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Voices of Today provides services in audiobook narration and production. The proprietor is Denis Daly who is a professional audiobook narrators and producer. He has provided narration and editing services for many projects at Librivox.org and Legamus.eu. He is also a founding member of Rhapsodize, a group which promotes the performance and recording of classic poetry. Currently, he has over 300 titles in the catalogue at Audible.com, and several more recordings are under production.

  1. Dynamic Thought_sample

    May 30

    Dynamic Thought_sample

    The complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0H3CC6Y47 Dynamic Thought or The Law of Vibrant Energy By William Walker Atkinson Narrated by Denis Daly William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was an author and publisher of texts covering a wide range of New Thought teachings. According to Atkinson, the idea of 'Dynamic Thought' underlies the entire universe and is the cause of all phenomena. Not only is everything that we see as Life and Mind and Substance an illustration of the Law, but even that which lies back of these things must provide evidence of the same Law. The author describes this volume as "an odd book." He states that his aim is to present a union of "Ancient Occult Teachings" with the most current discoveries in science at the time. As in most of Atkinson's works, there is much discussion of the hidden powers of the mind, with a particular emphasis on the operation of thought in realms outside the physical. While much of the science espoused by Atkinson has been either discredited or superseded, for example, the concept of the "ether," his basic thesis of the essential uniformity of the primary forces of nature remains intriguingly compelling.

    5 min
  2. The Scholar Gypsy_sample

    May 30

    The Scholar Gypsy_sample

    The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0H3CJM5LZ The Scholar Gypsy By Matthew Arnold Narrated by Denis Daly Matthew Arnold, poet, critic, and by profession a school inspector, was embedded in the world of Victorian academic tradition. His verse and essays display fears that the stability of traditional ways was under threat from the uncertainty of modernity. In this poem, Arnold tells the story of an Oxford student who abandons academic life to join a band of gypsies. He learns their mysterious, almost magical, and clearly unacademic knowledge and devotes himself to a lifelong quest for direct perception of truth. Unlike the people with whom the poet is surrounded, he never becomes distracted or challenged by corrosive doubt or concern about the trivialities of suburban life.

    2 min
  3. Songs of Kabir_sample

    May 30

    Songs of Kabir_sample

    The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0H3BJ38VX Songs of Kabir Translated by Rabindranath Tagore With an Introduction by Evelyn Underhill Narrated by Denis Daly Although Kabir (1398-1448, or in the Samvat calendar 1440-1518) was born of Mohammedan parentage, in his youth he became a disciple of a noted Hindu ascetic, Ramananda. As a spiritual teacher, he decried the meaningless rituals of both Islam and Hinduism, and preached a path of righteousness, which involved respect toward all things in creation, and detachment from worldly preoccupations. While his teaching provoked hostility from both Muslims and Hindus, after his death each religion claimed him as a saint. While his devotional poetry is inspired by the works of the great Persian mystics, Attar, Sadi, Rumi, and Hafiz, Kabir's vocabulary and thought are saturated with the concepts of classical Brahmanism.

    4 min
  4. Miscellaneous Poems_sample

    May 28

    Miscellaneous Poems_sample

    The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/kz3zzn Miscellaneous Poems By Percy Bysshe Shelley Narrated by Denis Daly This collection of 59 short poems consists of verses, some of them incomplete, which remained unpublished at the time of Shelley’s death. Some of them have become the best known of Shelley’s shorter works. The poems were collated and edited by Mary Shelley, who also wrote an introduction to the collection, which contains some biographical material and commentary on the poems.

    3 min
  5. Promptness and Other Errors_sample

    May 27

    Promptness and Other Errors_sample

    The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Promptness-and-Other-Errors-Audiobook/B0H2KBK9QR Promptness and Other Errors By Otto Handley Read by Lyndal Curran Doolan This surreal collection of vignettes explores a world where linear time and logic have fractured, replaced by a state of "administrative continuation" where life moves sideways rather than forward. The narrative personifies the mundane, granting agency and existential dread to everyday objects like toasters, bus signs, and office printers, all of which struggle to perform their functions in a reality devoid of human purpose. Central characters like Arthur act as anchors of presence, stabilising a city that is rehearsing its own existence amidst flickering streetlamps and clouds named after misunderstandings. Ultimately, the text depicts a shift from meaningful progress to a hollow, bureaucratic drift, where the burden of justification is lifted because stopping would require more paperwork than simply carrying on.

    5 min
  6. Infinite Lubricity_sample

    May 6

    Infinite Lubricity_sample

    Infinite Lubricity The Fluid of Salvation (Greasepolis, Book 9) By Otto Handley Narrated by Gregory Dwyer In the surreal academic landscape of Tumbarumba, history professor Stella Pontifex discovers that grease is not merely a culinary byproduct but a metaphysical archive of human memory. As the world suffers from “The Great Sizzle” and a subsequent “thinning” of reality known as attenuation, Stella is contacted by the spirits of legendary Grease Prophets like Frank and Glen. These apparitions warn her that corporate interests and a fanatical cult, the Way of Dryness, are draining the universe of its viscosity and historical depth. To prevent existence from becoming a brittle, unseasoned husk, Stella must travel through bureaucratic afterlives and commercialised voids to understand how to preserve cosmic lubricity. Ultimately, she becomes a quiet custodian of memory, using her scholarly discipline to mend the shimmering currents of a world threatened by spiritual evaporation.

    5 min
  7. The Myth of the Resurrection_sample

    May 6

    The Myth of the Resurrection_sample

    The Myth of the Resurrection and Other Essays By Joseph McCabe Narrated by Oberon Michaels In one of his most celebrated assertions the Apostle Paul wrote: “And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised; If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” (From 1 Corinthians 15) In this collection of essays skeptical scholar Joseph McCabe examines three contentious issues related to the assertions of the apostle: - The historicity of the Resurrection - The historicity of Jesus - The rapid spread of Christianity Using the tools of historical analysis, McCabe concludes that the claims about both the identity and resurrection of Jesus rest on shaky ground, and that myths about dying and rising gods occur frequently in pre-Christian history.

    5 min
  8. Browning Classical Monologues_sample

    Apr 26

    Browning Classical Monologues_sample

    The Classical Monologues By Robert Browning Read by Evan and Marie Blackmore Robert Browning was fascinated by people—not only people of his own day, but also people who had lived in the remote past. Five of his famous dramatic monologues are spoken by characters from the ancient Classical world: a Greek goddess (Artemis), a Roman senator (in “Imperante Augusto Natus Est—“), an Arab physician (Karshish), a Greek poet (Cleon), and the last surviving eyewitness of Jesus Christ (in “A Death in the Desert”). They probe many different questions, especially regarding the transition from paganism to Christianity. How did such a change happen? And how might it have struck contemporaries? As a supplement, the collection also includes “Bishop Blougram’s Apology” (sometimms called the greatest of all Browning’s monologues), which pursues many of the same issues down to his own day. The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Classical-Monologues-Audiobook/B0GVL14D6K

    5 min
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Voices of Today provides services in audiobook narration and production. The proprietor is Denis Daly who is a professional audiobook narrators and producer. He has provided narration and editing services for many projects at Librivox.org and Legamus.eu. He is also a founding member of Rhapsodize, a group which promotes the performance and recording of classic poetry. Currently, he has over 300 titles in the catalogue at Audible.com, and several more recordings are under production.

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  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
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