Lancashire Dialogues: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lancashire Dialogues, credited to John Byrom, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Lancashire Dialogues by John Byrom. Read in English by Phil Benson A scion of the Byroms of Byrom Hall in Lowton, Lancashire, John Byrom was born and lived in Manchester and Salford for much of his life. Educated at Cambridge, Byrom become a member of the Royal Society and a leading poet of his day. In addition to his poetical works, he invented a system of shorthand, composed the Christmas carol "Christians awake! Salute the happy morn", and coined the phrase "Tweedledum and Tweedledee". Byrom's work included three early poems in the Lancashire dialect, for which he was well remembered by the Lancashire dialect writers of the 19th century, in the form of satirical dialogues on topics of current political interest. - Summary by Phil Benson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lancashire Dialogues
• Author credits: John Byrom
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 31:52

Catalogue topics

• Lancashire
• dialect

Track guide

1. 01 - on a clergyman's preaching without notes — 10:24
2. 02 - on the march of the Highlanders into Lancashire — 6:41
3. 03 - between a Gentlewoman and her maid Jenny — 14:47

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