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Barbara Holdridge, audiobook pioneer whose Caedmon label recorded writers from Dylan Thomas to Tolkien

Barbara Holdridge with poetry albums from the early recording days of Caedmon Records - Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images Barbara Holdridge, the audiobook pioneer who has died aged 95 ...
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Pleasure Dome: An Audible Anthology of Modern Poetry Read by Its Creators [sound recording]

101 Game of Chess, A (11 of "The Waste Land") / T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot 102 In Distrust of Merits (From "Nevertheless) / Marianne Moore 103 Spring is like a perhaps land; this little bride & groom ...
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Barbara Holdridge, Whose Record Label Foretold Audiobooks, Dies at 95

Beginning with a reading by Dylan Thomas, she and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of famous writers reciting their work. By Glenn Rifkin Barbara Holdridge, who ...
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Barbara Holdridge, whose record label foretold audiobooks, dies at 95

Barbara Holdridge, who co-founded the first commercially successful spoken-word record label, one that began with poet Dylan Thomas reciting his story “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” and that led to ...