damn I thought it was one of those text-to-speech programs for a sec
there's some pretty classic voices on this, you should email one of them
http://www.archive.org/details/20000_leagues_under_the_seas_librivoxtry track 2, 25, 35, 37
there was some other reader on some other story who sounded classic too but in more of a GANDALF way than gravelly-sounding
I think part 35 is the same guy who said VEGETABLE HUMMUS and I don't know it just makes me laugh the way he says it
Edit:
http://www.archive.org/details/aesop_fables_volume_nine_librivox yeah 6 was the gandalf-sounding guy although he sounds more like THE BRAIN now that I think of it
also I thought it might've been a text-to-speech program because it's mono (only in one channel anyway) and the excerpt seemed like the right kind of length like using some shareware and the limit is 300 characters or something
oh sorry, you chose an excerpt for him, I thought he did for a sample clip