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Barbara Holdridge, Whose Record Label Foretold Audiobooks, Dies at 95

Beginning with a reading by Dylan Thomas, she and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of famous writers reciting their work.

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Barbara Holdridge in 2002. A recording of Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” put her record label, Caedmon, founded with Marianne Mantel, on the road to success.
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