St. Patrick’s Day Patristics Audiobooks

Librivox: The Collected Works of St. Patrick(translated by Cecil Frances Alexander). Includes his letter to Coroticus, his Confessio, and “The Deer’s Cry”, the beautiful “breastplate” prayer (lorica) ascribed to him.
The Dead White Guys podcast (sadly deceased, but still a good source of free audiobooks) includes a three-part reading of the Confessio.
Tantor Media has a non-free [...]

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Forty Days of Catholic Media

A Catholic Canadian has been doing a great series this Lent, uncovering and commenting on various Catholic media.  He did a post on Maria Lectrix on the 11th! So go forth and check it out, along with all the other days.
(Sorry I didn’t note it before. I’ve had a lot going on, and haven’t actually [...]

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Mr. Ron’s Basement Is Turning 1000 Soon!

Mr. Ron’s Basement, for those unlucky enough not to know it and fortunate enough to have it all before them, is one of the earliest and best literary podcasts. Its mission is simple: to read forgotten short stories. The Basement is mostly full of funny tales, but there are also a good many serious ones. [...]

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New and Notable on Librivox

One of Chesterton’s many collections of short essays, Alarms and Discursions, is up on Librivox. For those who have a hard time getting into Chesterton, this may be an easier listen. Each essay is reminiscent of a nice long blog post from a quirky blogger.
You can also listen to Chesterton’s short book about, and called, [...]

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Ash Wednesday Chants

From our favorite chanting Brazilian monks, here are the chants for Mass on Ash Wednesday, along with handy scriptural citations! (In Latin, that is… but hey, otherwise it’d be in Portuguese!) You can get lyrics and translation of Office hymns at the good old Latin Prayers site, and Vultus Christi has brand new translations. Vatican [...]

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Librivox: Audiobooks of Interest

“On the Duties of the Clergy” by St Ambrose.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys by Amelia B. Edwards. Before she did Egypt (and inspired Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody) in A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, Edwards explored the South Tyrol region of Italy.
History of Holland by George Edmundson.
Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame. Children’s fiction and essays. [...]

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Throat Still Sore; Knight Still Doleful.

Sorry, folks. I think I’d better just adjourn the podcast for the week. Next weekend, I’ll feel better.
Meanwhile, the folks at Librivox have finished reading an unabridged English translation by John Ormsby of Don Quixote. Your literature teacher will love to point this out as an anti-chivalry book; but really, I think it’s the Northanger [...]

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More Librivox Audiobooks!

Librivox seems to have achieved that happy state, possible only for a distributed group project, of constantly churning out new material. This week is particularly rich.
On the nonfiction front, we have one of the great classics of adventure and Egyptology, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia B. Edwards. (And yes, she inspired [...]

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Sloooooow Loooooooad.

I don’t know if it’s just the cable company throttling my download speed, or bad internet traffic, or what. But I’m finding it very slow to load up anything, and particularly anything with any connection to Google. (Sites with ads, sites with Google Analytics, sites owned by Google….)
Unfortunately, wordpress.com does use Google Analytics. If you’re [...]

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More Catholic Audiobook Goodness

Apparently, Mr. Jeffrey Robert Adams is another of us crazy podcasters who cain’t say no. In his case, this has led to more than one podcast. He does BlendedFolk Catholic Podcast and Catechetical Comments, but that’s not enough. He also has not one but two audiobook podcasts: The Summa Cast, featuring readings from your buddy [...]

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Forgotten Classics Podcast

Julie D. from Happy Catholic has taken up the happy task of podcasting audiobooks. (With assistance from her loving husband on the intro, too!) Her first Forgotten Classics podcast is “A Tale of Three Tales” from Tales from Silver Lands, a Newbery Award winner of years gone by.
Her idea is to promote unjustly forgotten literature [...]

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New and Noteworthy on Librivox

Utopia, the great early science fiction novel by the sainted and knighted Thomas More. If you haven’t read it, you should give it a listen. But if you think he’s being totally serious and describing a perfect society, you’re missing the point!

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PennSound

People of the Book just did a little news item on the University of Pennsylvania’s rather remarkable audio poetry archive, PennSound. None of this streaming crud or RealAudio files — nope, actual mp3s in easily used formats, each free to download (and use for classes). Not just old poetry, but the contemporary kind, too. There [...]

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Blake’s Seven Audio — Official, Free, and Brand New!

Just a head’s up about the new Blake’s 7 audio adventures now available on Sci-Fi Channel UK’s website. For those who don’t remember it, the old Blake’s 7 series was a moody drama of resistance against tyranny — by a band of rebels who weren’t even sure they agreed with each other! Sort of like [...]

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New or Noticeable at Librivox

If you like the idea of The Dangerous Book for Boys, I assure that boys don’t come more dangerous than Stalky & Co.  Little Lord Fauntleroy is not as bad as the pictures; after all, it’s by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It’s not one of the really old ones, but that may be an advantage for [...]

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