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 ...

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.

As of Tuesday, the new Illinois Poet Laureate is named Mark Turcotte and this is a portion of one of his poems, the beginning stanza of “Flies Buzzing.” “Mark Turcotte’s work reflects the ...

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 ...

Judith Heumann, Brian Tufano, Sir David Elliott KCMG, Elizabeth Foulkes Chaim Topol, Zandra Flemister, Bill Tidy MBE, Avis Fawcitt Jacqueline Gold CBE, Lance Reddick, Traute Lafrenz, Lynn Seymour ...

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.