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(Unabridged: 3hrs 11mins) Performed by The Marlowe Society The play centres on the warrior Caius Marcius Coriolanus who, aside from his military prowess and political alliances, supports the old patrician model of Roman authority and is therefore totally out of touch with the needs of the ordinary people. This flaw...
Read by Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 47mins) Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died. Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained....
Read by William Hootkins, Gideon Wagner & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 20mins) Walt Whitman was an immense talent. And a prodigious one at that. Associated with the Free Verse movement his poems are usually on the longer side. Iconic works such as Leaves Of Grass divided opinion on their publication. Some...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe(Unabridged: 54mins) Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, was born on the 6th of August 1809 and was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains today a poet of world wide fame. Much of his work is instantly...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Nigel Planer (Unabridged: 1hr 36mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Gray, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge & others. On first thought an Ode should be simple to describe, to define. A definition would most probably put...
Read by John Michael MacDonald (Unabridge: 1hr 1mins) There are rather few masters of horror writing out of the many who write horror. HP Lovecraft has achieved fame because his work is of a standard of excellence that few if any can rival. Here we concentrate on his poems that...
Read by Jo Wyatt (Unabridged: 49mins) In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire the Bronte family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world. The youngest of the three Bronte sisters, Anne, was born on 17th January 1820. The author of ‘Agnes Grey’...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 11hours 34mins) Featuring stories by Joseph Conrad, Edith Nesbit, MR James, Katherine Tynan, Kenneth Grahame & others. These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves. Restless and creative, they often warred amongst themselves...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Patricia Rodriguez (Unabridged: 1hr 31mins) Featuring poems by Sara Teasdale, Amy Levy, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Edith Nesbit, Amy Lowell, Wu Zao & more. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 42mins) Featuring poems by Rudyard Kipling, John Keats, Eugene Field, Robert Louis Stevenson, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Lord Tennyson & others. Amidst all our dreams and ambitions from cradle to grave is the wanderlust of travel. To see the world, to experience different...