Wed 14 Feb 2007
Driving back from the Bridge Club, I had the pleasure of hearing the end of Selected Shorts. The theme was Pretentious Wine Drinking. Excellent! Any short story by Roald Dahl is not to be missed. I thought that some of you might not be familiar with this excellent program. The performances do justice to the high quality of the material.
Program 19: Week of February 10 – February 16, 2007
(NYC area airtimes Sunday, February 11 and Saturday, February 17, 2007)
Roald Dahl, “Taste,” read by John Lithgow (Buy this story now on CD!)
From: Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (Everyman’s Library)
James Thurber, “How to Tell a Fine Old Wine,” read by Raphael Sbarge (Other stories by Thurber on CD and cassette!)
From: The New Yorker (February 24, 1934 / www.newyorker.com)
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February 14th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
This is only tangentially relevant, but I recently found an easy way to listen to audio at higher speeds. I discovered that radio news is approximately twice as interesting at 2x speed :)
Using the QuickTime player, select Window->Show A/V Controls. Then you can adjust “Playback Speed” between 1/2x and 3x, without changing the pitch. QuickTime comes pre-installed on Macs and a Windows version can be downloaded free.
Apparently there are also ways to pre-adjust the speed of audio books in iTunes before transferring them to an iPod, and there is a similar feature in some versions of Windows Media Player. But I don’t know the details.
February 14th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Isthatwhyyoualwaystoldmetotalkfaster?