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12.17.2008

Voice from the past: Listen to a family Christmas recording hidden since the Great War

Ghostly voices from a family celebrating Christmas together during the First World War have been heard for the first time in nearly a century. The recordings provide a fascinating insight into an English family living at a tumultuous time in world history. Eight phonograph cyclinders, made of beeswax and soap, feature the Smith family from Salisbury in Wiltshire singing carols and sicussing 'daddy being away at war.'

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The rare recordings, made on wax cylinders, have been heard for the first time in 95 years after they were copied onto a CD

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