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Title:
Berlin [DAISY talking book] : portrait of a city through the centuries
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Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2015
Physical Description:
1 computer optical disc (11 hours, 59 minutes) : sound, 4 3/4 in.
Abstract:
Author of Stalin's Nose describes the history of Berlin, Germany, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, through the stories of residents and visitors, famous and otherwise. Chapters include profiles of Frederick the Great, Christopher Isherwood, Marlene Dietrich, John F. Kennedy, and David Bowie. 2014.
General Note:
Digital audiobook in DAISY format.
Performers:
Narrated by: Jack Fox.
Contents:
Imagine -- Konrad von Cölln, and true love -- Colin Albany and the players -- Frederick the Great, and the making of Prussia -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the dream of a capital -- Lilli Neuss, and the owl -- Walther Rathenau, and lost beauty -- Else Hirsch, and the illusion -- Margarete Böhme, and 'Diary of a lost girl' -- Fritz Haber, and the geography of evil -- Käthe Kollwitz, mother and child -- Christopher Isherwood, in a city of the imagination -- Bertolt Brecht, luck and the epic -- Marlene Dietrich, on becoming -- Leni Riefenstahl, and the fatal flaw -- Albert Speer, and Germania -- Joseph Goebbels, the man who made Hitler -- Dieter Werner, Wall builder -- Bill Harvey, and the tunnel -- John F. Kennedy, and politics as theatre -- David Bowie, and 'Heroes' -- Lieu Van Ha, and the gun -- People, let's dance -- Ilse Philips, in another Berlin -- Imagine Berlin.
Technical Details:
Plays on DAISY talking book players and software only; DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression rate 32.
Accessibility Note:
DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps
Language:
English
Audience:
Male narrator.
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