This production featuring digitally enhanced performances of some of history’s greatest speeches – all presented as they might have originally been heard.

The immersive audio experience presented here – complete with sound effects, music and atmospherics – allows the listener to feel as if they were in attendance when these speeches were first delivered. The orations are performed by a select group of amazing actors who uniquely capture the essence, power and complexity of these magnificent addresses, universally acknowledged as some of the greatest speeches in world history.

Volume V features such disparate historical characters as Pope Urban II (Kevin Theis) delivering the speech that launched the Crusades, English Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger debating whether or not to negotiate with the Emporer Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte himself (Ben Werling) addressing his Royal Guard for the last time before heading into exile,  Democratic Presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan (Will Clinger) delivering his famous “Cross of Gold” speech at the 1896 convention, human rights pioneer Ida B. Wells inveighing against the scourge of lynching in America, Argentinian First Lady Eva Peron (Kelly Silva O’Rourke) announcing her decision to turn down the Vice Presidency of her country and, finally, future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (AK Murtada) delivering the closing argument before the Supreme Court in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.

This collection is part five of a series.

Coming soon!