"Oliver Twist" via audio.

bluegoatwoods

bluegoatwoods

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With 'yours truly' as narrator.

I'm not up to professional audio standards. But I'm not bad.

If anyone would like to listen along, then write to me. Perhaps private message is the way to go. I'll send chapters, one or two at a time.

This work is definitely in the public domain. I can't imagine copyright issues.

Be warned, though. Dickens requires concentration. But he also pays your investment back very well.
 
When I was in school I hated Dickens. Trying to read him was pure torture. However, since I've gotten older and read everything I can get my hands on, I've rediscovered his work and it holds me spellbound. "Great Expectations, one I hated when I had to read it in school has become one of my favorites. A Tail of Two Cities, Oliver Twist? Yep :)

I go through several audio books a week and I would certainly be interested in hearing a Dicken's tail told well. Count me in, Blue.

Tom
 
Dickens was widely disapproved of by the moneyed classes, as he exposed some of the ugliness of the time. Sub plots like Joe, the road sweeper, who died of an illness he would have survived if he'd only had a proper diet and place to call home.
 
Ludwig II said:
Dickens was widely disapproved of by the moneyed classes, as he exposed some of the ugliness of the time. Sub plots like Joe, the road sweeper, who died of an illness he would have survived if he'd only had a proper diet and place to call home.
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Little Nell, of "The Old Curiosity Shop", would be an excellent example, too.

I sometimes wonder if Dickens was entirely objective in his skewering of economics of the time. Though I don't doubt that his criticisms had justification.

But what I really like is his sarcasm.

No, wait.....there's more.......what I really also like is his ability to paint a picture of both tragedy and humor at almost the same time. Much like real life. Maybe that's why he's one of the masters.
 
bluegoatwoods said:
With 'yours truly' as narrator.

I'm not up to professional audio standards. But I'm not bad.

If anyone would like to listen along, then write to me. Perhaps private message is the way to go. I'll send chapters, one or two at a time.

This work is definitely in the public domain. I can't imagine copyright issues.

Be warned, though. Dickens requires concentration. But he also pays your investment back very well.
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you have a pleasant voice BTW. I did some similar stuff back in 2002 (4 shows called "Alien Futures" purely amateur stuff - reading with a little voice acting and sound effects and background music (used Gold Wave - back then Audacity was not really a functioning program). The guy that runs Librivox wanted me to do some volunteer reading work for all the great stuff over there - but my endless 1920's home remodeling took over my fre time and never helped the guy out. still feel bad about that. his site is reall kewl - great stuff over there (they are a partner with gutenburg project BTW). www.librivox.org

I love OTR and New-timeRadioplays -there are still many small companies and just folks like me that did personal hobby projects --- you can find their work over at http://www.audiodramatalk.com/

My show was similar in "type" to the great but now forgotten show by Robert Hanson called Mindwebs:

a kind soul cleaned up all of existing shows and uploaded them to Interent Archive (far better than the older ones I had these last 7 yrs ---now I got the cleaner ones ;-)..)

https://archive.org/details/MindWebs_201410

-- if you like them, I suggest that you copy them before they disappear!!....the older set was removed (around 2008) for three years by some anonymous "suit" - for trillion year old copyright violations of one form or another.

aslo this is another great Radioplay: X-Minus One - a product of McMasters and and another guy named Rattcliff - who got clean reel-to-reel sources and encoded them to 64-bit mp3's back in 1998 - where I found them via the Usenet binaries back then. it is the same set IA has and that XM/Sirous uses over their stations.

https://archive.org/details/XMinus1_A

I've not been there in years (audiodramatalk) - need to check them out myself - had my shows posted via Rapidshare years ago, but those links long dead and rapidshare is gone or soon will be as an entity.

I'd like to upload some great movies that Chuck Dacon shared via his ABC Movie of the Week/70's tv movie channel - I got all 93 of them before the "suits" closed his YT channel down. but I only have piss poor DSL and upload speeds make this impossible. Maybe I could upload my humble and meager amateur Audioplay/readings sometime though.

We'll see ;-/.
 
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Thanks, gaffo.

You know......X minus 1 is definitely familiar. I've listened to that before. I'm having a hard time remembering if it's classic science fiction or modern retro type stuff. I guess it has been a while.

I'm also quite fond of old time radio shows. Variety and some private eye stuff. The only problem is that my middle-aged ears simply can no longer deal with the poor sound quality. But if I'm understanding you correctly, some of that stuff you linked to has the sound improved by modern methods. That's good.

I'll have to follow those links you posted when I get a bit of time.
 
yes the sound quality is decent on the links to shows above. I used to play X-Minus One, Dim-X, Gunsmoke, Beyond Midnight (South African 60's horror show) - 15 or others on my "pirate" low watt FM station I had in the late 90's early 00's.

I got the equipment for analog TV last year - only now gathering programing (good stuff never shown on crappy Cable TV today (but used to be decades ago - some of the shows at least) obscure stuff I discovered on Youtube and bough DVD sets of. Callan, Sandbaggers, Secret Army, Colditz, U.F.O., etc............so much great stuff out there (including Foreign Movies - which not only TV channels never show, theaters don't either!) -which my 30 watt setup will give anyone within a mile or two and rabbit ears - to disscover.
I have to set up an antenna still.............prob another year or so.
 
"Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of men? The Shadow knows." I always wondered if Margo Lane was any relation to Lois. :)

Old radio is great stuff. I have a few collections or them and the old detective series are classic. Never too fond of the westerns though.
Yeah, the sound quality isn't the best but when I'm really into the story I sort of ignore it; like watching a good movie in 'letterbox' format.

Tom
 
Yeah. You know, folks like Jack Benny with Phil Harris and, particularly, Dennis Day were really, really funny.

And I recall being fond of "Yours truly, Johnny Dollar". (For that matter, "Guy Noir, Private eye" is a good mixture of the two.)

But my ears just can't take it anymore. If I turn it down enough that the louder, trebly stuff does not hurt my ears, then I can't hear the quieter stuff. And if I turn it up, then then the louder stuff hurts.

It's such a shame.
 
I don't know what that is but I know what you mean. There are voices, especially on commercials and Char's Food Channel that irritate me to no end. There is a frequency to them that feels like ice picks in my ears. There's a local sports reporter who's high shrill voice makes me want to choke him. And screaming! What's with this current infatuation with 'screaming' on TV?
Audiences used to applaud; now they have to scream!. I can't stand that!

Tom
 
Okay, now.........I had recorded up to chap 6. But I wasn't crazy about the sound quality. So I started re-recording. Plus I needed to learn how to convert into a format that youtube would take. That's a bit time consuming. But I think I've got it down.

So here's Oliver Twist, Chapter 2 part 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzt2FxJFv1U

Part 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgaJNVxVnIw



And let's go ahead and do H G Wells' "War of the Worlds" while we're at it.

Chapter 1, part 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbgo1-fLMvo

part 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGUHis_QVHs

Chapter 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJy1JpWT3Iw

Chapter 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYtjK1lRoMI
 
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