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Listen to audiobooks narrated by richard burton audible. They are reproduced in their near entirety for the first time in a new collection, the richard burton diaries. His diaries cover some 44 years, from his early second world war schooldays. Burton seemed to be enjoying himself, but it was not easy to hear him. In the richard burton diaries, written mostly in the late 1960s and early 1970s when burton and elizabeth taylor were at the height of their fame, the couple seemed to speak a. The perfumed garden by richard francis burton full. Richard burtons diaries are almost unbearably depressing. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. R ichard burton died in august 1984 at the age of 58, shortly before the premiere of nineteen eightyfour, in which he gave his best performance for more than a decade as orwells totalitarian apparatchik obrien. Richard burton has 27 books on goodreads with 3498 ratings. He had the kind of voice you want to listen to all day. The welsh actor was equally famous for his hellraising, womanising private life and his two.
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