10" Vinyl LP with a recording of Sir Isiah Berlin reading his English translation to Ivan Turgenev's story "Fire at Sea". The recording was made in 1957. The record was not issued by a record company, it is inserted in a blank brown cardboard sleeve. The labels carry the name of production company Sound News Productions, and the details of the recording are typewritten on one of the labels, although the recording is pressed on both sides.
Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997), a political philosopher and historian of ideas, a Russian-British Jew, is considered one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century. Berlin, born in Latvia, immigrated from Russia to Britain in 1921, and lived there for the rest of his life.
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