The Recorded Voice Of Virginia Woolf

This is the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice. It is part of a BBC radio broadcast from April 29th, 1937. The talk was called "Craftsmanship" and was part of a series entitled "Words Fail Me".
The audio is accompanied by a slideshow of photographs of Virginia Woolf.

The text was published as an essay in "The Death of the Moth and Other Essays" (1942), and I've transcribed the recorded portion here:
http://atthisnow.blogspot.com/2009/06/craftsmanship-virginia-woolf.html

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[Messylin]

It upsets me how Nicole Kidman was too lazy to become the woman she was supposed to be playing on film. In her arrogance, she horrendously failed to intelligently honour the legacy of this great mind - portraying her as a spiteful and self-absorbed ghoul! Her performance doesn't even begin the capture the sharpness, gravitas and sparkling wit of the real Woolf. It is devastating to think how people picture Kidman's Woolf when they think of her - brooding in halls and bitching at her husband!

[MartyredxMaiden]

women used to sound like women. now they sound like freeze-timed little girls "like o m geeee!". no power, no maturity. this is what an intelligent woman sounds like.

[MartyredxMaiden]

@xblackcigarette did you just talk about grammatical correctness when I was satirically ridiculing modern day vernacular? Please, find better ways to troll the internet. You spelling and grammar people don't understand that, the internet is a shitland, and no one gives a wiggling maggot-infested turd about getting an A plus in SPELLING/GRAMMAR in a quickly written, my-two-cents comment box. Come on, dude -_- Nice. You disagree with my comment, Say that instead of be a petty, pedantic buttclog,

[xblackcigarette]

@MartyredxMaiden Women still sound like women. You also might want to be grammatically correct when you talk about intelligence. Just saying.

[AMsrok00]

@Messylin it is true, but the reason she did it was sadly in this day and age, people would hear it, and not take it very seiously, well at least that was her reasoning.

[Morgy09]

"*ass" was intended for my dissenter, not Mrs. Woolf.

[MsLadyLindy]

Virginia, I love you so.

[anOPENEDbook]

Seems you payed no attention to what she said. If you did then you'd realize that you're in agreement with Mrs. Woolf. You payed no attention, because once you heard "negro" your fatuous sentiments clumped up into a barrier that no other thought could penetrate. The only thing insular is your own self. Western literature is masterful because it embraces the wide multitude of thoughts that you so completely lack.