#5 (December 7, 1941) U.S. & U.K.(A66) "Those Parentheses"
"The best reason for publishing Ezra Pound's broadcasts may be the simplest. Thousands of people have heard about them, scores have been effected by them, yet but a handful has ever heard or read them. Here they are." - Foreword
"Anyone who seeks to understand Pound or to write about him and his times cannot overlook these speeches. Although Pound's reputation will forever rest on his poetry and other writings..." - Introduction
Source: "Ezra Pound Speaking" - Radio Speeches of WWII
Edited by Leonard W. Doob
"The present collection consists of original manuscripts Pound prepared to read on Rome radio... In a few instances gaps in the manuscripts themselves have been filled by sections of the FCC transcripts; these substitutions are clearly indicated."
Link to text: archive.org/stream/EzraPoundS...
This recording is an interpretation and not the original broadcast. The reader is not Pound.
#09 and #11 are the only original broadcast recordings (Pound's voice) in this collection.
Closed Captions (CC) are source text.