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Voices from the Past: Sylvia Plath

Hear Plath reading her own poetic account of her tortured relationship with her father

Voices from the Past: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Listen to the only surviving recording of the Victorian master and Poet Laureate

Voices from the Past: Virginia Woolf

Cherwell analyses Woolf's views on the power and potential of words in the only recording of her voice

Voices from the Past: J. R. R. Tolkien

Hear the 'Lord of the Rings' author speak the lines from his famous poem 'One Ring to Rule Them All'

Voices from the Past: Robert Browning

In the first of an online serial, Cherwell Arts and Books discusses the only known recording of Browning's voice