Biographies Audios

We may know about a famous person's accomplishments, but what do we know about THEM? What is the human-interest story in THEIR lives? This biography collection features the stories behind the lives of some famous (and not-so-famous) individuals.

CBS IS THERE (later, YOU ARE THERE) was an "old-time radio" program where CBS "reporters" and "correspondents" dramatized important historical events ...

Helen Keller never enjoyed math, and she found learning algebra and geometry particularly hard.

Once she recognized things and actions had names, Helen needed to comprehend abstract subjects.

In her early days of learning, Anne and Helen worked outside.

Orson Welles adapted Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables, for the radio.

After the Bishop of Digne shows kindness to Jean Valjean, providing him with food and allowing him to spend the night without pay, Valjean steals the ...

After Helen understood that things had names - and she could learn those names from her teacher's finger-spelling - her vocabulary grew.

Do you know the background of "Little Women?" Meet Louisa May Alcott and learn how she based her still-famous story on her real-life family.

Chapter 40, of Little Women, is one of the saddest chapters in the story.

Do you know the background of "Little Women?" Meet Louisa May Alcott and learn how she based her still-famous story on her real-life family.

Vacationing with her family in the mountains near Tuscumbia, Helen experienced the joys of childhood: riding a pony, hunting for persimmons and explor...

Anne Sullivan, a young teacher with her own vision problems, arrived at the Keller home in early March of 1887.

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