Barbara Holdridge, the audiobook pioneer who has died aged 95, was the co-founder of the spoken-word record company Caedmon, ...

They named their label after an Old English poet, an 8th-century cowherd named Caedmon, and adopted the slogan “A Third Dimension for the Printed Page,” announcing their belief that a spoken ...

Caedmon releases, Businesswoman Mantell estimates, have reached an audience of 2,000,000—many of them “people who haven’t picked up a book of poetry since they left school.

Caedmon recorded or reissued Faulkner, Frost, Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath and Eudora Welty. To read historical works like Shakespeare and Chekhov, it recruited Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave.

Barbara Holdridge and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of such famous writers as Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot reciting their work. Holdridge died Monday at 95.

Barbara Holdridge, co-founder of Caedmon Records that pioneered the audiobook concept, died earlier this month at her home in ...

In a sense, Caedmon brought the idea of oral interpretation of poetry, short stories and novels from the Beatnik dens of Greenwich Village into middle-class living rooms.

An Old English poet. There is one other name that deserves to be mentioned, and that is Caedmon. He is the first poet in English whose name is known.

Poetry has been a big part of this country’s cultural life since Caedmon – a Northumbrian cow herd – composed a catchy religious ode back in the seventh century. Shakespeare, Wordsworth ...

Barbara Holdridge, a pioneer for spoken-word recordings, dies at 95. In 1952, she and her friend Marianne Mantell founded Caedmon Records, putting out LP records of poets and authors reading their ...