The Moby-Dick Big Read

The Moby-Dick Big Read

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The Moby-Dick Big Read episodes

  • Chapter 106: Ahab’s Leg - Read by Joyelle McSweeney - http://mobydickbigread.com

    Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Recorded by Angela Cockayne, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music

    'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

    Starting 16 September 2012!

    For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

    8 min
  • Chapter 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish? - Read by Sir David Attenborough - http://mobydickbigread.com

    Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music

    'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

    Starting 16 September 2012!

    For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

    11 min
  • Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale - Read by Elizabeth Bradfield - http://mobydickbigread.com

    Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music

    'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

    Starting 16 September 2012!

    For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

    10 min
  • Chapter 103: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton - Read by Will Eaves - http://mobydickbigread.com

    Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Recorded by Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music

    'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

    Starting 16 September 2012!

    For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

    7 min
  • Chapter 102: A Bower in the Arsacides - Read by Marina Warner - http://mobydickbigread.com

    Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Recorded by Raphaella Fearns, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music

    'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

    Starting 16 September 2012!

    For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

    13 min
  • Chapter 101: The Decanter - Read by Zeb Soanes - http://mobydickbigread.com

    Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music

    'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

    Starting 16 September 2012!

    For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

    12 min
  • Chapter 100: Leg and Arm - Read by Erica Wagner - http://mobydickbigread.com

    Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music

    'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

    Starting 16 September 2012!

    For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

    17 min
  • Chapter 99: The Doubloon - Read by Cyrus and Liam Patell - http://mobydickbigread.com

    Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music

    'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

    Starting 16 September 2012!

    For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

    17 min
  • Chapter 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up - Read by Gail Cullen - http://mobydickbigread.com

    Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music

    'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

    Starting 16 September 2012!

    For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

    9 min
  • Chapter 97: The Lamp - Read by James Balla - http://mobydickbigread.com

    Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Recorded by John Braden, WOMR, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music

    'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

    Starting 16 September 2012!

    For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

    2 min

About The Moby-Dick Big Read

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‘I have written a blasphemous book’, said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, ‘and I feel as spotless as the lamb’. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible – and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child – or perhaps its immaculate conception – the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville’s magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

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