Illustrated talk by Sir Charles Tennyson
The voice of Alfred Lord Tennyson reading his own poetry was recorded on wax cylinders in 1890. In this programme the poet's grandson introduces fragments of the surviving recordings Listeners will be able to follow the voice better if they have in front of them the test of the following: . The Charge of the L:ght Br.gade '; sections 1, 2. and 3 of ' The Charge of ohe
Heavy Brigade '; stanzas 5 and 6 from ' The
Northern Farmer New Style) '; and the last two stanzas of ' Come into the garden, Maud.'