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How two young women captured the voices of literary greats and became audiobook pioneers

Bookends with Mattea Roach
Bookends with Mattea Roach
Episode • Jul 23, 2023 • 52m
In a special conversation recorded in Toronto in 2002, Eleanor Wachtel spoke with Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Mantell, founders of Caedmon Records, a pioneer in commercial spoken word recordings. You'll hear the voices of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and more.

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