Hosted by Bob Gonzalez, EPITOME is a series of brief encounters with great ideas in the form of story, essay, speech, epistle, poetry, drama, and soundscapes. The core theme is TIME, its fleeting nature, its physical and psychological nature, its perception through the ages. But the ideas presented will range across the entire gamut of human knowledge, at least as far-ranging as its host can span.

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Love - Roman Style: The Best of Catullus, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid in Modern Verse, by Howard Felperin.

Narrated by Denis Daly.

Many people today consider Latin literature to be best represented by monumental productions like the Aeneid of Virgil and Caesar’s Gallic Wars. However, the best and most engaging portraits of the Romans as living people are to be found in the works like those of the four poets featured in this recording.

In Howard Felperin’s lively translations, these pieces become verbal postcards of the era, revealing in exquisite detail the passion and the grief, the joy and the pain experienced by the people of Rome as they deal with the inevitable fascination of love as it permeates their daily lives.

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Love - Roman Style: The Best of Catullus, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid in Modern Verse, by Howard Felperin.

Narrated by Denis Daly.

Many people today consider Latin literature to be best represented by monumental productions like the Aeneid of Virgil and Caesar’s Gallic Wars. However, the best and most engaging portraits of the Romans as living people are to be found in the works like those of the four poets featured in this recording.

In Howard Felperin’s lively translations, these pieces become verbal postcards of the era, revealing in exquisite detail the passion and the grief, the joy and the pain experienced by the people of Rome as they deal with the inevitable fascination of love as it permeates their daily lives.

For information about other recordings in the Voices of Today catalogue please visit voicesoftoday.org.

The complete recording is available for purchase at Audible.com:

https://tinyurl.com/yd5nj8cr

The Celestial Omnibus: a collection of short stories by E.M. Forster.

Narrated by Susan Iannucci, Mark Crowle-Groves, and P.J. Morgan

The story from which this collection takes its title describes the adventures of an imaginative boy who discovers an omnibus that enables him to travel to the past in the company of famous historical personages. When at his invitation, an incredulous adult accompanies him on a journey, the astonishing new vistas unfolding alarm the security-conscious older man, who wishes himself back in his comfortable suburban home.

The other stories explore similar themes about ventures into worlds that lie barely concealed behind mundane reality.

"The Story of a Panic"

"The Other Side of the Hedge"

"The Celestial Omnibus"

"Other Kingdom"

"The Curate's Friend"

"The Road from Colonus"

A Voices of Today Production

For information about other recordings in the Voices of Today catalogue please visit voicesoftoday.org.

The complete recording is available for purchase at Audible.com:

https://tinyurl.com/yd5nj8cr

The Celestial Omnibus: a collection of short stories by E.M. Forster.

Narrated by Susan Iannucci, Mark Crowle-Groves, and P.J. Morgan

The story from which this collection takes its title describes the adventures of an imaginative boy who discovers an omnibus that enables him to travel to the past in the company of famous historical personages. When at his invitation, an incredulous adult accompanies him on a journey, the astonishing new vistas unfolding alarm the security-conscious older man, who wishes himself back in his comfortable suburban home.

The other stories explore similar themes about ventures into worlds that lie barely concealed behind mundane reality.

"The Story of a Panic"

"The Other Side of the Hedge"

"The Celestial Omnibus"

"Other Kingdom"

"The Curate's Friend"

"The Road from Colonus"

A Voices of Today Production

For information about other recordings in the Voices of Today catalogue please visit voicesoftoday.org.

The complete recording can be purchased at Audible.com:

https://tinyurl.com/y7nvy2et

Complete Original Short Stories

Volume 3

by Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by Cate Barratt

Guy de Maupassant is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story. As his 13 volumes of short stories attest, he was a prolific writer of this form. He had a simple, efficient style of writing and, like Anton Chekhov, found inspiration for his stories in the daily lives of humans, which often reveal our darker nature. Many of his works also centred on the Franco-Prussian War, in which he served.

The complete recording can be purchased at Audible.com:

https://tinyurl.com/y7nvy2et

Complete Original Short Stories

Volume 3

by Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by Cate Barratt

Guy de Maupassant is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story. As his 13 volumes of short stories attest, he was a prolific writer of this form. He had a simple, efficient style of writing and, like Anton Chekhov, found inspiration for his stories in the daily lives of humans, which often reveal our darker nature. Many of his works also centred on the Franco-Prussian War, in which he served.

Far Inland Football

By John Arthur Barry

Narrated by Denis Daly

The folks at the small town of Crupperton are bored. To help pass the time the Clerk of Petty Sessions suggests that the town form a football team. All they need is a paddock, a ball and another team to play against. As the clerk says: "It's just a splendid game for this weather, and nothing could well be simpler." However, arranging the game proves to have unexpected complications.

This recording may be freely downloaded and distributed, as long as Voices of Today is credited as the author. It may not be used for commercial purposes or distributed in an edited or remixed form.

For further information about Voices of Today or to explore its catalogue please visit:

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Far Inland Football

By John Arthur Barry

Narrated by Denis Daly

The folks at the small town of Crupperton are bored. To help pass the time the Clerk of Petty Sessions suggests that the town form a football team. All they need is a paddock, a ball and another team to play against. As the clerk says: "It's just a splendid game for this weather, and nothing could well be simpler." However, arranging the game proves to have unexpected complications.

This recording may be freely downloaded and distributed, as long as Voices of Today is credited as the author. It may not be used for commercial purposes or distributed in an edited or remixed form.

For further information about Voices of Today or to explore its catalogue please visit:

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The Quatrains of Abu'l Ala

Selected from his "Lozum-ma-la- Yalzam" and "Sact-Uz-Zind"

and now first rendered into English

By

Ameen F. Rihani

Narrated by Denis Daly.

Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (973 - 1057) was an Arab philosopher and poet. His quatrains reflect an irreligious rationalism which may be compared with that of Omar Khayyam, although Abu’l Ala demonstrates a pessimism which is lacking in the work of the more famous poet.

In the words of the translator:

When the Califs were engaged in bloody battle with their rebellious subjects, Abu'l-Ala'l-Marri, the Lucretius of Al-Islam, the Diogenes of Arabia and the Voltaire of the East, was waging his silent and bloodless war on the follies and evils of his age. He attacked the superstitions and the false traditions of religions, and proclaimed the supremacy of the mind; he hurled his trenchant invectives at the tyranny and despotism of rulers, and asserted the supremacy of the human soul; he stood for perfect equality, and fought against the fallacies, the shams and the lies of the ruling class of his time, in its social, religious and political aspects.

This recording may be freely downloaded and distributed, as long as Voices of Today is credited as the author. It may not be used for commercial purposes or distributed in an edited or remixed form.

For further information about Voices of Today or to explore its catalogue please visit:

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