Set of 20 radio lectures on life and works of Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit͡syn by Svetlana Sheshunova.

• Ansela van de Caab / Victor Fredericks
• Die ommeswaai / Charles Louw
• Ansela van de Caab / Victor Fredericks
• Die dooplied / Victor Fredericks
• Jou losie moes ons agterlaat / Victor Fredericks
• Geen slawe nie! / Victor Fredericks
• Stille nacht, heilige nacht (Tradisioneel)
• Tula, tula (Tradisioneel)
• Ansela van de Caab / Victor Fredericks .

Sarah Vowell travels across the United States, bringing into sharp focus the figures involved in the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley, as well as the social and political circumstances that led to each. She exposes some glorious conundrums of American history in a witty, sometimes irreverent manner.

• [Tape 1]. 1923-1952
• [tape 2]. 1952-1958
• [tape 3]. 1958-1963
• [tape 4]. 1963-1977.

An audio portrait including excerpts from live performances, archival material, and interviews with Maria Callas, her family, friends, and musical peers.

• Works performed: Lullaby (1926) ; Prelude no. 3 of 5 preludes (1939) (Vivian Fine)
• 4 songs for voice and string quartet (Sandra Sliker-Bouman, soprano ; Shem Guibbory, David Gusakov, violins ; Evelyn Reed, viola ; Morris Block, cello)
• String quartet (Claremont Quartet)
• Momenti. No. 1, 4, 3, 6 (Lionel Nowak)
• Missa brevis (Jan De Gaetani ; Eric Bartlett ; David Finckel ; Michael Bartlett ; Maxine Neumann)
• Drama (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra ; Edo de Waart, conductor).

Host Lisa Simeone traces the biography of Vivian Fine, with excerpts from conversations with the composer and others, including Miriam Gideon, Gunther Schuller & Lionel Nowak, and excerpts from some of her works. Susan C. Cook was a consultant.

Presents an interview with Chinua Achebe made by Kay Bonetti during the author's residence at the University of Mass.

Martin Garbus discusses his new book, Courting disaster : the Rehnquist court and the unmaking of American law. He also recounts his experiences representing the Gone With the Wind heirs in the Wind Done Gone litigation and representing the defendants in district court in the Universal v. Reimerdes (a.k.a. the NY DVD case) challenging the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

• 1.1. Lectures (25 min.). 1.2. Le théatre (24 min.)
• 2.1. La vitesse. Lettre d'amour à Jean-Paul Sartre (27 min.). 2.1 Le jeu (24 min.).

Presents an interview with Gloria Naylor made by Kay Bonetti. Gloria Naylor talks about her life and her work.

Gwendolyn Brooks reads and explains her poetry; she also talks about her life, writing poetry and winning the Pulitzer Prize.

Following a brief introduction to his life and work, author Crews reads episodes, including the burning accident and the hog butchering incident, from his book, A childhood, the biography of a place, which is about growing up in Bacon County, Ga., during the depression.

After a biographical introduction, mystery writer Joe Gores talks about his days as a working detective and the mystique of Dashiell Hammett. He discusses the writing he did for such television shows as Mike Hammer and Kojak. He also explains the how to's of writing mysteries for TV and film.

Reveals how Wideman, a former basketball star and Rhodes scholar, rediscovers his roots and finds his true voice and artistic material in the stories and people of Homewood, his boyhood home in Pittsburgh, where his family has lived since the 1840s. Includes a brief biographical sketch.

Presents an interview with Josephine Humphreys made by Kay Bonetti. Josephine Humphreys talks about her life and work.

The greatest judge never to be appointed to the Supreme Court, Learned Hand embodied the notion of human liberty. A questioning man, Hand was a liberal skeptic, "never too sure he was right." An advocate of judicial restraint, Hand nevertheless ruled for free speech in his obscenity decisions and spoke out against McCarthy. His rulings came to be a rich part of America's story.

The story of John Draper, master hacker, better known as Captain Crunch, as he relives his life as one of the legendary master hackers.

• Disc
• 1. When the good road is closed, the bad road will never be open
• Disc
• 2. I wanna pour gas on you!
• Disc
• 3. Ben Webster is Jewish
• Disc
• 4. I wouldn't work this shithouse town for fifteen million dollars
• Disc
• 5. You better bring your toothbrush
• Disc
• 6. Sign a release? I didn't do my fag at the ballgame bit yet.

Complilation on six sound discs with accompanying book, by the same title, of various Lenny Bruce performances. A more detailed description of disc contents can be found on p. 71-76 in book.

• Course lectures:
• 1. The business of America
• 2. John Jacob Astor: from furs to real estate
• 3. Cyrus McCormick and the business of agriculture
• 4. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould: speculating on America
• 5. Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller: an obsession for efficiency
• 6. J.P. Morgan: the triumph of the money man
• 7. Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan: capturing the dream
• 8. Walt Disney: the business of fantasy
• 9. Robert Woodruff: as American as Coke --

• 10. Ray Kroc: the industrialization of eating
• 11. Sam Walton: will the real Uncle Sam please stand up?
• 12. Mary Kay Ash: what do women want?
• 13. Andrew Grove and Bill Gates: Intel (and Microsoft) inside
• 14. The past and future of American business.

A series of fourteen lectures reviewing core principles of American economic philosophy through the lives of American entrepreneurs from John Jacob Astor to Andrew Grove and Bill Gates.

After an introduction to her life and work, author Kingston discusses the structures and manner of compositions in her works The woman warrior and China men. She reveals how each work portrays the Chinese-American experience with a poetic blend of myth, legend, oral history, factual narrative, fiction, memoir, and autobiography.

• 1. side
• 1. Who was I, then? (28 min.) side
• 2. Stella and Vanessa (27 min.)
• 2. side
• 1. Family circles (26 min.) side
• 2. Social pressures (26 min.)
• 3. side
• 1. The sacred fluid (28 min.) side
• 2. A portrait of Virginia Woolf (27 min.).

The urbane British actor looks back on his life, from the warm-hearted streetwalker who was his first love, to the ups and downs of his Hollywood years. His reminiscences glitter with portraits of the movie greats--producers Goldwyn and Zanuck, and stars like Olivier, Errol Flynn, and Vivien Leigh. Read by David Niven.
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Hour-long spoken history of Mirambo, a powerful 19th-century Tanzanian chief.

The author talks about the genesis, intent, and development of his three novels and his long struggle to write the story of his year in Vietnam which eventually was published as A rumor of war. Mr. Caputo also talks about the war novel genre and the literature of Vietnam.

• 1. D. W. Davies
• 2. K. Zuse
• 3. J. P. Eckert
• 4. J. W. Forrester
• 5. T. Kilburn
• 6. J. M. M. Pinkerton
• 7. F. C. Williams
• 8. J. W. Mauchly
• 9. A. D. Booth
• 10. J. H. Wilkinson
• 11. A.W. Burks
• 12. S. Ulam
• 13. H.D. Huskey
• 14. R. Slutz --15. M.H.A. Newman
• 16. T.H. Flowers
• 17. A.W.M. Coombs
• 18. C.C. Hurd
• 19. Grace Hooper
• 20. A. Porter.

Consists of a series of recorded interviews.

Justice Harmon Scoville is interviewed by Glenn Salter. He graduated from Stanford Law School in 1950 and was appointed to the Fourth Appellate District, Division Three in Santa Ana.

• Side
• 1. Sleepy shores, Marciano introduction; Marine band march, Marciano begins; March of the Roman legions, Marciano a fighter; Aggressive jazz theme, Marciano the champion
• Side
• 2. Sleepy Shores, Muhammad Ali-Marciano; March of the Roman legions, Marciano victory from defeat; Aggressive jazz theme, Marciano-retirement; Sleepy shores, Marciano, finale.

Story of heavyweight champion boxer Rocky Marciano combining narration, taped interviews and music.

Dramatizes Bertolt Brecht's life as dramatist and social commentator.

Examines the history of the American Supreme Court through the personal and philosophical rivalries on the bench that transformed the law and the lives of the American citizens.

• David and Goliath
• Noah.
• Part 1
• David and the king
• Noah.
• Part 2
• Daniel
• Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.