[{"id":"8215","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["Jack Whitehead, Charles Shaw, Alden Nowlan"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on aluminum disc. Accompanying paper from archivist describing cuts."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[111.7]"],"rights":["The Public Domain Mark (PDM)"],"creator_names":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Whitehead, Jack E.","Shaw, Charles"],"contributors_names_search":["Whitehead, Jack E.","Shaw, Charles"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Whitehead, Jack E.\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Shaw, Charles\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Whitehead, Jack E.","Shaw, Charles"],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"7 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Audiodisc\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"33 1/3 rpm\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Disc\",\"physical_composition\":\"Aluminum\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Disc"],"physical_compositions":["Aluminum"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"AN_MsC_40.111.7\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:16:44\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"275.78 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"[before 1956]. Date taken from creation dates listed for item level descriptions in archival finding aid for the Alden Nowlan fonds Item number 111.7\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["- [00:00:00] Female host greets “Al” and another speaker. Conversation about recording and how Alden Nowlan doesn’t know what to say, “What am I supposed to say? What should I say, do you think?” “Well, anything” “Anything at all? - […] The whole trouble is that the thing goes around faster than I can think. And as I talk half as fast as I think, there’s nothing much I can say”\n- [00:00:49] singing, cuts and repeats\n- [00:01:27] Julius Caesar, Shakespeare. Mark Anthony’s speech “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears…” (Act 3, Scene 2)\n- [00:03:00] singing, “soldiers of Ireland…”. Cuts and repeats.\n- [00:03:40] conversation on politics, includes female host and additional male speaker."],"contents":["Unknown\n[00:00:00]\nGreets Alden Nowlan.\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:00:49]\nSings.\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:01:27]\nPerforms Mark Anthony’s speech \"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears…\" from Julius Caesar [Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene 2]\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:03:00]\nSings “soldiers of Ireland…\". \nAlden Nowlan\n[00:03:40]\nDiscusses politics."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Shakespeare, William, Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2).\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558224351235,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.444Z","score":3.9067626}]