Audio for Your Drive
Podcasts and Audiobooks
If you anticipate a long drive …
Librivox distributes, gratis, audio versions of books that, under US law, belong to the public domain. Thus, nearly all of the works made available by this (truly wonderful) service made their ink-on-paper debut before 1929.
The size of the dragon’s hoard of viva voce goodness made available by Librivox boggles the imagination. Thus, listeners interested in a given topic enjoy a large number of options.
Consider, if you will the three ‘soup-to-nuts’ accounts of the Thirty Years War that I am, at present, enjoying.
The volume of the Cambridge Modern History that contains scholarly studies of various aspects both the Thirty Years War and other great events that took place in the seventeenth century.
If you prefer podcasts
The History of the Second World has just completed an eleven part series on the Battle of Britain. As each episode weighs in at half-an-hour or so, this translates to five-and-a-half hours worth of listening. The same podcast has begun a series about the war for North Africa. It also punctuates the regular sequence of programs (which take the form of monologues) with interviews with well-informed (and, in some cases, especially good-looking) guests.
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For Further Reading
Each of the following links will take you to a post on ‘Extra Muros’, the Substack that provides a home for my posts on the subject of liberal education.
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