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(Unabridged: 2hrs 3mins) Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt communicated by letter from 1939 to 1945 on a direct and personal basis. Their letters chart the events of the war as they unfold and also their attempts to influence and overcome the great tyranny of Nazism. Interspersed throughout are readings from...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 24mins) Featuring poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes & others. A collection of poems from Americas most influential poetic movement. This group of 19th Century American poets was the first to rival their British...
Starring Robert Montgomery Originally Written by Alexandre Dumas (Unabridged: 50mins) In this Holllywood Stage presentation we find Dantes still loyal to Napoleon in exile on Elba, he carries a message from him but is intercepted and imprisoned without trial. Whilst in prison his fiancé is told he has died and...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 25mins) Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25th, 1803, the son of Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister. Emerson was the second of five sons who survived into adulthood.<p><p>His father died...
Read by Sir Christopher Lee (Abridged: 2hrs 51mins) Deep within the dark passageways and chambers of the Paris Opera House lurks one of literature's greatest creations; the mysterious masked figure now known as the Phantom of the Opera. Gaston Leorux's novel is undoubtedly one of the best suspense stories of...
(Unabridged: 38mins) February - The second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, brings not only the shortest month but for lovers everywhere, Valentine’s day. On this and other themes our poets including Hopkins, Nesbit, Teasdale, Coleridge and Dickinson have much to say. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley...
(Unabridged: 54mins) William Blake is now considered one of the giants of poetry. During his life, and for many years after, he was thought of as mad. His wide ranging skills not only encompassed poetry but bestrode the visual arts too, with paintings and printmaking. Unfortunately Blake could never fit...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 53mins) Featuring stories by Edith Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling & Anatol France The problem with the dark is you don’t really know what’s lurking in there. Something hiding? Something menacing? Or just an inky dome for the stars to twinkle on? Writers rarely let us...
Volume 5 - Most famous for his tales of crimes and deduction, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also had a passion for suspense, the supernatural and the macabre as demonstrated in this collection of gothic short stories. The stories featured in this volume include: Lot 249, The Man with the Watches,...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Featuring poems by Edith Nesbit, Edgar Allan Poe, DH Lawrence, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Khalil Gibran & more. ‘From this day forward…’ are words intoned in every conventional marriage ceremony as two people interweave their lives with all its plans, its...