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Pacifica Radio's KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley, California, the first publicly-funded radio station in the USA (1949), will broadcast and stream George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four on Tuesday, June 27 from 6AM until 9PM PT (but will not have any actual content until 12:01AM Tuesday.)
The classic cover-to-cover reading [recorded in 1975] is by [longtime KPFA morning host and] blacklisted writer Charles Morgan and legendary voiceover artist June Foray [Rocket J. Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick; Stan Freberg collaborator].
[...] KPFA is also heard on KPFB 89.3 FM in Berkeley, KFCF [...] 88.1 FM in Fresno, and 97.5 FM K248BR in Santa Cruz.
It will also be broadcast simultaneously on Pacifica stations WBAI in New York and WPFW in Washington DC (9AM ET to Midnight), KPFT in Houston, and KPFK in Los Angeles, as well as many Pacifica affiliates. (Another streaming link on that page.)
For those who are impatient or otherwise-occupied on that day, the 13 one-hour segments of the audiobook (not 10 installments, as some sources indicate) are available as CDs. Caveat: $18 each.
This is one of many offerings of the Pacifica Radio Archives, sometimes known as From the Vaults. The project is transferring decades of programming recorded on reel-to-reel tape to digital format before those available-nowhere-else recordings degrade to nothingness. The project is funded by sales of CDs of their efforts and a yearly 1-day network-wide drive.
A source says they also have this on 13 pages at Soundcloud (Javascript required). That source also notes that the "audiobook" undersells the dramatic audio presentation a bit.
Depending on how ridiculous the length of copyright is where you are, you may also be able to legally download the text of the novel, gratis.
The University of Adelaide has a very nice HTML presentation, chapter-by-chapter. (My favorite chapter is Part Two, Chapter IX, where Emmanuel Goldstein's "The Book" describes the purpose of perpetual war (Oligarchy; Fascism). Scroll down to "Chapter III" for the good stuff. This is in Part 8 of Pacifica's recordings.)
Project Gutenberg, Canada will give you the whole book in one gulp (HTML format; 597kB).
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Saturday June 24 2017, @09:59AM (3 children)
any chance it can be ..errr...converted to podcast?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:28PM (1 child)
http://www.google.com/search?q=VLC+capture.webcast [google.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @12:43AM
Forgot to mention in the summary that this is the first time since the original broadcast in 1975 that the whole thing will be done in 1 day.
KPFK veteran Roy Tuckman (Roy of Hollywood) has been doing 1-hour installments on his midnight-to-6AM show on Monday nights/Tuesday mornings at about 3:30 to 4:30.
KPFK's Audio Archive [kpfk.org]
(Select "Something's Happening B".)
N.B. I don't stream content.
I don't download the fancy shit on their page either and I think that clicking their latest click-this-button shit starts an in-browser player.
In my readable-text-only presentation, I end up marking the Days to Stay number, holding down the Shift key, hitting RightArrow once, right-clicking, selecting View Selection Source and finding the URL of the MP3.
With my browser off-line, I drag and drop that URL to a new tab and drag and drop the resulting favicon into my file manager (wget is my download manager).
You may be able to use some form of this trick to get the stream and capture it.
Could be you're stuck with their player.
Note: The first Monday of the month, he deviates from his usual programming and does Old Radio Night.
Additionally, they only archive that show for 60 days.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @11:01PM
I included the Tuesday, June 27 [kpfa.org] link in the summary in hopes that a stream would be available for each hourly installment on that day (and afterwards in perpetuity).
The news is even better than that.
Not only is a stream available for each, there is also a download link for each (MP3, 22MB each).
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]