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.

18 October 2009

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

• Seattle Public Library podcast of the book launch event for the Aqueduct Press edition of Squaring the Circle, by Gheorghe Sasarman, translated by Mariano Martin Rodriguez (from the original Romanian to Spanish) and Ursula K. Le Guin (in association with MMR from Spanish to English). [1 hour, 28Mb MP3] 12 June 2013
• 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. [Part I] [Part II] [Photo]

22 June 2009

• 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

• About Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts, by UKL. Music by Elinor Armer, text by UKL. New excerpts at SoundCloud (may load slowly; sound may auto-start).
• Music & Poetry of the Kesh, from Always Coming Home, words by Ursula K. Le Guin, music by Todd Barton.
• 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 & Margaret 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)
• [No longer available] "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.)
• [No longer available] "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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