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Unabridged selections performed by Norman Rodway, Samuel West, Elizabeth Bell, Peter Marinker with music composed by Beethoven, Haydn, Elgar, Franck, Mahler - 2 COMPACT DISCS - 2 hours, 38 minutes

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (June 1996)

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From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln - here are some of history's most significant figures with their most impant speeches. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech, and sometimes even for their own lives, these orators demonstrate the finest resources of language in the service of the most dramatic issues of their day.