admirals, gunners, captains, pilots, submariners, Wrens, mine disposal engineers, and merchant seamen.
The booklet includes archive images and detailed historical and recording notes.
Digitally re-mastered. Total running time 150 minutes.
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Worker's Playtime CD
First broadcast in May, 1941, Workers’ Playtime was a morale-boosting music, comedy and variety show, put out live from factory canteens and shop floors across the country. It was intended to relieve the monotony of the wartime production lines, and so increase output. The show eventually ran for 23 years, serving the British public from the Blitz to the Beatles.
The CD includes original broadcast recordings made between 1941 and 1946 by several legendary variety and comedy turns, including Jack Warner (‘Mind my bike!’), Gert and Daisy, Norman Long (‘A Song, a Joke and a Piano’), and husband and wife duo Renee Houston and Donald Stewart. A complete edition of the programme recorded on February 16th, 1943, is also included.
Also included are versions of the jaunty Workers’ Playtime Theme, as well as talks by producer John Watt, and by Ernest Bevin, the wartime Minister of Labour.
All materials are authentic wartime broadcast recordings and the booklet includes recording notes and archive images.
Digitally re-mastered. Total running time 70 minutes
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Fighter Command at War CD
Fighter Command at War This CD includes original broadcast recordings made between 1940 and 1945, by several well-known RAF fighter pilots, including Paddy Finucane, Sailor Malan, John Topham, Johnnie Johnson and J.B. Nicolson - the latter being the winner of the only Victoria Cross awarded to Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and, indeed, the entire war. The CD begins with a stirring rendition of the RAF March, recorded by the Band of the RAF in 1941. Campaigns and operations covered include the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, nightfighters, North Africa, ground attack ops in Normandy, bomber escort and operations against V-1 and V-2 rockets. Fighter types discussed include the Spitfire, Hurricane, Tempest, Typhoon, Mustang and Beaufighter. All materials are authentic wartime broadcast recordings. The booklet includes detailed historical notes by James Hayward and archive images. Digitally re-mastered. Total running time: 74 minutes.
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Victory in Europe 1944-1945 CD
This double CD features a unique collection of British actuality and broadcast recordings from the closing stages of WWII. Beginning with the ill-fated airborne assault at Arnhem in September, 1944, and ending with the surrender of Germany in May, 1945, events covered include: the fight for Walcheren Island; the devastation of Cologne; the first Rhine crossing; the destruction of V-2 launch sites; the liberation of Belsen; and the dramatic fall of Berlin. There are first hand accounts from war correspondents, and serving personnel, as well as public figures such as Winston Churchill and Field Marshal Montgomery.
Total running time: 150 minutes.
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The Home Front CD
This new double CD features a unique collection of rare and digitally remastered British actuality and broadcast recordings from WWII.
Contents include: News bulletin 03/09/1939; Neville Chamberlain’s announcement of war; Address by King George VI; Evacuees leave London 1940; Home Guard appeal; Lord Haw Haw Blitzkrieg; Winston Churchill – We shall fight on the beaches; If the invader comes; Salvage of household materials; Dover – Hellfire Corner; Volunteer ARP warden; Battle of Britain – Spitfire pilot; News – the Battle of Britain 15/09/1940; Farmers under fire; The Blitz – Black Saturday; London wedding blitzed; Max Miller – my first ARP experience; Manchester air raid shelter; Ed Murrow – Somerset in wartime; Work of the WVS – billeting; Mass-Observation 1941; Workers’ Playtime 1941; Women at the benches; News – raids on Britain 10/01/1941; To I on the Land; News – Japan enters the war 07/12/1941; The kitchen front – Gert & Daisy; London cabbie in the Blitz; Baedeker raid on Exeter 1942; Canteen concert in Scotland; Evacuees – Christmas messages 1942; News – Italy surrenders 08/09/1943; The Brains Trust – happiness; Tommy Handley – Put It Out; News – D-Day landings 06/06/1944; V-1 flying bomb actuality; V-1 attacks – AA Command; RAF fighter flips V-1; World & home news 30/08/1944; V-2 attacks on London; Newsflash – Hitler is dead 01/05/1945; German surrender 07/05/1945; VE-Day – Winston Churchill & crowds; VE-Day – weather forecast; Glasgow mother.
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Marches in Swingtime CD
A superb compilation of swinging performances set as march tunes have been put together in a new collection of melodies. Jack Parnell’s big band rouses the listener with his rendition of When the Saints Go Marching In, Jan Savitt entertains with his novelty march Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, and Buddy Morrow gets feet tapping with his Boogie Woogie March.
Written by musicians such as the ‘March King’ John Philip Sousa and Edwin Eugene Bagley in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the songs demonstrate the development of swing and jazz as a distinctive style, over several generations.
Total running time: 1 hour 13 minutes. Transferred from original 78rpm records and digitally remastered. PRICE: £11-50 (inc UK p&p), or £13-00 (inc overseas airmail).
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Churchill's Famous Speeches Special boxed double CD set
Listen to 21 of Winston Churchill’s greatest wartime speeches in this moving and poignant double CD boxed set collection of original recordings that trace his inspiring words from the beginning of the war through to victory in 1945.
As well as the better-known speeches like ‘…blood, toil, tears and sweat’, ‘…we shall never surrender’, ‘This was their finest hour’, ‘Never in the field of human conflict…’, ‘Give us the tools…’ and ‘This is your Victory…’, there are a further 15 inspirational speeches from the great man.
· Specially compiled for the Imperial War Museum, these tracks have been digitally enhanced and remastered from original recordings.
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Bomber Command at War 1939-45 (Vol 2) CD
The second volume of Bomber Command at War features 75 minutes of rare audio material, most of it unheard for more than sixty years. As well as first person accounts of early raids on Germany 1940-42 by Hampden and Wellington crews, the selection also covers operations by heavy bomber types such as the Stirling and Lancaster, and low-level strikes by Mosquitoes and Beaufighters.
Notable missions include the famous Lancaster raids on Augsburg (1942) and the ‘Dambusters’ attack on the Ruhr dams (1943) as well as the pinpoint Mosquito strikes against Amiens jail and the Aarhus Gestapo headquarters (both 1944).
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The Blitz (Vol.1: 1940-41) CD
This new archive CD presents a unique collection of restored actuality and broadcast recordings from WWII.
An evocative double-disc set, it features 140 minutes of rare material recorded between 1939 and 1941. Most of the forty tracks cover the period of night air raids in British cities between September, 1940, and May, 1941, including the heavy raids on London known as Black Saturday and the Second Fire of London. All featured recordings are first-hand accounts made at the time, and include civilians, evacuees, ARP and civil defence personnel, RAF pilots and politicians, as well as actuality recordings made during raids and in shelters.
Recordings by named individuals include teenage NFS messenger Ronnie Hayes; a survivor of the horrific bombing of the Café de Paris, Helen Stevens; RAF fighter pilot H. M. Stephen; the first George Cross winner, T. H. Alderson; and several bombed-out women and children. Also included is a collection of recordings made by the citizens of Coventry after the city was devastated in November, 1940.
Other historic recordings include a stirring speech by Winston Churchill, the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, an appeal for fire guards by Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and William Joyce, the infamous Lord Haw Haw. Featured correspondents include Ed Murrow, Robin Duff and Raymond Glendenning.
All materials are authentic wartime recordings, which have been carefully digitally remastered for CD. The CD booklet includes archive images and detailed historical notes.
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Dunkirk & the Battle of France and Flanders, 1940
Dunkirk & the Battle of France and Flanders, 1940 This new archive audio CD from CD41 features unique actuality and broadcast recordings from the first year of WWII.
It features seventy minutes of rare material recorded between October, 1939 and June, 1940. Many are contemporary firsthand accounts by officers and men of the British Expeditionary Force, both during the ‘Phoney War’ period and during the disastrous campaign in France and Flanders in May, 1940, culminating in the miraculous evacuation of 338,000 men from the beaches of Dunkirk.
Recordings by named individuals include RAF Hurricane ace Edgar ‘Cobber’ Kain of 73 Squadron, George Parkes of 7 Royal Tank Regiment, Richard ‘Gunbuster’ Austin of 92 Field Regiment RA, and Edward Parker, coxswain of the Margate Lifeboat. The CD also covers the airborne invasion of Holland, including an account of the escape of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet Company by Constance Lambert.
Other historic recordings include the first stirring speech by Winston Churchill as Prime Minister on May 19th, the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, the Fall of Calais, landmark BBC news bulletins, J. B. Priestley’s historic Postscript to the News on the fabled Little Ships and ‘blue pencil’ humour from Jack Warner in Garrison Theatre.
The recordings have been digitally remastered and the CD is accompanied by a booklet that includes archive images and detailed historical notes.
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For Valour CD - Archive Recordings by winners of the VC Cross 1914-1945
For Valour CD
Archive Recordings by winners of the VC Cross 1914-1945
This new CD features unique first-hand accounts from both World Wars, by winners of Britain’s highest and most prestigious bravery award – the Victoria Cross. It includes 15 original recordings made by VCs from all three armed services and will appeal to military historians, researchers and collectors of historic sound recordings, as well as those with a general interest in our military history.
Playing time 70 minutes. A donation from the proceeds of the sale of this CD will be made to The Royal British Legion.
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The Battle of Britain: Archive British Radio Recordings 1940s (Vol 1)
This new CD includes original broadcast recordings made in 1940 by several well-known RAF fighter pilots, including Robert Stanford Tuck, Richard Hillary, J.W.C Simpson, H.M. Stephen, Don Kingaby, George Stoney and J.B. Nicolson – the latter being the winner of the only Victoria Cross awarded to Fighter Command during the battle and indeed the entire war.
Other recordings include, extracts from two landmark speeches by Winston Churchill; the entirety of Charles Gardner’s infamous ‘sporting’ commentary on a dogfight off Dover in July, 1940, Alvar Liddell’s news bulleting of September 15th, and the evocative Spitfire Prelude & Fugue by William Walton, composed for the 1942 film The First of the Few.
- Playing time: 74 minutes. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the CD will be donated to the Royal Air Forces Association.
- PRICE £11-00 (inc UK p&p), or £13-00 (inc overseas airmail).
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D-Day & the Battle for Normandy
Archive British radio recordings June 1944 (Vol 1)
This new double CD audio book features over two hours of carefully restored archive British WWII broadcast recordings covering the D-Day landings and Battle of Normandy in June, 1944.
They include despatches by war correspondents, actuality recordings made on the beaches and battlefield, and personal accounts by British service personnel. These range from battle recordings from Ouistreham, Tilly and Cheaux; broadcasts by Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery, and Winston Churchill; and personal accounts by the winner of the sole Victoria Cross awarded on D-Day, a Typhoon ground attack pilot and paratrooper of the 6th Airborne Division.
The recordings add up to a detailed account of the first month of the Second Front, including: preparations for Overlord; the airborne and beach assaults on June 6th; French Resistance operations; reinforcement; MTB sweeps; fighter operations from advanced landing grounds; Operation Epsom; the advance on Caen and several rare German propaganda broadcasts intended to deter invasion troops.
Many of these historic recordings have not been heard since 1944. Explanatory notes and relevant images accompany the recordings in the CD booklet.
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D-Day & the Batt
