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Bill W speaks about the creation of the Big Book

Bill W one of the co-founders of AA speaks about the Big Books history and creation. This consists of two seperate speaks, the first is at the 30th anniversary founders day in Akron. 

The second speak may be from the same event but there is no way to know, the introduction of Bill the 2nd time does mention the 30th anniversary.

Repost from Oct of 2018, most of the recordings of Bill W are pretty bad quality and these 2 speaks are some of the clearest around.

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Topic: Steps 4 and 5

Meg W does a great job walking us through Steps 4 and 5 using the big book as the reference at this workshop held at A Women's Perspective in Bernardsville NJ in 2004.

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Topic: Using the Chapter Working with Others

Peter M leads this workshop on the topic, Using the Chapter Working with Others as part of the 3rd Annual Keeping the Spirit Alive Roundup held in 2010

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Topic: Doctors Opinion and Bills Story

A guy called California Rob leads this book study on the Doctor's Opinion & Bill's Story, it was held in Orlando Florida in 2008 and is very literature centered. Hosted by an unknown group.

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Workshop: Steps 10 - 11- 12 (Multiple Speakers)

Three speakers take us through steps 10 - 12 at the New Freedom 12 Step Workshop held in Catonsville MD in November of 2012.

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Joe and Charlie Big Book Workshop Part 1 of 8

This is a repost, if you want to listen to the other 7 episodes that are already up just use the search function with -> Joe and Charlie Big Book Workshop

Joe McQ and Charlie P met in 1973, they instantly discovered their mutual fascinations with AA's basic textbook, Alcoholics Anonymous commonly called "The Big Book". They would frequently meet to discuss The Big Book, often driving 225 miles to meet in each other's homes.

In 1977, some AA members met in a Tulsa, Oklahoma hotel room for a discussion on The Big Book. One member asked Joe and Charlie to come to his home group to present a program on The Big Book. A taping of that presentation was made and called "The Big Book Study". Through the circulation of these audio tapes throughout the Fellowship, Joe and Charlie received invitations to present the Study at AA conventions, roundups and special events.

At the AA International Convention in New Orleans in 1980, Wesley P, organized a lunch for 1,500 AA members from all over the world and gave away 100 Joe & Charlie tape sets as door prizes. Invitations exploded, and within a couple of years Joe & Charlie were presenting about 36 seminars a year worldwide. These seminars struck a deep chord within the AA members. This is a later recording from around 1999 and the audio quality is quite good.

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Topic: Step 1

Ann leads this topic meeting from a multipart Big Book Workshop on the subject of Step 1, talking mostly about her personal experience with it, at the second session of the 4th. Annual Firing Line Big Book Workshop held in Warwick NY in September of 2012.

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Workshop: Joe and Charlie - Steps 3 and 4 (3.5 hours)

Joe Mc Q from Little Rock AR and Charlie P from Maysville AR conduct a workshop on the 3rd & 4th Step. This is Joe and Charlie from the very well known big book workshops, I dont know if this was set up as a specific workshop on steps 3 and 4 or a part of one of those book workshops, regardless, they did these many many times over the years and this is from 1994. The audio quality on these workshops vary this one is very good, it does end a little abruptly.

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Big Book Story Author: Flower of the South - Ester E - Founder of AA in Texas

Ester E started AA in Texas in 1943, her story was in the 2nd edition of the Big Book titled Flower of the South. She got sober in 1941 and passed away in 1960. This is a collection of four different speaks by Ester, the first is about 30 min long and the next three are about 5-10 min, I have no idea where or when they were recorded. 

They are in various states of listen ability the first being the best, and I moved the worst one to the last position. I was able to clean up the overall recording quality pretty well on all but the last one it had a very bad hum and removing it left the last recording sounding a bit harsh and hollow.

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Workshop: The Doctors Opinion

Beth and Dan are the folks putting on this workshop about the Doctors Opinion in this workshop from 2014 hosted by the Westfield big book workshop.

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