Just Finished Listening

I just finished listening to an audio book of The Man Who Was Thursday, found on iTunes, recorded by Zachary Brewster-Geisz (Thanks for doing that Zach! Great voices!) for Librivox on my iPod.

There are 15 chapters to this book, and I would listen to a few chapters every day for about a week, as I did other work.

This recording is very good, the guy recording it has a nice voice, he does a good variety of other voices (and keeps them straight as far as consistently doing the gravely voice for Dr. Bull, the cockney voice, etc.) so it was entertaining as well as interesting to listen to the whole thing on audio.

If you have an iPod and want something different to listen to, I recommend this one.

Go to Project Gutenberg, scroll down to the iTunes recordings.

Voice (audio) Feedback

In preparation for the podcast, I've set up a phone line dedicated to accepting voice feedback. This service (which is free) sends me a .wav file of the audio, which I can incorporate into my podcasts.

But, just to try it out, you could call and leave me a voice feedback now. The phone number is 1-206-337-9049. For anyone outside of Seattle (where the service is based) it will be a long distance and charges will apply.

Maybe you could call and say: "Hi, this is [your first name] and I LOVE G.K.Chesterton"
or
"Hi, my name is [your first name] and I regularly read the blog of the American Chesterton Society."
or
"Hello, my name is [your name here] and I love Chesterton because..."
or
"Hi! I'm [your name] and my favorite Chesterton book is XYZ because of ABC..."

I think you get the picture. Try it out! Anything recorded there, unless you say so, could be used in a future podcast.

Kevin O'Brien slated to do audio of Pope's new encyclical for Ignatius Press

This exciting news is hot off the presses.

H/T: Mark C.

Listen to an Interview with Dale Ahlquist on The American View

INTERVIEW: Dale Ahlquist, President, “American Chesterton Society” On, Among Other Things, The Question: Why Was GKC So Anti-Calvinist, Anti-Predestination

A Little Creepy, but with a possible new recording of Chesterton

H/T: Dave Z. This is the first time I've heard this recording of Chesterton (is it Chesterton's voice?) but the animation is a little creepy, don't you think? It's a section of The Ballad of the White Horse.

Audio Archive of Chesterton Materials

Check out some Apostle of Common Sense episodes for MP3.

Distributism on the Radio again Tonight!

Dear friends of the Society for Distributism,

This evening, Jeremiah Bannister, host of Paleo Radio (broadcast from Olivet College), will interview Thomas Storck, author of The Catholic Milieu, Foundations of a Catholic Political Order, and Christendom and the West. Mr. Storck is on the editorial board of The Chesterton Review and was formerly a contributing editor of Caelum et Terra and New Oxford Review.

Mr. Storck will be discussing Distributism, with a particular focus on the topic of the Guilds.

We hope you will tune in and listen to this exciting broadcast.

The program begins at 6pm EST, and you can listen to it here. (Internet Explorer users only.)
--
Servire Deo regnare est!

Richard Aleman
Director
The Society for Distributism

Audio Archive of Chesterton Materials

An audio collection of Chesterton work.

H/T: Dave Z.

Dale on the Radio Tonight

This is from Richard:

This evening, Jeremiah Bannister, host of Paleocrat Radio (broadcast from Olivet College), will be interviewing Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society. We hope you will tune in and listen to this exciting broadcast. Dale will no doubt talk about the life and works of our beloved Chesterton, as well as touch upon his distributist thinking.

The program begins at 6pm EST, and you can listen to it here: http://wocrfm.com (Internet Explorer users only). Jeremiah also wishes to convey that the phone lines will be open for questions starting at 6:20pm EST, so please call 269-749-7398, and ask Dale a question about distributism. Remember to email your friends and let them know to tune in and call the show.

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Servire Deo regnare est!

Richard Aleman
Director
The Society for Distributism

Backwards Thinking

Seems quite Chestertonian. Via Rob D. Thanks.

Hear a Chesterton story on Podcast

Classic Tales this week reads The Secret Garden, a Father Brown mystery, on its podcast. Check it out.

When Authors Speak for Themselves: Chesterton included

The Wall Street Journal speaks again about Chesterton, this time he is included in a collection of audio CDs of famous authors who are recorded saying something. Chesterton reportedly speaks on "The Spices of Life":

'G.K. Chesterton, too, comes off well. He starts out with precisely the sort of absurd gambit that one would expect from a writer of his impressive wit: "But while I should resist the suggestion that we must eat beef without mustard," he intones, "I do recognize that there is now a more subtle danger: that men may want to eat mustard without beef." What follows is an amusingly disjointed ramble about the "spices of life."'

NRO Interviews Father Brown (as played by Kevin O'Brien)

Kevin O'Brien was recently interviewed by John Miller of National Review Online, and it's quite interesting. Listen here.

Innocence of Father Brown on CD-Now Available

The ACS's own Kevin O'Brien presents a dramatic reading of Chesterton's most famous detective fiction. Now available via Ignatius Press.

Ignatius Insight Podcast: Chesterton and Orthodoxy

Special guest is Dale Ahlquist. Some of you may know him.

Links to Orthodoxy

Just in time to celebrate its 100th anniversary, Ryan at Catholic Audio has announced a page of links, including audio Orthodoxy, chapter by chapter. Put this in your iPods and smoke it. (Pardon my old-fashioned expression.)

Thanks, Ryan.

Sonic Society presents: Father Brown Readio Dramas

Another way to reach More Chesterton Audio

From Ryan:
I've posted some links to more Chesterton audio here.

Just thought you'd like to know.

God Bless,
Ryan
Sonitus Sanctus

More Chesterton Audio

Update!!!

GKCleveland now has 11 G.K. Chesterton audio-essay readings up on the net.

They can be downloaded for FREE here.

Nine of these same essays can be found at this site.

Please feel free to link to these sites (or spread the news in some strange manner).

Thank you
Matthew Lewis
GKCleveland

New Chesterton AudioBook: Heretics

Got this note from Ryan:

I've posted some links to a just-completed audio version of Chesterton's Heretics:

Thanks, Ryan!