Spoken

Read by Rolande Causse, this spoken word CD tells the harrowing story of a group of 44 children that were arrested by the Nazi Gestapo on April 6, 1944. All of the children perished at the Auschwitz concentration camp.1. Izieu Cache Heureuse 2. Izieu...

Raimu has been ranked in the realms of the eternal due to his exceptional woice. A colorful voice that is known and cheriched by the French. This was a marvellous gift to the French nation when the sound cinema arived. And if the latter was immediately...

Previously only available as a CD sold with the book, this is the soundtrack to accompany Willy Vlautin's second novel, Northline. Now available as a limited-edition stand-alone CD release, this instrumental album with music by Richmond Fontaine was...

Presses Universitaires de France and Fremeaux & Associates offer this biography of Napoleon III, analyzed and explained by Xavier Mauduit, radio columnist, doctor of history, and specialist of the Second Empire. Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, is a...

Presses Universitaires de France and Fremeaux & Associates offer this biography of Marie-Antoinette by C?cile Berly, specialist of the eighteenth century and the French Revolution. An Austrian, Marie-Antoinette becomes Dauphine of France in a context...

Presses Universitaires de France and Fremeaux & Associates offer this biography of King Arthur, told and explained by Alban Gautier, professor of medieval history at the University of Caen. Did King Arthur really exist? Arthur is a character, at the same...

Presses Universitaires de France and Fremeaux & Associates offer this biography of Caligula by Nicolas Tran, professor at the University of Poitiers and specialist of the Roman Empire in the first centuries of our era. Caligula is an infamous Roman...

Preeminent in the field of Mind, Body & Spirit Medicine (10 million books sold, translated into 25 languages), Deepak Chopra, M.D. shares with us his deep passion for Persian mystic/poet Rumi with these arousing translations heard in English for the...

Poet/novelist Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was a figure in New York City's Greenwich Village literary scene, which Folkways Records' founder Moses Asch documented. A jazz lover, Patchen often read poetry to jazz accompaniment, and he also collaborated...

Poet and songwriter Jessica Radcliffe is supported on these live spoken word recordings from 1995-1996 by guitarist Martin Simpson, cellist Barry Phillips and Rick Walker on percussion. "Passionate, lyrical, eclectic." - the Edmonton Journal.1...

Poet Allen Ginsberg was recently eulogized in the New York Times as "poet laureate of the Beat Generation whose 'Howl!' became a manifesto for the sexual revolution..." the Lion for Real's original 1989 release garnered a 4-star review in Rolling Stone...

Poems by 20th-century German poet Wolf Biermann are preformed in English by the British-born American singer and playwright Eric Bentley. Biermann, born in Hamburg and a member of the Communist party, sympathized with East Germany, and moved there in...