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

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

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, 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 ...

Ms. Holdridge, along with her best friend, Marianne Mantell, built the label, Caedmon Records, into a recording industry dynamo by releasing LPs of such notable authors and poets as W.H. Auden, T ...

They named their label Caedmon, after the first documented English poet, who was thought to have sung his verse, and put together an all-star literary lineup.

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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 ...

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After five days of hounding him, they finally got the poet’s agreement, and the six records he turned out for Caedmon before his death have to date sold 400,000 LP copies in the U.S. and abroad.