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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":4.3613224},{"id":"8370","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":["Loute (?) numbers by Inner (?) 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