Poems by 20th-century German poet Wolf Biermann are preformed in English by the British-born American singer and playwright Eric Bentley. Biermann, born in Hamburg and a member of the Communist... more
French music hall is similar to vaudeville in it's origins and performers. Colette knew a great deal about this milieu, and she wrote about it with compassion and humor. Claire Luce and Julie Haydon... more
Victor Hugo stands as one of the giants of French literature. Though his novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables are his most famous works, Hugo also wrote in many other genres.... more
Betsy Hoffman introduces the basics of "reading" hands in this 1980 album. She begins by explaining that baby's hands are mirror images of each other at birth which start to develop markings... more
With the post-WWII mainstream American conviction that"quieter babies produce happier families," this album attempts to teach listeners how to differentiate between cries of hunger, pain, fatigue and... more
This recording is a dramatization of the 1855 murder trial of British surgeon William Palmer, who was accused of poisoning John Parsons Cook. The case is one of the most notorious murders of the 19th... more
