Nearly 50 Hours of Ayn Rand on audio - for free!

This week the Ayn Rand Institute unveiled a major collection of audio and video recordings of Ayn Rand. Included are more than 48 hours of audio and video taken from 54 of Ayn Rand's public appearances (at the Ford Hall Forum), interviews, and lectures. There is a wide range of topics covered, and many are rather famous amongst fants of Ayn Rand's work, e.g., "Philosophy: Who Needs It?"; "Faith and Force", "The Nature of Rights", and many more. Though you have to be registered on the site to access them, registering is free. Once registered, this library can be accessed here.

Although these most (all?) of these items have been long available in print (in the various non-fiction collections of Rand's work), until now the audio recordings were only available on tape or CD and were rather expensive and hence not widely heard. So I think this is absolutely brilliant marketing on the part of the ARI, and I think it is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in studying Ayn Rand's ideas, or those who are new to them and find they can more easily listen to audio than read books (a growing number of young people I suspect, given the podcast culture that is developing). So major kudos to ARI on this one!