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Read by Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 9mins) What’s in a word? Apart from its value as a unit of information is there something more? Of course. Many words sound and express themselves, when rolled around the soul and mouth, as something both desirable, tangible and...
Read by Jan Francis, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Nigel Planer & Nigel Davenport (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) Featuring poems by Alexander Pope, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe & others. The English language has grown into the Worlds pre-dominant spoken language. It’s estimated there are over one million words with...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 43mins) Featuring poems by William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser & others. The ships of Europe explore the globe. The Age of Mercantilism sets the stage for centuries to come. The Reformation is underway and...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 51mins) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look...
(Unabridged: 57mins) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 in Portland Maine (then part of Massachusetts) into a privileged background. Studious, he worked hard and grew to love languages as well as poetry from an early age. He travelled extensively in Europe for 3 years, immersing himself in various languages,...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) Featuring poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Michael Drayton, Sir Phillip Sidney & others. Poetry has over the centuries grouped poets or poems into many different themes and movements. Amongst its most unusual movements are the English wordsmiths, The Silver Poets. This...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at the world...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) John Clare was born on 13th July, 1793 in Helpston, a few miles north of Peterborough. Schooled only until the age of 12 his early career was that of agricultural labourer, pot boy, gardener and lime burner. His...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 58mins) William Cowper was born 26th November 1731 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Traumatically he and his brother, John, were the only survivors, out of seven, to survive infancy. His mother died when he was six. His education, after several temporary schools,...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) Featuring poems by Tagore, George Eliot, WB Yeats & others. Love. What is love? The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but...