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Exhibition: Anthony Burgess on Tape

Anthony Burgess on Tape — AUDIO EXHIBITION: AnthonyBurgess.org/Tape

Congratulations. You have found our new exhibition, which you are welcome to browse from the comfort of your own home. Ignore the dates and times on this event page: the exhibition is open to online browsers NOW.

Our new exhibition offering a special glimpse into the audio archive of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation.

The audio archive at the Burgess Foundation comprises 1,094 cassettes and 87 reel-to-reel tapes. The recordings run to over a thousand hours, and include interviews with the media, public lectures, private telephone conversations, piano playing and poetry reading at home, domestic discussions, and sometimes street noises and birdsong.

Anthony Burgess On Tape is NOW available to view. To listen, click the links below: this will jump you to our exhibition pages.