Edible Frogs dominate this afternoon atmosphere. Their delightful rubbery croaks are joined by the songs of nearby birds and an occasional plop can be heard as an individual moves under the pool's...
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Listen to this speaker from Mulbarton in Norfolk. You can also read via a link on the same web page a lingustic analysis of the lexis, phonology and grammar for this recording....
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Gerry Anderson discusses in 1984 the making of the ‘Supermarionation’ TV puppet series 'Thunderbirds' and answers questions from the audience. First screened in 1965, the show has remained popular to...
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Mukasa was still serving King Mutesa when Klaus Wachsmann, then curator of the new Uganda Museum began making his recorded survey of Uganda’s traditional music on one of the first ‘portable’ disc...
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In this recording, the first of four sides made for Linguaphone in 1927, Shaw ponders the difficulties in accurately reproducing an individual human voice given the deficiencies of the playback...
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The sound of waves breaking onto a shingle shore has to be a favourite with many of us. The ebb and flow of the tide creates a mixture of sounds, from the initial crash of the breakers to the...
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The Bakunta mother in this recording has her baby in her arms as she sings the lullaby. Judging from the baby's silence throughout the singing, the song clearly is doing the trick....
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Listen to the way this speaker in this recording pronounces the words area (at 02:13) and piano (09:38) with an additional sound . See also the link on the same web page to information on the lexis,...
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Is this recording of "Auld Lang Syne", made in 1898, the first ever made of this song? Here it is being sung during the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait, between Australia...
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Author, raconteur and gay icon Quentin Crisp talks to Adam Mars-Jones about the difference between British and American codes of etiquette in this recording at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in...
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