Great Speeches In History

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Elizabeth Bell, Peter Marinker,Norman Rodway, Samuel West (narrators)
Great Speeches In History

[ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Monday 31 January 2005

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From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln-here are some of history's most significant figures with their most important speeches. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech, and sometimes even for their own lives, these orators demonstrate the finest resources of language in the service of the most dramatic issues of their day.

Tracks:

Disc 1
1. Socrates - 399 BC
2. Demosthenes - 330 BC
3. Cicero - 63BC
4. William Of Normandy - 1066
5. John Ball - 1381
6. Martin Luther - 1521
7. Sir Thomas More - 1535
8. Queen Elizabeth I - 1588
9. Queen Elizabeth I - 1601
10. King Charles I - 1649
11. Oliver Cromwell - 1653
12. William Pitt The Elder - 1741

Disc 2
1. Edmund Burke - 1744
2. Patrick Henry - 1775
3. Samuel Adams - 1776
4. William Pitt The Younger - 1792
5. Thomas Erskine - 1792
6. Georges Danton - 1793
7. Charles James Fox - 1795
8. George Canning - 1798
9. Robert Emmett - 1802
10. Lord Macaulay - 1831
11. John Bright - 1855
12. Abraham Lincoln - 1863
13. Emile Zola - 1898
14. Emmeline Pankhurst - 1912