Crusade For Your Art

Based on years of international speaking experience and over five years on the Training and Career Development teams at Google, Jenny Blake interviews 25 authors, TED speakers and the world’s leading experts to bring you practical tips to improve your confidence, delivery and impact while speaking in front of others. Oral speech is an art form as old as time; in this series we will go behind-the-scenes to uncover the psychology, strategy, physiology and business-building best practices of public speaking to influence audiences of any size.

For the hardcore Britten fan on your list, the 10-disc set called Britten conducts Britten is the perfect gift solution. They'll no doubt already have the classic recording of Britten conducting the War Requiem, his choral-orchestral masterpiece. But unless they collect old LPs, they probably won't have most of the rest of the recordings on these CDs including the odd but intense religious cantatas The Burning Fiery Furnace, The Prodigal Son, and Noye's Fludde; the even odder but still totally convincing children's opera The Little Sweep; and all the Christmas music, especially Saint Nicholas. How could any hardcore Britten fans resist?