Media Collections: Audio Recordings

Communications & Media

Economics

English Literature

Film & Television

History

Government

Jones Media Center has audio recordings of plays, radio programs, and poetry. Note that music is housed in the Paddock Music Library, in the Hopkins Center.
The checkout period for CDs is seven (7) days for all patrons.

History

Albert Einstein: Historic recordings, 1930-1947

Historic Presidential Speeches

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans tell about life in the segregated South

We interrupt this broadcast : the events that stopped our lives

White House tapes: Eavesdropping on the President

Plays / Acting

Accents: A manual for actors

Vagina Monologues

Works by William Shakespeare

Poetry

Catching life by the throat: How to read poetry and why

Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams

El Humor de Borges

Historic recordings of poets born in the 19th century

Pablo Neruda: Voz del autor

Reading Latin poetry aloud

Spoken word revolution: Slam, hip-hop & the poetry of a new generation

Where the sidewalk ends: The poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein

Works by Geoffrey Chaucer

Radio

American Comedy Box, 1915-1994

Best of Suspense: Radio's outstanding theater of thrills

Greatest old-time radio shows of the 20th century

Radio's greatest sitcoms

Science fiction classics

War of the worlds