Audio, Music, & Video Links

Read by the Author

• Podcast: UKL reads “City of the Plain,” from The Wild Girls.
• An excerpt from Catwings.
• Ursula reads an excerpt from A Wizard of Earthsea, Chapter 10: “The Open Sea”
• Three Poems from Wild Angels
• “She Unnames Them,” from Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences
• A Book of Songs: Twelve Poems from Incredible Good Fortune

Reading (Offsite)

• Audiofile of UKL's Lavinia reading at the Corvallis-Benton County Library MP3 [24Mb]
• BBC Radio 7 celebrates UKL’s 80th birthday with her story “Diary of the Rose.” Read by Laurel Lefkow.

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Downloadable Audiobooks at Audible.com

Audioclips are available online at Audible.com

• Complete list of downloadable Le Guin books.
• Lavinia, narrated By Alyssa Bresnahan. Unabridged.
• A Wizard of Earthsea. Unabridged.
• The Tombs of Atuan. Unabridged. UKL reads the online sample.
• The Farthest Shore. Unabridged.
• The Other Wind. Unabridged.
• The Lathe of Heaven. Unabridged.
• Gifts. Unabridged.
• Voices. Unabridged.
• Powers. Unabridged.
• Changing Planes. Unabridged.
• The Birthday of the World and Other Stories. UKL reads from the Introduction in the online sample. Unabridged.
• The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century. Unabridged. Includes UKL’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.”
• 2000x: Vaster than Empires and More Slow. Dramatized.
• City of Illusions. Unabridged.
• Planet of Exile. Unabridged.
• Legends: Stories by the Masters of Fantasy, Volume 3. Includes UKL's "Dragonfly." Unabridged.
• The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, January-February 2003, ed. Gordon Van Gelder. Includes "The Seasons of the Ansarac," from Changing Planes. Unabridged.

Audiobooks on CD and Cassette at Simply Audiobooks

• Lavinia, narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan (August 2008)
• Catwings, read by Ursula K. Le Guin. Unabridged. Listen to an excerpt.
• Catwings Return, read by Ursula K. Le Guin. Unabridged.
• Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, read by Ursula K. Le Guin. Unabridged.
• Forthcoming: Jane on Her Own (a Catwings book), read by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• A Wizard of Earthsea. Unabridged.
• The Tombs of Atuan. Unabridged.
• The Farthest Shore. Unabridged.
• Tales from Earthsea. Unabridged.
• The Other Wind. Unabridged.
• Gifts. (Annals of the Western Shore, Book 1.) Unabridged.
• Voices. (Annals of the Western Shore, Book 2.) Unabridged.
• Powers. (Annals of the Western Shore, Book 3.) Unabridged.
• The Beginning Place. Unabridged.

The Spoken Word: Audio Interviews

• Robin Morgan interviews UKL, Women’ Media Center live. 1 December 2012
• Matthew Peterson interviews UKL for The Author Hour. Audio, transcript, and bonus questions. 12 November 2009
• “Think & Drink,” Oregon Council for the Humanities. UKL and Lani Roberts. [Photo] [MP3-1] [MP3-2]

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• Now available on UKL’s website: China Miéville interviews UKL about her life and work for BBC Radio 4, 17 March 2009.
• “Between the Covers”: Jim Schumock interviews UKL for KBOO radio. Streaming audio.
• Online: NPR's Jacki Lyden interviews UKL on "All Things Considered," 26 April 2008. (Audio)
• Between the Covers: John J. Miller interviews UKL at National Review Online. 24 April 2008. [Offsite link]
• "Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?" Seattle Arts and Lectures Literary Series, 8 April 2002 [Offsite link: RealAudio]
• Talk of the Nation, host Neal Conan; guests Daniel Grotta, Michael Drout, Ursula K. Le Guin discuss Tolkien. NPR, 18 December 2003. [Offsite link: RealMedia or WindowsMedia]
• Elsewhere, Inverted, Utopia — Kurt Anderson interviews Ursula K. Le Guin for "Studio 360" at WNYC public radio. [Offsite link: RealAudio]

Music Available Online

• Music & Poetry of the Kesh, from Always Coming Home, words by Ursula K. Le Guin, music by Todd Barton. Now available at Book View Café. MP3s; Liner Notes, lyrics, translations (EPUB and MOBI). Free samples. October 2012
• Excerpt from Paradises Lost: the world premiere of scenes from a chamber opera by Steven Taylor, based on the novella by UKL, performed by Third Angle New Music ensemble in Portland in January 2012. [33Mb MP3]
• The Crown of Laurel — Set by Christopher M. Wicks to a poem by Ursula K. LeGuin [10Mb MP3].
• “A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back,” [23Mb MP3] by Ursula K. Le Guin (1992). Musical score by Bryan Johanson (1999). Performed by Third Angle Music at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, in January 2010.
  • Ron Blessinger, violin
  • Hamilton Cheifetz, cello
  • Todd Kuhns, clarinet
  • Jeff Peyton, percussion
  • Bryan Johanson, guitar
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, narrator
• Ursula K. Le Guin & Elinor Armer: Lockerbones/Airbones: Poetry by Ursula K. Le Guin, music by Elinor Armer
• Two audio excerpts from the "Paradises Lost" opera at Stephen Andrew Taylor's website: "What is the sadness in you" (mp3, 1:49) and "Alive in the world are human beings, plants, and bacteria" (mp3, 2:20)
• The Hidden Sky: A Chamber Opera based on the Le Guin Short Story "The Masters," by Peter Foley. Includes "Oath" (excerpt), "Wheel in the Engine" (complete), and "Revelation/All Is Number" (excerpt).
• Kesh Music by Todd Barton from Always Coming Home

Videos

• Two video clips, courtesy of Professor Eric S. Rabkin: “Ursula K. LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness Overview” and “Ursula K. LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness Thesis.” Please click on "open/view" link for MP4 files. These are large files that will take a while to download. (28 November 2012)
• Video: Ursula K. Le Guin & Margeret Killjoy, Anarchist Writers on Fiction. Sample at Youtube. (28 January 2010)
  
  
  
• “Guesswork & Archaeology & Virgil” — video, courtesy Ron Hogan. (1 May 2009)
• UKL’s Timberland Reads Together. Courtesy of TCTV (Thurston County cable tv) & Timberland Library, Olympia, WA, October 2008. (5 February 2009)
• Video of UKL's 22 April appearance at Powell's Bookstore. Lavinia reading, Q&A. Video courtesy of pdxjustice Media Productions. (Google video, 43 minutes) (27 April 2008)
• "Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children's Literature." Video of Arbuthnot Honor Lecture by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2004. (Google video, 1 hr. Filesize: 19Mb, for slower connections.)
• "Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children's Literature." Video of Arbuthnot Honor Lecture by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2004. (Google video, 1 hr, high-res. Filesize: 69Mb, for faster connections.)
• Note: If the video image is pixilated or blurry, choose "original size" from the drop-down menu at the lower right corner of the video window.
• Imprint 2001: Antanas Sileika interviews science fiction icon Ursula K Le Guin.

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