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The Biblical Record: Converting Scripture into Sound

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Alexander Scourby in Affair in Trinidad, Columbia Pictures, 1952. Wikimedia; American Bible Society, The Talking Bible, 5 vols, 1964 ‘Heard Through the Word’ (Romans 10.17) In 1964, the American film, theatre, TV, and voice actor Alexander Scourby recorded all sixty-six books of the King James Version of the Bible. His reading was the first complete acoustic capture of the Scripture…
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My Diary (July 16, 2014 – September 4, 2018)

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At 16:00 GMT on September 4, 2018, I posted the final page of my first online Diary. It’d been kept for a period of over four years, in order to provide ‘an insight into my activities, challenges, discomforts, and discoveries as an academic and creative practitioner’. What had been intended as a snapshot of my professional life turned into a…
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In a Silent Way

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‘Shhh/Peaceful’ (Miles Davis).  St Beuno’s is a Jesuit centre situated near St Asaph in Wales. The retreat provides training in Ignatian spiritual exercises for people of faith and, sometimes, for those with none. I spent three days there in cloistered silence in order to hear. The practice of silence involves a cessation of talking and the avoidance of unnecessary noise.…
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