For Country Schools:
Poetry, Stories, Tale-Spinners, Sounds, Field Recordings & Folk Music Played in the Classroom and on BBC 'For Schools' Radio (2x CD)
feat. The Country Dance Band & Full Cast Productions of Atlas Talespinners Various Readers including classic actors; Claire Bloom, The Country Dance Band, John Laurie, The Atlas Theatre Company, Isla Cameron, Peter Scott, John Betjeman, Bernard Miles, Geoffrey Bayldon, Derek Hart & Tony Church.


(2X CD including booklet with essay and mini photo prints)

Talking Book Audio CD

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"For Country Schools is an eclectic, pastoral themed, double CD compilation of the entertaining and enchantingly educational. Rarely heard archive recordings that should hopefully appeal to the nostalgic just as much as being enjoyed in their own right. The set includes traditional English folk dances and ballads, poetry readings, countryside sound recordings, fairytales and classic adventure stories. Featuring the voices of John Laurie, Geoffrey Bayldon, Isla Cameron, Tony Church, Bernard Miles, Sir Peter Scott and Sir John Betjeman with 14 traditional tunes provided by The Country Dance Band (Recorded with the full endorsement of Cecil Sharp House, the home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society). With all the proceedings gently unwinding over the space of two and half, somewhat escapist hours. Partly inspired by a strand of the 1950s BBC Radio For Schools broadcasts which also provides this collection with its title. This is Old Thundridge Records fictional and romanticised imagining of those programme's contents. Also, these recordings have, in most cases, been sourced and transferred from vinyl that once originally lived in the cupboards and libraries of schools and institutes. Atlas Talespinners were ripping, classic adventure yarns or educational records produced in the late 1950s & 60s. This set reproduces two full productions, a bite size chunk of the work of Jonathan Swift with Gulliver in Lilliput and Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island, its plot neatly condensed down. The ensemble cast (or The Atlas Theatre Company as they are credited) was made up of established and up and coming performers. Many were known names from the radio and stage. - Please note that the sound quality in some cases will be reflective of the vintage archive nature of these recordings."

Playing Times: CD ONE 79:06 CD TWO 79:26

2x CD

CD

NEW SEALED

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